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Show IT is tea: fully touching to note how the Tribune rejoices over the seating of JohnHeniy Smith of the Third precinct, aud his election as the presiding officer of the convention. We wonder if John Heniy himnelf and his Mormon friends cau look upon all this as tbe honest gratilication of an honorable but converted con-verted foe. The history of Utah for the put twenty-five years is but the record of the strife, bad blood and bitter hatred of this paper. It .would only be natural if a "doubt of the paper's utter and entire sincerity should now and then Creep into the beam of leading lead-ing Mormon republicans like John Henry Smith, Joseph F. Smith and George Q. Cannon. We say nothing of the soid-uut gentile republican?, we den't have to. The Herald writes interestingly on the E-ibject of elevating the press of Utah. Thy wsy to do tnat is to furnish it -v. th an income. Tnere isn't much chauce to elevate a ' newspaper when it? editor is compelled to work day.and night for a bare living, aou then "re-cieve "re-cieve his pay in chips and whetstones, with an occasional tmsket of rotten turnips and the like. We doubt if there is a single paper in Utah making five per cent, clear on the investment'. Elevate the income and the grade oi the papers will soon go up. A starveling starve-ling writer finds it difficult to write brilliantly. An occasional excursion or a dinner at the Alta club are all right in their way, but not elevating. The divorced Mrs. Vanderbilt will have $500,000 a year and two palatial residences, one at Newport and oue in New York. She can marry again under the decree, but Wm. K. is to remain a bachelir u'ntil his divorced wife is dead. We fail to see how her palace and princely income are to bring her happiness. Even the rich have sorrows it seems. Money is not all. Mr?. Vanderbilt 'has acted in a spirited way, and we do not blame her a particle. John W. Mackay has finally settled for good in .New York. We should say that city would suit him far better than Paris. Don't see why the United States are not good enough for anybody any-body to live in, especially when one has made his nest egg here. San Francisco is the only place that has a right to complain. The Tribune is authority for the statement that Col. Trumbo's return to Utah has but one object, or rather two. One is to be senator from the new state and the other to help make the new constitution. We rather incline in-cline to the idea that we don't need him in either of these jobs. The Castellanes sailed for Europe today. to-day. May it be a long time ere another American girl purchases a foreign title at such a ruinous price as Aliss Gould has paid for hers. There is something uncanny about those Goulda anyhow. Is there no honor anywhere? Now it turns out that a miSBionary society's book-keeper and manager are crooked. They are no nearer than New York, thank goodness. If times do not get better soon, who will be safe? Tfe Provo Woolen mills have absorbed ab-sorbed the Deseret mills at Salt Lake. It is represented as a trade very favorable favor-able to our local enterprise. I- -, V Moke snow has fallen in southern Utah this w inter than for many preceding preced-ing winters. That is true aleo of F'crida. Editor Glasmakx and the Standard publishing company are on trial for libel. |