Show A HEARTRENDING EPISODE A Suddcu Stroke of Light Paralyzes l a Salttaker Governor Murray entertained a group of gentlemen at the G A R Hall last evening and in his inimitable style told the following A gentleman friend of mine whose first name is Colonel accompanied a party of gentlemen from Salt Lake to Ogden to meet and welcome General Logan on his recent trip to the West and when we arrived in Ogden we as certained that the train bearing the General Gen-eral was six hours late We could do nothing but form a semicircle in the freight depot seated on inverted mackerel mack-erel kits and while away the hours with song and story and as the occasion was redolent of memories of the war many a touching tale of suffering and hardships was launched upon the willing ears of the party When the memories born of a beautiful tale of bivouac and battle were sweetest and several eyes in that circle were dimned with a tribute to the days and the men spoken of when even the big gaunt St Bernard watch doghad through that mysterious something which men call instinct crawled near and extended ex-tended his head in prolongation of his paws upQn the floor and seemed to drink in the reminiscences of those sacred days the friend whom the party called Colonel for short spat right in the center of a oo uinaaiamonu mane on a Dale or nay and rising to his feet gave an ominous clearing to his throat which caused all hands to look IP in pleased anticipation of something good It came as follows Gentlemen in those days I was in Washington enroute to the front and for a few days our command was held in the city and I with others took several strolls through the place One night when returning from the Methodist Church where we had gone to tell our experiences and take a seat on the anxious bench our attention was called to a poor fellow who was triangulating the sidewalk in front of us and who finding find-ing a soft spot fell down He fell in the large open gutter and but for timely assistance as-sistance would have drowned My friend helped to pick him out and I thinking to be of help to those who tread the wide triangular path toahemahFiddlers Green asked him What is your name friend and where is your abode H Well he stammered Ihicack ouctchwas DanlhochiclIc Gonnigle whenhicI got n Washing ton but nowhicIm Seward The crowd laughed uproariously at the witty answer of the ungodly inebriate inebri-ate but the man whom we called Colonel for short never smiled We were about to leave the depot when a bloodcurdling blood-curdling yell followed by the most agon izing and infectious laughter struck on our ears and we saw the man whom we called Colonel for short yelling danc ing and shouting in the back part of the shed and holding the big watchdog at bay with the bungstave of whiskybar rel and we of course ran to his assistance assist-ance One of the party knocked the conceit out of the dog with a pair of skids while the rest of us took the man whom we called Colonel for short out into the light and by our united efforts held him till his strange paroxysm passed We raised him gently to his feet and tenderly enquired what ailed him He blew the froth from his lips and amid peals of the wildest laughter he said saidHa H Hahaaaaha Ivehahha how haa aa ah outch been tell ing that storyheeehahfor twenty five years hahayahand this is the first time I eVOaw the poipoipoi point of it Hah ha hahehe We chained him up in the baggage car and came our tearful way homeward home-ward j |