Show THE A VOL Semi-Month- ly Paper Devoted to Cents SALT LAKE CITY 2 Scents DECEMBER KEW MOVE BLACKSMITH Amasa 1 Sense and PTonsense 1870 NO 19 SHOP the Son of Ithra (loq)— “Boys you may just as well lay down them hammers and let some one smitJdn ’ take You should never strike tho metal when it’s cold Get it warmed up a little and then strike Here Lias come and do the blowing for me and I’ll attend to this job myself Billy you bring in some coal and keep the fire up that’s a little man This is really7 one of the most tantalizing things I ever had anything to do with The Spiritualism won’t weld with the Universalism no how lean fix it Well! well! I’m almost discouraged but I believe I’ll try and hammer a meeting-hous- e out of it then if it goes to pieces there’s so much saved ’ who understands ! anyway” 'Lias— “I say Billly how’s this? himself” We got him in to help in the shop and now he want’s to run the machine Billy— “I don’t half like it but it won’t do to quarrel with him — he has too much influence with the customers afraid of is that he’ll be “putting a head on” us someday if we don’t watch him” Amasa — “Come boys stir your stumps Don’t stand mooning there all day !” ’Lias and Billy — “Yes sir we’re sir” £3 Billy (aside) — “How snappish the old fellow’s gittin’ to be sure” Amasa (solus)— I declare them boys’ll wear me out yet I like to see a boy with some snap about him but them boys is the triflinist set I ever did see I expect I’ll have to turn ’em off and do the work myself ’n ef I do turn ’em off what on airth will become of ’em?” All I’m ! A Word to Bachelors Marriage is sanctioned by God and common sense It is the only means whereby a young man in this country an hope to lead a respectable and cleanly life But there are two classes of persons who are exempt from its joys and sorrows: If you young map are deaf dumb lame blind and idiotic and if your ancestors have been such or if you are so mean that your life is that of a friendless snarling cur and you could not be anything else even to your wife you may stand aside If you young man have conceiyed s that ambition so common of a “fast man” if you have made up your mind to keep a fast hprseand a concubine if your idea of happiness is to have your hands full of cards and your stomach full of oysters if you in short have made your arrangements to go straight to perdition without change of cars you’d better not marry You will spend the money now-a-day- that the honorable man lavishes on a home and its “light and life” on painted creatures who drag your poluted name through every sink in the land who will display the jewelry and gifts you have bestowed on them and curse you with a glib round oath for a spooney and a fool You too economical to marry will have plenty to spend on who will leave you at last it may be to die wifeless and childless amid the dust and cobwebs of a garret long-haire- d |