Show THE degradation OF POLITICS As long as the lion theodore contented himself with the pleasures of coci etythe w ild of cow alie more uncertain authorship his rising eua 0 popularity knew no appreciable eclipse lie possessed in an the qualities of baeb and impetuosity which ae always enchanting leaving people in a sate ct delicious anxiety as to B hat feature his originality might next assume ills fancy was as untrammeled as that of one of his own steers and hi evolutions nere almost as varied whether at the spring roundup round up or leading the german at newport or writing and the incidents inc identa of a cavalry march with arizona troopers the well meaning young man was nae in making unto frends and tame to both of which bis wealth intelligence courage and affability materially assisted him but politics at once the ambition and the bane of his absorbing genius has cast all too soon its withering blight upon him such unfortunate politic too had his desires led him into congress or a governorship or even a candidacy for either of such honors the consequences had probably been lees fatal lie would undoubtedly bare had sagacious friends to choso whoso wisdom he could appeal in the hour of his need or a plain line of action from which only so tar as human weakness permitted lie would not have had to deviate at least lie would not have been in ignorance as to w hat was wanted of him and whatever bis mistakes ha would haie biad eose kind of a following but the questionable friendship which suggested his selection as civil commissioner has led him into no end of troubles behold him associated with practiced politicians who nealise realise belter alian any one else how cheap talk is and who under stand perfectly the convenient distinction between promie and fulfill abeene the abandon with which he so to throws himself into the caddie and seizes his lance for the extirpation of the evil of spoils which he fancies is menacing his beloved country coo imagine his distress on finding that the windmills wind mills which he assails not only unhorse him with a single whirl but conceal a mob of supposed friends to rush out laughing at his downfall smile if you can at bis innocence in regarding his mission instead of as a eliam as his ills friends and his party to him and while you gaze and ponder and pity and eizile recall the high estate from which his vaulting ambition ns thus hurled him of a truth he is more entitled to than scorn lie is like a lamb among bolies a prattling babe in a nest of ravenous hyenas lie is too pleasant a gentleman to go to martyrdom as a reformer too interesting to become a crank the sincere wish of all liis friends tl spoils men of his own party included is that he may greedily abandon the still hunt for civil service violators and be once more as free and unpolluted aa when of yore he rode the mustang and trailed the grizzly bear THE population of switzerland is increasing at the expense of the german and the german at the expense of the italian exactly luw the swiss paulit on ia affected by all theno changes doea not appear SOUR IF the bickers bilkers of salt lake real estate who think they are getting in on alie ground floor may find before they get through with it that there is euch a thing aa a bailment bai ement story |