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Show LOCAL PICK-UPS 1 Mixed up With a Little of Everything that Isn't Local. TIIK MAN IN TIIK MOON. Dear Janet wears a corsage low, (Just to be In it), ' A gorgeous half moon all aglow, (She needs to pin It). Now patfcof tho pin Is In the lace, Hut most of it is above that place, And wouldn't It be a great disgrace If the moon had a man within it. In Town Talk. TO WICK 1IKIIIND TIIK TIIKONK. The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world, Hut the hand that wields the ladle As across the knee we'ro hurled Is a forco in shaping matters, And, as most of us would own, When It patters, patters, patters, 'Tis the power behind tho thrown. Urooklyn Eagle. "Truth," of Salt Lake, asks, "Is oratory a lost art?" The pencil pusher of that publication should visit our council room at any time there is a petition up for consideration. consid-eration. A gathering of the Latter-day Saints of Indiana were locked out of the court room at Indianapolis. This has naturally caused some hard feelings feel-ings but nothing to be compared with the feelings that might have been aroused had they been locked In. If this man Lcllach is the, kind of man portrayed in tho State press, how very inappropriate is his name. Instead of resembling one of our sweet scented llowers, he seems to be more like a jimpson weed with a dog-fennel smell. If the man Is of no more consequence con-sequence than stated, much good space is being wasted, for a man of that kind left to himself will soon reach the end of his rope. That committee from the .legislature .legisla-ture "has been shown" a few things that they didn't know about the Reform Re-form school. What they didn't know when they left has been told them since by tho press. The visit .to tho institution was made on Sunday, and evidently the committee expected to find the state's incorrlgibles with a bible in one hand and a golden harp in the other, but were sadly disappointed. disap-pointed. The only thing In the shape of cither a Bible or a harp was a copy of the list of subscribers the Home Telephone Co. hasn't got yet, and this was immediately shied at one of the committee. Because it would cost $27,000, the legislature refused to pass a bill making mak-ing it compulsory for sign-posts to be placed at each road crossing. There is another little matter along the same line, that would cost little or nothing and yet be of more service and convenience than said sign-posts1 in fact a matter that we believe should really be carried out. That is the placing of family name-plates on the front gate, or in some other place convenient to the passerby. Persons not thoroughly acquainted with different diff-erent localities frequently mako mistakes mis-takes that are embarrassing, which such a scheme would obviate. Not only that, but the frequent inquiry 'Jwho lives here" would be readily answered. Tho carrying out of such an idea would entail butslightcxpcnse, which could bo placed upon the individual, in-dividual, and tho little plate would servo well In a business way and as a source of pleasure. r Thk Rkpuiilioan Is contemplating a scheme whereby tho city of Logan may bo beautified to no small extent and at.-little cost, providing the citizens citi-zens feel enough interest and pride In their surroundings. The editor of tills paper has a friend In tho east who Is an architect and landscapo gardener of considerable reputation. With tho Idea of doing anything to advance the causoof this paper, he has kindly offered to give suggestions along his line free of charge. TheJdeawo have In mind Is to have pictures taken of the different homes in the city that could be improved, send tho same to tho abovo named gentleman, who will oifer suggestions as to how tho property prop-erty and grounds can bo beautified to the greatest extent at tho least cost. Tub RuruiiMOAN would then print his report. Oftentimes little suggestions sugges-tions from a competent person would bring excellent results and be thoroughly thor-oughly appreciated. Tho suggestions will cost you nothing and they need not bo acted upon except as tho property prop-erty owner sees lit. Score one for our contemporary up the street. It scooped uson the condensed condens-ed milk factory proposition. Whether Wheth-er the Journal's natural aptitude for locating eveyrthlng In the way of a bottling bot-tling concern enabled It to get on the Inside of this In time for Its Saturday's edition, we are not prepared to say, but we know we were unable to get at the facts In the matter until late Frl-da Frl-da afternoon, too late for our last edition. What we don't know about II. G. nayball's buslne- would fill u large sized siz-ed volume,but we are willing to wager a year's subscription against $25 that in all the eighty-two years of his business career he never Invested In anything that brought him better returns than his phonograph, graphophone, gramophone, gramo-phone, or whatever particular 'phone his musical Instrument may be that Is with the exception of his advertising advertis-ing In Thk Rki'Uiilioan. In spite of the fact that that class of musical Instruments In-struments is no longer a novelty, and that most everybody has heard the selections rendered time and again, the music box is seldom without an audience. It not only attracts people Into the store, but keeps them there while Henry, and his clerks arc on the run trying to. take caro of their patrons. pa-trons. Tills particular instrument is a good one, and with the enormous megaphono attached, brings out the reproduction in excellent shape. Do the young ladles of Logan appreciate appre-ciate tlie real advantages they enjoy over tho average girl born to one of the exclusive 400 of any of the big cities? About as soon as the child of a parent In the "smart set" gets rid of her bibs, she has engaged for her a governess speaking a scoro of languages, a music teacher, a dancing master and sundry others who begin the process of converting the little lassie Into a gem of culture. If she survives this and becomes old enough to have her hairdono up "biscuit shape" or "a la Psyche" she Is hustled olf across the briny pond to receive the finishing touches. The big cities of the old world are. "done" and the young lady hasjnow acquired a taste for stunning costumes of and gay fetching designs. The once happy child comes out, makes a sensation and then starts on tho toilsome Journey. She goes shopping, to tho matinees, poses for portraits, dabbles in water colors, follows fol-lows the hounds, attends the horse show, reads romonce and sips Oolong In bachelors studios under tho careful espionage of a chapcrono guaranteed to bo both blind and deaf. The young lady becomes blase at twenty-two and unless sho is married by tho time she Is twenty-four, her fate Is sealed forever for-ever and she usually becomes a pretty sour apple. There aro exceptions of course, but tho average Logan girl who has to wear wool mlts and Is per-mlted per-mlted to go on slelgh-rldes unattended unattend-ed occupies a more cnviablo position than the angel cherubs of the upper ten. Representative Robeits had a narrow nar-row escape last week, one that must' and will linger long In his memory, and yet 'twas not such an escape that he can view It with pleasure or grateful grate-ful heart. He missed everlasting fame and glory by Just three hours and sixty-live minutes. Dave had prepared prepar-ed a bill "Providing for tho establishment, establish-ment, Construction and Maintcnalcc of a System of state Highways" when along came a Government bill of the same Import, and covering practically the same ground. We have the two bills at tills otllcc, and after reading both are struck with the remarkable similarity of the provisions contained In each. Mr. Roberts' bill is of Ids' own production and framed after careful care-ful investigation and deep thought, and the worth of the same is attested by the fact that alike measure was introduced in-troduced Into Congress. The trials and tribulations of the average telephone girl is "about a plenty," and girls at our local exchange ex-change are not favored above others. In conversation with one the other day, we suggested that a kick be registered re-gistered against certain unpleasant phases of the business and the following fol-lowing list of rules was formulated for the guidance of subscribers: "If you have a telephone In your otllcc or store, ring up central then go and wait on a customer. Pay no attention atten-tion to the bell when central rings back, but go to the 'phpne In about fifteen minutes, ring up again make a kick if the operator is not there waiting wait-ing for you. Always speak in an undertone In order to make central ask you over what you said. If she does not hear you tell her to "wake lip" or "take the cotton out of her cars." Sho will admire your orglnal-ity, orglnal-ity, for sho does not hear that advice more than forty times a day. Take your tlmo In answering your bell, or what Is better, do not answer it at all, but in half an hour lingupand ask who called you and get mad if central has forgotten who It was. She has nothing noth-ing else to do but remember names. Always ask central to transfer the message for you. She likes to do this. It helps to kill tlmo for her. Allow everybody to use your phone. Hang tho receiver with tho big end up, as In this way It gets full of dust, which makes another cause for complaint. Bang on the transmitter with a lead pencil as though you Intended to knock it through the wall. This Invariably In-variably makes It talk better. Refuse Re-fuse to pay toll messages; and If you are on a party lino with others, always listen to their conversation, and be sure to want to use tho line while they aro doing so. Whenover you sco tho manager ask him If he cannot give you a better phono or liayo that one tlxed, or you will throw tho wholo thing out of the window. Lastly, kick against everything and cause as much trouble for tho ompany as you can. They aro delighted to havo vqu do so, otherwise business would jo monotonous. The lltcliiield Kcupcr man found a chclet of silk elastic in the street and after gloating over it for several days, advertised it. A stunning young woman wo-man claimed the piopcrty and calmly slipped it on her Oxford Bible. What's the matter with a "ping pong" club in Logan? Thcro are more than a few "pongers" In tho city, many of whom can beat the fellow that has a patent on tho game. It would seem that through an organ-.atlon, organ-.atlon, Interesting contests among local people, and with clubs at Ogdcn, Salt Lake and l'rovo could be arranged. arrang-ed. Tills would offer opportunities to cultivate the best society of our sister cities as well as affording a series of pleasant social successes. Tho grand 11 a sco of last years' attempts at-tempts to have good baseball In Logan probably killed the Idea for all time to come, so far -as Logan fans are concerned. con-cerned. Those ardent enthusiasts who planked down their hard-earned "slmoleons" and whopped 'or up in various ways feel that they received a solar plcxls blow and are now past reviving. re-viving. Yet the memory of Eddie Quick's assortment of double corkscrewed cork-screwed whisker trimmers clings with us still and the blood courses through the vlens as If stimulated with some of Harper's best when wo remember how the tow-headed youngster pulled himself and "Stoney's Infants" out of some terrible holes. Hartzell will always al-ways occupy a warm spot in tho heart of Logan fans, as well as Glade, tho fellow who usually knocked four corners cor-ners and all tho microbes oil tho corpuscle cor-puscle every time it was dished up to him. And Billy Hoffcr, dear old Billy, who usually did the skirt dance at every opportunity and kept tho crowd In an uproar, is with us still, and of course wo can't say much about him. He's gone up higher now, handling "high balls" and Just us hot ones as ever came to hhn overThc Initial bag. In a short tlmo ho will bo handling another kind of bawl, tho kind that takes two arms, a kneo and sometimes two horns to stop. And though baseball base-ball Is relegated to the back scat forever for-ever we'll never forget Eddie Halm. This boy failed, sometimes but when he hit the horschidc squaicly on tho nose and sent It down under the rustic seats In the city park, Ed's friends would tender him thanks and carry him homo on their shoulders. Poor old "farmer" Richards will bo remembered, remem-bered, not for what ho was, but what ho wasn't. The boy was probably a first-class player when at his best, but the Infants never saw hhn that way. Last but not least, is ho of tho crooked crook-ed pedal extremities, Ducky Pace. Ducky was a warm member and could play more ball with his mouth than Ogden could think of In a week. But he held the balls all right and ho got 'cm whether they started to go over or under tho grand-stand. Tho only baseball hope for Logan this summer is another contest between Center and 1st North street. |