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CROMWELL AND KRUGER.

Dom Paul puts one in mind of a pocket
edition Of Cromwell. stamping around
as he does from day to day, with a
sword il one hand and a Bible in the
other. But this resemblance is confined
to the strange admixture of piety and
pugnacity in each.
Cromwell humored the prevailing
sentiment of his time, and allowed re-
ligious fervor TO do the work of pa
triotic courage. Kruger is trying his
best to kindle a fire of fanaticism with
rotten wood. His people are too stolid
for that. If a spark ignites. it will be
in piece of punk, which may glow,
but will never blaze.
The Beers ought to make good sol
diers. Like Americans, they are used
TO outdoor life From their infancy
they are accustomed TO guns and
horses. They ought TO make a stub
born defense in the event of armed in
vasion. But they are doomed to fail
ure in a war with any modern power,
and the reason is found in point of
difference between Cromwell and
Kruger
The former quoted scripture and
fought in the interest of human liberty
ard eternal progress. The latter ap-
peals to the Bible and threatens to fight
for the curtailment of human rights
and in defiance of mans advancement.
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that he possessed a genius thousand
times more astonishing than any ever
yet given to mortals. Perfection of
execution in such a design was, of
course, impossible. To have conceived
it was almost enough for any one man.
But the splendor of BalZac's achieve
ment lay not merely in what he con-
ceived. but in what he actually accom-
plished. He built structure the most
astonishingly large-planned and many
chambered that the human mind has
ever attempted. And though his struc-
ture is not all we'll built. though many
faults may be found with ii. both as
to its utility and as to its beauty. it
will ever remain the worlds most splen-
did monument of the audacity of gen.
Jus.
Balzac. of course, had his limitations,
or rather his disqualifications for the
task he essayed. He had little senti-
ment for humor. and so il happened
that the humorous phases of life have
scarcely any representation in his
pages. His mind essentially delighted
in the weird, the strange, the fanciful
the grotesque. and his work is biased in
these directions. Life is not so wholly
indecOrous. sordid. diseased and loath-
some as Balzac. in much of his por-
traiture, has represented it to be. This
is what critics are thinking of when
they say that his SCENE of life is low
and mean and that he is fond Of
dwelling on the pathologic and the NOR
bid
Yet. after making all the allowances
one should. it still remains that Bal
zac'S fiction is what he intended it To
be, sociologic pOrtraiture of human
ity. In this Balzac had no antecessors,
and he probably never will have imita--
tors. His position in the world of liter
ature, therefore. is unique. His great
ness, such as it is. is without equal and
without parallel.
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EXPLAINED, NOT JUSTIFIED.

An exchange is partisan enough to
intimate that the prosecution, convic-
ton and clamor for the sentencing of
Captain Carter, the regular army en-
bezZler, are all based on partisan mo-
tives.
The facts do not warrant this narrow
view. The charges were preferred by
financial agents of the government who
investigated the matter and fixed the
blame. The courtmartial was presided
over by General Z. S. Otis. now com
handing the American army in the
Philippines. The other members of the
court were Colonel Jacob Kline of the
Twenty-first infantry. Lieutenant Col
onel S. n. Mansfield of the engineers.
Lieutenant Colonel H. c. Hasbrouck,
Fourth artillery; Major c. \. Woodruff,
subsistence department; Major J. E.
Myrick, Fifth artillery; Major J. L.
Herman, First artillery; Major W. S.
Stanton, engineer corps; Major w. S.
Patton, quartermaster's department.:
Captain D. NJ. Taylor, ordnance depart
ment; Captain S. NJ Mills, Fifth artil-
lery: Captain r. p. Strong, Fourth ar
tilleIy; Captain c. G. Penny of the
Sixth infantry, and Lieutenant Colonel
T. F. Barr as judge advocate general.
If any of these veterans knows his poll
tics it is his own secret, except in the
case OF Otis, whose present authority
indicates political utilization with the
present.
The vote by which Carter was de-
clared guilty was unanimous. More
over, it was on the 18th day of MAY.
1898, fifteen months ago, that General
Otis and his colleagues pronounced
Carter a thief and swindler. 1t has been
six months since the presidents special
counsel. ex-senator Edmunds, informed
the chief executive that the trial had
been regular. the evidence conclusive
and the verdict just.
If there is partisanship in this case,
as Mr.. McKinley's apologists intimate,
the delay in sentencing the convicted
criminal, the permission given him to
be at large. the leniency by which he is
permitted to wear his uniform and
draw full pay while subalterns in rank
are compelled to do him honor, are am
ply explained.
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XXI. BALZAC.

The greatest figure in French fiction
and possibly in the French literature
of the nineteenth century. is Balzac. He
was born in 1899, trained for the law
but felt from youth vocation for let
tiers. from which no discoura cement
availed to divert him. At 20 he sought
to earn a livelihood by anonymous ro-
mances, with which he wisely refused
to burden his mature reputation, and at
so he began that unique achievement in
fiction, THE Human Comedy" whose
fifty volumes were produced under a
combined pressure of debt and extrav-
agance that would have famed any
genius less commanding than his own
and brought him to premature grave
at the age of 81.
BalZac said that he undertook to COM
pose for France in the nineteenth CEN
fury that history of morals that the
old civilizations of Greece. Rome and
Egypt had left untold. He would be
the inventory of its virtues and vices,
lay bare the greed and social ambition
that seemed to him the mainSDring Of
its multipleX activities. To this end he
created some 1000 characters. many of
whom, to be sure, only cross the stage
while others are of such stuff as dreams
are made of. Yet a surprising number
remain that have an astonishing indi-
viduality of flesh and blood. and il was
with no eXaggeration that Taino called
THE Human Comedy" the greatest
storehouse of documents on human ma
ture since Shakespeare"
1t is impossible here to attempt to
guide the reader into all the chambers
of this monumental building of titanic
imagination and industry, but we must
give some idea of its general plan before
we can attempt TO show its character
or TO estimate its authors genius. The
well nigh hundred stories arc divided
by BalZac into groups that deal with
PARTISAN. provincial, rural. military and
private life, and to these he adds fur
Their groups of analytic and philosophic
studies.
The scenes of private life are natur-
ally stories of ideals. of illusions, of ten
tative efforts of young men. of maid
emily righteousness and of motherly
pride. The emotion here is usually less
strong. the characters less complex. yet
the group counts BalZac's supreme
tale of horror 1.-THE Great Bastion."
In provincial life Balzac found a
broader canvas for the more normal
types of human nature. Here the sig
nifcant little facts of his exact realis-
tic method appear i'm brilliant descrip-
lions. while money replaces love as the
handspring of action. The finest novel
in this group, Eugene Grandet." is one
of the greatest studies of avarice in all
literature. Noteworthy. too is 1.-THE
Citrate of Tours for its insight into
Roman Catholic clerical life, and 1.-THE
Lily In the Valley" contains passages
of description that are unsurpassed in
any modern literature.
But ID is by his Partisan scenes that
Balzac exercised the greatest influence
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the life of the peasantry, the life OF
the bourgeoisie, and the life of the aris-
tocracy. There was also the life OF dil-
ferent professions, such as the law, t IN
church the army. Each of these d.
visions in turn he took for examina-
ton. analysis and representation IN
this way he introduced TO hter&ture
whole classes of society. whole lists ol
occupations, previously unknown TO IL.
AS he proceeded he found that his Gre
atoms constituted a community, ana
so he treated them. He made them act
and react upon one another just as the
individual units they represented acted
and reacted upon one another in real
life. and so made story after story and
book after book His work thus be-
came what he intended it should be-
come. namely. an abridgment of hui
manity. a documentary presentation of
the totality Of the social life in his time.
To say that Balzac succeeded in do
ing all this perfectly would be to say
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BRYAN'S WAR RECORD.

Administration camp-followers are
taking fresh fright at the growth of
silver sentiment in the east. The Han
ma press bureau is more abusive than
ever in its references to the great
champion of bimetauism. AS an illus
tration of this we quote from an ar
ticle which has appeared simultaneous
ly in several rural Republican papers
of the middle west:
Let's examine the war record Of this
so-called colonel. the idol Of the free
silver fanatics Here il is. Long after
the war had begun Bryan wanted a com
mission lie wanted shoulder straps be-
fore he had won them. He raised q regi-
ment in Nebraska. a regiment of brave
boys and then beseiged the presidential
mansion for a commission and permission
10 go to the peaceful sands OF Florida.
When the president showed a heSitancv
this political bunco steerer of the west
raised the cry that Mckinley was jealous
of him, During this interval. before his
appointment. he strutted about the nation
sn an officers suit making demagogic
speeches and posing for his picture
After he succeeded in breaking into the
army. his next Feat was to break out of
the army. He left his soldier boys like a
sneak thief caught plying his trade and
boarded the cars for home while Funston
his neighbor. swan infested rivers To
immortal renown.
one would think from reading the
foregoing that Colonel Bryan was a
professional burglar or bounty jump
eE and that he deserted from the army
in.the heat OF an engagement. Such is
the impression the subsidized press is
trying to create in its new alarm at
the steady growth of silver sentiment
IN The. east. But what are the facts?
william J. Bryan, the choice of 6.511,-
o7a American voters for commander in
chief OF the army and navy. was the
s,rst man to enlist in company a of the
Third Nebraska regiment, and he en-
listed as a private. Prior to that at
the presidents first call for volunteers,
NJ BRYAN rendered his services to the
connander in chief in the following
communications
Anvil, O. 1888. William Mckinley.
s,-seisseut- = My Dear Sir: hereby
s,,.se my services at your cor
e esans during the war with Spain and
',sa.,rc YOU OF nay willingness to perform.
.r The hest of my ability; any duty to
psbIch you, as connander-in-chief OF
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on the development of realism, and here
he won his greatest fame in 'Cousine
Bette" Cousin Pons,'' Lost Illusions"
"Pere Goriot'' and The Splendors and
Miseries of Courtesans." Here, too.
are found the most striking creations of
character-Vautrin, Rastignac. Rub
empire. Marsy. Nine. Marueffe. Gobseck,
Remonencq, Hulot and others more than
there is space even 10 name, as they
crowd the memory.
The scenes of rural, political and mil
itary life are, by comparison. less strik-
ing, but this is not to say that they do
not contain novels that might outweigh
the whole literary baggage of many an
other author. and short stories of in
tense vividness, like A Passion In the
Desert" of deep moral force like AN
Episode Under the Terror" or of Chris
tian aspiration like THE Reverse of
Contemporary History" which last
counts in Nine. de la Chanterie. one of
the noblest women that novelist ever
created. This story was the last writ
ten by Balzac. and his friends may be
content to have it So for in it the hu-
man comedy rises to august nobility. 1t
has its inferno" and its ''purgatorio. -
but it ends like Dante's poem, with a
beatific vision.
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Gingerly does our president proceed
with the Philippine instruction. First
he refused to recruit a man under the
new army law, Next he undertook to
hold the volunteers whose terms of en-
listment had expired. Then h.e con-
scented for them to return home and
called for nine regiments TO take their
places. Yesterday the word went forth
that he is about to call for five more
regiments. And yet. General Lawton
says it viii take at least 1OO, 900 men TO
put down the instruction.
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THEY GATHER CIGAR ENDS.
The Persian Clan Proposes to Form
a Syndicate.
Pall Mall Gazette.1

Pall Mall Gazette)
Every visitor to Paris has observed
the ragged individuals who. perambu-
late the boulevard and peer in among
the tables and chairs in front of the
cafes in search of cigar and cigarette
ends, which they deity harpoon by
means of bent pins on the end of
stick. The megottiers, as they are call
ed, are now trying to form a mutual
protection syndicate. Their reason is
that the police interfere with them too
much, considering they are peaceable
folk, and that the craft. never a lucra-
tive one, is thus rendered almost i'm
possible. Such. it appears, is especially
the case in summer when the streets
are clean and the best customers of
the megottiers pick up their own to-
bacco. The fact that this is the bad
season probably accounts for the pres
ent little agitation.
This singular trade occupies three
classes of persons-the picker, the
cleaner and the salesman. Everybody
has seen the picker at work, and OBJ
served how he combines begging there
with. In the evening the pickers meet
at low wine shops in the Faubourg du
Temple, where they find the cleaners
awaiting them. Newspapers are spread
on the tables. and the cleaners set to
work to undo the cigars and cigarettes.
Meanwhile the pickers eat their bread
and sausage, ana by spending three
halfpence on a glass of wine, obtain
the right to sleep in the establishment
as best they can until o'clock in the
morning. At that hour the wine shops
are closed. But they open again at 3,
when both pickers and cleaners enter,
and, by taking another glass of wine
each. may sleep till the morning. Dur
ing this interval of closing and open
ing, the tobacco, put up in packets,
has been handed over to the salesman
who disposes of it in workmen's quar-
tiers like the Place Maubert. as the men
pass on their way to work. The pur-
chaserS consist chiefly of maSonS, who
all come from the country districts of
Limousin and Creuse, and are delighted
to get a large package of tobacco for
twopence. There exist, moreover, real
tobacco shopkeepers who purchase the
vile stuff and mix it with good tobacco.
the profits derived therefrOm being nat
urally considerable. This practice
does not. however, exist to any great
extent.
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.
Salt Lake City. Utah Au

Salt Lake City. Utah. Aug. 16. 1899.
Maximum temperature 81 degrees; mini
mann temperature 40 degrees; mean tenn
perature, IS degrees; which is II de-
grees below the normal: accumulated de-
1iciency Of temperature since the LIST of
the month, 100 degrees; accumulated de
1lcieucy Of temperature since Jan. !. FOL
degrees. Total precipitation from p. m.
10 p. m, 90 inch; accumulated excess
of precipitation since the LIST of the
month, n inch: accumulated excess of
precipitation since Jan. !, 2.27 inch.
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LADY LILY LANGTRY. LAl

Mis-. Langtry has long maintained a
strong hold upon the admiration of the
English understanding world. on ac-
count of her superb figure and adver-
Using genius. through which a thread
of dramatic talent could be traced.
She has risen ste by step. since his
royal nibs, the Prince )f Wales, first
extended the helping hand, until she
belongs to the inner circle of English
nobility with another lover on her list
and another husband to her name. The
rsoble will have to content itself with
throw ing kisses at her ladyship from
this time forth.
The happy bridegroom is the eldest
seE of a baronet with estates in Devon
shire, Sussex and County Meath. His
age is given at IS, although it is safe
to assume he is much younger while
the bride says she is only 80. And that
goes. It doesn't matter that she was
born at St Saviors in 1852. She is
just SO now.
Besides. this last affair was "a run
away match and who could associate
a matron OF Il years and boy of
twenty odd in an eIopement? OF course
the Jersey Lily is under 40 The match
was made by the Prince of Wales, who
is always thoughtful" says the bar
oness- elect. No doubt. And the chances
are that that boys father is doing
some serious thinking himself about
now.
A marriage of convenience" often
turns out very well, but it should be
for the convenience of the contracting
parties. and not that of the match
maker to insure the best results.
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"YO MOMMYS DAID.

7. J. Selby in New York Home Journal
Yo' mommy's daid po' chile!
Oh. what we gwine ter do?
Dey's nothin' seems worth while
Pears lax il cairn't be true.
De Lord des snatch her back
Ter set agin de throne
Den all de worl go black,
An yo' en- mes alone.
Who'll nus an ten yo' now?
Oh. honey. Is afraid,
faint right, faint right nohow,
Po' chile. yo' mommy's daid.
Cairn't mex me think at she
S pure satisfied up Oar,
Pears lax shed ruther be
Weth va an me down heahi
Gaze God he takes her way
Des when she love yo' bes',
DeS when yo' useter lay
Yo check UPON her breas'-
An all cute things lax dat;
An peek benin de do;
An go iii ''pitter-pat''
a roun' de kitchen flo.
Po' chile. sleep on-sleep on;
God done it for de bes';
He seen de work she done.
An took her home ter rest.
An he knows bes'. dey say:
So sleep. ma lamb. an smile;
But oh. de weary day,
Yo' mommy's daid, po' chile!
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Xxx. SoCIOLoGISTS IN FRENCH
FICTION.

The writings Of Balzac constitute the
most extraordinary body of fiction in
the whole range Of imaginative litera-
ture. They are unique. There are
many who believe that the genius that
produced theee writings was the great
est genius, the most comprehensive and
versatile that ever devoted itself to the
composition of imaginative prose There
are indeed those who recognize in it
power less only than that of Shake
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tends to visit Queen Victoria the last
of the month. Diplomats Will try TO
extract capital from this, but a man
ought to be able to go to his grand
mother -in-law's house for a cup of tee
without having all the crowned heads
of Europe rubber-necking to see what
he's about.
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Summer Term. 1899.

kJUIII-iINI 7 OIIII' IUVV.
Mondays: Vacation Studies For Young
Naturalists. Tuesdays: Historic Cities
of Europe. Wednesdays: Popular Lee
lures In Physical Science. Thursdays
and Fridays: Three Centuries of French
Literature. Saturdays: Royal Women
of European History. These courses
will continue until Sept. so, 1899. Ex-
aminations will be held at their close
as basis for the granting of certif-
Gates
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STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.
RONDS

Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks and
other High Grade Investment Securities
bought and sold. Loans on Stocks.
Dividend-payinS stocks bought and sold.
Investment orders from institutions
trustees of estates and capitalists will
receive the best of attention.
JOHN c. CUTLER, JR..
Tel. 127. Sc Main Street.
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Goals of Fire
(Ohio State JournaI.l

TOIIIU s5IdIt ID
Ethel-Lottie Toxins said you was too
mean to live. cause you wouldn't let me
play with her.
Ethel?
Ethel-I heaped Goals of fire on her
head. | said ! hoped her mamma wasn't
as mean as you are
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When John Bull gets into the Trans
vaal it ought to afford Spain and the
semi-civilized world lot of high-class
amusement. A Bull and Boer fight
isn't witnessed in every arena.
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THREE CENTURIES
OF FRENCH LITERATURE.

Contributors to this course; Brander
Matthews, Ii. D.; Benjamin w. Weils,
Phi. D.; Jean Charlemagne Bracq, A
B.; Alcee Fortier, D. Lit: II. Morse
Stephens, NJ A. and other specialists
in romance literature.
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Seeking Information.
CPhiindelnhia Record ]

; n HIIdutIpIIId fccOTu.I
Hoax-Niblack' getting religious saw
him reading the Bible today.
JoaX-Huhi He was lust looking
through the Old Testament to see if there
was any mention of golf in connection
with the lynx Noah took into the ark.
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Mrs. Guy V. Henry, the leader in re-
lief work among the destitute in Porto
Rico, explains through the medium of
the Associated Proes what clothing
should be sent to the women" of the
afflicted island. If it were Samoa in
distress the question of clothing would
not concern us in the least.
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That seaman of her majesty's ship
Warspite who choked to death on a
piece of pork at Victoria, B. c., must
have been trying to ''hog it down..
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Miss Nellie Dooly expects to spend
next week with friends camping on
island.
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Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Spencer have
gone To New York
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Force of Habit.
New York Journal.l

Hamlet-I wonder where Horatio ac-
quired that peculiar mincing walk?
Laertes-I came home over the p. ID.
together on that road.
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Miss Sibyl Anderson has returned
from Brighton.
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Mrs. Emanuel Kahn was the hostess
of dainty luncheon yesterday.
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DR.. ]. n. Harrison is spending the
week at the camp of DR.. Hudson and
Z. f. Hanna at Lake Bianch, Big Cot
tonwood