The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-20

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city treasury would be allowed to meet
/ the bills The lord mayors retainers
! fall upOn his neck, and the curtain
! gracefully descends on the chorus.
/ When you fool Him on micrObe you
have got 10 do it slick"
State Board of Health Enters.
The time for the third act is yester-
I day. The chief cOnspirator issues a call
! for the unfeeling men Of medicine TO
aid him in his nefariOuS scheme 10
/ bankrupt ogden town. Drs. Beatty
/ and Scott OF the state board of health
/ rush TO his rescue. They heap further
! troubles upon A. Lone Miner by sub
/ hitting him to an examination. DIT.
/ Baker, too, is called in.
! Some evil genius has been at work,
/ The plot is now thicker than the clus-
/ ter Of 'JOhnnies" at the stage entrance
I after a performance Of The Black
( Crook. II is discovered that A. Lone
4 Ainer has indeed a large amount Of
/ smallpox concealed about him, Per
/ chance, too. the lord mayor carried
away generously propOriOned
/ chunk,
Yellow Flag Waved.
| The orchestra strikes uD a hollow,
| creepy series of short bars. DR.. Con-
/ don's voice rises above the sound in
| sepulchral tones and he informs the
waiting world that something must be
done. Selling upon the yellow flag
/ Of contamination he hastens forth after
/ the lord mayor TO corner him and save
1 him and the community at large from
/ the hosts Of microbes and such Ike that
/ the lord mayor may have carried away
4 with him from the Burch creek bas-
| tile
Dramatic action is injected in lib
/ eral doses into this great act. Dr.
/ Condor hesitates whether to quaran-
/ tine the lord mayor in his executive
/ Office, his home or his newspaper office.
| but the willy lord mayor cannot be
found at either. He cannot escape the
/ vlgilant health officer however, and
I Is finally run down upon the street
There is an ominOus CLEAN in the lord
/ mayors eye that prevents the doctor
I from attempting to lash the yellow
/ nag TO his body Instead, the doctor
/ calls upon the gallant and fearless Of
hcer Harbetson to hale him to a gaol.
Officers Given the Laugh.
Harbertson, built upon the lines Of a
brownie, hesitates not when duty con-
| fronts him. Laying hands upon the
| lord mayor he informs him that he is
under arrest, whereupon the lord
mayor laughs a long loud gUffaw
l prithee, base varlet. am I not
master here?" demands the lord mayor.
! As such. am 1 not the head of the
department Of gendarmes and thy su-
periOr? Go 70, Go to- l VIII take
thee TO gaOl and teach thee better
manners"
Astounding, Monstrous. Whack him
over the head" urges Condor, while
the populace bowls with delight
Policeman is Vanquished.
But the lord mayor lays hands upon
the valiant, if diminutive, policeman
and removes him from the scene. Filled
with chagrin and other things. the
! health officer hurries away for a war
rant of arrest, but finds no authority
10 grant it. He issues orders for a
yellow flag TO be raised over the lord
mayors home on the morrow, and in
structs the officials of the department
OF learning 10 bar the lord mayors
children from the schools.
And the base villain and conspirator.
thus indicated, holds the center of
the stage, singing while the curtain
falls that cheerful refrain. 4 didn't do
single thing TO him.