Show J T EE SEE WHAT PHARAOH DID j History is prone to repeat itself in part The following is part of the fortieth chapter of Genesis And Ana it came cime to pass after these thin things s. s that the butler l' l f th the kin king of E Egypt and hi hit his baker bad had offended their lord the tho king of Egypt ElITt J And Pharaoh Pharaoh- was wal wroth a against two of his officers t against tho the chief of the butlers and a against the chief of the 1 bakers And he be put th them m in ward in the house of the captain of the guard into tho prison the place where Joseph was ft v bound And the tho captain of the guard charged Joseph with them i V tOil l he served them and they thes continued a season in ward 7 4 And they dreamed a dream both of them each man his J S hr ream am in in one ni night ht each man according to the interprets v won ion of his dream the butler and the baker of the kin king of S rj i J which were bound in the prison And nd Joseph came caine in in unto them in the morn morning in and andS andr S r upon them and behold they were sad i j ij And he asked Pharaohs Pharaoh's s 's officers that were with him in inward the tho ward of his lords lord's house saying sayin Wherefore re look ye so soS S S J r 4 sadly today T i 1 And they said unto him we have hae dreamed a dream and 54 is is no interpreter of it And Joseph said unto them Po Do not interpretations belon belong to God Tell me them I S J pray you And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph and said t Ito to him bim In my dream behold a vine vino was before me mc S And in Sn the vine were three branches and and it it was as f though Chough it budded and ani her blossoms shot forth and the clusters clus clus- J thereof brou brought ht forth ripe grapes 7 H And Pharaoh Pharaohs s a cup was in my hand and I took tonk the grapes rapes and pressed them into Pharaohs Pharaoh's cup and 1 gave e a i Ithe cup into Pharaohs Pharaoh's hand And Joseph said unto him This is the interpretation of The three branches are arc three days das t Yet within three days davs shall Pharaoh lift up thine head bead j find nd restore thee unto thy place and thou shall deliver 1 Pharaohs Pharaoh's cup into his hand after the former manner when wast his butler Q S When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said unto Joseph I also was in my I dream and h 1 I h had three white baskets hear head tb 1 TV e s. s on Ull n my S uA And d t pe t b f TO tb 1 TV e s. s on Ull n my S uA And d t pe t b f TO in the uppermost basket there r was of all manner of ts for Pharaoh and the birds did eat them out of the bo basket upon my head S And nd Joseph answered and said aid This is is the interpretation S thereof The three baskets three are arc days das S. S i Yet within three d days das shall Pharaoh lift up thy head tf f 2 from Tom off oft thee the and shall hall han hang thee on i a tree and aM the birds buds J shall eat thy flesh from off thee SS And it came to pa pass palS the third day dR which was wa Pharaohs Pharaoh's t birthday that he hI made mado a feast unto all his servants servant and 1 be he up the the head of the chief butler and of the chief J t baker amon among his servants And ho he restored the chief butler unto his butlership fV again f-again and he gave e tho the cup eup into Pharaohs Pharaoh's hand t. t But ho he ban hanged ed the chief baker as Joseph had hall interpreted 10 them 1 The foregoing has particular sig significance in Salt Lake City just now We Ve have not heard of a baker who has had justice done him since Pharaohs Pharaoh's Pha- Pha time In that bakers baker's dream he had three white baskets bas bas- ets on his head In the uppermost basket there t all manner of for Pharaoh and the theS S birds did eat them out of the basket on his head S. He wa was e evidently t trying ting ing to make a goo good showing showing show show- ing before Pharaoh but Pharaoh saw through the tho business and took him out quietly an and hanged him Now the bakers in Salt Lake have nave catchy show showS S windows they have all kinds of white bask baskets ts au and andall andall all manner of to lure the unwar unwary and to the widow and the child when the they come asking asking asking ask ask- ing for bread the they give them a loaf arid aad looking them squarely in the eyes assure them that they arc are pound loaves When the woman or the child gets get home lo 10 from two to five ounces are missing the evaporation is so great th that t the loaves shrink that much on the wa way home The whole story is told on our local pages Now this is a n free country every man is entitled entitled en titled to do 10 any legitimate thing and some men with that before them do illegitimate things Suppose Sup pose this was a monarchy and there was a Pharaoh would not he ho cause history to repeat itself W Would not the bakers be hanged It was years and more ago when that little circumstance took tool place in pt Eg Justice finall finally came to the baker lEave Have the years ears counted for nothing Was Vas that baker of Pharaohs Pharaoh's the only one that was to have justice done clone him 7 Is the baker of Salt Lak Lake City to be permitted to sell eleven ounces of bread for sixteen and go unscathed IK Is it not time for another Pharaoh No other Joseph is needed because because because be be- cause the interpretation is easy easy easy-a a a p par pair jr of dollar scales will demonstrate it any any da daYe day We Ye have the white baskets we have the white bread we have ha the cake and all manner maimer of bake bake- meats ju just t the same as they did in Egypt but we alas alac have no Pharaoh and the baker thrives and gets away just as easily as the butler did We Ve are arc awfully particular here about horse racing although nobody lost any money moncy on the races except they put in their mite in the hope of robbing the racetrack men We are particular about saloons especially on Sunday although no noman noman noman man goes to a saloon on Sunday or any other day daJ unless he wants a drink We Ve are shocked at gambling gambling gam gam- bling and we have the word of the chief of police that it shall all be destroyed in town Our saintly brother of the thc News is shocked beyond expression over the existence of the stockade although the stockade does doCs not reach out its tentacles for any editors not even the saintly one of the News But we all look on with philosophy when the bakers sell eleven to fourteen ounces of bread and call it a pound WaS Wag not old Jeremiah right when he lie cried out out- The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately desperately desperately des des- wicked The day on which Jeremiah said that was after he had received a short loaf from the baker in lh the morning and he was out of humor |