Show TWENTY YEARS AGO in any stage of the worlds existence constitute long time no matter from what standpoint we look at the question if we knew we were to die twenty years benco it would seem quite too brief but luckily our demise is none of us know anything about per ira if we had a sure thing on fortune when the two decades had expired their duration would deoca interminably long the writer here of looks back upon the period which commenced a score of years ago today and Is confronted by a procession of great events which have left their indelible imbres upon ahe history of our mundane sphere and which make it one of the most important cfall the corresponding epoch in or modern times in great developments of mechanical physical and astronomy astron oms ical science it has probably dono more other period of five time its duration and its grand startling and profound eventt have been tho globe on which they occurred it has witnessed tho downfall of empires kingdoms and republics assassinations of rulers war famine and pestilence have held high carnival the united states have engaged in and emerged from ono of alie most destructive bitt erand bloody civil wars that ever to its foundation stones a man who w hag M cheso reflections are suggested by tho fact that the writer hereof commenced liis pilgrimage in the art preservative wenty years ago things in utah have undergone bome little in that time in the office where then d presses upon which it was our daiy task ta labor as wo chopo never to lie compelled to do again atre now aliree great power cresea worked by steam and en ough of the other kind with material generally to idock a printing office in every im portent town of the territory then chere were but two capers both weekly one of them decidedly so now are a score moat of them doing well yhu iline of railroad in abo world has penetrated the territory and half a dozen others running in almost every direction ore in existence while the work still goe bravely can bo aard of telegraph linos choc construction antedates thai of we railroad by several year the great men of th it an devery other land hare visited us the pre cloua havo been and arc being discovered in abundance the pop of the territory has doubled its wealth lias eased and hie city which was onca merely an a leicht lei crt now the lis of a newly founded empire embracing cities towns and villages in almost countless array this is not all nor leave wo space or time for the all the great changes which godana man in the bricf paco of time have wrought and what of the next twenty yeara who can prefigure what grant results will be developed gauging the future bythe pitt and considering that alio in creado avi the beare along tia one cau cyert ads as lo 10 m our condition ahre con coaled in the gloom of futurity great men will as humbled and humble ones exalted the poor will be made rich and alie rich richer here will bo more railroads atre telegraphs more newspaper more unpromising youths through some undisclosed design tr special permission of providence elevated to editorial chairs more people more money and so on that is perhaps may have reached alie pan maclo of our temporal prosperity and from una ann e hence go sica dily down bill but grave ono way or another will coma along and we be mado familiar before we realdo tho extent of their importance tho hand that pens these lines will perchance have returned to chere to with the dut of better men who havo botin before ami wall to go thereafter each big laco in the andle pro coition of humanity which alwi swiftly ucros the hori zon of life the new face appearing at the beginning of the aa tb old olics disappear in of abo end fea |