| Show under the rose IPA cant I 1 go fishing to ay no my son its sunday well cant I 1 go to morrow yes dear bov and go with you K you can stay home from meet ang this afternoon and dig the worms and get the fishing tackle ready I 1 iva read rev hills ot ermon and knowing the source from which he borrowed or stole most of it I 1 am ro minded of a little story which some amusing cuss may put into actual practice when next wesley lectures prodded the d gentle man shall be as liberal in his quotations as on the last ion once upon a time a preacher came into the wild wide west who aspired to groat things in his church ile wait more of a preacher in name than by capacity but he had a large stock of books and a retentive ibern gryp eo he aras never at A loss but one sabbath day a cowboy strolled in and took a seat dl rec uy in front of the sermonizer the youth with the buckskin breeches the wide sombrero and the be belt had been college bred blin gelb so when the preacher started giving the old time proverbs the cowboy opened his eyes in an ment birbich soon deepened into indi 91 nation finally the preacher said Th elove of wealth increases with the wealth from juvenal said the cowboy in an audible tone bat this be thy berazen wall of de lence to be conscious of no guilt and not to torii pale on any charge ft id the preacher that Is from horace muttered the cowboy one touch of nature makes the kin was drow d from the pulpit ll 11 emphatically hIssed the cowboy these interruptions at last became unbearable to tle preacher Ie beaning aning over the pulpit lie shook his finger in the listeners face and said in an in tense whisper it you dont shut up ill break every bone in your damned old carcass 11 original by G 11 said the cow boy and the only original thing you have said today to day one of your salt lake arles contained this startling item the other addy frank swan was put under arrest for cutting a pigs throat and climbing over a fence thereafter pt F or heavens sake what kind of an offense offence did commit 15 it against the law to climb over a fance after a pigs throat over the fence after his arrest why do the newspapers of the capital leave us in an agony of over such F NT important matters As the arrest of a man who dares to climb over a fence it Is often a boast in salt lake that the brains of the territory have congregated gre gated there upon tahe daily journals the more I 1 read there journals the more convinced I 1 am that the boast is not an empty one A gaoa but a very solemn minister was in the habitt if talking to his little girl ole ol e was guilty of any real or fancied otonce the wordy rebuke always brought tears to her eyes and one day when he started again to proclaim most tragically at the poor hills she stopped him with the appeal 1 I wish papa that when I 1 am naughty you would not always scold me in your heavenly father voice ill hers Is the best domestic sunday sermon I 1 have heard in several years who has not noticed the tragic tones with which an alleged minister of the gospel affects to address the abrone of grace and who has not noticed the awful and appalling voice with which some parents rebuke their children hill who steals my words stealie trash but hill who steals my monkey gestures steals that which naught enriches blin and makes me poor indeed 11 T de jim talmage ane STANDARDS little paragraph printed the other day regarding the characteristic benevolence of the ifor mono reminds me of an incident which came under my own observation in ogden during a i ecott visit to your town I 1 stood at the counter of one of the principal dry goods houses I 1 and near me was a dressed intelligent and rather hand some lady whom I 1 recognized Rs the wife of one of your gentile capitalists and banking men A little feminine street waif strolled into the mercantile palace I 1 ter dress was in tatters and her feet were bare iler face was pinched and white and under her eyes were great dark hollows in a piteous tone she bogged for help tim lady doubtless unused to such a eight in ogden turned and gazed open the child with astonished eyes then she asked are you a ifor man no maam responded the poor little child 1 I thought not said the lady for in all illy acquaint man child who had barefoot in the winter time 90 now while I 1 may not be ready to assert that inon children are any more deserving of shoe sand stockings than any other class I 1 am ready to admire that charity 11 aich begins at home an d spreads thence as far as its resources will permit such I 1 know from actual as did the gentile lady know to be the ebarita of the stormon people and of the I 1 never know one ocary sect who was boor and sick and tie carved nay not always deserved but needed kielp to ask in vain it the only candid man in america of any great political social and business eminence Is chauncey depow president of the vanderbilt system of railroads and the great after dinner speaker ile frankly admits that he would bd glad to accept the ministry to england under the in coming administration would not have a cabinet office but be r gards our representative to the co u rt of st james is second only the president of the united states this kind of candor Is ro freshing and it aught to be rewarded besides harrison could well afford taip mitchell depew who Is a man of bragno and of american pride and vigor pa who is this 1 weeley I 1 hear so much son leittl tile anti verses Oth chapter of proverb 3 11 ait EXTRA |
