Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-17

offers to confer a decoration on nm,
IL Is equivalent 70 royal inVitauoh,
it's a command. He ought 70 50 II ne
has 10 go Ia hearse.
but when / see some Of these old,
these very old fellows, going rom one
side Of the earth 10 the other TO get
degrees II does geem hard, some al
lowance should be made for their years,
The universities ought 10 mail them
the decorations"
Davenport, who had Up to this time
been shifting from one chair to another
trying to get firm grip on the elusive
features OF the speaker, here gave
tongue.
AIr Twain he said, "rn bet you'd
have give a good deal 10 be where |
was few years ago, down In Jack
sons Canyon, where you heard them
tell that Jumping Frog story"
Yes" said the humorist extracting
q match from a box on the table and
lighting Il and his pipe with the single
motion known only to the l0ngseasoned
pipe smoker; yes. | would How did
you happen to go down there?'
y went down for the Examiner They
found cave fun of bones down there.
Nothing but bones In it--lndian bones
skulls and ribs and legs and arms
They'd been there SO long they'd go 10
pieces Ike q played-out horse on the
home stretch IL you touched one OF
them"
and | suppose the scientists out in
that coutry never paid any attention
to themT
Not so much that they were ever
caught at u. The ranchers take them
away In sacks full and make fertilizers
out OF them"
i suppose not I wonder what these
scientists are for? / know. near Mem
tone, where there are two caves filed
with skeletons In a row, two rooms to
the cave, and two rows OF skeletons
IN each room. Not one Of those skele-
tons Is less than seven feet tall and
one Of them Is more than that lt
would seem the easiest thing In the
world for few scientists 10 OF over
there from France and take steps 10
protect them, but they don't Tourists
come along. ignorant, woOden-headed
tourists, and carry thine away bone by
bone, aud not scientist TO stop them.
II don't know what these scientists
can be thinking about, anyway Here's
John Fiske, who wrote delightfully."-
about all sorts Of things, anything pre-
historic or antedeluyian seeming to in
terest him, but | cannot find that he
wrote q word about the evidences Of
our ancestry reposlng in caves around
the country"
The denouncer OF scientists was still
thinking Of the neglected skeletons In
the south OF France
"Those caves were right near that
gambling plaee-I can't recall the name
Of it."
Monte Caro?"
Yes, Monte Carlo. There, that re-
minds me Of something can make use
Of Monte Carlo, presided over by that
Prince Of Hell, otherwise known as the
Prince of-of-of--"
"Monacog"
Eyes, the Prince OF Monaco for three
hundred years able 10 marry into any
royal family in Europe, simply because
he rules a ten-aore lot Of royal ground.
j can use that some time"
"Mr Twain" asked Davenport who
had now finished his sketches, there
are two pictures and pipes and other
ornaments by Phil May. mighty fine
ones. too. Great, Amt her
Eyes, ! am going 10 make use OF those
two as soon as | can think Of some
way 10 60 H. In a book or story OF
mine perhaps He did them for me so
quickly that did not realize for long
time how really great they were. He's
a wonderful man"
one Of the sketches was a picture Of
a Chnaman, no art calendar Mongo-
liam but a real impassiye self-satished
native OF the land Of flowers. The
other was e girl, street girl but so
natural you could almost see her wink
ing a you.
May Is great artist" continued
the author "But here" he had seen
Davenport carefully rolling up his
sheets OF bristol board. II must have