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Show 4 THS SALT LAKE T1MKS. SATURDAY, VElillUAUY 21. lBtflJ ' is nnL a popular success. It reaches comparatively few people, and the great masses never. The secular journal, by reason of the great variety of news it contains, reaches everybody, and it has therefore a good chance, which it faith-fully employs, to help the good cause, where the other is impotent to do it. The Christian Advocate in this city complains that the modern newspaper gives more space to criminal news, sports, etc.. than to "news of a different j kind." Alas! that it should be true! lint how is the Advocate to change it? The religious press which devote itself almost wholly to the "differeul kind," i way nnything it may find and carry it through the air while the force sustain-ing it holds out, dropping the thing the moment the force becomes exhausted. Sometimes the suction is strong enough to lift bodies out of water and land them at a considerable distance on dry land. We all have heard it said that at some place or other, and at one time or other, it rained fish or toads. There is no myth about that. It is tho truth not only verified, but demonstrated, by science. Hut we don't see what geology has to do witli it. Kvery manual of meteorol-ogy treats on the subject, with examples enough to amaze the unsophisticated. In a region where alkali and salt lie ex-posed us they do here, the action of a wind storm, such as we experienced a few days ago, would naturally precipi-tate alkali or salt, if anything, of the same constituent parts as the samepro-du.-t- s contained before they were dis-turbed. A SALT STORM, The geological class of the Descict University and sundry other indh iduals with scientific predilectious have strained their intellects to discover what tlio whitish deposit, which blew into this city during the wind and snow Morm a few evenings ago really was. We can tell them without resort to the microscope or labaratory. We have all seen, often on araliu day. n sudden wh.rl rise from the surface of the earth and carry to some height oh-jocts of considerable weight. This whirl ' is nothing loss than a miniature tor-nado proceeding in a reverse order. The regular order of a tornado is a whirl forming in the air and shoot-"iui- r downward, somewhat in the htipe of an elephant's trunk, j Whatever the progressive velocity of this phenomenon may bo. the rotary tiiotionis always violent and it i sucks in. a t it were, any object it may touch within ils path. Any sudden windstorm developing by the' lateral liiuit;li; of twi aircuricuts of different Uuiperuture is lubia to lap up in this THE STAR-EYE- CODDESS. Tho Watterson letter to GoTornor Hill, addressed to him soon after the November election, was probably one of the earliest friendly admonitions not to get on the Cleveland track that were received by the other Now York candi-date for the presidential nomination ol the democratic party. No doubt it had some inlluence in directing Governor Hill's thoughts to the line of action be took. A senatorsbip in the hand, with a presidency in the bush, is better to a smart politician than merely a presi-dency In the bush. Washington Star. The most absurd thing about the let-ter whicli Henry Watterson is said to have bent to Governor Hill last Novem-ber, warning him that he must stand aside for Cleveland In 18U2, is its state-ment that the writer was one of "some millions" of democrats who not only had never held ollice but could not be induced to do so. It did not need Hill's nngry and emphatic denial of the gen-uineness of this letter to make such a statement ridiculous. Think of millions of democrats who could not be "in-duced to hold ollice." Cleveland Leader. While G rover Cleveland and his mug-wump friends are doubtless grateful for that letter said to have been written to Governor Hill by Henry Watterson, they would have liked it better bad it not contained the phrase, "whether the idol of the democracy is the real flesh aud blood Cleveland or an Ideal Cleve-land set up in the popular mind." Has Mr. Watterson himself doubts on that poiut? Kansas City Journal. If Mr. Watterson, in his zeal, has not this feeling for his can-didate, Mr. Cleveland, it would appear that Governor Hill's trip through the west. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois wits a flat failure, a clear case of "Love's Labor Lost." It is now in order to hear from the other end of the line, and we call upon Mr. Dana to shine forth in the Sun. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. That's a very sensible lettery of Henry Watterson to Hill, with no transcendent nonsense about it. "You may defeat Cleveland," in brief says Watterson, "but in doing that you ruiu yourself. And on the other hand you may make yourself the greatest demo-crat in the country, next to Cleveland, by nominating him for tho presidency and electing him." St. Louis Chroni-cle. The letter said to have been written by Henry Watterson to .Senator-elec- t Hill of Jew York, strikingly illustrates the benefits to be derived from lonir continued association with thestar-cye- u goddess of reform. It is evident that Mr. Watterson wears a larger sized hat than even his friends, and they are many, have given him credit for. Kansas City Times. It is said that Henry Watterson has written a letter to David U. Hill, urg-ing him to play tho part of a Warwick and "swing New York state into line" for Grover Cleveland. It would be a politic move for David to do if he do-sir-to see old brachyrephalous Dana go out and hang himself with his sus-penders. Cleveland Press. The publication of the Watterson letter to Governor Hill affords a basis for a confession by the distinguished Kentucky editor, in case the republican party should be killed in 18112. that ho did it with bis little pen. St. Louis Post-Dipatc- So it was Henry Watterson who in-duced Hill to accept a seuatorship and get out of the Cleveland lightning ex-press. As a peacemaker Henry ap-pears to be a bigger man than Bill Brown. Kansas City Star. Watterson's agency in the alleged d rapprnachment appears to have been very conspicuous. It is not often that Henry does anything to harmonize his party. Minneapolis Journal. THE SALT LAKE TIMES. "" BTTHETnTESPUBLISaiHajWlMHl ' stw vokk orniE, Temple Court. r"H,,'ru advertisers will nlesM make their cutraetH w Ml our riist.ru advertising KH, Messrs. Palmer A. Key. " Th TiMits Istmtiiisbeil eery evening aud In delivered by carriers In Kill Lake Uty and Fuk City cn per tnnatu. """TtiVrmas contains the full Associated presn rriiort anil h special telegraph service cov- - inW this entire Jiiter mimntftiu reKlm. "thi Thh Is entered at thepoetofflce In Salt Line T.y for transmission through th malts a second class matuv. " l'ermVlrtng Tu Tims delivered at their tow ran secure It by pot:' "r,lor "r throat, telephone. AV'ben il ivory I. Irregu-lar make lnime.llatn VuTrtpUont.7Uiel)ttlly Time. (Always in advance.) mouth , ! .. A drtrere T lit Tims itJUk City. Wat.., Uur Telephone Number, 481. POLITICS DISTURBS BUSINESS- - Haw the Chances and Chances of Politi-cal Sentiment Affect Wall Street. Henry Clews. Factors connected with politics and legislation hold the market in suspense and are producing au unsettled under-tone, In the states as well as at Wash-ington, party politics are assuming phases of conflict and ' crookedness" which suggest unwelcome tendencies in the working of our political i nstitutions. Schemes to defeat the results of elections and to abuse the power of majorities cast a shadow upon the political hori-zon; and the tendency towards broad sectional diiferences upon fundamental issues auggest political possibilies which none like to consider, but which, none the less, nil are unable to disre-gard. The sudden uprising of tho Farmers' party also has a disturbing tendency, It throw spractical politics into confusion and deties all possibility of forecasting the settlement of national questions upon whioh vast interests are dependent. The serious feature of this movement is that whilst its broad platform in-cludes barely a single sensible or wholesome issue and is little else than an expression of tho lowest form of popular ignorance, yet it is backed by a mass of voters possibly large enough to constitute it a determining power in the next federal elections. The virtual miscarriage of the federal election bill and of the cloture rule in the senate seems to have been welcomed irrespect-ive of party attachments, for the reason that it was calculated to revive sec-tional hostilities at a time when tho bonds of amity bewteen the north and south were being cemented by new material interests. The possibility of the passage of the free coinage bill still continues to contribute, among other causes, to the dullness of the market; but this factor would have much more effect were it supposed there is much probability of the enactment of the measure. The unfortunate sudden de-cease of tho secretary of the treasury may be regarded as in some measnro favorable to the silver faction. Mr. Windom was undoubtedly the chief Intellectual force arrayed against further commitments to silver currency ; and it may be reasonably feared that the loss of his firm counsels will leave the president more exposed to tho astute management of the silver men. Unless a strong successor to the de-ceased secretary is appointed, a new set of uncertainties must surround this question. The Tim t:a today is a model news-paper in all that the word, implies. Nothing appears on auy of its twelve pages that will havo to be apologized for tomorrow. Not an advertisement even appears that will have to be clipped out before the paper can be handed to either wife or children. No alleged "special correspondence letters" that are ground out by tho yard and sold by the rod are allowed space. Tin-- Times today is simply a metropolitan journal filled to overtlow- - ing with bright, crisp matter, local and foreign, typographically a picture, not overweiglied on auy page with a mass of stuff that could be boiled down to a half dozen lines. Nor is The Times surfeited with egotism. There are newspapers published in the country just as good as it, though none better in this inter-mountai- country. The popularity of The Times is best by its circulation which is larger in Salt Lake than any other two papers printed here. LOVE'S MESSAGE. Cupid, little did you know What a h you were making', When you whispered, years and, Words that set my heart When your lips so rosy red Toole the question out of rains, And you dew to her and said "Will you be my Valentin!" How I trembled at the test Which till then had been untried! Little rogue, you never guessed ' What that questioning Implied, Vet on wing of love you went With taat precious, weighty Uni What a world to me It meant: "Will you be my valentine V I have wondered, did she press on your lips her kltae warm I Did she lavish fond caress On your dainty, dimpled form! Saury boy I a kiss, or more ' Were a tribute far too flu For the message that you bora, "Will you be my valentine r" Had ae coldly turned her head, Tossed aside her golden treses, Gathered up her gowu and tied, Chary been of her caresses ; Then t would not wonder much, For my lady could divine All the darling in that touch I "Will you be my valentine?" Cnpld, let the matter go. What she did was right and proper, And. at that time, a you know, I made no pretense to top, her. All she said 1 never learned-- All 1 heeded was that line Of the answer you returned : '1 will never be your vanutlne." Saucy, dimpled, rosy boy. You are Just as dear to day, Bearing message of Joy To a swtetheai--t far away, As whon yi ars ago you Hew With that darling wish of mine; Cupid, we have both been true-Lo- ve has been our valentine! Sam T. C!ove. season. Those afllicted with la grippe aver that the discipline is a severe one. 4- --t- Alvin Saunders who is here now with the Utah commission, of which he Is a shining member, does not look well, lie is suffering from the grip and he shows it. Leaning his Koman figure heavily on his cane he halted the Free Lauce just long enough to inform it that this is a world of woe and then, as if to exemplify it. he be-took himself to the nearest barbershop. - 4- -- Some day a funeral will take place from the roof of the Wasatch building, and the melancholy hero of it will be tho United Slates signal observer or his assistant. Either will be sure to break his neck iu reading the instruments which are exposed with a View to ac-curacy but not to safety. It takes a professional gymnast to reach some of tht'm. On the theory, perhaps, that ollice holders neveril ", the government neglects to provide :i safeguards as ruight bo demaude. r to move to a safer exposure. Few rules "but what have an exception. Beware! A case of extreme destitution is that of Mrs. Maggie Graham, No. 41)8, I street and her brood of seven children. We are confident that the mere knowl-edge of tho case will suffice to bring relief to the unfortunate family, The town is full of christian charity. --4- Smith is at the head of the Great Salt Luke Navigation com-pany with headquarters in this city, which has for its purpose the carrying of passengers and freight on the Great Salt Lake, Besides himself, Captain Davis, an old time sailor who has been around tho world several times, and who will have the management of the boats, and several Denver parties of ample means, but not to bo named at present, are interested in the scheme. The coming summer there will be two steamers and three sailing vessels em-ployed to carry passengers between Garfield Bench and Syracuse, stop-ping at a resort on tho island where a number of cottages are to be erected this season for the accommodation of certain families who have already con-tracted for them. There will also be a hotel built for the convenience of tour-ists. At the same time a third steamer will be built on Antelope island large enough to carry 2"() passengers. The sailing boats will carry freight between the different islands, as well as trans-port ore from the abandoned mines at tho west shore. There can be no ques-tion as to the success of the scheme, for in this way the most beautiful pano-rama will be viewed without discom-fort. THE FREE LANCE. It has been stated in the eastern press that the Rev. Mr. Kyle, the new senator-- elect from South Dakota, was at one time stationed in S.alt Lake city as the minister of the Congregational church. This is a mistake. Mr. Kyle was a mis-sionary In Utah with headquarters somewhere in Summit county, we be-lieve iu Coalville, aud as such ho occas-ionally visited this city, preaching here of Sundays. A number of old-tim- e remember him quite well, although it is fully six years since he exchangod this field fur another oue, in which he suddenly turns up a national character. - The rumor that tho Tribune is to be excluded from the mails as an obscene publication, is denied. - rt-- - Mr. J. W. Sullivan, an experienced mining operator, in the city, and for-merly of Denver, visited tho Free Lance to say a word in behalf of the Deep creek railroad. He believes with the rest of this community that the schema is tho most important one yet devised for the good of Salt Lake, and thousands of Coloradoans will flock in here as soon as the building of the line is assured beyond a doubt. They will not wait for thn trains to be running, and outfitting parties by the wholesale will be the order of the day. Deep creek, he says, is talked of generally among Colorado miners and if the rail-road is built we will see one of the best smelters and refineries running in Salt Lake in less than eighteen months, while of 5000 to t000 people will spring up in the Deep creek country, beside' numerous settlements all along the line, all tributary to this city. Mr. Sullivan says if the people generally do not realize "the importance of that re-gion, the miners at least do. He be-lieves the mining outlook in Utah to be far superior to that in Colorado, tho country here having barely been scratched, and Deep creek will be to Salt Lake what Leudville is to Denver. - - Children forfeiting a holiday are not tho only ones to complain of hard luck because Washington's birthday falls this time on a Sunday. - Health Officer Dr. Lot-i- Hall likes music. He sings in a pleasant tenor voice, plays on the violiucello and oc-casionally on the piano. Mrs. Hall is au artist on the latter instrument and as there is an able-bodie- infant in the family, we imagine thure is no scarcity of music. One of the best linguists in this citv is the Hev. J. B. Thrall. He speaks En-glish, French and German fluently, and understands several dead languages be-sides. Lawyer Arthur Brown has two hob-bies. One is a white felt hat, which ho wears summer and winter indiscrim-inately. In this respect, as in some others, he resembles Senator F.varts of New York, whose ancient tile is the by- - word of hi colleagues in Washington. ' Brown's other hobby is a violent aver- - sion to churches. lie couid not be hired for a big legal fee to enter one of them, In this respect he resembles Bob Inger-- i soil, like whom, too. Brown belongs to a family of Christian ministers, There are many agnostics in Salt Lake , City. Judge Judd is one of them. He; says he admires tho character of Jesus. though he is not quite sure whether the j Savior is a myth or not. f- L,i grippe, in a mild form, has in-vaded Salt L:ike. As it is u fashion- j ableiliscasc.it is fortunate that it (lid not set iu before Lent. Perhaps, too, it comes to add to the discipline of the When tho free coinage men in tho house committee found they were de-feated, one of them offered to compro-mise first on a bill for the free coinage of the American product, and next, for the purchase of ten millions of silver for three months and six millions each month thereafter; but it was too late. Two months ugo the latter clause might have had a chance. arrivals" AND CLOSE OF MAILS. 8 iie.m'eof arrival and closing of mall at Bait Lake Ot ttoffUe, Nov. 17. ISWI: MAILS. CLOSE. r'acitlc E "t, also North to Oiclen. Hex KUler. C'olllustoti anil .. B:B0 m-- I rin Rior.rande Western-Atlan- tic Mall futon r'th'c- - Local Mall Kast.alto North i Loiiun aud l.,,lllt : p.m. Klo Umnfl Wettern-M- ail for Og- - g Cntln pkc'Hc- - Mall for Idaho. Mon- - ana and Portland, also to San Man-lsc- o 7:00 p.m. Itlo nrnde Western -- Denver and Mall... .. B;0 ITnl.'a Haellle- - Park City, Coaivlll and Echo ...... 8:30 Union Pacifi- c- Frisco. Mllford and In'ermed ate I'olute S:t0 a.m. rrinn I'mMie Stockton and Inter- - mediate Point .... : Tnion Pacific -- Park; City. Mill Creek sod Local TiWl m- Rio urantle Western lllngbain .... T:l a, in, " mails! akkivk. r. ern Fnst Cull ntSfi a m. V. and Cache Valley. 10:60 a m. C. P. Idaho. Montana and Oregon. 8:IU p in. V. P --Frlsco.MUfordand all point North :0 P n' V. P.- - Stookton 8:ia p. in. K. O. Mall 4:30 p.m. B. u. W Pa tflc F xpress 1 :W a.m. K. O W - BuiKham 6: p.m. TJ C - Park city. Mill Creek. Cte.. . " ' p.m. R. (i. VT. California ami West a m. OFFICE HOUKH. OPEM. CLOSE. Money Order Window.... 9:0(1 a. m. S CO p.m. Reflster Window 9 00 am t 0U p.ra, Ceo'l Delivery and Stamp ' Window 8:00 am 8:00 p.m. Carriers' Window (except Sunday) 6:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. SUNDAY HOURS. OPEN. CLOSE. Gen'l Dsllvary and Stamp Window 11:00 a.m. !:00pra farrier' Window :0 m. 1 :0f p. in; I. A. nENTON, P. M. SATURDAY FEBRUARY, 81. 1W1 Somehodv asks ns why TiieTimf.s does not "pitch into" Kt iVAitt Kip-lin- Why should it. pray? An ar-tie-on Salt Lake written two years ago is not worthy of notice. The Times does not live in the past. A Yoi NU fellow in New York is in the meshes of tho law for wooing his best girl at the point of a revolver. He wanted her to be his bride or die. This is rather an illegal way of popping the riuestion, THUS RUNS THE WORLD AWAY. Tho Indian comes Lo, but we must have him. Puck. She (pitpied) I don't know exactly what to make of you, Mr. Bland! Ho (eager to suggest) Er why not try a husband? American Grocer. Header Your paper is very much better than it used to bo, Mr. Paster. Editor O. I am very glad to hear you say so. Reader les, you're clipping so much more. Boston Courier. Mr. llaynes Mrs. Hautton, do you, know your neighbors, the Jonesesf Mrs. Hautton No. Mr. Haynes Why, they told me they knew you. Mrs. Hautton So they do, I beliove. Puck. "What do you know about the disso-lution of parliament?" the managing editor asked of the now man nt the for-eign desk. "Nothing." he said inao-centl- "I didn't know it was disso-lute at all." Washington Star. Mrs. Murray-Hil- l You're not really going to the Pastime boxing contests, are you, John? I wislj you wouldn't. I'm sure it must be a dreadful thing. Mr. Murray-Hil- l You're much mis-taken, my dear; this is a regular kid-glov- e affair. The Week's Sport. William." said Mr. Gould to a trusted ollicial, "I hear that there is a suspicion among astronomers that lights on the planet Mars are efforts mailo by the in-habitants to communicate with tho people on the earth." 'T have heard of it." "Well, keep close track of the ex-periments, and if there is a system of communication established keep a look-out for options." Washington Post. Professor (to a too loquacious friend) When you come to see me, my dear fellow, please ring the door-bel- l thret . times. You see 1 have a lot of work to do and only care to admit intimate friends like you, whose signals I know. The too loquacious friend obeys in-structions and marvels that the door ii never opened. The professor chuckles to himself in his study and pursues his work in solitude. Fliegende Blatter. SLOW Jl STICK. The venerable Daviu Di ni.F.v FiFi.n who has just passed his eighty-sixt-milestone of life contributes to tho In-dependent mi' interesting and sug-gestive article on the improvement in le-gal procedure in the next decade. He first attacks the absurd distinction which Is maintained between legal and equit-able procedure, which tho people of England got rid of years ago. In IHJS the state of New York led in a reform vi hich resulted in a fusion of law and equity and the establishment of a new eodo of civil procedure. This little code was carried into half of the states of the Union and formed the basis of the judicat ure act of England. Our federal courts, however, have adhered to the old system most tenaciously, with the consequence that a suit in equity once begun may descend from father to son for more than a generation. While the stato criminal practice in New York is regarded as excellent, Mr. Field maintains that the practice in civil cases of both stale and United States is complex too complex for easy working. The outcome is delay.uncer-laint- y and expense. The delay varies from one to five years, and the uncer-tainty is such that more than one-fourt-of the judgments taken to the court of appeals are reversed. It cannot be otherwise since the law of property aud personal rights is chaos a law of pre-cedent, or judge-mad- law. This ap-pears from the fact that "general prece-dents and authorities" to the number of 225.000 are advertised, covering all law cases in the several states. American digests are on sale comprising 20,000 cases and 40.000 points of law, while the volumes of reports run up into the thousands. There is no good reason why this chaos, with its consequent delays, should continue. These multifarious decisions can be classified and con-densed so as to bring them within reasonable compass. It has been done in some states, and can bo done in all. What is demanded, in the opinion of the distinguished writer, is a complete codification of the laws and enough judges and juries to dispose of all cases as they arise. The legal procedure of Utah might be greatly improved and simplified by a codilication of tho laws. There is an immense mass of legislation on all man-ner of subjects, much of which is in-congruous and contradictory, and, of course, ditlicult of application. Whether tho reform will come during the present decade, as Mr. Field thinks probable, or whether it will be post-poned to the next, will largely depend on public sentiment; but to put a stop to the law's delay would be a fitting climax to the achievements of the nine-teenth century. The kaiser in a speech yesterday de. plored the lavish use of printer's ink to enibara.SE him. He probably cluimsthe divine right of expressing au adverse opinion only for himself. HI Redundancy of Starveling Colleges. " New York Pi St. .The passion for starting unnecessary educational institutions is seen at its worst in Kansas. Tho commonwealth sustains a state university at the capital, besides a state agricultural college at Manhattan, and there are several other "universities," with a swarm of colleges. Moreover, although tho Methodists already have one university at Baldwin, they are trying to start another at Topeka, while the Protestant Methodists have a project for one of their own. The only encouraging sign is that one college at Dodge City has just been closed. The Atchison Cham-pion says that this particular institution ought never to have been opened, and that the present supply of institutions far exceeds any demand that can be expected for years to come. It a dvises the Methodists to give up their their scheme for a new university at Topeka and make a really creditable institution of the existing one at Baldwin; the Presbyterians to consolidate two of their struggling institutions; and that "Lane university at Lecompton, which has for years been struggling along in a precarious sort of way, ought to go into liquidation, and the Protestant Methodists who are contemplating building at Kansas City, Kan., should wait until that denomination needs a college in Kansas." Few spectacles are more melancholy than that of an unnecessary college or "university" struggling to keep alive, and it does not speak well for the common sense of the western people that they should have so many such cases on their bands. Some one interviewed GkovebCleve-lan- d on the subject: "Are you a can-diat- e for the presidential nomination?" He might as well have asked, will a duck swim? e 9 - THE SANDMAN. Oh ! how does the Sandman come, Aud how does the Sandman gor Does he drop from the sky like a cloud at nlirht, Does he walk through the street at broad t, To visit the blKh and the low? Oh ! what does th Sandman do, And why 1 rh Sandman here? Does he carry a sack on his little round back, While hn scatters theta'id with a lavish hand, To tell u that sleep time's heret Ah: my deir children noboly knows. How the Sandman comes and the Sandman goes. For tliough we may wish very much for the slKht, When tie Sandman come we shut our eyes tlht. Harper's Young People. The iniquitous resorts known as wine rooms are a near station lo perdition. I.IOIIT TO MM K. We predicted that tho vote of the house committee on coinage when taken yesterday would stand 7 to 5 against a free silver bill. In fact it was 8 to 4, or one worse than we expected, and we are not at all surprised at it. Two months ago the friends of the white metal were masters of the situa-tion in congress. They could dictate almost any terms they desired short of free and unlimited coinago. So potent were they that they forced the goldites to make concessions which the senate caucus, supported by Secretary Wis-dom, ratilied, falling barely short of free coinage. Had this compromise .,.,', been acceptmt. ' which it could have been without friction, silver would to day quote somewhere near a parity with gold instead of being marketed at less than 98.00. Between now and the near future, the honest advocates of gold who fear that disaster might fol-low tho introduction of biraetalism iu this country, would have had an oppor-tunity to learn an object lesson by the operation of the new bill which they had not previously possessed and it would have been easier thereafter to pass a free silver bill. Instead of that the advocates of silver, confident of their power, insisted that congress should give them free coinage or nothing. Asa result all the elements of opposition, from one reason or an-other, were fused together and pre-sented a harmouious whole against the measure. There wore first the gold men. repub-licans and democrats, pure and simple; then there were conservative members who argued with the president that the bill passed last summer should have a fair chance to vindicate itself before it was condemned. Then there were timid congressmen who believed that any financial legislation at this time would be unwise; besides which there were democrats, silver men usually, w ho feared they might compromise one or the other of their possible candidates for president if they voted as their con-science demanded. Altogether it was a utrange but effective conglomeration to defeat the senate bill. Indeed, so arro-gant had this :orce become that within the last few days it would have been iruposs'.blo for tlto silver men who two months ago deemed themselves itniiioiblo, to obtain any concession whatever from the other side. Tito vote yesterday in the coin-age committee is a criterion of the fuel-ing in the matter that exists in Wash-ington ti'day. We ask, is this good politics; is it pool policy; is it business; or was The Times not right when it counselled to moderation? He Would not Have Failed. New York Tritiuae. It has long been the custom to speak of Lincoln as fortunate in his death; but the glamor of martyrdom, though in past ages it may have served for a time to hide the defects of the weak or to dis-tract attention from the vices of the base, has never seriously modified the judgment of history, even as to charac-ters like these; the fame' of Lincoln shone too brightly to gain lustre from the flash of the assassin's pistol, and, as to tho time, we think it most unfortu-nate that he should have been taken off in the fullness of his power." His un-matched influence, his ripened experi-ence, his superb common sense, his profound love of country, his clear per-ception of conditions and of ends, his provedknowledge of men, and the sim-ple goodness of his heart, were all needed for the great work of peace. But if he had failed? Why should he have failed? No; had he but lived ho would not have failed. The I ps and Down of Life, Robert Louis Stevenson. To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragi-cal enough at best, but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in tho meanwhile, and saving up every-thing for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically mov-ing sort of tragedy which lies on the confines of farce. The victim is dead and he has cunningly overreached him-self; a combination of calamities none the less absurd for being grim. To husband a favorite clarett until the batch turns sour is not at all an artful stroke of policy; and how much more with a whole cellar a whole bodily existence! People may lay down their lives with cheerfulness in the sure ex-pectation of a blessed immortality; but that is a different affair from giving up youth with all its admirable pleasures, in the hope of a better quality of gruel in a more than problematical, nay, more than improbable, old age. Ve should not compliment a hungry man who should refuse a whole diunerand reserve all his appetite for the desert, before he knew whether there was to be any dessert or not. If there be such a thing as imprudence in the world we surely have it here. We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters,, and to take a cue from tho dolorous old naval, ballad wo have heard the mermaidens singing, and know that we shall never see dry land anymore. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. If there is a fill of tobacco among the crew, for God's sake pass it round aud let us have a pipe before we die! Amertcanlsms. Euirenc Field in Chlra.ro News. In some parts of this country "to meet up with" is commonly used for "to overtake." The usage obtains in Missouri and in other parts of the south. To meet up with is simply to come up with, to overtake but not to pass. But we see no objection to the usage of meet with," the usage is a very old and honorable one, and it occurs in the works of such authorities as W. Shake-speare, F. Bacon, andX. Rowe. As for "shape," it has come to be an Ameri-canism quite as distinctly as "form" is a Briticism. Another popular abuse is the misuse of the words ''liable" and "apt" for likely." Journalists are con-tinually assuriug us that such a man is "liable" to do so aud so, or that such a thing is "apt" to come to pass. But the most brutal Briticism that is gaining ground among us is the awful phrase "gone off." If a woman's beauty fades or if a vocalist's voice loses any of its power, it is said that "she has gone off in looks," or that "he has gone off in voice." Fretting and Worry. Chicago Herald. The most subtle enemy to success if fretting. At the same time it is ths most plausible. Xot the idle, indulgence which we call "scold-ing," but the vague worry that finds a ready excuse in fatigue or ill health or in anxiety about the "meat which ;" for not even the genius is above substantial necessities. It is not possi-ble to do one's best work while discon-tent is sapping the vigor of the mind. Preoccupation is fatal to honest think-ing. What sort of mental work can wo expect of a man who is engaged in tak-ing account of the stock of bis own grievances? Aud yet thero are plenty of men und women who begin each day's task under just such conditiona and wonder why they fail. Sighing over things that have been left undone and shrinking from the host of duties advancing upon them they "stand in pause where they shall first begin, and both neglect." Untraiiinieled by worry, fretting, borrowing troublo whatever you choose to call it life would be relieved of half its friction. It is like the dust in the wheel or dust in the watch. From whatever cause, however excusable, it is a weariness and a snare. Hands stif-fened with cold are not deft. The voice roughened with weeping is incapable of pleasant tones. In either case the rem-edy suggests itself. A society woman noted for her kind and charitable tem-per was asked how she managed to be so amiable under all circumstances in this gossiping, naughty world. "It is too much trouble to lind fault," she made answer. "I should always be un-happy if I thought ill of my friends, and life is too short for that." Another woman who lived by the use of her facile pen was heard to say that al-though she had taken many lessons in poverty and disappointment, she could not atford to be or despond-ent, because sho would be unfitted to earn hor own living if she were un-happy. bECKKTAKY KOSTtll. The Times yesterday said "the pros-pects are that the name of thn next secretary of the treasury will be F'ostek," and today the ollicial confir-mation of the prediction is made. We do not believe the president entertained any other name from the first, and that only a respectful regard for the memory of tho late Secretary Windom precluded the nomination from being made sooner. Of course all the country knows Ciiaki.es Fostkk of Ohio, twice gover-nor of the state and for four consecutive terms a representative iu congress. As a republicaiiiof conspicuous ability aud service his appointment is absolutely unexceptional. As a practical business man and banker of almost lifelong ex-perience he will bring to his now post a knowledge not otherwise to be acquired and the only question, though the most vital one of all, is. how does he stand with regard to siher? It is lo be sur-mised, of course, that he is in full ac-cord with tho views of the president in the matter, which ate those of sympa-thy with the demands of tho west short only of violent transitions. Anyway, Secretary Foster is a man who always spells nation with a capi-- ! tal N. Fatal Accident. I'loche Uncord. A. M. Findlay. of Panaca, was in-stantly killed on the morning of Feb-ruary 12th, between two and three miles below I'ioche, by being pitched out of his buggy by a runaway team. Dan McFarlane, who was riding along with Mr. Findlay was also thrown out onto his head, receiving serious but not fatal iu juries. McFarlane was subse-quently discovered wandering aimlessly arotiud in a gulch some six or eight miles from the scene of tho accident. His head and face were besmeared with blood and he was entirely out of his mind, remembering nothing what- - ever about the accident or tho fate of his unfortunate companion. Mr. Find-la- y was a leading citien of Panaca, where he has resided for the past eigh-teen years. He was 02 years of age and a native of Scotland. t The Times Ones There Dally. OkiIbii Dally Commercial. Salt Lake's spicy afternoon daily, The Times, says in its issue of yester-day: "Ogden's population has in-creased by three men and an othce boy since Bancroft's headquarters were moved thither." Yes, we are com-mencing on you in a moderate way, so that you may learn by degrees to become reconciled to the imminent hegira which is already booked for the Queen City. And we shall be glad to welcome The Times with other good institutions which will soon flock hither to join the big procession. Population ot I'les. Courier Journal. The new census gives no information whatever as to the number of pies an-nually consumed in the United States. Perhaps Mr. Porlcr is one of those ec-centric persons who do not like pie, and who, therefore, can take no interest in it. He should have been told, however, that the people want to know about pie. They want to known if there is ever to be a reduction iu pie prices and whether any pie trusts have been formed under the Harrison administration. No doubt the president himself will feel a little crusty when ho finds that thero no pie statistics from any of the states. Winks Do Not Go in Top ska. Chicago Tribune. "I was out in Topeka, the capital of Kansas," said a drummer to his friends, who were rejuvenating bim at the club. "A Kansas City man came into my room and asked me to go out with bim, which invitation I accepted. We went to a drug store and met several friends. Finally somebody put the question, 'What are you going to have?" Fery man answered, naming some brand of mineral water. It came to my turn to denominate and I said 'Apollinaris' and winked. The young man at the fountain gazed at mo and shook his head. He said ho thought he knew what 1 wanted, but Topeka was one town where a wink had no significance. That a man could even wink at one of the fair sex and not offend her. The result is the people of that town have a stare in their eyes that is absolutely searching. It is a sort of deadman's stare. There is nothiug in it." An y one who says that the Illustrated Amer-ican articles ere Inspired by any oue in the Tribune office, or that any oue connected with this paper had anything whatever to do with those articles, tells a willful, malicious false-- ; hood, which Is so trat (parent that it merely Bublects the falsi 'h-- to contempt. ThI Is for the benent of a pestiferous evening plate mat-- ! ter nuisance. whoe dally output Is a libel on the town. -- Tribune. How severe this is, and how righteous the iudignation! But leaving, at pres-- I ent, the question as to which of the two, j the Tribune or The Times, isanui-- i sance. and a libel on the town, to the judgment of the community, we quote from the dispenser of mormon wars no libel there! and "daisy" stories no nuisance there! a brief extract pub-- ! lished as a leader February 11, A. I). !!!!: The cringing News, under a cry lo h?.v all contention t p; e I here, fill a column and a half repe tiu t:s own old slae. obi det fa'S'h-xK- l at "lit the pnst of thlsc ty. it says. "The ll u trated American got most of Ht mat-ri-fiom the Tribune." We wish to . I ha' wh:itev.-- It got from the Tribune was the auMi u e truth: tru'n that ran b estanl s ie byte Simony that would convince at y Jury-o-di rth. j Wilful, malicious falsehood, is it? Tra, la! ij "Hllntl Luck" WurisThan "1'ig--s lo Clover.' New York Press. A prominent banker was deeply ab-sorbed in a square piece of pasteboard yesterday as he sat in a Broadway car going up town. On the pasteboard was a horseshoe with round spots on the shoe aud a big spot containing thirteen rings was printed in the hollow space between the arms of the horseshoe. The banker was studying out the game "blind luck" which the Grant monument fund committee have put on the market to aid in completing the memorial. It is a fascinating and cur-ious puzzle in mathematics, but so simple as to be easily learned even by a child. The Passion for Tippling. New York Tribune, The fee system has become so firmly rooted that a local poet is impelled to sing thus: If he had but fifteen cents, Th's paragon of men. JJe'd buy a sandwich with the five, And give the waiter ten. Ths Mortgage on "ths Other World." Chicago Herald. The mortgage which has been placed on Schweinfurth's "heaveu" ought to be quite a strain upon the faith of his followers. There are few signs of di-vinity in a Christ who is unable to keep himself out of financial embarrassment. No and being should be obliged to go to the money changers for a loan. Xor should "heaven." the abode of his saints, be exposed to tho secular vicissitudes of a Kansas farm. A heaven with a mort-gage on it is a curious theological con-- i tradiction. What Homed lb Meeting. Pittsburg Bulletin. Mr. Wiggins Well, mv-dea- did the Woman's Society for fteforming tho Earth have a good meeting? Mrs. Wiggins (a fair reformer) Well, just so-s- You see business was geing on beautifully, when some one asked tho president about the new bonnets worn by the younger sorosis women at their annual meeting. Mr. W. Proceed. Mrs. W.(bluhingly)r And then then the hour for adjournment had come and gone before she got through. ' In no Danger. Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Figg Tommy! Tommy! That is no way for you to talk. Fi yen if your playmate is wrong in what be says, you should cot call him a liar. Tommy Why not ma? I can lick him easy enough, an' he knows it. A Professorial I.yrlo. New York Sun. Joseph H. Choate, having b?en made a doctor of laws by Amherst in 1S87, was greeted with the cheers of the class of that year when be arose to speak. He read, in reference to Judge How-land- 's story telling propensities, this verse, which he said was written by Professor Hadley of Yale: There wa a young man of St. Louis, Who married a quick-witte- Jewess; He's no stuck on her stories That In her he glories, And call her a Chauocey Depewesa, And It Whacks Hard. Otrden Paily Commercial. The situation of the Salt Lake city daily papers in their relation to each other grows daily moro exciting. The Tribune and Herald are punching each other and The Times is whacking them both over tho bead every day. Legal Filness. Puck. Mr. Mayhem (with his lawyer's bill in hand) Sir. this charge is outrageous! His Lawyer (blandly) But so was tho charge against which I defended you! No Guarantee With This. Fulton (Mich) Sun. Dock Craig called a few days'ago and paid his subscription to the Weekly Sun and that night a son was born to him. |