The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-02
HOMESPUN YARNS.

The gossips are telling one on c. c.
Goodwin. editor of a suburban paper, that
in the vernacular of brokers row is
known as a ''peaeherino" As the story
runs the Judge was having his biography
written by local author for Insertion IN
the History of Utah. When completed the
writer submitted il to the judge, that ne
might make any necessary corrections IN
dates. or any desired changes IN the
sketch.
the Judges ability as journalist and so
en-, and he felt hattered- BY way of
acknowledgment he wrote on the margin,
in returning the manuscript: Dear
Bishop: Is there any forgiveness in your
church for lying?"
The bishop promptly replied by postal:
Dear Judge: Yes; come right along
The eX-silver advocate is now ordering
soft drinks
There is at least one colored man in
Salt Lake who is not to be outdone by the
white CRATER. He made his appearance az
a prominent clothing store the other day.
Some time during the forenoon, a cOlored
man had purchased a suit Of clothes at
the house referred to, paying $40 down and
promising 10 come back in the afternoon
with the 81 still due, and get the suit,
which was wrapped up and laid aside for
him.
Hardly had the first fellow retired when
in walked the CRATER III take , dat SUIT SUIT
/ so saying, he handed over four cartWheeis
and went out with the parcel under his
arm.
Along towards evening the original
I claimant appeared, and asked for his pur-
chase, he. too, throwing down the best
part of a $ bill.
What suit?'' demanded the clerk
Yours? Why someone else got the suit
that was left here"
| Some further remonstrance and the
/ darky asked: 'Whah 20 goin' t Go about
1 it?"
Cant do anything" was the reply.
'All coons look alike 10 me.
Well, sir, this is the most corrupt adj
eminent ever. had" fervently exclaimed
the brake" backed up by the conductor
on an incoming train the other day.
| ''Um,' came from the slightly COM
| pressed lips Of a figure opposite.
Yes. sir. they have bought up every
leader in this state; they have got EN-
tied hand and foot and gagged, and every
Republican paper from the Tribune up has
/ got it's bit out of Mark Hannas barrel"
'.Um," assented the figure opposite,
folding the Enquirer he was reading and
taking up an idle copy of the Daily Re-
porter in an effort to get busy.
And every one of them ought to be
taken out and strung up, resumed the
conductor.
'Um,' trying to smile.
You're right, put in the drummer,
but how did they come out with that
polygamy business out here. That's the
class that ought TO hang"
''Oh, they played that up strong for a
while. Some of 'em were convicted and
fined. d-n good and hard, too. forget
what Roberts got. Do you known turn
ing TO the figure opposite.
i "Um-no, l don't remember" came from
that quarter.
Live here do you?"
Eyes, that is, at Provo after a pause
What liner interjected the drummer
I'm in the newspaper business"
THAT so? Was there myself once; what
is your name?"
| The figure assumed the expression thai
made Arthur Brown famous as he an
swered: "Who-me? NV name is John G
Graham; here's my card
The train had passed Germania before
| the awful silence was again broken. the
| drummer going down into his grip for {
clean collar and the train crew finding
urgent business back in the Pullman.