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Show IT DID 'EilALL GOOD. Effect of the Becent Blizzard Upon the Till and Trade of the Average Merchant. TAXING THE BELLE AND BEAU. Some Municipal Embellishments that may Be Disoarded Pertinent Observations. Ob-servations. After all the weather clerk exerts about as much influence on the commercial com-mercial barometer as upon the tempera- ment of the perpetually growling mortal. mor-tal. The sudden change in the weather, the snow and its slushy offspring have, according to the testimony of business circles produced wholesome and lucrative lucra-tive results. No one can reproach the liveryman with his heartless, mercenary smile for his idolatry of the tickle snowtlake and its high-priced froliques, with any more consistency than he can call the dealer in "arctics" to a halt for exulting as he sees the microscopic foot of the household angel plunged in a gulf of mud. The profits of one are derived from the snow, the other from plain black mud. Sullen chagrin in the one is the signal for hysterical exultation in the other. The public pays for the process of equalization. And while these desciples of avarice are reaping their margins and Siberian harvests from the follies and necessity of belles and beaux the world of com- nierce genorally is getting its share whether it be represented in the seal sacque, the beaver muff or the serpentine serpen-tine boa in variety that is almost infinite. infi-nite. Indeed it would be folly to undertake un-dertake to recite or enumerate the resources that business generally derives de-rives from a violent change iu the weather clerk's ever ehaugiug tempera-muut. tempera-muut. Referring to. changes, there are a great many that suggest themselves diurnally and duodeeimally to the man that is, the economical man, up a tree. For example, what's the need of a coroner cor-oner so long as the sheriff, city marshal, a justice of the peaco or any other competent com-petent oflicial can conduct an inquiry under the direction of the attorney within whose jurisdiction it lands, without with-out the expense and hollow sepulchral ceremony of this sable-socked super-fluitv. super-fluitv. Cltv nor eolintv hnvft vet reached an altitude of financial prosperity pros-perity where they can nfford to pay for idle embellishineut. The average undertaker might be deputized to do the work. Speaking of embellishments, how would a refuge for the impoverished wayfarer, whether impoverished by his own improvidence or by the decrees of merciless do for an example of anti-embellishments? There is scarcely a midnight mid-night and business has been stimulated by these frosty, nipping nights that at least half a dozen outcasts do not seek protection at the iron ribbed threshold of Jailer George Ralleigh, down at police station. He has never been known to refuse the shivering guests, but there is a limit to even the capacity ca-pacity of a city locker. The bunk house is of very limited lim-ited accommodation, and the pride and independence of the American laborer cannot fail to recognize itself even in tho luckless wretch who seeks the alms of the city only when cold, hunger and consuming fever have driven him to it. Within the past week no less than a dozen of these homeless nondescripts have been sent to the hospital by the humane turnkey. Three have gone there as total wrecks. Wrecks, no matter whether wrecked by the tempests tem-pests of folly or the cataracts of their own God-given frailties. Had there been an ark whose warm fires extended themselves to the storm-beaten soul it might have been saved from the grinding grind-ing horrors of a ghastly dug-out in the confines of the pauper-dead, A skilled carpenter, a few feet of lumber, a corps of city prisoners and a few kegs of nails would save the philanthropist, philan-thropist, aye, humauily, from the bitter reflection that "one outstretched out-stretched hand might have rescued a -( . ....;....,. tk erew Ul bum iii-iub.-.u iimiiiicio nuui mu dark recesses of pitiful oblivion. The milleniuin may bring forth a condition con-dition of financial plentitudo and municipal mu-nicipal affluence that will enablo Zion to pay a scavenger sufficient to devote his attention entirely and exclusively to ihe hygienic welfare of the city and not torce him to resort to a half dozen side fssues siich as tho operation of a train of carts and a fertilizer to secure an independent in-dependent fortune off a single administration. adminis-tration. It is unfortunate that so purple pur-ple and dignified a robe should not have better financial protection. The Franklin Avenue theater with its multi-colored rtage toilettes, its wilderness wilder-ness of hand-painted physiognomies, its gags fresh from the think tank and rare music from an expensive orchestra, orches-tra, is a reminiscence. The proprietors have ordered its doors closed for an indefinite in-definite period, its company has divided divid-ed into fragments and sought more profitable fields for the marketing of their talents, and playhouse presents all the desolation of a banquet hall deserted. de-serted. Manager Perry takes his departure de-parture for Denver tomorrow, and it is doubtful if its doors will open again this season. , |