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Show THERE 13 NO BOOM. The Mory of Th-odori 'Weber reads like fiction like those cruel purpose fictions thai wounded In nrder to cure, like the stories of Dlrkpns and ("harles Read which were written to correct great public wrongs. Weber Is dying In the nolsomo basement of the dtyjntl of tuberculosis. if he were a murderer mur-derer condemned to death In three week.j, tr lie were guilty of robbery and rapine and sentenced to solitary confinement, con-finement, his fate could not be worse. And yet. so far as appearance go,-s, be Is a atalnlesB and merely unfortunate human creature for whom (hers is no room under any roof In this city -x e(t the Jail and no room there except In its most wretched part. Wehfr come here from Colorado, being be-ing sent hf-r by the officials of Grand Junction, tho boundless sparo around thai town In tho centennial Stnt contained con-tained no room for him. He had to move on. When he arrived the County Commissioners would not permit him to ?o to tho pOOrhOUSe, no hospital could receive him without a guarantee of his bills, there was not even 'he cheapest and lowest londrlnc-liouse open to him because of his poverty, and the last nnd only refuge was a prison cell. And yet this Is the New Jerusalem, this la the place which Is rapidly making mak-ing rna.lv for the advent of the Christ; this Is the capital of HIS kingdom; this Is the place from which He will dispense dis-pense Justice to all humanity so the hierarchs say. but as He might have ald who spake as never man spake, ' Inasmuch a.s ye have not done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have not done it unto me." |