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Show A PETULANT OLD WOMAN WITH A TINCUP. Salt Lake, with tears welling from bloodshot eyes, is holding out a tin-cup tin-cup to the people of Utah, crying: "Pity the poor!" Ogden, realizing Salt Lake's sad plight, has placed an arm around the old lady on the alkali flats, saying, consolingly: "Salt Lake, don't cry. If Utah will not fill your cup to overflowing with pennies so that you may obtain the money with which to house the guests who are with you, Ogden will invite the sojourners to that beautiful clty where nature has done so much for the comfort of man; Ogden will save you, dear obi Salt Lake, the humiliation humilia-tion of begging funds with which to buy marble columns to hold up a canopy for Lhe protection of the Gov-crnor'g Gov-crnor'g bald head, and will build a capitol out of Its own pocket, where not only the chief executive, but all his numerous family, down to the janitor, can rest and be happy In the thought that people going through by train can see the house in which Is a chamber room, In which is a rug. on which l8 a chair that holds the destiny des-tiny of this people." But would you believe it, when Ogden Og-den said these nice things to the old lady with the tlncup, Salt Lake Indignantly In-dignantly repelled Ogden, with this rebuke: "You go along and don't bother me. When I want your advice, I'll let you know. If I feel like bogging, I'll beg. The people of Utah know me. I have heard the dropping of those pennies for years, and If country Utah Is willing will-ing to continue to care for a poor old lady, what business of yours is it? Go 'long!" |