Show JOHN LU IS HONORED Delegation of Citizens Pay Their Respects to Him JOHNS CAVALRY CHARGE VETERAN ENTERTAINS HIS GUESTS IN A NOVEL WAY i I Recites Sheridans Charge and Sings i a Song Much Speechmaking i i and a Banquet The Orators All Paid Tribute to John Lus Valor General John Lu Taylor received a tribute lat night from his friends that was so delicately eulogistic and so intensely In-tensely complimentary that John still wears a smile as wide and splendid as the epaulettes that adorned his manly shoulders during the late contest There were about ten In the delegation i and they visited John Lu as a testimonial I of their deep devotion and fealty and the Intense regret they feel that he was not elected as congressman from Utah They expressed the opinion that his election even as recorder marks and brands i i i would have been better than the vindictive I tb ht tive and foul means by which the politicians 1 politi-cians wrought his undoing at the Salt Lake convention i I Hon John Lu entertained his guests in away a-way which was sprightly and livelv in the extreme In response to a unanimous and spontaneous request he gave a correct i cor-rect imitation of a cavalry charge vhich I feC occurred in the pine woods of Coplah county Miss during the late unpleasantness I I unpleas-antness between the north and the south John has a sabre It ib as long I as three church doors iillI he isI already cut I down three neighboring pear tree groves i while under the delusion that he was hewing i down confederate s fere John I illustrated the cavalry charge with his sabre He started at one end of the I I parlor and made a wild bloodcurdling dash toward the guests seated on the other side Believing momentarily that I they had encountered Custer in his last charge the guests lied precipitately and before John was able to reach them with I his flashing sabre he had mingled with three piei es of promiscuous furniture and three tables I The guests were awestricken They called wildly for more John is nrolinc and the gULsts were not disappointed He I recited In moying tones ifirldans ride to Winchester 20 miles away and while John pathetic ttror rose on the parlor air and was wafted on the wings of music through HIP room everyone present wept l i softly and thanked John in his heart for having put a quietus on the war of the I rebellion and for freeing the slaves so i that there is no more need of war i But there was still war in the air John 1 insisted on entertaining the guests with I the divine symphony which he has bar I boured somewhere and which comes forth In swift rapturous gusts He sang Coming Through the Rye or Coming I Through Georgia It is absolutely impossible Im-possible to state which of these he sang as none of the guests have been sufficiently ly able to conceptrate their thoughts tp remember The thrilling recitations were followed by a toast relating to his feeling anent the late war It was o joy forever In a fnastjrful speech he proved that McKinley Mc-Kinley was a cross between a cracked crab and a Northwestershire eel and that j In the matter of making appointments he was so utter a failure that every night he shed tears so large that they burnt holes In his pillow The second speech was by W H Bram mell He railed agaInst men who called themselves colone1 when th v were Only j lobster vendors during the lato glorious war It is impossible to tell what men were in the war these days said Mr Brammell If a venerable old patriarch In the south says he is a colonel you cant tell whether he was a private or a brigadier general When a man Is ref rred to as good it is impossible to tell whether he is a theologian or a prizefighter Most of all it is Impossible to tell what position a man had in the army Take for instance In-stance Colonel Tat Here John Lu broke In with a tumult of applause that was so nerveshattering that Brammell was mute with terror and 1 I astonishment and sat down so precipitately 1 precipi-tately that he spilled three olives and one fourth of an oyster stew on the lap of his neighbor I A Virginian whose name was lost In the tumult caused by John Lu s Impromptu I imitation of a cavalry charge then arose I to say that he left the state of the first j I president because It was too hot and the i terrapins and moccasins were too thick j there Likewise he relate the incident of the Kentucky colonel who Incensed i at a Virginians presumption had asked what hau become of the second families of Virginia The second families all moved int9 Kentucky was the Virgin ians reply II During this address John Lu showed vis ible signs of unrest He apparently had the foretaste of some Joyous treat that was aboutto be served But soon a self satisfied smile returned to his lace for rank Lea was thereupon introduced as the orator of the evening A hush fell over the guests which was so deep that everyone present could hear the ice outside out-side freezing on the gables Frank started start-ed out valorously I l what ft is lr to I call the most scathing denunciation of IiI I i-iI sl McKinlej and his administra i g rfem1 I tion that had ever been hurled Irom a human thorax Lea said that McKinley had no backbone and that in the matter of choosing consuls to Zanzibar and other choice territories he was the most serious se-rious frost that has ever occupied the char since tJrpx er Cleveland rd rather rath-er said Mr Lea in a tone which would have caused Ice to form on the whiskers of a Cossack ld ratner vote for the raggedest hot tomale man in the city than i for Major McKinley for president Look r at look at Here Jea came to a fork in the road of his thoughts and not knowing which one to take sat down i I swiftly Attorney John Anderson added a few i j gushing compliments that soared high in i the air and fell down so hard that some I ot i the chmawarc was broken He was followed by Attorney Hoot who took occasion oc-casion to pat John Lu on the shoulder at the conclusion of every scintillating and glorious period Several times John Lu clutched fiercely at his sabre but every time he seemed to think better of it and I deterred from making an attack I It was a glorious evening Everyone i who went tnere said so The guests learned beyond a question that the war Is over and that If it had not been for John Lu it is doubtful if the slaves would have been freed or Alaska annexed On the itrengtn of the spontaneous gust of admiration shown last night John Lu has been indulging In some mysterious myste-rious whispers the purport of which is I that when there is a vacancy in the U S senate a gentleman and a soldier and one who can give a correct imitation of a cavalry charge is about the right kind of a citizen to occupy it I = e |