Salt Lake Times | 1890-11-14 | Page 2 | An Untimely End

' An Untimely End. The following obituary notice on a postal pos-tal card tells the story ot a journalistic, birth and death) - DIED. Budget At Lexington, Ore., Oct 16, 1830, Lexington Lex-ington W. Bud;'t, aged 107 weeks. In order to escape Uio Ignominy of becoming a floating abomination abom-ination upon the rising tide ot debt, It chose with bare bodkin to make Its own death while yet It could pay (or lt own burial. "The aands of the shore will drift o'er Ita grave. But no Ktencb from Ita carcaea will float on the wave." Editor Frew Dear Sir Accept our thanks for your courtesy In exchanging with our little Budget, and allow us to express the hope that you may never know the humiliation of pulling down your office niga. Respectfully, ' - 8now & WarnoH. Philadelphia Press.