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Show T f i THE ARGUS. 2 sive head and classic face, educated, earnest, eloquent and full of magnetism, it is no wonder that his fame as an advocate became world-wid- e and his triumphs, in Congress and in court, a part of our national history. He was a Democrat of Zbc Erous. iMued Weekly by THE ARdUS PUBLISHING COHPANY. second-clas- s Entered at the Salt Lake City Postoffice u matter. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 17, 1897 TERTIS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Any part of the United States, Canada or Mexico, one . $150 , year, postage paid . England, France, Germany, and all countries embraced 2.00 in Uniyersal Postal Union, one year, postage paid 2.00 . . Other Countries, one year, postage added . 2.00 By Carrier, or when not paid for In advance Postmasters sending subscriptions to The Asaus may retain 25 per cent, of subscription price as commission. 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But that is the fault of the epoch more than of the man. He had his faults, but they were not his alone. They belong to Washington society. He shared them with many Poverty was his constant companion. Although he received enormous fees for legal work, fortunes, it may be said, from celebrated criminal cases, and the regulation salary and perquisites of office, yet his generous and improvident disposition kept him constantly in debt and embarassed. In this he statesmen of resembled the days rather than the gilded bosses of the modem senate. He was a great hearted man and made friends on every walk of life. But his success did not depend upon social qualities ; it was not founded upon friendship or a personal following. He fought his way into the citadel of popularity of his genius. When he spoke with the battle-axhis audience was thrilled by his presence, his expression, his voice, his gesture, his choice of words, his flashing eye, his tawny, bushy hair shaking like a lions mane, and men were carried with him, even against their better judgment and avowed determination. When he had lived almost three score years and ten he died, with The little warning, in the midst of his family. tall sycamore of the Wabash has fallen. of his fellow Senators. old-tim- ante-bellu- m e e will be Easter Sun-dathe day on which Christian Reflections. sects and societies commemorate the resurrection of the Savior. It is not a fixed anniversary as Christmas is, but depends upon the moon and certain rules laid down by the Council of Nice. In order to perpetuate it as a Sunday festival it was decreed that it should follow the fourteenth day of the paschal moon, which is not a real but an ecclesiastical moon regulated by the tables of an ancient church authority and not by the God of the universe. This complication was perfected at the time of the reformation of the calendar in order to follow the rules for To-morro- w y, Easter set by the Council ; to disturb as little as possible the dates then in use for the church festivals ; and to avoid any possible coincidence of Easter with the Jewish Passover, this being considered an ecclesiastical disaster to be avoided at any cost. But its beautiful tradition, its historic and legendary memories, its customs, emblems and associations endear the day to all mankind. The story of the risen Christ, the rejoicing of his followers through all the ages, the religious rites of a superstitious people, handed down from generation to generation, the ancient customs of lighting bonfires, egg dancing, street singing, playing trombones in burial places, and the modern emblems of colored eggs, growing plants and new bonnets, the songs of children, the sermons, the chimes and bells, make it a day of rejoicing, reflection, melody and praise. Easter Sunday is one of the rivets which has fastened Cnristianity upon the world. The holidays of a nation, with attendant ceremonies, prevent patriotism from dying out and the holidays of churches, with their rites and pagan forms, appeal to the superstitious in our natures and keep the dogmas, prayers and sermons from getting stale and tiresome. The necrology of the past week contains the name of Daniel W. Fallen Sycamore. Voorhees, whose public life began in and closed in the Indiana a national capital on the fourth of March, but little more than a month before his death. And so the tall sycamore of the Wabash, for thirty-siyears one of the most picturesque and prominent figures in the Congressional forest, has fallen. He was a remarkable man, splendidly endowed by nature, physically and mentally a giant. Standing over six feet in height, weighing two hundred and twenty pounds, with mas half-century'a- x American Another woman has been made the victim of Bogus Baron. an international joke. Mrs. Jeannine Shurtliff Young, an ambitious widow of San Francisco, had a bogus baron passed on her the other day. It is presumed that she is a woman of great determination and that she had decided upon a wedding trip before the fraud was discovered, as she drew a traveling gown over her disappointment and set out to enjoy the honeymoon in a palace car, title or no title. At all events she had a man and several new dresses and she purposed to make the most of them whether she was a baroness or not. The baron couple passed through Ogden one day this week en route for an Atlantic seaport. Somewhere along the road this California widow will read that she is still a widow, for electricity steam. Her state-roocompanion had no more right to marry her than he had to make her a baroness. He is a bigamist, a thief and also a private detective. In Chicago, six months ago, he left a wife who is still awaiting his return. It is believed that he has another yet in San Francisco. These matters are very apt to shake the firm widows determination and cause her to keep one hand on her pocketbook and the other on her return ticket during the rest of the journey. She is not entitled to any sympathy, but a little good advice will not impoverish the giver and may help to make the widow7 furious. title-huntin- g out-trave- ls m Municipal reformers are still con- sidering the advisability of attempt- Moral Agitation. impossible, of doing what jng ages of experience and pages of history prove impracticable. If members of the league will pause to consider they must acknowledge that every step they are now taking is in the opposite direction from real reform. Sporadic raids are ineffectual; invective and lamentations are in vain. Nothing is to be gained by closing the doors of gambling-house- s ; this will only keep out officers of the law ; the game will be conducted behind closed doors and the gambling public admitted as of yore. The Abgus still contends for every reasonable reform, but protests against a crusade which will disseminate vice promiscuously and perpetuate it in secret haunts. Every evil which exists because of the nature, disposition, education and moral status of man, should not be driven beyond the restrictive influence of the city authorities. As well try to cure small-poby closing the pest houses and turning the patients loose upon the community. It is far better to confine immoral women to one street or district upon which is placed a moral quarantine than to scatter them throughout the city. Reforming such characters would be a hopeless task. When men are good, women will cease to be bad not before. The younger generation should be looked after. Scores of young girls, mere children, are said to be on the down grade to ruin in Salt Lake City. An effort should be made to discover and save them, and moral lessons might be impressed upon the boys and young men with good results. x Gambling is an instinct of human nature. It asserts itself in the small 11 boy who plays knucks for keeps in the young man who enjoys a good horse-rac- e or bicycle tournament and has the courage of in the girl who counts her apple his convictions seeds or pulls apart the petals of a flower ; in older men and women who attend progressive card parties ; in pious people who invest in church fairs and bid for cakes or or take at so much a their chances in the corner. It is a passion as hard to account for as it is to control, except that it is one outlet of superstition. It is a perverted form of faith an unholy expression of hope. Upon the altar of the goddess of Chance, the world has ever laid its richest offerings the speculator, the tradesman, the farmer, the miner, the parent, the preacher, the lender, the borrower, the gambler, each in his own peculiar wav. It will never be entirely relinquished, but the world would be better off without this disposition. The love of money and of mystery, the passion for excitement, the tireless quest for the unknown and the uncertain is confined to no walk of life. It is the heritage, the fate of old and young, male and female, good and bad, wise and foolish, the rich and poor, the high and lowly in every land. An appeal to luck is heard in every department of human activity. This is wrong; but, until moralists are ready to condemn it on principle in whatever guise it may be found, their work will be in vain. They cannot consistently punish one person for doing that which is permitted in another. Better examples, clearer teaching, more persuasive and attractive arguments are required with the tainted; while closer companionship, stricter attention to the young and less hypocrisy among the old are needed in the home and church. ' J i; Too Much Hypocrisy prize-packag- fish-pon- es d V f Professional gambling is an evil but one remove from social or amateur !; Peril 01 Gambling', There is no one so gambling. helpless, no object so pitiable as the confirmed of hope gambler. His breast is a and despair. He is lured along by visions of wealth and by the demon of misfortune. He is nervous, excited and remorseful at times, then reckless, desperate and criminal. It is a vice that disgusts while it fascinates, encourages while it ruins. It leads to intemperance, dishonesty and fraud. It injures a mans business habits, wrecks his prospects, blackens his name, grieves his wife, disgraces his children and destroys his home. It undermines a mans character, gradually saps away his honor, his battle-groun- d sand-bagge- d n; |