Show t mCLZ lishment arc out but he is at home and practising for private theatricals to be performed by himself and bis gold-lea- f boys : the master of course is to play the prin- The nature of the cipal character piece was somewhat of an extravi-ganz- a : in fact it was very much sonicwhatish that way The subject Was the wealthy gilders own magnificence what helped to make him the Elephant and bow lie intended to behave himself ihthcfu- lure to keep in that character lie begins his rehersai : for speech was choking him making Avliat would have' been a fine tableau m the “ Ohhrcoal Burner” Conquering his emotion cf pome shadowy 'foreboding for coming events don’t casthnore than their shadows before Uncle Jacob continued in a solemn sepulchcml ‘ ’ Voice: Yes I know thereby something You nil rememgoing to happen ber the play of Old PhiUs Birthday? Strange coincidence of my own I might say a most strange coincidence ! Like him was also born on the aniversary of my birthday' Very strange coincidence I On my birth-daI may repeat further say all the great events of my life have transpired and I believe that were I to live till doomsday the world would come to an end on the day when I was born No I don’t exactly mean the identical day " on which I was born years ago but the day on which I was born some years to “ come No that is not exactly it cither I mean the dav on which I wasn’t born some years Jo come No I mean the day that I might have been horn don’t Pshaw L mean — damn it know wliat I mean but I feel from the crown of my head to the toes of any feet that something dreadful is going to happen'! Uncle Jacob again broke off overpowered with' the intensity of his emotion brother Epliram begged him to take his chair and proposed to pass the ominous night in relating what had i! taken palace on which would retheir birtli-day- s semble the good old custom of praying the old year out and the ‘new year in ' If nothing occurred bei ! I ! from the North and “Come all ye folkscs South And listen to the wisdom Parenthetical t ra CHAPTER III THE BASKET OF F It U I T It I LD E E t f ? ‘ Enter with us thq mansion “kiv-- ’ ored” all over v with gold-leand ' h than see the inside more ! af gold-leafis- the outside The wealthy gilder ‘makes his entree— the' Elephant is before us! AUtlierestof the estab f ta- “Come all ye Scribes and Pharisees wot takes respectable places in the Syna- gosrue And sec the Elephant jump out so clean from nasty iiiuddy bog I’m just goiug to repeat of getting gold-lea- f from tint blackguard Uncle Sam And when I kicks the bucket I shall go right straight up into the bosom of Auram Not old Abe down east for I’m going to drop him right short there lor ' he once led me into a mess for doing what I was told not to do right here’’ IE i se- s a is known from Dan to located somewhere in Utah know exactlv though we don’t v where— still we do know that it i§ known from Dan to Bcershcba that in the Twentieth Ward the choicest fruit is grown aiul picked Now there had been sent to the gilder a on Brother Jacob’s birtli-da- v basket of the choicest fruit grown But before' folupon1 the bench lowing the boy with the basket of delicious fruit and the catastrophe of its reception by the Gilder wc must touch upon a few items in which is the pith and moral of our Bcer-sheb- story The Gilder had been on the most affectionate terms with an old gen- - Reman of- - some social standing called Uncle Samilel lie had (lone extensive business with him and it is a current fact that he had received more gold leaf from the old gentleman’s establishment than all Jhc rest of the gilders in Salt Lake Citv lu fact lie once had quite a s Uncle monopoly from him houshold had been in the eyes of the wealthy giklcr the best Indeed looking men in the world these relations £aye tended much - Sam-'uel’- ' to make him wliat at the date of our story lie was the golden Gilder But now comes the wonderful transformation scene so becoming in an extravaganza now comes an illustrious example that the “ regeneration ” of Utah is no humbug Suro-lcoming events do cast their shallows before! The gilder had been converted from the error of his ways ! Most was the spirvirtuously it wrestled with him and brought him to the penitent seat There ho d groaned groans that the ignorant of the genuineness of humbug would have sworn to be groans no man could litter and there he wept tears which as they’ fell upon the repentant form rolled out into the shape and color These teats which of gold leaves had been so miraculously transmuted were carefully collected by the gold-leboys the morning after their master was “bora again4” and they were nicely spread out into ft consecrated gold-lea- f book and desafe in The gilder an iron posited y gold-leafi- tht simple-minde- af word me is a fine word it was ken from the theatrical notices” t G like that That tween that and midnight the company would retire with tlic assurance that Uncle Jacob’s presentNYc must ments were groundless lieredeave them and away with cur readers to another part of tlic city Imagine yourselves with “us gentle readers looking" in the face a massive eostlv mansion Doiftask us to give to it ‘a” local habitation ’and a name” butbe satisfied to Jufowthat it is the mansion of a Wealthy' gilder who has gilded bis 'house all over inside and out like 'a confectioner would his gingcr-brea- d “I ” - CHAPTER : “ Come all yo nations past present and to from every where come And pay your money and take your seat and behold the Elephant jist here I Look at my palace drest like Christmas beef And see it’kn'ered all over so very line with I V E A L T II Y Golden-Gilder- cond line” ! T II E from the mouth y - y i JACOB’S BIRTHDAY intends to transmit to his posterity book as an tills wonderful gold-lea- f and miraculous testimony that their sire was made a gen-u- heir-loo- m new “ critter” Now Brother Jacob had heard of these things which had come to ine t 'pass and this cynical man muttered something about he couldn’t seo it ahd it is the private opinion of an intimate friend that lie did once mutter— humbug ! There was however one inter- estingly funny particular 6f which Brother Jacob had not as yet heard and lienee he had innocently sent to the Gilder as a' present the basket of delicious fruit grown upon Be it further known the bench then to our readers what bccanif further known to Brother Jacob that tlic Gilder in a virtuously gold- leaflsh moment had vowed that though he liad got fat as prize Christmas beef by eating fruit grown upon the bench lie never more fruit from that would cat any i quarter This vow lie honestly ac- knowedged to himtef was not be- cause lie disliked the delicious flavor of bench fruit but because the establishment of Uncle Samuel on the bench had ceased to be his heat market for gold leaf and therefore in his virtuous disgust at that goldt leafibdily abominable fact lie would neither touch taste nor handle nor look 7at anything except with tlie most genuined of horror produced within exactly two miles and ono quarter of Uncle Samuel’s establishment unre-specfab- lc (TO be contlm: ID) |