The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-08

are supposed to be all ready and the
go-cart landed in the woodshed. He
was aweary when Morpheus seduced
jumped bit now and then as new
bride does when tlckled slyly on the
bottoms of her feet.
Then into Gods beloved sleep"
there crept a dream. The doctor was
on journey. Finally he landed in a
wide-open town in an unknown terri.
tory. AS he walked along the streets
the people continually consulted their
watches. Abruptly a bell rang and
some one called out in a loud voice;
"The Crack of DOOM"
Immediately there arose a mighty
din. men, women and children
screamed. firearms were discharged,
incendiary fires sprang up, painted
women dashed through the streets in
negligee, vice Haunted a red flag,
liquor flowed from the open doorways
of the saloons, and scream upon
scream of distress rent the air.
OF a sudden red-faced brigand
grasped the doctors watch and was
away in the flutter of a second,
Again tolled the bell And the
voice:
The Crack of Doom is now overt"
Immediately business resumed and
peace settled upon the city.
What does all this mean?" ques-
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fear depicted in his face.
The man accosted stopped and turn.
ing said;
Art thou a stranger to the Crack
of DOOM"
Except to the extent of one gold
watch" answered the man of medicine
with an attempt at smile!
Il will explain!" continued the citi-
zen. I'm this place men are wronged.
as indeed they are everywhere! We
have no courts to punish the wicked,
but every thirty minutes there is an
interval of ten minutes in which
scores are paid lawfully.
Should man njure you, you may
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minutes interstice. The law abcolves
you from all blame! Vice is permit
ted only during these recesses, and
no liquor is sold except between
strokes of the bell!"
in a moment doom win strike
again." admonished the informant,
turning away, with his watch in his
hand!
1t was even 80. With great clamor
the brazen note blared on the air.
Toward the physician came a great
burly virago with a bloody knife in
her teeth! There was murder in her
eye and determination in every set
line of her face.
Without waiting for the attack, the
doctor few full at her throat!
There was piercing scream. The
man of pills awoke with a start, his
hands clutched wildly in the lace Of
mis- wife's robe-de-nuit at the throat!
"Oh! Oh! OH" screamed that
frightened woman, what are you do
ing? Trying to kill me?"
mo, my dear" answered the doctor
dazedly, u have just got home from
The Crack of DOOM"
"Well, for goodness sake, doctor,
never go there again If you are to
repeat this operation" gasped his bet
ter half with fervor.
And he never has!
Some years ago we saw man
hanged
AS a general diet We would prefer
less solemn functions-but in follow
ing where duty led, we witnessed the
execution. This bit of experience is
recalled by newspaper account of a
hanging during which the populace
clamored TO see the villain die.
Strange, isn't it, that men seek the
death exhibition? And yet we have seen
them climb trees and mount rooftops
TO look within the boarued Enclosure
where grim justice demanded a life
for lifei
And woman! nee we knew a wom
an, lovable in many ways, a lady al.
ways-and yet she sought to see
murderer hanged! When pleadns
failed, she sought an eminence hard.
by the jail yard and strove to see the
trap when it bore downward with it's
victim.
Seeing a man hanged is not so ter,
rible as some imagine-but the mem
DRY ever wildly recalls the scene, the
white faced wretch trembling in the
death march, the last quavering look
ere the death cap hides the light for.
ever, the moment of suspense, the
awful plunge, the slight Hutter of SUI.
fering physique-and the dead calm.
ness!
Happy the day wheh man shall be
elevated above the premeditations and
the passions that lead to murder.
Then there will he no eve for nm arn