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Show -- nnmni mM i Mim wiyyftTTPTrf w nT -- " TRUTH. CHATTER. (Being the personal opinions of the writer and for which no one else is in any manner responsible.) For a long time I have been opposed to the bill board nuisance, as permitted to flourish here in Salt Lake City. These hideous, deformities which greet the eye everywhere ought to be abolished instanter. Every vacant lot in Zion is covered with them. The men who erect them have no consciences and no sense of the beautiful. All they care for is the Almighty Dollar. The men who rent them space for their devices are not a whit better. They invade those portions of the city where people have erected neat houses, grown nicely trimmed trees, raised well kept lawns and cared for beautiful flowers and right across the street, or on the lot adjoining a bower of beauty, they build an unsightly fenco and cover it with posters still more unsightly. It is time it was checked. We have a reputation tot living in one of the most beautiful cities in the United States. But we are losing it fast. Last Sunday the writer was riding to the Post on a car with a lot of tourists. The mem bers of the group were charmed with everything they saw in the shape of residences, well' kept grounds, avenues of trees and broad ample streets, but when it came to discussing bill boards the remarks made were by no means complimentary to the bill board men, the property owners, nor the members of the city government which permits such conditions to obtain. There is no use repeating the remarks made; if what I am jotting down doesnt appeal to the interested parties, the case is , ?: !S : from the effects of heart failure we write in the newspaper because we feel charitably inclined towards his friends and relatives. Instead of standing for Thats A11 it stands for headaches and heartaches. It wrecks the victim of its constant use morally and financially; it takes the rose from the cheeks of his wife and sends his children barefooted to school. It puts porterhouse steak on the table of the man who sells it and gives pigs liver to the offspring of the fellow who drinks it. It fills the jails with petty criminals and with men guilty of graver offenses. It crazes the brain that nerves the arm to drive the knife to the hilt or fire the fatal soht. It takes away the intellect and makes a drivelling idiot of the man who might have been an honor to society and a credit to himself. It makes a man forget his altar vows and strike down the weak 'woman he has sworn to protect. It is a poison to the system and a menace to life. It bids the overworked and tired heart hasten and finish its task that waiting death may claim a victim sooner. It separates wife from husband and father from children. It robs women of virtue and men of virility. The man who sells it is always half ashamed of his vocation and when he goes away from home strives to conceal his business. The man who drinks it hesitates about going home and eats cloves to disguise his breath until the time comes when so lost to sentiment he doesnt care. And then say Thats All. All? Why that legend should be Thats changed. Instead of saying All it should read The Beginning. The All comes when the coroner sits on the remains; when the slim cortege trails its way. to the Potters hopeless. Field; when the clods fall on the jt On the corner of Main street and rough box which encloses what was Second South there is a one story once a man. Thats All. And to building. It should be occupied by an think that a sign like that should be eight or a ten story modern structure, permitted to raise its horrid front but let that pass. Perhaps some day some man will erect one there, unless in the meantime trade has moved four or five blocks further away. The owner of this building does not need money so badly that he was forced to lease space for a hideous green sign, placed right atop this little dinky building, where ie who runs may read: Wilsons Whiskey; Thats All. It is a crying shame that any sort of bill board should have been permitted there; it is a disgrace to humanity to have a flaring booze advertisement greet the eye of resident and visitor alike, day in and day out. Every one who knows me is aware that I am no temperance crank; no IK prohibitionist But switching from bill W boards in general to this sign in particular,! am going to indulge in a few ms words concerning Wilsons Whisky and other kinds of whisky. To begin isnt any with Wilsons Whisky better than any. other mans whisky. Monongahela, Old Magoosalem, Duffys, Green River or common, plain, red liquor, has just as much ms every-da- y merit in it as Wilsons. The fellow ms who designed that sign you will find ms it everywhere you go in the United States didnt tell the truth. Thats ms All he says. It isnt, not by a darned ms Wil- ms sight. It is only the beginning. sons whisky, like every other mans m whisky, hasnt any other Thats All to it, until we stand by the bier of the and look at its victim, dead departed right in the commercial center of Zion, where the busy streets meet; where the passengers for all parts of the city transfer; where visitors debark to seek hotels. Whisky gets ad-- 1 vertising enough as it is. Saloon signs confront us everywhere. Bottles of booze greet the eye on every drug shelf and show case. Open doors from which emanate the sounds of revelry and ribaldry tell us at every step that Thats All" is a misnomer. Tear down the sign. It is not need-- f ed. Or, if it must stay, erect alongside it another one of equal proportion, informing the drinker that when he gets to that point where he thinks it is Thats All for him, there is an institution in the state which will clean him out and give him a new cifea001 articiegSran-stor- e Every teed or your money I SAL SICKLE, THE JEWELER 78 Bast Second South St. Mall Orders Given Prompt Attention. 1 el Heralcb-Democra- Typo-grapic- J Bell Telephone OTHER TELEPHONES IN SALT LAKE CITY. ..RATES TO SUIT ANY INCOME.. Jt i& George H. Wood, formerly county Hi auditor, who has been operated upon Hi for And to any point in UTAH, IDAHO, WYOMING AND MONTANA. al Judge Botkin and family have returned from a ten days sojourn along the banks of the raging Cottonwood. They had a nice time, except when the head of the settlement ran out of smoking tobacco, and in order to obtain some granted letters of marque and reprisal to not only the members of his own household, but all the & neighbors, an action which resulted in the holding up of every, passer by for two days, or until enough of the weed was secured to last him for the & balance of his stay. The. judge declares he never caught a fish while he was away; that he never tried to m That he doesnt like fish nor do any that he had a good & of his family, but same. ' the time, just Hi You can talk from your office or residence 4AAA 81Jc)Ua5t The fight was a pretty one, too. The snake saw he was getting the worst of it and, taking his tail in his mouth, swallowed himself. I looked for the start bird, but he had vanished and then twelve men with no heads, each carrySecretary Wilson has discovered ing his face in his left hand, packed that peanuts are a remedy for insom me into three barrels and rolled me nia. They are. I have tried them. I down a hill fifteen miles long over all of rocks and boulders and then read in some paper that to eat a pint .1kinds woke up to find i had been asleep of peanuts and drink a glass of milk r for at least ten minutes, maybe twelve. before retiring, would send a person Next time I want to sleep I shall eat 1 mince pie. off to sleep in a jiffy. They did. went right to sleep. I met a woman Truth regrets to record the death of with her feet under her arm who asked me what time it was by the Charles S. Williamson, who for many was foreman of the composing city hall clock and whether I would years room of the Herald. He left this buy her a cabbage. I got off the blue horse with elk horns I was riding, world on Thursday forenoon last, at and as I stepped on the molten pave- 10:25. Charlie was a victim of tuberment in front of a nineteen story culosis, contracted through exposure building, made of clothes pins, a bear a few years ago and aggravated by close confinement of the position with a sore leg fell on me from the I top floor and drove me down into he held. Last December the malady had obtained such a hold on him he the earth a thousand miles, where I was forced to work and seek met a man with a green beard and relief in a changestop of climate. 'He visI to know who wanted if. ited southern California, but the reyellow eyes knew how to kindle a fire with icicles. lief he expected to obtain as a result Just then the balloon I was in lurched of changed conditions was not forthand I fell out and as I was about to coming, and he came home to die. He ' strike on the point of a church spire 1 was a prominent member of the Typowas seized by the taions of a bird graphical union and one of the deleabout the size of a buffalo, that had no gates which urged the acceptance of feathers in its wings. This bird car- the Childs-DrexPrinters Home, loried me to its nest and let me look cated at Colorado Springs. In early' while it battled with a huge snake. days he was foreman of the Leadville t and the Evening Chronicle. He was several times a delegate to the International Union. Mr. Williamson leaves a wife and four sons and a daughter to mourn the loss of a good husband and father. His death has caused sorrow to pervade the ranks of his many acquaintances here. Nearly every newspaper man in the city knew him, and all are expressing regret at his sad taking off. BY INSTALLING A Rooty JouotMQ togoodn yuuav Main street. I can - b ST appendicitis, is reported as convalescing but slowly, owing to some unexpected complications connected with his case. Although his condition is serious, there are no reasons for believing he will not entirely recover. His many friends are a unit in wishing him well again. MB |