Show 9 editorials P IT 0 R I 1 A LB C ia U I 1 A gmt trienet TriE New world having P ask odthe ed edthe the question where in all the world are paup worse woree treated harlin hanlin the west the cin mes scar rep nep les jes w ifil lih caustic truth n to specify they are treated considerably worse right tight in the city of new yew york where poor people frequently starve in of p lenty leuty where shepherd cow jeys leys leys are permitted oui fui j biars lars tars to practice brutalities upon hon hou leless chil chii dren in the very shadow of ot metropolitan churches in spite of all the wealth piled plied up in thau thai great city laity ther there wela pela la undoubtedly fering among the poor ahr through 0 ugh the negligence of the rich than in any western territory itoko an equal pa population ula uia tion this is a buffie upon the me cheek 9 or new york journalism well delivered and well weil deserved it ill becomes the writers and orators orb ors of nhat that city to 46 find fault with the social condi tion of other places in this b country athe outcry raised by gotham papers against utah are made with a sub lime jime oblivion on to the corruptions corrupt ions existing 1 in their thele own neighborhood and it Isla is amazing that they should make such subh an incessant din about the imaginary evils in the marriage relations of a portion of the tho people in a Territory numbering rang a hundred and fifty tio usand while the actual sevil bevil of new york are so immense arld and arid indisputable table tabie as to overshadow entirely the thle supposed wrong doings of Utah there is probably n no 0 part of the tho union unton where there is so 60 much wealth and at the same time so much grinding poverty as ag new now york no place where there is so much blid and so mue muc livia and no wabe place where there is ls so 96 much boasting boastin cof of itself and faultfinding fault finding of others with so 0 many reasons for humiliation and bind seif self reproach when viewed aj others see iee see it I 1 A locomotive HAT THAT T GOES GOE P A BIRD F aft has been recently coming coining rapidly to tile the front and there no conceivable limit to its ito prospective aspe chiv a domain in fh fils fi i uv lacu laou in demonstration of the power of this subtle element 0 farfalla captured capture dand and morse harri barri essed is the electric railia railway y train now running in germany german Y yet IL lighting bang must look boits laurels for while this newly d discovered iacov ered force 19 struggling into existence and striving for a position fro rno from in which IV afcan tau tam banish all competitors roe foe the worlds work there comes domes an an gry gra snort from the old steam horafas hor baab be 40 takes another and swift jer leap along the iron rails and sings einga tho iho old refrain i e ird irs harnoski mo me down with your iron bands hands 8 9 rt t and bo be sure of your curb curl and rema as with w 1 th an ap ft il ignant glearn gleam from lifs bedz blazing in e eye yes he once nore more flings hib his 18 ringing gauntlet into the arena atena I 1 thie scientific american recently gave a large engraving of no 1 of toe naw now style of locomotive engines Ae designed signed by eugene fontaine with a brief account of its 1 1 in ii a later issue of 1 ahe h e at supplement Is 18 found a similar description ot the recently completed fontaine Font hont aino alno loco matve no 3 with afuli statement of the behavior of these engl engines nes on therba d from which it is evident that the fontaine locomotive loco ul gilve marks a long stride in the direction of railway speed and power aby by avold and ifigeni ingenious to us change in the manner of applying the power through auxiliary drivers uri dri vers a large increase of speed is obtained with a given size of driving wheel without increasing inc the number of piston strokes or the amount 0 of f fuel consumed in ed and the speed of the train being constant cons tanty tanti tile the improved method of applying the power po wery and the more complete develop development in ent of the working force of bf the this at steam e mj enable able abiel the engine to haul a much heavier lie lle avier load than is possible with the engines in common use theoretically the advantage gained is nearly eighty per cent bentin in speed or traction above the best performance for manee mance of engines of the same bize size built in the prevailing style a practical iee Nee gain of 30 per cent is deemed medwell well weli within the bounds of demonstration 0 0 NTO o I 1 has developed a speed approaching pro aching seventy fils flis miles an all hour houn H 0 ver over long distances in Mayla mayia may last it I 1 drew a a light train from am herst berst burk burg to st thomas anthe on the ci canada unada thada southern road a distance of one hundred and eleven miles miless in ninety eight minutes there are few existing railways itla it is true on which it would be possible or prudent to drive a train at the speed expected of the fontaine locomotives owing to the instability of therond the roadbeds road bedland beds and the sharpness of bf the curves curve 4 but the improvement of roads is being rapidly carried out lout and we may be sure that any degree of excel excellence ienco lenco which the future may demand will be prompt ay supplied obviously Obvious lyan lynn an improvement which will add thirty per cent to the we ef delency of tho the locomotive the running expense being the bame has the capacity of adding millions to the value and vastly to tile the capacity of our wr railway systems A later report declares that a of ninety miles an houreas hour has actually been achieved by one of these those engines think of ita mile and a half a minu minate tea a train at that speed take passengers from this city to ew york in about twenty four hounsl the tle world moves MORE ABOUT THE GREAT PYRAMID THE subject of the great ysra tyra pyramid mid or egypt and its relation to prophecy and sacred history has not been much agitated of late although many persons are deeply interested in the wonderful miracle in stone that stand a witness of the knowledge and skill of the ancients but at a well attended meeting of the ohio 0 auxiliary S society 0 cloty clety of the international institute fo for preserving ig and perfecting weights and measures which was held in cleveland ohio recently papers were oread read by the president which are well weil worthy the of the claims of the tho pyramid to a dt dj vine origin THE GREAT PYRAMID PASSAGE AND THE EGYPTIAN EGYPT rAN ean CL T by H E D liall framl x nail with sincere pleasure and anti cipa tion the announcement of a correspondent pon dent in a late issue of the ban ner that mr petrie has hns taken in hand band the task of triangulating ting the great pyramids pyramid base some months back I 1 made a rew few notes in the thi form of a letter to professor thon a coincidence which I 1 thought I 1 had tracei la in the passage p as system of the great pyramid if rt arose out of a consideration of the width of the entrance passage ge which is also substantially the same sa me in the other two primary passages pas paa sages the first ascending aseen din aln g and tha tho horizontal it was claimed as woof proof of the employment of the egyptian 7 inch cubit sir isaac newton ao A however one of his principal daia data has been since found to bo be utter y without foundation I 1 think that thap tha wo we are justified in in assuming that he would have hesitated before yo tro noun moun cing eing his emphatic dictum on that point had he the accurate information mati matl we now possess convinced that every finished detail has some significance only brought out by purely pyramidal tests I 1 tried to 6 nind find nd some explanation for its peculiarly fractional dimensions orf ori the these s e grounds at first I 1 thought it m ight in sonde way be connected with a measure of the nrc arc 0 of f tho the circum polar star included in the field of vision vision realizing during the studies that the passa passage tee was com cora memora tive tivo rather than a n and that the s segment wasa constant constantly y varying quantity I 1 gave up th this Is view as untenable but when I 1 came fo regard it in i connection with th the c t section of the thred alluded to I 1 got a better bettel result and one ono which I 1 think wilk ia Is the correct one it wab was as follows the transverse sectional area appears to me ind to have been designed to be equal to the area of a circle generated by a radius one py i cubit in length thus the square of x it will be seen been that professor smyths mean dimensions of the hoi hol hollihand height litand and eidth of the entrance passage are rather belo balow the requirements of this hypothesis j although bno one or two single measures would substantiate it vide live live and work 11 page 86 they how ever furnish us with unexceptionable prof pro af that years under pres ure bure combined with the thi effects of one or two earthquakes have produced pro a trifling amount of reduction in eeme some places but a better crite astill extant I 1 course the portcullis blocks the south end imd of thee last one providing ua us with what must have been at any rate the minimum size bize dit fit the first finst ascending passage as professor amyth remarks in in a marginal note to his measures of the transverse dl dimensions men mens lons life and work works il if page 50 he there records them as and british inches after conversion into pyramid notation the area comes out 24 or within a very avery small fraction Again professor smyth has I 1 think correctly interpreted the sum of the vertical and transverse heights aa as i equal to inches the symbolic the base on a slope of 26 deg 18 min miu the transverse height to meet this view should be 47 27 min pyramid inches and the corresponding width to produce the pi reference I 1 have hate bugi sugi ought to be 41 deg 54 min pyramid inches or respectively within 2100 2 and 1100 ot of an inch in each dimension I 1 take it this thia is near enough even in a granite gauge to prove the correctness ness of both the theoretical and practical measurements Is it not singular singularly Jy appropriate that the celestial polar pointer should be defined as to its theoretical bore vore by the earth commensurable unit of measure combined with pi in its moat essentially pyramid formula as a radius THE GREAT T VERTICAL 1 by charles JI Yo orner in the course of a long series of investigations not yet fully completed I 1 lately discovered a most remarkable yet simple relation between the great pyramid height and the mean chronological length of cf the gr arnd nd gallery this Is the equation divided by the cube of 10 equals div by or by the cube of 10 equals or the height of the pyramid multiplied by the length of the granite flooring ff of antechamber ante chamber and divided by ten to the third power is equal to the diameter of I 1 jb 6 r 1618 this fact ia Is undoubtedly of immense 1 na ce manifestly pointing to the Gall erys length aa am a complete cycle cycles and possibly itself a unit ol 01 a yet undiscovered period p of vast dimen dimensions sons I 1 thought this brief announcement might well follow mr hin dizon bixen deima della dell deli a recent line fine contribution touch ing the diameters of the sun earth and moon and serve to accentuate mr simpsons Simp sons sona wonderful discovery of the gallery Gall erys erya s mean length from the marvelous in measures taken bv by professor smyth in this mighty structure are hid jen all the ille treasures of wisdom and know knowledge Snow ledge touching things past presen present tand and future of the and redemption redempa tion history going hand band in hand band thus proving in the words worda of the inspired builder that the secrets of wisdom are double to that which lva iwa job xi 6 31 sheen luark ark riehmond richmond surrey A 4 letter from dr 1301 bolles ies jes e endorsing ln dr 4 ps fens tena paper papers was read and dis djs discussed ua ed the meeting then adjourned for two weeks 40 0 o OARD CARD thanes THANKS sl editor deseret JN WS one cali ean can scarcely hel hei heip help noticing mos people imitate an du ample example ek whether it be prudent or not I 1 greatly grea t ty admire simp simplicia simplicity licit y and think in so some bome me things not a few of us are departing from that desirable style of doing things when one of our respectable tabie table citizens dies there Is ils its as a rule a commendable amount of sympathy shown by the circle of acquaintance toward the bereaved vors as well as respect for the departed this is necessarily widened according to the extent of the sphere a p here combined with his merits in which the deceased moved in life the extension of sympathy and kindness to the bereaved living and respect to the memory 0 of f the righteous dead are eminently proper more than this they are manifesta ions that t ha t we are in bounden bo u aden duty to nake make but a custom has obtained lace lately of which I 1 do not lot see the utility although variably invariably no doubt well meant I 1 refer to the publication of cards of thanks to the sympathizers by tile the of lymp sympathy athy in some caes babes it ls Is quite proper to do so but the instances are in in my opinion exceptional and out of the 1 ordina r way my reason for this view is that the appreciation is or should without a pub lle lie expression hild and those manifesting good feeling on sorrowful accas ions do no more than their duty under n the circumstances yours respectfully Tk salt bait lake city nov P DAVID WHITMER AND THE BOOK OF moar off x WE present below an an terrt 33 letter to the chicago nime pr in relation to the testimony of the last of the three AVI witnesses triestie tri essle essie to td the book of mormon and martin harris who wh as well as ea da vid tid whitmer aw saw the angel who ho exhibited ed to them the plates and heard the voice of bearing wit ness to the correct corree baess faess of the trans lation are both dead I 1 having maintained t the truth of t their heir testimony until atil the phe he la last st under amder all circumstances whether in the church or out of the church they were LX LIX communicated for but je returned turned repentant and were tret iret div ed into fellowship dying with a repetition of their first testimony re ca corded crded in connection with the book of mormon david whitmer remains but is it aged and feeble feebie reports have been received that he also had passed away but we have no reason to believe that they are correct the letter following contains some inaccuracies 3 which wo will correct atta at the a close of this article i 1 I 1 vf mo oct la n tho t beautiful shire toi tor town of bellmon richmond e ray county mo mor tojiro th resided foi for well nigh a half of or a century david whitmer 2 known world asono as one of the three witnesses that testified to the and re of the golden golde ii pla pia plates tes tea from which ii it has neen deen asserted that Joeph smith translated the book boob of lormon the original manu manuscript scrip t of which mr whitmer has in his posse possession slon which ich h L ca fl aikes alkes es 21 aprin aers term teral that tha t it bas baa paused passed I 1 through the handsor hands handa of the tho typeset set aa an a citizen of his town he stands deservedly high having filled the office of mayor and councilman in an is a good thoroughly posted rosted pos ros W d in 1 n biblical lore ore during th the 0 past two years ild lid has been slow lo 10 declining confined to bis his home homo carefully attended to by his wife children il and aad gra dr dren enBorn born norn in the stata S ta of oan york from revolutionary ancestors auces ances tors torb h he brought baroug with him to the tile west his habits of thrift and hospitality 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