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Show truth. 12 THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS. (By Ernest Crosby In the Craftsman. We have seen that ugliness may e a goad to drive us to beauty The sight of slums and scot and smoke, of blasted forest and disem be-com- boweled mountain, may at last induce us to abjure the useful, unless it come hand in hand with the comely, and to refuse once for nil to live in the midst of hideous surroundings. What other acceptable alternative can there be? We must either turn about, or go onward, for there is no standstill 'in human affairs. But what' would going onward mean? I was talking the other day with a lady at her home, about a hundred miles from New York, and speaking of the future ct the neighborhood, she said: I sup pose by the time I die, the city will be out here? Are cities then actually to grow forever, until the whole world is one single town, with here and there a park to represent the country? Must every tree fall a victim to the woodman? Shall tne whole earth be turned inside out in search of precious stones and metals? Are all our present tendencies to be carried out in their logical direction in arithmetical or geometrical progression? If we travel ten times as fast as our must our greatgrandchildren travel ten times as fast as we do? Think for a moment what the admission of such a principle, even in a modified and temperate form, would mean. This material develop ment has its seamy side; I would almost be Inclined to say that it is all seamy side. It involves the pace tha kills, and that means ever, more nervous prostration, more lunatics, more suicides. As cities grow bigger, asylums, hospitals, sanitariums, prisons, grow still more rapidly. Every acre of palace 3 entails its square miles of machine Is a slums. The laber-savin- g in beautiful thing principle, but what .is the goal expressed in its very name, toward which, though it be in the nature of tilings unattainable, we are pressing huri iedly forward, what, but and a society of their lackeys, served by innumerable slaves of wood and iren, nceling to look after them cnly an occasional foreman, whose brains are perpetually passing over into the machines, and whose numbers are forever dwindling toward the vanishing point? The working class would, in large part, gradually die off, and most of the remainder be absorbed into the ranks of flunkeys, contributing in eomo personal way to the ease, comfort and amusement of their lords. A world of belts and pulleys and wires and rails, studded with electric buttons for every conceivable purpose, and inhabs ited by two dreary races; the and the pampered. This is not a celestial picture, but it Is the only star to which cur wagon is hitched to- oi separation of the different aspects on draw Our together palaces society. Fifth Avenue, and our great corporation buildings on Broadway; while the tenement houses drift to the outskirts of the golden region and spread out into unknown quarters. Luxury ana drudgery fly apart by natural repulThe stately mansion rarely sion. sights the factory, and would not signal it if it did. Society is polarizing itself as well as It can, and so we say of the world does not that know how the other half lives. It Is well that this is so, for it would be intolerable to group riches and poverty beauty and ugliness in too close proximity. If the residence of the railway king stood In his blighted freight yards, if his mines emptied- onS, the prelude. "A girl once asked me to IV explained he ot the second Dodging the Issu:. Pretty Girl George promised to give up tobacccf in every form when we became engaged last week. Her Brother Did he say anythin about giving up cabbage? Pretty Girl No, of course not Her Brother Then he's got yon one-ha- lf their coal before his door, if his em- An Obliging Youth. How did you lose your arm man? asked the inquisitive Oh answered the the loss was due to my oMte jouth, Ing disposition. Hows that? queried the nart. 01 i faded. I saw him smoking a ployees were huddled into rookeries across the way. if the families of his men, killed by accident without insurance and discharged as superannuated at forty-fivwithout pension, gathered to beg their bread, on his door-step- s would there be in what pleasure wealth, and where would beauty and art and architecture find a foothold? So let us be thankful to nature which tends to keep the rich by themselves, and the poor by themselves, and to separate the sheep from the goats! stogie to-da- three-for-fiv- e y. Unsatisfactory. Brother Snooz-er- , how jdid you like my sermon this morning. Snoozer It was a little too long. The Parson indeed! Snoozer Yes; I slept five minutes overtime and awoke with a terrible The e Parson--We- ll, headache. Premature. 10 Cts a Copy. $1.00 a year great-grandfather- s, multi-millionair- es is the cleanest, most stimulating, meatiest general maga. zinc for the family, says one of the million who read it every month. It is without question The Best at Any Price Great features are promised for next year six or more wholesome interesting short stories in every number, continued stories, beautiful pictures in colors, and articles by such famous writers as Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Slannard Baker, John La Farge, Wm. Allen White, and Charles Wagner. 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Village Improvement Societies and Municipal Art Leagues can do little but stand aghast at the problems with which they are brought face to face. Meanwhile, the natural and unconscious attempt to Improve the looks of things shows itself in the Rocky Mountain Bell T elephone Co. ... 6513 Subscribers in Salt Lake November 1st 287 New Orders to. .November 1st PLUS - Wilson Hotel, a phone to be put in every room Cullen Hotel, a phone to be put in every room Connected with the Comppnys System Little Willie (to schoolmaster, who has been complaining for a week or two of feeling very ill) Please, sir. of this ere little I wreath wot made all meself to lay will you haccept upon your grave, please, when peg out? Jester. you .What Could Have Displeased Her?. It was at the close of the wedding breakfast. One of the guests arose, and, glass in hand, said: I drink to the health of the bridegroom. May he see many days like this. The intention was good, but the bride looked up as if something had displeased her. London Tit-Bit- s. Quite a Different Thing. Towne Whats young Kadley worth? Browne About 30 cents. Towne Nonsense! hes got lots of money. Browne Oh, yes; $3,000,000 at least Why dont you say what you mean? Caustic Comment. What do you think of her vocal the aoility? asked the manager of had show after the prima donna ceased to warble. had Well, replied the man who adcome in on a pass, she has an mirable voice for destroying silence. Children and Books. Children should be taught to handle books with reverence. Let each child have a shelf in the library for his own particular books, making him a part owner in the home library which wiK have its sure effect in teaching hlir. t? value books and to look upon the Whethbrary as a family institution. er the books be school books, library Inbooks or home books, old or new, sist in a tactful way upon their receiving the best of care. |