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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30

OF them surprisingly original, and yet
neither often took the trouble to invent
a plot, preferring to adopt this ready
made. more or less. and rather to ex-
pend his strength upon the analysis of
emotion and the creation of charac-
tee.
To push this comparison too far
would be unfair to Moliere, for Shake
speare is the master mind of all litera-
ture- He scared to heights and he ex-
plored depths, and he had a range to
which Moliere could not pretend His
is the spirit of soul-searching tragedy:
OF romantic comedy, of dramatic his
tory; and in no one of these is Moliere
his rival. But in the comedy of real
life he is not Moliere's rival. In every
variety of the comic drama Moliere is
unequaled-in farce. in the comedy OF
situation, in the comedy of character
and in the comedy which is almost
stiifened into drama, yet without ceas-
ing to be comedy. Shakespeare is the
greatest of dramstists, no doubt. but
Moiiere is indubitabiy the greatest of
comic dramansts. In sheer comic force
the Frenchman is stronger than the
Englishman, or at least more abund-
ant. and also in the compelling power
OF humor. The influence of Shakespeare
upon the comedy of the nineteenth CEN
tury is almost negligible. for Musset
seems 10 be the only modern poet who
has modelled his plays upon ''As You
Like It. and Twelfth Night" The in
fiuence of Moliere upon the comedy Of
the nineteenth century is overwhelm-
ing. and the author of the 'Demi-
Monde" the authors CT the "Gerdre de
NJ. Poirier." the author of the Dolls
House" and the author Of the Second
Mrs. Tanqueray" are all followers OF
the author of "Tartuffe" and Les
Femmes Savantes."
BRANDER MATTHEWS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
UTES WORSE THAN FILLPINOS.
Present War Is a Picnic Compared
With Old-time Frontier Troubles.

NNtW loIh sum-
I've followed General Merritt in the
Philippines, and I've followed him in
this country" said a grizzled little man
at the Northwestern depot the other
day: and | tell you, the boys in the
Luzon country haven't the hard prop
osition to tackle that the American In
dian presents. The Utes are worse
than the Filipinos, fifty TO one"
The speaker was Sergeant William
Barry, an old soldier. He first enlisted
in August, 1869, and was sent to the
frontier. He was fairly educated, made
a good appearance, and behaved him
self, and soon became a non-commis-
stoned officer.
Il was duty sergeant in Texas and
orderly sergeant in Colorado. and COM
handing officers orderly in the Ute
country. Since then / have been at
tached to headquarters about all the
time. Do you remember the White
river uprising in 1873? That outbreak
came Sept. 20, 1879. The Utes attacked
the agency and killed Agent N c
Meeker and all the people he had about
the place. Then they looted the store
and Vamoosed.
General Merritt knew things were
getting ugly at White river. and he had
sent Major Thornburg with a relief
detachment. The Utes waylaid Thorn
burg and killed him and most of his
men. The rest of us got across the hill.
and threw up breastworks in the val
ley. We lay in those trenches, with
Indians above US on the bluffs in every
direction, till dark on the following
Sunday, Oct. .. We had rations and
water for two days, and when we saw
we were hemmed in we Just put our
selves on short allowance We had
plenty of committeeman we used it,
There We're seventeen of US. and we
certainly killed off some Indians: but
they hung right there and peppered
away at us till Captain Dodge and
forty negro soldiers cut their way in
and relieved us.
Even when the darkies fell on their
rear those red devils clug to the bluffs
and fought savagely. They wanted our
scalps. 1t was all our two parties
could do to stand them off till Oct. >,
when General Merritt reached us. He
marched 1I0 miles in fifty-two hours.
That's the sort of a soldier he is.
But, say, if fifty Americans were TO
get jumped by any sort of crowd of
Filipinos-I don't care how many
they'd take bamboo clubs and run the
whole tribe into Laguna de Bay"
Sergeant Barry will have completed
thirty years service in the army with
IN the next two months. He will then
be discharged. but will draw half nav
for life. He says he viii buy a market
garden near some big city, and try to
make a living outside the uniform.
I've saved up a little" saws Ser
geant Barry. modestly. II don't spend
much, and | guess l won't starve."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
WHERE OMNISCIENCE FAILS.

The Lord knows what the object OF
the administration is in respect to the
Philippines" said Senator Teller in his
interview in The Herald. Il can't tell, -
he continues. No one seems to know.
The administration has had no policy
50 far as 1 know, and if it has had one,
the latest news seems to indicate that
it has not been successful. 1t looks as
though we were TO have a long and
tedious controversy with the Philip
pine islanders, as they are fighting
people"
We think the senator is little SAN
guine when he credits providence with
knowledge on this subject Omnis-
cience itself couldn't fathom such a
mystery as the administration policy
or lack of policy But waving that,
how can the Filipinos be expected to
know the fate that is in store for them
when great public leaders, men like
Senator Teller. who are the embOdi-
ment of patriotism, who keep in close
touch with public affairs, are unable to
understand the drift of the presidents
desires or plans?
Inasmuch as there is a great deal of
misunderstanding on. both sides why
wouldn't it be well for the president to
release General Otis from the instruc-
tions he is trying to follow. far enough
at least to consider with favor the
next proposition the natives submit in
the interest of peace?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
CUTTLN BUSHES LONG AGO.

Hrom Blackwoods Magazine)
Oh. maybe it was yesterday. or fifty years
ago,
Meseif was risin' early on day for cut
tin ruShes;
Walkin up the Brabla' burn. still the sun
was low.
Now Ia hear the burn run and then I'd
hear the thrushes.
Dung, still younS--an drenchin' wet the
grass,
Wet the golden honeysuckle hangin'
sweetly down:
Here. lad. here! viii We follow where I
An md me cuttin rushes on the noun
tain.
Then was it only yesterday. or fifty years
Rippin' round the bog pools high among
the heather
The hook il made me hand sore. l had to
lave ii go;
Twas he that cut the rushes then for
me 10 bind together.
Come, dear. come,-an back along the
burn
See the darlin honeysuckle hangin' like
Quick. one kiss, Sure, there's some one
at the turn
oh. were afther cuttin rushes on the
mountain
Yesterday. yesterday. or fifty years ago =
| waken out % dreams when l hear the
summer thrushes.
Oh, that's the Brabla' burn, l can hear it
sing an flow.
For ali that's fair. I'd sooner see a
bunch o green rushes.
Run, burn, run! Can We mind when we
We're young?
The honeysuckle hangs above the pool
is dark an brown;
Sing, burn. rum Can We mind when We
were sung
The day We cut the rushes on the noun
Ialn2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
JUSTICE AND VENGEANCE.

For a half century at least. there has
been a disposition TO surround persons
convicted of murder with an air of ro-
nance. TO look AT them in pity and re-
gard them as heroic types. This ten
dency has been ridiculed by authors
and utilized by criminal lawyers until
people are beginning to get ashamed
Of 1t. But the reaction in some in
stances is worse in its effects upon So
ciety and the individual. than was the
original weakness.
The case of Mrs. Ewing, at Hopkins.
No. is in point. She was recently ac-
quilted of the charge OF numbering her
sister-in-law. There was no evidence
upon which a conviction could have
been based. But the women of the
community made up their minds that
she was guilty They have ostracized
her. broken up her home. ruined her
husbands business, circulated petitions
asking that she be tried again, regard
lessc of the well known axiom of law,
and instituted a boycott against three
merchants who refused to sign a petit
ton which threatens to close their
doors. No one IS allowed to speak to
her or her husband under penalty of
incurring organized displeasure, and al
together the woman's punishment is
quite as severe as and certainly more
far-reaching than the average jury
would have recommended on a charge
of manslaughter.
The woman stoutly maintains that
she is innocent She proved conclu-
sive alibi There was no evidence di-
rectly connecting her with the crime.
But she was not popular and the re-
lations between the women were not
cordial
1t were better to err on the side OF
mercy, if one is not sure of his ground
It were better to be foolish with bou-
quets and sympathy than with ven
geance. if people must so to extremes
in such matters.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
CROPS IN THE VALLEYS.

There is such an abundance of snow
IN the mountains and the backward
spring held it unmolested by the heat so
long that there should be little trouble
about securing sufficient water for ir-
rfgatien purposes this season.
If, under conditions thus favorable.
the supply of water falls short, it
should serve as warning TO the peo-
pie of the state that better system
than the one they have should be
adopted Dams viii have to be erect
ed. storage reservoirs established in al
most every canyon. and a plan for
measuring out water TO irrigators de-
yised which will prevent the reckless
waste that is going on and cannot be
helped under the established plan.
another trouble is that heavy snow
falls are not always equally distributed.
While the fall in the central and north
ern portions of the state was consider
ably more than the ordinary, and the
mountains of Idaho and Wyoming were
pretty well covered. in some parts of
colorado there is less snow than the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
A WOMAN'S Wall.

Caroline Wells in Harper's Bazar)
Why do I wear veil?
lis of no use,
lis always fetching loose.
= plaything OF the winds, that takes
delight
In ever being wrong and never right.
Ihough of my costume It's a chief detail,
1t makes me fret and fume and fuss
and rail,
This veil
l cannot get it off when it is on,
And once l doff it, then ! cannot dom
Why do l wear it? It's a nuisance
great,
Beyond all words to state.
And an expense
lmmenSei
This wretched, himsy vein
1t is so frail
Today buy a new one. and, behold.
Tomorrow it is old,
Forth 70 the shops then angrily HE
Another veil to buy.
on every side | see rare bargain sales,
But not of wells.
And so | pay an awful price,
For ! must have ii nice;
With knots,
or spots.
Or tiny polka dots;
Or simple plain illusion. But of such
] buy six times as much.
And so,
You know.
The cost is just as great.
Oh, how l hate
A veil
Do you suppose
l like to feel it rubbing 'gainst my nose?
Forever catching on my eyelash tips,
Persistently adhering TO my lips,
The while the ill-dyed blackness of its
lace
Makes grimy smudges on my face.
or if the veil be white,
Itself it smudges till it is a sight,
Why do | wear it?
Why?
II is n crime Thus daily m envran
Ones self in such a microbe-trap,
Death and disease Turk hiden in its
curves.
A pest, A bane a blot upon our sex,
Just made to yeX
y burdened woman's overburdened
nerves.
Oh. Fashion. hear. my wall.
Or is my plea TO let me so without a
veil
Without avail?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30

! thority, his wandering manhood wit
messed the troubles of the Fronde, and
the varied experiences through which
France passed to her undisputed lead
ership of European politics and Euro
pean thought left their traces upon the
picturesque character of his genius 1t
vas a century of contrasts. century
of duels and of court intrigues, a CEN
fury in which an eye for the pic
turesque and theatrical could best be
cultivated And it was the most i'm
pOrtant century for the French Ian
Suage likewiSe-the century in which
the Academic Franchise was founded
and the language became fixed and
classical, on passing from the quaint
ness of the middle ages and the eXag-
geratiOn of the renaissance And. last
of all, Moliere was at the height of his
powers, essentially a writer of the age
of Louis XIV. His period of fertile pro-
duction was that in which the young
king shone forth in all his glory, like
the sun which he chose as his device.
The great dramatist did not live to see
the dark days of the war of Spanish
succession, the gloomy and prudish
court over which Nine. de MaintenOn
presided, or the expulsion of the nObleSt
of the sons of France-the Huguenots-
after the revocation of the edict of
Nantes. He only knew the young king
at the time of his glory, when the court
of Versailles was the most brilliant in
Europe, and the epitome of all that
was most famous and most splendid in
France.
Moliere, it was said at the commence
ment of this article. is one of the three
great universal figures in modern
European literature. He stands out
with Shakespeare and Cervantes as the
representative of France at its best
and greatest, as they are the repre-
sentatiVeS of England and of Spain.
Like them, his greatness rests upon his
knowledge and Interpretation of HUI
man life. Like them, he was essentially
the humorist. seeing with unerring
quickneSS the absurd side of human
life and the righteousness of human
endeavor. But. as the case with them,
the very intensity of his appreciation
of the humorous made him likewise
fully conscious of the pathetic element
in human life. Though he rouses the
laugh straight from the heart, as do
Shakespeare and Cervantes, he is none
the less able to draw out the tears that
accompany ever the heartiest laughter
Just as Don QuiXote is at the same time
the most ludicrouS and most pathetic |
of the great creations of literary gen
ius, so. too, is Alceste in lie Misan-
thrOpe' pathetic even more than |
humorous character. 1t is the special |
SlIt Vi the highest Oh all human genius /
to see and to portray human nature as |
ii really is, not all earthly, but not all |
divine, and it is through his possess
sion of this insight and of the power to |
reveal themselves to human men and |
women in all their strength and weak
ness. their wisdom and their folly, that
Moliere has earned his place among
the worlds immortals and in the front.
rank of the men of genius who have
made the literature of France one of
the worlds noblest possessions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
AN AUTOMATIC CENSORSHIP.

There has been some talk about the
censorship exercised on the letters of
volunteer troops in the Philippines.
General Otis has been accused of sup
pressing everything in correspondence
but favorable mention of his operations
and the charge has been denied by the
war department. One may doubt
whether the boys have had any time to
write letters of any sort recently. Ac-
cording TO the newspaper men there
rthe routine of the soldiers day includes
about eighteen hours of skirmish
fighting. two of sleep. one for eating
and three on outpost duty. With such
variety and continuity of military oc-
cupation it is to be wondered that the
volunteers have found any time for
writing at all. Filipino bullets and in
trenchments serve just as well as a
censorship under the circumstances.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
VI. MoLIERE.

The work that Moliere did in Great
ing the French comic drama should
lrst be noticed. Up TO his time, as has
been pointed out in the sketch of his
life. the drama in France had hardly
emerged from the temporary booth.
Companies of actors invented their
dialogues as they went along and
sought to amuse by farcical plots and
ludicrous scenes. Just as his contem-
porary. Pierre Corneille, rescued trag-
edy from its degradation and replaced
the rhodomontades of mouthing actors
by the lofty verse which founded the
classical French tragedy, so Moliere on
his side escaped from pure farce and
initiated the more delicate comedy.
Three distinct phases can be noted in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
HA&,4< 1lzS
Cornell University.
STUDIES AND CRIT
CTSM

For us who speak English and who
hold Shakespeare as a standard by
which the men of every other language
must be measured, ii is impossible not
to set the author of Hamlet" over
against the author of "Tartuffe." In
many ways the two men were alike.
Dramatists, they were both actors.
Shakespeare being probably most
prominent in that profession. while Mo-
liere certainly excelled all his contem-
pOraries. They We're both managers,
and both of them were shrewd men of
affairs. governing their private for
tunes with skill. Legend relates that
Shakespeare wrote the Merry Wives
of Windsor" on hint of Queen Eliza
beth's, and that Moliere augmented the
"FacheuX" on hint of King Louis.
Each of them kept the most of his plays
in manuscript while he was alive, and
after they were dead the plays of each
were published by the pious care of
surviving comrades. They were both
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30

the Misses Alice and Carrie Worth
The two families live together in the
same house. Thirteen years ago the
brothers embarked in business together
in Wichita and the same old sign,
"Stites Brothers. Real Estate" tells of
the twin business relations between
them. which still exist.
Senator William A. Clark of Mon
tana, is great admirer of Montaigne
and has read the famous essays daily
for twenty years.
Congressman Ketcham of New York,
has served in thirteen congresses and
has never made a speech.
Dom" Paul Kruger understands
English. but always insists upon en-
ployiEg an interpreter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30

Miss Margie Webber. who has been
studying in Italy and Germany for the
past two years. is now en- route for
her home in Salt Lake City. Miss Web
Der was a student in Madam Gerster's
private singing class for fifteen months,
during which time she was the recipi-
ent of many personal courtesies from
that noted artist. For the past few
months Miss Weber has been under
the special instruction of Madam
Blanch Corelli. one of Berlin's most re-
nowned voice builders and an exponent
of the Garcia method.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30

average winter brings, and in southern
Utah the danger of a severe. drouth
alarms the people.
AS result there Will be a short crop
this year compared with last, take it
all through the intermountain section,
although in some valleys the yield will
be large.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City. Utah. June % 1899.
Maximum temperature. SO degrees.
minimum temperature. 81 degrees; mean
temperature. so degrees: which is : de-
grees above the normal; accumulated de-
ficiency OF temperature since the LIST of
The month. 50 degrees; accumulated de-
ficiency Of temperature since Jan !. 12S
degrees. Total precipitation from p. N.
to p. m, 90 inch. accumulated excess
of precipitation since the LIST of the
month, 10 inch: accumulated excess Of
precipitation since Jan. l, LEG inch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
Courses of Instruction.

summer TERM. 1889
Mondays: Vacation Studies for
Young Naturalists. Tuesdays: Historic
Cities of Europe. Wednesdays: Popu-
lar Lectures In Physical Science
Thursdays and Fridays: Three Cen
turtles of French Literature. Saturdays:
Royal Women of European History.
These courses will continue until Sept.
80, 1899. Examinations will be held at
their close as a basis for the granting
Of certificates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
An Unreliable Sheet.

Ode Lamar. New, Messenger)
If all the mining and other news in
the Salt Lake Tribune is as reliable as
that furnished about this section, we
are not at all surprised at its stand on
the silver question. 1t is Just as easy
TO write up facts. People pay their
honest money for honest news.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30

General Harrison Gray Otis denies
that he has gone to Washington to sue
rotary of war if a vacancy is declared,
but no one would care TO succeed the
official undertaken of the administra-
ton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30
A Matter of Memory


Charlie-Don't you remember? 1t was
that day you borrowed shillincs of me
Jack thast;ly)-I don't recollect any
Chariie-But you paid it back next
Jack-oh, yes; remember that per-
fectly ~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-30

It is reported seni-officially that no
action will be taken against Schley by
the Washington authorities for win
ming the naval battle off Santiago