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Show and (omui'i.ced a life of crime in imitetion of some hcro(?) of tiie yellow-back literature variety, and there are hundreds who owe their ds;rada; ion to the same evil influence. influ-ence. It is not o! scene literature alone that causes this; there are numerous publications, without a li ii tre of obscenity in them, that EDITORIAL JOTS- It is said that James G. Blaine will soon join the Catholic church It is strange how a man yearns for religion when h'i becomes unfit for anything else. The Spanish Fork Sun twits us about being behind hand in reporting report-ing the death of President Harrison's Harri-son's father-in-law, and then goes will cause a moral regeneration. There are illustrated ne.vspi-pers. purporting to tell the news of t he-day, he-day, which in reality only deal with the baser side of life. Such papers claim that by telling the wlrole truth it will show that crime is always detected, and the life of the criminal a hard one. Pope, however, how-ever, gives a more logical descrip- lion of the effect of such a course when he says: Vice is a monster cf so vile a mein. That to be hated needs but to be seen. But seen too oft, familiar grows her fate; Wo first endure, then pity, then embrace. Parents and teachers cannot be toi careful to fee that tiie children and young people have the right kind of liieiaturo to tvacl. 'the on to cast reflections on the people of.Manti. In was tiie editor's fault, not the citizens of Manti who were to blame. That reminds us that Shakespeare or somebody said something about a beam in your neighbor's eye. Why don't the Sun read its article denying that .Tav Gould's health was bad. and viler to."ts are m lie to be shunned thru -niscu. and if ii v. tre possible to exciu le the gensttio'wt! novel and newspaper from the hu.d, the gain to : lie comiiiunity wonM be incol-cul.ibl'-'. eorrectit? There is room for improvement im-provement in everything, ai:d ':there are spots on fie sun. We are fast reaching the end of the rain prodecing fakes, for a time at bast. It is now admitted that the recent experiments in Texts-were Texts-were a failure. Some people wr re so enthusiastic in the matter that they began to feel the time was at hand when a farmer could l;'y in his summer supply of rain in a similar manner to his laying in hi-winterj hi-winterj supply of wheat. But ah.s for those of a hopeful temperament, the time has been indefinitely postponed. post-poned. The weather clerk will keep on recording the storms ss they come along, or foretelling probabilities, but lie won't sell you a rainstorm to order just yet. The combination is still a secret in nature's ke-piug, and future geniuses gen-iuses have still a field left in which to exercise their talents. The proper manner to prepare an advertisement is not every man's forte. The advertising columns of a newspaper are among the most important, and, to-day, the average paper by the unique styles em- ployed. To make an ad read there should be something in its make-up out of the regular order. Make a oint that a reader will reflect on. The advertising columns of a paper promise health to the sick man, wealth to the poor .man, amusements amuse-ments to the pleasure seeker, work to the unemployed, and to bring yourself into communication with those you wish to reach, write your advertisements carefully, state f.iets, couch your matter in a form that will attract. The results cannot help but be alisfactory. Quite a controversy is at present going on betiveen Dr. Parkhurst and Inspector Byrnes cf New York about the immorality of the American Ameri-can Metropolis. Tiie Inspector argues that the religious people do not do anything to khe:p the matter and there is considerable truth in the assertion, even when it is given a universal application. Peopie are too apt to heat the fallen fal-len in the "I am more righteous than you sort ot iashion. io take particular pains to let the unfortunate unfor-tunate understand their position in all its stern reality. It is a strange way for Christians to do. Christ went among sinners telling them the better way, but his followers are more apt to shun contact with the transgressor ,- to insist on punishing pun-ishing those who have made mistakes mis-takes and try to prove that the heavenly gates are open only to those who can move in the best r-ociety; til it there is no hope for the fallen; that, in short. God does not recognize any but the very elect. Christianity is anything but Chi ist-like ist-like at present, and if the Savior were on the earth lo-dy. He would find as many Pharisees as ever. GOOD REAEING MATTER- At present in Indif.ni tho officers ore waging a war against the baser k'nds of tho so called literature so often thrown in the way of the young. It is something that all who have Ihe interest of the young at heart should keep an eye to. The world is full of good books,but there is a grea'. deal 0' trash printed th it will poison the mind of the bov or jrirl who is allowed to read therr.. We frequently read in the newspapers news-papers of boys who .have left home |