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Show TRUTH. t; so far as the record shows, had not been CHARACTER MONTANA A slate QUEER kissed by aught except the prairie Hanson, had the lines all laid, the OGDEN POLITICS. breezes for full many a year and Doc all made, and the platform in cold type so far as is known, the only man was before the convention was even called III. ARTICLE w'ho ever thought of a kiss in connecOgden, Oct. 18. Since the Republicans to order. There was something doin' it some tion with the faded old blossom. The old maid in the case lived nominated Bill Glasmann for Mayor, when Critchlow from the First ward should be explained here that Doc wrore side whiskers. When he the absorbing topic in all quarters has smashed the slate into smithereens by seven or eight miles from Docs place. mutton-cho- p as savage the time was about ripe concluded had been politics. The local Issues upon defeating Bluth, at the rate of two to She is still alive and probably he reached out to not the kissing need to name perfect which the campaign will turn have one, for City Recorder. But that was as ever, so that her full later that for a stated and her She clasp be enough. will Carrie loomed Into sudden prominence. Peo- all. Hanson he be he moment given thought x had accidentally arranged the programme the in shape wildcats. seventy-siwaterworks of hold property discuss question the considerable laid ple and Murphy supplied the oratory. It had a of rage and in snarl estate maid old gave real and The an of earnestness Montana Episcopal was a boss-mawith all the of stock in Critchtoo much Doc was him. except affair, convention debating the divorce evil, low, from the nomation of Bill to the the East, a circumstance which did not began clawdng defense and to any attempt and for once in a campaign there is no writing of the platform. Murphy stood detract from her charms In Docs eyes, surprised devoted all his energies to saving his ward sponsor for the ridiculous Glasmann, as he candidly admitted. This old maid eyesight. She finally drove him into a place for national questions. Theone the other and the next thing Doc knew heelers are coming to the front by while Hanson manufacturedconvention. was associated with her two brothers corner bricks handed the they was he one, but the chances are that their gold being violently shaken. He was had she Perhaps business. not dozen stock a safe dea is assertion the in that It not in be will considerably dazed, but at length was questionable services mand. This fight is one for principle delegates really wanted Bill. They ashada full confidence in their devotion to her able to figure that she had secured a accustomed to regard him not; but anyway she hard hold of his whiskers on either side and the waterworks, as a leading citi- grown perhaps interests, zen put it, and ordinary methods will candidate for everything that ever hap- elected to stay out on the ranch to keei of his face and was bumping his head and they thought as a matter of an eye on things herself. One of tne against the wall. be superceded by patriotic endeavor and pened, course they would have to nominate brothers had a family and there was she You miserable old fool, fool! willing help to rescue the city from the him. That is, when the bosses said so. quite a household at the ranch. hissed as she rattled his poor old bald the ignominious position of being the It is also safe to assert that President That, pate against the woll. You try to kiss The old maid had a few friends. Jrlghesit taxed town on the face of the over Thomas didnt any sing hallelujah in truth, must be said. There were peo- me, would you, you old idiot? Ill show earth. Every citizen is very much Bills nomination when he got home ple who said she had a good heart. you a or two! And she certainawake and Buffalo William is keenly night. Thomas had a little ambi- It is the fact that she would sometimes ly did,thing she shook away until her for alive to the importance of keeping a that tion that way himself, but the bosses go the length of expressing sympathy hands came loose, each one containing steady stream of hot air on ofthe live would not stand for opposition to Bill. for some unfortunate, but when an oc- a bunch of iron-gra- y cauldron whiskers. "Now embers under the public had him ratified and little money a Is might They arose where approved the he by some sense, casion effect and to that learn the home will you go opinion, Moses who Is destined to lead the people the convention and the platform, while do some good she would deftly shift the hey, you old donkey? she flung at him Thomas was told to do penance for conversation to her own many sup- as he staggered outside. across the political Red sea dry shod no matter how much force the water daring to act upon his own convictions posed bodily ailments. Her physical the waterworks fight. It is said the complaint formed her chief topic of concompany turns on the water mains. in bosses whipped Thomas into line and versation. There was not really anyelection. his lies And that way Doc was about as hard a looker as stripped him of even a renomination to thing wrong with her except that she the Council because he grumbled when was slightly deaf, but she would talk can be Imagined. His face was bleed they told him Bill was to be the Mayor. and wearisomely of her aches and ing where the beard had been torn out This overwhelming sentiment against Of course, this is only rumor, but the long shows that rumor generally has pains. No person in the country around there and where her claws had raked him; the water company Is purely buncombe. result for a foundation. knew' her age, except perhaps her broth- he was bruised all about the head, his Bill knows it, and so do the political fact ers, and they were too thoroughly disci- suspenders, he wore no coat, had been bunko steerers who nominated him. If plined to reveal it. Dozens of people broken, and he was a general wreck. he Is elected he will find himself exactly took a guess at it, but were, of course, He asked from the fence could he When alls said and done, the average unable to tell how close to the mark have his hat, and It was hurled to him as same his in the predeces- voter will position the ticket All agreed that she was old With a solemnly-expresse- d came. Republican regard they sors. He can make a bluff at condemn- as a hope that Bill one. will make the enough. good fairly would she and that she hm forgive water and the system, usual ing purchasing saw her dotted next he when feel would better spread eagle campaign, but there is no chance of getting the lit- with In his Doc a climbed steed over aged and painful smothered size and claimed fashion and started home to doctor himall the courts before the with personalities was medium She of igation through egotism. His thorough practice of to two-yeterm of the Mayor expires hate men. Her face was of a light self up. It was weeks before his face the More lawsuits and what has he done? saying that people like to be humgot well, and he had suffered the loss and more lawyer fees, more judgments bugged will gather him many more saffron hue, her eyes brown, her chin of his whiskers, which had ever been against the city for hydrant rentals, votes than his enemies give him credit very pronounced, and she had a good one of his chief sources of pride. His more taxes for the people to pay, and affection for Miss Carrie was in no wise With no opposing paper the Stan- start for a mustache. She wore curls diminished all the time the water system is dete- for. by this, however, and for a with cheeks and spoke dard should be able to land every Re down her high she left the country one riorating in value and proving inade- publican after years Bagley, for City falsetto, containing a note of sadness could get Doc to the quate in service. In another two years Attorney candidate. stage Bill will have to invent another shibbo- votes andIs a good man good to get acquired during a long series of years, by announcing that some one of his a good lawyer. Moyes, for leth. for by that time the false cry of is after a fourth term. He chiefly spent in lamenting ailments neighbors was going East to marry her. Treasurer, chestbecome a will waterworks have is good for 500 majority. Mrs. Brown is which had no real existence. When nut. already elected Auditor. Critchlow will Miss Carrie was aroused she could go THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. make a good run for Recorder if he ever some, and it stood one well in hand to finds out he is In the running. Howell, keep out of her way. There is a story An angel came to the earth one day to be Yet the present campaign will be red for a man; Judge, will be a close sec- still extant in the neighborhood to the hot on the waterworks question, and ond Municipal to Moyes. weary of ceaseless round of right effect that she once struck a silver tip He was a taste of wrong. and there will not be one man in twenty bear over the nose with a mop handle And the wanted abode in the ctiy of the angel can who and forced him to retreat when he came give an (intelligent explanation Saints. When the Democrats, after many of the situation if asked the methods Of each earnest one the angel inquired: pestering around her chickens. She had literary tastes, she said, and "Are there maidens still who cheat at to be employed in securing the system hours of labor, half of which was spent love? for Ogden City, or the abject of the in a state of total She had thought all men deceivers. to Are there collapse, presented on graybeards who stoop to lies? little for this belief, for only general principles. grounds campaign the voters James Soowcroft for Mayor, one man in a loung course of years But never a one of either did the angel G. H. Islaub for Recorder and B. H. there ever tried to win her. That man find that day in Zion, was Doc, and he was not capable of de- So the angel went back in sheer despair, Just mother word about Bill in this Goddard for Treasurer, they builded ceiving one. and this report made: any letter before I go to something else. Did better than they knew.' It is a strong Docs attachment for the old maid "The girl got married the morning I came and was ticket. The the feature of the neighborhood for nomination of Farr for you notice how quickly he discovered The longest bearded prophet was buried several She man hated old the years. his free ad next to reading matter, in Municipal Judge was a political play and never overlooked an at noon. opportunity to secure the Farr Truth? And did you observe how aptly family vote, three to state her position with regard to him. It happened first on a Sunday he testified to the truth of the statement hundred or more, for the whole Demo- In all she probably received one hun- He was bibelously inclined. Mrs. two-hiticket. cratic Miller, the present dred proposals from him. She probably With found on the sidewalk that he is more egotistical than assi-nin- Auditor, was renominated He started in for a time as matter chased a him out of the a house with in the by reproducing paragraph course. McMillan, who led his party broom twice a week. Doc had unlimhis paper and construing it as a com- of in the two years ago, was re- ited respect for her when she was In a He failed to get in at "Hegneys, pliment? And how the Ogden people named running every coor was tried; for City Attorney. The ticket rage, and it is not recorded that he ever Though He Jotted down on his left enjoyed it! cuff, is well balanced from the viewpoint of grew rash except on one occasion. He It sounds like h inside." the peculiar conditions that obtain in got much the worst of it, but nevertheUtah. Mormons got a shade the less seemed to look upon it as an evi- He tried wig wagging, but "Doc King Truth created a considerable flutter best of The it, but that Is in its favor. dence of girlish spirits and told it to Could not sabe the sign. He knew what it was to feel profane in Ogden this week. The wise ones every one who would listen. As early as half-panine. were busy guessing as to the authorship He of the Ogden column, and ,as .usual, the word at Charley Auers, The campaign is' now on and, to the Withpassed a Doc had nod; ridden one patronizing of come his not a could mile. within old, ring- But Louie" was blanket they They disinterested spectator, the battle for y blank as if boned He had never seen the nod. equine wraiths over to her ranch accused all the suspects who got the victory should prove exceedingly Interunjust blame for the correspondence in esting. The platforms of both parties one Sunday afternoon. All the folks He paused In front of Hogles the dead and gone Argus, and sundry declare for practically the same princi- except Miss Carrie and a small girl had And apostrophized the sky: "How came they to put tbe English on other papers, but, strange to say, no- ples with regard to local questions. A gone away for a few hours. Miss Car- The first time that an angel was dry? body picked me out as the culprit. Such singular feature is the fact that each rie s abnormal sense of propriety' imis fame! I suppose history will repeat her to make the child remain in Then the preachers preached and the sisitself and I shall never be in a position party calls the other to account for pelled ters prayed to relieve the newspaper men of the spending the peoples good money on the room with her during Docs visit. Y1 ? manner the most devout, Salt Lake lawyers. And each, no doubt, The best account of what happened And the Y. M. C. A. kept all day it past and present, who are sure to draw will Till the Salvation Army cameupout. be able to prove it. That, however, there Is told the fire of those Individuals whose perby the little girl, now a will not affect the result The people sonality and character are occasionally are wroman. Doc was not invited to come He visited every saloon in town reflected by the light of Truth. just now waterworks mad, and the And never once in. not political pot has only begun to simmer. In, but, being accustomed to pay at U Rot to heaven"got seven at half-paWhat state of frenzy the campaign will to trifles, he came in anyway And he hadnt committed a sin. develop into can easily be foreseen. He proposed, of course, and was He remarked to Peter as he passed the The Republican convention was a While the gas is gathering the Repub- down, equaHy of course, by Missturned Car lican nominee will have the pole, but sanctification meeting who sat erect in her chair and " Twas indeed a if Joe Scowcroft sticks a pin in the rie, sight, hilI Doc sot really There was not onewonderful at with President Thomas of the City bubble, for that whole sun .I?YS?y Uncle Buffalo Bill will gay your ho wasnt doing the right. Council, on the mourners" bench. That hereafter be referred to as the candidate about for some timeand after capering concluded to kiss 1'lPCl a he climbed the steps: precious pair of bosses, Murphy and who also ran. the cheek of Miss Carrie. That cheek Take a peek at em at night. "1 de .t ov VJ :v .1 . ,fc? f ' t i .' 1 fJ.V :? i: t ; -- ar :. i , !'. I ! ng gun-fighti- - r- fi 1 : ll i f " w. 1 i ts e, . :: F st p I'- - I. i. i st ten-tio- made-to-ord- er i I |