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Show "Wje always look wonderingly into the face of the American farmer or business man who has the nerve to look into the face of the publisher of his county paper, and say: I like your paper but I am too hard up and cannot afford af-ford to take it any lojger' Generally he is the brother, or at least, the nearly of kin to the monumental liar of the age. The wretch is too infernally stingy to take ful breaths of the free air of heaven. Now there is not in all broad Utah a single farmer bat who can afford to take his county paper. Indeed there is not one who can afford to live without with-out it. All these can have the Semi Weekly Dispatch twelve months for exactly two dollars and fifty cents, no more and no less. II Hon Jonji Henby Smith writes a I political card very much as a worldling J would do. To call a man a liar is j equivalent to inviting him to fight, and j fighting is an exceedingly worldty em- j 1 p oyment, usually. We trust the j Hon. John Henry will reconstruct ere I the fight tomes off. We would not like I to part from any of the Herald corps, I and still less would we want to know I that harm had come to Apostle Henry. ! The Tribune doesn't "now know If j tbe republicans will be counted out or not." That is comfortable. As long as the doubt lasts the time maybe used accumulating sufficient philosophy to enable it to bear up against the worst. If the better part comes to it the philosophy thus acquired will not be I lost, but can be laid by for some other and similar case. The Tribun9 is a great paper beyond a boubt. A beautiful romance is opened up in the recent death of Mr. J. C. Mur- dock. It seems that he was engaged to Miss Marie Thompson, who died 22 years since. The remains were taken to Beaver and tenderly buried by the grave of the love of bis boyhood. Instances In-stances cf this sort of devotion are all too rare these modern days of money and grab. This one is deserving of fame in both song and story. The Mountain Water people ofGrand Junction carried the borjd election on Friday, by about fifty votes. Hurrah for the mountain torrent folks. This with the peach brandy, they can make there.will settle the drink question satisfactorily. sat-isfactorily. The republican papers seem to forget for-get the second party in all these cattle cases. If the first party loees a cent a pound upon heavy importations, the second gets the advantage of the induction in-duction in price to that amount. The Problem mine over in theTintic district lately struck some promising metal. The outlook is good. That would Bolve the problem for several needy.people in Provo, in a very pleasant pleas-ant way. Good luck to ye, boys. The enow came down Saturday in earnest, and the farming people are all happy in consequence. The appear-ences appear-ences at this writing give promise of plenty more in the near future. The wife of Gen. Palmer, president of the Rio Grande Western railway, died on the 27th of the month, in England. |