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Show THE PR EE L ANCE. Although the Mills revivals were concluded con-cluded several days ago, the contention over them still continues. There are two sides to every question, and Mr. Tibbils states her side in the "Sprigs of Thought" quite lucidly. Yet she errs grievously when she starts with the proposition that Spain has siren nothing to the world except the inquisition. For several centuries that country stood at the head of civilization, and it was then not a whit less religious than it is today. It is but necessary to quote the names of some of her noble sons and daughters to emphasize the truth of this assertion and to recall some of the grandest achievements of mankind. Out of a long list that will suggest Itself readily to auyone we mention at random, Abd a! Kah. man, Almaaso, Cid, Coiumbus, Ferdinand and Isabella, Henry of Navare. Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Velasquez., Mor-rillo Mor-rillo and Ijrnatius Loyalln. The decay of Spain resulted not from religious causes any more than the downfall of Byzantine or Greece. Mr. Edmund Russell thinks it of importance import-ance that children in school should be taught how to staud and how to walk. VVhai he says about elevating the chest aud "control at the center freedom at the extremities" i all edifying, but when he described in detail i... ...... -..timi .r u- IL i no- ime1 to ht; unite all voices upon what is popularly 1 known as the Sego lily. It may not ha a J beautiful as the great white Columbine, but i it is more universal in the territory, and '. more people know it and love It. It was the ? CrBt love of many of our citizens who were born here. Among their early recollections going up on the hills to dig seg stands out as a time of unalloyed pleasure. The winter was over, the snow bad retreated up the sides of tbe i mountains and there was that fresh and fragrant smell of the earth that belonsrs to ' the season. The dis- ( taut willows showed a faint tiuge of green, the boys and girls went laughing and chattering over the greening hillside. And then, how sweet and good the little bulbs tasted I What matter if there were a few grains of sand to crush between the teeth? But ' the pity of it was that each bulb eaten meant one flower less in Jane. Still there seem to be plenty left for all the digging. Within ten minutes' walk of the temple one could have reached a spot thia summer f where he could have gathered a thousand of J these beautiful white iilies in au hour. The flower is more like a tulip tn appearance than like most lilies, but it is a sister in tho lily family ail the same. Its individual ' name is CaUx-horttu XvtUd'.ii. It is said to be essentially the same flower that is known in California as the Mariposa lily. As was said at first, except the great mountain columbine, colum-bine, nothing is prettier that blooms in this region, and the columbine is appropriated by Colorado as the state flower lor her mountain region. If any one has any other flower to propose. It is time wo were hearing what can be said in its favor, otherwise let us fix upon the Sego lily as the flower to be emblematic of the state of Utah. in error. lie said that in bringing the forward for-ward foot down the ball of the great toe joint should touch ground first, then the heel should be brought down, aud then with a sort of clastic rolling motion the body should be swung forward over this outer, then lifted on the toe again while the other foot ia brought forward, and so ou. It is possible to make these motions in thic order, but the result, whatever it is, ii not wa'.king. It is the series of motions that the schoolboy has made when he tells you that he "slipped up on a kid" and knocked his hat oil unobserved. unob-served. It is the motion of "slipping up on" some person or animal and 6iirprisiug him or it. It was used by the Pinafore company when it came cauliously upon the darkened deck and was frightened by the cat. It is the motion used iu running, except that then the heels are not used at all. "He took I to his heels," ought to be, "he showed his heels," for when we run the heels arc not brought down at all. But the only way in which anybody doe, or cau, walk is to bring down first the heel of the forward foot, and then as the body moves forward briug down the toe and then, later, lift the body, to a greater or less extent, ex-tent, with the toe, as the other foot goes forward. for-ward. Any good or graceful walker wears out the outside back corner of his ehoe heel, and this is proof enough of what is said above. It is an agreeable theory of walking walk-ing that the force of the downward motion of the body at each step is broken by being received In an elastic way on the ball of the foot, but the facts do not accord with the theory. Nobody walks so. Should we walk- so? Mr. Russell's theorv that art should supplement nature is ail right in general, gen-eral, bnt is'lhis method for walking a good one? If you try to practice it, you will find that after you have touched the ball of your foot to the ground, carefully keeping the heel up, that then it you proceed toward taking another step it js a waste of energy to lower the heel at all. If we must touch the ball of the foot first, then let us go on tiptoe wholly, and not drop the body back uselessly, to use the heel in a wholly unnatural unnat-ural way. We Lave not seen Mr. Russell walk on the street, but we mean to, and we mean to find some way of examining the heels of his boots, for we are sure he cannot can-not and does not walk according to his theory. the-ory. Judge Zane is a notable example of the benefits a man may derive from outdoor exercise. ex-ercise. Any morning or any evening, and frequently quite late into the night, his erect form may be seen towering among the street throng. He never rides, or if he does, nobody has ever seen him. His pace is always al-ways brisk and it does not seem to make ' much difference to him whether the weather is ayreeab'e or not. The hot-house youth of 0 who thinks it Is an exertion to walk a mile may well take a lesson from him. The chief justice will still be a young man when the h. h y. is "already decrepit with premature prema-ture old age," as Motley has it. rWhen a state flower for Utah is to be chosen it will probably not be difficult to |