Show ej THE GENTLEMAN FROM SANPETE The h gentleman from Sanpete comes to Salt Lake Lakeith With ith around ticket paid for and 65 in cash He Hec c com comes s with the determination that none of those al rp rs in the big town 1 can pla play him 1 A A. cent 10 show is u. u his first banana peel and he hes s ps up P. P As he emerges from it his native nathe candor candorI compels I him to admit that it was as worth the money t f Then a picture show is something akin to a 1 vaude- vaude I Ie Ic and it only costs 25 cents for a way up seat T They v never ne' had any such thing down in Ephraim Ephraim- tIe the bishop would not ao allow it it His curiosity is all 3 used and more his pride He would like to see something that none of the people down his way ever saw Again he is curious on another point his girl down at Ephraim when he ha goes to see her heris is all Y and he has often 1 wondered if she would be bethe bethe bethe the same annie just in ill plain clothes This one on the picture has at best a limited wardrobe and he lie wonders won won- tIers ders if it is all honest st. So he invests 2 25 3 cents more and justifies himself on the score that he is seeking information on some vital points point which his own soul has been disputing with himself all his lif lifo lif or at least since he reached ched the age ago of consent When he comes out he is is so excited that he takes tak's a glass of beer reckless a alike ike of his money and und o of or the opinions opinions opinions ions ion's of men who ma may sec Bre him him thus violating the word of wisdom His decline and anti fall after that is much swifter than was war that of the tho city which Gibbon tells us about When he lie starts for home his exchequer is reduced to 15 cents He lie i invests vests 5 cents in crackers and the they tide him over until he ho reaches his innocent home He Hc tells his neighbors of some Rome of the wonders he ho has har- seen but not all and hugs to his soul the belief that he knows things that a It dozen years at home would never teach him Ho lie had promised prom prom- isel his girl to bring h her r the finest necktie to be 10 found in Keith O'Brien's F or ir r Walker Bros or Cohns Colins Now he lie has to lie lio to her swear her swear he bought it hut but some of those Salt Lake thieves stole stoIc it out of his pocket And all the time while whilo keeping up the tho belief that he saw everything and amI came home with money the fact that of the with which ho he landed in Salt SaIt Lake he had separated himself from of the whole sum and with it all his self- self respect save the thin ghost which he called up as a bluff if secretly grieves him Then TheIl there was a meeting called to consider I whether it was wise for Sanpete to vote yote for a new newstate newstate newstate state capitol Our friend attended and when the the meeting was called to order some one arose and stated that there was ii a gentleman present who ho had recently visited Salt SaIt Lake JaJe and moved that he lie give the meeting his views Thereupon our friend arose and expressed the view that S Salt lt Lake had enough and too much alread already r without further taxing the outside outside outside out out- side counties to add to her splendor and her corruptions corruptions cor cor- and explained that had he not been careful and resolute in his late visit he would not have had a cent to show on his return He lie continued to draw a picture of what he lie saw and what he es es- es- es Some of the men present who knew him shook hook their heads but the women voters all agreed right there that they would vote yote no on Tuesday |