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Show 9 THE BBE TI I KKKS something about the td heels, of his wax that makes the wait? How long would Woodmansee sitting on the step that led into his dining room, the Bek man on the step that led down to t he shoe shop, I brought no shoes to be rehe paired, Mr. W., began the Bin: man, but I urallv ask to have explained, the principal one being -- if the medicine can cure every one else, why has it not cured Brother ? As to the medicine itself, it is colorless ami tasteless, and when the drop of liquid falls into the glass of water, immediately begins a disturbance such as be ptoduccd by electricity. In Marie Corelli's ''Romance of Two Worlds, just such an electrical medicine is described, and its wonderful effects on the heroine is tohl in bewitching language. In this age of faith healers and credu- ,ccvor. an hiry that Ma-th- e Wood-mansee- want to know some- wonderful medi Well, replied Williamson. thing about your cobbler a meditative man; somewith a fair touch of!c,nc thing in the constant companion- meditatively, 'Youre not a Mormon," were Norwegian brogue, the work I with crooked shoes of old ship in hand will take my time almost the first words uttered bv heels that hammers into his soul a have till 8 oclock. At 8 oclock I call the cobbler, eyeing his visitor not rugged philosophy, rarely met it a days work and quit. But call unkindly. among the toiling millions who How do you guess that? Mote between 8 at anv time earn their crust by sweat. in the morning and 8 at night, and than once Ive been taken fora The cobbler is always a prowill find me here. Saint, said the Bia: man, feigning found reasoner, oft times a good you Between 8 in the morning ami injured innocence and feeling that rio OoroMi -- ot her idea from Cob-- I talker; and luckv is the customer 8 at would be l.ort. interview said cut the customer, night, e who loiters in his shop until the am never deceived," replied ' ll Wiodin.insce would be off his words in a remeasuring in the Sixteenth Ward cobbler has finished the patch on flective Do vou want a cobbler. manner. Thats twelve his shoe, for the chances are that " i.,lloi" ;,".v '"cUl1 of tl,L' im;,Kin- hours. Does a man out in this tie of the medicine:'' he will absorb more wisdom than lation. I now country0 have to work twelve Just may buy. Perhaps he could get through any chapter I want to know its merits. hours to make a living? It would hardly do to dismiss of Zimmerman on Solitude. a cobbler the Kyeing his customer and with a began Thereupon this sketch about the cobblers of The disciple of St. Crispin has solemn mien, the cobbler replied; discourse which commenced withj Salt Hake without a brief referdiscovered that the world is out of The way conditions are shap- his conversion to Mormonism (aljoint, but he would not leave the ing themselves in this country0 ways the great event in a Saints ence to the one who passed himself off as St. Joseph, albeit that correction of human ills to a jury nowadays, a man must work and ran along through his life), man was a carpenter and of cobblers; not he. There is no twelve hours to earn a living. If varied but in no sensational great way followed that trade in Gallilee. more conceit in him than there is he wants better than a living, he career in Utah. No one listening Two women lived with this cobabout the scraps af old leather does not work at all. to Brother Woodmansee could bler. What their relations were his floor of on the shop. lying Cobbler Williamson returned to doubt his sincerity of speech, or to him people have now forgotten, Yet if some genii would lift him the shoe he held in his lap and that he was an honest and just but one was called the off the cobblers bench and place drove the awl for another peg. man. One Virgin when he was very day in Their here Mary. him upon the judicial bench, full This modern Plato was uncon- near to God, he said, he appearance prayed many a place would there be less scious that he had uttered any- the Almighty to reveal to him their quaint costumes some three excited considerable culaw but more justice a revival of thing remarkable. that would relieve the years ago something and their abode much more the good old times under the wise ills of humanity, something that riosity, so, being filled with dolls dressed rule of the great caliph of Bagdad Nailed to a tree on he alley could be obtained with little cost in the most lavish finery, one of we read of in the Arabian Nights. side of one of the prettiest cotta- to Gods poor, and straightway which the infant represented And the world would be all the ges on First West Temple street, the formula for his medicine was Christ. better for it. north, is a sign with the simple le- whispered to him by some superHard by First West on South gend, Shoes RePaired." A Mr. human agency. The result is These three people were either cut off from the Mormon church, Temple street, Cobbler William- Woodmansee, or Brother Wood-manse- Woodmansees remedy for no mat- or left it. to found a religion on son pegs away from morning until lives in this trim cottage ter what complaint; simply one own hook. Of one thing the candle burns up a couple of and repairs shoes. That is not all drop in a glass of water once or their in declaiming, i. e., hours of the nignt. One look at that Bro. W. does. He heals the twice a day, and the bottle holding they persisted that massive head upon brawny sick. No matter what the com- enough drops to last two or three the true gospel had been revealed in much the same manner but stooped shoulders reveals the plaint may be, this saintly cobbler years or a life time, according as to them as it had been revealed to Joseph Phil osopher. Put him outside of has a remedy which causes it to the invalid has a hankering after Smith. This story, together with iiis shop, arrayed in his Sunday disappear, and if you place faith the medicine. their queer explanation of the clothes, and one would say: Ah, in the stories of the honest but dont cobbling .quit you Why was conclusive proof that this is a miner, and he knows just simple folk in that neighborhood, and just attend to shoving your dolls, three brains were afflicted by a rewhere to look for a mine." An- men have been snatched from the medicine out to the trade?" in- ligious mania. If any other proof other would say: This is a man grave by a single drop of Brother quired the Bee man. were needed of mental disorder in of some consequence in a factory, Woodmansees medicine. I am a nervous paralytic," re- - Jhe person of St. Joseph, it lav in fact that whiie he was the having control of workmen. Just Its the easiest thing in the plied Brother W., and cobbling mosttheskillful cobbler in the so soon as the old Norwegian be- world to get this cobblea to talk is the only thing that rests me. I he did his wor k for a meretown, pitlanabout his medicine, the ingredients dont live by cobbling, but I have tance. gins to talk, however, his St. Joseph, the Virgin Mary and guage betravs the philoso phic of whtch came 10 lnm through re- - to cobble to live," cobbler. Brother W. was called to dinner the other one were missed on the velation, or in answer to prayer, streets about a year ago, and the The other day a man stepped he says. His shop is in the base-int- o just then and the interview ended. got abroad that they moved The Bek is conscious that one story his shop, and taking off his ment of the dwelling at the rear, into Cache valley. They could in this are omitted two or the other interviewed he was and no church nor set up no establish until the things shoes, said he would wait cobbler straightened up the crook-- ! day while he waited for his dinner, storv which the reader would nat- gospel in Salt Lake. 0 ; to-morro- w, j j i 0 bc-th- hot-Tee- d j j j 0 I e, |