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Show GOOD STORY BY DAVENPORT Homer Davenport had an. interesting; visit to Salt Lake, according to his own story of his stay here. When seen at the Kenyon last night he expressed himself freely on this topic. The great cartoonist, who was In ex-tsemely ex-tsemely unconventional attire, was equally Informal In his conversation, and told some interesting personal experiences. ex-periences. A good story on himself, which he did not tell at his lecture last night, related to a lecture which he once delivered in a small Georgia city. ''A tall, lanky individual," said Mr. Davenport, "came to me before the lecture lec-ture and said the committee wanted him to introduce me. I told him all right, I didn't care about formalities, but if he thought an Introduction would help matters any, to go ahead. He wore a pair of trousers as big around the bottoms as barrels, and when he went forward and stood over the footlights it seemed as if the lights had been turned out all over the house. His speech was short " 'Ladles and gentlemen he said, 'people have preached on this platform, others have sung here, and others have played, or danced. This here feller Is going to do everything.' " Mr. Davenport said Hearst seemed to be certain of the Democratic nomination, nomina-tion, but would not further discuss politics pol-itics for publication. He will return to newspaper- work next summer, but said he was unable to say at present wheth-er wheth-er he would draw for the same papers j as heretofore. He dined with the Governor yesterday and spent the gTeater part of the day in driving about the city, until the time of the organ recital at the Tabernacle, which he attended and greatly enjoyed, characterizing It as magnificent. After the lecture last night he left for the coast, where he will deliver a series of forty-eight lectures through California, Oregon, his native State, and Washington. |