Show E 1 ITO az I 1 A L S TOO diany M uly oly TINDER tinderboxes BOXES I 1 kiil titu serious senious firo fire last night should mould tea teach chono chone one ono ies ILs luason and that thai is that the indiscriminate erect iou lou of tinderbox buildings 0 should be stopped the tinderbox style of architecture should not be encouraged it A should be strongly 0 discouraged J forbidden prohibited in many cases lumber and lath and plaster buildings are mere food for fumes flames when tile tiie latter get anything P i ng like a chance it seems to us that the ere erection etton of either elther of these glasses classes of buildings where oie ole tile houses are massed together or are likely to be should be strenuously absolutely prohibited by city ordinance as a prudent mattor matter of precaution and prevention if lath and plaster walls were permitted it should be stipulated that the ithe space between the stud studding dirig be failed filled a course of nr tor bricks or some home other suitable ilon uon conducting material the best matel matet materials lais for walls and the safest 1 is 15 pro probably babij babli brick ado add bles bies concrete orrock arp very veny good also good well burned bricks make excellent walla wails and are as near fireproof fire proof as any mint munt material erial that can be conveniently procured ed bricks have already passed through the fire and are used to it they tiley are not so likely to be damagingly affected by it as other materials are when a building takes fire iron is very good and will endure well till the heat ilent becomes Int intense eLse when it will twist and bend and sometimes melt still iron asvery is very far superior to wood except in the case 0 of large la timbers beams and pillars R boek bock 0 go ck or earthen material should be required to be used in walls walla outer avalis avails especially and then the the probability baui babi ity lity of ex extensive tens ve conf conflagrations lagna lagra eions be v ery very greatly lessened elre fire purela Is ss a us useful eaul servant but is such a terribly bad master that all reasonable indans means should be taken to keep it always under control WHAT A PITY tins THIS is how bow the newyork New York herald looch V atan at an awkward situation 0 u I 1 sixty three tho thousand fiand eighty four more women than thau men in ill massachusetts and polygamy a erime crime so certain christians try to make it bul out the bible in the beginning sald said be fruitful and multiply arid and replenish lih ith the earth aj til the P pagan dh christianity of the present day says some bome isome of you may increase and und multiply P ly to a certain vik VIt extent tent lut but if you pass those limite limited a boundaries daries fine and imprisonment await you jou to a large number of the feminine gender this bastard Christl christi christianity anity says you shall not increase and multiply in the least society condemns you to perpetual sterility because you happen to exceed tiie tile num number berof of men providence has made a mistake in send ing lag so many women into the world we have plenty of dishonorable use for them but all the avenues of honorable maternity are irrecoverably closed to them J T r unis this is the doctrine of the judi ci aland other persecutors odthe orthe af the U mormons cormons Mor mons i A MORE DETERMINED POLICY HERE HEBE is another squib from yash eash ing tho the san francisco chrin ise ide new york october 26 A A 4 f cial cm from washington says bays fas aa a result of the presidential visit to utah during the early part of af tills this month a more determined policy in it regard edgard to the treatment of the mormon question will shortly he be begun the president is reported an as being very decided in the ion lon douthat thal that the mormons cormons should be treated as persons who intentional ly y disregard the laws of the country and who should bo be made to obey them the same as others these squibs squibb are of the character charach er of sensational reports and should ha be received with due allowance unless corroborated by less doubt doubt ful evidence GRANT AND THE MORMONS THE decrement da Sacre crement cLent 11 umon union under the tiie above caption bays mys it ia is again again agala I 1 reported apat that the president contemplates aggressions upon the mornion mormon stronghold hild bild nd that in his forthcoming message he will make some very vely strong arong recommendations concerning them we are quite prepare prepared doo afo to that this step has hns been taken taked but we are adelso iso pie pip prepared pared to discover that eliat it has had bad na no effect whatever upon the mormons cormons Mor mons dus bus the triumphant impunity with w baeli BrIg hain bain young and his hid have bave during an all entire generation trampled the constitution alq and tho the jaws laws of the united st states ates under foot has been so steadily maintained that we are almost inclined to bus bub suspect act congress of or having be been subsidized by the prophet C certainly e history furnishes no lio parallel to the caise case and unless public opinion undergoes a vely veny very marked and decisive change the probability seems beems that we shall continue to let the he mor mons severely alone in the future as we have in hi the past lloy however ever we may amuse ourselves by periodical ical fulminations against them dra drs frabor bo tiva tive and such as those in connection with the mountain Alea meadows dows massacre 1 the newspapers naturally enough have something to ta say upon the supposed results of the late visit of president gnant grant to this I 1 city buchow far t the he reports as to I 1 Tres president ident grants intentions are re correct does not yet appear As he Is proverbially reticent retice nt it I 1 is 9 just as likely that biebas kept bl thoughts upon utah whatever they maybe may be to him as a thit that he has communicated them to others 2 the mormons cormons Mor mons da ilot not trample under foot the constitution and laws daws nor arn are they 1 in n the habit of so st doing on the con coa arary they sustain the constitution and arld ati all si constitutional tut ional bawa jaws more sincerely sim aurely an and more diore firmly than any 0 other tiler gom com community in uhe the union I 1 3 tile tue mormons cormons Mor mons caine came to these mountains a poor people with little property and few ft friends lends to suggest tha that sueh such a poor peo people le in in a desert coti coli country have au subsidized the Cong congress ress Eess of a nation of large i population and bound digss resources like the united 13 states tates ia Is highly complimentary tary to tha the industry and thrift of the mormons cormons Mor mons Z 1 but is payin paying gavery a very poor compliment antto to congress 4 the mormons cormons Mor mons ISO have not been let severely deverel v alone in the past they have been somewhat se severely verely and unconstitutionally interfere d with although the interference interferences s have been overruled by div divine ine providence for good if rf the cruor mor mons are let sev severely epply alone arine for the future it will beail beall be all ail right and will bo be doin doln doing as much as people generally ar are 0 constitutionally authorized zed to do thero there is noi nol lson aton con law requiring anybody to be continually in interfering erf erveing eIng with the mormons cormons Mor mons 5 if the judicial proceedings mentioned mention dd have heen been abortive or farcical whose fault isit is it we are satisfied that the mormons cormons Mor mons wish justi justice justlee coto to be done why has it not been dene done in this case if it hadnot if there are others who wish in jn ap justie justic edone bao it ik fat better letter wat that their proceedings prove abortive and farcical REV NEWMAN THANKS IOD GOD lob FOB THE OHIO VICTORY tim THE washington sla sta star of oct 18 says rev bev bev rev dr newman nowman yesterday at service in the metropolitan tro politan M E church A thus thiis nl al eluded in ohe one one of his prayers to the recent election in ohio we thank theeo the recent evidences exhibited by the people of their purpose to remain true fo those principles by which a people will continue fb be freland freo free and that by these those signs they showed showed a desire to per perl 1 the principles inculcated by our forefathers and to preserve them them for future generations 1 I 11 I 1 upon which the capital indulges in the following among other remarks i the rev nev dr nowman newman x thanked godlash god last sunda sunday for tor the tiro republican victory in ohio five thousand was a very small majority for omnipotence to give it would be a sad hight sight to witness such a church the deprived of its usefulness I 1 degraded i in a influence and diminished I 1 in n numbers by the acts of a man who reduces the ged god of nations to the god ofa political party uio ulo the god of war to the god of bf an ohio election ohp god of jobs tribulation to the gad of governor allens allena A liens ilens defeat and yet such is the evil tendency of the llev dr newmans prayer of thanksgiving for the aho late republican victory an expresion expression of gratitude which suggests the following inquiries sif s alf if a divine eau cau can thank god from the tile pulpit for a party success why can he not pray pram for a party success cess covas govas was dr newman ordained as a high priest of republicanism or a lowly preacher of bie ble methodism thodis m when lle ile lie he prays in public does he not pray for his whole congregation 6 and are they all of the same political complexion so as to say amen to his expressions of political gratitude had he before his eyes godsho god who dwell eth in the heavens or general grant who sat in the presidential pew let the reader picture two angry abusive and aud most unchristian political parties struggling forsum for supremacy romac y on oil the inflation issue then let him oak ogk at omnipotence as isaiah regarded it behold the nations are aa as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance all nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him les leas than no thing thins thine then let him if he can imagine this gad god sp specially ecial h bl blessing essing L ssang the ed editorials corials of the cincinnati commercial and the speeches 7 of carl schurz and accepting a as an agreeable offering to his shrine the rhetorician rheto rican flowers of dr newmans thanksgiving the metropolitan church Is as it were the cathedral of methodism od and the rey bey dr newmans sermons reach a constituency greater than the large eod COD congregation greg grek atlon that attends the services itis IV is because he is regarded by the many as the typical methodist that it behoves behaves his church to put him i through the discipline aud and land teach him to render rendel unto cassar the things that are ire and unto god pod the things that are gods THE RETORT COURTEOUS THE trin louisville courier nour journal Tour nao naZ prides itself upon the smart things that it is inthe in the habit of s saying among recent specimens of which is the following an exchange says the he sandwich sandwith islanders Islander 4 believe belleve that beelzebub walks the earth in the form of a woman and now and then jou you will nind find a man in n this country who believes so too and that he has married the tha woman the domars journal gives its pirl pill I 1 I 1 lonin ionin 0 uan this way the women who constitute nearly three fourths of all the church members in america usually ully think of beelzebub as of the masculine gender and have scripture warrant for so doing now it does appear that the women have the best of the argument so far but wont bonit some witty disputant arise and show that there are satanic beings of both sexes 1 just to ease upon up on the men and divide the honors between the hes hea and the ashes DRAGGED DOWN BY DRINK tire THE pastor pasto of a church in the village of maroa III ill having become the slave of intoxicating drink and a xe reproach to the society lie he resigned his position at the same time making the following affecting amm aff act in address and confession after the close clow of a sermon by another ano ther preacher As a noan roan I 1 haye the highest conception as to what the life and character of a minister of the gospel should be I 1 know that he sh should ouid lead a consistent and an upright life that can be looked to by tho the community as an example of purity arity and righteousness knowing ng that my life has not been such in all respects I 1 desire to tender to this church for which I 1 have labored so long my resignation you are aware that I 1 refer to my bin sin of intemperance this thia may be my last opportunity of addressing you and I 1 want to ask you that you will not c charge barge this great shame to the religion of christ it teaches better things charge it all ali to my own depravity and sinful nature to you who have not this habit it is strange that I 1 should thus yield to temptation I 1 well remember the time when I 1 thought it strange that others drank and andouin ruin ed themselves with alcohol I 1 am glad that there are so many young men here this morning that I 1 may lift my voice in warning and beg them to profit by my example you think now that you are strong and in no danger I 1 well remember the time when I 1 believed the same iiii twelve elve eive years ago when I 1 reached forth my inexperienced hand and look took the intoxicating cupl cupi cupi thought F r was waa strong aut b ut I 1 developed a habit that now holds me in chal chai chains na and in the most awful I 1 slavery that thit humanity was ever subjected to td it holds me in its embrace when I 1 seek my bed for reposed repose it disturbs my dreams during the wea weary ay iy hours of n night ag ht and seizes me as its prey when I 1 rise up in the morning to enter upon the duties of or the day profit oh ohl profit by my example see what it has done for me there was a time when I 1 stood as fair as any minister of the church in illinois illnois there was a time when I 1 had as bright prospects and as ch cheering ering hopes for the future as any of my classmates but now they are all gone because of intemperance oh that I 1 could bring the whole world to hear my warning voice young balles you can do much to remove this curse from the world by not countenancing its use among your youn companions brethren I 1 seve sever r my connection with you as your past pastor r witha sad heart it would be bid bad sad ead under the most favorable circumstances but much more so as it is but nut I 1 shall remain with you in a the church and labor in the community 1 ty for a livelihood I 1 will come to your social meetings and work with you in the sunday school aul auf and aud I 1 will do what I 1 call can to atone for the tile great sin bin sin bin I 1 havo have committed 11 god god goa knows 1 do not wish to I 1 injure ure his cause pray for me that J X may yet overcome this besetting sin I 1 trust I 1 shall bhail bo be able to conquer but should shoula I 1 go down under the wither ing influence I 1 ask that you ie remember me kindly whenever vb beneve r you meet me and under what circumstances cum curn stances remember there wasa was a time when you were prou brou proud d of me but trust me as you may act towards me roe ahyou choose I 1 beg that you will remember my wife wire kindly do not give her pain pail and sorrow because of my wrongdoing wrong wong doing poor woman she has already sulp sulT suffered ered enough I 1 married her a sweet and innocent girl abe has been a patient tand and faith falth faithful fil wife wire again I 1 1 ask risk that you will kindly remember my wife and children I 1 A MONSTER AT large laege laege 71 vt N forta aeye R was sentence ed to ten years |