Show I THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE TALK i OF T THINGS GS GRA GRAVE AND GAY GAYA w A NIGHT j I The The Goodwin Elliott engagement at atthe atthe atthe the Salt Lake Theatre closed In a a. blaze of glory on Saturday night The Thelast Thelast Thelast last production of When We Were On venty On was given to to toa a house crowded from floor to roof root with enthusiastic en en- auditors and the ithe curtain fell tell fell upon a city full of pe people who re regretted regretted regretted re- re that the run had been en so short Tonight an equally delightful amusement amuse- amuse ment event will viii draw s society to the Salt Lake Theatre to see t Mr I Hanford and the beautiful Miss Helen Grantly lin in Taming of the Shrew with the theOld Old Guard added as a a chrt curtain ln r raiser This attraction Is to last lat but two nights and it Is highly probably that people who do not get Immediately busy about securing their seats will vill fare rather badly it Is pleasant pleasa t to think that the theatrical and musical season season Is drawing to Its close attended by so many delightful events and with iso so much popular appreciation pf the efforts of our out local managers to please This promises well for the pleasure and success of the next season and is well merited encouragement to Py- Py per per Hammer and Held to prepare liberally liberally liberally lib lib- lib lib- and elaborately for their autumn and winter work No town of its size tin in America can boast better theatres ls attractions or managers than Salt Lake City i OLD FRIENDS DEPARTING Th The publication of army o orders dc s transferring transferring trans trans- trans trans- ferring Major Young and the Infantry officers now stationed at Fort Douglas I to other points Js is the occasion of sincere sincere sin sin- cere r regret gret to Salt Lake society which has come to know and nd greatly like the ladies and gentlemen of the Eighteenth who hc h have been with us Just long enough to make their thell departure felt Army people as a rule Iule are are charming socially and it Is a pity that that also also as asa asa asa a rule te I ve we no sooner sooner iet get to know them well and appreciate their and frankly hospitable ways than we have to lose them But that Is the luck of th the service and cannot be helped The young army matron can never put baby to bed at night with any certainty that both will not not- be given their route before breakfast next morning and I that we sh should uld fancy must must be a serious d drawback wb ck to the pleasures of a military life What cant can't be cured must be endured Our departing friends will carry with them the best wishes and godspeed of our home people wherever fate and ard the theA A Adjutant General may may send them r TH THE BELGIAN M MENACE NACE While it seems to be the fact that uie the tl-ie Be Belgian glan Government has obtained d the upper hand in connection with the recent disturbances In the kingdom m there is no apparent assurance that they may not break out again at any anytIme anytime time During the riots of a week or orten orten orten ten das dayts ago uncomfortable indications indications indica indica- were not lacking that the rank and file me of the army were in sympathy with the Socialist agitation and it is perhaps S a question whether they could be depended depend upon In the event of a possible revolutionary movement or not The supposition Is that King iCing Leopold Leopold Leo Leo- has a convention with the Germ Ger Ger- man iman m n Emperor under the terms of which the latter Is Ia authorized to Intervene litter Inter vene in case the Belgian throne and present dynasty should be seriously mena menaced d. d The strong chances are that such Intervention if attempted would would bring on a war between France and Germany as the French Government and people hardly would tolerate the active application of German influence ence to the affairs or destinies of their small neighbor wh whose se inhabitants are Intimately related to them by ties of race laCe language religion and sentiment In view of these considerations the theS S chancelleries of Europe are unable to contemplate anything threatening revolution revolution rev rev- In Belgium without uneasiness which easily might become alarm GOD SAVE THE KING We hear from the East that a com committee committee r of gentlemen Inspired thereto by the Rhode Island Chapter of the Order of the Cincinnati are endeavoring endeavoring endeavor endeavor- ing to find music for the song My l Country of Thee other than that now now flow In use which h as as' as we all know Is the music of God Save the King Whether they sh shall ll succeed in their quest and then get get the country to adopt the reform on or otherwise we do donot donot donot not know but It seems unlikely My Country is not the worst case case of national national na- na song plagiarism of which we have been guilty A ridiculous in instance instance instance in- in stance of American shortcoming in inthis inthis inthis this line Is furnished in the alleged patriotic patriotic patriotic pa pa- ballad The Red White and Blue The music musi and In part the words are borrowed bodily odily from the English song of the same nam name In Inthe Inthe Inthe the original we re read d that the gem of the ocean a good enough simile when applied applied to an island Our adapter whoever he may have been has changed Britannia to Columbia Colum bia and made the latter look foolish in so doing We Ve wish the America committee well but suspect that they are seeking I g a patriotic hot air by means of the liberal use of the same article The country is n not t rich in national na na- na- na tl nal songs and anthems but it has the inspiring and hea warming heart t Star Spangled Banner and with that probably can get along along- pretty well and not mind about the music set to other fwd and secondary affairs |