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Show '4 - 4 ' V THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. UTAH i Our Wish to the Bride WHEW LOOKING FOR GAS LEAK Some 8afety Rules Which May Do Away With Necessity of Engaging ' Services of- - Undertaker. ' e Hero la a set of standard' instructions for persona who notice gas in : lEFff pleasure of living Our wedding silver makes home inviting, Our mode prices make buying easy. their rooms: If the smell of gas U strong. first ventilate the room. Then examine the keys to tne fixtures, stove or other appliances. One of them may be partly open. If a fixture or connection is broken be sute your windows are raised; then go to the nearest phone and notify the gas company. After notification try to putty up the leak or close it witfi any substance a THIS is a sketch of Newton D. Baker, President PHUsons new Secretary of PPar, formerly Mayor of , . BOYD PARK K6 Cleveland KWTON D. BAKER," I had been told by a man well acquainted with him, is the kind of thoroughly good cltt-tewe .all approve of highly and fall to Imitate! He has lofty Ideals, He has high principles. He Is utterly sincere. He Is simple and unaffected1 both In thought and life. He has a clear, welllsclpllned mind. He has an extraordinary command of concise and effective speech. Without being 4 in the least effusive, he is a good mixer. You will find him full of charm. Out fax' Cleveland he lived In a modest frame house with his wife and three children, smoked flake tobacco In a pipe, drove his own Ford, and for amusement read Greek and Latin books on tho street cars." Thus runs an article by Rowland Thomas In the New York World. is interesting to notice." my Informant fdded, Is the second of Tom Johnson's . jihat he disciples lifted into prominence by President Wilson Brand Whitlock Is the other. It Is hardly exagger. tton to say that Brand Whitlock. In Belgium, has proved himself a great man. Will Baker be as successful in the war department? Frankly, f ,lk0 h,m PGrBOnally. I am wondering wnether he will measure up to the Job. What he ha done he has done well. But-- he has never heen tested out In . really big affairs. Has he the Looking at myself nn personally,, E amt inclined He s a lawyer. Thats all I know about him. Go capacity for them? You know a re. to 1 think. have a very patient mindl I, mean by volver may be a perfect weapon -- as a ahead, boy, and tell them what you know." Baker revolver that a mind which, moves slowly., which plods told them, and so began the activities which led but fall lamentably If pressed Into service as a Instead of dashing or leaping: There is nothto four terms as solicitor and legal leader of the eeacoast gun! Is- Newton D. Baker big enough to , ing brilliant about it A brilliant mind,. It strikes be secretary of war at a time like antitraction combine forces and two terms as this? That's me. is like thoroughbred! horse, good, for a. race-bu- t what I'm asking myself. Thats what mayor the country afterward needing- hr bar stabled! for a day or I asked Mr. Baker how the mayor of Clevelands ls asking itself, I think." twa like- m plow horse. It cannot mind la My Job compared with that of the secretary of war Naturally those remarks ran through ipy head spurt, but it can: go on turning- - furrow after fur-- L love personal relationships. as I talked with the new One, of the secretary of war last row. That let me get through a lut of work, about being mayor of a city the week I saw him twice, once In his modest pleasantest things bed. By a patient mind,'' ho- went on, E also mean size of Cleveland is the great number of people room at the University club, where he is living a mind which' dues not to deciattitudes and with whom it puts one Into touch. At the war leap for the present as a bachelor because the sionhut a its way And: a mind which does I find a large part of my duties Is ere In school In Cleveland and we don't children department want to not get its hack up- naily Opposition dot's not taken up with seeing people. I am very glad that break Into their year." The second time he was make my mind hriatSe. A difference of opinion ia Is so. 1 like to see people constantly. Of course," In his office In the war department, the office to m personal thing- with: me. not he explained, I don't mean that flocks of casual which one penetrates through that dread ante, he- said., hie dark, eyes twinkling "And I think,!" visitors drop in to see me here But the business chamber where hang the portraits of all the previand his wide llpe quirkier with fun. it has been a of the department brings many people to me ous Incumbents of the office. very decided advantage- to me to be so tittle and On both occasions I got the same dally, impression to lock so young: E rosily mean that," he hastened I had meant to ask him how the two positions of the physical man. Nature, In molding his to add and cited two instances in illustration. One compared In size and difficulty. He was nondid a neat job. He is a markedly small man,body, but was his argument before the Supreme court of the committal on that point, and I suggested that at in proportion all the way through. His littleness United States in the Cleveland traction cases, an least he did not seem appalled by the size of bis carries no suggestion of the dwarflshr Ills head which attracted: the favorable new argument flattering task, even though the Mexican situation had Is large, but not enough so to make him look comment of the learned lustiivs! The other was him a baptism of fire for a greeting. He given His hands and feet are of moderate size. ' wtkuh was- one of the outstanding features said. spwh rlle muscular He has a. chcat hig wmtwitinn, which, nnmlnalml 1 am not appalled. No man ran hope to escape enough to breathe In, a waist which carries uq Precid 'nt Wffrom mistakes. Mistakes are inevitable. I know I shall adipose luggage. Ills skin is swarthy, his hair Neither of those." he- commented, could by make some. But the only things one need be black and straight. A pair of hazel eyes full of of wor-slbe called a great speech any stretchingreally afraid of are insincerities and Indirectness, life, but comprehensive rather than keen the The natural fiunuuuHnm of men was what Also, It is well to remember that unfamiliar tasks wide mouth of an orator or actor, mobile yet Arm pulled me throughi In both cases. I locked so a way of looking mountainous Familiarity have of lip; the brow of a scholar; a face In general in bearers- said. Instinctively. that handicapped! my reduces their proportions - At present 1 am workwhich the perpendicular lines of strength are acGive th boy a chance! here from half past eight in the morning till ing centuated. a manner at once dignified and friendly Such cool, almost academic self analysts ted to become familiar with mine. That midnight A bearing which I should call attentive rather than me to ask him how Ufo struck him. so to speak slow nund of mine, he said smilingly, compels Alert these are the characteristics of the outward what ambitions It stirred in hi in. Id Uka to pracme to put In those long hours." xnan. tice law," he said. That Is- my one ambition What Is our Idea of the functions of the seerb-tar- j Ills mentality Is not so easily characterized. There is no office or position that E care for But of war? shall have to try to bring R out for you In a series Fd like ro jracnce and practice and practice law." "The duties." he said, are largely legal. Almost of rather detached glimpses, as he himself re-Further talk along that line developed the rather all the secretaries have been lawyers. (He cited sealed it to me In the course of our conversation. Interesting Cart that the now secretary of war Is the names of many, from Stanton down to his Our talk ranged Over many topics. We had, for one of those men whu worn to have been moved predecessor. Uarrison.) Strictly military affairs Instance, been speaking of the extraordinary forward bv the unnnga and. propulsion of their are not rnv province. Experts must care for those amount of reading of cinn Jn r! English authors friends instead of Bainltiy fGrwanT of thenuwn Legal rtucstlmis touching the conflict- hehadone before he waa twenty years old, and, aoeord in response ro- an inner impulse. Postins; riehts of state and federal governments, the I abked him whether the familiarity of his mother master General Wilson all' but draugett him from nav igabtlity of streams, the proceedings of courts tongue thus acquired had not been an Important his bneflesanes in Martinsburg- tu get his first martial such things comprise the problems I have element ln ' h1s various successes, lie said, 1 taste of cabinet wavs anti duties and responsibilito settle I am an executive. Congress has made think that is true. Ability to express myself efties. .Martin Fkran. dragged! knar tu Ctt-- eland to taws governing uiy department It Is my duty to fectively In speech has been of great value to me" become a trial lawyer Tom Johnson dragged him see that they are carried out conscientiously." This led to a brief sketch of his personal hisinto politics. And Woodrow Wilson has just About preparedness he felt obliged to decline -In Martinsburg, tory. Mr. Baker was born - to say a word, and I reminded him of an dragged, bant ta I be war department. interview W. Va., a community of f.OOO persons, wherein his The circumstances- oC tile Koran. case are un h be was recently quoted as in that he saying father was the leadiug physician He was the usoai enough tu partake of the romantic, lu IS97, was for peace at almost any price. w hen th second of four sons. At the age of twenty, in young and soul younger looking attorney So I am. he answered stoutly, because peace was returning from his first visit to- Europe, he 1891, he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts seems to me the reasonable thing. I do not say from Johns Hopkins university, having completed was table mute of the lane- W. T! Stead and a that war la always avoidable. It seems to come the four years course in three years. Followed a One dav hamster. sonietimca as earthquakes come a natural catarearing English Baker came ou deck, tu find the hamster lu a peck year of graduate work In Roman law. comparative clysm The French revolution. I think, was such a of trouble. A stalwart, lawyensh. s.v foot irishJurisprudence and economics, and then his law war But war is always regrettable Peace Is course, which he took at Washington and Lee uniman, full of Gae.iu tint., had, waylaid him and was what spells progress. We have to advance step versity. completing the two years work in one charging hunt in his- uwa: person, with alt the by step. 1 do not think we can hope to force ad That compression." he told me. was done year. wrongs England, had. ever perpetrated, on the disvancement by violence. And I believe that somefor family reasons i Money was not plentiful In tressful country. I happened, to be rather fatimes we shall have a court of nations, and no a country doctors family, and there were other miliar with the- Irish land laws," so Mr. Baker more wars. Was It Lowell said: The telegraph sons to educate." After his graduation In 1893 tells it, and5 contrived, tu substitute myself tor the world nervous system? As nur world gave Mr. Baker hung out his shingle In Martinsburg to the barrister in the argument The upshot f it gets better by intercommunication, indicate that he was willing to practice law," as was that my opponent and. E became good friends we shall have fewer of the misunderstandings he puts It. and remaified la that receptive condiand spent the rest of the- voyage playing chess which catwse wars." tion until 1896, the last year of the Cleveland adNew We I Turk. in went back together. parted Constantly, as we tatked. alike In his domicile when -- PostmasterjGeneral Wilson to Martinsburg and nu word, passed, between us ministration, and in his office, the new secretarys --tailed b m to unpretentious Washington to he his private for two- years, . Then the man Martin Foran was in his mouth. Constantly his knees yipe I divided my two cases between the wrouTmaTDe flrarVtfasmeoa bad sed that rnmfftrahfl pn mernwl-w-enfe-Iof thrlocai Ituf wjta rtHTfUfkitr atilt i 1899 Mr. Baker was Invited to comedo 'Cleveme . I had long felt ( should be in a larger comwas always digniy ibout him, we might have been land, O., as a partner with Foran & McTIgueone than Martlnsburs;. and. E Uked Cleveland, munity, two undergraduates chatting together Ills attiof the city's leading firms of trial lawyers. H but knew they .wanted a trial lawyer. which I tude was not suggestive of lounging or of affected went there, met Tom Johnson and was magnewas not So went on full of excuses, prepared carelessness it was, I thought, the bodily ease to thank him and he dismissed in friendliness. tized; by that association was drawn into local which is apt to reflect outwardly the mental states Before E could get my first excuse out Mr. Foran politics and had fourteen years of active camof and serene had ushered me into' an office and said, Heres paigning there, serving four terms as city solicitor As city solicitor of Cleveland, in the traction mat-terunder Mayor Johnson and two terms as mayor yours, and before caught my breath, he had sent he fought the mobilized legal big uns of after his chief was deposed. He declined to run some clients in tog me to. talk, with I in Ohio to a standstill. As mayor he forced the peostayed for a third term, and had Just resumed his law Cleveland and learned to be a trial lawyer." ple to retain him until he had done what he set practice at the beginning of this year when he was His enlistment as- an active fighter in the Johnout to Qo called to Washington son camp waa equally casuaL Tom" was sick To be secretary of war Just now, to be lifted at Returning to our topic, I asked film to what one night, and the young lawyer was pressed Into one from loral into national prominence at a step other qualities besides his ability as a speaker fie service to fill h:s place at a rally. Toms sick," critical moment like the present, is a far more felt Indebted for what hT bad accomplished. He said the man. who introduced him. This is New test of his capacities than aay he has searching pondered that and said: ton D. Baker, uhos going to s;eak in his place. yet 'un d er gone 25-ce- it for-war- - Never look for a leak with a match or any flame, lantern or lamp, f? If .you find a person overcome by the, gas, throw up the windows, drag the unconscious one to the open air and then telephone a physician. After telephoning the physician, telephone the gas company and tell of the accident. Most companies now own pulmotors.. It is an appliance for pumping gas out of a persons lungs and injecting pure air in its stead. This Is an invaluable aid to the' doctor. The Missing Remnant. certain Lancashire town boasts a full brass band, Including a big drum. The drummer, according to the Tat-leis about five feet high 'and rather deaf, but he thinks nobly of his importance to the band. When the band parades, it always takes the same course through the main streets; but the other day the leader, for some purpose known only to himself, turned down a bystreet The little drummer did not see what was happening in front of him, for to compensate for his lack of heigh, he holds his drum high before him So with his gaze concentrated on his music he banged away, and marched straight ahead, aB usual About five minutes afterward he finished his part, and, hearing no other instruments, he stopped. Part oil the crowd had accompanied him, and they gave him a cheer. But he was ill at case. He shoved his drum to one side and gazed ahead; then on the other, and did likewise. But he saw no. band. Then, In uneasy astonishment, he turned to the smiling bystanders and inquired: Heigh! Has ony o you seen the remnant oia band anywheres about ere?" A r, MAKERS OF JEWELRY SALT IMS MASH STRUT Any size roll film 1 CITY! 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The' last time I was at Mr. Gladstone's V house," says Mr. Murray, I had breakfast early and alone, as I was going to Scotland, When I had finished I was told that Mr. Gladstone did not know that 1 was leaving so early, and. that he wanted to have another talk with me. 1 went to his bedroom-- a very large room with a double bed in it Mrs. Gladstone was In her dressing room. Gladstone was dressed In & nightgown with a brown shawl round him. He was lying flat on his face, his head at the foot of the bed and his feet on the pillows. In one hand he held, a cup of coffee, and there was a book in the other. I shall never forget that Interview, and the comicality of the great lion head popping up as f I went towards him. Destroying Bad Eggs. 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