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Show brickyard) counts and princes and cowboy cow-boy knights and truyk of that sort were as cheap as carrots, and the citizen who didn't wear four or rive pounds of hardware hard-ware in tho form of decoration was too cheap to kill for household purposes. Rex and Regina and an immense array of maids of honor and, gentlemen of arms and such, frittered awa the happy midsummer week and Vhere was joy in tho heart of the 0-,icn citizen, even to tho extent of thf which enfolds a boy wearing h;.d injtjai gUSpenders. , Buttias! the Ogden citizen danced licfc a grasshopper in tho sunshine and 'became a wretched and somnolent angleworm when the day of glory was gone. Today tho carnival palace which echoed the footfalls of princes is silent, aud a placard on the door tells that the company which supplied the lumber has issued an attachment. Once Rex was there; now but a single wreck remains. re-mains. The Junebug has lost his sheen and is in tho propulsion business. It is sad, very sad. A REQUIEM TO HEX, Tho prido of Ogden did not go before a fall but just ahead of a hard winter. Two months ago there was naught but jolity there, and now the low, hacking horselaugh of the stranger lurks in.her fastnesses. Ogden put on her Sunday clothes and moved out in the highways and byways in gay attire. It was carnival car-nival time and dukes were as plentiful as jimson weeds on the south side of a |