| Show aney WERE TWICE GLAD if sir rhelda oar minister to great brit HD were as sensitive or as capa ble of appreciating a joke as colonel A M buseer of salt lake lo 10 would be but doubtfully proud of the universal celebration in england on bia departure for liia american home colonel buseer tella with much glee ot journey ho once made in the winter season from salt lake city to bear lake lie reached logan all right but the question was how to get from there over the mountains to paris no one from logan volunteered to take him and no ono from paris volunteered to come after him finally a man was prevailed upon by the promise of ample remuneration to undertake the the colonel spent several days in the lake county and fancied ho was bettink all the people into a splendid humor at the alosa of the last meeting which he attended remembering the difficulty lie bad bad in getting into the county he asked bow he was going to get back over the mountains the chairman presented the question to the audience imagine his surprise when every man arose as a volunteer willing to perform the service the difficulty in finding some one to bring him in and the universal willingness of all to help him out were in such striking contrast that the humor of the situation was not long in dawning upon everybody and the greeting 1 I am as glad to you as the boar lake folks were to see col Mua sers coat tails is a standing one in the northern part of the territory phelps is more gratified with the ostentation attending his departure ban with the welcome he received on his landing or the one he expects to receive on bis return to new york aut the british are not such jokers as be bear lakers and the comparison mr phelps and col musser a equally remote the parallel therefore may not be continued too far |
