Show Heard in Hotel Corridors I havo been beon a visitor to Salt Lako Lake Oit City eight times this spring sprin and have ha uever never yet vet seen scon the sun shine shino here which reminds me mc of a 1 little tale about a small seaport village back in in the tho homo home of my father in io Norway said gaid Georgo Heger sen Ben a traveling man maii at tho the Kenyon coon this mo morning mi U This ThIS little HUll town is is situated or was as situated at tho the head of ono of the the deep Norwegian fiords and was tho thio gateway of communication for several small valleys val vat leys levs lin lying inland in the mountains and still sL Jl is unless it has bas succeeded in in slip slip- slipping Sing pin ping off into the sea Hea durin during ono no of its daily ally rainstorms It is hI known as Thor Thor- stadt which means the tho city of Thor tho the god od of thunder The city was vas named several sev sev- eral oral hundred years ago no and tho inhabitants tants have found no occasion for chanin changing chiang chang in ing it for tho the sound of thunder there thoro illas is ill isas isas as common and regular as the tho rumble of the subway in Boston Thunder is usually accompanied with rain and is no tion Why so accustomed to rain rain havethe havo have the tho inhabitants become that most of thorn thom havo grown rown web fe feet t and wd tho the street car lines Jines arc are equipped with cars built in the tho shapo shape of or a battleship Submarine Submarine Sub Sub- marine divers make mako big bif wages paving pa tho the streets in Tho reputation of this lit little town is known all over O Europe and for sea fea navigators navigators navi navi- gators tho the bi big cloud which rests eternally eter der nally on tho the mountain near tho the cit city v is a permanent nt landmark to guido guide them into tho the fior fiord Only once has hag this landmark failed and th therein rein lies tho the story ston One day the Ute captain of a small SUlan trading trading trading trad trad- ing vessel makin making his weekly trip between be lie- tween and some other r of the Norwegian coast sailed into the tho Thor Thor- stadt fiord nord and found tho the sun shinin on the tho glistening glistening- roofs of tho the little town After rubbing his Ids eyes for several minutes minutes min nun utes and examining tho the stran o sight with his glass he muttered a R curse curs rushed into his cabin and came camo out holding hold hold- in ing mg a 3 bottle hottle half full of Norwegian whisky hisky Ho lie threw the tho bottle boUlo with its contents into the tho sea and ordered the tho sailors to tack tho the ship and in iii a a few fow minutes was ae sailing out of the harbor looking for tho the real Thor tad t. t the tlc where tho the cloud rested on the moun mountain win and no such fuch planet as tho the sun was known to |