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Show TRUTH 6 love of the man for the woman and the woman for the man and their adaptability for each other. There is too much of the sordid material and commercial and not enough of the physical and psychological in modern marriages. If we were to pay one-hathe attention to getting people to marry according to the rules of sound, common sense that we are paying to the effort to make those already mar- CHATTER. - I (Being the personal opinions of the writer, and for which no one else is in any manner responsible.) After several months of constant agitation of the subject, by the sccul-la- r and sectarian press, a synod, gathering, or assembly of parsons, has decided, or agreed, that where a couple are divorced because one or the other of the two parties has been guilty of infidelity, the innocent one ought to have the right to marry after the expiration of a year. Wonderful sapi-icthat. We marvel that such an Intelligent lot of people could get together. Think of a nice, pure, virtuous woman, wedded to a man, unclean lf e in thought and action. She discovers that he is untrue to her. It may be that she condones ills offenses against t?ii-- sanctity of the home and continues to condone, until at last, convinced tint there is no use trying, convinced that her husband loves her no longer, she seeks relief in the courts. Imagine every allegation proven; the recreant spouse shown to be guilty beyond cavil. The decree is granted. Then conjure up a vision of the wisdom that wculd compel her to remain single, for a year, just because she has been granted her freedom from an old roue. Wouldnt that sort of reasoning freeze you? Jit J I presume the parsons will think I am an evil man to rail at their attempt to settle a question that is generally considered, and I agree with those who so consider it, a great evil. But whats the use? The efforts at reforming affainf of this sort are not directed at the proper end. The time to prevent divorces is not after marriage, but before. And I may be pardoned for digressing a bit when I remark that the parsons, or rather their predecessors, are to blame because the Before the days system is rotten. when priests ruled the affairs of the world, marriage was a civil arrange-meenot a sacrament. People wedded and were divorced by mutual consent in some cases; at the pleasure of the husband in others, and in divers ways in otter instances. Weddings were very plentiful. Boys and girls we e born, grew up, got to liking each otter and married. The priest3 of the dominant church in early days saw them do it and concluded there was a good bit of revemn Getting away, so t; ried live together whether they like it or not, it would be liut a short time before the matter would be settled without the interference of the courts. There are certain physical qualifications that should not be overlooked, the lack of them or the possession of a too vigorous temperament. Some men mate with women their physical inferiors; some men mate with women their physical superiors and vice versa. It is all right to talk of and the tender passion, but marriage is nothing but the mating of the sexes for the perpetuation of humanity. It may sound coarse, but stop and see- if you can recall an instance, outside of a few moneyed affairs and where the high contracting parties were either cracked in the head, or too old, and see if you can recall a case where the 'opposite was the rule. In an honest, sincere pairing off of a good man and a good woman no other result has been expected, save and except the incidental desire for an agreeable companion. People marry to have opportunity to reproduce the species. It is a laudable . Pla-tonicis- - ambition, too, and no one will be able to find fault with it. J J Now, this being the case, why not, in the mating, endeavor to pair off so that posterity will be the gainer? Because if that object is kept in view neither the man nor the woman will ever have reason to find fault with the other. When a couple are so perfectly mated that their offspring will be as near perfection as human being3 can attain, there need be no divorce courts nor fears of divorce courts. To produce spleudid children temperaments of the father and the mother must be as provided in the great book of Na- recourse right, there will be no fear of to the divorce mills. Oh, says one like catchap, you want to mate them alone. Not tle; for breeding purposes and women on your life. I want men to love each other and where they are united sexually correct, love follows as a natural result. It is the imperfectly mated pair that despises each other. Put that in your pipe and 3moke it. The time to prevent divorces is before marriage and, not afterwards. If a couple are mismated, it is a crime to let them live together. It is a sin visited on their children, even unto the fourth generation. Jt Jit In these days of modern campaigning, what a world of money there is wasted on badges and party emblems. Roosevelt and Fairbanks, Parker and Davis, even Debs, stare at you from coat lapels everywhere you go. You read their name3 on baggage check watch strings,you see them on buttons, badges, ribbons and all sorts of wearing apparel. They are cheap, too. Young as I- am, I can remember when one of the badges now worn would have cost plenty. Dad had a medallion with Buchanan on one side and Breckenridge on the other which he wore during that famous campaign that was a cheap affair, compared with one of these modern buttons, and he paid a dollar for it, and thought he got it cheap. Nowadays one can get fifty photographs of a man for the same price, much - more ornamental and a great deal more lifelike. - on : Jit Speaking of matters political, the old fellows who voted before the war; that i to say, ten or fifteen years before the war, are getting mighty scarce. One of them calls at my office about twice a week and asks me, He Watchman, what of the night? was an Democrat in WisconHe sin and is against ' Whiggism. to wants down the Whigs. and put in the good, old fashioned Democrats. He tells me the same old stories every time he drops in and will continue to do so every time he calls. I have tried to switch him off onto some one else, but ho wont have it. Jit- old-tim- - e . s Oir. time, back home, there used to be a good old fellow, who had been a Whig all his life, until the Republican party was born, when he voted for Fremont. He voted for Lincoln also. This od man drank rum. He used to get up in the morning and take a stiff drink mingled with black molasses and water. At about ten in the forencon he took another. He had one before dinner and another at SIX THOUSAND di-vo- 1 ?e la-bo'- ng hard-workin- Jit g, Jit Marriage has some sacredness about it, that is true, but it all lies in the -- He-dre- o : RANDOM REFLECTIONS. (Phil A. Peen.) This is written at Orderville, in Kane county, about 300 miles from Salt Lake City, and fully 100 miles from Marysvale, the nearest railroad point. Orderville is one of the most charming spots in Southern Utah, and is the home of some of the most progressive citizens of our great state. Orderville is the home of a very thrifty, industrious and intelligent, people. Here is a community of Republican Free Trade Expansionists who are going to vote a straight Republican ticket on the 8th of November. In Orderville the houses are made to live in. They are comfortable. They arc clean. They wear paint and they are artistic inside and out Orderville houses, like Orderville people, are good signboards for the Republican party; they proclaim prosperity to everyone who has eye3 to see with. Orderville people are expansionists from habit. They cannot help themselves; they have learned from- experience that Republican policies make broad-minde- d men and women, and that broad-minde- d men and women make good citizens and good citizens build good homes and good h. raes exert good influences, and gooft influences promote salvation, and salvation is a condition that Orderville people cannot resist. They are not troubled with Democrats in Orderville. Everybody here is expanding, climbing higher, growing larger, achieving greater results and so there is, of course, no room for Democracy. Glendale is four miles from Ordejr-vill- e and what can be said of one place applies equally well to the other. These are two charming mountain towns in what is known as Long Valley. They must be seen to be appreciated. The K. K. movement has found no sympathizers in this paft of the estate. People here are, as a rule., loyal to their party convictions, and as they buried Democracy down here eight years ago, there remains only, the Grand Old Party. From Marysvale to the Arizona line people shout for Roosevelt and Fairbanks, and are prepared to vote the whole ticket 1 - . ROCKY MOUNTAIN BELL TELEPHONE Co. n - . - ture, and no . misfits ought to be allowed. Apply the practical common sense rule that teaches us that a giant should not mate with a dwarf, nor a deformed person with an idiot and follow it to its logical conclusion, and there will be less separations. It needs no encyclopedia to teach what I am endeavoring to demonstrate. .My tneory marriage was declared to be a is that where a couple mate so that and one which could not the offspring of the union will be all properly be started without the interference, or assistance if that sounds better, of some ecclesiastic, ordained for the purpose. The idea has prevailed ever since and even now we hear a little old, roor backed, harebrained justice of the peace, marrying a c uple with the formula What God hath joined together, let no man put SUBSCRIBERS IN SALT LAKE JULY asunder. Of course there really isnt P. using it in any more hflrm in the .T. some in than gowned alf his wedding3 a justice of parson in his. In fact, the peace more likely joins together the mo-- e God united couples than the because ordinary average parson, to the words the not t.:ce dce3 say ju men and maids who have high-bora mockery and the rade marriage shame to the land. The ccirt a CAN TALK TO 20.000 OTHERS iuffce usually ties up some honest man with some hrnest girl and they live together until death parts them. IN sac-instituti- three in the afternoon and before supper with a double dose at bed time. I always maintained that this drinking shortened his life, for he was only 98 when he passed away, like a child going to sleep. He bought this rum by the barrel; imported it himself, and it was the best Jamaica. He never would drink anything else anywhere else or at home. When he went visiting he took a bottle with him. This old chap sent four boys into the Union army. Two of them fell at Antietam, one was wounded at Chancellorsvllle, and the other came home safe; He never batted an eye or shed, a tear for those who were killed, but gloried in the good fortune that permitted them to die like men, in the service of- their country. In 18G3 the rum barrel went empty and the new one arrived. But the price was raised. The import duty was higher and the internal, revenue advanced and thaL barrel of rum cost about 140 more man usual. The old man got angry. himself up to the full six feet four he stood in his stockings and declared By the living and the Infinite Creator of Mankind; when a government that he had sent four sons to defend, of which two were killed and one sorely wounded, would lay a tax like that on a poor man's drink, it no longer deserved his He voted for McClellan at support. the next election, and the Democratic ticket ever afterward. I mention this just to show how people will change their polities sometimes. There isnt to the story. any moral UTAH. IDAHO. WYOMING AND MONTANA . straight. |