ellipse, is engraved a figure or hiero- understood, which had for their object shut out sound. Here is an extract from the oration which made him famous: A PLEA FOR POPULAR STULTI- THERE is a feature associated with the bill creating a fourth judicia district for Utah that seems to deman special notice. In the original draf the authority to establish the new dis trict was vested in "the Governo and legislative assembly.” It was subsequently amended by striking out "legislative assembly” and substitut ing therefor "supreme court." The House committee incorporated in its report recommending the passage of the bill a correspondence which, on account of the quality of the state ments it embodies, is somewhat in teresting, and it is consequently here inserted: "A peculiar thing about this image is that its hair is represented as hanging down its back in one long plait like a Chinaman's. The figure is hollow, but contained only half a dozen small black pebbles, highly polished, and a somewhat larger stone of a dull gray hue. The coffin and these relics are now on exhibition at the court house, and are to be donated to the State Muscum of "We have room for Catholicism, but History and Archæology at Tucson. No not for Romanism. We have room for clue of any value as to what race the re- Catholicism, but not for the Pope. Our mains are to be ascribed can be found, nation cannot be divorced from religion. but it is probable that it was one ante- It is incorporated into all her institutions. dating the Aztlan and even the mound-It was an hor or to the founder of the builders, and superior to both in knowl- Christian religion that he demanded, enedge of masonry, sculpture, and the tire obedience to the powers that be. As working of metals." a large proportion of foreign immigrants are Romanists they should allegiance to the Pope, as well as to all foreign potentates. The second great problem rising before the American people for solution of the centralization of power in noted in this petition the fact that citizens corporations. Corporations have done of Northern Utah have to travel from 70 much for the country but their imposito 100 miles to attend court, and that this tion upon the government and people great inconvenience will continue for a JUST RECOGNITION OF MERIT. be asked to renounce should come to an end. "LOGAN CITY, February 7, 1891. "Dear Sir.-In the absence of Mr Lomax, and in response to your letter to him of the 26th ultimo, we send you the inclosed petition, which we have assisted Mr. Lomax in circulating. "It might have been as well to have DR. JAMES E. TALMAGE, head of the Latter-day Saints' College in this city, was notified today by the secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, of London, ihat he was, on the 18th of must throw safeguards around our insti- give the governor the power to say that As a Nation we year unless your bill is so amended as to tutions, our firesides, our young States, term of court shall be held at Logan in and our Nation-the gift of honorable the meantime, to transact a portion of the founders. Let us have, first, universal business that is now transacted in Ogden. liberty of the press; second, universal In order that you may fully understand education, protected by compulsory edu- the situation, we mention the above fact February, 1891, elected a fellow of that scientific institution. This is an exalted honor which has been bestowed upon only a limited number of scien tists in the United States. Dr. Talmage has met, at different times, members of the society as they were passing through this city on their travels in pursuit of pleasure and knowledge. They have examined some of his personal microscopical work and expressed much satisfaction with it. He also complied with a request to There is a good deal of sense in what furnish the institution with specimens the Rev. gentleman says above. But of Utah insects. These associations evidently led to his being admitted to fellowship, which involves the appending to his name of the letters F. R. in this connection. cational laws; third, universal suffrage, suppose an American should be elected M.S. Dr. FROM THE SCHOOLROOM TO THE THE Rev. J. H. Kyle, the Senator- In the United States we have already numbers of persons disfranchised for a purely conscientious belief. This need not be discouraging. History is full of parallel examples. As Byron the poet says, religions come and go as fashions do. To day 'tis one is uppermost, tomorrow another, and so on. Until We did not think it necessary to get many subscribers for the petition, and got a list only of the leading men. Hoping that you will make the amendment asked, and confer upon the governor a power that s consistent with previous legislation on the subject by Congress and which will authorize him to exercise a power which is doubtful finally some one may prevail which fer upon the people of northern Utah a whether he now possesses, and thus conright long needed. will answer all the demands of the time, and be comprehensive and elastic enough to keep a pace with progress in the arts and sciences, and then this preacher and school teacher in the ter- religion will be accepted by all. ritory of Utah. He came out here under the auspices of one of the mission- ture today appropriated $20,000 for the BOISE CITY, March 9.-The legisla ary associations, the New West it is Idaho exhibit at the World's Fair. Yours respectfully, CHAS, H. HART, To HON. GEO. F. EDMUNDS, uch deep interest in the public local under a republican form of govern- Another of the nobles who departed welfare and shown such feverish im ment. This contention should enter this life was the Duke of Somerset. The patience at the mere prospect of a de- into the minutest details, and it is re- coronet worn by him can be traced ay of benefits, inform the sto- gretful that men can be found in back to the early Tudor kings. The late cal Senator from the State of Ver- the community who, on account of duke owned four country seats and a mont that the passing of enactments creating local professional business, town mansion, yet he lived a solitary by the Utah Legislature fixing the will urge a reduction of popular rights life in a half empty house in Berkeley place of holding terms of court was a and their bestowal upon an official Square, London, and spent most usurpation by that honorable body of "a who has exercised all the energy and of his time walking about its empty power given the Governor." This was a cunning of which he is possessed to rooms. He did not even keep a conpower never given to the Legislature." obtain a kingly power over Utah. He veyance of any kind. And his penTherefore the conclusion is inevitable has also sought, by all his resources ofuriousness was such that the London -the enactments were "contrary to device, to produce the disfranchise- cabmen all knew him, and would not authority and consequently void." ment of the majority of the people drive him, except when compelled by This is, on its face, a strong plea for—including, we presume, the cor- law. tyranny and autocracy, and a respondents of Mr. Edmunds. No knock-down argument against popu- man should perform any act or utter a lar rule. 1 Unfortunately for its word that would in the smallest degree, safety the gentlemen who made tend to the production of fetters which use of it overlooked the neces would shackle himself, sity for the preservation of the consistency of one part of their statement with the rest of it. Had they grasped this essential they never would have written the closing paragraph, which asks Mr. Edmundswhom the Logan gentlemen seem to regard as the entire Senate to "confer upon the Governor a power that is consistent with previous legislation on the subject by Congress and which will authorize him to exercise a power which it is doubtful whether he now possesses, and thus confer upon the people of Northern Utah a right long needed." We will here introduce, as a fitting conclusion, a striking paragraph clipped from the American Sentinel: "If the citizens do not regard their liberties with a jealous care, if they do not vigorously oppose the first indication of despotism, if they do not resist the first steps in unjust taxation, if they do not antagonize the minor violations of the principle of religious equality, the time will come, and it may not be very far distant, when the rights of the people will be trampled in the dust. This is a danger that has been seen and emphasized by the greatest of our American statesmen. It is a trait of human nature too manifest to escape the observing mind. Some of the most important of the writings of our early statesmen utter this warning to the American people, and the truth of their words is so evident to the lover of our free institutiors that we cannot disregard them with impunity." DEATH AMONG ENGLISH ARISTOCRATS One of the others who died was the Earl of Devon, known as Lord Courtenay. At one time he was popular and brilliant, but he fell into vice and extravagance. A few years ago he be came a bankrupt. Of late he used to make a railway station in London his headquarters, and was an object of curi osity to many. His title was one of the oldest in Europe. He traced his descent from the Plantagenets of England, and he was allied by marriage with a dozen of the English Kings. The last of this "Big Four" was the Earl of Caithness, the family name was Sinclair, and his descent traceable to the oldest Chieftains and rulers of Scotland. The predecessor of the late Earl was well known in the United States as Lord Berriedale, He had a vast capacity for whiskey. When he died, he left his estates to a boon com. panion. It was thought the title would become extinct, as no heir was known at the time. A bank clerk was found in Aberdeen, who established his title and became 16th Earl of Caithness. only a. few hundred a year to maintain the splendors of Earldom. The man was far happier as a poor quill-driver, than as bearer of all the glories, honors and weaknesses of the historic Sinclairs of the past. He died a very The son who Such a statement as that after having previously asserted that Congress had already given such power to the Governor, and that to exercise it by the Legislative Assembly was consequently without authority and void, is, to say THE "old nobilitee" of England has the least, a trifle absurd. If the astute experienced quite a shock within the Senator from Vermont critically ex- last few weeks. Two dukes and two but there was amined this document it would be in-earls died within a few days of each teresting to know what he thought of other, and after a very brief illness on the legal elucidation. He could hardly the part of three of them. All four have been infatuated with its logic, al-represented ancient and proud famithough he has given ample evidence lies. Oue was the Duke of Bedford, that he is in line with its sentiment-whose ancestor was raised to the peerthe reduction of home rule in Utah age by Henry VII. Bedford repre- unhappy man after all. and its concentration in a few officials sented the famous Russell family. He is to succeed him as 17th Earl of in whose selection and appointment committed suicide, a very vulgar thing Caithness was a poor farmer in Dakota, the people have no choice. for a duke to do. But he did it, never- but it appears that he has cast the mud The correspondents of Senator Ed-theless, by blowing out his brains, or of that State off his feet and is now on munds appear to have forgotten that whatever matter existed where the his way to grasp the strawberry Congress empowered the Legislative brains ought to have been. He leaves coronet, and to die unhappy as rich Assembly to enact laws "on all rightful a son, the Marquis of Tavistock, who lords and American millionaires subjects of legislation." This certain- is said to be a very eccentric person. generally do. ly includes authority to designate the The late Duke of Bedford was both places of holding terms of court. Sure- a rich man and a very learned one, ly the representatives of the people he enjoyed the distinction of being the ought not to be charged with usurpa- most unpopular man in England. Betion for performing a duty so simple and so plainly within their right as that. but fore ascending to the dukedom, he was known as Hastings Russell, the tyrant and bad landlord. He is said to be the It is the duty of every patriotic citi- original of Anthony Trollope's "Planzen to contend for the rights of the tagenet," though the ideal duke is sovereign people, opposing every en- somewhat better than the original croachment upon their prerogatives 'really was. HOLDING TWO POSITIONS. AN interesting and altogether new question of a public and political character has arisen in the Empire State, bearing upon the duality or otherwise of the Governor's present office-holding. It will be remembered that about a month ago, the Chief Executive of New York, David B. Hill, was elected body on earth, we presume that these considerations would have had weight. With the men who are ruining Salt Lake City politically, morally and financially, they do not appear to have the heft of a feather. We do not hesitate to state that if such a parody on government as is enacted in Salt Lake, were to prevail throughout the whole of this country-municipal, State and General-a revolution would at once be precipitated. There would not be left in the nation a shred of popular rule any more than there is within the domain of the Russian Czar. to the United States Senate and his credentials are now presu nably on file in that body. His term as Governor does not expire for several months yet, and a large faetion of his party (the Democratic) who are opposed to Lieutenant-Governor Jones and do not want to see him take Mr. Hill's place, insist upon it that the latter can properly hold on to the office until he takes his seat in the Senate. This view is stoutly oppose by another faction, who take the ground that Mr. Hill became a United States Senator on the Fourth of March, when the Firty second Congress con- In what direction can one consiststructively came into existence. The ently look for the reason for such a fact that the House has not yet organ course as the Council is pursuing? A ized, they claim, matters not; it is speaker at one of the law and order chosen and only needs to come to meetings, held a few weeks since to degether to proceed with business; but mand of the city officials that the ordithe Senate, to which Mr. Hill is elect-nances be enforced by them, made a ed, is always organized; only one-third striking statement pointing to the of it changes with each Congress, so cause of the lamentable situation. The that there is continuously a quorum of gentleman referred to was Mr. Gregg, members. Besides, they say, Mr. a pronounced "Liberal," who said that Hill's pay as a Senator began on the the cause of all the trouble was that fourth of March at noon, when the there was not a member of the Council present Congress expired and the who had not been approached from the new one began, and thus the outside and informell that there was gentleman under discussion is now no use talking to the contrary, we under pay from the National "must have so and so." This acand State Government at the same time-a decidedly anomalous condition of things. The New York World sug gests that the Governor remove this objection by not drawing his pay as Senator during the interim, and holding on to the Governorship. This gives rise to another question-the Treasury will credit him with $400 and some odd a month from the 4th of this month, and what will be done with the money? It will stand there to the POLITICAL SITUATION IN SCAN- THE latest news from the Scandinavian peninsula is to the effect that the people are apprehensive of war with Russia-the mighty giant on their eastern border. That the situation is grave may be surmised from the feverish activity manifested by the populace, in gathering funds for the purpose of building fortifications and men-ofwar. Even the ladies are forming societies for this purpose, and the children participate in this patriotic labor. And the King is regularly asking Riksdagen for money for war ships. Sweden and Norway have enjoyed the blessings of peace and consequent Prosperity so long that this warlike activity is all the more remarkable. the Great, has been to extend the vast The Russian genius, since Czar Peter has been handed down to his sucempire in all directions. This policy cessors as a sacred obligation, and the autocrats of the empire have never line with it. Besides this general de, neglected an opportunity of acting in sire for extension of territory at the cost of her neighbors, Russia has a special interest in obtaining a foothold in Scandinavia. She needs a harbor counted for the situation deplored by for her fleet-a place free from ice, every thoughtful citizen. Councilman Pickard and others will carry the question into the courts. This is right. The subject is one of much importance, not only to individuals but to the people at large, and the progress of the legal dispute wil be watched with the keenest interest. But what about the time pending? What will the rule and ruin party do between now and the final adjudica credit of David B. Hill whether that tion? gentleman draws it or not; and when he applies for it, if he should, it will be paid without question, no matter What he may have received from other Sources. It is a very nice question. THE COUNCIL AND PIONEER BLOCK. As was nounced that it may be necessary to the hands of such an administration is such as the Varanger Fjord, for inRussian settlers have been moving stance, would give her. For years into the Northern parts of Norwaywhile her ships have frequently visited buying up lands, making homes there, the coasts, and maps and charts have been drawn of the various localities. Among the latest aggressions of the in the north and violating the treaty Czar has been the stationing of troops under the guarantee of the European of peace made with Sweden in 1809, made in order to provoke Sweden to powers. Perhaps this innovation is take some step that could be interpreted as a casus belli and justify the opening of actual hostilities. MR. GOMPER'S VISIT. city will naturally set people talking THE visit of Samuel Gompers to this about labor and capital, and the great issues which are involved. President of the American Federation He is It may be that "family of Labor. This means that he is the The reasons secrets" will require the sale of other most prominent figure in the organized which were ignored by the members property of the people under some labor of the United States. (and alleged members) of the Council hypocritical plea. Wele (1) Popular sentiment.(2) The proprietary right of the people who are the owners of the realty involved in the question. (3) The law as ably presented by the official legal adviser of the cor. poration. ing from a very rare form of disease With any other municipal legislative is fatal. His plan of organization is said to be superior to that adopted by Powderly endeavored to unite all trades and and the Knights of Labor. Powderly callings of an industrial and producing character into one homogeneous whole. He excluded from his order lawyers and whisky dealers. His idea was a grand one, but like many similar projects, it did not succeed. Powderly is gone, but Gompers is ahead. The lawyers and the saloonkeeper are on either side of Gompers, holding up his hands. Last night, at the banquet, a lawyer named Powers, as honorary member of a trades union, indulged in some cheap wit about the alliance between plumbers and lawyers. Mr. Gompers should understand that as a rule a law yer who poses as a labor leader is working for a place as corporation counsel. And if the eminent plumber, Mr. Powers should in a few weeks be retained as legal adviser for a railroad company it will probably be because of his pull as a labor leader. SINKING CREDIT OF THE CITY. ter how frequently its personnel may do the security is traveling downward THE morning anti-"Mormon" organ charges the "Saintly Press" with telling "a sorrowing public that the Liberal government of this city has so destroyed its credit that its bonds are at a shameful discount." It then goes on in a sickly attempt to show that the In his speech last night Mr. Gom-depreciation of the bonds of Salt Lake pers says: "They [the saintly press] should add that, for some reason, the old bonds, the perfect security of which cannot be questioned, are at the same discount, that they were made so by the Deseret Bank of this city." It is not denied that there are fair men who have been elected to office. More than that, every intelligent and truth-loving citizen in the community knows this. The record of incapacity and evidences of jobbery made by the present government is too glaring to be misunderstood by the dullest student of current local events and conditions. But we are not so forgetful of justice as to measure the entire party by the size and quality of the present municipal administration, which is partly, at least, made up of bogus offi. cials. A great many "Liberals" are equally as disgusted with the condition of affairs as even the most pronounced members of the People's Party. City is not due to internal influences The American Federation of Labor but to the financial condition in the has decided to concentrate its efforts in east. This is simply the thinnest kind the establishment of the eight-hour system. Let us content ourselves with this of mud, from which the present city today; less, if need be, tomorrow. Don't government guaranteed to clean the and honest men in the "Liberal" talk to us of being lazy. While there is streets, but which is now being dis-party-men who could be trusted with one person looking for work, the hours of those who do work are too long. We posed of by the "Liberal" organ by the transaction of public business. Unpropose to deal in a movement that will figuratively throwing it into the eyes fortunately, however, they are not the do more than anything else for the Amelioration of the workinginan's conof the people. dition, viz., the eight-hour system. Eight The paper referred to furnishes, on hours for sleep, eight hours for work, this subject, a brilliant illustration of eight hours for moral and intellectual recreation. To this last the reply has the fact that a muddled brain and a been, 'You'll get drunk,' which has con- bad cause will result in the setting up tinued to be cast at us until we have of a proposition and the production of placed on our bauners, 'Eight hours for what we will.' It is a mischevi- an argument to demolish it. To exhibit ous, a wicked libel to charge peo- this anomaly we will quote from the ple with intention to get drunk if they have article in point: more time to themselves. Drunkenness among the laboring classes has decreased in a ratio corresponding to the decrease in the hours of labor. The man who works so many hours a day only sleeps at home, and eats, sleeps, dreams of work rather than works to live. If you want to improve the habits or customs of a people you The person who wrote that was igmust improve their condition. On an norant of the fact that the security of average, people receive wages enough to the bonds of the municipal corporation pay for their actual necessaries of life, or upon which they will consent to live. is the same for those issued and But if the wage-workers will insist on disposed of on any previous date living more decently they will secure the means in wages to do this. We must have as those placed on the market more time to make room for those out of and sold by the city now. The work, and because we do not want our city is on the security and Feople brought to a condition of semiit A BRIEF sketch of the festivals ob slavery." lies the responsibility of redemption. served under the Mosaic dispensation If there is any difference between will properly conclude our outline of old and new it lies in favor of the for- the law of Moses. Such occasions mer, because they would necessarily were celebrated weekly, monthly and take precedence in payment. The yearly. difference, however, if any exists, is but slight. Any depreciation of the credit of the city affects the one class as well as the other. here. No one can object to what is said It is a very stupid person who would oppose the betterment of the working classes. And it is a very hardhearted person who would impose longer hours of labor. OFF THE TRACK. FESTIVALS PRESCRIBED BY THE The Sabbath was the weekly holiday and was consecrated to rest and devo tion. It was to be kept holy, in com. memoration of the completion of the The new bonds were disposed of at a creation of the world. On that day an ONE gentleman, an attorney by the discount by the city direct. It has additional offering was to be made, way, said he did not see how Councilman Pickard expected to gain anything by his been charged that this depreciation is consisting of twelve loaves of bread suit which he intends to file today, as he the result of the lowering of the credit and pure frankincense. This was the did not see how a court could enjoin the of the corporation under "Liberal" rule. "bread of memorial," to be eaten by action of a future Council. When the time for the confirmation of the transac- As an argument against this being the Aaron and his sons in the holy place. tion arrives, it is likely that an entire cause, the newspaper quoted states Singing and music added to the cheer new set of men will be in the Council, that holders of old bonds have been fulness of the Jewish Sabbath. (Ps. and to say what their action shall be presumed to be he held as folly.-Tribune. disposing of them at a similar low lxviii: 25-27). On this day the childAn attorney should know that a law. rate. This statement simply empha- ren were instructed in the law, and making body does not chauge, no mat- sizes the fact that public confidence in those who could do so visited the ten ple. Later, synagogues were erected, The yearly festivals were three. At these all the male adults were required to appear at the sanctuary, the tabernacle or temple. The passover commenced in the evening on the 14th of Abib, the first month of the ecclesiastical year. It was kept in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt, when God spared the firstborn of the Israelites from destruction. All leaven was then removed from every house. A lamb was slain for every household. Its blood was sprinkled on the door-posts, the lamb roasted whole, with two spits thrust transversely through it, and was then eaten with Litter herbs. Unleavened bread was broken by the head of the family and distributed to each member. No fewer than ten and not more than twenty were admitted to the feast. Wine was also distributed and songs of praise were sung. Sacrifices were offered every day during this festival which lasted from the 15th to the 27th of the month. On the 16th the first ears of corn were presented before the Lord as a preliminary to the commencement of the harvest. From the second day of the passover, fifty days, or seven full weeks were counted, and then came the feast of Pentecost. This feast was held at the completion of the harvest. Loaves made of the new meal and grain were then offered to the Lord as the first fruits and many burnt-offerings presented. At this time particularly, the Jews gathered in the sanctury. From the 15th to the 27th of the month Tisri, our October, the feast of the tabernacles was celebrated in commemoration of the sojourn of the Israelites in the wilderness. Boweries were then constructed of branches of trees and in these the people resided for one week. The feast was the most joyous of all. It was called "the great Hosanna" and more sacrifices were offered during this time than during any other time of the year. the transgressor being cut off from the without charge. The year of jubilee The first day of the month Tirsi, corresponding to our October, was the commencement of the civil year. This was also announced by the sounds.of the silver trumpets. On this day no work was to be done and sacrifices were presented before the Lord. In conclusion, we may say of the law of Moses, that the whole system is one grand lesson, eminently suited to the condition of the people to whom it was first given, and a close study of its provisions is instructive to all nations. To the religious it manifests the wisdom of Jehovah in adapting his laws to the conditions of the people to whom they are given. PROGRESSIVE ANTI-"MORMONS." UNDER the head of "What the Gentiles have accomplished among the Mormons of Salt Lake City," l'omeroy's Advance Thought makes the following statement of facts: Other yearly festivals are later. These are the feast of purim and the feast of dedication. The first falls on the month Adar (March) and commemorates the victory of Mordecai over Haman, when this Babylonian minister plotted the destruction of the captive Jews; the second is celebrated in remembrance of the re-establishment of the worship of. God in Jerusa lem, after the defeat of the tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes. It was held for eight days from the 25th of Kislev (December), and is also known as the feast of lights, from the illuminations which were customary at that festival. Besides these yearly festivals, every seventh year was a Sabbath year. The "That anti-Mormon government has land lay untilled and the fruits were increased the city taxes three hundred per cent. The city recorder has turned not gathered during that year. out a defaulter. Nine gambling houses What grew spontaneously was and thirty-one houses of pros itution for the poor. The people were free, anti-Mormon movement struck its gate. have been opened there since the great during this year, to engage in com- At this rate, Salt Lake City will soon be merce, build, or hunt and fish as usual. as big a hot-bed for vice, crime and dissipation as is Denver or New York City." But the land was to rest, and the poor were to have the benefit of the prodCommenting on this the Jamestown, ucts of the soil. Moses predicts (Lev. N. Y., Sun says: xxvi: 34, 35) that the people should soon disregard the law concerning the Sabbath year, and that this would be one of the reasons, why they would be scattered among their enemies, and this prediction was literally fulfilled. After the return from Babylon, the law was again observed and many of the Jews today, in Palestine, particularly around Hebron, scrupulously observe it. for admission into the Union, and be a "At this rate Utah will soon be ready leader of fashion in Washington." AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. A SHORT time since a telegram from Leadville, Colorado, stated that a man named John Sunger had brought to that city an arrow head, made of tempered copper, and a number of human bones, which were found in a mine, Every fiftieth year, moreover, was a 460 feet below the surface of the earth, year of jubilee. This year was an imbedded in a vein of silver-bearing nounced on the 10th of Tisri, the day ore. Over $100 worth of ore clung to of atonement, and was, indeed, a the bores when they were removed This festival was preceded, on the jubilee year. Then all servants and from the mine. The arrow head is four 10th of Tisri, by the great day of atone- all slaves were set free. All land and inches long and 1 inches wide at the ment, the only fast day of the year all houses in the cities of the Levites widest part. The shank is 1 inches prescribed by the law. On this day which had been sold during the pre-long and has a hole pierced through the people were called together by ceding fifty years, were returned to the the center by which the shaft was fasthe sound of the silver trumpets. sellers, except such property as had tened to the spike. The ore clung to No work was to be done on been consccrated to the Lord. All this day on penalty of mortgaged lands, too, were released it when taken from the vein, and was with some difficulty removed. One of |