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Show 6 i - - - - - ALICES LETTER. My Dear John: Doubtless you will be in Washington again when you receive this letter. I suppose you will witness the unusual spectacle of Congress convened in November. Be sure and tell me all about it. It must be remarkable if all the descriptions are true. Besides, if I find the political situation in Salt Lake interesting, how infiniteCy more so must be the great national game. The result of our city election is very much in doubt. It doe 3 no good to guess at it and there arent such a lot who are betting on it, either. One thing is sure, if the Kearns ticket is defeated none will be more surprised than the Democrats. I can quite imagine how they will hug the victory to their breasts and say, we did it! The effect of such a victory upon the Heralds well known(?) editorial writer, would be hard to describe. It is to be hoped that he will not have pen paralysis in that event how the people would suffer! What would we do without this chaps editorials? I know, but I wont tell. There is McKay, too; undoutbedly he would become more nervous than he is at present, and he ( exhibits symptoms of locomofer ataxia now. As for Igleheart, I can see him running his hand through his hair in that melodramatic way of his, and, alas! I see him bald. Seriously, thougb, in the event of Morris' election who will deserve the credit? Is it not easily placed at the door of Truth and on the shoulders of the sane voters who will have used their minds to more advantage than their pocketbooks? It is not the Democrats alone who will use their minds to good advantage in fact, nobody expects them to do anything unusual but without doubt that party will profit from the judicious vote which shall be polled. . ! I) 'i h .j !i H .. i j i i I ! i 'i i i f i I 1 It takes an exceedingly calloused man to make a good politician. How one with a spark of spirit can run for office in the face of his proven' inefficiency, how he can face the scorn and publicity of the press, how he can sur- f i vive the merciless critlcsm.of the voting element and still ask its favor, all these hows are a great mystery surely. Take Nye and Westervelt, for instance. You say if we must have I i i - - I will defend myself, too, for I think that women should be better informed than they are about city affairs. There is the Ladies Literary club, for instance; it is in a somnolent state for the want of something to do. Most of the women have grown tired of the regulation literary paper and are hungry for something worth while, something practical, human, something that will give a zest to life. We cannot be content with an anaesthetic long. Women can gossip and tell stories, play cards and call, but they cannot take an Interest in politics; it is so common, so boresome. When they vote it is to please their friends, their families or their love of the sensational. Jl J Speaking of stories, reminds me. I was coming out ; of Auerbachs the other day when four women met, two coming each way; and stopped to talk. They were so animated that I wanted to stay in their vicinity and so I fell to looking at the dress goods in the window, and incidentally found much pleasure in their conversation. You see it was not Impolite to listen, for if women will talk on the street they should expect to be heard. In fact, I think they do. Presently they spoke of Ben Hur. O have you seen Ben Hur? asked one. answered a bruYes, indeed, nette, a tall, stunning woman with We saw the play eyes like sloes. we last night and were frightfully disappointed, too. Such girls, ooh! they must have escaped from a health-foo- d sanitarium, they were so skinny! In fact the only person worth while was Ben Hur. He was the sweetest . - ; . foods to manaere our municipal affairs let us have educated fools. :i i Heaven save the mark! It is not the education that stamps the man, it is the inherent capacity or incapacity. How mortifying to be obliged to write one- self a fool in private, and play the in public. gentleman and wise-acrof it is that the The shuddery part rank and file always recognize the pri- , e vate signs. i well-know- Jl Jl People who stay in the house these fall days miss something worth having. I had a long walk Sunday up on Capitol hill and the glory of color and shimmer of haze were marvelous. Wherever one turned yellow-shafte- d poplars pierced the sky and against the earth plant and shrub rioted in vivid and sombre hues. The sun was hot, the air clear; the leaves were a silken carpet for my feet, rustling as no fine ladys skirt ever dared, and over all was the brooding ghost of autumn, impalpable yet felt, serene as air, pervading as spirit, symbol of mans other self which he forever seeks to voice, but never voices wholly. I like to climb the mountains these days. The air braces one and thing! Tell us about him, how was he so the constantly changing landscape is a delight The long vista of the val lovely? chorused two in one voice. Tbe AiQerittQ 5boe Rep&iriof Co. 758 Eist Fourth Street. We will repair your shoes as they should be repaired. This is not a cobbling shop, but an REPAIRING FACTORY. We will take your Mens and Ladies' Welt Shoes that you are about to throw away, sole and heel them (sewed) in a first class manner, treed and cleaned, ready to wear, like a new shoe, for Men's SL25, Ladies' $100. Other work in proportion A postal card or a telephone call will get us. We will collect your shoes and deliver them, C.O. D. Gives us a trial E SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. TELEPHONE Down Town Ofj ice With Robioroo Bros., 124 1128-k- i.1 Jl Jl l ; ' : t threatens us; he remembers that Horae fell from within, and his heart sickens at the possible fate of our republic. I wish more of the churchmen might be emially fearless. It will be useless to Inveleh against existing conditions after the first of November. why not sound the tocsin .now? Truly, no man can preach a people good, but many men can so arouse public sentiment that everything unworthy would go down before it Is not an intelligent discussion of the political ticket of as much importance as the communion service, the sermon and the prayer. Jt Jt Do you think I am quite daft; John, to talk politics in this way? I (declare I cannot help it. The situation, is so complex, the issue so undreamed of that I am fascinated by It. And then WL . fiiq Street you why. Ask the , geier-eagl- e at once why she stoops Into the vast and unexplored abyss, What full grown power informs her from the first, Why she not marvels, strenuously beating The silent boundless regions of the sky. There is something in the swift full flash of his eyes that recalled those lines to me the moment I saw him and I think they suit him, too, tho I heard him preach Sunday and was disappointed. His idea of the vision-hour is not mine, but perhaps mine is wrong. To me this vision-hou- r, this crisis when ones decision makes or mars his future life, never, or seldom anyway, stands out prominently. We dont make characteristic decisions in large letters. The small things are what make for character the most: the little things decided rightly render the whole, structure notable. Jl Jl Most of us have enough reserve. force to meet a great or sudden crisis even though we fall down afterward, but the petty, continuously irritating, never ending pricks that must be borne and smiled at, oh, that is another story.. But to return to Mr. Goshen. Will the women make his life a burden? My opinion is they will not if . he can prevent it. Of course I have never talked with him so cannot tell you what he is really like, but I dont enjoy his prayers and I wish he would wear a tie that would stay in its proper position so he could give his entire mind to the sermon. He is intensely dramatic and very literary, something of the unusual pervading his taste as shown by his allusions. I do not believe he is particularly docile, which is well; but he is young which is not so well. One notable thing about him is you do not comprehend him at a glance. Your impressions are expressed in question marks and exclamation points; seldom in periods or commas, though, doubtless all will find the dash effeo tive. Men like him, women adore. Poor man, there are a lot of charming women in his congregation. As for me, I never went to that church solely to hear the sermon. The organ, the beautiful window on the south and my own thoughts, these three always conduce in me a frame of mind that is never commonplace. I used to attend the vesper service there chiefly to get the varying lights on that window as the day waned. If. the sermon ever impressed me it was because It. harmonized with my thoughts, my environment Do you call that conceited? No, you kpow me well enough to understand that I speak the truth; and truth such as . burns in many hearts beside my own.., I am not . conceited, for I k6w what a miserable failure I am and O, John, . far-seefn- g. : v. n I am grateful to Dean Eddie for daring to sneak against the machine ticket. I am nulte sure the Dean is He recognizes the just and as a powerful ocmachine political topus which mut be crushed. He sees as do a few, the great danger which : I f fading into the rolling purple of 0, well, you know, laughed theI ley ;he but Oquirrhs, now clear as a diamond brune one, I cant tell exactly; in will its profile, now dimmed in the flycan tell you a story and then you understand. Do you want to hear a ing clouds of smoke, makes a picture for a Corot to dream over, and to story? flash again upon a smaller canvas fog Do we? Try us and see! Really, do you want to be shocked? smaller men to declare exaggerated. We are dying to hear the story Jl Jl shocked. be we wont and Mr. Goshen is fairly established as Thereupon the four heads bobbed pastor of the Congregational church, close together and there was much whispering and giggling and present- though he still lives in Ogden. The ly a shriek of laughter that made, ped- ladies have given him a reception and estrians gaze enquiringly. The story he bore it bravely. He stood in line must have been great fun. Id have with women and men from eight given my vote to hear it, but I didn't oclock until eleven; he laughed pleasbo was obliged to go on my way rath- antly with the facetious, parried nimer disgruntled because my ears were bly with the witty and looked earnestnot longer. You see I was not like ly into the eyes of each person he woman in this town met. He is not a handsome man, the said her ears were un- thank goodness, he has not the phyof whom tiwas usually long, but not half the distance sique, but his head is excellently of her tongue. You know who I shaped and he has wonderful eyes. mean, dont you, John? But this is They make me think of those lines in Paracelsus, and yet I cannot tell gossip. Jt Jl i; i , TRUTH. - Isnt It Pleasure To know that yon do not have to send away from town to get wines, you are not ashamed to offer to your guests? We make a specialty of the finest wines of rare vintage for use at SWELL DINNERS." FSono J6J Hiejfer , Lindley The Whiskey Merchajvts Frii DltOtry . |