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Show question is to be found in the almost universal uni-versal infraction of the laws which govern life, health and longevity. And first, the follies of fashionable and would-be fashionable fashion-able life trample on God's laws regarding the sacred gift of motherhood. This i not the place Dor the time to go into details, let every intelligent reader apply the general gen-eral principle. So of all the grades of infancy, in-fancy, childhood, to what are called years of discretion. The multitudes who have fallen by the way, the result of pre-natal and'infantile murder covered up under false pretenses as mysterious providences, are countless. Go through Salt Lake where nature has scattered her choicest gifts in the way of pure air and water, aufficiency of food and clothing, of employment in the mountains mount-ains and valleys, while ail the conditions arc favorable for the fulfillment of honorable aspirations and ambitions, and cownt up the rueu and women, who, in military parlance, arc unfit for active duty and must soon be placed on the invalid list. Stand at the doors of saloons and pleasure resorts and eount if you cau the unending column of drinking and narcotic-using practices, look at the interminable procession of pale-faced tight laced womeu, at the weary, jaded, professional pro-fessional men who rush to hasty indigested meals and drink and smoke by the way and note how few of the hurrying multitude have hopeful, contented and happy faces and remember the text with which we started, "As a man thiukcth in his heart so iie is.-" . . AS A MAN THIN KK HI SO HE IS. is there not some serious defect in our system of physical education in these days, not in connection with the children only, but of children of larger growth? Great ado is made over the hours of lajjor of mechanics, me-chanics, of professional men and of laborers, but compare the daily labor of men of the last generation who are now on the stage of action and in active life. The farmers and mechanics of from forty to fifty years ago worked from twelve to fifteen hours daily j and thought it no peculiar hardship and no special draft on their health or comfort so j long as their financial status 6eemed to re- ' quire it. Note how the European nations rely for statesmen aud soldiers upon men of advanced age. Today the two rivals for English leadership are men of advanced age. Gladstone, Glad-stone, over SO, seeni3 capable of as much vigor and endurance as at 50. And In this country the men in all grades of active life, in proportion to numbers, are still largely drawn from the gray-haired contingent. J H'hat a foolish thing it was to retire General Sherman from active service in the army at 04 years of age, the very prime of his life, tha harvest time of his experience. If the absurd horizontal law which deprives the country of the services of its capable ' men ia the army, at an aire when they can ! most effectually use their educated faculties ; and perfect physical powers in the interests ; of the st-itc, were repealed, and a commission provided to examine every oflieer whose I 1 failing powers of body or mind unfitted ! ; " him for the responsibilities of his 1 place, both nation and individual would he j benefited. If General Sherman had been left ! at ihe head of the army, we verily believe that the nation would have been well served j and iie would now be living in tiie seventy- ! third jear of his age. With his social and I conversational powers, with the enthusiastic ; love of every man who ha:! ever served Un der him, and in fact of every man in the union un-ion army, his retirement to private life in New York city was a sentence of death and of swift and certain execution. Think of the brilliant cavalcade of military mili-tary septensrians, we might say octogenarians, octogena-rians, who rode at the head of the conquering conquer-ing German columns through the gates of J'aris at the c!oo of the Franco-German war. I j T.'.e fact is the human system is made and i keyed to run to a good old age with all the faculties and organs of this two-fold life or- i ' dcred to meet the legitimate demands of i f such a term of healthy years. What is the j matter that the ailing aud dying of both sexes from earliest infancy through all the ranks .of youth up to thirty years of age fill all the avenues of humanity with :he wailing of mouruers who refuse to be ' comforted? The answer to this startling J7 |