Show PRIMER TAKEN TO TASK why so few attended prof Tal maes lecture editor or the ENQUIRER in last fridays issue of the ENQUIRER primer bums up american fork in a primary manner hempst have based his position on the little done by himself in the development and building up of this beautiful burg which he writes so in connection with our citizens his article proves his ignorance of the true status of things hereabouts but confirms his own disinclination to be magnanimous himself primer writes of prof balmages Tal mages annoyance of bringing his delicate apparatus etc the writers mind must have been hazy it he felt anything soft about the apparatus it was sound and in good working order neither is the instructor of the sciences so easily annoyed in his pursuits of good will to others primer asserts previously alie professor offered to lecture free I 1 wish to remind primer some of his pictured barbarians kindly solicited the gentleman to lecture which he did to an appreciative audience refusing compensation pensa tion for service primer must include himself in the sentence the people they afford it no doubt this young gentleman reviewing himself as a proa lessor in embryo might to advantage reflect to himself and determine alio best manner his own efforts could be utilized to dispel hose dark clouds of ignorance that surround him one might suppose from his writing that money had little value with liim compared to the cultivation of the mind considering how little he has done towards the physical development of the proper elements permit me to remind him that five dollars would have taken fifty of his scholars to have witnessed time and space apparently obliterated the sun moon and stars revolving within h ailing distance and the pupils could have listened to the graphic and sublime description of those heavenly bodies by one of best scientists but alas Primer you have lost that opportunity of doing good for everyou complacently permit the home of your parents and all the beautiful surroundings to yet remain enveloped in the dark clouds of uncivilized influences and the minds of fifty scho ars yet donnett on so important a consideration as that which is associated with the revolving of the heavenly bodies we regret the meagre attendance but it resulted more from a misunderstanding of the facts than the previous feelings of the people which in the near future we hope the citizens will demonstrate J AMERICAN fons may 1 1888 |