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Show THE FREE LANCE. Self praise, tho old proverb has it, is half scandal. Tiik Timks is too modest to praise itself. Neither is there any need of it, since compliments like the following continually pour in upon it: Bai t Lakh City, l et). 11.- Manager Philips: Accept my conKratulationB for the enterprise displayed by Thk Timks management today in giving the public nearly six columns of the death and life of (leneral Sherman In so short a time after bis death, lie died at U:p. tn. and hy I: If. p. m. the news boys were on the streets with over five (Oluuins of matter about the great man's death. With such a paper nothing of importance can happen on the irulted Stales map that we won't know In a few minutes. Hespectfully, W, K. Giiibs. It may be proper to add that the feat has never been equalled in Salt Lake City. --- "It is a wise child that knows its father." It seems moreover be is a wise man who knows his race. Certainly Cer-tainly the editor of The Times is pleased pleas-ed toget some information about his. such as neither he nor bis parents nor anybody else liable to know anything about it, ever dreamed of. Only the genesis is not quite clear. So far as the Free Lance can trace it it started with a reporter of the Tribune (whether from malice or ignorance we know not) and then passed over to a leper from Michigan and through him to the Herald. Yet notwithstanding this dubious origin the editor of The Times is curious enough to ask for particulars. There never was a more pregnant motto written than the Greek "know thyself.'" The editor is anxious to get that knowledge which previous to the advent of the reporter and the leper he apparently did not possess. However it is true he is mutilated. The leper evidently fell into a truth unawares. una-wares. Pension certificate No. 3!I0,07U says he is mutilated sixteen dollars' worth a month. The leper never will be mutilated except from rot. -t- -t- -t- Iu view of the possibility that the Rev. David Utter may become the first permanent pastor of the Unitarian church in Salt Lake city, the following memorial, fouud in a Chicago papor, will be read here with interest: The retirement of the Reverend David ftter from the pastorate of the First Unitarian society of Chicago, affords ttie members an opportunity to express their appreciation of his work as a pastor, as well as the affectionate affection-ate remembrauce in which he will always be held hy the active membership of the society. The elKht years of Mr. Utters ministry in Chicago have been years of intelligent devoted de-voted and conscientious service in the cause of liberal Christianity. Hrtnsrlng to bis work the zeal which should always actuate a christian minister, he has added the qualification of rliie "holarsnlp, tireless Industry and a spirit of the broadeet and most oathollc toleration, We remember 11N0. and we read with grateful grate-ful appre latlon the fact, that from the beginning begin-ning to the end of his ministry his work has h:-en froe from everything partaking of sensationalism sensa-tionalism and from any effort to aclileveatmu-poMry aclileveatmu-poMry siu'cess at the expense of a more en- duriiiKieputution. Combining in his character charac-ter the elements of nl olnte sincerity In his lellglnus convictions and of absolute fearlessness fearless-ness in their expression, tempered only with a spirit of ju-d toientuoe toward those of opposing oppos-ing faiths, without ostentation and without thought of lf. he ha modestly dune his work nnd borne his part In the religious lite of a great citv. Nor In'th hour of partins with a beloved pastor would we fall t.) give expression to our eteem for her who has been a helpmeet In nil t he vears of his ministry among ns. The quiet lnllueuce of that devoted wile aud mother whose life illustrates the grace of a cultivated christian womanhoKi, scarcely felt In the beginning. haBCometobe a recognized factor lu ihe religious and social work of the church. - -t- -- In the society column of The Times on Saturday we read: "Sunlight ?otil-lions ?otil-lions have lately become all the rage in Brooklyn, N. Y, They commence at 3 in the afternoon and last till 6. These entertainments seem to be based on good sound senso as one is not obliged to lose sleep as at other cotillions which lasts till 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning." Nevertheless the 3 p. m. cotillion will nover become popular in this country. It may be in Kurope where there is a large idle class constantly on parade, but not in the United States where it is difficult even now to scare up young men enough for the night cotillion. |