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Show From Knox College. Gat.isbero, 111 ., March 5, 1892. Editor Sentinel: While musing on the difference between Utah and Illinois the thought came to me: Why not let tome of my friends at home take a peep through my mental b ec-tacles? ec-tacles? In the first place, there can le no fair comparison made between UUh and Illinois between their difference in climate and scenery. Here in traveling travel-ing fifteen or twenty miles, seemingly no progress is made, for at the start all that can be seen is a stretch of level country, and the end of your journey discloses a similar view. Occasionally one discovers what the native inhabitants inhabi-tants call bills but which in Utah would scarcely be considered sufficient sides to a gnlch. Indeed the largest hills which I have as yet seen in the states are no better s imples than the banks of Six Mile c eel opposite Sterling. Ster-ling. What would I not giye to again gaze upon the lofty peaks of the Rockies! to be climbing the flower decked sidea of the Wasatch range, or to be refreshing myself, with dough-gads dough-gads and bacon in a cleared-ont tie camp. Why, even the barren and rocky slopes if Dodg'es canyon, or the flinty crags of Circle valley wonld be, to my mountain hungry eyes, like an oasis to a thirsty traveler in the deseret of Arabia. But e?en mountains, with all'their grandeur, with all their freedom, inspiring inspir-ing soul elevating influences can better be dispensed with than a good climate In this school Utah certainly btands at head of her class. The climate here is very disagreeable at times. l ean only compare it to a close room filled with steam. Fully 90 per cent of the dwelling hooses are built of wood. What a pity it seems to me that more of the beautiful beauti-ful building atone with which nature has endowed onr territory, is not used in the constriction of honses instead of those bog-hatching and ngly looking adobes. I have seen some streets paved at a great cost with cobble stone?. In iianti the streets are full of stones, wrhif rightly ntilized, wonld become a blessing bless-ing instead of a pest. Yours trulv, George R. Braithwaite |