Show SOUTHERN UTAHS DRENCHING Rains Have Made a Great Change In i Dixies Prospects I James McGarry arrived yesterday from St George and Cedar City and I registered at the Cullen lie tells avery a-very gratifying story about the rainfall rain-fall In the southern Her of counties IL Is a great thing for the country aald Mr McGarry The rain covered I nil of the Escnlantc desert and gave It a good sonklng so that excellent feed for live stock ia assured there for the next winter seaBon The snow was falling heavily at Cedar when I left Wednesday and out on the desert tin rain was falling heavily cleat down Into Washington county And while I was not In Kane It could hardly have fallen the way It did In Washington wlthoul taking In Kane county also as well as the entire Buckskin country In Arizona where the copper mines are areThis visitation Is the salvation of southern Utah as whore the ground was cracking with the heat and hot to walk on all Is now full of moisture and nature Is saved from being withered with-ered up as wns feared Good crops It I Is believed are assured and everybody every-body Js wearing a smile as broad aa your arm Is long Southern Utah has had such a wotting down as It has not experienced In two years Developmerl work on the great Iron deposits near Cedar continue and a large belt of copper has been dlsco ered Ivlng between the Iron and limestone lime-stone deposits I believe that the richness rich-ness of this copper has not oven boon guessed at and that It will turn out to be an immense proposition ART INSTITUTE LECTURE Mis Alice Merrill Home Talks tot Art in the Home The third of the series of free lectures lec-tures under the auspices of tire Art Institute as delivered at the University Uni-versity laboratory building last evenIng even-Ing Mrs Alice Merrill Home and Mrs A W McCune were clown on the programme but the latter ludy had been excused becauseof other duties and her lecture was deferred until a inter dale Mrs Homes subject was The Home Its Furnishings and Surroundings Surround-ings It was Illustrated throughout with slereopliuon views which followed fol-lowed In quick succession and the lecture ended with a view of the Dewey arch In New York the building build-ing of which and the scenes attending its opening being fully described Mrs Jlorno handled her subject with care there was no attempt at oratory merely a plain talk on what art in the home meant and how It could be best secured and at the smallest cost Mrs Home said that art In the home did not necessarily mean pictures oC fabulous fabu-lous cost or statuary by the great masters but rather an application of the means at i the command of the family an artistic arrangement of the dally surroundings The next lecture will be by Mrs Franc R Elliott whose subject will be Schoolroom Decoration and Miss Elsie Ada Faust who will talk upon Art In Every Day Life These lectures lec-tures will bo given on next Friday There Averc very fo of the artists of the city present last evening but such as wero there gave Mrs Home somo very pretty compliment for the manner in which she handled her subject sub-ject |