OCR Text |
Show UTAH DAILY PAGE TEN. STATE JOURNAL, New York News Home Made Letter I i 4. Thanks to the: the lighting companies, there Is a growing sentiment here fori municipal ownership of public utill- ties. Leaders of both parties admit, that something should be done, but just how to go about It Is the question that Is pusxling them at pre- NEW YORK, Feb. extortions of Have your cake, muffins, and tea biscuit home-madThey will be fresher, j e. cleaner, more tasty and wholesome. Royal Baking Powder helps the house wife to produce at home, quickly and economically, fine and tasty cake, the raised puddings, the frosted layer-cak- e, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and food muffins, with which the ready-mad- e or grocery does found at the bake-sho- p hot-biscu- sent ROYAL BAKINS POWDER helps. CO., NEW YORK. Grand Opera House One Solid jz? Week Commencing Monday, February ga general, and particularly for their threat to have the legislature begin an investigation of the lighting and other questions in which Tammany dereliction Is charged, the Republicans must be given credit for courtesy; that is, they have offered to shake hands before the bout begins. It may have been done in an Ironical spirit, but the enemies of Tammany had the grace to send a letter to Mayor McClellan, asking if a legislative Inquiry would be of benefit to the city. The mayor in his reply pointed out that little good had resulted from Investigations In the past. If the legislature really wants to aid the city, he says, it can best do so by enacting the municipal lighting bill prepared by the Corporation Counsel. Such action would not pervent the legislature from passing a 7 5 -- cent gas bill for Greater New York, a proposition that has come from the Republican side. The mayor adds that the city authorities have determined to establish a municipal lighting plant, and a ii committee of scientific experts Is engaged with the physical questions of the project. If the legislature does not give its consent to the erection and operation pf a municipal lighting plant, the city will proceed without that consent, as It Is believed that It has a legal right BENNETT bonny, debonair, healthy, brainy youth who some ten years before set out to City of lead a merry life and had been denied Mexico. the mercy of having It brief. n Toying pro and con with this "I I I don't come downtown much I have come to the conclusion any more, be stuttered. The temptations are too great that the chancea are about nine out And the rush of It all tires of ten that an existence so ordered me so.besides It's strange. Isnt It? So I will be extremely short, but not Invar- keep pretty close to home not not not much to do but think about the iably merry. It la own brother to that other dan- old days and the old crowd. gerous bit of lalsses falre doctrine, He smiled weakly, a smile with a "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow pitiful hint of his bonny brawe die." vado In it, and feebly went his way. sostate of the In present complex We hear nothing of him nowadays, ciety the disconcerting fact obtrudes save once in a long while a casual reItself, that, having made food, drink mark that he still Is living that living-deatand merriment ultimate objects in life; we shall not die expeditiously. Such Is one aspect of a short life But rather linger on superfluously and a merry one right merry for a In the more or less acute stages of time, but long now, long as sorrow and locomotor ataxia. and paresis pain can make It. Every young man coming alone Into the stress of a great city to make his Once an eminently respectable man way la given the choice of leading who had been merry in the days of his was summoned into court as a a life that shall be a good deal of a youth witness in certain litigation that inbore or a bit of a scandal. There is no existence so free, from volved a great property and several restraint, none more solitary In a way reputations. The settlement of the than that led by the young bachelor case hung upon this man's testimony. A clever lawyer took hold of this who comes from the country Into one of the great metropolitan camps like eminently respectable man and, much after the manner of the traditional New York or Chicago. So long as he does not become an mouse, shook out of him many divertactive disturber of the public peace ing and spiceful facts concerning his he can do very nearly as he pleases. inorry days before he had begun to Few restraints are Imposed upon safeguard his health and money, days before he had entered upon a career him. for few care what he does. vs. of eminent respectability. The witness The choice of Is laid before him by hud all but forgotten the details of a community which, neither individual- these matters, but the lawyer. In the ly nor collectively, cures a rap what his presence of the judge, who hid his smiles behind his white judicial hand, choice shall be. The sorrow of the whole matter Is aud of the Jurors, who did not hide that the young man thus environed, their smiles at all, refreshed his memunless he mines into camp with the ory umaxlngly. The result was that the eminently groundwork of his moral nature al must respectable gentleman walked out of ready firmly laid and spend several of the most valuable court after four trying hours with the and swiftest passing years of his life echo of his merry life mocking him in gathering the information that will loudly and they are mocking him enable him to make a knowing choice. still at every turn of his long life. Few recruits do come into camp so Such, then. Is another aspect of a O'DONNELL Anglo-America- 1905. 4, In ON A SHORT LIFE BUT cA MERRY ONE. By JAMKH In The FEBRUARY However much Democratic partisans may condemn the Republican leaders it, not compare. Royal is the greatest of bake-da- y SATURDAY, to do so. n, propo-aitio- temp-temp-t- old-tlmf- he e, h. Cheaper telephones may follow the reduction in the price of lights, for which there is now such bright promise. Telephone charges in this city are higher than anywhere else In the United States, In spite of the fact that published figures show that the serat vice would ' be highly profitable much reduced rates. Orders have been sent to Albany to Assistant Corporation Counsel Charles L. Guy to earnestly support a bill for uniform telephone charges between the various boroughs of New York. At present there is a double charge from Manhattan to Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Richmond, In spite of the fact that the East River bridges are used to carry the cables over the river. . Word has been received here that an enterprising New Yorker has become the proprietor of a syndicate of saloons In Berlin which owe their prosperity to the Introduction of an Amerto drinking ican accompaniment hitherto unknown there. He Invented free lunch so far as Berlin is concerned, and his enterprise has met with great success. They don't give many things away in Berlin, least of all fond. The possibility of getting something to eat free with a glass of beer or one of the American drinks he has Introduced tickled the Berliners mightily. His success there has been so great that the satisfying habit will be Introduced in other German cities. In a Repertoire of High - Class Comedies and Dramas, With a Carload of Special Scenery. ne rock-ribbe- d, equipped. That Is what makes these open questions so hard to solve. On the surface they are easy questions, or would be If the accumulated wisdom of others could be brought to bear in working them out When a man knows he has to answer only to himself he takes his own time and the longest time In finding the answer. Then the answer is filed too late to be or any use to him, or anybody. Matters would be greatly simplified for the young man who governs his life by the policy of eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. If to die were not such a definite thing to do, and so Inevitable as to be quite commo- n-place. In the face of an alternative so final, be compensates himself by making the preliminaries as complex as possible, vainly striving to give a dash of singularity to a process so entirely universal as dying. There was a man of ablltles so extraordinary that In the course of making his life superlatively merry he accomplished much good work. Na- ture. that she might punish him the more severely for that he had abused great talents, refused to make his life short One day the earth dropped from under him. intellectually speaking, and they took him nway to the public madhouse to see what the enforcement of a discipline and care he had never bestowed upon himself would do for him. Tarrying In that place for a year he came forth much chastened in mind and body, but somewhat at sea as regards things in general. In the first place, he was no longer merry, nor could he eat and drink with The essential clause of the relish. doctrine of eat. drink and be merry for tomorrow we die had failed utterly In Its practical application, for, you see, he was not dead only much worse. When he spoke it was In a hushed half tone, as though he feared he might wake sleeping dogs. He listened to himself anxiously as he talked, like a man in constant dread lest tongue and brain should bertay him Into the wrong thing. And this wavering, quavering spectre from out of the shadows of the madhouse was all that remained of the merry life which lucked no essential save that of brevity. There are certain things In which the world, with a finely Ironical spirit, permits a man to lie a free agent. And yet. when he does those things, this world will not tolerate him or take him seriously, or believe in his slncer- lty when he eliminates those things from his life. A man whose brilliance and originality won hlin an international reputation and who had led a merry life day and night for half a doxen yean, finally decided to eliminate the merriment. he loving life with an extraordinary xest and not wishing to make the quitting of it the price of continued fun. At the end of another half doxen years he said, Not for six years have I takbn a drink or been out of bed after midnight, but If you were to get a personal expression of opinion In London or New York as to my would personal habits you probably hear that I was an abandoned person who burned the candle at both ends and drank more than was good for hlin. Such." he added grimly, is fame.' Yet if. at the outset or this man's merry career, you had told him that he would one duy yearn for so nega tlve a thing as a reputation for being merely respectable more than ever he could yearn for anything else In life, he would have laughed at you and opened another bottle in honor of a prophecy so amusing. Toll the average young man to safe guard his health and his money with an eye to the age of 50 and he nods respectfully, but thinks In his heart that you are a garrulous old bore. Add that some day he will hug to himself the consciousness that all his life If life has been a so he can mnke It as his most precious possession, and he will regard well-order- ed you as a bit fanatical. Announcement comes from the dry goods district that Valentine holsery Is now for sale, and la expected to divide favor with pocket stockings. A Fifth avenue shop, which makes a specialty of hosiery, is responsible for It. Besides the designs and open-wor- k Instep patterns there are hand embroidered effects in white on black grounds. Hearts predominate in the designs. Some of the lace lisle thread kind have a variety of embroidered treatments In gold and assorted colors. To My Own FYnd Love," and Try My Valentine, are favorite sentences In the embroidery treatments." The announcement says that silk Valentine hosiery sells over the counter at 15 a pair. all-ov- er X-r- ay Albert Salesa of the Metropolitan opera is to return to political honors In the little town of Bruges in the lower Pyrenees, where he makes his home. He has received by mall a request from the political party now out of power to stand as a candidate for mayor at the election to be held on his return. Whether the celebrated tenor will aasuma the responsibility of governing this Community In addition to acquiring a German repertoire is a question he has not yet been able to decide. From the beginning of his term Dls trlct Attorney Jerome has exhibited on various occasions his opposition to New York's antiquated coroner system. He expressed his disgust at one time in such strong language that he had a personal encounter with a coroner. One can easily realise the grim pleas ure the district attorney must take In the prosecution of Coroner Jackson, who has been indicted by the grand Jury on the charge of attempting to bribe one of the district attorney's deputies to use his influence In obtaining u favorable decision in the case of a physician urrested for H legal practice. Mr. Jerome suspected Jackson of other offenses, and reflects on the conduct of the accused coroner's colleagues. There Is progress in all things, even the firewood Industry In its humblest form. The familiar sight of an Italian woman balancing pieces of old plank on her head may not last much longer in the wholesale mercantile district of the metropolis. This wood Is chopped up and sold, one of the women wood gatherers discovered recently that by using a pushcart she could gather a great deal more wood than she could carry. She communicated the great discovery to a countrywoman, they clubbed their earnings and bought a pushcart. Now there are more wood laden pushcai than wood carriers to be seen tnovl..B toward Mulberry Bend In the evening. and another bit of local color has In Tell him that the advantages of such a life will be a full, sweet enmpensa tion for the boredom of it, nnd he may suggest that mere respectability Is the easy virtue of stupid people and that what he does won't mnke any difference n hundred years from now. Bo It won't. , now nnd a hundred But between years hence there is tomorrow and the dny after tomorrow. And It may make a great de il of difference then. gone. NO HIGHER See the List Vaudeville Different Play A Every Night The Golden West A DOLLAR ' SHOW At Popular The Little Minister A Gamblers Daughter East Lynne Prices Slaves of the Mine Camille The Lighthouse Robbery Jesse James Seat sale opens fcW for the day at 9 a. m. t MR. MACK 8WAIN. en- tire engagement Matinees Wednesday and Saturday |