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Show TRUTH. ALICES LETTER Dec. 19, 1903. John: This letter will Just have time to My Dear reach Washington before you leave for Salt Lake. You see, I have kept once a my promise and written you the letters have been as much to you as I wanted them to he remains for you to say. A neighbor of mine sent her little hoy over to spend the evening with me, last week, while she and her husband went to the theatre. The boy and I popped 'corn, ate apples and talked, that is to say, I tried to keep up my end of the conversational seesaw, but the boy had me about to fall every minute. He began something like this, with his mouth full of popcorn: Say, Mrs. Alice, wouldnt you just hate to die? That was shivery to begin with, but I couldnt tell the boy this, so I anweek; whether swered: You know, Jimmie, we Oh, I like that, I H he Interrupted, that dyin? This Was growing serious. dear, you dont quite understand. (Neither did I, but I could We do not think of more words!) die! Our bodies die, to be sure, and go back to earth, but we go on to another place. Your hand Isnt My you. is No, it? reluctantly. Your toe isnt either, IS it, or your hair, or your flesh none of these things are the real you, are they? I put down the popper, and salted the bowl full of white flakes slowly. I had him now. Well but all of I, together, is me, aint It? This was becoming difficult. I could not explain with simple words, and he f' i fi - dont die scornfully; dont they shut you up in the dark under the groun? Aint il did not understand more complicated Morris my first act after becoming which it strikes in anger. They say mayor would be to nominate a chief snakes ao not hear, but that they All of you together, Jimmie, is your of police, and 1 would fight to me feel the vibrations of air which an house; your medium, the creature last ditch to get my man confirmed. intruder sets in motion; this angers through which you speak and act and Do you think Mr. Morris will do that them and they rattle to warn you live. You go on. way? I think Ill ask Loveys mouse. away. What a sinister sound that (If I had only not said, You go It has a mind greater than its body, rattlo It. You always recognize the on!) and might know. sound, for there is nothing else like See here, Mrs. Alice, did you ever One thing sure, Id never look in it. It is, in a measure, like the dry kill a chicken or see one killed? the Tribune to find out I look there whirr of a grasshopper, but there is I confessed to having seen such a for advertisements. That very clever an Indescribable thrill of danger in thing. advertising man on the Tribune is the sound that no droning grasshopWell, wheres the chicken, then?" gradually filling up the paper with his per would bo capable of. You hear Just as I told you, the real chicken goods. First thing we know, hell put it once, and your entire nervous sysis gone. a dress goods sale in the editorial col- tem vibrates, you Instinctively besniffed come motionless and generally your Humph! Jimmie, thats umns, and then what? a pretty idea! Taint likely now that throat is too dry to scream. Left unchicken ud bust its skin and hike off At last the citizens have circulated molested, the snake will glide out of thout me seein it! a petition against the Utah Light & sight quickly, an animated wooden I realized then, that I was on the Power because of imperfect stick suddenly Imbued with life at company ragged edge of the sublime, and per- service. I heard some men discussing least so ho looks and so you would ilously close to the ridiuclous, and 1 the lighting system while on the street style him did not death lurk in his shoved the popcorn over toward Jim- car one last week, and one of head. And then, think, they move day mie. them said, Well, the people will over the ground without feet! They Child, I said, here Is popcorn stand a good deal as our poor light- crawl into holes and sleep all winter These snakes eat! ing proves, but some day the light- withoutin food or drink. wo seldom see the Jimmie fell to greedily and said ning will strike and wake a few of travel psirs and is and short and small with his mouth full: em up. This man must have been male, whiji I than less active the cant help wantin' to hTanklins shade female; but let Somehow, After bo know things, can you? all, to properly light and supply a one of the feminine persuasion Just then I had absolutely no wish city of this size is no small task,' and killed miles away from Its mate and to learn more. I am convinced that those in charge that mate will find the body with astonishing swiftness. Authorities tell will do all they can to give us that at such a time no more danYou will be interested in a bit of gerous reptile lives than the survivpolitics, I am sure. Our You remember the old A trip down Main street is not com- ing rattler. mayor, Ez, has given us the which has it that the serpent In final proof of his ability to play Bot- plete unless you stop and look at the myth was in reality Adams first wife, tom by nominating Mr. W. J. Lynch big rattlesnake in the furriers win- Eden ran who away and left Adam, for chief of police, which nomination dow near Third South street. The Lillith, returned in the form of a serpent, was confirmed with suspicious prompt- snake is a monster of its kind, big but the Lord mado Eve. to create when ness. I must confess that few people enough and old enough to have come discord between the two. It lias long believed Mr. Lynch equal to the role out of Eden. It lies there coiled heav- been my opinion that Adam was a of Titania, and it looks even now as ily, seldom moving its ugly flat head, very unprincipled man to say, It was though Mr. Lynch did not quite un- and once in a while darting out its the woman thou gavest me, when she tongue evilly. Ugh! One was made out of Adams own rib. You derstand the situation, though only needle-lik- e cannot shiver at sight of it, yet it see but women are supposed to act under such he was rather hard on himself circumstances. Mr. Lynch has the is wonderful in its way, as anything without knowing it. man, and I in nature. It seems so near to the reputation of a first-clas- s see his dan- vegetable world, and akin to the anicertainly hope he will I passed last evening In very good ger before it .is too late. Were I Mr. mal plane only in the fierceness with terms. soon-to-be-defun- ct PRIZE WINNERS If AT THE KANSAS CITY ART NEEDLE WORK EXHIBIT u D U! BEAUTIFU at Exquisitely worked with Brainery handsome new designs, worth, if worked to order, up to $20 each, our price, while they last, only & Rtf Armstrong's Silks, in rich and ' Jpgs. The Silks used in making these Pillows cost more than the price we sell the finished Pillow for. . tit |