Show A THIN MAN A FRIEND fremd has handed us a copy of the american lithographer and printer it contains a synopsis of an address delivered by a mr bartlett before the boston lithographic artists association his subject was waa chinatown san francisco by way of introduction which constituted the larger part of his speech the speaker pretended to give a sketch of his trip through the great west on his way to the object which formed the kernel of his discourse of course salt bait lake city received some attention from him taking his observations upon it as a sample of the pabulum upon which he fed his cult awed audience he must m u s t be rather r a ther a thin brained individual one of those wiseacres wise acres whose curtailed mental vision will not admit of his penetrating beneath the surface of things As a sample this is how he describes the peculiar way the houses here are furnished furni shei with water this water coming from the mountains runs in little rivulets gutter like on both sides of the streets every house has a little gutter connected with the main gutter or rivulet if somebody wishes for water all he kas has to do is to shut a little sluice put up just below his pwe place wherewith he shuts up the rivaled so that the water I 1 flows aws through his bis little private gutter into a reservoir in his house As soon ashe as he has water enough he opens the again and the water follows the same course as before no ho one who did not know bettor better would presume while listening to mr bartlett bartle or reading the account of his alleged lecture that there was a system of waterworks water works covering a large area of this city by means tf 0 which water is conveyed to tile houses of the people in pipes evidently ile he refused to look at anything in that connection except what hat he calls gutters this boston solon gave further her evidence of his having eyes without ability to sw see and ears with which he could conw not hear he essayed to giwa descriptor on of the mormon noll temple but bat was not aware all the time that he was speaking of the tabernacle on this subject however he reached what he be doubt doubtless leM imagined to be a bold stroke of originality when he uttered the ida expressed in the following for the election of a presidential President lia candidate or any other great assembly this temple mr bartlett cott col alders the best place to be had bad but the richest of all his statements is in relation to the cause of the city bearing on the ocea occasion sion of mr bartletta bartletts Barf Bart cletts letts visit such a pacific paci aspect here it is on his bis inquiring how it was that the city look looked so quiet and that he did not hear any remarks against tb the U S government he was shown some little black spots hardly visible all around the city which little black spots appeared at closer inspection to be nothing else than so many mouths of cannons pointed at the city the inhabitants called them uncle same samal and they ate are perfectly well wel aware that in a a moment they could destroy the whole vace place mr B cannot explain why but uthe be felt as if a dismal cloud was banking allover the city this kind of talk could only p ro aeed from a hopeless imbecile full to the neck with prejudice the poor man evidently brought his preconceived notions about the thebe bell gerent cha character of tb the e mor abir conall mona with him and his narrow soul would abot allow the facts facto before h him I 1 m to dispossess his boverly stricken mind of erroneous premises hence the little black spot falsehood of course they were hardly visible well hardly surely uncle sam has plenty of ordnance on hand to form a cordon with field pieces around a city having a circumference cum ference of probably fifteen miles according to this extraordinary mans theory if he had heard anything said against the government those little black spots the nature of which was only decernea decer ned on closer inspection would have belched forth death and destruction and annihilated the city population ilon and all 0 it Is difficult to see the reason for mr B being unable to tell why ahe he felt as jf if a dismal cloud was hanging over the city he was enabled to explain on 9 closer inspection what the little black spots were why could he not focus his closer inspection apparatus upon the dismal cloud haft hanging ging over the city he would not have been under the necessity of traveling beyond Ms his own brain to discover it mr B is evide evidently fitly a man whose appreciation of the an unknown quantity as evidenced by this statement among all the women mr B saw in salt lake city there was riot not a single decent looking one there is no spot on earth where there are more beautiful women in proportion to the population than in salt lake but poor warped bartlett coul bouli I 1 not see anything good or lovely here he was determined he everything of that kind was obscured in his eyes by that dismal cloud hanging over the city the mind of this member of the Lithographic Artists association of boston has evidently a decided asinine tendency |