Ergatis | 1908-08-08 | Page 2

Is your Jewelry worth what it cost, or don’t you care? If you buy of us, our guarantee settles the quality and price question at once. ERGATIS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY P. SIORIS. UTAH maLy LAKECITY NEWS UTAH STATE Merchant's associat have joined in ment. from the dm the Fourth ward, lation of Ogden is results obtained | hool popu the not a as it Was one year ago. Two trainloads of Utah left Saturday f Guardsmen National Car Emmett Crawford, Wyomi to par: | ticipate in the Β | Willlam Da- | army ma! The little daughter of vis of Perry died suddenly one day| Jast week, as the result of eating some| tablets which she found in the house Charles Owen, a_ fifteen-year-old Balt Lake boy, attempted to dive in the shallow water at Saltair, and is in the hospital in a precarious condition The city of Salt Lake, by a majority | last week | of 501 of its taxpayers, voted to bond themselves for $600,000 | to complete improvements already be- | gun. | The Utah-Idaho Hospital, of Logan, | bas the The 000, In a runaway accident near Deweyville the young son of John §. Bing- a | wheel passing over his head, nearly severing his left ear. Jack Wilson, alias Jack Clark, a boy about 18 or 19 years of age, whose home is supposed to be in Ogden, was arrested at Thistle Junction last week on a charge of horse stealing. While in swimming in Mil] creek, Salt Lake City, Harry W. Peterson, aged 17, dived in shallow water, strik- ing his head against the bottom with sufficient force to break his neck. The coffers of the state were enriched last week by a fee of $22,005 from the articles of incorporation and agreement of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company, which was placed on file. According to a report submitted by the sanitary inspector, health conditions in Ogden are better than they have been in years, there being but two cases of measles on the list of contagious diseases at the “Talking about mean Hewliman in the mac kintosh jw atever be man's fault or crime, gus can give poin rs to all of em. || © blame it on the woman, is children | found out When he John Worth Kern, selected by the Democratic r out of the convention at Denver as Bryan's running mate | were taking lumps < them to® in the national campaign of this fall, is conceded | box in the pantry and feeding next door neighbor's pony, how | ul to be the leader of the Indiana Democracy. de you suppose he stopped it. Mr. Kern has run several times for governor, ‘Whipped the children?” hazarded and each time he was said to have reunited the he man with his feet on the tabie. warring fac tions of the Democratic party and to | ‘Worse than | have won over a large Republican following, but ps of sugar in kero ‘Soaked the each time he was badly defeated. He was elected sene?” suggested the man with the} city attorney in Kokomo in 1871 an pd | eyeral years He was elected reporter he | bulbous nose | “Worse than that.’ Indiana supreme court, but was defeated reSprinkle@ red pepper on them?” election. He served two terms in the stat@enate ventured the man with the frazzled | and one as city attorney of Indianapolis, But some trousers Republican always happened to come along to | ‘Worse than that. None of you could oust him He went to a guess It In a This does not imply that Mr. Kern is a weak or stonecutter’s shop and had two or an unpopular man in his state, for he is neither. Democracy was on the three dozen chunks of marble made down grade in Indiana when he was coming to the front, and was only kept into cubes He took the sugar lumps from dissolution by the phenomenal strength of United States Senator Voorout of the box in the pantry, put hees, the “tall sycamore of the Wabash,” who managed to have a Democratic hes marble cubes in their place, legislature elected just in time to re-elect him to the senate when his term and—” expired, Since he dropped out of politics just before his death, a little over “Oh, come off!” len years ago, Democracy in Indiana had been practically wiped off the map, | ‘Try that on some other crowd!” and Mr. Kern has had no more show than would a Democrat in Michigan. “Gentlemen, it’s a fact, and I can He is @ graduate of the University of Michigan, and for a time practiced lick anybody that doubts it!” law in Kokomo, but later moved to Indianapolis, where he has since lived, After which the session broke up in He has a high reputation in his native state, and is a man of considerable pera row.—Chicago Tribune, sonal magnetism. filed articles of incorporation in office of the secretary of state. hospital is incorporated for $50,in $10 shares. ham was thrown from the wagon, | men, ’ said the | Since Adam's day to this good time It has been only human, old JOHN WORTH KERN The council has taken up the matter of providing Spring works system Members of the Judging ALWAYS. CLOSE TO THE LIMIT. present time. Francisco Ciddeo, the Italian arrested some time ago in Salt Lake City on the charge of murdering a gir) in British Columbia, dynamiting the πο. tel in which she was sleeping, was executed at Kamloops, B. C., on Friday. Mrs. Matt Soban, an Austrian woman, was shot at her home in Bingham on Sunday evening, death resulting a few minutes later. Joe Maurovich is accused of the crime, it peing claimed the tragedy was the result of a religious discussion. Winfield Scott Hammond, the man who placed the name of Gov. Johnson in nomination for the presidency, is a member of congress from the Second Minnesota district. Hammond is the official Johnson nominator This thing of nominating Johnson may almost be said to have become a habit with him. He nominated Johnson at the Minnesota state conven tion one time, and to the surprise of a large number of people who thought they knew something about the game of politics the country editor was nominated, To the surprise, too, of an even larger number of people, he was elected. When his term was out Congressman Hammond arose before another state convention and nominated him again. This time the outcome was not so unexpected. When the Minnesota executive made up his mind to let his name go before the Democratic national convention it was suggested to him that he permit some eloquent orator, some spellbinder of the Bourke Cockran type, to make the nominating speech. But Mr. Johnson balked. IT. lives in one of the string of towns up in Minnesota that seem state convention for September 15, and the place Salt Lake. The Democrats will hold their convention early in September, probably a week earlier than the Republicans Initial plans for one of the most thoroughgoing advertising campaigns in the history of central Utah were adopted at a meeting of the Commercial club of Sanpete, Sevier and Piute counties held at Salina. The cam- paign is to begiz with the publication of an attractive bookie - LEVIN IRVING HANDY absence of years, because of his selection by the managers of Judge George Gray’s presidential campaign as the man to place the Delaware jurist before the delegates as a candidate for president. Besides being a politician and an orator, Mr. Handy has been a newspaper writer, a lecturer In 1898 and 1899 he was COL. JAMES M. GUFFEY - His Neighbor—And does my singing annoy you? He—Oh, dear, no. I am a foreman in a sawmill. Ore rw \ P Trouble Over Red. ting on? Patrice—Oh, they’ve had trouble al- The was very partial to {ts ef Queen Victoria's long reign, but the form of men’s dress practically remained unaltered. The knickerbockers and tweed suit of the country gentleman are of com- paratively modern date, as well as the wide-awake and cloth cap, Get a Patent. Your invention may be valuable and should be patented. Send for free inSON, Patent Attorney. P. O. Box 544, nice young men away. fruit—that dress, proper according to avocation, is one of the mandatory You want me hero, eh?” ar It. int@rogated the Carnegie of people, and received medal.” “And was he glad when he received it?” to wear it, so he used it as a fishing sinker.”"—Chicago Daily News. WISE AND OTHERWISE, Salt Lake City. Dress as Well as You Can. It is quite in place to declare most emphatically to all who may read these lines—let the thought of it bear requisites OPthis twentieth century. Putting up a good front [35 a duty; backing it up is quite another matter and is more a matter of ability. It is more a reproach not to dress correctly than it is a credit to do so. It is not an achievement, it is to-day a daily though never monotonous routine, to aο or belittle which is a social and business sin.—Men's Wear, New York. MIMEOGRAPH Paper, Typewrites Paper, Carbons and Ribbons, write te PEMBROKE STATIONERY CO., Sait Lake City. Persuasive. A rural manufacturer duns his subscribers in the following novel manner: “All persons knowing theniselves indebted to this concern are requested to call and settle. All those indebted to this concern, and not knowing it, are requested to call and find out. Those knowing themzel*es to be indebted, and not wishing to call, are requesias ts stay at one place long enough fer us to reach them.”—Harρ΄. Weekly. Juvenile Critics, “My, but dat is a loud Merry Widow!” exclaimed the tall messenger boy, as he peered into the box he was about to deliver. “Some have so that the will look “Well, I should smile!” responded his short chum. “It is so loud it looks more like a merry-go-round.”— Chicago Daily News. Harmony Club, Too, Jack—It is strange howthe attendance at the Girls’ Harmony club keeps up these warm nights. No one mem- ber misses a meeting. Myrtiila—They are afraid to miss a meeting. The absent are always knocked unmercifully—Chicago Daily News. LOCATED. Mrs.—I think it strange that you friend Tobbs never married. Mr.—Oh, you don't know Tobbs. He isn't such a fool as he looks!— Chicago Journal. Quick Work, Muggins—Busby is a remarkably easy man to get acquainted with, don’t you think? Jones—I never noticed it. Muggins—He is, though. I hadn't known him for over an hour before I borrowed a shilling of him, and inside of the next hour we got so well acquainted that he refused to lend me another one.—Royal Magazine. 1!]-Directed Energy. “You say that you were discharged from your former place for being too industrious?” “Yes, ma’am.” “That's you do?” very strange. Whet did “I went down in the cellar one day and dusted the old wine bottles.”— Royal Magazine. Mabel—So you didn’t have him? Flossie—No. Mabel—Wasn’'t your father on his side? Flossie (sadly) —No—behind him. The Difference, ----------------.....-The Trouble. “I thought you and your wife were living very happily.” “Oh, my wife and I are happy all right. She says she can get along with me, but ever since we've been The present “Does she shrink from the water?” married “No, but her bathing suit does.”— can't get along with my galary.”—De troit Fxee Presa. to Pennsylvania's sending a delegation to Denver instructed for Bryan. had Bringing It to a Climax. “ know what's passing in your mind,” suddenly said the maiden as the habitually silent caller stared at her. “I know, too, why you are calling here night after night, apporpriating my time to yourself and keeping other feud between the candidate and the boss grew cui of the latter's opposition roller remains to be seen, but those who know him best doubt it. revolution took place from time to time during red.’—Yonkers of the sport. He has held the Democracy of Pennsylvania in the hollow of his hand, so to speak, for more than ten years. He has never asked for an office and could not be induced to take one. Col. Guffey is 2 fighter and he is undeniably a powerful factor in Penn sylvania politics. Whether he is io be crushed for good by the Bryan steam French The snuff box vanished and the char Statesman. Guffey is a political fighter for the pure love need, and he is credited with being one of the three heaviest givers of cash to the Bryan campaign in both 1896 and 1900. 4 acteristic ornament of the age was the bunch of seals hanging from the watch chain. Various modifications Mrs. Huggins overheard him say he porary, and that he will be shuffling the carda in His thousands have always flown easily into the party coffers in time of Out. as upon matters of more weighty import, the tendency being greatly to simplify costumes, says the English Illustrated Magazine. Young men in England adopted the short coat, light waistcoat and pantaloons inaugurated in Paris by a certain set who affected to desire the old court fashions. The use of powder, made more expensive by taxation, quite died out and short hair became universal, Trousers and Wellington boots, at first worn only by the military, were adopted by civilians about 1814, and the dandy of the early Victorian era wore his tightly strapped down. He also prided himself on his starched collar, which had gone out of favor under George IV., who preferred 8. black silk kerchief or stock, ¢ ready. “Not already?” “Yes; you see, Huggins has a redhaired stenographer, and the other day the political game for a good many yeurs to come. Four years later Col. Guffey was again a Bryan worker in Pennsylvania. Snuff Died fect upon the fashions of 1800, as well —) “Yes; but Bill was too modest Patience—How are the Huggins get- Col. James M. Guffey, Democratic boss of Pennsylvania, who furnished one of the most sensational features of the Denver convention in his fight with Bryan, less than two years ago was read out of the party down in his own state. But he resolutely declined to stay dead. Anybodyat all acquainted with the Pennsylvanian’s make-up knows that retirement for him will be but %em- every effort to swing his state to the Bryan column. Since that time he has been national committeeman, succeeding Harrity, who had been national chairman. When Use of Powder and of Boxes ro,” drawled “You bet Bill is a the old farmer. ‘He res ed six head the limelight at the Denver convention after an MEN. a3 Too Modest to Vt The business done in the United Btates land office in Salt Lake City = fi Vy * '' He is referred to as an oi] magnate in six during the year 1907 amounted to Aye states. $152,446. Coal land entries, of which coal king in two, silver mine owner in two and there were but twenty-five , amounted gold mine owner in the eleventh. His wealth goes into so manymillions that to nearly two-thirds of this So far as i he probably could not tell off-hand just how much moneyhe has. fees are concerned, homestead entries In the first Bryan convention in 1896, Guffey was a “sound money” delepaid the least gate. After Bryan had been nominated, Guffey came back home with Activity in the state campaign is thoughts of bolting in his head, but when he found that his rival William Just commencing in Utah The Repub F, Harrity, retiring state boss, had already bolted, Guffey turned in and bent of the Ο Y “Real tourist. the entire congressional delegation of the state of Delaware in the lower rouse of congress, and for a little while he was the whole delegation in both George N. Sanders, an engineer on the Salt Lake & Ogden railway, was houses, during the brief period in which both seats in the senate were vacant. After serving crushed to death under his engine in | 8 collision between the last train on | one term, Handy was defeated for re-election by a Republican and retired to private life. Friday night from Lagoon and a dump Mr. Handy was born in Maryland 46 years car that had broken loose from another train near Beck's hot springs. ago, and was educated in the public schools. He taught school in his native state and in Delaware, was school superintendent of a county in the latter Alton Brooks Parker, candidate for president of the United States on the state for several years, and later became an editorial writer on Every Evening, a Wilmington daily newspaper. Democratic ticket four years ago, and In preparation for the recent crisis, apparently, he became a public and one of the most prominent figures lecturer, and for a number of years delivered lectures throughout the country in national Democracy, was in Salt upon assorted topics, calculated to appeal to the patrons of the local lyceum Lake on Sunday on his way back to lecture courses in town and city. From 1892 till 1896 he was chairman of the New York from Yellowstone Park Democratic state central committee of Delaware It appears that in the Pace murder Having been one of the earliest men to urge theselection of Judge Gray case at Woodland, in which a fifteenyear-old boy shot and killed his fath- | as the Democr atic presidential candidate, and one of the strongest supporters er, the boy will make the claim of of that movement in its moments of sunshine as well as its hours of despair, he was selected by the judge’s personal representatives to get whatever glory self defense, the father having started for him with a revolver, when the comes of the opportunity to make the speech formally placing his candidate's name before the convention. lad picked up a shot gun and shot his father fixed the date > to marry you, don’t you?’ “I—I—do!” gasped tha ygung man. “T thought so. Very 1; 1 will.’— Judge. * Levin Irving Handy of Delaware came into FASHIONS FOR formation and advice to H. J. ROBIN- n christened by some pious persons in the intervals between ngs and [Epworth league sessions. He lives in St. James. Gov. s in St. Peter, and when he left there it was to go to St. Pauley, Hammond is Massachusetts-born, Dartmouth -graduate and e west in 1884 he taught school for six years. Then he began of law. He is on his first term in the house, having defeated Cleary, a Republican of national note, in a district that was always consi ered unalterably Republican. Co Viae CHANGING GAVE HER A BITTER TASTE. Tommy Giggs—Mysister's sweetheart kicked my dog yesterday, but I got even with him, you bet. Johnny Briggs—How? Tommy Giggs—I mixed quinine with her face powder. Won't shetaste bitter!—Royal Magazine. to have the north, east, and west aggregated more than 300 car loads. licans have Eve, since you that apple picked been weakly human when we're by justice prickedé, And ery: “It was the woman!” —Houston Post. —Life. USED TO UTAN’S FAMOUS _WATERING PLACE Coney Island of the West Finest Bathing in the World Bicycle Races twice weekly; admission 10¢ | Largest and finest Dance Floor and best Music in the State, Held’s Band all Summer. For recreation and pleasure g¢ | o Saltair. Trains every 45 minutes. reiecertineee απδοεεταήβῥσαώποαοίαεακεκεέ---επικπᾶες: ite Oh, I “Out there in St. James, Minn.,” he said, “there is a plain-spoken sort of ]. O. Austin, an aeronaut, who has been making ascensions from the Salt Palace grounds in Salt Lake City, landed in a tree one day last week while making a parachute jump and fell to the ground a distance of fifty feet, veing badly bruised but not seriously hurt. ΦΛΙΤΑΙ And even if he kills the she, Mixed with his tears and ruings, *'Twixt sobs and throes of misery He says: “It was her doings!” chap who does my nominating just about the wayI like to have it done. I have had some experience with bis brand of nominating, and I don’t know that I have.a single objection to make to it. And I reckon, when I have any more nomigating to be done, I'l] just let Win Hammond do it, for he’s my and a school teacher. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. | Noise. Noise, at first cultivated in this land by the Indians, has reached its climax in the college yell. It is used at political conventions, at christenings, and it women’s clubs, No monument was necessary for the man whofirst invented noise. His work lives after him. Noise is used bycities, which have the first call for it. They split it up into as many sounds as possible and divide it among all. Noise varies in its volume and intensity, from embryonic and immature sawmill to a baby crying in the night. WINFIELD SCOTT HAMMOND According to advices received at lo- | cal railroad headquarters, the fruit | crop in the territory adjacent to Ogden will be larger this year than last season. A year ago the shipments to Western Pacific railroad engineers think that the east and west end of the track of the new line will meet and be connected near Beckwith pass, which is at the summit of the Sierras. | This will take place some time next summer, according to present expectations If man is caught committing crime When esked what made him 4 He points some woman out each time And says: “She held me to it.” | mascot.” Hammdnnd | Detroit Free Press. the trouble’s been that she Trouble, folks,” says Brother Dickey, much trouble in this worl@ place where Satan lives at familiar to ‘em!” The Touch of Nature. Consider chickens! In the market there are speckled plymouths, and dominickers and fat leghorns, clucking in many crates, but they get no notice except from customers who hold views concerning roasts and potpies But take, for instance, the pullet that the invalid boy carries in his arms when his mother wheels him along the street in his rolling chair, and you can’t count the eyes that follow in his wake He is a little boy who would be like otherlittle boys if he could romp in the street, and the pullet is only an ordinary fowl, with white feathers yellowing around the hackle and a red comb— But if it were the cock that made St. Peter cry, or the rooster that crowed in the morn to *ake the priest, all shaven and shorn, or that good old hen with yellow legs that laid her master many eggs, the crowds couldn't show more curious interest Which shows what environment will do. —Washingteon Star. Children Born in Workhouses A thousand children are born London workhouses yearly. in The Philosopher of Folly. “There came a time in my life,” admits the Philosopher of Folly, “when I did not know which wayto turn, or what step to take next. A word from my dancing master put me right, however.” Be a Gentleman. “Thou shalt be a gentleman” was the amendment to the ten commandments proposed by President Harris of Amherst, but if they were all kept perhaps the amendment would not be necessary.