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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY IS, 190. PAGE GIX FERRET DOES WORK PAT KEENAN WAS Positive A soda cracker should be the most nutritious and wholesome of all foods made from wheat BUCKED SNOW WITH HIM ON IL LINOIS RAILROAD. Comparative Superlative soda cracker at once so pure, so dean, so crisp and nourishing that it stands alone in its supreme excellence the name is Uneeda Biscuit a dust tight, mots furs proof package. TWO BISCUIT COMPANY WAYS OP LOOKING AT IT. Would Say Strength of Charae-to- r and Somo Obstinacy. Strength of character may be hown In many different waya. Mary Liulo Carter had a way of her own. "I can just tell yon. Mary Liulo has what I call a real strong character," said one of the youag woman's Mends to her mother. "Shes got d Bern EALOUSLY GUARDS A SECRET. "w York Wife Becoming an Adept at Dissimulation. The vanity of women often leads them to do curious th'iga, says a writer In the New York Press. Thera la a Fifth avenue dentist who has a high class clientele, including a married woman of rare beauty and atlU young whose upper teeth are false. They carry a gold filling, which further stimulates their character as tha original set by being In evidence. The womans husband la entirely unaware that her teeth are false, and her life haa ona Important object In view to keep him In Ignorance of toe fact Aa accidents may happen to the false set, she keeps a duplicate of ,thesr ft the dentlata. When, aa occasionally bappena, thla takes place oi e files to Jhe dentlat In her automobile and effects the exchange. Bo guarded la ahe that aha will not have the extra set In the house where her husband might accidentally find them. They have been married twelve years and ha la atlll la Ignorance of the harmless secret ahe haa guarded ao scrupulously. But suppose the secret were really Important, or her future Ufa ahruld Include one that was serious, what a school of dissimulation she would have been graduated from! termination and perseverance and a lot of other fine things." "Indeed, how does she show all theae splendid traits?" asked the ad mlrera mother, who had been accustomed to think of Mary Lizzie as a Mvolous and selfish young woman. "Why, ahe wanted to go skating this afternoon, and It Just seemed as If everything went wrong," said the admirer. "Her aunt came from Buffalo for Juat two days and her mother was half alck with a dreadful cold, and her brother Jim was coming for dinner, and twna the maid's afternoon out, and her new akatlng skirt hidnt coma horn aa the dressmaker promised. "Now, I should have given up and staid at home, hut Mary Lluia has too strong a character. Sha sent her aunt off to see the new library with me of tha neighbors and put her mother to bed with a hot water hot He, telephoned Jim not to corns nntll evening, told the maid she could go out Twenty Years Battle. Instead, and borrowed Fanny Ogden'a skirt T was a loser In a twenty year bat "That's what I call showing real tie with chronle piles and malignant strength of purpose, don't you, moth- aoree, until I tried Bucklena Arnica er 1 Youth's Companion. Balve, which turned the tide, by cur Ing both, till not a trace remains," Order your Job Printing from Tha writes A. M. Bruce of Farmvllle. Va. We Beet for old Ulcere, Cuts. Burns and State Journal. Both 'phones work. Wounds. 25c at Ogden Druggists. guarantee . flrst-cla- lit aa EXCURSION Minneapolis and Return $35.90 On Sale Aug. 9 and 10 Long limit, P. A stop-over- s. 5alt Lake City, Utah T. P. A. G. W. MARTIN, General Agent, Denver, Colorado Dont let baby suffer from the heat unnecessarily. 'We know no mother means to, but some dont know all the baby comforts they can get at a trifling cost, we have everything In the Druy Store line necessary for baby during the hot spell. All kinds of Nursing, Feeding, Teething and Toilet Supplies everything to keep baby well, comfortable and happy. Cooling Talcum Powders, Silken Sponges, Nipples, Rings, etc. We Can Supply Your Wants Wm. Driver & Son 24M WASHINGTON GEO. W. DRIVER, AVENUE. LU. Manage DKUkj AND RETAIL WHOLESALE STORE. DRUG BEST OGDENS J. F. SMITH Co., Props. Bar and Club Rooms Elegantly Equipped Commodious 308 Twenty - Fifth Street Fat ESTHER VI LLE, Is.. July rick Keenan of this city has Just passed his 86th birthday, but is aa hale and hearty as at any time during his lifetime. A reporter visited him and he remarked that he felt like a man of 40. He was born at Kilmumy, county Limerick, Ireland, on April I, 1820, and came to America la 1848. Being Inclined to railroad work he secured employment on the grade of the New York Central A Hudson River railroad, which was then being constructed between New York. and Albany. He remained there during the summer months and in the fall cam weat to Chicago on an "overland limited," which consumed seven day time. They called it fast running for a train at that time, but Mr. Keenan saya that many timea on the trip ha got off, ran ahead to aa orchard, gathered a few apples and caught the train again aa It cams past. When ha landed in Chicago he found a small town of only a few hundred inhabitants, surrounded by a swamp and haxel brush. He remained there four months, stopping at the Sailors home hotel, and then came on to work for the Illinois Central railway company on the grade work along tha Kankakee river. He afterwards secured work on the section near Galena, and during tha deep snow of the winter of '61 worked beelde General Grant shoveling enow to clear the track of the Illinois Central, and it took twenty-seve- n days fur a train to go twelve miles. General Grant worked for (1.25 per day, the same aa was paid the other la- ' Chicago, flllwaukee LAFAYETTE. Ind, July 18. With a rope attached to a harness encircling hla slender body, a ferret accomplished for the Central Union Telephone company, which la Installing an underground conduit on Fourth street, a task which would have taken twelve men an entire day. The little animal completed the work in leas than an hour. It consisted of drawing through five sections of the conduit, juat two blocks long, the rope with which the heavy cables will he pulled through the pipes. Through standard and tourist sleepers daily direct to Union Station, in the heart of Berth rate, standard sleeper, Chicago. $9.50; tourist sleeper, $4.75. Tickets of all agents, or call on , 106 5. WILLIAA.3, C. Commercial Agent. It was an ordinary ferret that waa J. C. Feesmeyer, superintendent of construction, obtained the animal in Indianapolis. A large crowd of people The watched the unusual operation. ferrets nose was pushed into the opening of the conduit near the pos tofiles. At the other end, near the Western Union Telegraph station, a piece of fresh meet wee held. Soon the ferret scented the meat and darted Into the conduit. After him went to rope attached to his harness, and he never stopped until he waa at the end and the rope with him. He made the run . rapidly. Without the ferrets aid the men would have been obliged to use a Jointed rod. starting at one end and screwing on Joint after Joint until It reached the other end. As soon as the ferret had gone through one conduit he waa atarted through another, the meat being held at the opposite end. Ha went through again, and after a rest made the third trip. He continued thla until five different conduits were threaded. borers. the cable was pulled through. It Ur. Keenan was In Debuque In 1857 Then would have taken a dosen men all day failure the remembers well the of and to the same work, and the ferret do Moberly bank, at that time about the saved the company f40. only financial Institution in Iowa, where hundreds 'of persons lost every cent o In the Way. people they had and fairly were compelled to go to work for 75 A curious "thud" attracted hla atcents per day In order to live and then tention, and, turning quickly, the genreceive their pay In "wildcat" money tleman who had been admiring hla that would probably not be good the saw of one them fall from pigeons following morning. This was during the window elll to the walk. Ha the Buchanan administration. waa Juat In time to see a small boy Early Resident of Waterloo. Mr. Keenan wee section foreman for In tha lane drop n catapult and run Just In time, too, to catch the culprit tha Illinois Central for twenty-thre- e "You young scroundrel! ejaculated years, and was stationed at Waterloo until 1178. He well remembers when the angry owner of the pigeon. "What the homes of Matt Parott, A. B. Miller do you mean by coming and shooting and Robert Mann constituted the pop- my birds. ulation of East Waterloo. For thirteen "Please, air, I didn't mean to do it" years he wee section foreman for the whined the captive. "I I didnt shoot staN. D. C. R. 4 Railway company tioned at Emmetsburg, and In th year at the pigeon! "Come, cqme," said tha gentleman, 1890 moved to Esthervllle, and haa since lived a retired life with his wife, coni make. matters worse. I saw who Is past 78, and one eon. George, tha bird fall, and if you did not aim who met with an accident at Denver a at it how cams you to hit itf few years ago and Is now totally blind. blubbered the hoy, "Please, air, Mr. Keenan remembers when there "the pigeon got lu the way. I I waa was not a house between Mentlcello at tha winder I end Dubuque. He has been married aiming e years and has raised a family of nine children, two of whom are deed. Tha Ways of Society, One eon la a passenger conductor on more renowned for hla A curate, the Illinois Central between Waterloo and Fort Dodge, and another am la in scholarahlp than knowledge of the the employ of the Rock Island company world, was, after years of studious reIn Esthervllle. tirement, presented to a living. Mr. Keenan Is a good conversationalist Previous to taking over hla living, and relates with pleasure hie early ex- he waa Invited by hla patron, the periences In Iowa. He la known to all grandee of the county, to spend n few tha veteran railroad men In Iowa and la dayn at the halL Never haring been referred to as "honest Pat Keenan." At on a visit of that caliber In hla life behie advanced age his mind la perfectly he asked a friend, a man of the clear on names and happenings if years fore, to world, give him n few hints aa to ago. procedure, etc. The friend gave him some InstrucRomance and Reality. tions, and wjund up by saying: "Take Tha young man had pulled the drees clothes, of course, anq If you young woman up the hill on the to- want to be very smart, taka a servboggan, and was amased to find her ant." In due course the visit came off. moodily allent.when they reached the The curate well primed arrived, hla dreas clothea with him, and hla partop. lormaid. Weekly Scotsman. "What la wrong?" he asked. "If you had any romance about you, yon would have taken advantage of All Ha Knew of Henry Clay, the occasion and the opportunity to A distinguished foreigner waa being aay that you would he happy to pull shown through the Capitol 'by an ma up the hill of life forever and American friend, and the two gentleever, she sighed. men, having spent acme time In the "But, I but. I " passed through the Senate "But last summer when we were gallery,where the portraits of the two lobby, boating you said you could think of great statesmen, Daniel Webster and ao brighter future than to drift toeach other. Cay, hang Henry opposite gether adown the stream of life," The guide pointed out these paintings, "1 know, dear; but when a man eying. "And here you see the porpulls 150 pouuda of a girl up a of some of our great statesmen traits hill he hasnt enough breath left of the past to aay what he thinks. Drifting In "Ah, Indeed, remarked the distina boat glvea him more breath, and more time to think, and leaa laborious guished foreigner, admiring Websters solemn llknesa, and then, turning' work for bis arms. Chicago around to Henry Clay, he exclaimed, with astonishment In his voice, "But how do you get the picture of this Could Prescribe in This Cate. cigarman here? lu Haverhill, Mass., a generation or thereabouts ago, lived two doctors by Senator Finds Work Hard. the name of Sawyer. Dr. Benjamin E. Senatof Knox of Pennsylvania, In was a physician with a large conversation with a Mend the other practice. Dr. Nathan waa a veterinary day, laughingly observed that If he and waa skillful and successful In hla had any Idea aa to the amount of profession. work he would have to perform he A certain Mr. Jones, after a week or never would have taken tha Job aa a more of Imbibing, was. very sick, and member of the United States senate. his wife, becoming alarmed, sent the "There seems to he absolutely no end hired man for Dr. Sawyer. The hired to It," he said. "My secretary tells me man brought tha wrong Sawyer, the that I answer on an average 125 letters veterinary. day. Tha correspondence of n senDr. Nathan explained to the wife ator, although the dreariest drudgery, that he waa skilled only In the dis- la not ao laborious as the hard work eases of horses, cattle and other ani- of committees which he la called upon mals. to perform, nor does it consume na "I guess you ran prescribe all right much of his time as the endless roulu this case, replied Mrs. J. 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Make your berth reservations now with Commander R. G. Sleater, 167 Southwest Temple. Call telephone 245 or write H. L. YOUNGERMAN E. DRAKE D. DRAWS ROPE THROUGH TELE-PHONE CABLE CONDUIT.' Grant Was Paid 1JS Per Day Just Little Animal Proves a Money Saver the Same as Any Other Laborer Old for the Company Would Have Cost Fellow and the General Worked Side Large Sum to Have Empeyed Human Labor. by Side an the Track. But ordinary soda crackers absorb moisture, collect dust and become stale and soggy long before they reach your table. There is however, one NATIONAL The Economical Way Of TWELVE HER WITH GEN. GRANT INS COLORADO Limited TO The Meet Lararieea Traia Is (he World Compartment and drawing-roo- m sleeping cars, observation can, dinng and library ing can, cars, with barber, hath and Bouk-tovLibrary; entire train electric lighted, through to Chicago without change. Direct connection for buflct-smolri- ers SLPaoiandMinneapolis TWV, C. 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