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Show t, ".34 l 1 THE CITIZEN ' F30M CASH- - TO BATON ers wishes. Then, after a few months RILEY POPULAR AT YALE the father discovered that the son had devoted all his personal liberty to the In talking of American poets recentstudy of music and had practiced all ly, Dr. William Lyon Phelps said that manner of subterfuges by which he he had never had any difficulty in inmight gain admission to all available teresting his classes in James Whitconcerts. Inquiry disclosed that the comb Riley, and that his courses had son became so bailed up at the store included the work of the Hoosier poet that he hid to conceal his embarrass- since 1897. ment, and that only fear of his faIt was Dr. Phelps who first suggestcontinuthers wrath had compelled ed to the Yale corporation that Riley ance of his distasteful task. receive a degree, and after the cereThe father was Henry Morin, then a noted saxaphonist and bandmaster. It mony Dr. Phelps was gratified to hear cost him a wrench to give up his Dean Henry P. Wright declare that in dream, but he became convinced that his judgment Riley was the greatest happiness for the youth lay in a musifigure at the commencement. Certaincal career, and not in business. Where- ly he was the most popular, Dr. Phelps fore, young Henri (retaining this spell added, for he received more applause ing because of his French nativity) was permitted to separate himself from the students than all the other from the Atlaman payroll and to begin candidates for honorary degrees put . Xpund twenty years ago, a shy, ner-vociilitt- le chip of 16 gave the floor-- 1 and sales force of Altmans at Sixth Avenue and Eigh-stree- t, more trouble than all wirs llflore. . ffither le messengers put together. fcltf4hat he was fractious, or even cter disobedient. The chief trou-liits basis in the fact that he f when neflfitay was not to be found hide-out in found himself a closets of the fur and showed himself only at intervals throughout the day, Just lining' cnopgh to maintain diplomatic rela- p3y Me-jja- d . d want-fedSjH- e de-psr&e- nt, f th$-othproo- & ce tion with the cashier. There was a reason for this last pre- itep,: f ution in the person of his father, a iron i mi an, who had dreamed of a great Lny 1 mercantile career for his young son. It rent wai absolutely necessary, therefore, 2s u that.the son keep working hours and Staur-willfda- y ;he bring home a stated wage each night as evidence at least of the. I to obey his fath- urn, appwrance of effort fr1 nd r null J i . iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimii mu I Now Playing at rplm d'.i e ess Sr ! n. I i will i hlh; OCld-C- N th onlr of minf of a tent- - spa i ;ter- - ary to on 6 rl ti bad' aril ire ( be' rs the" guk A young lady dismissed ardj the1 gay; of . W! S get( i uch go1 i ueef? hqu1. indf ofi iim. j. 1 L h PEGGY BREMEN A PRO. GORDONS CIRCUS FRANCES PRITCHARD In the DANCE DUEL liliiliiiiiliiiiiiiil NEXT WEEK DE WOLF GIRLS In LOVE TOUR MURRAY KISSEN A In A HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY with Harry Weston, Ben IteubenM and Frank Corbett FOLEY A I.ETURE BELLE MONTROSE la HER ONLY CHANCE VALENTINE A BELL HERBERT BROOKS STEP LIVELY with Mllilred lloirera, a modern cycle SfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiMiiiiiiiimHiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiHiHHinnanie I jjj I cla; (Etoton Cafeteria I I to IHafce JLikt iHot&er Quality Cleanliness Lunch the young man to whom she was engaged because he smoked. A few days after she had told him she would never him again, a little boy speak to brought a note from the wretched man which read thus: Heartless, yet still beloved Fanny, my sufferings are more than I can bear; I cannot live without your love. I have, therefore, just taken poison, the effect of which I am already beginning to feel. When you read these lines I shall have joined the great, silent majority. Shed a silent tear over my tomb In remembrance of the days gone by. Your dead George. When the young lady had finished reading the note, she asked the little boy who brought it what he was waiting for. The gem-metole me ter wait for an answer, was the reply. m a. I QRHinntf Home Cooked Foods SPOILING THE PLOT. dr is i r CONROY A HOWARD to me every day I live. wif it En-tert- aln his remarkable personality the popularity of his poetry would pass also. But this has not been the case; on the contrary, it has been stated recently, and on excellent authority, that the demand for his books has increased each year since his death. It is apparently with the public as it is with Dr. Phelps, who said with much feeling, Jim Riley seems more alive it jr The Popular Phonograph Artist aWill Bit together. Yale has always had a warm place in its scholastic heart for Riley. Indeed, as Dr. Phelps recalled, it was Prof. Henry A. Beers who, among those recognized as speaking with authority, first gave Riley a position as a national figure. In Beers volume on American literature he stated that Roley had become a national poet and indicated that he had taken the place left vacant by Longfellow. This was a good many years ago, long before Dr. Phelps in an article in the Independent suggested to the American Academy that Riley should be elected to membership. And he was elected and not long after the Institute gave him the gold medal for having done the best contemporary work in original poetry. When Riley died in 1916 there were many who said that with the passing Bit nOIWY RANDALL FRIBCOE SIGNOR I ' Music Dinner I 327 So. Main St., Salt Lake tiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitf I |