Show ° The LightThai Failed Whose been and took that T street electric light I was there the other night now it is gone I was the advanced ad-vanced courier of a procession of similar simi-lar lights which for several months has been moving along little by little towards popperton We shall miss it every night it used to send a little splinter of light througn a rift in our curtain and halo the head of the author au-thor of these remarks As a halo ar tist it has retired from business now it is dark oh so dark dn popperton but then it is dark everywhere else and so nobody has very much the best of us What grieves us most is that the cold chilly wave of economy has swept its companions in lighting away and we can no longer look don from the commodious balconies of popperton place upon the bespangled city as TVB have been wont to do in the great here tofore These are hard times for the common people The trouble is that they are governed too much The public I pub-lic business apparently seems to be conducted the i on theory that if you black the toes of your boots you can let the heels go Now there is our stately county building for instance it is embellished in onyx and decorated I with carving the pampered favorites of politics within i rest their richly comparisoned persons upon furniture fine enough to bedeck the ihome of aj I queen while we poor unfortunates go without lights and have to pay more for water by a hundred per cent than i we ever did before More than we I would have to pay if one of the soulless soul-less corporations that are supposed to be lurking around to pounce upon the water system were to get hold of i I After a while if this business keeps on water will be one of the things that none but the wealthy can enjoy Still we are not wholly without hope pop perton with all its alluring features of view and topography still beckons the home longing soul to its embrace There is just as much light up th re as I anywhere else and the lots are cheap awful cheap We shall greet the spring with seven fine modern homes and there are many more as fine and mod in contemplation ern contemplaton |