The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-22
A TOPIC OR TWO
TO THINK. ABOUT

If only men would give to the living
some of that which they bes'tow so Law
ishly upon them when they are dead,
says the Churc3irnah.5 what a different
world this would bel Even little OF
that which is sculptured on the cold
marble would, if brea-hed from the
warm Ems have made many a one
happy for life. One of the supersti-
tons OF the Seneca Indians is that they
can send their love by a bird TO their
dead ones. When a maiden dies, they
imprison a young bird until it first
begins to sing. They then load it with
kisses and careSSeS, and set 1t az lib
erty over the grave OF the maiden who
had Died, believing that it will not
fold it's wings or. close its eyes until
it has flown 10 the spirit land, and
delivered iEs precious burden of affec-
ton 70 the loved rand llost; sand it is
not uncommon for 20 or 80 birds to be
lOOsed over the same grave. Many and
many husband and Wife many
brother and sister would give all they
have if only they could send to their
dead ones an expression of love, which
might have been so easily made in life.
And how many sons and daughters
would now send messages unsaying
many things which should never have
been said, and saying many things
which were. alas, left unsaid. Let the
song-birds of soft looks, of soft words,
fly row. Now we know that they can
reach, and we shall have this great
advantage song7biFtls will fly back
to us again. ror
A gentleman who had spent several
months in Kansas said recently: THE
debasing effect on children which
comes from a familiarity with liquor
saloons was never forcibly presented
saloons are unknown. Kansas is filed
with boys ten years cid and under who
never saw a saloon since they can re-
member. They never saw man I'M
der the influence of LIQUOR. Being
wholly Withdrawn from the sight if it
nearly all of them will have no more
desire for drink on arriving at mans
estate than they will have for opium
or h2Sheesh. Though | am net a Pro-
hib-n.onist 1T really looks to me as if
the Kansas. people were doing a wise
thing in keeping the pubic drinking
places out of rneir state. OF course
quantities OF liquor do reach the state
in jugs, kegs and barrels from Kansas
CITY and elsewhere, but the rising gen
Grafton is not materially affected, for
the old fellows monopOlize all the stuff
shy about letting people know they
have it,"
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A proper observance of the Sabbath,
says the Christian Age, cannot be en-
forced by self-devised regulations. The
Jews tried such means, but ended in
making the Sabbath vexatious bur-
den. Our Lord avoided rules and ap-
pealed TO principle, and thereby made
the Sabbath a delight. The funda-
mental principle which underlies a
proper observance of the Sabbath or
its Christian equivalent is that the
Sabbath was made for man and not
man for the Sabbath" Jewish venera-
ton for the day caused it to be honored
on its own account. Man was sacri-
feed for the sake of the day. The Sab
bath itself in its true purpose was de-
stroyed, and made a torment. Our
Lord, on the contrary, announced that
man is UNNECESSARILY more important
than the day, and that it was instituted
to be channel of material good and
of spiritual blessings. The consecra-
ton of one day in seven rests in part
on a consideration for mans physical
welfare. He is compelled to toll. To
the vast majority of the human race
life is an unremitting struggle for ex-
istence. Driven by necessity, or
spurred by ambition or pride, the sore
temptation is to Drolong the struggle,
without pause, until the physical
organism has been overtaxed. AS men
need not only a reasonable amount of
sleep during each "a hours for the re-
cuperation of their exhausted powers,
so they need cessation from ordinary
toll one day in seven On purely
economic grounds it is the manifest
duty of society to guard the interests
of all classes. by securing a periodic
day of rest. The conservation of one
day in seven is still more demanded
by the needs of mans religious nature.
In an article entitled Subsidized
Opera in America" Karleton Hackett,
in Music, says:
All who love music are not people of
wealth. They may hear magnificent
performances of all the masterpieces
for orchestra: all the oratorios. But
from opera they are practically de-
barred. The great mass of the people
is full of appreciation for the arts. The
writer's, the painters, the sculptors. the
poets. the musicians, almost without
exception, come from their ranks. All
else is within their reach. Bring opera
there, too, and see if they fail of APP
probation any more than their brothers
in Europe. The thing once brought to
mind and carefully considered is not