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Show THE ARGUS. 4 deadly avalanche. And yet, after all, perhaps the best plan is to keep from under it and to stay out of the eanyon while there is snow on the mountain. There has been an unaccountable lack of military enthusiasm in the state militia. State militia, not only among the men enlisted, but with the general public. It is an excellent organization, capable of accomplishing much good, worthy of the support of the people, and its welfare is looked after faithfully by one who certainly gives it his attention and takes an impartial interest in every company in the State. The Adjutant-Genera- l has done everything a man could do to keep the boys in a good humor and their local organizations in running order. But there were petty jealousies in one place, lack of discipline in another, indolence among officers and men, disrespect for each other, insubordination, absence from drill, improper men in the lead and other troublesome conditions which grew and multiplied until, in some instances, there was no honorable alternative but to disband the companies and take back the property of the State. It may be that new men will revive the interest and replace the defunct organizations with better ones. It is to be hoped they will. But in doing so they should study out and keep in mind the mistakes of their predecessors. Via Mrs. Annie Besant, the celebrat-Brilliaed theosophist, whose lectures on nt Theosophist. spiritual and ethical reform have attracted so much attention throughout the world, has been in Zion for two days. Mrs. Besant is one of the most intellectual women in the field. She is eloquent, logical, philosophical and interesting. Whatever she undertakes she tries hard enough to do, but is apt to forsake a cause after convincing everyone else that it is the embodiment of gospel truth. She is a very earnest and a very studious woman, but rather fickle in her devotion to theories, which, by the way, is her only devotion. She left her husband because he was a condition and not a theory. She forsook her children because they represented another condition she longed to avoid. She is Irish but joined the church of England and married a minister ; renouncing this faith she became a radical atheist and ; she then took up the fight of labor and became a socialist ; now she is the ablest priestess of theosophy in all the world. She turned her attention to the science of hidden mysteries, she says, because the cause of labor reform is comparatively well provided for, while the cause of spiritual and ethical reform lacks teachers. And labor must itself look to theosophy for its basic principles, for its firm foundation. If the changes that labor is working for come before society is ready for them they will fail. free-think- er The dedication of the Grant mon-Qrument in Xew York City next day js t0 je a national observance. nt Tues-Monume- nt. The ceremonies will be grand, fitting and impressive. A procession twenty miles in length, composed of regulars, volunteers, militiamen, independent companies and marching clubs, will pass through the city. The navy will be represented by a fleet moored in the river near by, while many foreign vessels will take part in the demonstration. General Grant was buried on a knoll at Claremont in Xew York, because that city had been his home during the last years of his life, and because the burial spot had been selected by his family. Last week the body was removed from the tomb where it has lain since 1885, to the splendid mausoleum erected by the people as a tribute to his greatness and as a token of their everlasting love and their loyalty to the memory of the man and the cause to which he consecrated his life. Among the assembled hosts will be thousands of veterans who fought with him for the preservation of the Union ; there will be remnants of companies and fragments of men, and empty sleeves and canes and crutches, and gaps along the line for memory to fill. But the soldier will see them all, as Captain Lee 0. Harris says : from field Here and wood sepulchral the at They gather bugle call, And stand again, as once they stood, In manly beauty, strong and tall; And as we call each cherished name That grief has blotted with a tear, Life seems to Etir each spectral frame, And ghostly viices answer Here! Each year some dear, familiar face To memorys keeping we consign ; Each year some comrade takes his place Among the shadows in the line. And thus the living ranks grow thin. Ah, few must bo the years at most, Before we all are mustered in To serve among the silent host. lous ! The Municipal Reformer. The great and good reformer brought his biggest searchlight out, And with firm, unswerving purpose he flashed it all about ; It showed up everybodys straight and crooked ways, Till to a man the rascals ran to hide them from the blaze. quail ; The sugar man and butter man their heads drew out of sight, But the dealer boldly stood and faced that searching light. The railway coriorations paused, and ministers meanwhile Began to search their souls to see if they were free from guile ; And those who led society, of stately pedigree, Trembled at what the curious ' world in blazonry might see. And so this benefactor had of moral fun no end, In showing up the faults alike of enemy and friend, Till some one got his breath again and turned the light about, And put this great reformer man at once to utter rout. M. Phelps Dawson. dry-goo- There is nothing particularly new or strange about this phenomenon. It is as old as recorded history probably as old as mankind. It is no more difficult to explain than electricity. Nor is it confined to any church, creed, class, color, race or political party. Xeither is it general in any of these. Xo body of men ecclesiastical or racial possess it. It is an individual blessing and only an occasional claimant actually pos&esses the special gift of healing or making people believe they are healed, whichever it may be. The most successful healers are pious and pure ; they are not advocates of any creed or believers in any particular plan of salvation. Within the past decade this country has witnessed the marvelous achievements of four or five mysterious men who inspired faith and paid particular attention to nervous disorders. When a healer goes about his business, as Schlatter does, he wins confidence and the respect of skeptics even. But people who pretend to do these things and yet denounce all other healers and faith doctors as counterfeits and imposters, are apt to fall short of their own pretensions. The idea of any man claiming ' to possess a divine - 1 Then presidents, clerks and bank cashiers began to turn them pale, And een the guardians of the peace quailed with a thoughtful The healer is in evidence again. Press dispatches tell us that Schlatter Healer Reappears. jg jn phoenix, Arizona, after a fast of forty days and forty nights in the wilderness of the Sonora mountains of northern Mexico. Of course he is attracting considerable attention and finding plenty to do even in that land of phenomenal health. People who never had an ache or pain deemed worth of serious consideration are contracting imaginary ills for the purpose of patronizing the healer. When Schlatter was in Denver a year ago the people went wild over him, not alone those of Colorado and adjacent states, but people from all over the union. The streets in the vicinity of his humble abode were thronged from dawn till dark with a struggling mass of humanity ; the lame, halt, blind, deaf, dumb, curious and otherwise afflicted were clamoring for a look or a word or a touch of this wonderful man. Miraculous cures were effected and hourly and instant relief given in almost every case of suffering. When the healer departed from the Colorado capital on his mule in obedience, as he said, to a call from the Father, he was followed over the ranges and through the ravines of Xew Mexico, across the deserts and valleys of Arizona by anxious worshipers who finally lost all trace of him near the Mexican line. His reappearance at this time is a matter of some surprise and considerable satisfaction to many people. simple-minde- power to heal, simply because he is a member of some organization, regardless of his physical, mental or moral makeup, scoffing at like claims of those not members of his society or church pretending to have a copyright on faith and a corner on the blessings of heaven It is ridicu- d, ds CONGRESSMAN KING. Judge Kings maiden speech in Congress Thursday called forth much favorable comment from his colleagues and Eastern papers. Provo Enquirer : Congressman King is doing good work in behalf of the. Pioneer celebration to come and celeby inviting fellow-Congressm- en brate with us. Provo Enquirer : The Enquirer is indebted to Congressman King for Congressional Becords and other courtesies not furnished by our publican Senator. Re- Manti Messenger : Representative William H. King ought to have remained at home attending to individual business a week longer. Congress had been in session a week before Mr. King appeared. Provo Enquirer : Congressman King has begun work in the right direction by requesting that our saw-mimen, for cutting timber illegally on this public domain, be not prosecuted. ll The prosecutions ought to cease. The Logan Journal speaks well of Congressman King, whose first official act was to visit the Attorney-Genera- l and Secretary of the Interior, to secure a cessation of the suits and a restoration to the people of the timber-cuttinprivilege. g Ephraim Enterprise : Congressman King commenced work as soon as he reached Washington. He has already called on the Attorney-Generand requested that the prosecution of citizens for cutting timber for domestic use cease, and has been assured by both the Attorney-Genera- l and the Secretary of the Interior that the matter would be given immediate attention. al . Judge King is commencing his labors as Representative in Congress in his usual vigorous manner. His bill providing for payment for property of residents of the United States, destroyed by Indians, and for payment for services in protecting life and property from the Indians, will be appreciated by all as a just and d measure. His efforts to have prosecutions of citizens who have cut timber on public lands for domestic use stopped, will also meet with the approval of all olasses of citizens. much-neede- Fi |