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Show BLOWING DUST IN THE AIR. There was a conference of the Three Soft Snaps, following great consternation. con-sternation. Something had gond wrong. The people had not boen slow to inform the city dads that the gas and light franchises were highly objectionable, and even old friends had stopped the commissioners to question them on their conduct. So the conference was called to discuss dis-cuss ways and means, of overcoming the adverso public sentiment. Each commissioner had proposed a way out. One said, "We'll make a big talk about water", tho second said, "No, that is not answering the question," ques-tion," and the third, the smoothest politician of the triumvirate, then held attenHon. "Listen to me," he said. "A lawyer who has a bad case tries to evade the real issue and talks long and loud on anything but the weak polntB. Let us ignore this gas and light business and just simply throw dust in the air." The first evidence of tho big dust cloud appeared this morning when the organ of the city commissioners wheezed forth a column of vitiated air. |