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Show m ''Mil a few reveries from the ogden bache- H , Li! IB L0R- m j If B -ft III A Living Disputant of the Fact That Dead Ones B 'i i m Tell No Tales. Bi ' flf l M 9B The uses of adversity for 1903 have taught B ' 'B us tliat ln tIie choice of undertakers, dead men " j W don't cut any ice. Therefore, we say with Paul, B i !$ "let j-he dead bury the dead" and those who exist LV ' H 'B without knowing, according to Sudermann, the joy B ! uj B of living, we dedicate the passing year and look B... ! ! ,B with hopeful and eager eyes for the coming of Ih ' fy 8 1904. If there is anything deserving that we have B , j,M8 not been thankful for, the grief is all ours. We B ' liMB are yet- and will be probably for sometime, much B ' , , B the same. True, the charming S. O. O. B.'s leave B 4 ' f B l us ono y one' some with and some without. For B ' 'B those that depart, we have no consolation; for B ' , , i9j those that remain, and remain the same, we B ' sfl acknowledge the receipt of favors beyond our B B merit. Then there is the Weber Club annual com- H' , ;B ing up. Life is certainly worth while. B ; 'iM & & & H I jB In this age of commercialism, the business of Bt fl the hustling advertiser has never admitted a B I fi ' spot on earth too sacred for a display ad. of his B, I j. I wares. It is said the ruins or Acropolis share B 1 B1 the remnant space equally between Celery Com- B ' S I pound and Lydia Pinkham, while the rocks and B S trees from the summit of Ararat to the rivers B I B that flowed through Eden mutely testify to the B fi virtues of Lipton's tea. So far the nefarious ad- B Sj vertiser has imposed only on nature. But now B I ' &j comes one who, as Bill Nye said about the ballet Bfi , ! i 8 girl, outstrips his fellows by a bold foray into the Btj jil ral realms of art. Go to the Grand Opera House, B i'-lB Ogden, and view upon the new drop curtain the Bf ! ! ill cheapening effect of a half dozen ads. vulgarly call- Bf :VjlB ng attention to the wares of the druggist, the IBI i i !rH grocer, and the haberdasher. We need the money. "The tail of business must wag the dog as the horse ,1s drawn by the cart, And the Devil whispers behind the scene, 'It's striking, but is it art'?" (J? tJv ij The professional debut of Hon. H. R. MacMil-lan MacMil-lan as the Mark Twain of Ogden, at the joint intoxication, liquidation, no, I mean affiliation, of the Weber and Commercial Clubs, left some doubts as to the construction intended in the telling of one or two apt stories. The search for the real meaning will not take the form of an official investigation, in-vestigation, but at the same time we should like to know whether one, at least of the stories, should have a spiritual interpretation. We might add that we are not alone in this desire. However, How-ever, if the defendant shall refuse to answer on the ground of possible incrimination, we have only to add that Chauncey Depew once did the same thing. After all, the fun of a joke is the point, even if it be toothless, and no one knows it better than those who waxed fat over Herbert's splendid bon mots. t &fr t&fr He who finds a truth, lights a torch. Out of the chaff of the daily press we gather the kernel ot wheat that Rev. Goshen has ceased to be a preacher and has become a teacher. In other words, the reverend gentleman has ceased to regard the Mother Goose characters and stories of the Hebrew Scriptures with any more veneration venera-tion than their age and previous condition of servitude ser-vitude entitle them. Religion is purely a matter of geographical accident. Had we been born in Constantinople, we would never have known anything any-thing about Jack and Gill, Cinderella, or Santa Claus. Instead of the Jewish sacred records, we would have had the Mohammedan version supplemented sup-plemented by the Talmud. But we would doubt less be in the shadow of the same religious fear as the devout Christian, with his mysterious theology the-ology and his superstitious phantasmagia called a plan of salvation. Hence, in Turkey, as well as Hindustan or America, the need of teachers in lieu of preachers. He who can point out the moral responsibilities of life the lessons of charity and mercy tempered justice, between man and man, without calling upon some mythical deity of the hazy past, is an evangel of the new thought which believes in teachers instead of preachers. Upon this pedestaf we have placed Goshen. If our unsought efforts shall have the effect of putting put-ting the reverend gentleman on trial in the hearts of his friends on the charge of heresy, we have only to say that as we understand the case, he has already pleaded guilty. The man who was educated edu-cated to be a preacher and succeeded in becoming becom-ing a teacher is greater than him who taketh a rity. |
