Show JUDGE A long journey of pleasure ended yesterday uon hon L W shurtliff and wife returned yesterday from a pleasure tour of the southern and middle at states a top after an absence of about three weeks last evening the judge was be been by a 11 STANDARD reporter and asked tow how tho the trip had agreed with him oh splendid eald said be I 1 never felt better and add think the tour did ma me a world of good my wife became somewhat tired of tho the constant traveling and was glad to get got home as was vas 1 I it if tha the truth were kno known wn but ut taken altogether we had a very enjoyable a time after leaving oden ogden we proceeded to omaha by way of tho the union paole pacific over the old route I 1 tr traveled in tho the year 1863 1803 driving a an n ox team and just think of the changes that I 1 h have taken alace place in this vast west vince ei oce those days ays then wo we used to 0 consider that if it the distance between the tile mi river and utah was bovere covered d in ili less than eis six months it fas something extraordinary a and nd now if the train happens to be a few fely houra hour m more ore than forty eight t in going over the same ground the pase passengers engere begin to complain and atla raise a terrible row upon arriving arri vinit at omaha we crossed the river to connell bluffs and v visited some of tho the J historic ili places places ahert among the old remembered scenes was tha the old farat f arm where I 1 worked when a boy then I 1 found an art old man who re merob ered me ina before 1 1 I left the country for utah I 1 picked an ear of corn from the fiel fields s and brought it home borne with me in order to show my family the kind of grain raised in jackson county after atterway tay ing in this old mormon headquarters tor for several days we started on a tour of tha the southern states and finally laft ls M FT it 11 7 11 wound up in new york about 11 the a time ot of the financial trouble I 1 to tell it you things were lively in wall street lor for several days but soon matters blew over and peace azain reigned I 1 do any further trouble in the money market aad and even if I 1 there should be it vronia not affect I 1 la in tho the least i A few daya days spent in the metropolis and away we went for boston where we remained a short time and then started homeward arriving yesterday 1 I can see great improvements even in tha the short lima time I 1 have been away end and think 0 ogden den will make a great city 1 everywhere here throughout the east I 1 was sought after and in tan ter viewed erf by the tile newspaper and basi nees men inen regarding the future of ogden and utah I 1 find that our out city ia Is better advertised than I 1 had any idea of the result of the home election as well as the national Is very gratifying f ta 0 mo me |