Show SELLING A SWEETHEART How a Young Salt Laker Got a Start In LifeLess Life-Less than a year ago the inhabitants of a certain part of the East End were interesting I teresting themselves in the prospective mating of a young and beautiful girl to a handsome young stonemason who lived not far from the home of his love This pair who formed the chief topic of conversation among the people of the same social standing in that part of town had been rather sweet on each other forman for-man years and as the young man was doing fairly well at his labor there seemed to be no objection in the minds of the neighbors to an early union But the fact that there is many a slip and all that sort of thing you know was again forcibly illustrated Just a twelvemonth ago a rival appeared ap-peared on the scene and what made things more interesting he was a man of some means though his social standing was not much above that of the young mason Tho girl was somewhat flattered by the attentionss of the second arrival but her heart was true enough to inform him that he was a little too late She admitted however that she liked him but could not consider his proposal pro-posal Instead of resorting to blood the enterprising en-terprising fellow hit upon a more peaceful peace-ful plan which as time proves was perfectly per-fectly successful Going to the solid lover he offered to transfer a certain property worth a couple of thousand dollars o him if he would agree to give up the girl The honesthearted young man could not in justice to himself refuse this offer of a start in life and so he agreed and gave up visiting the girl She was somewhat broken up about it but the other fellow pursued the advantage advan-tage by devoting himself with great ardor and recent developments prove that his trouble has been rewarded A recent wedding was the climax of this little love tale The young mason is prospering and people are wondering how he got hold of his property and the girlbless her heartshe ought to be happy |