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Show sets to work to enlighten the rest of mankind man-kind that ho was the last of his species, a this is a world of dross, "a metallic age," in which the scientist may thrive, but the master of fine arts has, alas, no place. It is all fudge. We presume the chronic croaker said the same thing at Homer's death, and yet the womb of time evolved a Shakespeare Shakes-peare and a Goethe and will evolve greater bards still. The c. c. no doubt piped the-same the-same tune when Demosthenes and Cicero passed away, and of late he revives his dunted notes with the declamation that the uewspaper crowds out the oration, when in fact true oratory was never more affluent than it is to-day. Daniel Webster is dead; and Louis Kossuth practically so, but Emilo Castellar still lives, and our own incomparable incom-parable Ingersoll is still as sprightly As some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome. It is thus with music, too. where Beethoven Beeth-oven and Mozart had worthy successors in I Warner, Verdi and Gounod; while in paint. ! ing the greatest of old masters never surpassed sur-passed the rich coloring of Mackart, the historic his-toric character of Munkacsy or Meissonier, or the grace of Millet. The fact is that humanity is not degenerating in any department. depart-ment. It is more versatile because science, its handmaid, lightens the drudgery and leaves more opportunity for the finer pursuits; pur-suits; and because also we have more wealth with which to acquire the nicer things of life. The dirge of the c. c. move .only to pity. THE rTlEE LAXCE. Some people expected to see John T. Caine renominated at Provo this week. Have you ever seen Utah's delegate to congress? con-gress? If you have you will probably not believe that he ia half way between 63 and 6t years of age; and yet that is the case. Mr. Caine was born in the Isle of Man Jan . uary 8, 1829, though ha could easily pass himself off as a man of 45, so deceptive is his appearance, fpare, straight, aji;e nd nimble, he is by all odd the youngest man of 64 ia three counties. In the auto-bioeraphical sketch ia the Congriwmal iHrrrtory from which the birth date of Delegate Caine U taken, it is said that he was one of the founders of the Herald: This is not literally true, as Mr. Sloan in the Loirau Journal once stated. It w.ns the latters father and Mr. Duubar who founded the paper. While speakin? of the Herald, it mar not be am'154 to say a word about its late editor, Mr. Byron Groo, who was connected with it almost from its start. Scarcely anything has been said of his retirement ven in the Herald with which his individuality was so long- identified. iden-tified. Perhaps that is one of the penalties connected with a journalistic career; and yet no man ever toiled harder or more faithfully faith-fully in his profession than did Mr. Groo. He was at his desk eariy and late, rarely j taking a rest, and even on the days when there was no issue he was at work,impairing his health in the line of duty; for he is a sufferer suf-ferer from that dread malady of brain wort-ers, wort-ers, insomnia. Never obtrusive, he made but few confidants, but in his relations with his co-workers he waa uniformly courteous and considerate. As a writer ho was safe and well informed. " Colonel Hyde, present editor of the Herald, is a journalist of national reputation. Ilis style is bright, crisp and incisive, and he can be assrressive without becoming vulgar. 1 Although he has lived in Salt Lake more than a year, filling a responsible and taxing position, few people, comparatively, hava become personally acquainted with him, due to his innate modesty. But then newspaper news-paper men have no time to form acquaintances acquain-tances or to foster them. It is a peculiar coincidence that the only two candidates mentioned for the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination to congress have both Republican Re-publican law partners. Not only that but they are vigorous, active and fighting Republicans. Re-publicans. Arthur Brown is the associate of Judge Henderson and J. B. Critchlow the associate of Mr. Rawlins. Here is a chance for a joint debate without any preliminaries, pre-liminaries, if indeed politics ia not tabooed by them in their business relations. Whenever a great man dies, a genius goes out, the chronic croaker who, like the poor relation, is always with us, immediately |