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Show HIS VIEW OF IT. ' A new and interesting view of the questions of saving and personal habits was presented to us one day last week. It is immaterial how the subject came up, but the conclusions of our friend are indisputable. in-disputable. He quit smoking. In telling why he quit smoking, he said: "I have kept account of my expenditures for tobacco for several months. I found that, with the exercise of the greatest economy in my expenditures, expendi-tures, I spent $1.50 a week. That would amount to approximately $75 a year. Seventy-five dollars a year is about all that one could expect as returns on an investment of $1,000. I came to the conclu- i sion that if T quit smoking it would be exactly the same as adding $1,000 to my estate; I would actually ac-tually save an amount equal to the interest on $1,000. Therefore by quitting smoking I have added that amount to my invested savings." While everybody will not agree with the con- I elusions arrived at by our friend, and while mighty f ; few smokers will be led to put the habit aside for the same financial reasons, there is certainly merit in the contention that the habit of smoking is an v expense which really doe3 amount to the interest on an investment of $1,000. When a young man acquires the habit, he is laying himself liable to , an annual toll which he must pay just the same as x if he borrowed $1,000 at interest. j . H Anybody who smokes and can afford the lux ury will probably say that the pleasure or a gooa cigar is worth the price. It must be or there w suld not be so many cigars smoked. But it is questionable question-able if the ordinary salaried employe or wage earner can afford to indulge in habits the expense of which amounts to the interest on $1,000, and the amount spent on which would in ten years be making him $75 if he saved it. ' It is well at times to consider the personal unnecessary expenses in some such way as this in order that we may arrive at a con-elusion con-elusion whether we can afford certain indulgences. ( Here is a man who considers hi3 quitting the tobacco to-bacco habit equal to an investment of $1,000, and., the investment is a permanent one. He didn't wait till Jan. 1 to lay aside the habit. The city surrenders before the hosts of Grand Army visitors. Their coming i3 welcome. May the visitors have a good time, and may each resident do his utmost to see that they have it. With the tariff bill out of the way, attention may be given once more to the standing of the teams. What with the Thaw insanity proceedings and the tariff bill discussion, one Castro is not receiving receiv-ing his measure of attention. Amid all the preparations for the entertainment !a of the old soldiers. Dr. Hyatt should not be over- i looked. He must preserve the reputation of Salt Lake's climate at all hazards. In this commercial age there is more or less substitution, which has led the makers of certain meritorious articles to tell the public in making purchases to "Beware of substitutes." It would hardly be fair to the people who have been brought up to believe implicitly in the genuineness of their j church to "Beware of substitutes," but it is never- theless a fact that all the orthodox Protestant churches had their foundation in the Catholic church, from which the "Reformation" separated j them. In choosing a ehurch home, you may as well f have the genuine as the imitation, as the advertisers ! ' say. ' I Still, waiting for that message from the Martians Mar-tians is beginning to get just the least bit tire- I some. I If v' I I I suit might well be extended to residents, too, whila ?T J the good work is going on. if. The decision of the Nevada supreme court that Aj divorce by mail is not good form hasn't affected ' ' ' the decision of the Catholic church that there .is ' ' no such thing as divorce, as it is generally under- j stood today. It may be said that the strength of the Catholic- church lies in its idea of unity and its conceptions concep-tions of authority and obedience, but it should be remembered that the foundation upon which it is. . laid is solid. No great thing can grow unless tha j foundation is right, and the Catholic church has J stood for twenty centuries upon the Rock of Peter. f It is not necessary to have a lofty opinion of yourself in order to bo looked up to i |