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Show HLj WHAT OGDEN CAN DO. ; A Calif omian called on the mayor of Ogden, after receiving n real inspiration from the wonderland of valley and mountain, and H he asked this big question: H "Why do you Ogdenites fail to capitalize your scenery? In H California, if we had the rare attractions of your canyon and the cli- H mate Which id so stimulating, no one would escape out telling tho H story to them. During the time when the thousands of eastern peo- Hj pie will be on their way to the Democratic convention in San Fran- H oisc, we would empty the Union Depot by conveying the Btrangers H: free of cost to The Hermitage or some other" spot in Ogden danyon. Hi What you people need as much as anything id the gift of self-praise Hi which we Native Sons possess to a profitable degree. We think Cali- H fornia, talk California and, after a time, W6 are obsessed with the H idea that the outside merits our sympathy because all the world is H not as delightful as California, But when I hoc the riches in scen- H ery" which you have, I feel that we Californians are too prone to run H away with a rich conceit." H A woman traveler from San Francisco told the park keeper at the City Hall : H "Your park is beautiful. I am from the coast, but I have seen H nothing more charming in city park than this block. The back- H; ground is good, the trees arc rich in foliage, the lilacs in bloom are H most fragrant and your tulip beds are a tcmptatibn. Tho whole is a Hi j fascinating picture.7' H This is a reminder that Ogden does not do any considerable ad- H vertising, although it has much to sell in scenory, climato and op- H portunities. H Fer a long timo Opportunity has been knocking Wo have been H either Bleeping and have failed to wake or we have been feasting and i lave refusod to rise. H, John j, Ingalls has given us a warning in this personification of H Opportunity: "Cities and fioldfl I walk! I penetrate H Deserts and soaa rcmoto, and passing, by ;-- H Hovel and mart and palace soon or late J I knock unbidden once at every cate," . . lr L |