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Show TO THE RESCUE OF SMOOT. The new Smoot paper donned its real plumes during the week and came forward jauntily in a rampant, ruddy and vivid defense of the apostle-senator.' apostle-senator.' " It announced that it could no longer keen silence under Iho awful strain of listening voiceless to the traducers of the prophet; it was all expanded under a pent up consignment of indignation, in-dignation, and suddenly with meteoric effulgence, it sent forth the whole volley like 8 petard with a tnousand appended sky rockets. The spectacle was surely a magnificent dithy-lambic dithy-lambic effect, and entitled to take rank with any literary aurora borealis that ever evolved from the prolific cerebum of the late Stephen Crane, and must have been a vast relief to the literary gent who had kept all these pyrotechnics carefully care-fully tucked away in his brain cells during all these eventful months since the famous double natal day of Lincoln and the new Smoot paper. The product gives every indication that if the explosion had been much longer delayed, the journalist who was nursing the incipient volcano vol-cano would shortly have expired of epilepsy. The fact that Mr. Smoot is the chief of staff of the paper, that it was started in order to garnish and make beautiful his political depredations in this state, does not at all detract from the luminous splendor of the ebullition in his defense. The man whom Smoot impressed into the service for that purpose had something to say, and he said it sans ceremonie and sans about everything else except red fire and sulphur. The author Is entitled to the plaudits of the world. His nameshould be hewn out upon the heights of Olympus. It is probably already written writ-ten in the stars, because a real and perennially pure prophet taketh care of his fold. Hermes in hot pursuit of a fickle faun could not have made a more dramatic or winsome debut than was thiSs sortie Into the gleaming field of local letters. Mr. Smoot is vindicated; not only that, his name belongs be-longs on the gilded scroll of apotheosised heroes, even as the immortal name of Johnson was placed there by the facile and faithful Bothwell. . It is a grand thing for the three or four hundred adherents of Smoot who read the journal, that the Smoot paper was unable to longer contain itself, and broke its sepulchral silence. While It may not succeed in enchaining Mr. Smoot to that wobbly seat in the halls of the mighty, it was a magnificent thing for the long suffering of Zion who were beginning to be forgetful of the civic virtues of the politico-apostle, but greater than that, it was a gust of pure literary ether such as has never before been wafted around the ramparts ram-parts of Israel. It is just as well that Mr. Smoot has a constitution consti-tution of tremendous virility. His Imported printer print-er may some day have another lotus dream, and never, never in the world, could Mr. Smoot again survive such a defensive panorama of shooting H |