Show r ima duy D uy cf augait 1 ilia gods wish to daroy ahry first male mad mayor keibel hd a copy of recent communication in THE STANDARD entitled spare alio spring read amid much morn mint in the council it created lots of tun anil no one seemed to enjoy it more than the worthy mayor tin lc count iny what a picture for the tax ridden voter to look at think of the time and place and of that H inch is of more consequence than cither the occasion here were assembled the law inakura of a city considering hour beat its enterprises terp rises and prosperity caa be fostered and protected and looming up in alna august Couii ul behold the fat mayor as presiding consider the hour locution after petition ia bolog received one anta for water to keep hia lawn from burning up an oiher recites haw the dut is smother inn the traveling public another ia for the faiia to be driven in the Bido beyond the reach of sole leather aad yet another asks tor a wholesome sa ciary lm and sj on all at once in aliu of these foler nn deliberations delibera tiona the myor his clown with cap aej bella to gho spice to alie dry proceeding and abat ii thid cifre eliat these wire men with merriment it is nothing more cor less than the communication of a fellow citizen asking that a certain spring of nater that tor eare alio people la e looked upon with a roal audition lio not died up aily tha opinion of an earnest roan get forth in llo and nothing mure wai with nold with beera according their official organ and tho belter a than the as thoughtful men aid BJ the circuit vent on to tho neglect of other and more important business li was not mr john T gentlemen bat you cendej but him and those ajr whom ha spoke as you all find to conr sorrow whoa tomor to mor row the votes are counted you apat upon a whole city full of respectable spec table people gentlemen the power that ninilo can unmake you look to the ballot box on the alth of february two years hence the arrogant the heartless and the dude cannot ridicule v propositions out of eight when tho hot ashes from poured ajun upon the doomed city of pompeii it found the emperor in the midst of drunken servitors and surrounded by debased wealth and beauty looking down upon the arena oat he bloody bands before him were men some innocent of crime except at konio they biad been declared christians contends conten g with the inott hardened criminals in the ampire lm pire and there vere young and t dutiful athenian girls captured in war being fed to will beasts because they tao were called christians and so the patri ciani of pompeii applan led while blood la veil from the aladia tors and BO too they applauded the crimson of the ba ests while the innocent maidens v in agony on the bloody s anda and vainly tried with and hands to compose about them disheveled robes never for etting for a moment even in this dire extremity that the eyes of brutal ni tHans from the seats cf the pavilion wera gazing upon them and still the emperor laughed and his patrician applauded while manly groans and timins wails came up fainter and fainter from the arena bat the pent up thunders in the great mountain twisting its granite ribs apart and like a nemesis of fate the hot wave of melted rock wera pouring down upon the amphitheater in a moment the scene of bachan song mas turned to deatle and silence gentlemen you cannot affard to despise the signs that portend the storm that you leave invited your conduct last friday night ought and will cott your party its victory at the polls this is the prophecy of THE band FLOWER GIRL OF NAPLES |