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Show THE DESERET EQLE Printed by the Pupils in. Ah wect is the smell of the irc?h tuned earth '2'i.at xikws on with the plough. ! When the morning mist, by the light wind kissed, the how-Anthe her i is ceding along the lea, 1 d Aud wide the swallows ily And the beauty of the early day ii shed upon the sy; Then the wheat field rings with busy hoes, And merrily the furrow goes. or The Toad and tho Spider A Sua story copied iuto The reminds me of a still more striking instance of the toad's indomitable pluck than anything I have ever seen in print, which was observed in my boyhood at the door of a farm house in Fairfax county, Va. The doorsteps were cut from the trunk of alargejtree, and a Urge spider had spun a strong web in a cc zy corner near the ground, between the rounding curve of the block and the side of the log house. The grass had been worn from a space four or five feet wide about the entrance, to the dwelling, leaving exposed a patch of hard, reddish soil. There ware locust trees around the house, and bunches of plantian leaves grew rankly in the thin grass of the lawn. It was late on a drowsy summer afternoon. The spider was basting in the sun wai'.izg for Hies, when a t ad appeared on the valorou? scene, hopping directly toward the eyider's citadel. As this enemy appeared in sight the f piucr seemed to swell in size and put on his war paint, for, whereas he was dull in color before, he now became all aglow wiih brilliant hues. The toad advanced boldly to the investment cf the castle, halting for a second or two below, and leisurely surveying the Geld. When these observations had been taken, he leaped up half a dozen times in quick succession at the enemy, and thou rapidly retreated to the nearest tuft of plantain leaves, from which he nipped two or three pieces and swallowed them. Returning to tho attack, the same .scrips of operations were repeated rr.r.y Upz.cs, until the spider had spent all his veaaia, it is supposed, and the yo'.-iij- ; NUMBER 12 web was broken down and the brave and grass, where great herds of cattle, SPRING. lifting o -- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 31, 1890. V0LU1 IE I. Is the Deaf Mute Department of the University of Doserot, defender was dead. It was nearly dark before the combat closed. NotLing could exceed the courage of the defense unless it wa3 the persistency of the attack, I would cot venture to gues how many times the load got a dose of virus from the spider, and can account for his resort to the plantiin leaves only on the supposition that the courageous little varrior there found a sullicient antidote for the spider's poison. But thoughout the while of the lengthy contest it was the gam est assault on an intrenched enemy I ever witnessed. Besides this it afforded an example of pertinacity on the part of the despised toad which fuliy parallels the heroic quality of the spider, made familiar to us in youth by the story of the Bruce encouraged to renewed effort by the example of one of these little insects. Baltimore Sun. "who will solve it sheep and horses roam atjlwil.'.With the exception of certain localities, agriculture is neglected. These exceptions are raiinly in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Montana Wherever the land has been brought under cultiva-to- n by means of irrigation, the soil becomes black as coal, equal to any in Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois, from whence great cities, like Denver and Salt Lake City, are rising to control the trade of a vast tributary empire. In its fertility the soil surpasses that of the most favored agricultural states, with the exception of corn, which cannot be raised on account of the elevation, and there are no valleys more beautiful nor more nearly resembling an agricultural paradise than the Bear, Logan, Cache, Boise aud the Great Salt Lake valley, Western Jerchant. Mr. "Ten Minutes. " A touching story is told of the late One of the most important problems Prince Napoleon. He had Joined the to be s( lved by the people cf this English army, and was one day at tho country, is the proper and most econ- head of a squid riding horseback outomical manner of irrigating the lands side of the camp. It was a dangerous of the west so a3 to make them pro- situation. One of the company said : ductive, and contribute their share to 41 We had better return. If we don't the burdens of government, as well as hasten we ma? fall into the hands cf to provide homes for a dense popula- the enemy." "Oh," said the Prince, tion annually seeking these shorts. Commencing at a point seme four nun-dre- d miles west of Om&ha on a line running north and south and extending to the Dalles in the state of Oregon, is a district at least twelve hundred miles wide This covers a portion of Western Nebraska, Western Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakota?. Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and part3 of California, Oregon and Washington. With its lofty mountain ranges, the country is filled with Tuning streams, furnishing water in abundance, if properly utilized, to fertilize the land for ages to come, beautiful valleys and in some places, dreary deserts. In romc sections the forests are vast, and the laud literally teems with minerals. Railroads cross, and are intersecting it in all directions, and over it moves the commerce of a continent. As a mark of its fertility the plains tic covered with sage bruth "let us stay here ten minutes and drink our coffee." Before the ten minutes had passed a company of Zulus had come upon them, aud in the skirmish t .e Prince lot his life. His mother, when informed of the facts, in her "That was his great anguish sa-d- : mistake from babyhood. He never wanted to go to bed at night in timnor to arise in the morning. He was ever pleading for ten minutes more. When too sleepy to speak he would lift up his two hands and spread out his ten lingers, indicating that he wanted ten minutes more. On this account I sometimes called him "Mr. - Ten Minutes." How many have lost not only their lives, but their precious, immortal souls, by this sin of procrastination! When God calls we should prompty obey. Exchange. m There are professors and students of b Jth sexes at Oberlin College. |
