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JL'O THE ©’ D0HG3 ” OE SALT JAKE CITY A TALE OF TIIE LOWER WARDS' ' MTe believe given to said: at was “turn-dow- n Byron — anyway it was somebody collars” who-oncpathetically a “Tiii sweet to hear the watchdogs honest bark' Ihy deepunouthed welcome as yon draw neu home’' Now this is a lovdy sentiment— in fact a’ most bewitching sentiment but we think ‘there is one provision that ought to be made ami that is that the dog be your own and that lie don’t bite his name iii the calf of your lea before lie finds out who it is that is ' - V t coming home We wish to narrate our experience 'to a sympatlii-zin- g It is perhaps ’not ’generally known’ that public we have courted "“some ” in our time on which occasion— a tiling quite nusual with writers wc believe— wc have gallantly volunteered to acconipaiiy Mary Jane or Betsy Clara to her paternal abodc Having done this without tumbling1 into more than ten of our city ditches and getting to paternal abode with those articles of dress— which we1 would rather die than name —perfectly dry that is above the knees wre have allowed ourselves to be- bcguilcd'bv Mary Jane— quite against pur will of course — into stopping in her bewitching society till the belt of Orion and a have appeared above few other starry combinations pur eastern range In tbe rapture of our parting with our Mary wc have entirely forgotten that we have to by fifty lots each guarded by as many vigilant mastiffs — of a heart rendingly faithful breed — before ' we can reach that lot on which our lot is cast' the closed tlic" form beauteous on door Hardly has of Mary Jane' of Betsy Clara (we used to' visit them alternately not being quite sure which we would have) and Vc turned to retrace pur steps to our solitary abode there to dream of her— either one— so angelic that there was music in the very way slie used to shut the door on us — before some unhappy cur disturbed ip bis first’ nap growled liis anguish of soul within twenty feet of our exhilarated heels Breathing low and softly tripping to the other ‘side with one eye glaringly fixed on the locality of the growl and the other boring through the obscurity vainly endeavoring to discern our road imagining all the time that vcfcel the ’whiskers of cur No 1 rubbing against our :legs o precipitate is our flight that one ‘moment finds pis d tripping up over the roots of a dissipated ’old cot tree and the next floundering amidst the peaceful How of a main water sect Hardly havYwe- time to bless our stars before 'cur number Two who lives opposite to number one and is onTHetplly terms yyith him hearing our movements veiits his dislike in a dreadful lower (B This further annoyance to the reliim that he flies to his pose of number one so' enrages gate and appears to be tearing it all to "pieces pn ’vain endeavors to get at us Wild with excitement we scramble to bur feet' and rush to the middle of the rouh To our horror wc find that number One and Two have awakened up all the rest of the dogs on the block' wlio are' all melifluously howling in concert Inwardly swearing we will buy — swearing that never never' will a revolver we come that darned road 'again we cry iii the ana!ie what are’ wc sufguish (of our souls “ Oh Mary J ” and fleetly like an overrun fering on your account pickpocket arrive at the end of the block' But oh All- the dogs on tbe next block merciful providence are just stirring i Dogs in the day time fooling themselves safe behind their respective fenerp are usually ‘ rc-pa- t i i ton-woo- '! ’I ft ! ! 1 DAT— A LITERARY AIAGAZIHH remarkably amiable to passers-b- y — everybody knows that 'But fourteen dogs unduly aroused in the night as these were aud without the least idea what in the world they were aroused for and hearing fourteen other dogs swearing at them and each other could only take it up as the most' natural of ideas that the world was coming to an' cud and yelp accordingly tick-wi- shing we had 'Wishing it was light-wis- hing we had eyes in the back of our head ay well as some in the sides we clutch a rock ami steal along Yelps all around yelps now at the gates— now under the fence — now in the middle cf the: road behind—t now we can swear coming to war as us in front Qur heart beating and our eyes glaring wc pass from block to block awaking all these useful and orna- Vc arrive within four blocks mental beasts as we go of 'Main street vliere four loose dogs mistaking us for stray cattle' and thinking it a line chance for a spree? and furtliermore encouraged by: the liowling1 of the rest of their tribe rush at us from behind and we perform the rest or our journey walking backwards fiercely pitching stray rocks and shaking our clenched fists at our opponents ’whom we alternately- address and “ cussed devils” “ get' put as “ poor fellows faint echoes of oni united progress awaking ih parts of “the city as we go We are uneaten by this time alone because the rest of the wretches have made so much noise that none can tell veryt dearly v r where on earth to conic to And thus wc escape for Mary Jane rnd Betsy Clara v p Y Wc arrive at home at last' and deam all night of Dogs under our bed dogs 'Dogs under our pillows — logs everywhere We awake and clutch our pen AY e will write to the City Council — they put down every nuisance Stop the Beep O’ Day is coining out and wc will publish our'1 griefs in the first number And here weafe and now unless-- this dog nuisance we soleimily warii thc City Council there is stopped will be ohe marriage lefes5 in: Salt Lake City for as — we’ll never go home that road with that girl again t 2 ary J aue atid wc will never come to terms Quiz a-- - ' M - f dis-tan- ts jnar-tyrde- C s ' r r THEATRICAL REVIEW 'r the (lramatib art in our midst form5 a It could be prbdicfcd popular' progress a priori that by its side would spring up cubical and literary movements and in their wake popular movementsof every ' kind’ would follow 'Wh(n"tluti1itlofial theatre of the ‘Mormons first lifted its stately form rs a fa’cfc'in the social unfolding of this people eve said There is a gigantic prophecy materialized to the s(‘nses:? The house was large in its external 'ahd murniticerit in its interna!1 So much the best tbrippro-phesie- d the louder and the people understood its vernacular tongue better 'than they could its metaphy s eal !speech' It prophesied of popular progress dhe birth of the arts ami tho establishment of the professions Figuratively speaking that magnificent the itre ot ours was an organ of' tne’ peo’ple for them by president Young There they sylect their there they express ibeir own taste there thev own favorites applaud that which1 they think deserving' The theatre! was not a religions house but a secular public institntionl—aitem-pl- e of art and ait is universalian ie an audience as varied in their religions and politics as Joseph’s coat of many colors n and it they p’ossesya cultivated tast they will’ express a ’admiration and pleasure’ You shall see a Gentile ‘hoiise make a Mormoiv artiste' the faVorite and a 'Mormon 'public Hock' to witness good professional performances 'The meaning of appearing before tho publican the arena ot art tho Much attention and cost' were 'mungement'soon appreciated lavished in putting the playa upon' the stage graivdSvith'exqui-site")ict-orial illustrations and scenic splendor for this with an immense command of means apd facilities was much’ cosier do the management than to fiil the parts with Jlrst class oriiilfs Indeed theatricals! even in our professional-lookinghouse started’ with a ‘purely amateur carp? with Mr John' T Caino as Us leading 'member This gentleman has sinc(vlvcn up The’development page ot of social-an- ' ' ' : pub-lisli- coiri-‘mo- ' i ' |