Show ED editorials ITO R I 1 A LS A SPIRITED REPLY SOME lettera letters having appeared in the washington star signed miss brown reflecting on mormonism and the gc mormon ladies at washington a brief but pointed note appears in reply in a recent number of the tho star siar miss brown mad made some esome remarks about having known shown dr burn Durn burnhisel hisel and havin having 9 read the book of mormon which ohe nhe represents aa as a sickly burlesque she did not want to alt ait in judgment upon any ones faith but claimed the right to do so upon their actions gave men and women who want to live in polygamy the privilege of going to A abla asia bins alas leaving washington to manage mannge its own bim sin bin 11 and tried to td be funny f undy over the idea of adams having several ribs riba taken from his hia body boily to make flike wives of at his marriage marr matr lage lago when the morning stars hang aang together here ia is sister slater zinab answer r which speaks for itself editor star sian aa As tho the public have had the benedit benent of miss Brown browna fis lis op opinions opio inious fous ious concerning us and aud ourn ours I 1 hope the shock orsome of some wholesome some iome advice and a few facts will nut not be amiss unloaded pistols are your safest weapons dr JM J M bernhisel ex member of congress ia Is living still i and will bear the same testimony today he did yearb yeara ago the book of mormon ia Is still in existence and is read by thousands of people who possess intelligence and sense all the ancient relics found on this continent go to prove its truth as rn an historical record of the old inhabitants inhabit bit bi tants ints which men of science are telling us once dwelt on american boll no doubt if it search were made a few broken hearts and blasted lives ilves liv es could be found outside of utah dont bib bil sit in judgment on peoples faith it a safe place tobit to bit sit men and a nd women of utah have so sought bought 1 aught found and made a mecca of the wilderness and aa as our forefathers fore foie athera fought gor foe our country and helped to gain her freedom therefore we are the best beat judges of when we shall again emigrate we ask for utah the same freedom miss B demands for washington and we are willing to take the consequences I 1 think the 19 morning stars had a perfect right to sing on the occasion referred to but the song would die dle on their lips could they see eee how some eves go round picking out ribs promiscuously nowadays As I 1 am on the defensive in this controversy I 1 will close by thanking tiie THE STAR for space given me my motto is do unto others othera as you would they should do unto you and on the common platform of humanity I 1 claim all good men and women as brothers and sisters slaters zink ZINA YOUNG WILLIAMS wllliam 9 COST OF MODERN WARS WA WAB R has cost coat the tho nations immense sums of money besides mii mil inions of human lives the ollow follow summary of the expenditure of blood and treasure in senseless strife during thelast the last years is taken from the gazette de st the orl mean war the italian war of 1859 the schleswig hoi hol stein war warier lun iff 1864 I 1 the war between austris austria a and id prussia with italy in 1836 1838 the mexican expedition the franco prussian war 1870 1879 71 garmany france the turco servian war the russo basso turkish war and the war of secession salon in the united states this gives a grand total of lives sacrificed the estimated expenditure on these wars was as blown folio we the crimean war cost francs or the italian 1859 1 francs or the schleswig holstein war hines or the austro prussian pruss lan lau italian war francs or the mexican expedition francs franca or the franco prussian ODO francs or the brusso turkish war wan franos franca or and civil war franes francs or ster thus the total cost of t these wars wala was upwards of franes francs or that isa is without taking any account of the little wars which are to be numbered by tho score or wars of the uncivilized nations of the world gr of those of the south routh american states and this in the second half of the nineteenth century improvement IN MAKING TUE THE cultivation of sorghum recently revived to some extent ip in utah is attracting great attention in the east and a convention of sorghum growers is to being held today in st louis louls probably as good syrup hyrup has been beed made in utah as in any part of the union and the crop la Is generally profitable considering tho the extensive adulteration practiced practised in the states and the facilities cili clil ties for the manufacture and sale of genuine syrup in this territory we ought not to import a single gallon but our farmers must not fotima ima lma gino that they will find a market for a poor sour thin dirty or iu in anyway inferior article in these times excellence must be preferred to quantity yet any process by which the largest returns ein cm cin be secured to the producer and manufacture is worthy of careful consideration we ve therefore direct the attention of our agriculturists to the fact that machinery is now used b by y sugar makers in the south and in central conral america by which a great saving is effected the stalks are soaked in hot water after they have been through the mills mill and then passed through another mill with three cylinders A saving of about 15 per cent of j juice ulce is thus accomplished this process is used in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum but could no doubt be adopted with similar benefits in the making of syrup from the same kind of cane A great deal of waste must naturally ensue from discarding the stalks atalka after the first no matter how powerful the machinery mehin ery some juice will be lost loht nut but this method seems to be effectual in saving much that would otherwise be thrown should be tested by molasses makers here CHEESE A GREAT deal of most moat excellent cheese is manufactured in utah yet mush of it ia Is spoiled to the cultivated taste by coloring matter and the use of concentrated lye some borne of it ia Is placed on the market too soon and other kinds contain too little cream a certain q quantity ua nalty of which experts say ia Is necessary necessary to its digestion at a meeting of the Dairy mens association at utica NY a paper on cheese and cheese making 21 was read by prof arnold in which it was stated that in company with prof englehardt Engi engl ehardt a celebrated german chemist he made about fifty experiments with cheese for the purpose of testing the digestibility of various samples the following are aie the results thereof 1 that the most thoroughly cured cheeses digest the soonest and moat most perfectly that cheese from 30 to 60 days old not only digests more slowly than older cheese but so much more imperfectly as to occasions a serious loss of food in their use me besides as we know they affect health unfavorably 2 that where other conditions are equal the rapidity and completeness piet eness ot of cheese digestion is in proportion to the amont of fat the cheese contains this fact has haa appeared so invariably that skimming shimming is always betrayed in the digestion and enables the experimenter to make a closer prediction of the per cent of fat the analysis of the cheese will show 8 3 that the less the natural action of rennet in ripening curd and converting it into cheese cheeses is allowed to tobe tobo be impeded by the presence of acid the easier will the cheese digest and the more nutriment ment will it yield this has appeared as a striking fact running through all our observations and it has seem ed to matter little whether the interfering ter fering acid was w aa developed in the whey in which the curd was kept lying or whether it was derived from an excess of whey remaining im extracted in the pressed curd 21 this is an important subject for thu tho health of the people depends to a ca great extent upon wholesome and easily digestible diet deleterious substances ought not to be introduced into any articles of food even to satisfy foolish popular notions in regard to cheese the public ought to be educated out of the idea that a rich cheese must be yellow and that hat a matured cheese must have a pungent flavon flavor cheese Js Is very nutritious and would be much more extensively patronized if it was manufactured in such a wholesome wanner manner manner that it could be used by persons with delicate digestive organs dairymen will find it more profitable in the long run to pay greater regard to purit yand and quality than to mere appearance 77 A fashionable dissipation grant white while has an article in the north american reflecting ting on the tho great dissipation of 0 the times the devouring of novels end and other frivolous literature itis it is one of the evils of the ago age and tends as much as any one thing to create a distaste for the acquisition of useful knowledge and the study of that which will elevate the mind and cultivate the spiritual aid aad moral faculties we clip the following frem from mr whites wise remarks there are millions of people in england and millions in america and almost millions in australia to whose enjoyment of life novels are almost as necessary as food is to their life itself every oneat oneff whom take some credit to themselves for the that time lyne they pass in reading complacently contrasting themselves with idlers and those who are given up to the frivolities of life A vain and foolish notion for there is probably no more insidious form of laziness no method of passing time more absal absolutely void of exertion of any kind than novel Te leading SAIU aa novels noveis are read lead ib y most of th whom they ar are Vr written Itten As a child opens IN ils its mouth and has sugar plums put into it so the ordinary novel reader bits sits quietly and thoughtlessly and has ha s a story poured through his bis eyes into his mind or into what serves him in that capacity itis it is in quite spirit and with another purpose that great wo works of imagination are approached by those who can appreciate them suppressing MENDI ANOY CANOY A SENSIBLE society has been organized in buffalo N Y for the relief of the V worthy poor it la Is founded on the true principle of benevolence that ia Is to help the needy to help themselves mendicancy should be discouraged and in a properly organized zed social system would be rendered unnecessary begging in the large cities of the world is a profession and many of those who adopt it are impostors true there are others who are driven by unrelieved want to beg from door to door doo r and id it is for such that help should ho uld aib arb be provided aa as well as for other indigent persona too sensitive to expose their destitution the buffalo ato alo society ia Is composed 0 of citizens who pay 5 each per sn num for a relief fund and who pledge themselves not to give alms alma to be gears when anyone any onu ono applies for relief the name and residence are ar e obtained obtain eds placed on a card and sent with the members signature to one of the offices of the society of which there are several beveral ee veral vernl inquiries are in the aid of the police being invoked and if the applicant be found worthy rel rei relief lef ia Is afforded in a way likely to give the needy person a start towards self help employment ia Is found if possible and a number of wood yards are operated in which those who are able may earn enough to keep the wolf from their doors by this means mendicancy has been almost abolished in buffalo and the mayor of the city states that the decrease of the municipal expenditure for the tho poor during the past year in consequence has his been no less than the society keeps i a strict account of its tiu flu finances ances and a record of its transactions actions sand aud and it appears from these that thirty per cent of the aepli cants canto are brov proved ed to be professional beggars some being in receipt ot of good in income conie conle three brothers in the business aggregating a year much of which they were banking the expenses of the society forlasto for last year were about this thia is an institution worthy of being imitated all over the union there is a vast amount of destitution which might be rell reil relieved eved j judiciously cious clou sly siy ly and without degrading the recipient of favors or I 1 impoverishing tho the benevolent and it t would he be vastly for the benefit of society if it the practice of begging could be suppressed Bup pressed and the worthy poor be placed in a position to help themselves begging could then be consistently classed in the list of crimes and vagrancy be punished without appearance of cruelty rhe THE CAPITAL ON THE ia Is from the washington capital of january 26 we do not always endorse what the capital says bays but its editor has a way of bf striking at humbug and hypocrisy yand and exposing the pretended morality of who legislate against a social custom while they dabble in a sin bin which by their own showing is far worse than what they wish to p punish unish ish that makes its paragraphs always attractive and interesting senator christiancy Christ iancy lancy ia Is a good man he is a chaste sober old party much respected in his immediate neighborhood but when this good man introduces a bill for the further suppression et of polygamy but giving the president ani amnesty nesty hesty power powers sallow allow ing till november next for the birth of polygamous out prejudice to their legitimacy he plays the old scratch with the moral aspect of the matter we use the mildest and most refined language here for we would not shock or offend out ch r iancy lancy for the world ibm ulm fc J loy lor gress greas enact that all children born of wicked polygamous unions before a certain period in the future are to be considered cherubs while all born after that time bre are to be considered little devils and branded for life as such fills the mind of the pensive public with solemn abaz amazement ement ament this thia la is what comes of an attempt to legislate tor for or the morais morals of a country under the law of god as developed in humanity laws follow the morals the effort to get the morals in advance of the legislation ia Is very like putting the cart eart before the horse there are certain crimes against the state recognized by all nations atall at all ali times under 11 circumstances cuni cum stances these call for legislation under which we have prosecutions and punishments buethe but the moral conduct of a people cannot be legislated for without creating a despotism that outweighs the little good such effort strives to accomplish this is what our ou r savior meant when he said render unto caiar the things that are crefars Cre sars and unto god the lle things that are gods when a man deceives a woman into accepting him as a husband he is punished not for cohabiting with two women by deceiving one or both the law intervenes for the protection of the weak against the wicked but when both women consent to the cohabitation which lappens happens at rare intervals among members of congress the law is powerless to make this thia clear to the youthful student in moral philosophy and municipal ua us suppose a man is prosecuted for stealing a horse and it is proven by the defense that the horse is not the property of the prosecuting witness and the defendant goes acquit or to make the case clearer let it be proven that the owner wio who who now complains did really consent to the taking no conviction can be obtained later advance in the philosophy of morals and the legitimate object of municipal law narrows every day the limit of the last named it is found that when legislation gets beyond the criminal code recognized by all ali humanity into morals it only mangles and obscures in ita its coarse treatment all that it handles to the school the church |