Show TALKED TO A STANDSTILL A Butte Doctor Beats Professor Fords Record The Butte Mining Journal tells the following fol-lowing story of Dr Bishop a radical thinker who recently fell into conversation conversa-tion with a Mormon in this city This was an opportunity the irate doctor could not lose It was just what he was aching for and fate and the mans foolish temerity had played into his hands Grasping the collar of the mans coat he made this novel proposition proposi-tion If you are a genuine Mormon I will give you a dollar to let me talk to you an hour HIt is a bargain was the response the dollar was handed over and the pair together with several others who had been attracted to the spot repaired within a convenient door and the fun begun The doctor opened the vials of his wrath he was wound up for an hour and no mistake The efforts of the capper for thimble rig the lecturer for the sideshow side-show or the seller of tickets for the concert after the circus were all as childs play to the flood of eloquent invective that was showered upon the victim At the end of fifteen minutes the doctor was still in shape but the man was tired He tried to speak but was prevented with the reminder that he was not to talk but be talked to In desperation he offered to return the money and the offer was vetoed by the crowd who insisted that he should carry out the bargain As a consequence con-sequence he stood and listened to an arraignment ar-raignment of the doctrine such as was never before made in Utah and will hardly be repeated for if the doctor forgot for-got anything mean that he could have said he regrets it Finally time was up and the man started briskly for the door followed by his tormentor who concluded a parting shot as his victim escaped around the corner and then returned re-turned to the audience with the remark HI dont think I ever got so much satisfaction satis-faction out of a dollar in my life The other fellow cant say as much quietly suggested a bystander and the curtain was dropped |