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Show , spirit of tho Young Ladies' Aid society and a lovely spirit withal. The mention of Miss God be recall her father, a man of generous parts in every way, even to his mining enterprises enter-prises which he plans on a gigantic scale. He has been rich and poor In turns yet always remained the same kind C.odbe. William God be enjoys the historic distinction of being the first apostate in Utah and for a long time his followers were duped Godbeites after him. Still he is popular with tho Mormons who speak of liiin affectionately affection-ately as "Billy." The Free Lanco expresses, however late, the sincere regret of the editor of The Times at the hitter's inability to comply with the following invitation: S i T Lakh Citv. Nov. 17, lsuO. Editor Kvfhiku Ti.mks, Suit Lake City. UEAitSiK I hereby rosw: tfiilly Invite you to be present this (Monday) afternoon at 3od( ck at a nii e'lu-t of the c ;umlttoe on twhool work, to bo helj in the othvoof the board of education, educa-tion, that you may obtain some rell ilile information infor-mation x to tb 5 duties proposal for the auxiliary auxil-iary teacher, about wh'S) employnient you published an arttWooa Friday lail rn a-tic e that I shall rerralu now fr m properly characterizing. char-acterizing. Very n s.iectfii'Iy, i J, V. Mii.i.spavoh, Supt, ; The Indian scaro has reached Salt Lake. Late last night a bibulous sou of Mars from Fort Douglas accosted a cigar sign not farfromTiiETniKsollice with insulting epithets. "I have a good moind," he concluded, "to take ye, with me as a gineral prisoner." A minute later he explained to a comrade in arms his valorous deed. "The divel a gun did Oi havo shout me," said he. ' bin the flaniielnioulh savage didn't know it, not a bit of it, and so he stood there spaeheless. I'd punched his bead in a ininit, had he been sassy, the huyihun." Few strangers come to Salt Lake City without visiting "Crazy Miller's" house on Eighth East and Third South streets, which is always decked out with gorgeous gor-geous bunting, pictures and the l'tko without, and immaculately clean within. Many years ago Miller's sweetheart sweet-heart wa lost at sea while coming over to join him as his bride, and ever since then he keeps prepared for her arrival in the company, as he expects, of Christ. Outside of that hallucination the man is sano. and many people employ em-ploy him to do their whitewashing without with-out suspecting that he is the identical Miller whose bride is still on tho way to Salt Lake City with Christ. A promenade down Main street this afternoon, or any fine Saturday afternoon, after-noon, will convince the most skeptical, regardless of the census, that this is a big city. In any other city having streets of usual width the crowds on Main street would cause a crush. THE FREE LANCE. It is, perhaps, not surprising that a Nebraska!, even though he bear the commonplace name of Smith, should wed one of the belles of Zion, but it is surprising that he, a Philistine, should gain the hand of a devout Saint, whose father is a big gun in the Z. C. M. I. Hut love, we presume, not only laughs at locksmiths, but also at doctrines and coveuants, and as tho prospective groom is handsome, rustling, and, above all things, a newspaper man, we do nut, after all, wonder that this should be thus. In other cities our orphans' home and day nursery would lie called Creche. That is the fashionable modern name for it, though it would puzzle tho Free Lance, perhaps, to pronounce it correctly. cor-rectly. However, the orphans' home and day nursery by any other name is doing a great charitable work. Still, were it lot for Mrs. Arthur Brown the institution would havo suffered shipwreck ship-wreck long ago. There were times, not once, but often, when tho cot.rago of the other ladies connected with 11 seemed to fail, but. nothing dismayed, Mrs. Itrown started out and, ruinuging the city, she collected funds with which to continue the work, unt l today tho nursery is on a fair footing. It is rare that a lady combines the wonderful linancial and executive abilities cf Mrs. Arthur Brown with the rTspoiition to turn them to udvantago for the pocr and unfortunate. Miss May Godbo is as sweet a girl in appearance as in disposition and her 1 whole being is wrapped up in doing good and aileviating suffering. Her sympathy for the poor around her is boundless and her donations to the j cause of charity, this foremost of graces, are limited only bv her means. For years Miss Godbe worked hard for herself. her-self. Most of the money thus earned went to help others. She is the leading J |