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Show PEEWEE TliS waits to sue . i Has Memorized Hymns and Songs Which Ho Wants to Inflict on People. "ON JORDAN'S STORMY ' JUNKS" IS HIS BEST He Casts'His Wistful Eye Upon the. Senatorship and Governorship. "Say," snid the Prominent Politician Poli-tician to Tho Stroller on Wednesday, "do you suppose Pec wee Thomas is to sing at the'coming Eisteddfod? You know T trace mv ancestry back, and there is sonic Welsh blood coursing through by veins. But, yo gods! is Pec-wee Pec-wee Thoniasto sing at that musical festival? Hero we have advertised nrir.es and advertised excursions into Salt Lake City-,- but it never dawned on me until today that Pcwce Thomas might sing. 'It is awful to think about. True Thomas is u Welshman, in moro ways than one. M is a Welshman by nutiviti', buthe welches when it, comes to malting a (campaign contribution, or for that matter, anything else, when it comes to puilinfT up anything by him. unless there 'Js a dollar in sight for every fifty cents he throws into the pot. i OldlStory Recalled. ''This reminds uie of a story. Years j iCQi when Peqwee was a lad" and before be-fore he ever thought 6f pulling the teat of Uncje SainVf.'cow, there was a number num-ber of men linw-up in front of a Welsh colliery. Peewits .brother was among j tho gang, hutihe did not look like a j Welshman. When the man checking the ' men addressed thorn, the responses ! came. ' WiHinnjjWilliams, John Jones. Poter Peters,' and so on. until Thomas 1 was reached, and fearing that if his nationality beennje known he would not I get- a job, liejanswerod when the in- ! terrogation waij'nsked, 'Your name, I please-." ho responded, 'Micky Mike.'! lie was given aiob, but it was an awful aw-ful blow to thejlrish. And he has kept this deception up. oyer since. Wears Highwater Pants. , "Thero is min.n Welshman in Salt Lake who regrets 'the fact that Pee- ! weo Thomas is SJfiativc of that country, lie is the only(5ativo of that country iu Utah that wears highwntor pants. Other Welshmcnjf when fringe grows around the bottoms of their trousers, buy now ones. JPoewec Thomas does not. He cuts tliTtfringe off, and as ho does this his patts grow short, and at times he has thejappciixance of wearing wear-ing a directoirc &wn: in that his beautiful beau-tiful ankles encased iu wltitc socks are Been. "But 1 nmOdi'zrcssing. Pcewcc is one of the Eisteddfod. Tie is anxious to sing, but the intaagers want to shut him off. He doclises to tell them what he wants to sinjiJb'ut it is understood than among theianaJWe Thank Thef O Godl fr thcjPjafit. ' meaning, of course, what he gets out of the post-office. post-office. 0: "Then ho wtintear to sing 'Bock of Ages Cleft for MiLet Mo Hide Myself My-self in Tliee. ' thi.inaicativt of when 'a mailpouch from Orfcii lay in his office thirty-eight days,b?foro being dislrib I uted he wanted tiliide then. lie has practiced on tliis.um those who have heard it say hejjaffit, pat. Post-, Post-, master Glasniann cOgdeu, and Clove j of Provo are notlmjaccord with this. I Then, again, it jjjsaid he has memorized mem-orized the Ninotyan(l N'inc.' meaning ninoty-ninc- lettersMhat have gone astray in his offit&to 0110 that has been delivered. K "And ho has po mastered :o f Sweet Dye and B.ytU, This means that before he leaves ofiico he will be enabled en-abled to deliver nUfhcr from his office of-fice to nn addrcss'pon South West Temple street sevctltwo hours after it has boon mailed inlhis office. "The song 'Oh. Promise Mo' he has down to perfcctionSThis is what he sang to Smoot and 'Eoosevclt when he sought reappointments postmaster. "Then, again, he of-sing 'Tho Consecrated Con-secrated Cross T BearKTil Death Shall Set Mo Free.' ThSTof courso refers to the burden imposHlby tho hicrarch when he demanded Jhat Son-in-Law Kesslor bo made deputyjpostmastcr. on Jordan's Stenny BanltB. "But tho most faiiiar hymn that he has mastered. andiig; it js said by those who have licwilt him sin it. causes ears to roll d&a the cheeks of his mulience. This hyr5is 'On Jordan's Stprmy Banks I Standmd Cast a Wist- J"1.?, F,ns oL" ,C0Be. refers to the United Slates senatortlip uow held hy Sutherland, and lo thcfovernorship, for which Bill Spry is slaM 'IThcn 1, too, ho hairthat 0a hymn, 'I Would tot Live Alny- I Care Not to Stay.' mastered. .Jhose who havo hoard him sing this siyjthat the manner man-ner in which he rendetfijt would draw tears Jrom a stone ireigb. Curly Cal-lister Cal-lister is reported to kve wept copiously copi-ously when the strains ifthe hymn rang put, for ho is nearingtfe ed 0f the has-been clnss. And rSMc 4eep bass voico of Peewee roMa:nroun(!i tho room. ecn the whiskerfivBjh lie wears in order that he Jnny I5ve.-a Joseph F. Smith appearance arc h&0 have teardrops tear-drops on the tip of cnchalr "But why talk fdr. Peewee wants, lo sing. This Hlljti)c ,is contribution con-tribution to the Eistodlftxj It beats paying out dough. Oa'do,, t C0Pt much 111 ion. Fact i.fch hot amI cold air is cheap. Pcoii,as R num. ber of "carboys in resemj jjp to the hour of going to press tlfigorniiiir. the Eisteddfod hnd not dccjd lo permit Peewee to sing. w |