Show I 1 I III II t HANNAS HOME GUARDS d t This Thia war In Utah Is 18 a terrible thing 1 r Tie Tae slaughter of unsuspecting islanders J is on ill every night occurrence General GeneralI II I f C OUs Whittemore Is using his lath lathi i t sword in the southern part of the state J t I with telling Major Grant his II sword sharpener Is bearing be ring up under Ii i I the as a well as a could be bej beI I I I d 1 I j Corporal C Scipio Kenner 1 j I loaded to the muzzle mu with wit smokeless j j powder is bombarding every suspicious J i I I looking kopje In the Wasatch range Sergeant P DIt Christensen has been stationed on Black Blute Rock Bock as a sort of o Hit I j light house from whose revolving turret i danger signals will flash whenever w a ai i I 1 of invaders is discerned ed in inthe Inthe p I IJ t the distance t j So o lone lon as these warlike precautions pre i I 1 i are re observed our glorious republic is ls isi t i t J I safe No south sooth sea roe islanders can cross J the Pacific in a row boat and destroy de troy I oUr liberties with such eternal vigilance j on the stump i If any hostile foe foo attempts to land lande he e will be frightened fr away by Midshipman Mi shiP shiPman I man George Goorge Ananias Smith mounted i I i on a pair of stilts I Captain Glen Miller has baa been besieging ing tOg the populace wherever he could 1 4 I overtake a crowd He has been known I I to put hundreds to rout In inthis this cam campaign camI I In some sections they flee when whenever whenever I i ever his hie approach is heralded Lieu Lieutenant I tenant Sutherland has han been detailed to toJ 4 J f Porto Rico to suppress a vulgar clamor j I for Lor food but Lieutenant Ed Merciless i Allison is still chopping off the feet ot 0 i the dead Casualties have been few but Post Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster master Thomas continues to ly I 1 expose himself outside the trenches He wants to lick something if its nothing g gt t but hut a e postage stamp Colonel P Hanna Henna Lannan Is the only I i rough rou h rider in the tho outfit and a general j f order has haa just been lamed Issued to use him hini himas 1 t as breastworks whenever it becomes j Ii apparent that the old flag is in imminent I J 11 nent danger tt of being hauled down J i j Private Goodwins gun gum is a little old z fashioned it loads toads at the muzzle and I i i fires at the breech but there ae are es nS many traitors at t one end of the weapon ji I as at the other and aDd so 50 it mat matter matI I ter j i 11 Nor or ha line hae the navy been idle Through the lurid flame of war the union jack has been seen en fluttering from the mis mizzen zen mast of Expansion ion Bli that gal gallant galI I I lant cruiser which has sailed on every I sea eta and flaunted almost every flag The schooner oner Moritz rides the wave wae the Ironclad Salisbury has hao been over overhauled overhauled hauled balle 1 for tor repairs the gunboat is in the having haing the barnacles scraped away the Reams Kearns is Ic i anchored In the Uie haven of Hope Hore the I brigantine Hammond Han mond while cruising among the Sulu had Its rudder shot i away the Graham Grahim Grah m has h s been Injured f tl by b au an outside explosion and the battle ship Governor collided with In Ina InI inI a recent maneuver The I I i 1 navy been Idle by any means I I But the war goes on In spite of the fue I I It feet fact that the backbone of ot the Uie insurrection Ii i tion Uon has hIlS he b Men been en broken times the ter terrible teri i ti c war goes on In Utah Just the Ii I ame me The Th red gleam of battle Is leav lea leaving leavi 1 i ing its reflection on the countenances t I f I and jawbones of the long range war warriors warf f nora The constant coustant waste of ammunition It ii i I i tion Is IB no Item of or regret The l 1 li i low loss of sleep Is even eyen greater than the I loss 1069 of blood And the campaign wid ova a at home hom praying for the safe re return ret turn rn t of their heroic husbands in the 1 7 wee WOO sma hours ho rB o OIl oC morning but adds to the tile horror of ot the slaughter s Oh this terrible terrible war Will Willit WillI I f I it never neer end Will wm men go on fighting I it t for tor years after aster peace is isI i t 1 I declared 1 as Colonel George Buncombe I I quires Is yet the battle of ot oti 1 i the tha civil war It will be a grand day when heu our heroes come e marching homo home from Dixie General C Otis Otte Whittemore at their head and dripping scalps dang datig dangling I ling Ung from every belt There should be bea beI bej I a grand gran reunion of or Jacks ici the giant giantI i j I killers mers every year thereafter |