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Show q 3 pa <el THE Ls a = Sh op 3 WESTERN WEEKLY. eV d THE WESTERN WEEKLY. PUBLISHED HivERY SATURDAY BY THE A POETICAL A couple WESTERN PUBLISHING CoMPANY, SauT Lake Crry. Entered at the Postoffice, Salt Lake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter. Intelligent Hints on MAGISTRATE, of English mission- aries recently went to the Chinese city of Lungan Fu to propagate their religion; when the Chief Subscription Price: Magistrate at once issued a proclamation for their protection, orTHREE MonrTHs, .65. dering the city officers to be vigilAddress all communications to the ant in prohibiting any interferance WesteRN WEEKLY, 37 S. West Temple with them. And lest his proclaStreet, Salt Lake City, Utah. mation should fall short of its enRemittances may be made by express, tire purpose, he added with his money order or registered letter, at our risk, the sender giving his full address. own hand in red ink the following Every possible effort willbe made to blank verse: OnE YEAR, - Srx Monts, have the WesteRN promptly to - - $2.25 - 125: WerEKLY subscribers; delivered and persons haying any cause of complaint will oblige by notifying the office. Changes of address will be made whenever desired, but the postoffice FROM as well as the postoffice to which any change is made MusT be given in every instance. Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. oe G. Editors: QO. CORAY, J. M. ROMNEY. Rseremenreneereneet “Saturday, February 2, 1889. DISCIPLES OF ‘THE OLD Each religion exhorts people to be good; The words of some difficult to be understood; Willing to follow or not Is a matter of each man’s heart. Why fabricate false reports, Showing envy and hatred to others? Of old there is this saying, Love the benevolent, be good to your neighbor; If you break the law and stir up strife You only bring calamity on yourselves. Those who sedulously remember this proclamation Will forever reckon as law-abiding people. THE and New York, a population of than two million inhabitants which is inmany respects strangely like what its rural ancestors were in Germany more than two cen- turies ago. Some years since there were to be seen in a shop in Philadelphia several large books of Lutheran devotion, in the type and spelling of 1540, bound in deeply stamped white vellum, with heavy brass clasps. They did not look like imitation of old books, says Transcript, they “thing the the date recent... “They are for the sylvania Dutch,” said the seller. ‘They would not that the Lord would hear _they prayed to Him out of ern-looking Boston seemed to be the itself;’ but book. was Pennbook-. believe them if a mod- And _ those books, as you see them, have been ge printed in that style years for the PennDutch market, just as se for nearly 200 IT eT and bound | —sylvania they were printed for their ancestors.during the reformation.” > <i — ~ SHADOWS. Somebody who understands fairly well the human consistencies, writes the following -in the columns of the New York Eve- mung Post: “It is trouble, easy, of others SCHOOL.” There is in Pennsylvania, very - near the cities of Philadelphia more are a ruinous plan to borrow the interest on it is so The INDIANA BRIBER. probability is good taste. On the subject of dent of the lawns, a correspon- Garden and Farm that Dudley, the Indiana election briber, will not meet his punishment or his case receive even the formality of an investigation. Judge Woods of the Federal Court charges the grand jury that unless they can secure testimony connect- makes some valuable suggestions. Touching first the metaphysical side of the subject, he says: To one accustomed to the studious contemplation of natural scenery, there is apt to come, sometimes, the desire to possess some particular scene which has been found to effect the emotions—to own it as a pleasure and a means of refreshment to the mind through the eyes, as one might own a beautiful painting. The manv practical conditions of life rarely permit the indulgence in sucha luxury; but with the recurrence of the desire with each new experience, there comes to be an impulse that leads to the attempt to imitate certain elements of natural scenery in places in which it will be convenient to enjoy the result. There are many more who, while they are by no yet have an instinctive appreciation of the beautiful and the picturesque in Nature, which manifests itself in the selection of their house sites, and in the general style at which they aim in their planting and other out-of-door the planning and consistent, work, rather carrying complete, ideal, than in out o of any than in the imitation or perfecting of an existing natural scene. There is, However, one type of natural scenery, the ing Dudley’s public letter advising which recognized bribery every one who has the slightest opportunity, desires to imitate it. It is that with some act of bribery resulting therefrom no indictment can be legally found. The Chris- is so generally which is called a lawn. The essential qualities beauty in specimen neni in the same view as a foreground, but not as a part of the lawn. There would plication of homes, of schools, and all the blessedness of peaceful life. It means health to many, redemption for many more—redemption from hopeless toil, be a contrast from evil habits, from of constructive In viewing some of the most expensive lawns of Salt Lake City, one cannot avoid the conviction that they were designed more through the sense of imitation than that of the beautiful in art or Nature. An annual five-hundred dollar expenditure, or twice that sum, will not make beautiful grounds unless there is behind ita degree of intelligence and means students of, Nature, now terest ak of that and of beauty art, is asssociated with it which might enhance the effect of gayety, but at the expense of the lawn, because the sensation of gayety the foul associa- tions crowded upon poor families. The struggle with nature is | difficult. She does not yield her treasures freely, and the raschman, starting with little or ings properly to be derived from the con- no capital, must live before his land has templation of the lawn. The one tires, . been fully subdued. What considera while the other refreshes the mind. tion do his needs receive. I am credibly A lawn is at its best when there is no informed that in a certain part of Northevidence of the handiwork of man—no ern Colorado the farmer, before he can formality in the grading, none in the get water (and his claim is worthless and the interest in the artificial objects would overwhelm the milder, shyer feel- planting, no exotic plants, no fountainjet or basin, no vase or statue, no nicely without it) must mortgage his farm for $2.000 to the ditch company. He has to pay the interest on this, a special assessment for repairs, which amounts to some thirty odd dollars, and yet does not receive enough water from the canal to keep his crops from dying out. Then he has the taxes to meet. Is this much better than Egyptian bondage? The Mormon’s faults are many, but he trimmed path, no fence or formal terrace. Suchalawn conveys the purest impression and gives the most lasting satisfaction. One who cultivates a taste forformality, and things evidencing the skillfulness of man, is apt to tire of any one object or composition of that kind. It is true that there is a certain kind of refreshment to be obtained from variety cares for his colonies in their infancy. He does not grind them down with heavy taxes, with cut-throat mortgages and the opposite of that which is encouraged usurious interest, in the instanees I have by repose. But to one who cultivates a seen. And the result can be seen in the taste for the beautiful and picturesque | fertile valleys of his choice. in Nature,a single, purely natural scene Mr. Reed speaks of a dinner where the is never tiresome as seen again and again. chief thing on the board was hospitality. The infinite variety in the details and That reminds me of an old mountaineer’ their disposition, the differences of aspect who was visited by a party of New York caused by changes of weather and by the capitalists, directors of a cattle concern. seasons, by the growth of plants, by His man interviewed him in the field birds and other animal life—all are har- before asking them to dinner. “We have in such things, but it is a stimulating, nerve-consuming kind of refreshment, monious with the natural scene, are conspicuous enough to injure any nothing to eat but green not art- give them plenty istic impression which the scene may give, and yet make the scene endlessly interesting’ Too often a found is spoiled for the gratification of tastes and pleasures that have said the host, of who corn.” “Well, that,d—n them,” had no love for the cattle industry. And that they got— nothing more.—Correspondent Denver News. nothing to do with the true source of the enjoyment to be derived from looking at it. Andit is usually done, too, under the mistaken idea of decorating or improving the lawn. That is the pity of it. For instance, it, is not an uncommon thing to see aformal bed of scarlet geraniums in the midst of a lawn that would Slander and Desperation. Here is a story which has all the dramatic interest of Bartley - Campbell’s “White Slave,” with a tragic denouement added. The Lavelles removed from Au| gusta county, to Roanoke, Va., about ten Their condition seemed to be otherwise have had much suggestion of yearsago. tian Union, (New York). com- openness, breadth, seclusion and repose, one of contentment and happiness until a natural breadth and repose. The bed together with a subtle combination of menting on the decision says: ., of flowers maybe a good thing in itself. George, Amelia and a younger sister “Tf Judge Wood’s interpreta- contrast between its openness and the It is bright and gay, enlivening and entered the public free school. A cloud shady mystery of the wooded scenery stimulating, and it is well set off by the then overshadowed their cheerful exist| tion of the special statute against that should surround it. ence. Thecharge was made by the other surrounding turf, but the lawn is sacribribery were generally applicable It is not essential that the inclosing children of the school that they were ficed to it—that which has a permanent to all crimes, no Anarchist leader wood should be composed solely of large, worth is made to give way to that which ‘part negroes.” The Lavelle children, lin .Chicago could be indicted for tall trees. Snch woodland scenery may has but a passing value, a source of through their father appealed to the advising men to arson and murder partially border a lawn as herbaceous endless satisfaction to a pretty toy of principal of the school for immunity plants, rocks, steep banks, or even water, from the insults to wnich they were subunless it could be proved that ar- but all such features should appear nat- which every one soon tires. Again, conjected. The principal entered upona_. son and murder were attempted as ural and subordinate. A lawn should sider the case of a lawn “decorated” patient investigation. His inquiries with statuary. A beautiful nymph plasha result of his advice. If it is have a moderately undulating surface ing in a fountain, were it not a very |:elicited responses that the family were +rue, as stated by the correspondent because a dead flat would be suggestive hackneyed idea, and where it is the work held in high esteem at their old home, If a lawn is to be of the New York Times, that of artifinality. of a true artist, would be a most enjoy- but left the impression on his mind that smoother than is natural, the turf. must able and valuable possession; but a poor, there was a ghost in the family which Judge Wood’s decision in January be kept short. would not down. ‘Thoughtless people reverses his decision in December, _ However intricate and irregular in cheap, painted, cast-iron imitation of continued to keep up the taunts, which such a piece of sculpture, placed so as to we cannot but regard the reversal shape a lawn may be, it should, as a until dominate a fine lawn, is a barbarism originated as above described, as exceedingly unfortunate. It rule, have a predominating, central, ur, ~| which it is hardly conceivable that any eighteen months ago, when George, unopens the way to the suspicion broken area, in order to give it its char- intelligent person could be guilty of. able to bear them longer, fortifying himacteristic qualities of breadth and reself for desperate work by intoxicants, that political influence has had pose. The element of openness is essen- The same thing might be said of almost went to the residence of Charles Reyall the usual so-called ‘decorations’ of some influence in bringing it tial. Itis not uncommon to leave many lawns. ‘To decorate the face of a beauti- nolds, called him from the parlor to the about. If there is really any se- existing trees scattered over a lawn, or a ful woman with painted ornaments would hall, placed a pistol to his head and fired. rious question as to the true mean- siugle tree in the midst of it, or to plant not be one whit more savage. Our civil- The wounded man fell to the floor appartrees promiscuously over it. This is Lavelle glanced down at ing and interpretation of the usually ization is spotted allover with the relics ently lifeless. done either from a love of trees of barbarism; good taste is always striv- him a moment, placed the muzzle of the statute, it would have been better to have allowed the indictment—a course which would have submitted the proper construction of the statute to the appellant court, which will now have no opportu- high. When the trouble comes in reality, it is apt to rouse us to nity to pass judgment upon action. We have no time to sit down and cry or fret over it, as we can do while our trouble is yet it. of a lawn are as beautiful objects, or from the dread of a bare unfurnished look. No greater mistake could be made. It is with alawn as with a _ picture. The subject of a picture should be near the centre, the composition + erent about making a natural lawn. at or _ Fron aS Bante should be such as to direct attention towards the subject, other objects shown should be Thirty-five indictments tor bribery subordinated to the subject, and there and corruption have been found in should be a_ border or frame to assist in confining the eye tothe picture itself. Indiana by the grand jury, which So inalawn, tha eye should rest at or among the possibilities. It is is still continuing its investigation.” near the centre instinctively and easily, never as bad a thing to actually and since the turf is the characteristic and valuable thing, no other object meet as we imagine it will be; yet At the City Council meeting on should be allowed so near the centre, or we shall need all our strength and be so conspicuous as to distract the. energy to bear the meeting. It is Tuesday night a petition was premind from receiving the impression an old and good maxim that it is sented signed by a number of busi- which the lawn is calculated to produce. best not to cross a bridge till you ness men of this city suggesting It would be as reasonable to put a large fcome to it. Many people make that it would be proper to sell the yellow star in the middle of a picture as themselves unhappy dreading privilece to construct a cable line to have a fountain, or bed of flowers or a specimen tree in the midst of a lawn. what may happen on the morrow; in place of giving it away to the While there certainly is, in the long and when the morrow comes, be- company owning the present sys- run,a more refined and lasting enjoyhold, the trouble is left out, ang tem who are wanting to extend their ment to be obtained from a lawn the they were unhappy for nothing; lines. The City is certainly entitled borders of which are so planted as to apwill bring. pear absolutely natural, and which or, what is fa worse, they had so to all the franch'se The consistent method would be to makes a complete scene in itself, yeta exhausted themselves with plangood deal of the value of a’ lawn—its ning how to meet the dreaded time sell the right to the highest bid- suggestion of simple breadth and repose fbhat they had no strength left oy der and give the taxpayers their —may be retained, while a certain amount of gayety of foliage and of flowers, of inGre 3 share in the benefits. <éi2>>—~<+ <<>> ing to getrid of them, and they should be particularly avoided when we _ set Myron Reed’s sermon on man and the earth came in just right for some of us here; not great readers of sermons on the whole, but quick to appreciate sincerity of thought. To meit flection that if the brought the reAmerican people would doa little more to help its pioneers, long years of suffering might be saved. Such charity. while not perhaps as sanc- tified as missionary work, has the mighty advantage of bringing a return to the giver in this life. I have given freely, as far as lay within my power, here on the @rontier, and never have I been so richly repaid. “Why can not the good work be done in many localities at once, and unostentatious:y by those who have themselves surmounted. the hardships of pioneer life. There is so much courage, so much pistol to his own temple and sent a bul- let into his brain. His death was instantaneous, but Reynolds recovered. The motive could not be discovered for his shooting Reynolds, the latter asserting that he and the suicide had been confidential friends. . The other day Amelia went out shopping. She relates that while in a store making some purchases she was called a “nigger” by a young lady. She immediately returned to her home and began clandestine preparations for self-destruction. The following day she attempted to carry these plans into execution, shooting herself in the left side. She isstill living, but expressed the wish that she may not recover. Her younger sister threatens to follow her. eee eee he Buy your bread at the Empire Bakery. CHOICE candies are made ~Urag Cracker leads all others. Factory by Tuckett. silver brand | Jas. W. HARDLEY carries a large stock of lumber and building materials. HasuamM Bros. carry a stock beef, ete. industry, so much noble manhood, struggling with the problems of new counGrass tries. Their. success means so much to the world at large. It means the multi- office. Creek coal at of choice the:U. P. coal | Sai = ‘) Spy R 2 Go py) Sy) Shae |