Show HOMESPUN N Y YARNS A Rl S There has been bee something wr ng with the tho town clock For more than a It k past put it persisted in chiming the test last st quarter of the hour first and the first quarter last Every hour it repeated repented this without shame sh me and without o t variation There Th re are families in this city who ho rasu su r late their daily dally lives by that clock cluck up in inthe inthe Inthe the tower of the joint building Ad d still call caU It Baskins Music Pox Box and they would stay awake at night to listen to the if the chimes would w only play Via all night This perverse clock came near hear break ing lug up a 8 happy home boise I las IRI cit It Smithers had agreed to meet his nd ad the little Smithers on a certain er at a er tate tain time and take them to the lou dose do and pony show The good od wife at home heard the clock lock strike what she lie he supposed to be the quarter after 1 and began hustling to get ready r dy When Then the quarter to 2 struck she bundled her three youngsters on tho the thoI car C ar and hurried to the place of meeting mealing mee tin 1 I She arrived half an hour late No hue hus band was there and after waiting and fuming for an hour she bundled the young Smithers on the car cur and took them f beck brck b ck hor hOT bawling ba in concert Smither id been on the ground at the I proper prop r time and after waiting until after the show had commenced comm he went off oft about his business He ha has been b en trying trin to explain all this to his wife ever over since but he cannot shake the Ute good womans confidence in the town clock The Salt Lake newsboys who day after aCter day offer their papers for sale to Lewis LewisS S Hills the sedate and dignified dent of the Deseret National bank little dream that he was at one time Urns a news boy himself and peddled his bis bundle of dailies about under his bin arm just as they th y do now But such is the case Over fifty years ago Mr Hills was a regular carrier for the Springfield Mass Republican and takes great pleasure still in relating his experiences of those early days All through the years of the Mexican war this highly respected banker balker carried the Republican up and down the streets treeS of his native city It is 18 not easy to imagine him a barefooted Yankee boy bo climbing up u and down the rugged New Ne England E land hills that even invaded the cities 1 and crying out the sensational news J WS of f I Ithe the day da to induce the people to buy btu If Il i I th these e Kills hills could talk no doubt they repeat many cries used by br b the news boys in selling their papers And as the I I war in Mexico progressed sed Jl and Ant the people grew gew more hungry hung for the news there would be b much in the newsboys son song about abut Alto Alo de la In Palma I Vera Ver Crux Cruz Old Rough and aud Ready Rendy Redy the te hero her of the hour All AU about Santa abut Ass Ana A losing hi hii wooden leg lead and the like No doubt Mr Hills at times made nacle a sensational cry cr about abut news new that was wa four or five weeks old ol Th TM The i boys In those thoe days had ladu to fold their own OW papers end and in order to do this ti and ad adget get started off of on their runs by b i i it i was ws necessary neer to l he be e at the office by 4 in the te morning moraine winter and summer The Re Republican Republican publican Mr Hills His says one of the tle best bet presses pr in existence at that Hilt tl t time Ume but hut butof butot of ot course cour it i was a very ver slow and crude affair compared with the perfecting wih presses pre of today The boys sold papers as aa they went Their rounds runds as a well WeD wl as S ear car carrying cr crr to regular subscribers They The r relar got nominal pay for carrying the tho regulars and were given half hal their from copies sold Mr Hills His has taken the Republican reg from that time Ume to the present and still sti considers consider it the best paper printed in the Tnie States In its I edemas columns lumn he has read the record of red over fifty years yer of the worlds world greatest progress It Ms bs h om ome to him regularly week after week like hike a wee letter leter from a constant friend sud It is t little wonder that he feels a stron lt i at af attachment attachment ts still for the first frt love ston of hir boyhood A bluff will wl work occasionally even un UR una URa una a Salt Lake policeman Ware the th achi achl ted tet started down town toW the tle other even on his bis wheel and discovered before he had ha gone far that there ther was ws no oil oi in his lamp After weighing the mat muter matter tar ho con concluded concluded clude to o risk It I in the dark and on the th next block ran squarely into the rf ito arms of ofa ofa ofa a a minion of the law lew The officer pounded the pavement and made fuss enough to rout an army a Spanish army Wheres yer light he lie demanded HI I Iguess Iguess guess Ill rh r I have to run ye YO In SIr said sid the architect a in a vice v ice he ho h had hd heard beard at the show when he be was ws a L boy by Sir do you not know that I am a I member of the tho th Sketch club clu that I am a shining light in fact fact and need no other illumination nee The crestfallen cop doffed dotel his hI cap and got gt off of the sidewalk while Ware pro Dro proceeded proceeded on his Ills way down downtown town |