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Show THE ARGUS. banish from his daily life the memory of the murdered man. He is doomed to read the suspicions of the world in every face he meets upon the street, to see it in every eye, to feel it in every contact with mankind. The weight of his secret will whiten his hair, shatter his nerves, sap his strength and drive his courage away; it will hang upon his heart like a lump of lead ; it will bend his form above the grave and fill his mind ; it will cause with thoughts of him to flee from life but shrink from death. He may hold up his head for awhile and attempt to be gay, but there is, and always will be in his mind a foul spot which will not out at his command. Money may enable a felon to escape legal punishment, but it cannot purchase an acquittal from the tribunal ot the mind. Circumstances may combine to hide his guilt from others, but they can not hide it from himself. The mark upon his brow will hiss and bum into his brain. self-destructi- on Intemperance is regarded by modem reformers as the greatest Evil of Extravagance, enemy of mankind. It has been pictured out as the father of crimes and the mother of abominations.1 It has been held up in all its hideous deformity before stylish congregations ; and when a shudder passed through an assemblage it shook the finery, the silks and laces the outward forms of an evil just as great or greater. Fashion is the despot of our times and its decrees are strictly obeyed. It causes wealth to make a display and excites the envy of the poor. It engenders extravagance among people who cannot afford to follow its caprices, and involves them in debt. It extorts from all classes at the expense of comfort, and often at the price of honor in men and purity in women. It furnishes an opportunity, for the wealthy seducer and supplies with means the devotee of fashion. It calls for the finest materials made up in the latest styles. Here in America, where the absence of caste has been a popular boast, poor people are patriotic enough to keep up with their wealthier neighbors in dress and display in order that there may not be even the appearance of the distinctions complained of in older countries. This effort is attended by inconvenience, worry and trouble ; it is followed by the loss of money, friends, prospects and frequently of self respect. It is not that men and women would be neat and but that they buy and change with every nod and beck of fashion, consulting the style rather than their means, listening to the critical judgment of a social set rather than the dictates of judgment, the whisperings of conscience or the teachings of Christ. well-dresse- d, Female fashions in dress have a iZuHm questionable origin. It is said that Suggestions. new gtyles, which sweep the country every little while, are furnished by the demimonde of Paris. Reformers will some day learn that the most effective agency to be used in the reform of the social evil is to be found in woman. Whenever she refuses to hail and adopt the fashions which come to her from the brazen courtesans of Assyrian Paris ; whenever she declines to recognize in that class of women her model in anything; whenever she attires herself with simple and becoming taste and spurns the livery of the then woman shall have become an agency in the reformation of the world, a power in the extirpation of the social evil. The fashions which control in dress have an impure source ; their sanction by reputable people is an encouragement of the class with whom they originate ; the extravagance necessarily entailed by their adoption discourages marriage and leads to disreputable liasons ; the love of display indulged demi-mond- e, 3 causes many a vain but otherwise good woman to follow her aspirations to be a leader or a member of the fashionable set, even at the expense of virtue. American women should inaugurate a reform in matters of dress and extravagance. An era of simplicity and modesty in attire and moderation in expenditures for personal decoration would result in less crime, less pauperism, fewer divorces, more marriages and a reduction of the social evil. Business is picking up. .The vance agents of prosperity struck Agent. Paymaster Carpenter near Castle Gate one day this week and treated him like a trust would treat an independent sugar factory. Two desperadoes resolved themselves into a collection agency and presented Mr. Carpenter with a sight draft for something like eight thousand dollars. It didnt go to protest. The claim was settled at one hundred cents on the dollar. Mr. Carpenter preserved his credit and, incidentally, his life, while the cash was taken to the hills for . This occursafe deposit in some rence bears out the theory advanced by The Abgus last week concerning the organized bands among the crags and canyons of Emery county. These young men, neither of whom is thought to are no doubt members of the be over twenty-five- , fraternity. Unless this danger is rooted out, by an army if necessary, these incidents will become monotonous in time. Delay will only add to the strength and security of the outlaws. The time to act is while the organization is in its infancy and before the robbers render themselves almost invulnerable by accessions, fortifications, hiding places, traps and ambuscades ; and before any more companies of the State militia are disbanded ! ad-Advan- ce clay-bank- Surgery is making rapid strides, as it should in the light of recent aiii's entific discoveries and developments. It is now possible to locate a bullet or investigate a fracture by means of the cathode ray, which ilinflammaluminates solid bodies. The tion of the bowels has come to be recognized as appendicitis and is now doctored with a knife instead of physic. Blood infusion has been sucis a common cessfully practiced and treatment in cases of accident and in the remodeling of unsatisfactory features. Cases are on record where jugular veins have been removed, leaving the patient alive and well without them. But the grafting process always requires the second victim. Last week a wealthy woman was about to lose the middle finger of her right hand, so she advertised for another such finger, offering a thousand dollars for it. There were a number of digits offered, but the one accepted was that of a New York girl, who was poor and needed the money to finish her musical educaAn effort was made to prevent the sacrition. fice, which is prohibited in New York State, but the young lady may go elsewhere with the wealthy woman and her surgeon to have the operation performed. At all events, it shows the power of wealth to tempt want ; the sacrifice poverty feels compelled to make in order to get on in the world. The temptation to maim and disfigure ones self is never so strong as other temptations. But the love of money and the necessity for money to keep up appearances, to gratify pride or ambition, is strong enough to call for almost any sacrifice or cause almost any crime. sci-Sacrifi- old-tim- e skin-graftin- fine-lookin- g g is True, the alleged in custody, and that settles it. He wm Detected modestly disclaims the distinction and waives the greatness thrust upon him ; he denies the accusation and threatens to prove an train-robbe- r, alibi ; but he should not forget that s sleuths had followed his all over three states and that his capture was a foregone conclusion a ground-hocase, as it were. They had to have a man and True was just as available as any ; he might as well bow to the inevitable. His declarations of innocence are natural even an innocent man would be apt to make them. But they are idle. True or false, he must not expect the public or the jury to swrallow his unsupported statements; and who is going to take sides against the detectives? They are good people to cultivate ; not only because they need it, but their friendship will cover a multitude of sins and their enmity is liable to result in domestic broils or mud on the door-silSuspect True ought to bear up like a philosopher and take his medicine like a man . He has been detected and it was absolutely necessary to detect somebody. Away with him ! To the pen Gall the next case. lynx-eye- d foot-print- g l. 1 The lesson of the flood which is of' then devastating millions of acres of the Floods. rich Mississippi valley should not be lost upon the people of Utah. In some of the valleys great damage is done almost every spring by the freshets, and once in a while during the summer months by a cloudburst. There is more danger than usual this spring, on account of the immense quantity of snow in the mountains, and exceptional precautions are needed. People grow shiftless, like the Arkansaw traveler who couldnt shingle his house during the rain and didnt need it shingled when it wasnt raining. Year after year these Mississippi floods occur, the levees break in about the same places every time, crops are destroyed, farms ruined, homes swept out of existence, and lives lost ; but when the water subsides temporary patchwork is thrown up to protect the new houses, built by the survivors, and the farms and families of the future. It is a good thing that the general government has taken a hand in the levee building this year, for the sufferer never seems to have enough energy or hope left to do any effective wrork after all his possessions and some of his children have been washed away. But where rivers are constantly overflowing and doing damage true economy demands an outlay for the remedy. The avalanche is making rapid strides in the direction of becoming Deadly Avalanche. a national issue. It is attracting attention everywhere this winter and is being discussed along with cyclones and freshets. Every little while it adds to the list of its victims. Two lives were sacrificed to its whim near Brigham City this week. Last week it burned two men alive in sight of their families near Ketchum, Idaho. A few days before that several deaths resulted from the same cause in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, three in Wyoming and five in Colorado. Two lives were lost in Cottonwood this winter and two in Logan camyon. As the mountains are loaded with snow it is feared that the end of the list has not yet been reached. is easily started in the spring The snow-slid- e time the tread of an animal or the fall of an icicle will start the messenger of death. Far up the mountain side it is only an innocent looking snow-ba; but it gathers in weight, increases in strength and velocity and down the incline it sweeps bearing rocks, trees, brush, cabins, every- thing with it. Woe to the man or beast in its way. It piles the gorges full of ice and snow and every kind of debris ; it turns rivers, ruins roads and blockades mines. While discussing a plan to confine the Mississippi to its proper channel it might not be a bad idea to study out some way to protect miners and lumbermen from the ll |
