Show THEY ALL SAY SO A quartette of salt lake business men spent one lay in last week just to see aa they danl bow it was done in the metropolis according to the usual practice in their dull town they thought to spend a few quiet hours in one of the cool and comfortable real estate odices of this city talking over the boom to which they look forward of course they found much to astonish them in few brief intervals from business brif which their auditors could spare them they expressed views which in the present stale of salt lakes feelings cannot bo regarded as calculated to soothe or heal they began by assuring themselves that the proposed railway changes meant ecat things for the capital this met with no response except the ring of the office typewriter it sounded like a chestnut bell and the conversation lagged a little then they began to tell what they would do if these hopes were not realized still no response nobody cared what they did at last with a pyrotechnic flourish of profanity aliey declared that if lake did not get her premised recognition at the approaching U P meeting they and lots of their friends would pack up bag and baggage and leave the town they said they could not earn enough to pay their rent and that the only thing which kept body and soul together at all was alie rosy hope of better days it thia foiled the instinct of self preservation would forbid teem to further stay at last reports tho onar business of any consequence at the capital was iveing done in alie offices of the assessor and the collector and the auctioneer alie presses which heretofore were driven by wind are now kept by steam emanating from red liot editors and the supply of editors not steam is failing |