Sentiment Cards and TMil as a Money Spender jfor Ogden. K Ogden, July 31st. Some time ago tho brethren got together and had a good old summer time celebration in the Fifth ward. The invitations said that each acceptance ac-ceptance should be indicated by some sort of "sentiment" "sen-timent" written on a card, the cards to be supplied sup-plied by John V. Bluth, stake clerk and also chief deputy in the county clerk's office. One day Mr. Bluth was away and his duties fell on the shoulders shoul-ders of Hon. Bill Swan, also an attache of the office. Now Bill is not long on sentiment. He seldom takes water with his, but occasionally he takes a foolish powder. On the day in question H Bill had been supplying the county physician with placards to post up where certain diseases were H epidemic, and, though he blinked one eye a trifle, H no stranger would suspect that he was not prop-H prop-H erly organized. A good old lady, bound for the Fifth ward, came in: "Have you any sentiment cards," she enquired. "Sentiment," queried Bill, H "what kind of disease is that." "I think it affects B ' tho heart," the old lady replied, modestly. "No, H we are just out," answered Bill, "but we have H plenty of the others, smallpox cards, diphtheria H cards, plenty of them, but no sentiment cards. H Sorry. Go down stairs and see the janitor. May- be he's got some." The old lady went to Ihe H celebration without any "sentiment" and Bill has H not tumbled yet. H tv r i2r H This is a treatise on consistency. It is a B treatise because it deals with the law and the B profits on inconsistency. Anyone desirous of go- B ing to the legislature and building a big house I and becoming mayor f, will And much theoreycal H aid liidden in the moral lesson to follow: There H was once a man, who, after much tribulation, suc ceeded in bull conning a majority of the voters of his native town to vote for him for mayor. After Aft-er election he proceeded to follow in the footsteps foot-steps of all great reformers by sidetracking the main issue and pointing out to the people the various workings at the law and assuring them that so long as he was the chief con the letter of the law must be oboved. & & & Time rolled along and a deserving charitable institution, a Home for the Homeless and Fallen, applied to the city for a little Christian help. The council immediately appropriated a small sum and when the mayor vetoed the resolution, the generous gen-erous councilmen passed ,the resolution over his veto, and the home got the money. The mayor was, unfortunately, the proprietor of a newspaper and in his happiest vein he scourged the council for undermining the pillars of civilzation by illegally ille-gally voting money out of the city treasury. It was a warm roast full of self praise and egotistical egotisti-cal assinnity, but the council had been wrought upon by a spirit of charity and in their hearts they rebelled against the inhumanity of -the mayor. t W Some time before, the president of these United Unit-ed States had honored the city with a Visit. His reception created a trifling cost and the mayor advocated before the council the appropriation of enough money to cover the deficit. It was done and there was no veto. Upon another occasion the city generously came to the aid of the committee commit-tee on arrangements for the glorious Cut-off celebration cele-bration and an embarrassing deficit was avoided. The same mayor was in office and there was no veto. According to the law these appropriations were just as illegal as the appropriation to the Home for the Unfortunate, but the mayor had a personal interest in each case and therefore no wrong could be done. It is meet and proper to provide proper enter- HH tainment for the President of the United States H It was an honorable act for the city to assist in making the Cut-off celebration a success. It was 1 an act of divine charity to help out the Homo that offers an open door to the castaways. :Blit the mayor is a man who shines by his own light. H It is not unlawful for the council to provlda H means to enable him to parade in public but for 1 any other purpose let tho councilmen be damned. H The mayor is a great man. If he thinks the peo- H pie have any doubts about it, he tells them through H his newspaper just how great and law abiding he H 'is. All cities have not the advantage of a mayor who is also entrusted with the moulding of 'public H opinion, Let us take comfort from that. H But the end is not yet. -This same mayor was H staked out to raise the dough for an irrigation ! H congress and he made his biggest play trying to H get the county commissioners to vote an appro- H priation of $1,000. He knew such an appropriation H would be as unlawful as was the voting of $25 to M the Crittenden Home by the city. Yet he person- H ally asked the commissioners to do It, after, ye H Gods, he had roasted the councilmen for doing M the same thing. Do not marvpl, dear reader, these M are but samples. A record of the official term M would be as crooked as a rail fence. Therein lies M the consistency. Crooked in one thing crooked Hln all things. Thus endeth tho first lesson: H