Show f PARIS oneida co cos idaho au aug g 31 1873 editor deseret news i my ily last to you was from st charles as president and company 0 an were on the point of starting for this place intentioned the frost wh which ich had nipped the potatoes and vines the previous night As we drove through Bloomington and the farming land belonging to this place we noticed the crops to see if any bad reflects of frost were visible but so lar i ar as appearances went they were not injured tho hay and grain crops throughout t the he valley are unusually good this season and the people feel well satisfied with their prospects the season for outdoor work in this region is ver xer very y short As soon as the land is in a condition to be plowed in the spring the teams commence breaking up the ground this has to be dore dole done quickly to be speedily followed by the sowing of grain and planting of other seeds that the full length of the summer may be taken advantage of for the ripening of the grain and vegetables delay belay in the performance of these labors throws the crops late into the season and exposes them to the frost before they are ripe As soon as the ground is fairly planted irrigation commences then haying follows a labor of considerable magnitude for in this valley the cattle have to be housed and fed nearly six months and then the harvesting of the grain and other products requires attention by this time the season has so far advanced that wood must be procured for winter consumption and but little time is left for any other labor we ask our friends with your heavy snows what prevents your logging and getting wood out of the canyons in chewin ter season when n sledding is so much aas easier easler ler ier anu and cheaper than hauling timber with gons they reply that the winds which blow aimor almost constantly in the canyons renders this tills impossible that no matter how many teams were to go up tile the can canyons sons in the morning making a good solid track byther by the thet time I 1 me they obtained their loads load S and returned they would f ind find the roads during aurini the most of the days of the winter completely obliterated by snow drifts this makes canyon work in the winter time almost impracticable and in fact but little outdoor work of any kind can be performed in the winter with these conditions if the people of this valley keep pace with those of other valleys they must find some remunerative employment for themselves during the long winter months which are now principally spent in the feeding of their stock and such other odd jobs as they may chance to have to do they must enter upon some settled and systematic s plan of labor new E england gland giand furnishes an example which they can profitably imitate when people estimate time as money they will not allow any of it to go to waste this tills is the estimate which the people of or this valley must yet place upon their winter days indoor in door employments should be created trades of various kinds should be learned and the young men be taught habits of udd unremitting industry and to adapt themselves V es to the changes ef of the die season to have work of a suitable character for every day in the year every hide produced in this valley should be kept here tanned dressed and manufactured into boots and shoes and not be allowed to leave here until it has acquired all the value which lab iab laborcai labor ian san bestow upon it shoemaking is a good winter employment mp loy ment and abid a operative cooperative co system m 0 of boots s and shoes 4 mig might lit b be established here with 0 excellent jien lien ajlen t results the timber of these thas c canyons is unsurpassed by any in thee these mountains what is there to prevent the manufacture of cooper ware furniture sashes and doors and an infinite variety of articles which are needed for daily dally use it may be said that the facilities here will not permit the people cople tg compete with those who give dive live ilvo elsewhere but suppose they do not earn as high wages as mechanics are accustomed toasa to ask is it wise therefore there tomo toro to allow the days to pass w out improving them half birin the winter season would woula be botte better r for body spirit and pocket than idleness the elements are here in profusion the only cost is the manufacturing of them and they ought to be utilized bumber dumber is Js not so easi easl easily liy lly obtained here as it should bethe consequence consee benco 47 U improvements arb are not made with the required energy we hear of a skilful turner who fears that lie he will lose all this winter because lie he cannot get lumber to enclose his shop the frame of which is erected this is a bad condition for a people to be in who have so fine a timbered region as this better resort to whip saws and saw the lumber by hand than to have everything standstill stand still for the want of it we know of no valley where the principle of operation cooperation co has hag a better field for its exercise than this in every one of these towns there is a demand for furniture for cooper work for carpenter work and other mechanical products A skilful managing man in each of these branches could ond and here herd a asplen splendid tild opportunity to make himself a benefactor by starting a shop in which each of these trades could be carried on and every young man who has a taste for mechanics be taught to work at that business for which he has the greatest aptitude this would be building up zion in reality and the men who would take these branches in hand and labor unselfishly to carry them on in this tills manner would perform a great work and in the end would be abundantly rewarded co opera tion ought to be brought to bear in starting good sawmills saw mills fiffis then with plenty of cheap lumber lumber and the winter days spent in preparing it it for building g purposes elegant residences would wadid spring up all over this valley adding civilized comforts to the ma magnificent scenery your correspondent might extend this letter to a great length in suggesting su the many ways in in which time could be spent to advantage during the long winters of this region but lie has probably said enough upon this subject at present there is another point however which should be brought to the attention of our friends who reside here we learn that money is scarce here Now no wb butter utter and cheese are cash articles our merchants have to send east to purchase these remitting money to the dairymen of other states which should be expended here A better land laud than this bear lake valley for the p production ro of butter and cheese can not le be found in the same latitude on this continent the principle of operation cooperation co should bo be applied hereto the establishment of butter and cheese factories in this way the luxurious growth of grasses in the valley can bo be made profitable not only to the people who reside here but to the tho entire people of these ulese mountains tho the company were kindly and hospitably received at paris invitations to partake of hospitality have been so numerous that the members of the company have found themselves unable to accept of them all president youngs health has greatly improved arid and all feel greatly bene fitted by the journey the meetings have been well attended and a spirit of freedom has prevailed this has been apparent in all the discourses delivered president young delivered a most choice sermon yesterday afternoon which was listened to with close attention by the people his re proofs were pointed and effective fec tive audit ana and it isto is to be hoped that with his counsels and admonitions they will be practically applied to everyday life and be long remembered on friday morning the speakers were elders geo Q cannon and wilford Woo woodrum woodruff drum druT in the afternoon they were elder john taylor and president geo A smith on saturday morning the speakers were elder J P freeze bishop thos taylor and president geo A smith in the afternoon the tile speakers were elders david P kimball and charles C richare geo A smith elders W woodruff and john taylor and president brigham young and geo Q cannon this morning elder S H B smith bishop EF sheets elders A R M musser and geo C lambert and president geo A smith addressed the meeting ahls this I 1 his afternoon the sacrament was administered and president brigham young addressed the large congregation assembled for an hour and a qa q or er it was a most instructive teai ilai ourse and though the tho usual lilu tiiu for holding meeting was not exhausted everyone felt so full of or what they tiley had llad heard beard that it would have been inappropriate cosay to say any more the weather this mornin morning was cool and showery this afternoon after alter the meetings here president geo A smith accompanied by assistant sisi tant fant trustees E F sheets A AM L musser and J P freeze will go to montpelier and hold meeting they will join president young and company on the road tomor to mor row morning and accompany him to soda springs which place it is intended to reach tomorrow to morrow afternoon J Q C FRENCH foh literature there is in general so much ranch ignorance and impudence in the criticisms which are frequently published on france in this country that wo feel most happy when we meet any competent advocate of the truth the cincinnati enquirer repeating what numerous american and german newspapers say lately published the following we do firmly believe that the literature of the french is inferior to the english and german literature and ana indeed where is the shakespeare Shak speare or tile the french goethe to tills this exhibition of or pedantry the cincinnati times make tile the following able reply very pretty indeed if we consider the fact that the english had no literature at all before france sent to them some literary seeds with the norman invasion that the very tongue 0 in in which the they y write is more french than saxon and that the first true splendor of the arts and literature of the english hs h beginning with the black princess princes belll reign t J was only a copy and a servile copy of french writers and artists the comparison is also very pretty for the germans if we reflect that the literature of that country is the most modern of all the civilized nations of europe and runs back only a few denem generations the united literature of the whole world does not produce a more shining casket of names than that of france alone its brightness not only dazzling by its direct rays but also by the light it sheds on the pages i of other countries let us quote e a few of these sparkling names where can we find more delicious novels a more darin daring darlng 1 imagination and more exquisite works than in the s eres et troubadours dours compositions of the eleventh and twelfth centuries when england and germany were as completely without a literature as the period of or chaos was of castles in epic poetry france also got the start many centuries of any other of the modern nations witness the history odthe of the capture of troy written by st S alabre maure in 1160 and the romance of alexander I 1 by de cor in 1180 the lively chronicle chronicle of the conquest of constantinople written by Ville hardoin in 1207 is the first great historical work in modern times the memoirs of joinville on the good louis IX still remains almost without competitors in biography on account of the charming simplicity of the narrative and aid the I 1 chronicles of fraissard Fro issard llave flave have been for five centuries the dictionary of historians and romancers when we reach the religious and literary revival of or the tile sixteenth century we find the names of rabelais montaigne amyot marot ronard ron Bon ard pard Malli erbe volture and of the great calvin tn in the next century we discover a literary monarch proudly standing before as many Shake and goetges as you please peter corneille the first the grea greatest tet writer the world has ever seen around him shone like a glorious crown the masterly logic of descartes the sharp eloquence of pascal the sacred and pathetic eloquence of bossuet sue tIthe the artistic style of flachier flechler ele eie ehler chier and the matchless sermons of bour bobr baloue and massillon tragedy polishes itself with racine comedy digs new furrows with Moliere and fable prospers with lafontaine ghosts of the muses what names follow in quick succession stars of the literary sky before whom the genius of the european world grows pale in its glimmering light fenelon la rochefoucauld la bruyere fleury cardinal of bets nets madame do sevigne malebranche let us turn another leaf great book and we have another cluster of sparkling suns the philosophical giants of the eighteenth century montesquieu voltaire rousseau bufton button they were indeed great masters and among their numerous disciples many were vere as great as ther themselves melves didelot Di derot dalembert condillac Condil lac Conde icet Cre billon losage lesage Beati marchais Chateau brian and and do destael in the present century we have otlien others as great ns as any who preceded them lamartine hugo hug 0 do vigny scribe george sand balzac So soulier uller harn karr Beran benangel gei and de musset and lastly the great historical and critical cycle which has brought forth guizot taine thierry gismondi michelet martin thiers littre and louis blanc inferior to tile the english Engli sli siu and german literature truly I 1 individual instances will bo be found in those countries which perhaps can not be excelled by france but her complete catalogue of literary stars is as far superior to theirs a as the abilities of a lady of the world are above these of a school girl courrier des stats unis L A 13 0 FOOD FOR THE SOIL SALT larr LAKE CITY Tursi TUESDAY Ay sept editor deseret mews news interesting and instructive as the late articles of the deseret NEWS on agricultural topics have been they seem to me not to have called sufficient attention to a most vital feature of or tile the field ic 1 ethe the nursing and nourishment of the soils in the vast expanse of this territory the proportion of the uncultivated to its fertile portion is hi appalling and if considered as aliat it is asserted to be an irreclaimable waste truly trula disheartening yet need this beahe be the case I 1 venture to say no As nature proceeds by steps by gradual transitions so man ought to do on the barren ground in the desert a subsoil must be created plants with little requirements such sueh as the aira alra alfalfa ira lra ac mut must be inserted to create the humus necessary for the subsequent generation this in its turn still living on n meagre and alkaline diet lis its adds its quota arid and by degrees the soil has become so much depraved or its enriched in 0 organic detritus and so much fertilized by the attrition and chemical decomposition of the underlying rocks as to render the cultivation of the most valuable cereals etc not only onis possible but easy and remunerative add to this tile the cultivation of groves and forests the conserva tors of the dew drops of heaven the fostering and encouragement of our w winged i aged singers and you have all the agencies at hand to reclaim the most barren desert the loneliest most forbidding abodes abodes experience and science unite to predict this tills as a most unerring re suit wherever the soil of this territory has been properly nursed and irrigated most gratifying returns have been the result it is true though that with equal care not everywhere equal returns have been secured and this is due to the lack of insight the absence of judgment in the tile respective cases various soils require different treatment sandy soils require additions of clay and humus matter A heavy clay ani fre frequently bently is bene fitted by burning and marshy and |