I WIH I CO H I I 0 xcococoDDccccoDDco The discharge of Chris Lund from the police force is sincerely regretted by nearly every one in the city The tall I man has a host of friends To begin with he is a good fellow Now all good feb lows do not make good officers but when I qualifications are combined the result Is always gratifying Chris is goodna I tured that is one qualification in his favor He never arrested a man save I when duty demanded It Now that he and the other officer are off the force perhaps the following anecdote will not hurt I 000 I was in the palmy days when Mr Pratt was chief and Harry Ford was sergeant with the rank of assistant chief Frank McDonald was on the foice I and Chris and he were on the way to the station to report for duty on the owl watch Going up Commercial street they found a fellpw with a noisy jag Here you said Chris you go home and get out of this What are you here making the night hideous for The rollicking blade consigned Lunds lathy spirit to that land where they dont shovel snow and said hed be jammed If I hod go home u i Luna is a ramous athlete and here was I a chance to get in some practice Passing his club to his partner he took the drunk and despite his struggles twirled him I around for a time ase drum majorwould a baton Then he traded him to McDonald McDon-ald for the two clubs and Frank who Is husky himself gave the fellow a round When he had exhausted himself he passe him back and Lund gave him another an-other whirl By this time the drunk was no longer drunk He was sober By an almost superhuman effort he pleased himself and looking at the pair of peelers he exclaimed ex-claimed Why you dn giants are you prac ticing on me Then he went home rt < s > < a Lund was the athlete of the force He has a set of muscles thoroughly trained and among other things can walk a block on his hands But Chris had other accomplishments accomplshments besides muscular He had a good educa tion He Is a very competent young man and will not be long out of a Job < J > 4 < 0 Ed Coyle has a very pretty little story ver prety lte stor ette in the current Munseys Its about a reporter named Billings who worked on the Eagle The story opens with Bill Ings playing successfully too the rolo of a man who has just died In a cheap lodg chep ing house Billings had to be buried and the paper voted 23 t plant him and a wellmeaning parson consented to preach a short sermon at the house 0 > < Billings wasnt much of a success as a reporter He never ran with the boys a get del hunted up poor families and wrote hard luck 8torl about em was always broke because of giving some fel low the price of a meal and was the per petual prey of the newsboys who would unload their last papers on him nearly every night 0 0 < j > BUlincs lay ouliet la < cheap coffin and i a half dozen reporters who had braved a sleet storm to attend the funeral had listened to the parson drone out Oh Death where is thy sting oh grave where is thy victory and were waiting for him to begin his sermon when the door opened and Blinkers the toughest noisiest dirtiest newsboy on the block came In on tiptoe In his hand he carried car-ried a bunch a very little bunch of red carnations He looked for a minute Into Billings still white face laid down the flowers on tho coffin gulped down something some-thing and then with a sober look tip toed out o 0 Attached to the little cluster of carnations carna-tions was a card on which was scrawled these words Hs wuz good to do gang The parson read the card and reached for his hat You need not wait for the preach sermon he said it has already been 000 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin wrote a philosopher Aye and sometimes human acts forge links In the golden chain which binds earth to heaven 0 0 The Deseret NewsBasajed last evening to demonstrate how Councilman Cluster at Tuesday nights council meting had put the entire council In a hole by securing se-curing the adoption of his motion to covi cur In the action of the mayor respecth 1 his honors response to the resolution call ing for the appointment of a chief of police po-lice and the reorganization of the police and other city departments The News Is In error As a matter of fact and as correctly cor-rectly reported in yesterdays Herald the counci adopted only the motion to concur con-cur In the mayors action as to removal acton of Officers Lund and Johnson The council coun-cil not only did not concur In but refused to endorse the for declin endore mayors reasons decln ing to appoint a chief and no amount of twisting words can make the record ap pear as the evening paper would have It