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Show Kay were trying to do their duty here under the law they were treated one Sabbath morning by having old Charley Crow & Co. fire their parlors full of filth through the window. A little later there came the Fourth of July, and to show their devotion to the Government of the United States and its laws, the American flag was lowered to half mast on all public pub-lic buildings. , - On Wednesday last the students of Brigham Young college at Provo, headed by one of the faculty, fac-ulty, did their best to grossly insult a gentleman who is making a brave fight to break the hereditary chains which were fastened around them in their cradles. ' It was appropriate that this last performance was in Provo, for has not the influence of Eeed Smoot been a benediction to that town for, lo, these many years? Was it not Mr. Foraker that found out that Mr. Smoot was really the purest man in the United States Senate, in so much that he did not smoke, nor drink, nor use profane nor vulgar language! What more natural than that his fellow citizens in his own town should advocate the old time proclivities, and in their attempt to be instiltiDg reveal how coarse and base and wholly un-American their real natures are. UTAH PUNCTUATION POINTS. ! ' Some Saints are prone to make punctuation points in the history of Utah every little while. The first United States Judge that came here, in ,liis charge to the grand jury recommended that they look into the polygamy cases and punish them un- idef the law. For his edification a meeting in the Bowery denounced him. Then, that done, while he 'was sitting in his private house conversing with an officer from Fort Douglas, a dead cat was thrown jinto his window. ' j Later Daniel H. Wells served a little period in jthe penitentiary, if we remember right, for contempt jof court, he refusing to answer certain questions. ."When He was released from the penitentiary a great . procession was formed, an American flag'was laid flat, its staff on the floor of a wagon and the Stars and Stripes attached to it trailing in the dust behind : it.. . i , - . '-. Then, when Messrs. Dickson, -Varian and Mc-. Mc-. 'TT . |