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Show The Masonio Llhrary. 1 By Invitation from Grand Secretary Diebl, wo visited the Masonio library yesterday afternoon, and wuro pleased at the marked ohange for the better marlo in the additions to the valuable collrction of reading mattor during the pant few mouths. The bookcase, ooutaiuiiig volumes for the uxe of members or those who may desire to avail lhemsolv.es of the- facilities aflordod by the institution, are well filled, and there are vary few classes of intellectual food not contained within their doors. There are compartments com-partments for booko u nil or the following follow-ing headings, all ai raugud in applo pie order, labuled mid numbered, eo that they can ba got at at a moment's notice: . Magazines, history, milling, Utah literature, which embraces a number of volumes of the Millennial Star, nearly all tbo church publications, publica-tions, aud a numbur of works on the 'prr'hlin;" general literature, fiction, pueius of all the ttelebrated authors, novels, etc. On eaoh side of the room iu a good bited book case, filled with Masonio works, which include the reports of all the grand lodges of the Uuited States and arranged according to states, alphabetically, from Alabama Ala-bama to Wisconsin. The cupboards beneath the hook cases contain works on art, ancient and modern, and include in-clude Beveral very fiue volumes. On the walls of the room are hung the oil-painted photographs of several leading members uf the Masonic brotherhood, whioh, with other pictures, pic-tures, Bet oft the library in good style. The tables, of which there are ten or a dozen, are laden with the latest publications pub-lications ot the day, magazines, local newspapers, eastern pictorials and literary journals. Hero young meu can profitably whilo aw.ij their sveu-ings sveu-ings in readiug and punting them-ndvea them-ndvea on the piiKtmig events of the time, and when thi-y become satiated with reading, there are ohess and checker boards to pass away an additional ad-ditional hour. The advantages of this institution are many, but the more prominent one which eugetts itself now ia that oflcred to idle young men and old ones, loo, for that matterto mat-terto draw their attention from disreputable dis-reputable places and retorts of vile and unprincipled pereona. It should be frequented and patronized liberally. |