Show from clr ller bolf IS lima in ane PAST general rosser the ex confederate is very much addicted to talking with bia mouth ha haa recently returned to Charlot tevilla virginia to reside and the fusillade fusi lade upon the north and everything northern is kept up unceasing determination and virulence now if blosser had only been oie of the stay at homes daring the war we would know in a minute jost where to place him with that element whose bravery is robet exuberant in a kin mill and whose combat veness oozes out of their pores lien the announcement comes that the enemy is at hand but ho is not one of that kind to tell the truth he is or was during the war a singularly brave and efficient officer in the confederate ice he seems to be unable homeer ho weer to completely identify himself with the cause he represented in that while it gave up the ghost because it had to he as an individual prefers to regard himself as an entity sn the struggle he is of the same sort of timber that the lata robert toombs was composed of bob it will be remembered in the halcyon days before the great civil conflict was addicted to alie hallucination of believing that it was to be a part of his public career to some day call the roll of his slaves froni bunker hill monument he was not destined to have hi hopes fulfilled in that respect and died with the full belief that the disappointment was a mere aberration of facts that according to the rule of equity that what ought to be is presumed to be he had morally accomplished his pur pose and in the contemplation of justice had actually produced that roll and called off the names of his human chattels because he had a right to do so such things are harmless when they do not extend into overt acts and the language is circulated in communities where there is a vigilant effective press because then the words and meanings die with those who atter them this is not the age of yesterdays but of to days we use the past for purposes of reference aad guidance not as a rule of action whose sway is inflexible we cull out that which is useful and honorable from the lives of our predecessors to be governed by rejecting all that lias a tendency toward retrogression or harm it is not to say that because men who have gone before have exhibited like those of toombs and rosser that aliey are wholly or even greatly in the wrong or at all bad they were simply in error and were not sufficiently gifted by nature in the matter of comprehension when brought abreast of current events to adopt that which the fiat of fate had decreed to bo meet and proper for our day and time that is all we cannot afford to despise or abuse them because of their misfortune in that respect we must admire that which was admirable in their makeup make up and smile sadly at their toombs and rosser are not lie only ones of their kind by a long way we find them in eiery department of life and in all ages there be those among ua who like the poor we must have always who cannot hint with each diurnal revolution of the earth something ia being jostled out of the place it occupied to take a new one that new inspirations are con brantly being born anil taking shape in the material affairs of man what we have been need not of necessity be bad or even improper it may have been as nearly right la lla lima as the new developments are right ia their time we are adaptable adjustable and entitles in the economy of a great creation and must move forward with the mass or have it pass avei and leave us hopelessly behind the confederate braves who breasted the storm of death for four long years and met destruction and carnage face to face without flinching but still lacked the one great element necessary to perfect manhood of living in the present would have had their names in lie sacred lustre of a peoples love had they gone down in alie storm instead of surviving it as it is they are charitably considered and glories never dwelt upon they are to the world of today to day a lesson which we cannot afford to ignore aan TUB should both appreciate the thoughtfulness of secretary knauss THE STANDARD does and lie following from the brooklyn tames of july ath will tell why through the courtesy of mr J II 11 knauss secretary of the chamber of commerce of aden city utah a copy of the special edition of TUB STANDARD of that city of the date of june 25 has reached this office it shows a wonderful stroke of enterprise for that far western city and its proprietors prie tors are entitled to great credit for their chort and the expenditure necessary to so richly illustrate the city in the twelve pages which make up the issue of the above date BY THE time its correspondents cat through with it the commercial will not know the difference between the water question and a circus arena it has already turned three somersaults and there are symptoms of another it it would only reproduce as plate matter some of its on the subject what amusing reading they would now be I 1 HAEFELI HAS returned from ills vacation and the columns of the union are again punctured with parentheses quotation marks wild wierd meta khorsand anathemas ana themas in six dead and in 0 dying languages its this sort of thing which makes us yearn for yola puk or a gag FUR A FELLOW who is not too good to be a prize fighter to consider himself too good to fight a negro is one of the anomalies which we confess ourselves unable to understand A decent roan no matter what his color is better than any prize fighter AT A meeting of the ta deavor societies in on the alth dinst postmaster general wanamaker was introduced to the audience a our beloved john |