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Show " ' 4 J THE SALT LAKE TIMES. SATUKDAY. FEHUtJAltY 28, 18SU. death, time and eternity, becomes unfathom-able, fur tho Intellect of man cannot sound those de;lhs, it must give up the problem anil eouteiit ttSi-l- with aguoticism. If the Utile la not the revealed word of God, final and absolute In Its truth, theology U mere guesswork, and tho origin and destiny of man are iinexplainable, Thai It l!io momentous ijitostton now before the 1'r sb Discussion of revisions of their ireed 1h time thrown away until It Is cet-tl-t-lrof. Hitious Is right, the whole Con-fi'H- i n of Faith 1b built on ilctlon. and not on eternal verities. If he is right. It proceeds from false assumptions, hy which the words of man are mnde the Infallible Word of God. and It is the construction ,,f super-itltlu- and n.ii a structure founded in revealed truth. Wo have come upon troublous tlmn.-- for the faith when tlieol iglans themselves are work-ing away with all their might to destroy Itt foundations. ' To this Dr. McNikck, the neslor of our divines, says: "There is no go id opportunity just now f say inu.-- alsmt llu revHlon matter for the the reportofth.-sperJalcomm'tte--o-f twenty-fiv- o .p luted last May by th gen eral w II not bi made p;i;!io ui.tl the assembly meets 111 Detroit ilea, M:k v. T.e assembly s made 1111 of inlnlst rial and lay delegates from Kia t Ties, the strong majority of which I'D sbyteries demand re-vision. 8 it Is board ti co ne. This coin-- tlei- of tweiiiy-ilv- was app Inte l in e to that rt maud, ant the dl pit hes tell us that the committee arj unatilmou-- . in their conclusions. The dispat lies also tell us what chapters and secilons Iu the conf,-snio- will bj changed, but. of com so, do not tell uswhat t: e p opuse.l eh inges are. I am ino-- t heartily ,n lavorof revision myself, and wifli it had been brought about lo- g ago. 1 he 01 D,--, khiouk, which has railed forth so much auvers- - criticism, was given at his installation In the new proressoishtp of biblical thedogy In Union seminary iu New York a fi w we ks 1 have not seen any full of it . Hut If the address Is what certain extended par-agraphs seem to Indicate, then 1 have the same Idea of lr Hiiioos that you would have of some high republican official who would use his IniiuencH t undermine the republican paity and to build up and strength-- n the dem-ocratic party. J hold that as long as a man chooses to rema'n In connection with any piil t cal or religious organization, he is tinner obligation to be loyal to the fundamental principles of that organization. And whtn Ills conscience rails upon him to oppose those principles let him do so by al! means. But let him first imitate example and leave the organization. THK PUKSBVTIEKIAS REVISION. Although sick with the universal grip, Dr. MeN'iECE expressed himself on the proposed revision of the West-minister confession which is now agi-tating tbe religious world. What makes the subject all the more interesting just now is the tendency of a certain faction to repudiate the old creed altogether. To use the language of another: The foundation of the faith of chils'ondom is the bible. The church is built ou the theory that tbe do trinns and statements of scripture ma the revealed woidofliod concerning tho truths - f eternity, whb-- else would bj un-known to mankind. Hut IJrof. Huioos. the foremoHt teacher in the foremost of the Pres-byterian schools of theology. Instructs his students that tho bible Is not the word of God, but a fallible book written by fallible men. So far as It Is true, his doctnue is substantially, the bible is of God, and only so far. Its truths, according to him. are limited by the etpaclty of its human writers to apprehend truth, and Its error are proportionate to the limitations of tlu-i- r knowledge and perceptions. If that t Is so. undoubtedly the superior intelligence j and greater enlightenment of this day would be able to write a better and a truer bible tban the old scriptures. They would make It more strictly in accordance with the conclusions of modern science and philosophy, by which Prof, nmoi s gives his students the right to test the trurh of the scriptures. This Is the Instruction In bibllci! theology which can lidaten for the Presbyterian min-istry now reclv. It destroys the super-natural foundation of religion by rejecting tbe a .t'iorlty of the bible as a revelation from heaven. The church ia with noth-ing to lean upon escept the conclusions of human reason. ' The mystery of life and other United States officials in the ter-ritory. Vet wo would rather tho Amer-ica- n were ridiculous, as it is, than calumnious, as it was. Curious moreover, in this feat of eating crow is the apology the Ameri-can ventures to mako iu behalf of tho Tribune. "We wish, therefore, to re-peat in language of the utmost empha-sis," it says, "that not one line of the stories we have printed cams from the Salt Lake Tribune or from any one connected with that journal." Con-trast this with the confession made by the latter and then marvel how this world is given to lying. We quote, from the Tribuuo leader of the 11th instant: The ciinginv New?, under a cry to have ail Contentious here, tills a column and a half lis own old Male, obs lets falsehood about tl pa-- t of thlsclty. It s iys: "The Illustiat.id Amcilcan got mostof Its ma-terial from the Ti We wi-- ti to say that whatever it got from the Tribune was the absolute truth : trim t:mt can l o established by testimony th.it w mid convince any Jury on earth. ' K1TIVO CROW. A gentleman sends to The Times the last issue of the Illustrated American containing the resolutions passed in mars meeting and indorsed by Governor Thomas and other prominent federal officers, refuting the libel uttered by that periodical upon tho good name of Utah. While ostensibly maintaining its old position, tho American fails to sup-port it. It is tame and helpless in the face of the unanimous rebuke admin-istered it by the citizens of Salt Lake. Still, it cannot refrain from venting its epleen upon The Times, which it calls "the ally of the mormon organs," though all the quotations it makes from tho columns of this paper are in accord with the protests filed respectively by the council, citizens' meeting, real es-tate and stock exchanges, and others. If Tub Times is an ally of the mormon organs, then it has good company in he persons of the governor, chief Justice, marshal, commissioners, and THE SALT LAKE TIMES. " By THE TIMES PDBLI3HIR9 COMPAKI. 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I will sing a son that never brother bard bath sung to thee, For the spirit of its rhythm la revealed, alone tome; Maybe on the nights of Heaven aerajphs sing It to their lyres. Maybe In the depths ot Hades devils shriek It in their tires; But I know not, and ye know not; hearken t Its hopeless strain. And deny It, or dery it, still its ripened trutlm remain. Nothing Is that is not ordered by predestinat-ing power. From the master march of planets to the soft fringe of a flower; We are merely supple puppets, and that powet pulls the string, Making of this man a menlaf, making of that clown a king; . Models one iu manly beauty peferct In twrf part, Groat In mind, and grand, majestic, in the Im-pulse of hie heart. Marvelous, serene and lofty, born the masses to command With a look, a tone, a motion of his white be- - Jeweled hand. He, the stately one aud saintly, seldom feels tho spur of sin, And can stay it and suppress It by the master will within; His are gold, and love, and glory, and the faith that sees afar An unending lire of rapture o'er the blue rim of our star! But, behold a fellow-morta- fashioned on an-other plan, Coarse, deformed and mlsgotten more a devil than a man; Heir to sin, and want, aud sorrow, born with-out a sense of shame, Stung by sharp, keene, tierce desires burning In his blood like flame; Weak, unbalanced and repulsive, reveling la sensual things, If he hath a soul within him, 'tis a soul that never sings 'Tis a soul that hath no wings: If he speeds the blasting bullet through the heart of fellow-man- . Blameless he, for It was written when the uni-verse began. He was born without the powor or the Impulse to forbear, When the dumb, resistless forces of tho cycles centered there; That which gave him life had given passions that Impelled him here. Circled hlra with strong temptations from his birth-cr- to his bier! Formed the hour and circumstances; placed the pistol in his hand. But withheld the strength and schooling his Impulses to command. Nothing la that Is not ordered by predestinat-ing power. From the master march of planets to. the soft fringe of a flower: From the Charity that standethwlthher sunny wings unfurled. While her white hands shower blessings, and her sweet Hps kiss the world. I'nto Crime, with bloody flaming torch ami dripping blade, Stalking over tombs and ruins Its destroylnn hand has made. If the mists phantasmal with the salnte we walk In rhyme. If our hearts are set to music of a melody sub-lime, If we wade with knife and fagot through the blood our hands have spilt. From that power came our glory, from that power came our guilt. Will Hubbard-Kenian- . PROPOSING A NEW DEPARTMENT Enlarge the Bureau of Kducatlou for the Hake of Natloual Art. j T, 0. Crawford's Washington Letter. It la further planned to establish a new department in the government. The bureau of education, which is now one of the subordinate bureaus of the interior department, has been growing-- , aud now occupies a separate building. It is thought that it would be a good thing for the administration of public alTairs if this bureau could be enlarged and Its head made a member of the cab-inet. The enlargement of the plan of the bureau should then include fine arts and architecture and the supervis-ing architect, who now has bis bureau in the treasury, would be transferred to this new department. Everything relat-ing to the tine arts, to architecture and geueral educatiou would then be un-der the direction of one man. This would correspond to the department iu France 'presided over by "Le Ministre des Beaux Arts." With such a depart-ment something like uniformity of ex-cellence could be attained in the con-struction of our publio buildings. Statutes and pictures would be brought in accordance with certain well known and accepted principles. Government purchases of this character have nearly qlways been of more than a haphazard character. Nearly every work of art in the form of a statute at Washington has been the choice of some speci-ally appointed commission. The com-mission appointed for the Parragut statuo is a fair illustration of the char-acter of these commissions. This com-mission was composed of (iencral Sher man, Mrs. Farragut and a local artist General Sherman was appointed on tho commission because he was a friend of Farragut's. --Mrs. Farragut was put on the commission to be sure that there would be a family likeness. Competi-tion was thrown open to tho artists of the world. There were some really beautiful designs sent in by tho Ameri-can students in I'aris and Rome. Yet tho work was given to Vinnie Beam, a local artist of no particular training or talent. Her design was accepted, first, the likeness could be recog-nized by Mrs. Farragut; then General Sherman said tho details of the uniform were correct; and the local artist fa-vored homo talent against peoplo who had gone abroad to live. The result is needless to describe. This statuo is considered by the serious-minde- one of the feeble jokes of the capital. A department f a permanent charac-ter would soon draw to it work of the highest class. Anyone of a position good enough to be selected for tho cabi-net would undoubtedly have some re-quirements for tho position. At any rate, he would havn such sense of re-sponsibility from the prominence of this position and the consequent im-portance of his work that he would not dare to settle questions of art and architecture upon political or friendly lines. The designs for a publio build-ing are now all prepared at one small bureau of tho treasury. In the place of "this it would be proposed to throw open to the architects of the United States an opportunity to submit their plains. This would stimulate competi-tion and the awards would be great en-couragement to the development of art in architecture thougbout the coun-try. TYPEWRITERS' LITERARY STYLE. Ease and Eipreastveneas Marred by Ma-chine Writing, Boston Transcript. A young woman, who frankly confess s that she has literary ambitious, writes to the Listener to ask if, in his opinion, the use of tho typewriter has an injuri-ous effect upon the writer's literary style,- The question can only answered inaquallied way. The Listener, after a good deal of observation, is quite sure that the typewriter is a bad thing for literary style, but of course he could not pretend that the literary stylo of every author who uses it is injuriously affected by writing with a machine. The diction of certain writers might even be im-proved by it. The Listener is convinced that as a general thiugthe typewriter produces a sort of staccato, disconnected, jerky style; to change the metaphor, a tlesh-les- s and bony slyle.and awkward withal. What is written with the machine seldom has tho ease and expressiveness that the same author's handwriting might have possessed. The special word by word planning that goes with it, be it ever of slight und even uncon-spiciou-does get in the way of free ex-pression; and there is a tendency iu the writer to think out his sentences less thoroughly, and even to uso stereo-typed expressions, which fall in more conveniently with one's practice. In spite of all that may be said by operators about the process becoming "instinctive" after a time, it could not possibly become as completely instinct-ive as handwriting is unless everybody wrote from childhood with the tpye-write- r and nothing but the typewriter? And even if everybody did it might re-quire generations before the operation could become as instiuctive with civ-ilized people as handwriting is. The Listener, is quite aware that many authors- who have taken to writing with tho machine think that their style has not been affected by it; but are they sure that their friends always agree with them? In one sense the typewriter is a bless-ing to editors. It makes a page that is easily read, 'if the machine is operated at all well. Hut in another sense it is not a blessing tb them, for the reason that the Listener has stated it may produce poverty of expression where there might be something better, and it is always a matter of grief to an edi-tor to have anyone write not as well as he might. It seems, moreover, that the diffuse writers, whoso style in the pro-cess (be it ever so rapid) of punching out one's words rather than writing, would seem to make more compact and expressive, are not helped at all by it, but. on tho contrary, are made still more diffuse. The ideal way of g one's manuscripts for the press is to write them with a pen, revise them carefully, still with the pen, of course, aud then have then copied out in type-writer by an operator who is familiar with the hand-writin- THE FREE LANCE. As Judge Anderson left tho court room Wednesday afternoon be caught a glance, at a nuar cigar store, of a sign bearing the legend, "McKin-ley,- " under an animal whose identity the judicial mind was unable to fix. Was it a cow, or was it an ass, or was it a mugwump creature? Perhaps it was a pri.o puzzle. At any rale, after a brown study of several minutes, his honor gave it up. Tho following letter is too rich to bo buried in tho pigeonhole without fur-ther notice: Haii.ev, Idaho, Feb. 31, tmi.-l'- ul Ushers Salt I.akk Timks: I'lease find Inclosed K.;sl, for which please receipt. You will e your own judgment in continuing the subscription. You will ret no money till the snow Is oil aud wock siarls, Snow three feet deep: cold as blue llghtitln': no business, n money, but all the same This Tim . 1?. a great lojnlort these long nights. think you will sa e in con-tinuing, but use your'owu judnment. Yours Kesp y, -- .Salt Lake City will honor the memory of General Sherman iu a befitting wan-ner after all. At the next meeting of tho G. A. K., which will be held in a week from Monday, Major Hradley will introduce a resolution to that effect, and of course it will carry with a rush, (imilar action was had at the time of General Grant's death, ami there were fully.'MMiO people present ut the memorial in the park. We renew our suggestion that in any observance to be held Mr. lloyt Sherman may take a leading part. Jt is not every city that has a near rela-tive of the dead soldier among her es-teemed citizenship. i-- --h --t- Scveral gentlemen of athletic propor-tions or athletic bent are considering the feasibility of starting a private gymnasium iu this city, and while the project has not yet passed the stago of informal discussion, it is plain that the material therefor is on baud. Mr. A. F. llolden, one of the gentlemen inter-ested, has a most brilliant athletic rec-ord, lie played on the Phillip Kxoter academy eleven in 'SI and '82, and was captain in 18H3. Ho played on the Harvard 'varsity eleven iu '84 and the same year was captain of the fresh-men eleven. Iu 'KJ he was on the insti-tute of technology team in Hoston; then played on the Harvard 'varsity 'Mil and was captain of the same in '8H. In 'M3 and '84 ho was on the Fxeter nine and in 'Ho, 'H and '87 he played with the Harvard 'varsity nine. "Ho won the Exeter championship in the 100, 220 aud 440 yard dash. At the fall meeting in Cambridge he won the championship in the 100 and 220 yard dash in his freshman year. He won the col-lege championship in the spring of '85 in tho 100 and 220 yard dash. He ran at Mothaven in '8-'- and was third. The gentleman is tho son of L. E. llol-den and divides his time between Salt Lake City and his father's mines of which he has charge. --i- t- Another athlete interested in the formation of the club is Mr. Nat M. Hrighara who rowed on the Harvard 'varsity crew in Springfield in '77 against Yale and Columbia, in '78 against Yale and Columbia; in '78 against Yale; in '80 against Yale, and was successful in all but the last. Mr. A. T. Schroeder and Dr. Niles are some of the other gentlemen con-cerned in tho formation of the athletic club. The thirteen superstition is one of the, most tenacious to cling to man, and we are not at all surprised to read the following curious item in an eastern paper: Murat Halstead, the great tield marshal of Cincinnati aud Brooklyn aud the world in general, was present at the board of trade dinner when Sec-retary yindom dietl so suddenly, and a few evenings later ho was a guest of tho Press club at its dinner in Delmon-ico's- . After Secretary Windom died at the table of the board of trade dinner, Mr. Halstead looked around and saw that there were thirteen guests at tho table. At the press club dinner Mr. Halstead sat near General Sherman, and looking over the table he saw that there were thirteen guests at that table also. Mr. Halstead was fidgety until another guest was placed at his table. A night or two afterward General Sher-man was stricken down with the sick-ness that ended in his death. Somo people need but an opportunity to show their versatility. At the uni-versity banquet last Wednesday, Mr. H. M. McCartney, late resident engi-neer of the Union Pacific, acted ns toastmaster and he surprised the club by his sparkling witticism. - It is almost impossible to induce Mr. N. M. Brigham to sing in public, but he could not resist the persuasion of collcgo friends and so ho rendered a few selections at the banquet that fairly electrified them.. His clear, animated tenor rang in the ears of his hearers long after his sweet notes had died away aud not a few wondered if they had ever heard such a voice before. They probably never had, for Mr. Brig-ham'- s voice is unlike any other, "more melodious than the spheres." Divine, one of the banqueters calls it. It is a pity he will not sing more often. UIK NNH AM) Til V. MOTIVE, The more wo consider the Old Fort block proposition the more convinced we are of the utter dishonesty of the opposition to it. There is no need of refuting the poor man's argument; that has been done by Councilman Paiisons in a way leaving nothing to be added. Now wo are told by tho obstructionists that the wealthy men, tho bankers aud taxpayers, object to the sale. V hy not name them? Mr. ISacon's proposi-tion has been peuding before the coun-cil for nearly two weeks, during which time wo have published the names of scores of property-owner- s who favor the project, but we have utterly failed to see tho other side put on record. The other side is not modest in making bold assertions; why, then, hliotild it be too modest to show itself? It is the opinion of some of tho oldest real estate men that the price of tloO,-00- 0 offered for the old Fort square is all it is worth today; but whether it is or not, we believe this is a minor con-sideration in view of tho benefit that is to accrue to tho city from tho Doep Creek railroad. P.ut the obstruction-ists claim that Mr. Uacox offers no guarantee that the railroad would be built even if the block were ceded to him. What arrant nonsense this is! The proposition is straight to the point in this regard. The transfer of the property is to bo conditional upon the building of 200 miles of the road. But, say tho negative men further, if the Deep ('reek railroad is a good thing in itself, why should it depend upon the sale of a piece of real estate? We give it up, because we are more concerned to provent failure than to investigate into the causes of it. We notice there is not so much stress laid upon the neeil of a park in the vi-cinity of the old Fort block as there was at one time. The reason is obvious. The obstructionists would have to draw too heavily upon their imagination to prove that n park ever existed, or would exist, in that neighborhood. At present it is a cow pasture only this and noth-ing more. Instead, tho legal objection is shoved to the foreground. There may or may not be something in this argument, but if there is we should think the objectors would rest their case on that and permit it to be deter-mined in the only proper tribunal pro-vided forin such cases, especially as Mr. Baton offers to assume all the expense of any litigation resulting from the sale. But the cloak of the devil cannot hide his cloven foot. Behind the pre-teus- e there is the same old motive as of yore, which is to thwart the growth of the city, to smoke out tho progressive element in it, and to relegate the metropolis to the charge of tho antedi-luvian fossils who would build a Chi-nese wall around it. It will never be done. JII AI TII sKI WEALTH IN' Ki lt MINES Utah has a popular reputation as a producer of precious metals. But time, with slower development of her vast and varied magazines of less showy but useful minerals, will demonstrate the fact that permanent and inexhaustible wealth is waiting In her mountains and valleys for the action of labor and capital. Iron and coal nlready discovered, rwncd and superficially developed, mark Utah as second lo none of tho Btates and territories in the possession of these foundation stonos of imperial weallh. Outside of these mountain of iron and field of coal embodying perma-nent prosperity and commercial su-premacy, there exists a great variety of crude, material, which, if properly developed, will givo pcrmament em-ployment and ample fortune to enter-prising investors. Within a week, Colorado journals have displayed big type and exclama-tion poicts iu magnifying the astonish-ing discovery of a generous ledge of "Alabaster' capable of withstanding a pressure of 10,000 pounds." Now, ti'uo alabaster is simply sulphate of lime, soft to work, soluble in water and ruined by exposure to the weather. Pure white marble, "carbonate of lime, is a very hard stone, standing exposure to tho weather, to heat, and capable of withstanding great pressure. This latter stone, white and transparent, is frequently misnamed "Alabaster." It is properly named "Statuary mar-ldu- " and Utah has the only ledges on this continent of this valuablo material, ' which, from the surface down has carried unclouded white "carbonate of limo" showing itself chemically pure and assaying ttlt per cent of that material. She has deposits of real alabaster und mountains of gypsum which is being manufactured and ex-ported with profit to tho manufaciuier. Asphallum, ozocerite or mineral wax, gilsonite, elaterite, mineral paints in great variety, materials for white por- - celuin and gjass ware, salt lakes, springs aud lodges, sulphur in great deposits and nearly pure; graphite, slato, lire and allumiiium clays in great abundance; lithographic rock with a great variety of marbles, hot and cold mineral fipringd, the finest of building rock of different colors, and paving material of nil sorts. For a time in tho earlier history of cur mining industry it was presumed that coking coal was only to bo found east- of tho Missouri river, aud at a cost of $U5 per ton, coke for our smelters was brought from Pennsylvania ovens. Jsow it is found that the great veins of coal stretching along the eastern slope of the Wasatch range from Castle Gate on the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad, to Salina canyon, produce a good article of coke which can be profit-ably delivered at our smelters at one-hal- f the cost above named. With this home supply, tho manufacture nf Utah's superior iron ore assumes a new phase aud tho capitalists who avail themselves of preseut opportuni-ties to purchase iron aud coking coal properties within striking distance of each other, secure in the immediate future fortunes for themselves. A potent element of success in the Varied productive industries which must grow out of all theso mineral storehouses, presents itself in the tem-perate, healthful ami inspiring air of Utah. Extended observation proves that the Salt Lake basin gives to the outdoor worker more days of snnshino and equable atmosphere than any other section of the United States. Let the holders of hoarded treasures iu eastern cities combine with the hard handed toilers and their pale-face- families in tenement houses and win health aud "wealth in this inter mountain region. UTAH M t'OUINU COAL. How little do many of the men of tho towns and cities of Utah who prophesy great things of their favorite localities, know of tho labors of humble but indefatigable prospectors and miners in the and high-plnce- s of this commonwealth! And yet the growth of theso favorite towns and of the territory generally, depends upon the opening and development of theso multiplied and multiplying min-eral tributary streams and sources of wealth. If the readers of TrtB Timks, with the opening of the coming summer, will take a pleasant jaunt from the thriving town of Huntington in Castlo Valley, somo eight or eleven miles up the picturesque canyon along which the Huutingtoii river courses, they will reach the romantic grounds and coal fields belonging to the Emery County Coal and Coke association. They will obsorvo, under the superin-cumbent pressure of 1000 feet of solid rock rising abruptly from veins of coal some twenty-thre- e feet in average thickness, the imposing outline of this remarkable coal deposit. This coal, equal, if not superior, to any in Utah for domestic, steam and coking purposes, has been attacked from three sides by a half dozen tunnels of from 50 to 125 feet iu length. Tho quan-tity of coal thus exposed by tunnels from a vantago ground, all running towards a common center and into which railway cars, climbing up the winding sidetrails, can enter and be loaded from the breast of tho tunneled chambers, is evidently immense.. The quality, as shown by the following ana-lysis and statement made by Mr. Mr-V- n Ki;n, Salt Lake's well-know-speaks for itself: Carbon JS.:iper cent Volatile 4,v,o Moii-tur- ' " Ash iuo " " "A good coking coal and the best coal in I'tah for domestic use." This coal area embraces some 0000 acres, more or less, is and lina been for some years held and worked by an asso-ciation of working men under United Stales law and in connection with private survey connecting with United States official surveys. Being just out-side of the fifteen milo railroad limit this coal land can be entered when covered by a special or by general United States official surveys at $10 per acre -- one half what it would cost if within the prescribed limit. It un-doubtedly offers a rare chance to rail-road men to obtain a largo interest by furnishing railroad facilities and a market for this admirably located and easily worked deposit of coking coal. From Wlnslow Homer's Ilrash. Exchange. There are sonic beautiful paintings by Winslow Homer on exhibition at Richard's galleries. Homer is. next to Inness, tho most able of American artists. These pictures are scenes on the coast of Maine, with one exception that of an ocean scene and all are wonderfully strong and original. The ocean scene is called. "The Signal of Distress." There is a dull gray morn-ing after a tempest. The angry sea is yet lashing a steamer on whoso dock officers and crew are hastentug to tho boat which two sailors are about to let fall from the davits, evidently to go to a ship in the distance which, under full sail, stands toward its rescuers. The canvas is full of life and action and stirs one's blood by its purpose and the mo-tion of the huge waves rocking the steamer. There is a "Winter by the Sea Shore," where tho foaming surf is tossing against ugly, ragged brown rocks; there is a high cliff covered with snow and a sportsman in a blue coat, tho coloring of which forms a sharp contrast to the glittering white of the snow about. There is an exquisito moonlight scene where the cold, silvery moonlight falls not only on the sea but also on the wooden platform, whereon girls aro dancing, whose forms are illumined by lights from an unseen building. Mr. Homer's handling of the sunlight and moonlight upon water has never been surpassed by any American artist. THUS RUNS THE WORLD AWAY. Conjugal love is not preserved in family jars. Texas Sittings. There is a good deal of the wag about a dog. Boston Transcript. Our spare hours are well named; they seem the shortest of the day. Puck. Some girls are like a violin; it takes a beau to mako them talk. St. Joseph News. Tho bnker always has dough on hand because he kneads it in his business. Washington Star. There is a produce exchange rumor that au earthquake has shaken up the coffee grounds of Java. New Orleans Picayune. Emma. I rode in a horse-ca- r halt an hour today before I got a seat. Amy. That's too bad. It's such a misforture , not to be good looking. Boston Herald. Kingley Why, old man, what makes you look so gloomy? You haven't had a falling out with your wife, have you? Bingo Worso than that. With our ser-vant girl? Life. An exchange savs that "Chicago has put her foot into the world's fair." This must be an error. Up to the hour of going to press there was not enough of the world's fair to hold a Chicago foot. Norristown Herald. "On what grounds did Ilenshaw get his pension? I never heard that he did any lighting during the, war." 11a didn't; but he claims his sympathies were enlisted." Puck. Too Probable. "Now we will sup-pos- o that one cab driver goes eight miles an hour, and that another who can go only six miles an hour has three hours the start of him. Where will thoy meet?" "At tho alo house," Fliegonde Blatter. Oar Relations With tbe World." Henry Watterson. But, sir, to the text: "Our Kelationg With the World." First, and above all, they should be just. In national, as in personal affairs, there is but one wise rule and precept, "Do thou unto others as thou wouldst that they should do unto you." The bullies never get the best of it. Jingoism is only another name for short-sighte-rascality. To demand nothing but what is right to submit to nothing that is wrong makes up the sura of success-ful and beneficent diplomacy. After all, and in the light of the subsequent history of Europe, what a poor lot were the Tally rands and Metterniehs of the era of double-dealin- when it was' mistakenly supposed that the highest function of language was to conceal the truth. We live in better times. Bismarck is a distinct advance upon the older statesmen. Perhaps the royal youngster, who has sot him aside and taken the reins of power into his own hands, may prove a distinct ad-vance upon Bismarck. Sir, I am not sure that the time will ever come when the lion and the lamb will lie down together and there shall be among tho nations universal peace and brotherly love. It may be that such a condition is not desirable;that the vir-ility of manhood requires the re-freshment and stimulation of constant friction in human affairs. We can not deny that there is in the g fife and tho soul-stirrin- drum and tho pride, pomp and circumstance of heroic action, an elevation and a nobility to be found nowhere else. I must admmil that I retain enough of tho barbaric leaven to believe that war is often glorious and may be at times essential. When Cardigan had moved up the valley of death, and car-ried tho Russian works, to find that at tho cost of more than half of his command, ha had to ride back again, and had started to retrace those bloody steps, not a shot was fired from the bat-teries of the czar on the right and left; but instead, the gunners, who had wit-nessed tho fatal and splendid charge, stood upon their caissons and waved their caps and cheered the gallant Englishman, from whom, invader and enemy though he was, they could not withhold their admiration. The history of war, if full of cruel suffering, is also full of inspiring gener-osity. The people of the Lnited States are a stronger people, and a more united peoplo for our great sectional conflict. We came out of that trial by lire a better race of men. It is this cir-cumstance, and this alone, which makes it possible that some day there shall be but one dominion over the vast em-pire lying between the north star and tho southern cross. THK KKAPPOKTIONMENT. As TliK Timks quoted yestorday the action of the senate, which will un-doubtedly be concurred iu by the house through its conference committee on the legislative bill, is the most impor-tant step taken iu years for the politi-cal and material advanco of Utah. We consider it, aud the result will prove it to be, the best thing for the reconstruc-tion of this territory yet devised. With a fair reapportionment, such as we may expect under the new bill, tho liberal city element will come to the fore and shape the destinies of Utah, a task which by cunning and device no less than by the result of the census of 1880, was entrusted to the ignorant and reactionary country districts. We are glad the appropriation of $5000 was cut down to $1000 and we would still rather see the sum reduced to a nominal figure, since the money will bo returned anyway to the treas-ury as very little, if any, of it is needed to carry out the provisions of thi law, and it was appropriated simply to ensure the passage of the bill in its present shape. Let us see if the year of our Lord 1S!)2 docs not senure to us the first lib-eral legislature iu the history of Utah. The Death or Nero, New York Trlbuno. They have just made an interesting discovery in Uome very interesting to the historian, aud interesting even to the "intelligent tourist." They have found tho very site of Nero's suicide. There had been a great deal of legend about the tomb haunted by the raven, supposed to be the spirit of the bad emperor. Suetonius, who wrote on the "Twelve is pictueresque in his particulars, but not definite. He tells us now the emperor's nurse found the body and herself saw to its crema-tion. She collected the ashes and placed them in a porphyry urn in the garden of Domitian's villa. There is a general belief that the Pincian hill, just above the Piax.o del Popola, was the site of these gardens, but the belief has rested more on tradition than on truth. However Signor Buti, the engineer, in the course of his excavations, has dis-covered a stone with an inscription very definitely fixing the site of the villa where the suicide was effected. Few spots in modern Kome, in the Rome of our day, are better known to tourists and travelers, and it is part of the curious irony of fate that the spot where Nero ended his life should be not far from the house in which Keats, the poet died. I.NTE HSTATK COMMERCE COMMISSION-Ki- t Scikenmakf.k, democrat, is super-ceded by Knait, republican, leaving two democrats, viz: Mokuiso.v and Bkaiu;, on the board. Under the terms of the law, no more than three mem. bers of the commission can be appointed from the same political party, and it is well the new appointment changes the status of the commission, the majority now consisting of Cooi.kv, Vkazie and KXAIT. "Oath" CoiupllinentM the Legislators. Topeka Capital. "Did you como to Kansas, Mr. Town-sen- d, to receive impressions of our farmer legislature?" asked a Capital man. "No; I came to secure a little rest," he replied. "I have, however, visited the house." "Well, what are your impressions?" "I was disgusted by seeing such a nice looking body of men. Tho papers have given us to understand that they are anything but representative law-makers, but I fail to see any difference between them and other similar bodies which I have visited." "Is this your first visit to Kansas?" asked tho Capital man. 'Yes, this is the first real visit to tho stato. I was here once in an early day, but that was long before Kansas had at-tained its present standard." "I cannot forbear saying something about your state house," continued Mr. Townsend. "It is a very fine buildiug and well arranged. I like the archi-tecture and tho arrangements and fur-nishings of the offices. This building impresses me more favorably than tho state house at Springfield." Ho here made an allusion to the cold, gloomy passageway between the completed wings of our slate house. "I started another novel some time ago," he said, "in which the capitol building of New York was to be described, in tho early days of our country. There were but two wings of the building then and I have tried to imagine what kind of a passage connected them. When I saw this it acted as an inspiration and I now realize what a contrivance was used to connect tho two buildings." OPPORTUNITY Master of human destinies am I ' Kame, love ami fortune on my footsteps watt, Cities and Holds I walk: I penetrate Deserts anil se is remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or Into 1 knix k unhidden once at evry gate ! If slecpiUK. ake: if feasting rise before Iturnaay. It Is the hour of fate. And tht-- who follow me reach every state Mortals decr--e- , and conquer every foe Save death: but those who doubt or hesitate Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me In vain ami uselessly implore, I answer not, ami I return no more ' John J. lugalls. Once more the Union Pacific is being reorganized and once more the heads of numerous officials are being decap-itated. Directly tho Omaha head-quarters will find itself an inconsider-able appendix to the St. Louis head-quarters of the Missouri Pacific, with AuiiAJt Got Lt) at tho head. No other city in tho United States having twice the population of Salt Lake can justly pride itself of so much musical talent. No other city can fur-nish such concerts by home talent as this. The Talmud. What is the Talmud? Tho Talmud is the title applied to the Mishnah and Germara, two collections of Jewish traditions and decisions rela-tive to the law as given by Moses. The Mishnah is the earliest collection of traditionary matter in regard to the law, and the Germara is an elucidation of the Mishnah text, consisting of a run-ning commentary, explanations and opinions given by renowned rabbinical scholars. The comments are frequently iu the form of an argument, reason pro and con being advanced and' instances cited in support of the positions as-sumed by the imaginary contestants. There aro two Talmuds and that of Babylon, the latter being regarded as more complete and satisfactory. The compilation of the Talmud was begun, it is said, about the time ot the return from tho Babylonish captivity, B. C. 530, and was completed in the second or third century after Christ. It is, therefore, a body of Jewish thought and doctrine, covering a period of 000 or 700 years. . The Book of Life. Professor Swing. F;very man makes the book of his life, day by day, as he lives, and at his death the pages ' are turned over by his friends, and by his record each one is judged. Each later lino in the poem of jifo should add something to the open-ing lines. Each succeeding year should carry one's politics, creed and religion a little higher. One of the dangers to this country is the increasing tendency to devote "life to pleasure seeking. Nothing should displace laughter. It adds to life. But there is not a more Pitiable spectacle than that of an adult lifo wasted in pleasure. Some central utility should rise in every adult life. iho census takers could not tell how many people in this couutry are devot-ing themselves almost wholly to pleas-ure. The rapid accumulation of wealth may have lured a million, perhaps two millions, of peopfe from their useful-ness. Next in evil to the devotion to pleasure is the struggle for notoriety. The book of life should be shown only to its writer. Certain parts of life are unexpressible, and every soul has a world of its own in which there can be no reporter's footprint. , A Kothschild Worried. London Truih. Baron Gustave de Rothschild's health is made worse by worry. He has been in many speculations which have not been brilliant successes, and the Lamberts of Brussels are not pleased with the financial outlook of Congo. The stay tho baron has been making in Algeria does not bring the benefit the doctors looked for. It is a mistake to suppose that the Barings came to grief because there was a Hebrew combina-tion against them. The Rothschilds, on the contrary, had the strongest possible reason for wishing all the great Baring ventures to turn out well. That is encouraging news which the Engineering News gives to the effect that nearly Hi. 000 miles of railroad are j projected for this year. Wo wish Utah had a greater percentage of thorn. Anna Dickinson telegraphed Jav GotMi for $1,000,000. If any proof be needed that the gifted woman is insane this incident furnishes it. A Satisfactory Explanation. Puck. "What did Miss Leftover do when she awoke and found the burglar in her room scream?" "Not much. She transfixed him with her cold, gray eye, pointed to the door, and hissed, "Leave me!" "What did the burglar do?" "He explained that he bad no notion of taking her." Senator Blaik is going to China as the American consul. He has always soared in celestial latitudes aud the ap-pointment is a good one. Hound to Join tho Family. Puck. Jack Smallcash (to rich widow's daughter; Dearest Emily, will you be mv wife fcmily Rockebilt Oh, Mr. Smallcash! This is is so very unexpected! I think I think perhaps you had better ask mamma. Jack Smallcash I have, already, my love) but she refused me. Taken s Threat. Puck. Conductor If you don't keep your head inside the car window you'll have it knocked off. Kooney Knocked off, is it? Well, it won't be knocked off by any wan the size of jouse, yer bandy ley rod blue spider) A Luckless Stab. Courier-Journa- l. The president would rathor visit Mas-sachusetts than any other state, be-cause there has been a decrease of babies there. A Tiikke is more nobility in Empress Ekkkkkk k than that vouchsafed her by outward rank. 4 |