Show E EDITO D LT 0 R RIALS I 1 A L S 1 3 i i A S ZA lidy liis 9 irlie THE octopus or devil devir nish fish so graph ioa loa feil fell ica lly ily Y 1 described by victor hugo Humo 0 i and sometimes called the cuttie cuttle fish ja is not classed among the mythical mio nio monsters asters of rhodee the deep p aa as tt lifis alfis has hns been known for centt centi centuries aies ales I 1 but is aa as much of a marvel as the hea dergent tier pent and other huge won i ders that are still spoken of with a bk Optical smile in spite of the agre agreement ment in a great mass of testimony to fo their existence ah octopus ia is now on exhibition I 1 at new york wh which ichla is the largest of the species ever brought to land this monster was camtu captured red by to some me fishermen on the northern shore of trinity bay newfoundland it was wash caught in a cleft of the racks and knits in ith ita desperate efforts to regain its liberty lashed las bed the waves with wilh its ten huge arms till the waters were in a seething foam the fishermen waited till the tide went downa wheat when the monster was left high and dry and dead upon the beach they took possession of the carcass which proved the most profitable haul they had bad made for many a long itlay day the body df the octopus is ten feet foot long and seven feet in circumference and its tail tall nin fin measures two feet nine inches across two of its a arms ims or tentacles are each thirty five tive feet long and five live inches in circumference except at the douds where they measure eight inches around the tho other elgh t tentacles are each eleven feet long and aud seventeen Inc ine inches besAn in circumference at their junction with the body budy tapering out to a point the tae smaller tentacles have rows 01 ol suckers on the under bide eile and the long ones several on thoe thee the enda ends two hundred and aud fifty were coun counted td on one of the short arms and it is computed that the monster has nearly twenty five hundred bundred buckets huc buc kerb kera iu in all the head from which the tentacles spread out ia four foun 11 feet six inches in circumference and has haa a horny beak the eyes areat atiat are at the baek back part of the head on either bilie side hide aind and lil til sock es beai measure we right eight mill luchius luc ch huls hilb hiis k s ju in diameter n this horrible grea prea creature ture is able to seize selie and aud hold on eft to its pre prey with immovable iti tena tona tenacity city its As ita flexible tentacles gr muy any object at tacked and lne the suckers drawing with such force that the arms armb will parl part from the body before they will luese luosa their suction it can walk on tho the bottom of the sech set these thebe arm arms arma ith its head downward bj its iti tw two 6 side gills it can discharge dis did charge an inka fluid from an pa interior inferior sac darkening the pater water andtius and thus ald aiding alding aldi aidi i g the wo monsters usters es ape app when desired to go preserve pres prea erve the specimen now renew at new york yori required the use ute of fifteen hundred gallons gulloni of alcohol it will prove one of the Ili liona of gotham and a wonder to people frodi from the country for many jears years to come coule now let pome body capture a sea sa brij ser 1 a I lake m paster and a river leviathan there will be elota th ink on hand iland f from rom yom the great waters 4 to mate match h the mastodon and und aih oiher t r land creatures ft e foss joss lorail 11 ll remains have be been P n exhumed by the exploring lets isis of the thy nineteenth cell ceil century tury MOSLEM AND muscovite A DISPATCH from london of date says that a russian J journal reports russ russian niu nin tsoi 1401 01 ol diers killed and wp wounded in the I 1 recent struggle near lar kars this puts a little different appearance en on the victory claimed by the milad vates the only report of the altar from the turkish side admits mukhtar pasha had to retreat into karbs kara but announces naesa a great bl fc laughter aughter of the enemy there is no ao doubt U that we the turkish sll sil army ar my in the thelast ike east ast has met wit with h a reverse but it was not experienced without great loss on the part of the invaders the gallant int resistance e offered by the troops of the ottoman empire to the invading hordes from the north has gained thern them 1 much admiration and not a little sympathy sympathy it is it a matter of bf surprise irise to those who favor the russian cause wh why BO so many people express a it to sae see theAlo the moslem slem siem hold his own I 1 in it the present tremendous conflict t vie 1 he reason is br the turk is the small boy in the fight hla hia collo col coi saal antagonist is the attack ing party and the turk Is ili battling for home country and national ex ia tence but the russian supporter sa says ya the tile porte ought to be destroyed tor tog its cruelty to christians in billau ul guria dother mother provinces and rus busi i eia eta id ia is waging a christian warfare against barbarians and mutilators ot of the living and the dead we take the reports of the alleged ea of the turks cum grano satis further we do not believe the sultan and his bis associates ip the government lot of the ottoman Empire are to responsible fur deeds committed by ine gular guiar night fight fighters ersy erst a bort sort of unauthorised guerrillas guerillas gu erillas J brid arid whose acts cannot be traced to instructions from head quarters still fu further rth er whatever the bashi gashi bajouka may bave have perpetrated the motives of the czar in this invasion have been clearly th ladiz i He heb Hea sought ought I 1 eun dou quest lu to rob a weaker state and his professions maloas of consideration for the christians christiana was too thing thin a pretext to blind the tho eyes of any ony but hut a and bitter bitten part partisan laan iaan the general fueling feeling is one of sa s empathy for the sick man who hass hasa hown unexpected vigor and praiseworthy valor in standing up tor his rights against a vastly sui sul perlor parlor assailant fco far as force and means to back it are conder conger concerned ned i 1 ve we doubt t very much if the real truth were known the superiority of russian over turkish affairs socially or religiously the moslem is a temperance mans MADI man practically J and to this in some degree may be attributed his en and hardihood on the tho th 11 nield field nf battle it is possible indeed ro bable babie that unie other efe ete interfere irrene the ithe Cresce crescent ht mayko down before thi the e might of the cross croas the rho failures ures of the commencement of the w war ar may be alt all redeemed by future the dvera overwhelming num pers and larger nin fin financed ances of we the in id aira der inay may prove more powerful than thail the and determination of f the the invaded but while ibo tho he arusla arias arlas ls the sympathies of the lesl portion of the ei civilised civili ked sed horld yo rid ald will pe e with who are arb lighting g I 1 like ilke rk e heroes against a tow towering rarig ous and crafty foe fue with just as as many 4 ny fe features attires of heibl leibl barbarism bai bar bacisin ta within t hin bin his bs as still remain ain aln under the rule of or the Sultan suitan EVIL VIL 2 IN THE DIVINE muon MUCH of the skepticism cha cbs the present reseat age of t ti gation gatlon and independent thought 1 ia the natural 6 af false faise theology epst of the religious notions that are scoffed at by the and which torm lorm the chief subjects for his hia ridicule elre are 0 o only ly tiie tile theo lles iles of nien men who have run before they were vere sent or J n other words taken fo 0 o that right to expound nd and ana declare the things of god which can only bi conferred by divine authority having nothing for a guide but the dead letter of ancient L and the uninspired dogma of the ecclesiastical sias institutions with which they are connected they enunciate great inconsistencies with the utmost gravity and in unnatural tones exciting to disgust or laughter the unbeliever who bears hears and rejects r e their vagaries the following paragraph which we extract from a letter to the new york sun by a graduate of or a college illustrates this subject and show show tile seeds of skepticism i are sown by the chevery th every ver Y hands which under undertake tak 8 to point hut but ut the thie way of faith falth and salvati salvation oll gad CIGA w we e idro are told toll made the world orld orid and lid did all things from the first were subject to his wilf w yo pow now w if jr a serpent or a satan overturned his plan pian why being barig omniscient did he mabo make o this thion or person and if it were possible to get gat the betten belter of dr god was not the tile conqueror stronger and wiser than he now there is nothing in the scriptures if left untouched bythe by the teachings of spurious theology which convey convoy any auy buch tuch idea 1 as expressed in the above extract the introduction of evil into the world cannot be shown to be in contradiction to the plans of the albig almighty lity taking the story of the fall ilten liten literally as told in genesis which we shall nut here attempt to strip of its alleg gry pry there is no suc sua buch such h sis tency expressed the existence of evil in any form seems to be a puzzle to the student of the divine economy and mi origin has formed the subject of many an animated I 1 n not nol 0 t to say belligerent debate it sho should uld be understood that a comprehension of eli eyll is absolutely i necessary to the education of the uhe immortal spirit that without ft a knowledge of the opposites to those eternal kernal principles which conduce to the hap bap happiness of the soul soui soula the goad things of orth tho the universe cannot be properly appreciated at ed evil arl ail and ard d good lun iff the abstract are coeternal co eternal they are ate hot creations but bia irp are de in beings by circumstances and influences influence a an and surroundings there must needs be an tion don in all things and this world was wag evidently de e as a place fo for probation proving testing trial that the beings inhabiting ft mortal bodies may be brought into contact with opposing pr principles ind abd forces po J that L they may show whether they will choose the good and refuse the evil whether lahe i ther they love joye light rather than darkness whether they will drink in of the influences that flow from above and repel those that ema emanate lite from beneath or vice versa in the presentation of evilio evil to our out first parents the adversary or satan did nothing that militated against the divine plan and in partaking of that which introduced death into the world no scheme 0 the almighty was frustrated or changed in anany any degree the grand ob object eckof of the sufferings and abd sorrow borrow LI and darkness an and d gloom and the final death experience of this moi mortal tai life is to make the beings who pass through farod gh acquainted with otheir nature and effects and with the great truth that those conditions eions are the inevitable resul result bathe pt of the violation of the laws great farent father of all which are I 1 I 1 based upon principles eternal unchangeable cah and to do anything which will wiil bring uder under the dominion bf death a beng capable of al existence 8 A trans re si idil of or the laws lawa which spheres balm J i oreal alty the all tend to pro promote mota life lire ind n perpetuate it the pair in ift eden irden ivero warned of the tho tog toA consequence sequence ot a certain course and c commanded omni I 1 fiat p W take it but were left free I 1 to acton aeton act on their own volition they their thein ell fell alid in their fall en entailed tailed upon their posterity by al inheritance an the which admits suggestions of or evil eill and the taint which results in ln of the body ody but thi this sonly only opened the iva tva too blain through the medium of a body subject jeet to the of the lower sp spheres heres beres a knowledge of the eternal appo opposite ai es to jhb life and bliss blis of tiie the perfected realms of immortality i and nd endless day aay then through iho tho in rito vito anite the they will all without exception be redeemed from the effects of fhe the be in fhe the gaiden garden it and stand al on their own merits to be judged according to the deeds done in the body viewed in the light of their varied circumstances and opportunities to the perfect satisfaction of eternal eterna justice without infringement tion upon the claims of everlasting mecy mercy and thus out of teeming evil the father vather will bring good as he be brou brought glit order out of chaos cham in the beg beginning liIng and called light out of the depths of dar darkness kness kneEs his plans were laid for the benefit ot oi the whole race of man men he 11 determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their hab habitation at 11 the Th ePowers powers rowers of evil who work according to their disposition anh and and desires only aid in lif the accomplishment ment of jils his great designs and the results of bf the acts of all bel bei beings S visible vis ible ibie and are ara in ag his is hand and when the schema of human redemption concerning this little globe one out of the myr myriads ads of his crea is fully I 1 completed lil lii ill all his sons and daughters slaughters who have V passed aks through their probation upon it and andl have bave become established in and glory for which they hava have proven themselves best adapted will fill see eed that there has been no destruction of his plans no overturning of his purposes but in the language of the book of mormon will exclaim all things have been done in the wisdom of him who loweth all things and every knee will bow bov and every tongue e confes ang g that jesus jesua I 1 la the lord to toi the glory of god the father will gi gladly a adly ohey oley his I 1 laws a ws i and follow in his footsteps and pat tern after His bis works eternal ages ageg 1 |