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Show If nothing else will serve to stir up a sensation in the Salt Lake daily papers, we can fall back on the walk-. walk-. Ing delegate. i " o- i f Next to the vaudeville attractions ! at the Salt Palace this summer, the : , other and only place of indoor amuse-! amuse-! ment is the city council chamber. I o 1 ' Rather should our prayers be now more fervent for the successor of Pope Leo in the chair of Peter, for we dare not hope that another like him will f : ' give glory to the twentieth century. I "I Nature cast but one such man, and ' then the mold was broken. i i i O The grand jury has made its report. j No polygamous indictments, and a j :' ?' gentle rebuke from that august body f will cause discomfiture to malcontents .1 and scandal niongers who have been ( airing themselves before the public as I Simeon-pure members of society. They . should learn a salutary lesson from their sad experience and follow the ad- ' vice of the poet: "Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the faults I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me." o ' That suggestion made by our Ambas- sador Choate at thp Tory banquet in i London on the Fourth of July to erect I a statue of Washington in London and ; another of Queen Victoria in Wash- ington. reminds us of Abe Lincoln's i': joke about swapping horses while crossing a stream. What did Queen " ; Victoria ever do for America, what did she ever do for humanity to war-ji war-ji rant our veneration in bronze or f r marble? The fittest place for such a . i statue, in this land would be in some I park owned by our snobbish Four Je3 Hundred: What respect would be paid to the statue of Washington in London the silent figure of a revolutionary revolu-tionary hero who drove the British over the sea and wrested this country coun-try from their tyrannical grasp? The average Briton, if told that the statue represented the likeness of some favorite fa-vorite laquey of the lord mayor, would believe it as readily as would another if told that it was a statue of Dick Turpin, at the time highwaymen wore knee breeches and buckle shoes, especially if the statue were mounted on an 'orse. o Fires, floods and tempests, explosions explo-sions attended by fearful loss of life, lynchings and burning at the stake of negro rapists, race wars and labor strikes all these wUhin the last fortnight fort-night have held the bitter cup to the people of this country. How much better off we were fifty years ago, with our hand to the plow, working for our board and clothes and telling the time of day with the aid of a sun dial or an old bullet watch won at a raffle. No wonder weak-minded yet pious country folk are disrosing of their be longings, buying resurrection robes j and prayerfully awaiting the sound of Gabriel's trumpet. o The Chicago Tribune has been rounding up the Governors of the different dif-ferent states and branding them with their religious mark. In the list are twelve mavericks, who belong to no flock, and on whom some enterprising shepherd may place his own or his master's brand. The following is the result of the Tribune's investigation: Maine has a Universalist governor, Delaware has a Quaker governor, Uta Delaware has a Quaker governor, Utah has a Mormon governor. Two of the governors (Rhode Island's and Wisconsin's) are Unitarians. Penny-packer Penny-packer is one of the four Protestant Episcopalians. Six of the governors are Babtists, seven are Presbyterians, eight are Methodists. Twelve governors govern-ors are not church members. : o The transfer of the Oregon Short Line south of Salt Lake to the Los Angeles, San Pedro and Salt Lake railroad took place on Tuesday at midnight. mid-night. This new deal has been anxiously anx-iously awaited by all citizens for some time. When the latter road is completed com-pleted it will mean that Eastern capitalists capi-talists and many others who make southern California their winter quarters quar-ters will first visit Salt Lake. To visit Salt Lake and inhale the balmy air that comes from the great Salt Lake and sweeps down from the Wasatch Wa-satch mountains would mean a change of base for pleasure and health seekers. seek-ers. Unless the new road should concentrate con-centrate all its business at the western west-ern terminus it will add materially to the prosperity of our city. o Much speculation as to the successor suc-cessor of Leo XIII Is already made. Every member of the Catholic church both lay and cleric is eligible. The result depends on the Sacred College which is made up of the cardinals, who hail from all countries. The name cardinal is derived from cardo, a hinge, and they are so named because be-cause they are hinges on which the church will swing through its supreme su-preme pontiff. k Ten days after the death of the pope the cardinals meet in conclave, that is, in a chamber which may be locked cum clave. Here, shut away from the outside world, with secret ballot, they decide who is o be Peter's successor. For election two-thirds majority of those present is needed. They are not permitted per-mitted to leave their enclosure till the election takes place. Of all governments, govern-ments, where 'the humblest member of the church may assume that high office, it is the most democratic. o Grand juries are a long way from infallibility, in-fallibility, nevertheless more times than not the result of inquisitions serves to aid the administration of justice. It is so iD St. Louis. It may be so In Salt Lake, although opinion is divided over the result of the grand jury's findings which sat for over a week and were discharged last Tuesday. Tues-day. Among the things investigated was that of polygamy, charges being preferred, against several prominent citizens. The jury found no evidence to warrant indictments. This announcement an-nouncement certainly brought chagrin cha-grin and disappointment to those who presented the "information" to the jury. It fell like a cartload of ice upon the devoted heads of the Salt Lake Ministerial association, who have been tuning every chord to make Utah a hiss and a byword throughout the nation, na-tion, along with unseating Senator Smoot. Oddly enough, although no improper motive can be charged, last Sunday, and pending the report of the grand jury, a city contemporary published pub-lished copious extracts from a new story book written by the editor of Puck, entitled "The Lions of the Lord." These "lions" were the Dan-ites Dan-ites of early Mormon days in Utah, and identified with the Mountain Meadow massacre, according to the story. A Mormon collection of books once owned b'y an atheistical lawyer who resided at one time in this city, gave the author his inspiration for "The Lions of the Lord." The erstwhile erst-while owner of the library, edited and published at one time in this city a . blasphemous magazine named "The Devil's Lantern." o Bishop McGobreck of Duluth is practical, if not original in what constitutes con-stitutes a good education. In his address ad-dress at the closing exercises of the Duluth Sacred Heart Institute he said: "I am a believer in good ordinary education. edu-cation. I do not believe in giving a student a smattering of a number of deep and abstract subjects which are calculated to spoil a child." . The important branches for which his lordship offers a gold medal are pre-eminently practical, and unique, j Some are "plain sewing, cooking, how to" lay a table, and make a bed, etc." If the prize is not confined to the diocese dio-cese of Duluth, we have no doubt but the children of Kearn's St. Ann's orphanage or-phanage would pass a most satisfactory satisfac-tory examination on all the above branches, including "the sewing of stockings and torn trousers," in which they get plenty work and a thorough training. The public examination last month in practical subjects which concluded con-cluded their year's work was precisely pre-cisely what Bishop McGobrick wants. We will be fair and honest if he sends his ' gold medal to this side of the Rocky mountains in reporting results next June on all the above named subjects. o A city contemporary published a se lected article on Irish wit the other day, which is a genuine counterfeit. Not a laugh could be extracted from a whole column of the stuff. The one bit of truth contained lay in the prosaic statement that whi'e the wit of the Scotchman and Englishman came, as Sandy expressed it, "wi deefeculty," the wit of the Irishman is natural and spontaneous. The meat of it is chiefly observable in his ready repartee, in his bright yet evasive answers to questions he cares not to answer in any other way. The story in our contemporary, con-temporary, however, gives examples only of the resentful language of disappointed dis-appointed beggars and the caustic "blessings" of fishwomen and fruit venders. Such is not Irish wit. Perhaps Per-haps one of the readiest instances of apt and witty replies was lately delivered deliv-ered by "Big Bill Devery," one of Tammany's millionaire sachems. Mr. Deveryhas been throwing money right and left among the poor people of the Ninth assembly district, and providing the sick with doctors. A thirsty old soak, shaking in every limb as the penalty of a prolonged debauch, impudently approached the big chief, saying: "Devery, hear you are providing pro-viding the sick in your district with doctors. Send me one." Devery looked the fellow over a minute, then replied: " Tisn't a doctor you want; it's a snake charmer." I |