The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-18
Delegation of Citizens Pay Their
Respects to Him.
JOHNS CAVALRY CHARGE
VETERAN ENTERTAINS HIS
GUESTS IN A NOVEL WAY.
Recites Sheridan's Charge and Sings
Song = Much Speech-making
and a Banquet-The Orators All
Paid Tribute to John LUIS Valor.

General John Lu Taylor received a
tribute last night from his friends that
was so delicately eulogistic and so in
tensely complimentary that John still
wears a smile wide and splendid as the
epaulettes that adorned his manly
shoulders during the late contest.
There were about ten in the delegation,
and they visited John Lu as testimonial
! of their deep devotion and fealty and the
| intense regret they feel that he was not
! elected as congressman from Ufah- Iney
| expressed the opinion that his election
+ even as recorder of marks and brands
would have been better than the Flndlc-
/ tive and foul means by which the politi-
J clans wrought his undoing at the salt
I Lake convention.
Hon. John Lu entertained his guests in a
way which was sprightly and lively in
/ the extreme. In response TO unanimous
and spontaneous request, he gave cor
rect imitation of q cavalry charge which
occurred in the pine woods of CoDiah
county, Miss, during the late unpleas-
antness between the north and the south.
John has sabre. 1t is as long as three
church doors, and he has already cut
down three neighbOring pear tree groves
while under the delusion that he was
hewing down confederate soldiers. John
/ Illustrated the cavalry charge with his
! sabre. He started at one end of the
parlor and made a wild, blood-curdling
dash toward the guests seated on the
other side. Believing momentarily that
they had encountered Custer in his last
charge, the guests fed precipitateiy, and
before John was able TO reach them with
his flashing sabre he mad mingled with
three pieces of promiscdous furniture and
three tables.
The guests We're awe-stricken. They
called wildly for more. John IS nrolihc
and the guests were rot disappointed. He
recited in moving tones Sleridan's ride
to Winchester 20 miles away, and while
Johns pathetic tenor rose on the parlor
air and was waited on the wings d music
through the room. everyone present Wept
softly and thanked John in his heart for
having put Il quietus on the war of the
rebellion and for freeing the slaves so
that there is no more need of war.
But there was still war in the air John
insisted on entertaining the guests with
the divine symphony which he has har-
boured somewhere and which comes forth
in swift. rapturouS gusts. lie sang
Coming Through the Rye" or Coming
Through Georgia It IS absolutely i'm
possible to state which of these he sang.
as none of the guests have been sufficient
ly able to concentrate their thoughts to
remember
by a toast relating to his feeling anent
the late war. 1t was JOY forever. In a
,nastszful speech, he proved that Nc
Kinley was = cross between a cracked
crab and a Northwestershire eel, and that
Ia the matter of making appointments ne
was so utter a failure that every night
he shed tears so large that they burnt
holes in his pillow.
The second speech was by W. H. Bran
NELL He rallied against men who called
themselves colonies when they We're only
lobster vendors during the late glorious
war. 1t is impossible to tell what men
were in the war these days" said Mr..
Brammell. If a venerable old patriarch
in the south says he is a colonel you
can't tell whether he was a private or a
brigadier general. When a man is referred
to as good it is impossible to tell whether
he is a theologian or prize-fighter Most
of all. it is impossible to tell what position
a man had in the army. Take. for in
stance Colonel Tat
Here John Lu broke in with a tumult
of applause that was so nerve-shattering
that Bramnell was mute with terror and