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WEBKLY. much turned and twisted to meet partisan ends, as perhaps any that has preceded it. But unlike some others there has been a clear division of policy on the tariff question, which has tended to make the campaign a less personal and -mud-slinging one than others that have disgraced our his- The position Judge Gresham has taken not to enter into campaign politics is worthy of emulation by many Federal officials throughout the country. He says ina letter to Hon. W. C. Atkins: “T could not actively participate Yet it will notbe till after in the campaign without exposing tory. myself to just censure and lower- the Ides. of November, till afthe smoke and dust of ing myself in the estimation of ter right-thinking people.” These are battle have cleared away, that the words of a brave and honest the majority of people can settle man. Judge Gresham holds a down to a calm and really intellihigh judicial office under the Gov- gent consideration of the matter. ernment, which trust he did not We are of the opinion that, in receive from any one of the politi- these degenerate days, noise and cal parties, but from the whole bluster goes a long ways toward country, and to the people of the securing success in a Presidential whole country he is responsible. election. The noise and the bluster and the excitement of a Presidential elec- tion are sufficient to carry many a <i <- The Place of Home in American well-meaning office-holder from his | G. Q. CORAY, J. M. ROMNEY. -| feet, and it is truly inspiring to see one like Judge Gresham who is Saturday, October 27, 1888. clear-headed enough and has sufThose who read current American ficient moral perspective to clearly fiction must have noticed how small and A PICTURE OF SUFFERING. realize the duty he owes to his insignificant a part is played in it by the American home. Itis the great summer Four years ago there came to office and country. We doubt not this country a company of Polish that this stand of Judge Gresham’s hotel, or parlor car, or steam yacht, or Atlantic liner, or Continental pension, Jews, who settled down to a farm- | will tend to raise him greatly in or any other devices by which Americans ing life in Ramsey county, Dakota. the estimation of his _ fellow- seek to get as far away from home as They had fled from a land of citizens. possible, which is chosen for the setting of our pleasant tales. As a consequence, oppression, where subsistence was the American is too often depicted as scanty and where people of their Fiction. Editors: race were often refused the rights which by nature belong to most “men, and had come to one which was reputed over the whole world to be blessed with liberty, peace and prosperity. They planted acting a part which is not natural. He is either aping manners and customs | which are not his by inheritance, or There is a vast project afoot by scoffing at them in a very disagreeable the government to reclaim the way. He is, no doubt, in this capacity a great arid regions of the interior fit subject for satire. But take him where he is at home, The range of country where he has achieved success from very West. A GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE themselves in a new country upon which these operations will affect, little farms which were wrung by patient and arduous labor from the wilderness around them and soon made for themselves comfortable and happy homes. comprises an area of 1,300,000 square miles, or about one-third of the entire United States. Although the whole of this vast expanse can never be cultivated, owing to its character, yet by a vest crowned their efforts, and grand system of irrigation such as thinking very likely that fortune the government contemplates, milwould ever be thus smiling, they lions of acres, now parched up and The first year a- bounteous har- more into debt to stock their holdings. valueless, may be made the scene of fruitful and happy homes. Tt was a hazardous step. A severe Major Powell, under whose went deeply thoroughly frost in August | roseate prospects blasted their tion the work is to be as completely as direc- carried on, in nearly thus speaks of it: “The selection of sites for reservoirs, canals, etc., rests on a complete topographical survey, which is the first factor in the problem. Nothing worth while can be done till that is at least approximately made. A large part of the arid region has been thus surveyed. We are now equipping thirteen parties for this special work in the field. Of course, the amount of irri- every instance the mortgages were foreclosed and one family after gable land in the west is limited by the amount of water flowing in another driven from the streams, and the next thing ifthe land by an awful had been swept bare tornado. The labor of two years was lost in a single night-time, and these people were besieged by want and ruin. Tt is all too rare that men with money interests at stake show the sympathy which one human being| owes to another. The creditors of these unfortunates became fearful of their interests, and their homes as outcasts and beggars. In one case a woman was deprived of her only cow by a heartless creditor. In the home was neither food nor be done is to find out water every stream how to much carries. Lliv- ery stream will have to be gauged. We must also ascertain how much fuel and she and her two little land each stream will serve, and ones, almost naked and in wintry this will vary according to the weather, were left alone and starve. to freeze texture of the soil, character of So distressing did the irrigation used, and a multitude of situation finally become that the sheriff refused any longer to deprive people of their possessions. Such suffering as this in Ram- sey county calls long and loud for sympathy. People of any one locality do not not know how Jong they may be exempt from similar visitations, and in a country blessed with so great plenty as the United States. is, there should always be warm hearts and ready hands to supply widespread want. That such will be the case in the other considerations.” > >—>>t WHEN THE humble ROLL deavor to win opponents. are putting forth success from. entheir The present campaign present instance there can be little has been as prolific of demagogueism, as replete with and his wife not so much an object of laughter as of admiration or, perhaps, of tears, For there are hosts of American homes of the right sort, where mother, father, and children are united into a compact and influential social unit by affection, respect, and even something of reverence. The struggle of such a family for for- tune and position is not the sordid thing which fiction-writers have depicted. There spring from these homes, every chicanery, as ing a small boy on the eye with a rock. The boy was presumably stealing a look at the wonders within the tent. The case ROBBED ON THE sell was Two Footpads Waylay Samuel Johnson and Steal his Gold Watch. On Monday, night about 12 o’clock a man was heard to call out lustily for help. Mr. Margetts, a clerk in Pembroke’s bookstore, heard the cries while near the Council House corner, and soon after saw two men, whom be footpads pass down he thought to Main Street. Two other persons were street and’he requested coming up the them to go to the person in distress, which they did. They proceeded west on South Temple, met Mr. Johnson near the Museum and accompanied him to the City Hall. On their way they met Night Watchman Watson and informed him of the robbery and he at once telephoned for the police. Inthe meantime Mr. Margetts saw the footpads enter the alley south of Goldsmith’s store. Here they were also seen by Night Watchman Watson, who, regarding them as suspicious characters, followed them into the middle block and saw them go onto First near Madsen’s store. The police time had gained a description two men of the South by this of the| and when they arrived at Main Street met the two fellows walking along First South and at once arrested them. They were taken to the City Hall where they Harris and gave Joe the names Larkins. of Joe On _ being searched $2.25 in silver was found, a razor blade and two or three other trinkets. Mr. Johnson says that as he was coming along South Temple, and when at a point a little west of the Valley House, a man quietly st>pped up to him and put his hands over his eyes while an accomplice rifled his pockets. He called loudly for help and the garroters ran off in the direction of Main Street, carrying his gold watch and chain He and had five or six dollars nottime in money. to geta good look at them. Mr. Watson is sure that the fellows caught are the ones he saw enter the alley, aud this along with Mr. Mar- On Thursday they were tried in the police court ,and were bound over in $2,000 bonds, in default of were: remanded to the pro- tecting care of the Pen. th a ee Teas is a movement toward the for- the their purchases. family, in them are boundless new ideas, progress, and rich it is impossible the rising man or variety. The other side to this picture is furnished by the largest cities, where lonely and homeless young men struggle on to selfish and luxurious middle age, or sink into pitiful poverty. These furnish our writers of fiction with too many types— perhaps because they are most familiar with that side of life. So long as homeless men and women are the chief characters in our novels, we can expect that only the surface of our national life we be touched by them. Contrast with ours the ayes inners of English fiction—Thackeray, Meredith, George Eliot. They give you heroes and heroines surrounded, for good or ill, with relatives of various degrees of lovableness or the opposite. You large a part it plays right point in love; of view you for any acute observer of lifeand manners. Yet Mr. Howells has been almost alone in adopting it to a degree, here, and he has given us a number of beautiful family pictures, perhaps none more certain percentage on the Under for a its amount of provisions small number of persons to obtain a guiding control, as each holder of stock is entitled to but one vote. An institution of this nature has been in operation at Logan for some time and has met with an unusual degree of success. On Thursday night the organization of such an association was genuine, Mike- evidence ad- new iron near BITS. bridge Uintah over the Weber | will soon be eom- pleted. Hans Jensen, of Brigham City, was drowned on Friday last while spearing Salmon near Glenn’s Ferry, Idaho. THE new city hall nearing completion. at Ogden is fast A few weeks more and it will be ready for occupancy. On Sunday evening last three and a cow were killed by the Pacific “flyer” near Ogden. THE speakers at the horses Union Tabernacle Sunday were Elders James and Andrew Jensen. on E. Talmage AT THE meeting of the City Council on Tuesday night it was decided that work on the sewers should be proceeded with. West Temple Street between South Temple and First South has presented a busy scene the past few days—the occasion, laying of gas and water pipes. THE Rio Grandeswitchmen at Pueblo are on astrike. Efforts are being made to compromise the matter. Tue first regular session of the general convention of the Universalist Church began in Chicago on Wednesday. Mr. B. F. Cummings of the Deseret News was the winner of Spencer Clawson’s special premium, offered at the Fair for the best essay on “How to sell goods.” At Washington and while exercising; the race horse Paragon stepped into a and broke his fore leg, He will THE general Missionary Society of the Christian Church began its annual session at Springfield, Illinois, on Wednesday. Reports showed the work to be in a favorable condition. Bromley of American with adultery District Court underground. before Fork, the First at Provo, has taken the His bonds of $1,200 have been forfeited. A Democratic meeting was to have been held at the Federal Court House last Tuesday night, but was postponed for one week. Jesse W. pleted map entry and Fox, Jr., presented a comof the city with townsite plats to its last session: the City ‘Council at It is probable that steps will soon be taken to correct the many imperfect blocks and lots in town. Last Friday waring, afternoon traveling George agent for Man- Calder’s effected under the name of the “People’s Music house, was arrested for unlawful cohabitation. He entered a plea of Equitable Co-operative Institution,’ with guilty before the Commissioner and was capital stock released on $1,000 bonds. of $50,000. The. officers are as follows: William Langton, president ; John Schofield, vice-president; S. R. Marks, W. J. Lewis, H. Morgan, A. M. Cannon, A. Woodruff, Philip Spry, Oliver Hodgson, Isaac Langton, Sen., Eli Folland, S. J. Sudbury and J. W. Maynes; secretary and treasurer, Levi W. Richards. THERE ing has been a scare at the Stand- Rock agency over a reported rising of the Crows against the Sioux. An obscure medicine man claimed to have dreamed that the Crows were coming and prevailed on the young bucks to start out for them. A company of cavalry dispelled the illusion. Sr A see how large apart the home plays in human destiny for suecess or failure; you see THR River charged mation of an equitable co-operative association in this city. This form of cooperation has proven very successful in England, where it has received the The RANDOM Bishop An Equitable Co-operative Association. There the day, spectators. have to be shot. they part of duced from three or four deaf mutes made considerable amusement for the hole which good discharged. are the guilty ones. ize continually a getts’ testimony will go far to prove they greatest attention. Customers of the institution get ashare of the profits, a rising hope, occupied and went over till Tuesday, when STREET. day, most beautiful examples of selfdenial, muiual aid, self-help and almost heroic endeavor. It will not do to satir- this is the As the day of the Presidential election draws nigh, one can almost feel political anticipation growing more and more tense about him. All over the land party advocates and managers force watch its gentle influences or its sad limitations to the very end of the story. Every man knows in his heart thgt BY. | their best efforts in a supreme by sheer shrewdness, where he has gained the confidence of his neighbors along with his riches, and there you will find him a more admirable character, and his daughters more lovable and refined, and how +t CLOUDS beginnings The Local News. Ir seems to be now an assured fact that we are to have a railway between Salt Lake and Sioux City. The road has’ been mortgaged to the Manhattan Trust Company for $20,000 a mile and these mortgages have been filed in from purse A. L. containing Halset’s $40 was stolen grocery store on Tuesday night. The proprietor had gone to supper and left the store in charge of his hired boy, Dick Irving. When he returned he let the boy off duty and soon after missed the money. various counties along the route. It is The police were notified and set out in divided into three corporations, the Salt search of the culprit, but have not yet Lake Valley and Eastern, Wyoming and succeeded in finding him. Eastern, and Nebraska and Western Mantrt has passed a stringent: law Railway Companies. After the road is against boys or girls being on the streets built it is expected the corporations. will after ten o’clock at night in summer, combine. It isa totally independent and nine o’clock in winter, witho..t road, and will be completed within the and almost pathetic, with all its humor, than the Putneys, of Hatboro’,in “Annie Kilburn.” Such American homes make next two years. the heated atmosphere and false sentiment of Edgar Saltus’s “Eden” ‘seema On Saturday last, Mikesell, an attache horrid nightmare, and not a picture of of the circus lately performing in town, life. Drock in Life. was up before the police court for strik- writen permits from parent or guardia 2. The law applies to males under 16 cnd girls under 15,.and the penalty atta. ed is $5 fine or 5 dap’s imprisonme 1, ~_—~ Ps ES can be enforced it should prove a wholesome law. x |