Show SEEDS REEDS v k now new fiory is ia told of speaker Speake heed ali ail arizona man inan was booming the climate nf f that territory ihen the speaker interrupted hini him mith the following lo aing tua tut tut infill man 1 I 1 have hav n been to rort fort auina and know your climate when a bad i nan man die down there hedoesit he notice tho the transition the above is told by the salt sail lake tribune as a new story ant a number of western editors are claiming that story as an old friend some of them cla claim im to have bave gone ane to school with it in the davs of andy jackson others bay that it went through the war rith grant one very old man claims to have been the author of the joke and threatens to bring a replevin suit against the tribune why all those people keep s 0 1 I it is almost a crime to spoil a abod story in these melancholy zinies nines when visions of war fill our and it is particularly unk nd ad to question a i story illus illustrato trat ing the ready wit of tom reed a presidential aspirant ahat hat does it matter if long long ago this story etory was told on lincoln he was a celebrated wit and almost every funny thing I 1 said in his day was attributed to him many of them were afterwards ascribed to grant when lincoln needed them no longer grant is through 0 all with them now so let them go to reed this iconoclastic disposition of nien men of maive loui louz memory threatens to relegate the joke oke to the realms of of innocuous desuetude from whence no traveler returns stand aside gentlemen ent lemen let the joke pass |