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It is time for Chicago and Salt Lake to send their souls to the cleaners. which the foregoing story appeared, is a profoundly moving story of another mother bird a human mother of soulful Chicago. She tramped the When T. N. T. Comes To Visit Utah The Soul Of Chicago And Of Salt Lake CHICAGO is beginning to flatter herself that it has .a soul. So elated is it to find that it is in the soulful class that it sends out a pretty story about the rescue of a mother pigeon. The poor pigeon became entangled in an electric wire near her roost on the sixth or seventh story of a building and struggled vainly to release herself. A crowd gath- ered; someone sent in a call to the streets day after day seeking an apartment which would shelter her and her two little children. Because of her children she had been ordered out of the apartment she was in, and although she was weak from a recent illness she walked the soul-inspirin- : g thoroughfares of Chicago hour after hour and day after day seeking an apartment which would permit little children to enter. During the course of her vain pilgrimage she went mad, for everywhere she called she read a sign of this evil effect, Children not permitted in this apartment. in her madness, she recalled those words written long ago, Suffer little children to come unto Me, and believed that somewhere she would find a landlord who would allow her children to have shelter. TP one of the Wasatch mountains steps lightly over into the Great Salt Lake you will know that it has arrived. If the valley suddenly rears itself aloft and takes the form of a mountain you will know that it is in our midst. If the Wasatch drive curves up like a caterpillar and rolls down hill you will know that Utahs gift from Uncle Sam has been delivered. It occurred to your Uncle Samuel A some time ago that Utah would be delighted to receive a gift from him. Being thrifty he decided to give something that he had on hand and then it flashed into his mind that a nifty little present of fifty tons of T. N. T. might move us to joyous acclaim. So Uncle Sam informed the gov- ernor that he would soon dispatch the to Utah- consignment of Perhaps it is even now on the way. It may arrive silently, which is one of its furtive habits, or it may land with a bang! that will wake Mars out of his sleep and cause him to throw one of his shoes at the saucy satellites of Saturn. When the war ended the government found enough of the high explosive on hand to blow Germany into the Baltic sea. It did not need that much disturbance concentrated all in one place at all events not while the Senate was in session and it cast about for a means of scattering the explosive over the country so that if it blew up it would only twist a few of the girders of our democratic institutions out of joint. Hence Utah was chosen as a safe refuge for some of the explosive obviously because Utah is one of the soundest states in the union and not easily thrown off its balance. But what to do with the dangerous and troublesome I. W. W. of explosives? Some of it has already arrived and is stored in one of the powder plants Shoes Representative Styles of the Great Variety in Our Shoe Section Main Floor. Suede and Satin, S13.S0 Black Kid, SIO jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii(iiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiii! Per-hap- s, But she sought in vain. Returning home one evening she kissed her little ones and as her tears rained on their upturned faces she told them she was She engoing on a long journey. tered the bathroom and turned on the I JACKSON, CURTIS CALHOUN CO. & I Patent or Kid, S17 Succeuori to ' J. P. Fowlers Machine & Auto Repair Shops We do general repair work on all makes 1 I j Kid or Patent, cars and trucks. Acetylene welding, also light and heavy machine work. of $9 gas. We hear the apologists say that if she had not been sick, that if she had been quite sane she would not have taken her life. No doubt that is true, but what shall we say of a heartless system that drives mothers mad and sends them to a suicides grave? Beyond the stars that mother will find no signs barring children, but angels will waft her little ones to the golden gates on wings of dazzling pearl for always they will be little ones to her. 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