The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-14

In the programme Of exercises for the
field day of the University of Deseret, on
the 18th, we find the last sport thus an
nounced:
Prizes.
Laoies--- an
Gents Robert Elsmere, vols
1t is bad enough to see the word gentle
men" mutilated to gents as sacrifice to
commercial brevity, but we never expected
to see it go out under the sanction OF q
university. Somebody there should invest
his spare change in copy Of Webster's
Unabridged.
Church choirs are naturally given to
levity. They seem to regard it as their
special privilege 20 disturb any part OF
the services except their own. As rule,
however, their seats face the congregation,
and this fact has its restraining influence
upon them. Not so in the Theatre, where
Sunday services are being held. There the
choir retires from sight in the proscenium
box, and the further proceedings in the
house interest it no more. Only few
people in the opposite stalls can observe
the choir as it resolves itself into debat-
ing club, but even these few do not always
like to miss the sermon.
1t is said the Liberal party will hold no
more mass meetings until election time.
This statement must be taken with gener-
GUS dose of allowance. In fact, the Liberal
party is holding one perpetual mass meet
ing, never adiourning except for meals and
sleep, and very late for those. The princi-
pie speaker is Jake Greenwald, and his
cigar store is the place Of gathering. Like
a Chinese theatre the show goes On, drop
in when you may.
Rudyard Kipl:ng will return to India in
poor health and with feeling that he
doesn't want to read any american news
paper criticisms upon his works while he
is convalescing.
Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the brooks and rivers meet"
See the sweet girl graduate,
Ready for her future fate;
Knowing books by heart, and yet,
With deal to learn, you bet
Is Judge Zane an agnostic This query
is suggested by the gentleman's address to
the graduates of the Deseret university |
last Wednesday and his reference therein |
to the Bible. That he is an admirer of |
Herbert Spencer and regards his Data Of |
Ethics' with particular favor, is no secret, |
but the mere admiration of an agnostic |
does not necessarily constitute the admirer |
I'll ha how. IF ba Lit tod
States, now and ever, have been crowded |
with radical thinkers in point of belief, |
passing under various names and mostly /
as Unitarians. Thus Presidents John and |
John Quincy Adams ana Willard Fillmore |
belonged to that faith. while Jefferson and
Lincoln refused to be classified at all. Ed
ward Everett, Daniel Webster, Josiah
Quincy John G. Calhoun and long list Of
eminent iurists and statesmen belonged to
this fellowship; as also did Chief Justices
John Marshall, Theophilus Parsons and c. |
]. Parker, Judges Joseph Story and Lem
uel Shaw, ana the late Supreme Justice S.
F. Miller. If therefore Judge Zane is
liberal in religion he is ct least in good |
company.
Escu III sOdAb odnC SLc dIAdy VI dSHOslACo
at the bar is quite formidable. Only differ |
ing in degree of belief or disbelief, we may |
mention in this class, at random, all three |
members of the firm of Bennett, Marshall |
& Bradley, Arthur Brown, a. t. Schroeder, |
Judge Judd, Z. S. Varian, p. l.. Williams,
and doubtless many others whose names do |
not readily occur to US.
An interesting interview appeared in
The HERALD last week with Bishop |
Scanlan of the Catholic diocese, which re-
calls an incident in his varied career. A |
long time ago he was bishop in Asia Minor,
when the Saracenes overrun the country |
and drove all the Catholics out Of it. Not |
a few of our clergy have had peculiar ex-
periences. Thus Pastor Mabry, of the
Methodist church, entered the army at the
age of thirteen, and when the question is
asked who was the youngest soldier to en-
list in the late war, ne might have claim to
the distinction. DIR. L. G. Tiff roamed over
the Holy Land. The Rev. j. Brainard
Thrall, Congregationalist, spent many
years abroad in study, and Rev. David
Utter, Unitarian, traversed Europe on a
bycicle. Many of the Mormon missionaries
who set out without purse or scrip might
tell of some thrilling incidents in their
career Yet il sll helps to know the world
and all the humanity or iuhumanity there
is in it.
"Aha, see my inn-come is increasing
said the proprietor OF a summer hotel as the |
crowds came fiocking into his hostelry.
In the show bills of Shenandoah" life |
size picture of General Sherman, old Te- |
appears that strinkingly resem- |
bles the dead hero as he looked in the |
last few years of his life. And it is |
in the eternal fitness of things that he !
should serve as tie figurehead in an ad-
vertisement of realistic war drama. He
was great soldier and he loved the stage /
A kind and curious combination was his; |
as kind and curious as his life.
Governor Thomas invitation anent the
Irrigation convention is all right, only we
do not like the titular form to their SEX
the other governors. 1t may
be officially correct. but it is relic OF
colonial times just the same and should be
discarded. We have no excellencies in this
country and, what is moro, we do not want
any. Except in the address of foreign |
diplomats, who cling fondly to the shadow
even OF nobility, don't you know, the title |
Is rarely applied even to the President of |
the United States. Indeed were some such
man as Thomas Jefferson in office he would |
discard it altogether as un-Democratic and |