Show ESSAY essar T 1 11 a flitch of bacon philosophy tho tile hard times EDITOR el darrolt HERALD I 1 came cattle U up p from froni salt lake to relieve the monotony of the continual cry of hard times tithes the times commenced get ting t nine dg bard when I 1 was born ca a long time ago and havo have been getting harder by easy stages ever since 1 I have never seen any soft times and from present appearances never I 1 will see them the carda cards have been bee rt badly baal T shuffled and the only occasion on which a person can draw four aces is when he is playing casino and dont want them ogden is no better than tb an salt lake and D kay K appears on oft one of tho the prominent business establishments what are we to do the times have got so hard that a ri meandering miner in this vicinity mistook them for a rock formation and blasted out a piece which he be had assayed with the following result laziness 1 I 20 per ct t hanging around saloons 35 com plaines plaints about dul bless 50 wanting ff big wages cursing the chinese 10 talking politics 15 dri liking whisky r i I 1 visiting ogden 00 y imitating the rich 9 extravagance and waste 11 I 1 have perhaps overrun the standard in the per cent business but that is what wo we are all doing do na when a fellow letea worth a month on a 50 59 salary he goes beyond the ibo anit of measuring values than the above assay does and there is bound to be an inequality in ratios you cant put a gallon of water in in a quart I 1 cup but you can put a adol dollars worth of beer two dollars worth worthy of brag brak and bluder fifty dollars worth of landing standing off oft and a hundred dollars worth of good promises prom isea for the future in a fifty cent man so the reader rea derwill will discover even figures sometimes lie when they fail to do eo so and need any assistance in that direction they can call on me the proposition can be changed ch anaed the rufa rule 1 bave invented la is a good oae one for if works both ways for instance A roan man is working for a living he be has a family to support BUp port eav he be averages a week if he got nothing n hc would keep on living BO so that th ai 10 is eo so much ahead he can spend nine tenths of it have something left and feel like a na bob in addition to which those that he buys from get their money nd thus also a n great deal of pro fanity is saved up for the day when the tax collector calls my ideas on this subject may not be very lucid nor comprehensive but bt mutual congratulations over tho the election of cleveland comparing c 0 1 to be asked to drink coupled with wn a general condemnation of the bard hard imes times will willit it seems to me leave the times about where we found them what do you think about t ESSAY v 1 I travel on a pass and vinit with friends |