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Show THE BEE 6 TirE VOICE OF THE WEST. What is the voice I hear On the wind of the Western Sea? Sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear And say what the voieo may be, Tirt a proud, freo people calling loud to a people proud and free. Woiu&o'j Pep&rtnjegt. EVANGELINE 3. POWERS, EDITOR. AthlroH all tominanications for tho WomanH Department to Mra. IowerB, And it says to them, Kinsmen, hail! Wo severed have been too long; Now let us have done with a wornout tale, Who has not boon proud of his compatriots those days? Bravo, The tale of an ancient wrong, ardent, alert for orders, aglow with righteous indignation, yet cool, quiet, patient in tho face of delay and irresolution, calmly holding And our friendship last long as love doth last, and bo stronger than death is strong. hour and opportunity shall finally their wrath until tho looked-fo- r come. No adverse circumstance nor halting otlicial can cast the shadow of reproach upon them. They speak for themselves, and were Answer them, sons of the selfsame race, ono to ask in tho words of Macbeth, And blood of tho selfsame dan, Who can bo wise, amazd, temperate, and furious, Let us speak with each other, face to face, Ixyal and neutral, in a moment? And answer as man to man, Tho answer might almost bo an American freeman. And loyally love and trust each other as none but free men can. I. O. Uox it. Tho outpouring in honor of tho departing soldiers was magnificent. Thoso regiments were an outward, visible form of the suppressed feeling in the American heart today. And Monday night those who had gathered to hear Frederick Warde attested to tho fact every timo tho orchestra struck up a patriotic air that they were a thousand times over lovers of country before lovers of pleasure. Now fling them out to the breeze, Shamrock, thistle and rose, And the Star Spangled Banner unfurl with these, A message to friends and foes, Wherever the sails of peace aro seen and wherever the war wind blows. Western women should be pondering aloud over the better reguA message to bond and thrall to wake, F. East. with the of West tho more condition compared lated, orderly For wherever we come, we twain. in the of Americans in Smith being wrapped up speaking Hopkinson The throne of the tyrant shall rock and quake atmen will in the West raco for money-gettinthe that simply says And his menace be void and vain, tend to nothing except business, and in consequence, that section is For you are lords of a strong young land and we are lords of the main. ruled by womens clubs. g, It appears that old age has found out even the irristible Joe Yes, Jef- this is the voice on the bluff March gale, We severed have been too long; ferson. Ho was dined by the Aldine Club of New York lately, and he But now we have done with a wornout tale, told over old stories. When the charm of a good story lies in a sort The tale of an ancient wrong. of happy spantaneity of warding, an artless, happened-s- o air, its repeAnd our friendship last long as love doth last, and be stronger than tition is fatal. Joe Jeffersons delightful yarns are all in the telling, death is strong. ALFRED AUSTIN. and for him to reproduce one of them is almost like the child who said, Mamma, you remember that smart thing I said the other day? Mamma, you remember that smart thing I said the other day mamma? Yes seems to me I do, but that isnt smart now". You just belong to common folks, and common folks cant say anything that stays smart over ten minutes. Rather severe, but if some very uncommon individuals like Gen. Sherman, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson and many another great man had been brought up on the same severity, it would have been to their everlasting benefit. Massachusetts boasts that only ten towns in that State are without a public library. It is needless to say this is the proudest library record in the Union. But as New Hampshire now has a law requiring every town to maintain a free library, she will probably be enabled soon to discount the Massachusetts record by ten. Of all the towrns in America, Amhurst in proportion to its population is most bookish. If all reports of its reading proclivities be true, its inhabitants, from the toddlers up, must wralk about with a halo of thousand quotation marks around their heads. During 97 twenty-fiv- e volumes wrere circulated from her libraries, and her libraries comprise two college collections and two of municipal ownership, numbering in thousand nine hundred books. all nine-eight Our rapidly improving world is now blessed with another graph, this time a tonograph. The tonograph is an invention that can be attached to a piano to register in notes the music played on the keyboard. Thus, when Paderewski, or other musical genius, improvises in inspired moments, by means of the tonograph the improviso may be preserved in completeness, including, too, all the characteristic peculiarities of the performance. THE LADIES LITER ARY LUB AT HOME. Presidents day at the Ladies Literary club was celebrated yesterday and was of unusual interest. To begin with the topics were such as to instantly attract all club women in or out of Utah. Hon. C. S. Varian was asked to make parliamentary law charming and easy and simple if possible clear at least. Of course, he was quite able to meet the conditions. Mrs. Martha Burgess Jennings and Mrs Emma McVicker were the other speakers on the programme. Mrs Jennings subject was the Utah Federation of Womens clubs, of whictj she is at present the popular president. Mrs. Jennings talk was what every one knew it would be excellent. She, like Mrs. McVicker, is one of those speakers all too rare among women who neither recites nor reads what they have to say but says it. There is an almost unexplainable advantage about the straightforward method. Some will tell you it is because the speakers eye is free to hold her congregation, being engaged with neither actual notes nor a mental vision of them. Others say the unprompted speaker by virtue of her freedom is lifted into the region of thought currents and she and her audience think together. But whatever the explana tion, the charm is the same. Mrs. McVickers topic was The Fouil Biennials of the N. F. W. C. and her address was full of interestl (It will be impossible to give her remarks at this time. A synopsiJ was prepared by Mrs. Powers for publication, but time and space pre-- j ( vent its use. Ed.) SPAINS FLEET in the Pacific numbers fourteen vessels, all o: w'hich are unarmored, except two whose decks only are covered with steel sheeting. If Commodore Dewey, with his four cruisers, cant take care of that armada wrell not Dewey thing to him when he gets home. |