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Show TR U T H MUNICIPAL MATTERS. muddle Another chapter in the police enacted in the city council on Tuesending of. the chapday evening. Thp failure to bring toter was another and the council and gether the mayor the row goes .merrily on. Truth is tired of writing about it, the public is about it, and the best XSStk doreading it.with the mayor is to which has. already and the council established a reputatirn for assinity exceeding that of any of its predecessors bad as some of them have been, wa8 - We 7 has been smarting under the insult 'ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE-" and looking for an opportunity to resent it. It came. Fernstrom agreed to A. story jimilar to many of those bound vote for the confirmation of the removal in paper and sold at booK stores for 25 cents a copy. Tty C. M. JacKson. of chief of police Hilton and on that Mot protected by copyright. . . . . understanding the mayor submitted his removal message for the second time, but when it came to the vote Fernstrom CHAPTER I. failed to keep his agreement and the Reverend Thomas Doolittle was in removal lacked one vote of being confirmed. Fernstrom says that is how he love. Ordinarily there is no law, secugot even. lar or canonical, preventing a Protestant ft ft Truth believes the city council made a mistake in passing over the mayors reto the resolution providing for a partnership between the city and the canal companies in the matter of erectiUtah lake. The ng a pumping plant at of lot a will money in the spend city fool enterprise and the result will be I VWVWVWWWWWWWWWVWVWWWWVWWWW Furniture Co-o- p 3 Company. 3 SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS FOR CONFERENCE WEEK. ..... ' Truth is willing to make a small wa?er, notwithstanding the opinion of City Attorney Nye, that the courts will hold, if the matter ever gets up to them, that there is no law forbidding making either an advance or a reduct- ion at any time in the salaries of officers and members of the fire department, or any other employes of the city who are employed during the pleasure of the mayor and the city council and not for any specific term. The legality of the ordinance vetoed by the mayor and passed by the council notwithstanding the veto, Truth predicts will be upheld. The wisdom of increasing salaries in the present financial condition of the city is another question, and one which time alone will answer. salaries are too low all will admit. ft ft That Eardley will refrain his colleagues in future, if bis success t, short time ago may be taken as an example. Mr. Earaley cudgelled his think tank on the occasion mentioned until stung by the splendor of a sudden thought he decided to read a bit of law to the council and out of the mouths of the statutes show them where they were at. So when the disapproval of the ap-- pointment of Woods as assistant chief of the fire department, by the mayor, came up, Eardley grasped his calf bound volume and from it read copiously and sonorously. He cited paragraphs and sections galore, all tending to show that the mayor's disapproval of the appoint ment is by no means absolute, and was quoting the authorities therefor at a great rate when some member asked what date his book bore. Mr. Eardley, like Ike Partington on his wedding day, was not the least bit decomposed, and continued reading. When he had fin ished it was found that the book was the Revised Statutes of 1888, and the portions he alluded to have been repealed several times since. Someone told him about it and will Eardley doubtless obtain later enactments before attempting to quote law again. v The finest line of carpets of all weaves and patterns. Beauty and durability combined. Carpets, Iron Bedsteads. ' Nothing to equal them in the city. Prices away down. Conference vis- itors, call and look them over. Lace Curtains and Draperies. fabrics. Lovely Finest material. Furniture, Of the best make at prices to suit everybody. x 31, 33, 35, 37 MAIN STREET. wvwwwwwwwwvwwwwvvwwwwww Councilman from reading law to . . COME AND GET THE KEY FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL Little Home Of Your Own. Will Furnish you with Money to buy a home like this and give you Sixteen Years and Eight Months to return it at S5.50 Per Month Per $1,000, ft ft Fire Chief Devine has been threatening to resign for a good while. Truth has a well founded suspicion that that is the very thing the mayor and others in the administration would like him to do. The Association is now buying homes for its meriv bers in Salt Lake City, Murray, Ogden, Pocatello and many other places. ft ft Councilman, Fernstrom has got even with the mayor. Mr. Fernstrom was, he says, slighted by the mayor on the night of the last municipal election. After the result of the election the mayor and Mr. Fernstrom met. The latter held out his hand and offered his congratulations to Mr. Thompson on his The mayor refused to accept either and ever since Mr. Fernstrom This Association gives the following privileges: A home of your choice for $1,000. Will pay off a $1,000 mortgage on your home. Will pay you in cash $1,000. I minister from falling in love aye and marrying too, provided the object of his affections consents, but in this instance Rev. Thomas Doolittle had no business being in love, lie was clearly wrong. He was young; only twenty-six- ; fully six feet, with broad shoulders and a general makeup regarded by those wlio ought to know as symetrical. lie bad a handsome face, expressive brown eyes, dark hair and was of a cheerful disposition. .Up to date Rev. Thomas had not indulged in any mortification of the flesh calculated to produce that peculiar cast of countenance called by sentimental ladies heavenly and saintlike, but which is really dyspeptic, and looking at him one would immediately conclude he was just as healthy as a man would want to be, and that judgment would have been correct. He was an able minister too, and, while be had pulled, stroke at college, played right guard on the best team, was the best boxer and had a higher batting and fielding average than any of his fellows and not a few professionals, he bad by no means neglected his other studies and graduated with plenty of honors. He believed in h is work too, or thought he did, and, since ' taking charge of his flock, had endeavored to forget worldly matters, including his former amusements,' and devoted his time to his chosen avocation and the multifarious little duties thereunto appertaining and belonging. Now there is no fault to be found with a minister who wants to be good and work hard. His ambition in that direction is commendable in the highest degree. But sometimes I think there is such a thing as being too good, and that it is a dangerous thing for a man to cork up all his worldly pleasures at once, because there is pretty sure to be an explosion, and when one does occur, you know, the weakest part gives way first. I cannot help thinking right now, and 1 am sure my readers will agree with me later on, that had he divided his bible time with baseball or searched the scriptures less and for rare plants more, T would not have been impelled to write this story. The object of the Reverend Thomas earthly adoration, for it amounted to that,' was Nellie Converse. She was just the sort of girl a big fellow like him would fall In love with. Two and twenty, perhaps, but not a day over, bright, saucy, plump as a pheasant in September; eyes blue and full of mirth and capable of looking unutterable things; hair deep gold and a face like an angels; roses in ner cheeks yes, and roses worth the gathering on her lips for that matter. She was cheerful, sunny natured, educated and refined, jovial and fun loving. He laugh was like a ripple of sweet music on a summer evening. She had a smile that was fairly radiant. It was the laugh', more than anything else except perhaps the smile, he was not certain on that, point that bothered the minister mdst. lie was never so happy as when hearing the one or basking in the other. He would have given worlds to have had that laugh near him all thd time; to have captured that smile and put it where he could see it whenever he wanted to. Once he thought seriously of persuading her to laugh into his phonograph and having her picture taken in the act of smiling, so he could gratify, his sense of sight and hearing at any time. But he gave up the idea upon second thought, because it'was too much like eating canned goods when peaches were ripe. Nellie was fond of her paslor she f . |