Show FADED recollection A booling through a glass barlly IP AT A LITE great junges lunges fumi our la the ran tit I 1 0 o line is coat hn vas lingering in alio shadow of a great grief also in that of the electric lamp at the corner of george washington ami streeta et reeta ogden utah U 8 A I 1 have not yet examined the now city plat adopted by the coun but from information I 1 have received from authentic sources should judge eliat I 1 have struck it about right in the matter of location anyway it was a corner that I 1 pass every time 1 go to ray frugal meal on alie european plan and alio is he the cross exam ining reader will ask dont ba in a hurry and I 1 will unfold this tale one fold at a time I 1 would not give his name and thus subject him to the contumely as it were perhaps the scorn and hatred of a sensitive community to be twenty times alie influential citizen eliat I 1 am not for countless gold not even for a building lot on nob hill all at once lift continued to linger his voice quivered with suppressed emotion and liia actions generally were as one distraught his mind seemed burdened strange fantasies and his stomach etith Bome eliat was bot BO strange but a trilla more active his raiment was of alie poorest and there was a good deal of it eliat was not present except it might be in alio spirit alie top of liis woolen was destitute of a fastener and a broad expanse of bronzed hide was thus ibid bare to the gaze of hie cuje world hii pants were of that patriotic hue which is always found upon those who prefer it to any other on grounds of economy his had italic heels on them and were BO well ventilated that oven without looking one would know alio toca were liis aliat liat was constructed on the style of architecture more gable than roof a pocket handkerchief of an intensely subdued glow principally protruding from a pocket in ilia completed his trousseau hii nose seemed to be engaged in a competitive conflict for superiority with the electric liblit and up to alie time spoken of it was the nearest tiling possible poe sible to a dead heat on a closer view I 1 recognized atie wayfarer as ona whom I 1 biad known in days gono by and abu fortified hastened to go by myself but it was I 1 extending a restraining arm and offering a hand calloused by the hard knocks of time and the high price of soap lie engaged me in conversation here was a this man was tho owner of the spunky dick mine near ogden the goaring Ko aring hustler of feannete fean pete had large interests in the hungry comoto of liedner li edver biad lots of cattle on some distant range was the proud of a epan of mules and a wagon biad money coming from a doeu dil lerent boultes Bo but biad been compelled to wait and was as independent aa a BOOSO in a meadow BO to 1 I BAW you coming lie aalde and turned ack here to see you bless your how are you anyway it does me more good than a drink before breakfast to aeo yon I 1 tell yon I 1 whon did you get in and bow is alie good lady and the little ones well ha hal good good will you ahio and take a little something with ine hy alio he I 1 forgot 1 changed my pools aliis at aud 1 I have only got tor a small lunch I 1 replied I 1 would bo glad to oll er you a email loan just BO oh well I 1 dont care about it you know got plenty at home of conrao halo to ask these gin to wait on me cumae they get took in BO much they dont know alioto trust but surely they ought to know you well enough A man 0 your ought not to be clawed among alio doubtful states oh no no of course not of not ailena me I 1 ought not to bland liere interfering with you in this way and every word look and ees turo bespoke a eliat was consuming chiai by slow degrees oh never mind me I 1 added to hoiu him out of his dilemma dont drink at all for several ears thebo who know me beat and there toro love mo least will readily overlook the apparent of that statement because of the good I 1 intended to accomplish by it under any alie reader well knows nothing hut 17 carata fine ever escapes my lips I 1 think tho old man needed a drink and he was in a corner which my belf words helped him out of boides I 1 was very hungry and had only 40 cents well and be you goinik to aitay with us lie asked thua extrication himself entirely no only a lettla while said I 1 the town has got too far ahead of roe and yes it ho said catching on with avidity and opening the flood kates of a vocabulary easier to start than stop tho matter taint as it used to was we have all changed changed so much we hardly know one another now all the fun is gon othal we used to have when be BO high nor look so far aej aben one feller was HS good as any other as long as he could lill the bottlo when it came his turn ami never got downhearted down hearted and mean if he bryin and sellin every hinr and piling up money every day them good time as you call them but we all felt good and acted rood and what we get we got along without 1 adoro fun alien than now only they want so much acyle hitched OP to it ive seen boys barefooted and they seem to get as cold feet nor as much sickness as they do now with slices fact I 1 and ive hearn a fellow in one of our dances call out to the music to stop till lie polled a eliver out of his heel when I 1 got drunk alie boys would lay me on my wagon and my mules knotted the way home as well as I 1 did and landed me there sate every time but what could they do now then I 1 lived on alie bench mccond place from alie bodao on alie right hand side goin straight towards bill steels farm anybody even mules could find a place with ciuch directions but what could they do when the bench gets to be snob hill or aill bills farm is made a checkerboard of by a dished land seller alie rne etin house is the smallest place around there and it has got to be with somo president or generals namo on one sido and a b mint of figures on the other theys no more sense in it than there is in ahe legislature and as I 1 cant keep up with alio procession I 1 have to all behind and all alie boys lias grow ed apart from me and I 1 feel sometimes as if there was no room at all for we in the world and the sooner I 1 get to where numbered streets and big kiouses and fine clothes dont hold alie winning liand over good hearts aud honest souls tho better it would bo or me and everybody I 1 expect when I 1 die begrudge the ground to bury me in it can be sold now to to so much better advantage the old fellow had contributed a few tiny drops to the gentle shower increasing I 1 walked on to escape but I 1 got no supper that night |