The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-01
Convention Notes.

There was great enthusiasm in the
convention at times.
The Democrats are far from dis
heartened, as was witnessed by the
confidence expressed yesterday.
The ladies acquitted themselves ad-
mirably. They will become a potent
influence for purity in politics.
R. E. Egan, the candidate for rep
resentative in the state legislature, is
a man well-known in the county. He
is not unused to political life, having
held some responsible positions.
3. H. Roberts won the hearts of the
delegates when he announced that he
would bow to the will Of the majority
on the suffrage question. He had been
earnest and withal honest in his oppo-
sition; he would now be as earnest in
welcoming the ladies into the field of
politics, and he did so, he said, with as
pure heart and motive as anyone.
Teachers Institute.
The Davis county teachers summer
institute has been held in Pennington
this week and will close today. The
meetings have been well attended and
highly educational in character.
Prof. George H Brimhall, of Provo,
has been one of the principal lecturers
and his instructions have been very
valuable. Prof. Brimhall is we'll
known and highly esteemed in this
county, and the mere announcement
that he would deliver public lecture
in the Pennington Westinghouse last
evening was sufficient to draw an au
dience that filed the room. All the
surrounding towns were represented in
the audience.
Prof. Brimhall chose as his subject
l., he hal hi
audience almost spell-bound with his
mastery eloquence and searching
philosophy. A synopsis of his lecture
could not do it justice. He said God
himself is the great idealisr and the
wonders of nature are his realized
ideals. Ideality is the fountain of per-
petual youth, the lodestone that leads
onward and upward, or that drags
men downward. Nations and individ-
uals rise no higher than their ideals.
They may not reach them, but it were
hetter to have an ideal up in the stars
and not reach it by half, than to place
the ideal in the mud and stick to it.
No man should content himself with
"good enough" Nothing is good
enough but the best.
A man or woman with high Ideals
can live constantly in an atmosphere
of purity and heavenly pleasures, while
others through degrading their Ideals,
can live among the depraved and
leprous of the earth.
The companionship of books is
fruitful source of ideals and as the
books are in character, so ill high or
low ideals be formed. The class of
literature that treat of adventures of
criminals are dangerous, and have
been known to incite to crime. Why,
then, may not good books, books of an
elevating Tone raise the ideals of those
who read them and lead on to grand
achievements.
The speaker was roundly applauded
during his lecture and at the close a
vote of thanks was rendered him. 1t
was conceded by those present that
the lecture was one of the best ever
heard in the county.
Notes.
Labor day will be observed next
Monday as a holiday.
The Democratic society is receiving
numerous additions to their roll.
Christian Schmulz, of South Weber,
! killed a. black bear measuring seven
feet on Wednesday. 1t was a large
animal weighing probably $50 pounds.
| J. B. Meredith and party returned
Thursday evening from a two-weeks
! trip in the mountains. He reports a
very excellent time.
The ladies of Kaysville are entering
! into the spirit of the changed condi-
lions Of things in a hearty manner.
Nearly all of them are becoming regis
tered preparatory to voting in She
forthcoming election.
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