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Show Enthusiasm and Cevurage. -. How much is accomplished in this worl'dby courage? Go to any ic,ity that has made great advances In a short time, ask the causes, and ten to one it will transpire that the real cause will be traced down to a dozen or a hundred citizens who determined to make a city and who, with an enthusiasm Irrepressible, and a courage that never faltered, pressed on. Formerly For-merly Chicago and St. Louis Were rival cities. Indee.d, for a long time St. Louis scouted the idea of Chicago ever being a rival. The arguments argu-ments her citizens used were: "We have the location. We are at the junction of two of the greatest of rivers, a third comes in a little below; be-low; we command the north, the west and northwest, north-west, and all the adjacent east for four hundred miles; we have the money, which we have been accumulating for four-score years, and lastly, a clear way by the cheapest form of carriage to the sea. Why should we fear any rivals? What Is this claim of Chicago that has no communication communi-cation with the country back of her and no outlet out-let save by the lakes, and one small canal?" But the invincible and Irrepressible men of Chicago began to mortgage themselves to extend railroads around them; to create rivers of steel to .open the country around them, south, west and northwest, and to the eastern ocean. And all the time they promised the country that before long they would be the second city) of the country, coun-try, and when laugher1 at, they reiterated the promise, showed that the progress they were making was advancing In arithmetical ratio and was increasing In momentum every month. And when the great Are wiped out their city they did not pause; they began to clear away the ruins while they werd still smoking. To their eastern creditors they said, "This, is but ah incident; loan us more moneyv and lots of it, and 'to will surely make good," and they won out. ,Ve think were any old resident of Chicago to be asked to name IK" iH the master spirits -who launched their city on 3 Rffj j H the sea of progress, and who steadied her course 3! B i H and kept up the fires In her furnaces, he j&Mw I H would not name more than one hundred men. 2 w ' The cry of St. Louis was: "Conservatism and if BH safety." With Chicago, it was: "Progress and 1 wli lH the momentum that comes with progress." rtlfflr 1 The story comes down from Warton, that i Slip M when Bishop Berkley was preparing to leave Bng- ' j land, with his plan of planting the gospel among 3 iK-l jH the American savages, the members of the h flm , jl Scribler's club being met at Lord Bacon's house a iafSjt H at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkley, who was h StJ H also their guest, on his scheme. The bishop I EBgl having listened to the fire of the wits around 5 iflPI him, begged to be heard in. his defense of his jffljfiffi' H scheme, and portrayed his plans with such "an Trip H astonishing force of eloquence and enthusiasm 48 Kfl that all around him were struck dumb, and after iVa ! H some pause, rose up altogether with earnestness, $& iH exclaiming: "Let us set out with him lmme- m j,, dlately." At three p. m. on that day at Marngo 2fk,j jH Desaix, with his division, reached the Held. The ctJ'''(' 11 French army.awfully decimated was slowly retreat- ?, j C IH ing, and had fallen back two miles. Desaix rode up J , jH to the emperor, when the fierce Corsican said to A tto4- him: "What think you of it?" The answer was: &&! 1 "The battle is lost, but it" is only three o'clock; Itfw'- flH there is time to gain another." And It was $$.!' ,ffl gained. This life is filled with battles, the en- w J ' H thuslastlc andthe brave are the ones whri'wInT' jjjjih . Salt Lake City is on the up grade. The people are enlisted in its advancement. During the , V H past two years some twenty men we do not need t L H to name them have been sounding this advance, fl Issfl and leading the way. Their enthusiasm has been Ik H catching, more and more men are going to their 'Cp H side and swelling their shout, until now the most jf J, H conservative are beginning to say: "Nothing . tj ' H can stop it; Salt Lake Is bound to bo a groat i 1 city." We can all rejoice in what has been done; W' ' fl wo can all help the future, and can keep in "M . jH mind that when the situation is all right, as It Is jj jfl here, the two things which will insure success Is n H the courage that never falters and the enthusl- It'SH H asm that never grow3 cold. 'ilT' 1 |