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Show A Slander Refuted. EDITOR LEADER:--In justice to a few young ladies of Logan, and also to myself, I wish, through the columns of your paper, to say a few words, and if possible, stop the waging of falsehood and scandal. There is and has been for some time past, in circulation in this city, a scandal which is calculated to injure the reputations and good name of the ladies in question. In the first place some wag thought he would start a sensation by announcing to the good people of Logan that one of her fair daughters wished to have a picture of herself in a nude state, and went to T.B. Cardon's gallery for that purpose, but was refused; that she then went to Kirkham's gallery, and that he made the pictures. This is a falsehood; I made a picture of the young lady, and there is nothing in or about it to be ashamed of. It hangs on the walls of my gallery and it costs nothing for the good people to see for themselves that there is nothing in the picture to call forth such slanders. There are two others coupled in the same scandal, which has traveled from one end of the county to the other, and is so detrimental to the young ladies in question. I thought that, for the welfare of the ladies, Mr. T.R. Cardon and myself, I would deny the story, and I pronounce it false as hell, and would willingly be one of a party to remove from our midst, upon the sharp edge of a three-cornered rail, those idle gossips that have nothing else to do but blight the prospects and future lives of their fellow creatures. Yours respectfully, REUBEN KIRKHAM. |