Show I AMATEURS AND CRITICS 11 1 THERE trman is in this territory a great deal of undeveloped or only partial pardal developed ly cevelo p bd talent for music and the drama the mormons cormons Mor mons are aro a boving people they also have likye considerable taste for theatrical entertainments in most of our settlements there are dramatic societies and concerts form one bf the I 1 principal irin cipal features of ot winter amusements at kt one time the everlasting dance constituted almost the sole amusement of the chilly season an occasional bong song or recitation giving a little variety to the exercises of late years lectures concerts and plays have come more into fashion increasing in interest and intellectuality with the progress of the people and the growth of the territory this is a step in the light right direction and those who aid in educating the popular mind and elevating the popular taste are deserving of great praise as well as public support this thib movement naturally brings to the front quite a number of amateurs some lull of ambition with perhaps a little egotism born of flat ery cry and nourished by the extravagant applause of friends others naturally modest and timid who only consent to come before the public from a desire to assist in any good work for fon which nature has qualified them what is the proper course to pursue in relation to these amateur artists singers reis instrumental musicians actors etc are they to be encouraged to continue the cultivation of the gifts bestowed upon them byr by providence for the benefit of their fellows or should they be discouraged and frowned back into the shade of private life to make way for professionals these questions are prompted by the severe severd criticism to which the fledglings of music and the drama are drw frequently bently subjected when the they y attempt to entertain the public some critics seem to forget entirely that these amateurs do not appear as professionals and that even when they attempt difficult performances for mances which only great artists can cau render perfectly they merely ceifie come forward to do the best they can without pretending to high excellence cel lence or assuming the role of the professional we think that judicious encouragement coura gement should be accorded to a amateurs ma tears especially when they do not give themselves alranor airs nor assume a superiority which they have not the professional is merely an in am amateur atour developed and if the crude efforts ort s of the de debutante are t to 0 be rl ridiculed dlf and criticized until the discouraged cou raged amateur is scourged urged back into obscurity how much perfection can be hoped for from our home talent when a young man or 3 young oung lady becomes stage struck and without natural ability but with i a great deal of assurance comes before the public heralded by a loud flourish of trumpets and much fuss and feathe feathers r q c criticism ir i is virtually invited and if it is severely administered the sufferer cannot consistently complain while whilo the dose may prove good medicine to the unduly ambitious youth as well as savo the public from further inflections inflictions inflict ions from the same source seo feo urco but when modest efforts are made to cultivate a talent of any kind calculated to entertain the tho public we think they should be kindly receive dand the amateur ought tobe tobo to be tenderly treated and if blemishes are referred to they sho should bild be touched lightly and in a friendly spirit with a view to th the e improvement of the amateur and not to his his bis or her discouragement it ii I 1 is very easy I 1 for a looker on to and discover defects ina lna in a musician or an actor unaccustomed to the often overpowering influence of an assembly it requires ulies ulles no grea great t talent to make objections to sneer to joke at small error errors s to utter sarcasms at unimportant blunders and give blvd pompous advice with theas the assumed air of a sage or the manner of an authority and we orten often notice thab ithac that in some press criticisms of musicians and actors that the severe pen pencil fal prodder of the amateur shows himself in his business just as much of an amateur as tile the unfortunate victim who has to grin or grieve andrear and bear his attacks it requires some knowledge of the musical or dramatic art to constitute a reasonably fair critic of either and the crude productions of or some would be thought wise or smart journalistic critics are frequently far worse elmena of common composition to say noti nothing ling of critical acumen than the condemned performances are of musical and aud dramatic power we do not think it is wise to laud extravagantly the creditable efforts of amateurs and certainly consider that it ift 13 a wrong upon the individual and the public to falsely praise and urge uig to continuance a young man or woman who can ean gan only become conspicuous as a failure it is a strange thing but notably true that more persons totally unfitted fitted for the s stage tage Ji imagine themselves designed by nature for actors than any other self felo deceived victims of a dise diseased ased imagination it 1 ia cruel to encourage them to persist in attempts which can only result in mortification and chagrin but when amateurs who are endowed with natural capabilities exhibit the shortcomings of or the undeveloped and unpracticed s ed sed qed genius of any profession fes sion their failings should be treated with forbearance and judicious praise se should be accorded to their manifest t excellencies music and the drama are potent popular refinery refiners re finers and educators they rhey should be encouraged and utilized in this community under proper regulation ula tion which excludes vulgarity and everything of an immoral tendency they can be made powerful agencies for the good of mankind of all people in the world the lat ter day aay saints should cultivate everything ery thing 0 that taht lends tends to elevate and improve the race and therefore we hope to see the mu ical leal and dramatic talent which exists to so large an extent among our people aided a and nd encouraged by all whose word or influence is valued by the THE COLORADO MORMONS A PAPER published in rico bico colorado is much exercised ov over er the colonization of conejos co county anty by IMor mormons cormons Mor mons 11 itis ibis it is their political influence that appears to be dreaded it is predicted that they will vill hold the balance of power in the politics of the county and this is referred to as its political ruin the jeisy alews wilch which assumes ti tile tilo xe role of a prophet kroph et and makes the these e and other assertions in a very reckless less lesi manner accompanied compa nied with some gome very strong ihn ibn lanual lanu ao and ana abusive epithets need no nou not t be in any concern over this matler its editor is no doubt led away by the nonsense which other writers have circulated about the emor mor imor mans and on cloer acquaintance and better inform information will tio ho doubt nind find out his error and apse a a little littly milder manner of oe speech vo do not care to soil our columns with his expletives but will just quote one paragraph in order to sho bho show whim him how much he he is mistaken on one point and t that hat may lead him to reflect and find out that he has blundered on others rhe mormons cormons do not colo coto colonize alze of their own accord they thes are ordered out of utah to such a place as the leaders of the tho church may designate d e 9 19 and they a always ways vote as a unit tha the people who are settling in in conejos county are ara not from otah utah rh rhey ey are principally pall pail v from th e south ern stat states es and the news will find on inquiry that they make excellent citizens and first class i ett ettler settler lers lerm ahat they are industrious thrifty moral mo ral rai peace a je le orderly and temp temperate erate crate As to their voting we do not know quite likely they may be ver ven very vers y much united we vc hope so but whether they tiley vote on the republican or democratic side they will exercise their own agency and acu act according to their own choice as they consider they have the right to do and we do not think the dolor dolores es news would like to say they ought to be hindered in the exercise of this privilege perhaps the editor will show how bow they can be made to colonize in any place not conot of their own accord 2 another colorado pap paper erthe the great west takes a different and as we think much more rational view and expresses in this wise lo 10 seventeen mormon eldera have heen been sent south to make convert converts 4 to bring i into colorado phe mormons cormons are as welcome in colorado a as are those who belong or who do not be long to other companies if they are good workers industrious citizens wid and given to mind their own busi buri nes one n who lives by v labor is worth more to the state than are 13 i antl anti and anil dabblers gabb lers who tire are arral arnal I 1 tw that iod lod god jod does not nos kilma kieft w the theia thela 01 kiwo K iwo 0 0 d 41 lit provoke 1 tit the aba have jur juu as mue mut toh tot asso as so many methodists dp infidels and the democrats among them have just as much right there as a those of them who are republicans neither religion nor P politics 0 ic atles has anything to do with tl tile tiie question of colonization under the laws of tile the united states stites or of th the eState state of colorado and editors will only exhibit their own folly as well as impotence in trying to deter any cc mormons cormons Mor mons from settling in conejos county pr elsewhere by an exhibition of hlo blo bigotry and intolerance tho the mormon monal settlers will prove to be weal th til and prosperity for colorado STAR ITEMS tile millennial star of october announces the release of elder jesse west from being a traveling elder in the manchester Conference to re turn to utah on account of ill lil health healt li he left with the other returning elders on the 8 S wisconsin which sailed oct 1 1 I 1 themar The TW estar oStar sar Aar has the following 0 concerning elder eider john nicholson nie Nic holton bolon on saturday last the int we bade farewell to elder john jolin nicholson who left for home in charge of a company of sain saints ti t i on board of the 8 S wisconsin eider lider nicholson arrived in lu this country on the ath of september 1878 having been appointed to labor in the edit orial department of this office he has continued in this capacity capaci tv since that date and haq has in every respect re merited the approval of the presiding authority in these lands he lia has also during his stay been very a assiduous in the authorship of camph lets leta for the spread of truth among the people and his forcible logic has found its way into many a home through comprehensive salva besides the large largo dis disa emina tion of means of Ec escape ape ani antl anil latter day prophet so well known among the saints engaged in tr acting elder nicholson lias has been a u ufus eaul missionary an able expounder of the gospel both with ins his ren and tongue and now returns to his mountain home with our hest best wish es for his future success and happiness elder C NV stayner succeeds elder r I 1 nicholson in tile the editorial de apartment part ment of the star he give gives i an interesting account of his labors in the tile mission field and relates bartic ulars alari of manifestations in the nottingham ting bingham liam llam branch ton tongue ue 8 interpretations tat ions ious prophecy ant and healings he enters upon his duties in the star office in faith and with a de feire to be guided by the spirit of truth by letter from elder van lak 3 dated zwolle oct we learn that lie had lately baptized two la a dies which with six other oilier baat baptisms Is in there recently make eight new ad ado editions to the church among thai that people who seem to be waking 0 up through his labors brother john potter of manchester writes to elder franeis francis cope par tic tie ulars of ofa a remarkable cabe ca of healing 11 11 9 A brother by the name of E eden den having 1 leen been given iven over to death by ta the ie doctors was rest restored bred to health and soundness through the laying on of the hands of the elder elders the doctors who anticipated an tiei tiel paled piled his death being astonished to find him s seated ted at the table eating his breakfast the star has the following to which we invite special attention we would in this connection R solicit our friend friends ami anti the saints in utah to subscribe for the star it is a record of missionary labors among the white races con containing ta ining as A it t does reliable correspondence correspond enee ened from the elders engaged in the finist 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copy pen feh ier ter ons need t not 1 ot put flit to the ei edne pelle pelie anil in 4 I 1 in ii of go gr ting a edo t ouke onke pr derL deru ut bend kend tiie tile the sim alm alfio I 1 for one copy or for fon three copies coples for a year abear inu in II 11 S currency to william budgy budge 41 4 1 Is lington liverpool england As apostle albert carrington has succeeded elder budge in the presidency of the european mission since the date when the above paragraph pa was published those who subscribe for the star should substitute the name of the former for the latter in their advices advises to liverpool encouraging ar our oun citizens who are sufi suffering eri I 1 from a lack of fuel or from half bui bul burnable abler rubbish u abbi h with the bogus title of coal will be pleased to learn leann that the utah eastern is moving moving ahead bishop burton who returned from the scene of action reports that the line I 1 is s completed and cars running a little litte distance this side of wanship manship Wan ship and that the folks in that region who wanted to attend the conference at coalville Co alville were conveyed there yesterday by utah eastern easte rn train the rhe work has been somewhat retarded by severe frost which concealed baled water in wanship manship iship wells and a snowstorm which covered the track to the depth of several inches inc ine ilea liea but chesnow the snow is being cleared off a as 8 lra tra track trach k laying goe goer on for the roadbed leq led I 1 is good to rimu Kimb aUp and if th the e present open weather continues the track will be completed to that point in about a week in spite of the efforts of lir mr to n nip lp the fingers and toes of the workmen and shorten horten the time in which they can labor teamsters T eam should now be fie getting ready for a rip trip to KI Kimb mb alls alPs to haul in n the black diamond and I 1 C make hay bay yv while hile the sun yun shines or rather make good wage wages while the road lingers on its hak bak way v to the city and |