Show RANCID ane ogden herald of last evening has a leader on the action of captain smith of that place in not speaking to some one who had been calling him all aorta of names salt lake democrat june 23 As usual our anti mormon contemporary in the capital city has stupidly blundered again if the valiant Captain had only refused to speak to some one who had been calling him all sorts of names we would have commended him for his good sense the fact was that the rancid captain refused to speak to one gentleman who was a mormon because another man whom he considered a jack mormon had made rancid unhappy by a severe criticism of his political status suppose for instance that we should refuse to notice the editor of the democrat because the fossil who edits the tribune had been calling us bad names would not the democrat editor think that we were a puerile dunce well this is a precisely analogous condition to that in which jancid placed himself we have always had a deep sentiment of pity for the pachydermatous figurehead whose name is displayed ostentatiously at the head of alio editorial columns in the democrat he is striving to keep astride the fence between the cormons mormons Mor mons and anti cormons mormons Mor mons but we cannot fui get that hia course is a au drueful parody upon the principles and practices of his late illustrious sire we know ho is politically in significant and harmless from dullness and the tremendous mistake othis life and nothing that he can ever say about us can mitigate our pity for him or make us feel one iota of personal bitterness towards him rancid captain smith is likewise incapable of jarring our equanimity personally he is too paltry for our attention but if lie macca a donkey of himself in the capacity of ft rabid anti mormon agitator wo abay be compelled in th interest of the public to treat the fellow editorially as the good mother did her refractory little boy when she laid him across her lap and spanked him with her slipper until bo got so mad that he bit his tongue and refused to speak to anybody or cat anything for a week WAS a tall desk in victor hugos bedroom it was the one ho roost used he arose every morning at C washed in cold water and then took acup of black cooee an u egg this refection kept up strength and did not draw blood from tho brain if ideas did not como rapidly he went to the window which was all day open winter and summer sought inspiration by gazing thence rc turned to the desk sketched and if ilia KO slacked ho walked about again looked out and drew at 11 he breakfasted his pegasus was the of an omnibus it early in the afternoon and did not return until lato |