-be raised, and that much patronage understood as being untouched as other route connecting the east with could be guaranteed any road that yet. the extreme west is one of the enterwould come to Logan." We think prises that will no doubt be pushed to completion in the course of time. Los Angeles Express.

At Boulder, Col., on January 5, that the people of Cache need give the employes about the Colorado themselves no uneasiness from a fear Central depot were horrified by that the Union Pacific will finding the body of a man lying The Deadwood and Lead City withdraw from their midst. The alongside the track, just at the edge Chartered Toll Road (Dakota) has officials of the railway are too of the depot platform. A handker- enjoined the Deadwood Central ehrewd to leave the rich valley of chief was lying partially over his Railroad and brought suit against which the chief city is Logan, and face, and from every appearance he them for $50,000 damages. The go to the comparatively desert val- must have been killed by the Boul-grade of the latter crosses the toll ley to the northwest. There is too der Valley train, while going out at road in five different places, rendermuch money for a railroad in Cache 7 the previous evening. Whether ing it absolutely dangerous for veCounty to think of its being aban- he had fallen under the wheels or hicles. Although being notified doned. The talk about change is had deliberately laid himself down orally and in writing, the railroad likely a bluff to cover some other that he might be crushed, can only continued building. A better grade plan on the part of the railway. be conjectured. The wheels of the could have been obtained by the coach had evidently passed over his railroad company by another survey, head. As soon as the information but this one was selected presumwas brought to the coroner, he re-ably to break up the vehicle travel paired to the spot, and a number of between the two cities and secure it people recognized the body of Per- for the railroad company. Hence cival Stockman, an old prospector the suit for damages. and miner lately living at Crisman.

In Utah, during 1888, there were 37 miles of railroad built. This has all been narrow gauge, and virtually by the same parties, though 22 miles are credited to the Salt Lake & Fort Douglas, in its lines to Mill Creek and Fort Douglas, and 15 miles to the Salt Lake & Eastern, from the junction with the Salt Lake & Fort Douglas, toward Park City.

Construction on the Salt Lake & Eastern, in Parley's Canyon, has been suspended for the present. The weather is so cold that it is too expensive to go on with tracklaying for the present.

A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., Ernest Williamson's Case. says: One of the most important On Jan. 4 the announcement was cases that has been filed in the made of the pardon of Ernest WilUnited States district court for liamson, who had been in the penimany years was recorded on Jan. tentiary for grand larceny, and a 5th. The United States has com- statement was given of his record as menced an action against the North-shown by the courts. We are reliaern Pacific Railway Company, bly informed that an injustice has which involves millions of dollars. been done to him by a combinaIt is charged that ever since the tion of circumstances. He was senThe Union Pacific operating de- road, has been built, about 1869, it tenced on three charges, but subsepartment began the new year by has been trespassing upon govern- quently evidence was procured distributing circulars, says the ment land along the line, denuding showing that he was innocent of Omaha Herald, announcing a cut government timber land and causing two of them. He was induced to in section men's wages of 15 per irredeemable loss and damage to the plead guilty to all, through not havcent. This order effects that part of government and its constituents. ing been fully informed regarding Nebraska extending from Council These encroachments were made all the conditions, and was thus Bluffs to North Platte, with the ex-upon the lands and timber domain punished for two offenses in which ception of the Omaha men, who will in various parts of Idaho, Washing- the really guilty ones escaped. His continue to receive $1.40, while ton Territory, Montana and Minne- attempted escape in 1886 was the their less fortunate fellow-work- sota. The suit promises to be a last act of that kind, and he has men will draw only $1.25. prominent one in the history of the been striving to do better since. He Why Omaha should have been great government cases. The great has friends in this city who are confavored could not be definitely as importance of the case is not merely fident that he will lead a more excertained, but it is supposed that the emplary life in the future, and that eost of living had something to do he has received credit for being with the question, while on the much worse than he really was. In other hand members of labor unions his efforts to do better and shun the claim that the laboring men of the bad company which led him into city are too well organized to permit The right of way through this city trouble he should receive every asany such liberties being taken with to the Los Angeles, Salt Lake and sistance. He is still young, and by them. While these two solutions of Atlantic Railway has been granted, an honest, straightforward course the problem may be eminent- the franchise having been signed can gain the respect and confidence ly correct, it is more than like Thursday by Mayor John Bryson. of his fellow beings. ly due to a change in man- This matter has been pending for agement. The new vice-presi- some time, and has received more or dent desires to make a record less attention from the press and for himself by reducing expenses. The cut will probably cause a great deal of dissatisfaction, as the class affected are the poorest paid in the service. The salaries of the general manager and his assistant, the general and division superintendents, together with those of the general freight and passenger agents. are

in the amount involved as pecuniary
damage, but lies in the interest of
the states at large in having so much
of the timber domain divested of
that for which it was chiefly valued.

Returned Missionary. Elder Charles H. Grace, of Nephi, public. This road is to be branch of reached this city January 6 on his the Union Pacific Company. That return from a mission. He left corporation has for a long time been home April 23, 1887, and went first anxious to be relieved of doing busi- to Iowa, in which state he labored ness in California with the Central five months. He next went to NePacific. It has a road into Southern braska, and labored in that state Utah, and now that the work of se- about seven months. His next field curing the right of way to the Pa- was Kansas, in which he spent the cific Ocean has been completed, an- remaining period of his mission.

The prospects for baptisms in that part of Kansas in which Elder Grace has been laboring are good. A branch has been organized there. Elder Grace desires us to express his sincere thanks to the people of St. John for the kindness which they invariably exhibited towards him during his sojourn among them.

Death of W. C. Morris.

Please convey my most sincere sym-
pathy to the family of Brother Mor-
ris." ""

Cyclone in Pennsylvania. On the afternoon of Jan. 9 one of the most destructive cyclones that The deceased was 44 years of age, ever occurred in the United States and leaves a wife and seven chil-visited portions of Pennsylvania. dren, the youngest a babe a few In Pittsburg a large, unfinished builmonths old. An eight-year-old ding was blown down, and of the daughter, Cora, was taken ill the workmen engaged upon it, twelve day after her father left, with rheu- were killed, and six fatally, and matic fever, and is in a very precar-many seriously injured. This buil ious condition. She has learned of ding in falling crushed two or three On Monday last, Jan. 7, the body of her father's illness, but owing to others, in the debris of which many Brother W. C. Morris left New York the rheumatic affection having persons were buried, some of them for this city. The precise manner settled in the region of the being horribly mangled, and a numin which he met his death has been heart, she dare not be mado ber killed. The terrible event a matter of deep interest, as no de- acquainted with the sequel, lest it spread consternation throughout the tails had been given. It was known would bring immediate death. by his friends that he was acquainted When the child notices signs of with the use of gas, so the idea that grief on the countenance of her he had blown the light out was not mother or any of the family it afto be considered. Particulars are still meagre, but sufficient has been learned to show the way in which the sad affair happened.

On December 31, Brother C. F. Wilcox, who was also in New York, requested Brother Morris to stop over night with him, it being New Year's eve. The invitation was de

ing house over night. It was agreed, however, that at 3 p.m. on New Year's day dinner should be taken at Brother Wilcox's. The two then separated.

fects her seriously, and there is the
utmost anxiety concerning her safe-
ty. These circumstances tend to
make the case one that calls out
deeper sympathy for the bereaved
and afflicted family.

anecdotes and incidents related and

The little

city.

At Reading the visitation was even more appalling. It had been raining all the forenoon, but by 4 p. m. it had cleared up. The sky remained clear for half an hour when the scene

changed with a suddenness that was appalling. The fleecy clouds quickly gave

way to dark, heavy banks; clouds marshalled themselves to

Latter-day Saint Kindergarten. On Friday, Jan. 4, a representative gether, and soon a gloom seemclined, with the remark that he did of the NEWs was a pleased and inter-ed to have settled over the city. not like to be away from his board-ested spectator of the exercises of the The wind whistled, roared, and tore kindergarten taught in Eagle Gate in mad confusion. The storm clouds Hall by Miss Lizzie Taylor. The grew heavier, and still louder roared pupils range in age from four years the wind. In the western sky a upward, and are taught in the man- storm was seen approaching. The ner usual in first-class kindergar-swath it cut was narrow, but its effect was terrible. Persons residing Next day, when 3 o'clock arrived, tens. In addition to this, they are Brother Morris did not appear. instructed in the rudiments of the along the track of the storm say they Four o'clock came and Brother Gospel in its fulness and are taught saw the first signs of danger in the Wilcox, getting uneasy, went to to pray, and they have Scriptural funnel-shaped maelstrom of wind the place where Brother Morris was and debris, which seemed to gather up everything within its reach and staying. He inquired of the land-explained to them, etc. lady, who said she had not seen him ones come at half-past nine o'clock cast it right and left out into the since the evening before. His room in the morning, and the time until country. Houses and barns were was found to be locked, so the door noon is occupied with kindergarten unroofed, the buildings overturned, was burst in. There he was, in bed exercises. Such of them as choose crops uprooted, and unconscious, and the smell of gas go home at noon; the others remain,reigned everywhere. The track of told in an instant what had ocand are instructed an hour or two in the disturbing element was not over curred. various studies. 200 feet wide, and it is lucky it only During the noon A physician was summoned im-hour, lunch brought by the children touched the sides of the city. It mediately, but he did not think the is spread, a blessing upon it is asked, came from the west, but passed case serious. Brother Morris was and as the meal progresses instruc- along the northern border of tion is given in table etiquette. removed to the hospital, and other physicians were called. Efforts were made to resuscitate him, but without The operation of the infusion of blood was resorted to, but no improvement came in the раtient's condition, and on Friday he began to sink, passing away at 4:30 a. m. on Saturday, Jan. 5.

success.

On Jan.7 Brother Nelson A.Empey received the following dispatch from Hon. John W. Young, at New

York:

The day named was the last of the first term, which began on Oct. 22. A new term commenced last Monday. This is the first Latter-day Saints' kindergarten ever established, and it is worthy of all encouragement. Sister Randall is teaching a number of pupils in the same building who are advanced beyond the kindergarten. She is an excellent and experienced teacher, and is prepared to take more pupils.

"No two friends could have been CONTRACTORS are looking about more faithful than Brothers C. F. to secure the job of erecting the Wilcox and Fred. Clawson in attending Brother Morris. Every- proposed $250,000 building to be put thing was done that could be. All up on the corner west of the City expenses have been paid promptly. Hall,by Salt Lake City and County.

destruction

the town. It first touched the Mount Penn stove works here. The corner of the building was struck and a portion of the roof cut off as nicely as if done with a pair of scissors. Then the storm struck across some fields and took a portion of the roof off J. Stormberger's foundry mills, and a number of dwellings were unroofed as readily as though the tin roofs were made of paper.

The storm hurried to the tracks of the Reading Railway and crossed. Here a passenger train was standing, and it was turned over as easily as if it had been a toy and its splinters scattered in every direction. Meanwhile the rain poured down in torrents, the atmosphere became heavy

ticed as it was dragged out had its head cut off. Others were in various positions. The living were all suffering from the most terrible wounds, and some were almost scared to death.

and oppressive, and it was almost as 300 feet in length and about 150 feet dark as night. wide. It was surmounted by a Directly on one side of the track massive tower fully 100 feet from the of the Reading Railway was sit-ground. The funnel-shaped storm uated the paint shop of the company. cloud struck the building directly in It was a one-storey building, abou the center on the broad side which 60x150 feet, and held about thirty faced to the west. It fell to pieces as The Associated Press representamen, employed in painting pas- if composed of so many blocks.tive entered what was once the basesenger cars. There were eight or Nearly 200 people were down in the ment of the building, and gropins nine of these cars in the building. awful wreck. The walls gave way, his way through the debris noticed They had been built at the cost of the floors fell down, one on top of the bodies of five young girls lying $5000 each. The building was struck another, and carried their great side by side. He tried to pull them squarely in the middle, and the mass of human beings to the bottom. out, but they were pinned down, bricks scattered about as if they Bricks were piled up in the greatest and it was impossible to get them were playthings, the cars turned confusion, while amid the hurricane out. They were dead and beyond topsy turvy, while the men were of the whistling, rushing, roaring all human aid. Up to 10:30 o'clock buried under the debris. The wind terrible cries for succor were probably the bodies of a dozen chamber of each passenger car was sent up to heaven. It was a mo- dead have been taken out, while

the greater portion of the remainder were still under the ruins. The managers are missing and the correct number is merely guess work, It may not be over forty, and then again there is a likeli hood that it will reach sixty or eighty.

Augustus Roschp was foreman of the first and second floors of the silk mill. A reporter interviewed him. and his statement is as follows:

"It was about 5:10 o'clock when I

already filled with gas, as they ment that tried men's souls. were ready to be taken out on the and almost simultaneously with the road in a few days. They exploded fall of the building came cries for one after another. "Bang! bang!" relief. Girls with blackened faces, resounded over the city, causing the bruised and broken limbs, their people to run out of their houses, clothing tattered and torn, dragged thinking it was the sound of an themselves from the ruins; 75 to 100 earthquake. There was a consider-escaped or were dragged out by their able quantity of gasoline in the friends. These, of course, worked building, and this added fuel on the upper floors, and were thrown to the flames. A sheet of flame near the top of the debris. In some shot upward with a roar as of mus places the bricks were piled up 20 ketry. Some twenty of the men feet deep, and underneath are lying had a chance to crawl out of the tonight human bodies by the score: went in the second storey to turn on debris, but four of their companions About 250 girls and young women done that I stood looking about the the electric lights. After I had were enveloped in the embrace of are usually employed in the mill, room for about ten minutes. Sudthe flames. Their cries were heard but at 4 o'clock 89 were relieved denly I heard a loud rustling noise for a moment by the terrified work- from duty for the day. They rewhich I thought was a cyclone. men, and their voices were hushed turned to their homes before the standing in the southern end of the The building then shook. I was for ever. They were quickly roasted storm came. The most reliable es-room, and before I could go back to to death. timate tonight places the num- the window I felt the building sinkThe fire from the nine passenger ber in the building when it ing. Quick as lightning the porcars lit up the heavens for a mile went down in the neighborhood around. It was a beautiful sight, at 175, and as before stated 100 and could have been enjoyed, but for of these were rescued by friends the awful calamity which accom- or dragged themselves out immedipanied it. In the meantime, the fire ately after the accident. An department was out, but its services alarm for relief was immediatewere unavailing. The building and ly sent out, and in a short time cars were consumed in fifteen min- thousands of citizens arrived to utes, and nothing was left but black-help out the dead and dying. The ened, smoking ruins under which scene was a harrowing one and beg-ing, it seemed to me as if the girls

lay four human beings burned to a crisp.

tion of the room I went in went

down. The girls rushed about me crying and screaming and calling for help. They did not realize what was taking place. It seemed to me as if the centre of the building was struck first. I cannot describe the scene. It was awful. I could not do anything, and could not think of anything I should do. One end of the building went down first, and while the floor was sink

gars description. The mill is situat- in the other part of the room were ed near the foot of Mount Penn, a on top of a hill. That was the way While this was going on, the storm high mountain overlooking the city. were going down. it impressed the men while we I saw other was traveling onward with fearful When the people arrived everything portions of the floor fall. In a minrapidity. It must have traveled at was enveloped in darkness. Then ute all was over. The screaming of the rate of 100 miles an hour. It huge bonfires were built which cast the girls was heartrending. I was sucked in some fine private houses a dismal glare on the surrounding and held fast by my foot. I could knocked down under heavy timbers and unroofed some dozen private scene. The entire police force was move every other part of my body residences. Huge sheets of tin were called out. The ambulance and re- except my leg. I reached down with carried half a block away, and de- lief corps and thousands of people my knife and cut the shoe off my posited in a lump in the street. Di- were in among the debris carrying and managed to rise. Amid the foot. In this way I became loosened rectly in its path at the corner of out bricks, pulling away tim- screams of girls, falling beams and Twelfth and Marion streets stood bers, and assisting wherever they bricks, I succeeded in escaping. I the Reading silk mill. Here about could, all at the got out of the ruins on the east275 girls ern side of the buildings, but were working. The But their work was slow com- how I do not know I called building was a huge structure, pared with the demand for the to the girls as loudly as I most substantially built, four stories rescue of the victims of the disaster. could. They were all terribly exhigh and basement; besides it occu- Here a young woman was taken out cited, and I never witnessed anypied an entire block of ground. The all bruised and suffering from cuts them heard me and worked themthing so awful in my life. Many of size of the building itself was nearly and bruises. One body it was no-selves towards me. At some places

same. time.

it seemed as if the floor was closed Mormon Church, largely outnumber they have a right to be heard, and as a solid mass, and the girls would the loyal Gentile citizens in said the fact that they are unanimous in ereep around this, crawl around the Territory, and consequently have, their opposition to the admission of machines and creep on hands and and for many years to come will Utah is an unanswerable argument knees until they got to the opening have absolute control of all elections against the proposition. Although where I was. The machines saved therein; they compose but one-fourth of the many from being crushed to death. That all pretences of abandonment population of the Territory, they I believe that fully 100 persons es of bigamy, polygamy and other pay nearly one-half of the taxes. caped with me. I remember seeing crimes against the laws of the They have opened large and valuthem run across the common in dif- United States are pretences only, able mines, and have produced ferent directions to their homes, ter- made for the purpose of deceiving therefrom over $108,000,000. Quite rified. Some ran away a short dispersons unacquainted with the ab-half of this sum has been paid to tance and then returned to the horrent practices of the Mormon Mormons for labor and supplies. ruins. The girls came back to look Church, and thus create a feeling Before their advent the Mormon for their brothers and sisters favorable to the proposed admission element were so poor that several or friends. We could hear the of said Territory of Utah; whole families did not secure $10 moans and shrieks of those im- That the turning over of a. State per year. The Gentiles have prisoned in the ruins. The Government to said Mormon Church churches of the value of a halfrain was pouring down, and all or the leaders thereof, would be un-million dollars. They support one around was dark. I was badly safe and impolitic, because said hundred schools independent of the bruised and hurt about the body, Church is composed by a large ma-Territorial school system. They head and limbs, and went home jority of the lowest and most densely have established hospitals and libraafter I saw I could do nothing. Be- ignorant classes of the Old World ries and enterprising newspapers. tween 250 and 300 operatives were in peasantry, who are in no way They have built magnificent busithe building. About 4 o'clock I al- Americanized, and who have noth-ness blocks, and during the past lowed 16 girls to go home. All the ing in common with our aims or our year have expended in building in floors were in operation. The report Republican institutions. They are Salt Lake City alone upwards of one that 100 went home at four o'clock serfs, and serfs only-slaves to the million dollars in money. These is not true." most tyrannical and despotic organ- people are not mere adventurers. ization in existence. They are abso- They are not "carpet baggers." lutely under the control of their They are American citizens who leaders, and the use of the ballot in pay their own way, and who bear their hands would be entirely under aloft the banner of Progrsss. The following documents, to which the direction of said leaders, and a editorial reference has been made, travesty on the elective franchise; That there is no are here reproduced to show how severance of Church and State in Utah. all reregardless of truth in representing ports to the contrary, notwithstand-ization commonly called the Mortheir fellow citizens people can being; who are actuated by religious in- That the admission of Utah and tolerance, and corrupt political and the additional power thus given said Mormon Church would create a pecuniary motives. These protests dangerous condition of affairs in are also given space that they may Idaho, and would endanger the welbe preserved for historical purposes. fare of our social and moral instituThe first is a memorial adopted by tions; the Idaho Legislature, Jan. 3:

UNTRUTHFUL PROTESTS.

HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 1.
BY WHEELER.

Against the admission of Utah,
and praying for the appointment
of a Legislative Commission.
To the Honorable, the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States

Your memorialists, the Council and House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, most respectfully represent:

That the proposed admission of the Territory of Utah as a State, would be a calamity not only to every loyal Gentile citizen of that Territory, but to the general public, and especially to those States and Territories adjacent to Utah;

We, your memorialists, would therefore respectfully pray that the Territory of Utah be not admitted as a State, and we do further pray created for the government of said that a Legislative Commission be Territory.

And your memorialists will ever pray, etc.

The following is a protest of citizens of Utah Territory against its admission to the Union as a State: To the Honorable, the Congress of the United States:

They oppose the admission of Utah into the Union as a State because it would be under the tyrannical domination and control of a secret organ

mon Church, with its 28,000 office holders.

Because polygamy, which is an essential of the creed of the church, would be perpetuated and laws against the crime could never be enforced.

Because it would face the common schools under ecclesiastica! control where the book of “Doctrine and Covenants," which teaches polygamy, would be a text book, as it is now in the Mormon schools.

Because it would retard progress, depreciate values and drive from the Territory the men and women who are fast making it fit to enter the Union of States.

Because the whole scheme has been engineered by the Mormon priesthood, in order that they might entrench themselves behind the barmers of state rights.

Because it would be a crime against American institutions to clothe a Territory which is unAmerican in all its tendencies with the honors of a state, where the iron will of one man dictates what the laws shall be and who shall make and enforce them.

The Liberal Territorial Committees of Utah, representing both Democrats and Republicans, respectfully present the protest of the citizens of the Territory against the proposition to admit Utah as a State. We are the servants of about 55,000 That the admission of Utah would Gentiles, composing the entire Gen- The statement that has been made place the government of the State tile population, and this large body upon the floor of Congress that directly in the hands of the leaders of citizens unanimously oppose the polygamy is dead is false. It is of the "Church of Jesus Christ of scheme which is being so vigorously taught and practiced. throughout Latter-day Saints," commonly pressed by the Mormon Church. Utah, and if Utah becomes a state, known as the Mormon Church-an Joining with them are many Mor- the polygamous household and organization treasonable in its teach- mons who disregard the orders of polygamous practices will be openly ings and practices to the United the church. Our constituents are an and brazenly flaunted in the face of States Government; industrious, loyal and law-abiding the world, and the American people That many of said leaders are people. They are faithful to the will be asked, "What are you going now, and have been for months laws and traditions of their country. to do about it?" past, fugitives from justice and un- They are equal in intelligence, courder indictment for crimes against age and energy to those of any comthe laws of the United States, and munity. They have made their others are serving terms in the peni- homes here, invested their money tentiary for similar crimes; here, and are fully informed as to That the members of this treason- the conditions which surround us. able organization, known as the Although they are in a minority,

We respectfully submit herewith, protests against Statehood signed by upwards of 13,000 people.

O. W. POWERS, Chairman,
C. E. ALLEN, Secretary,
Liberal Territorial Committee of
Utah.

WEEKLY

NO. 4.

TRUTH AND LIBERTY

PATIENCE WITH THE LIVING.
Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone
Beyond earth's weary labor,
When small shall be our need of grace
From comrade or from neighbor;
Passed all the strife, the toil, the care,
And done with all the sighing,
What tender truth shall we have gained,
Alas! by simply dying?

Then lips too chary of their praise
Will tell our merits over,
And eyes too swift our faults to see
Shall no defects discover.

Then hands that would not lift a stone
Where stones were thick to cumber
Our steep hill path, will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.

Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I,
Ere love is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home-
Be patient with the living.
To-day's repressed rebuke may save
Our blinding tears tomorrow;
Then patience-e'en when keenest edge
May whet a nameless sorrow.

'Tis easy to be gentle when

Death's silence shames our clamo, and easy to discern the best

Through memory's mystic glamour;
But wise it were for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiving,
To take the tender lesson home-
Be patient with the living.

-Christian Advocate.

VOL. XXXVIII

sidered the subject one of instruc- more than usually tender, and she
tion rather than entertainment. It omitted the accustomed flogging.
was of great importance to the The boy retired to bed but not to
world under existing circumstances, rest. He shifted uneasily about, and
and one in which sentiment has finally came to his mother and
been substituted for hard facts and asked her to whip him so that he
logical arguments. Many temper- could go to sleep. Whatever there
ance lecturers have endeavored to may be in the story, it is a correct
work upon the sympathies of their principle, that we can become used
hearers to gain their adherence, and to just such things as these. Dr.
have drawn pictures of the results Huxley tells a story to illustrate this
of the use of stimulants and nar- principle. The British soldiers obey
cotics. I shall present for consid- the orders of their officers without
eration, only those facts that have question, so thorough is their dis-
been clearly developed, and can be
grasped by the understanding. I
will here remark that habit is an
important factor in connection with
this subject. By constant practice
we may become accustomed to the
use of anything-even the most
deadly poisons. You see. the child
when it goes to the piano for the
first time; how clumsily its fingers
move along the keys. But after
years of practice, you see developed
the finished pianist, whose delicate
touch in no way resembles the early
efforts. You see the child at school,
when called to speak a piece for the
first time; how awkward and bash-

cipline. The doctor relates that on one occasion he met an old soldier coming along with his arms full of parcels. With a voice as nearly as possible resembling the tone of an officer giving orders, he commanded, "Attention!" The soldier instantly obeyed, straightening himself up, and dropping his parcels where he stood. Thus is our life's training written in our very tissues, in our very nerves.

The word stimulant is a study. It has a meaning which we recognize in its very form. It comes from the Latin stimulus, to spur, to goad. It was formerly applied to a spur or

DRINKS AND NARCOTICS. ful he is. But by the steady devel-hook with which the horseman ment of practice in later years you urged his animal to greater exerbehold the statesman, whose elo- tion; it was also applied to a whip. quence holds his auditors spell- The term is now used to indicate that which gives apparent energy. But who would think that a blow would give him increased energy? It rather incites to more desperate action; but no force or energy can be acquired from it. There are

ON Wednesday evening, January 9th, Professor James E. Talmage, Principal of the Salt Lake Stake bound. Academy, delivered a lecture in the Some have said that habit is secSixth Ward meeting house, the ond nature. It is not. We have subject being the "Effects of Stimu- but one nature., and habit becomes lants and Narcotics." The build- a part of that nature; its paths are ing was crowded with an attentive natural to us. In whatever service audience, who were deeply interest- we are in, whether good or evil, ed. The speaker illustrated his practice makes us perfect. In this subject by charts of the human connection I am reminded of the anatomy, thus giving a much better story of the bad boy, whose mother idea than could be conveyed with- had the habit of whipping him The stimulant that is best known out the charts. The lecture con- every day, in order to keep an among us is alcohol. Centuries tained a large amount of informa- even account with his bad deeds. ago, the Arab women used a costion relative to the topic treated on, No matter whether or not an offense metic, with which they thought to and we present the following synop- was charged against him, she gave enhance their beauty. When the sis: him the thrashing on general prin- habit was discovered the cosmetic Prof. Talmage said that he con- ciples. One night her heart was was called Al Kohol, the deceptive

some stimulants that our nature requires, but these are not injected into the body by a system unnatural and injurious.