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Show 4 . The Old Exchanges. Oh, the old familiar faces of the old exchanges, coming To greet the sliceful scissors on the editorial desk ! With the locals that inform us that the towns are still How we nip them, how we clip them, how in mucilage we dip them, And scan their teeming columns for the latest country news ! How the bores out-docome trooping for their remnants! How they grip them And loaf around and read em till they give us all the blues I or Oh, the old familiar faces of the old exchanges, weekly And daily, or whenever they come fluttering, white and pink! they still acknowledge meekly That' still the old exchanges make their scissors clink and think! Atlanta Constitution. PITH OF THE STATE PRESS. HE TRIBUNES half-centur- y feature is novel, interesting and original. The illustrations are appropriate and artistic, while the reminiscences are rare and valuable bits of information obtained from history and verified by the personal recollections of men and women still living. The Herald is publishing a series of articles entitled Past Celebrations of Pioneer Day. These are made up almost entirely from diaries, newspaper reports and conversations with leading pioneers of the State. The matter they contain is not to be found in the form presented in any other place. They are worth preserving. No special feature for the semi-centenni- Fires in Fillmore must be few and far between. When the alarm sounded the other night the Progress says that the city marshal jumped from his bed and ran a in his underwear before he thought of his clothing. Of course he returned and donned them. It is said others in the vicinity of the fire did likewise. half-bloc- k And the paintings of the country where the world is picturesque ! However great the editors THE ARGUS. al year has been attempted by the Deseret News as yet. Being a pioneer in journalism its daily appearance is all that is necessary. It is one of the relics of other days, many of which will be placed on exhibition during the Jubilee to come. Following the example of the Wasatch Wave man Editor Felt came out in the Independent last week with a full account of that little unpleasantness in which he and an employee figured the week before. He says the only person arrested was the man who interfered, from which one might infer that it is not good policy to separate combatants in the peaceful little city of Springville. The Park City Council is evidently in need ef religious influence. The Record suggests prayer and benediction for the opening and closing reIf the spectively of every meeting, and says: mayor or aldermen could not see their way clear to perform the duties of chaplain, the fire chief or city marshal, or even city scavenger, might be induced to do the invocating. The Tintic Miners attack on the Utah Press Association has found favor with most of the The association ought to have inoculation or electrocution, we have not decided which, says the Provo Enquirer. pencil-pu- shers. The Manti Messenger criticizes Congressman W. H. King somewhat for his delay in departing for Washington and calls attention to a number of measures of local importance the consideration of which he missed. The Brigham Bugler is a local paper in the strictest sense of the wTord. Every issue contains from twelve to sixteen columns of choice local news. Concerning the eminent Denver preacher, Myron W. Reed, the Bingham Bulletin ventures the assertion that he is the greatest pulpit orator s of his time, and can say more in a discourse than most preachers do in a year. He is a socialist, and that is the chief element of his greatness, for it prompts him to talk humanity and charity. half-hour- The Silver City Star is gratified to note that throughout the East the Republicans lost heavily at the recent municipal elections. Slowly but surely the silver forces are gathering and the landslide of 1900 will bury McKinley and his ilk in a political grave from which they never will be resurrected. The Logan Nation imagines that The Arous is an paper, but it isnt. However, the Nation remarks that a certain editorial proves to a gratifying extent. This leads the it Journal to remark : Why expressed or implied enmity to the church from any source should be gratifying to our contemporary, we do not know. The editor of the Nation was raised a Mormon. anti-Morm- on The Enquirer says that Provo is innocent of the vices complained of in Salt Lake and Ogden. It says that the worst evil of the Garden City is that of minors frequenting saloons. There can be no more ominous evil than the disposition of minors to familiarize themselves with the haunts of iniquity. The Tintic Miner is responsible for the statement that another scandal on a par with the notorious Hyde case is brewing in Nephi, and the storm threatens to break in the next few days. Oriental traveler and lecturer, Don C. W. Musserof stereopticon fame, has accepted a position on the staff of the Logan Journal. The reading public of Cache county will be pleased with his work, as he is a witty and fearless writer. The well-know- n through the streets of Nephi, if one may judge from an article printed in last weeks Republic. It says that the air has been literally filled with ominous rumors, mysterious whisperings, and ejaculations, in which upwards of a score of prominent citizens, both married and single, are made actors in performances which modesty and propriety forbid being printed in a moral family, newspaper like the : For some reason or other the Wasatch Wave came out last week without any editorial matter whatever. We hope nothing has happened to Editor Glanville since his little affair of the week before. Tintic Miner : The Mercur Miner has been incorporated by a company of the solid business men of that camp, has been provided with a new outfit, and the last issue comes out with a vastly improved appearance. The Miner promises to adequately represent the interests of the great gold camp and will undoubtedly do so. Springville Independent : President Felt acknowledges another rebuke from Editor Scott of the Rural Press, Provo. For heavens sake, Milt, dont you think those ideas of business are mine and always have been? that I have men in the always deprecated association who are naught but barnacles ! Of course I have, and was instrumental in seeing that element relegated to the background on January 20th. pseudo-newspap- er Editor Warren Foster of the Intermountain Advocate is not only an able but an intensely-earneadvocate of the abolition of the He tells why he is not particularly infatuated with the ministerial association of this city : After a body of men claiming to be better than ordinary mortals get together and by resolution demand that the laws inflicting capital punishment be retained on the statute books of Utah, to our mind they are utterly unfit to advise the people in any matter, either temporal or spiritual. In short, our opinion of the average Salt Lake preacher is that he has neither head nor heart, that is, he is both ignorant and cruel. Fortunately, there are exceptions, one of which is found in the person of Rev. C. T. Brown, of the First Congregational Church. There may be one or two ethers. st death-penalt- y. Tintic Miner : B. H. Roberts did net receive his anticipated reward at the session of conference just ended, and the successor of Moses Thatcher in the Quorum of the Twelve has not yet been named. Is Roberts servile submission to the church authorities at the sacrifice of his manhood to go unrewarded? wide-awak- e, Coalville Times: Admitting that the proposed trip of Utah editors to New Orleans is merely a pleasure trip, as some of the papers claim, who in thunder has a better right to a little enjoyment scribes? Besides this, at than the housed-uleast something can be learned by each man who goes on the excursion, and from appearances, many Utah editors could stand a little more information without becoming dangerous. p A moral wave seems to be sweeping The newspaper fraternity seems to be out of luck of late. Editor Glanville of the Wasatch Wave last week got a thumping for publishing a certain article relative to a mans marriage ; Editor Felt thumped one of his typos as payment in full for services rendered by the latter ; Howard of the Salina Press has just recovered from sickness, while the Pioneer man is afflicted with the same old tired feeling. Piute Pioneer Tho Park City Patriot has its troubles in common with most newspapers. It says that a few people up there are displeased with it, and that if it speak kindly of them they say its done for a purpose, and if it tells the naked truth about them they cry persecution. The Logan Journal says : At the stockholders meeting of the Z. C. M. I. held in Salt Lake during conference, Hon. Moses Thatcher was dewhich he posed from the office of had ably filled for so many years, and Apostle George Q. Cannon elected in his stead. Is there any connection between this action and the stand token by Mr. Thatcher upon the recent manifesto, or has he suddenly lost his business acumen? He was also ousted from the directorate of the Utah Sugar Company, in which he is one of the heaviest stockholders, about the same time. Temporal and spiritual affairs are mixed with a vengeance since Utah became a State. vice-preside- nt, Several State papers are not numbered among the exchanges of The Argus, and steps will be taken at once to remedy the trouble. |