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Show Vandals Destroy Summer's Work Vandals of a vicious type have manifest their disregard for the sacred property rights oif others and heir utter contempt for tlie feelings if those who would help make the ','orld hinighter in their noturnal visit it 'the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nephi Ottoson during the past three weeks. With labors incessant ana faith in 'he future Mr. and Mrs. Ottoson sit nit peonie plants, confidently lookup look-up forward to the time when the plants would reward them with a ch profusion of beautiful blooms. Their hopes were aibout to lie' realized and some of the earlier buds had rounded out into choice colorings. Prizing one morning and glancing at the flower bed the Ottosons saw what had been a beautiful display reduced o a wreck the. fine blooms were i'one and many of the buds were 'iroken. Disappointted but not un-lar.nted un-lar.nted the broken plants were re-uovefl re-uovefl and a second attempt was nade to encourage the blooms. When .access seemed in sight, a second isit of the depraved marauders .repeated .re-peated the distraction of the first night Feeling that the third attempt would lie successful 1 the Ottosons igain nurished the plants to the blooming period, and then the third time did the agents of destruction appear. This time they were not satisfied with taking the blossoms and buds but after removing these pulled the remaining plants up by the roots.. It is bard to realize that in an age cf advanced civilization sue.t as we possess that there are individuals at large sufficiently base to indulge in such r.owardly methods of destruction. destruc-tion. Our only, hope is that hands may be 1; :d on them sufficiently strong to make them realize that they belong to an age of deparvity outlawed hundreds of years ago Manti Messenger. |