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Show I Rev. Frank S. Spaulding of Erie, Pa., was selected by the Episcopalian conclave at Boston the i other day to succeed the late Bishop Leonard in the church at Salt Lake. We extend hearty and Christian Chris-tian welcome to the clergyman endowed with the 1 dignity, trusting that he will fill the measure of I broad thought and action which so well became his j predecessor. I ' f- ' The effects of the long dry season in Montana are bring felt more and more, and the railroads are making preparations to ship a large amount of the products of other states into the state. One of these is potatoes, of which in the past the state has raised more than enough to supply the local demands, de-mands, and has shipped hundreds of carloads to other parts of the country. What will our friends on 'the hill" at Butte do if potatoes are worth more than the liquid which helps to cut the sulphur out of a man's throat, bad cess to it! 1 Almost a riot followed the fatalities due to drinking whiskey sold in one of the "barrel houses" in the poorer district of Xcw York last week. The whiskey, sold for 10 cents a pint, turned out to be a dilution of wood alcohol, a deadly poison. How much of this stuff is retailed throughout the coun-I coun-I try and goes by the name of whiskey nothing but the closest investigation can reveal. Here in Salt Lake a grade of whiskey is sold for 25 cents a pint, but so far from the steady consumers of it falling dead in iheir tracks, they appear to fatten o'n it and Jive longer than the aristocratic drinkerwho alls for a "two-bit" toddy over a fashionable bar. Dr. C. W. Wiley, chief of the government bureau of chemistry, has sounded a note of warning. In an interview he expressed the opinion that fully S5 per cent of all the whiskey sold in this country in hotels, restaurants, clubs and bars was nothing less than cheap imitation. While this may not be fatally poisonous, very much of it is dangerous to the human system, even when taken moderately, and it is all a fraud on the public. : . ! While we find much in political literature now- I adays in support of or against Carroll D. Wright's i presentation of figures regarding wages and the ' cost of living, we miss mention of the strike at Fall River which began three months ago and is not ended up to last advices. Our contemporary at Providence, It. I., the Visitor, two weeks ago said the condition of affairs in Fall Paver is deplorable. Business men for whom the passing days ought to bring a rush of trade are at their wits' ends to make up their running expenses. The mill workers f earccly have money enough for the necessaries of f life; and many of them are suffering from hunger. The population of Fall River has fallen off by 10.-000 10.-000 since the strike began, hundreds of families having emigrated to Canada and to other places where employment is held out to them. It is esti-( esti-( mated that since the strike began the operators ""Jiave lost $1,500,000 in wages; the loss to manufacturers manu-facturers cannot be estimated with any degree of j Accuracy, but it is certain that many large contracts I had to be refused last month because the agents I could not guarantee to fill them. The only source 1 of revenue is the assistance received from the I unions. Whether or not the non-unionists receive I any money from the unions is not clearly known, I but it is sure that most of them arc obliged to ac- I crpt the public charities. How long the strike is I going to last is a matter of mere conjecture: If j strikes arc a good thing for Democrats, it would j seem expedient for their opponents to set somc- I thing going that should settle the affair at Fall River. ! . . Occasionally we hear of Dr. Felix Adlcr, the j eminent ethical reformer. In some things we do j .not agree with Professor Adler, while admitting that in most things he displays a keen knowledge I : of what is inside man beside bone and muscle and i . -' '' ' ' those other compounds which could make good soap grease if properly melted. Last Sunday he addressed ad-dressed a meeting of the Society of Ethical Culture at Philadelphia on the "Peal Obstacles to International Interna-tional Peace." Many members of the International peace congress were in the audience. The chief obstacles in the way of universal peace for the world, he said, was the lack of moral thinking and judgment. The present peace tribunal was not properly constituted, because it was not composed of disinterested juries.. We wonder how he could tay that the success of the international congress is gratifying and in the next breath say that if in a twelvemonth a war should loom up over our horizon the American people would be just as enthusiastic en-thusiastic over it as they now are for peace. And he is more than half right in that, prediction, the more so when he mentions the president (who. sent a telegram of congratulation to the international congress) as saying in a recent book of his that "no triumph of peace is quite as great as that of war. Roosevelt is neither remarkable nor singular for that declaration. There are many, too many, just like him. He is a product, as his admirers are a product, of the military spirit gone acrazed since the war of conquest with Spain. The spirit of militarism has poisoned the very air we breathe. It infects even the babes of this generation Give one his choice of toys, and he will play on the I floor with tin soldiers rather than with the toys that teach him the A B C's, even though A be an apple pie. Xext S the Gregorian chants in the Mass at St. Patrick's cathedral, New York, will be installed in thcorgan loft, and the congregation for the first time will hear a Mass without women singers. A correspondent correspon-dent says: "Considerable regret was expressed at tho final parting with the women of the choir, which is famed for its music. Some of the woini had been singers in the choir for fifteen years, and it had become a habit with them to ascend the winding stairs to the choir loft. 'I feel,' said one of the choristers, 'that next Sunday I will find myself my-self unconsciously ascending those stairs."" All this regret will disappear, however, so soon as the deeper if not more cultivated voice of the male gives character to church music. Critics who attend at-tend concerts display preference for the selections rendered by masculine soloists. The success of minstrel performances is due entirely to the sympathy sym-pathy of the audience for the male voice. It may be questioned if inspiration could aid in the composition com-position of our old negro melodies were it unsupported unsup-ported by the thought of male voices knocking at the hearts of the listeners. Cultured women of musical taste, those not carried away entirely by the club woman s idea of feminine superiority in most things, readily admit the advantage of the male in music. Our own "Aunt Busy,''" herself an accomplished musician, is pronounced in acknowledging acknowl-edging the superiority in effect along with the easier training of the masculine voice., |