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GENERAL PROSPERITY,

Trade conditions are better this year
in Great Britain than they have been
for several years. This improvement
extends to Canada. There is more
money among the people, and less in
debtedness than Great Britain has seen
for a decade, at least.
That this is due to the return of the
Republican party in this country to
power may not strike the Englishman
at first, but then the inability of Eng
fish to appreciate a joke is proverbial.
According to statistics just published
by the British board of trade, the wages
of .O03. 290 employees were increased in
1898 The Importance of this is mani
fest from the boards showing that the
weekly increase in the wage rate foots
up e95, 900, which is made all the more
significant by the fact that in 1897 the
net additions to wages amounted to
e45,000 a week.
When the price of wool is up in Eng
land it is up in this country. but the
Republican party claims the credit just
as it claims to have brought prosperity
to Great Britain. Canada and the
United States in adhering to the single
gold standard.
Great Britain's industrial progress
has become accumulated in the first half
of 1899, showing that prosperity is on
the increase, even in free trade Eng
land" Further perusal of the Stats
tics shows that in the first six months
of the present year nearly one million
laborers in England alone received an
increase in wages, amounting in the ag-
gregate TO more than S25O,O0O weekly.
So it seems that world conditions
have been favorable TO industry, rather
than party politics. For it doesn't look
reasonable To say that Mark Hanna's
triumph in 1896 brought on the prosper
ity all the Anglo-Saxon people Of the
earth seem to be enjoying
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s. From the last act, do you think
that Loves Labors viii be Lost after
alls
.. Is the rather somber, ending of the
play disappointing Do you wish for a
sequel2 Is a somber ending hut OF har-
mony with the idea Of coneoy2 Is ser
iousness incompatible with humcra
Compare the ending Of this. play with
the ending Of the Merchant OF Ven
Ice and The Tempest.
~. Does this play show stationary
Characters Or characters developing 2
Is a play. in which characters are mere
~ exhibited. as great as u play in which
sWe see characters improving or deter-
5ioratinga
+ If. Notice the amount of Wit and
Word-play and repartee in this cont
.edy- Does the dramatist seem to- have
restrained his powers ait any point2
Does the word-play prove wearisome9
l.. Notice; the rhyming Of lines and
compare with any of the later and
more finished comedies. IS the need of
.rhymed lines apparent here3
13, What four groups Of characters
are there in this comedv2 How are the
groups intarrelated2
IA. Do Berowfle and Rosaline show
characteristics that distinguish them
from the rest9 Are these characters
fully wrought out?
Is. The dramatic action of this COM
edy occupies two days. With what act
does the second day begin2
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essay is proverbial, or deserves to be
so. | instance only Act l., sc. l., II. II,
1914, rs, S5-SS, 1857, IT'S; Act. H., sc. l.,
| II. 66-76; Act Ill, sc. j., IL. 166, 1925;
Act w., sc. H., Il. 56, 1875; Act. ", sc.
ill.,, Il. 16T-170; Act. V, sc. j., II, 40-A;
Act w., sc. H., IL. 1868, $40.
Who has not wished that he might
see Shakespeare, the artist. at work,
choosing one phrase and rejecting an
other, touching UP a duller or: cruder
expression until it attained the "eIe-
gancy, facility and golden cadence of
poesy"? This play affords the oppor-
tunity. Performed before Queen Eliza
beth at Christmas, 1897, as the original
title witnesses, it was probably for that
occasion, newly corrected and aug
mented." Some of the corrections, no
doubt written in the margin of the
earlier copy, have not crowded out the
original lines, and the consequence is
that we have the worse and the better
side by side. If one desires to know
what Shakespeare, when 81 years old
meant by correction and augmentation
let him compare Act w., Sc ill.,, H.
-302-4, with 3503. and Act V, SC. H., H.
S27-SS2, with S47-SS1, especially S47-S64
After sufficient study of the parallels
let him, if so disposed, attempt to i'm
prove some other passages of Shakes
In any case, let him remember what
Ben Jonson has sad in his noble eu-
logy, and not hastily assume that
Shakespeare was a careless improviser:
Yet must 1 not give Nature all; thy art.
My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a
part;
For, though the poets mother nature be,
His art doth give the fashion; and that he
Who casts to write a living line, must
sweat
tsuch as thine are) and strike the second
heat
Upon the Muses. anvil.
1t is perhaps not too much to say
that Loves Labor's Lost" suggested
Tennyson's Princess" Besides echoes
Loves Labor's Lost" V, H., S65, and
'fcanzonets," Princess" ~, III;
Loves Labor's Lost" ", ii, 124 the
central situation is identical, reversing
the roles of women and men, In
Shakespeare's drama the men, enter.
tanning the monastic notion of learning
and virtue, propose to exclude the
temptresses who may witch them back
to the world; in Tennyson it is the wo-
men who will have nought to do with
the men. In both cases the pagan gods
OF love and matrimony refuse to be de-
prived of their rights-and rites. The
Renaissance temper triunphs, and
asceticism is baffied in its endeavor
In both cases, too, the result is finally
achieved only through the Christening
agency of sorrow.
Two or three matters of local or tenn
porary interest may be noticed in con-
ciusion. Armada, the Spaniard, is made
the mock of the Anglo-Saxon. In the
original edition Shakespeare spells
Labor" not "Labour." Finally, he In
weighs by the mouth of Holofernes
against "sucfr rackers of photography
as speak dout : when he should
say doubt, Diet when he should pro-
nol1nce debt-d-e-b-t, not Diet"
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COPYRIGHTS CHAMPION.

International copyright lost warm
friend the other day when w H. Ap-
pleton. senior member OF the firm of
ID. Appleton & Co., Publishers" died
in New York.
He was the founder of the publish
ing house, although it bears his faith
ers name. and for more than sixty
years the deceased directed its affairs.
His association with foreign authors
began With Thomas Moore; he was ac-
ouainted with the elder Murray.
founder of the great English publishing
house. Mr. Appleton was personal
friend of Thackeray. and they We're
companions in Paris. Halleck and Bry-
ant were numbered among the hun
dreds of authors in this country with
whom he had personal and business re
lations.
For several years the firm imported
books and retailed them in New York
City. In 1891 the house published its
first book-a compilation of Bible texts
for a religious society; a volume of
tracts followed. and, in 1892. book APP
HEdIEu Ailstn 4ldQ a t'iACAlp4AAtieNt SetlS,
but this was explained by Mr.. Apple
ton some time ago: 1T was called a
Refuge in Time of Plague and Pesti-
lence, and il had an enormous sale.
for it appeared in 1882, the terrible
cholera year. and the public mistook it
for a treatise on that disease. whereas
it was a religious volume, pointing out
Christ as the refuge"
For twenty-five years the demand
was chiefly for religious tracts and sec
tartan publications. The firm prospered,
but it was not until 1857. when the first
volume of the encyclopedia appeared
that its reputation was firmly estab-
lished. This work cost 100000 before
any returns were realized. but it yield
ed an independent fortune at last
In his tireless championship of inter-
national copyright. MIR. Appleton took
the position that an injustice was done
struggling authors by the failure in this
country TO respect property rights TO
literary productions. Incidentally. he
was looking out Tor the publisher, of
course. While it doubtless aided and
encouraged many an author to his best
exertions. the International copyright
has squeezed many dollar out of The
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WALTER AND THE SULTAN.

Walter n. Farnsworth, an Australian
temporarily located in the candy bust
ness in Chicago. has been arrested for
having more wives than the law, al
lows. He has forty-two, so far as he
is able to remember, eleven of whom
are in Europe, four in China, three in
Peru and over twenty in various other
parts of the world.
Farnsworth has every confidence in
coming clear, although he confesses to
all that is charged against him; he
counts on the presidents extension cf
the governments protection to polyg-
amy in the Sulu archipelago as prece-
dent. He observes that the constitu-
ton guarantees equality in treatment,
and says: Il will see that either 1 go
free or the sultan of Sulu gives UP some
of his wives"
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owners to employ union labor. This or
der. needless to say, met the hearty
approval of our Republican contempo-
rary.
Whoever believes in imperialism can
endorse such a piece OF despotism. but
1t IS rank injustice, an a5rogation of
civil law and a serious encroachment
upon the rights of the individual Grant
the right of civil authority to issue
or a military power to enforce an order
against the employment of men be-
cause they belong to a labor organiza-
ton. or 10 a specified union, and the
next step viii be to keep men from get
ting work who belong to a certain
church or to a political party opposed
TO the one in power It would be hard.
to duplicate this order outside of ST.
IBERIA It deprives union men of work
in the vicinity of Wardner, it has driv-
en- the families of innocent union men
from their homes and filed the air of
that district with the cries of hungry
children and the curses of maddened
men. And this was accomplished by
the aid of a general in the regular army
sent there for the purpose by a chief
executive who holds that trusts are
immune from federal interference, that
he has no right, moral or legal, to cur
tail the powers of organized capital
working out illegal purposes, and de-
etroying more property and more lives,
causing more suffering and desolation
than have all the labor riots in his
tory.
Governor Steunenberg may generous
~ undertake to relieye the administra-
ton of all blame but laboring men in
Ohio and elsewhere have located and
evenly divided the responsibility.
1T was large stretch of military
authority said President Gompers,
for any officer TO declare any organiza-
ton Of innocent men guilty of an in
famous crime. and for General Mer-
riam to characterize the miners union
as a criminal organization was utterly
uncalled for"
The federation of western miners in
assembled condemned every
public official responsible for the alb
rogation of civil law in Idaho, from
President Mckinley, through his secre-
tary of war. down to Governor Steun-
enberg and Coroner France. These Off
Gals were not condemned for doing
their sworn duty, as trust defenders
intimate, but for exceeding their rights,
for going outside of their duty to strike
a blow at organized labor.
Labor organizations all over the east
have taken the matter up and Ohio Re-
publicans are appealing to Hanna to
do something to relieve the federal au-
thorities of the burden which Cover
nor Steunenberg would assume, if he
could.
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REPUBLICANS AND GOLD.

Had the Republicans been in con-
mol Of the city council during the past
two wears the taxpayers would have
been saddled with lot of gold bonds.
II the Republicans get control of the
next city council, there viii be bond
issue, and the bonds will can for pay
ment in gold
ln the language Of Patrick Henry,
1--WE know of no way of judgin. of the
future but by the past" Judging by
the past, the only way to prevent a
sold boD5 issue is by electing a Demo
cratic majority to the city council
Every member elected as a Democrat
opposed the insertion of the gold clause
in the bonds laet July. Every member
NOT elected as a Democrat favored the
issue Of gold bonds and voted for it
every time there was a chance.
Mr.. Buckle. now candidate on the
Republican ticket for reelection. de-
clared that gold bonds were the only
kind that could be sold He said that
it was a waste of time to offer lawful
money bonds. Mr.. Robertson, also a
candidate on the Republican council
manic ticket. said that lawful money
bonds could not be disposed of at 4 per
cent
That cry for gold bonds was di-
rect insult to the good Gath of Salt
Lake City and when Mr.. Robertson said
that no other kind could be disposed
of he showed either q disregard for the
truth or a dissemination to know the
facts, or else he was associated with
some one who expected to profit, politi-
calty or personally, by an issue of gold
bonds Ia any event his corduct was
reprehensibley' as a public officer, ana
his REORGANIZATION, as well as that of
AIr. Buckle. is as much of an insult TO
she city as Was their insistence a year
ago upon gold bonds.
The party that would renominate
'sach men upon that record shows more
clearly shan it does by the party name
how completely under the influence of
Hanna the local goldbug ticket is. To
vate for Republican for the city
Council is to vote for an issue of gold
bonds.
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A
OF gailantry.%of poetry, no less than of
rusticity. the pitifully mean and alb
surd- Shakespeare is still In the period
of his sonnets and of his non ma tic
poems. such as Venus and Adonis.fs In
the play. as in the sonnets Nos. 127.
100. 1879, there is as.darlS lady and ii
is significant that the Rosaline Of
Romeo and Juliet" like Berowne's
mistress, has black eyes Compare act
III. SC. j.. line 1884, with Romeo and
Juliet" act T., sc. fv., line 141. The
poets lyrical effusioEs have ease and
grace and he has seldom done anything
better in their kind than such pas
sages as Get Nv, SC. ILL, III. 101-120. 3l2-
353 and the song already quoted, act
VI. Sc ILL.,, III. 904-9S9.
Shakespeare thus discloses himself to
US, in his earliest play, as a devotee at
though he was on accession to blend the
nouncess his adhesion to both. Thus the
fairies and the tedious brief scene" by
'hard-handed men" in the "Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" exemplify the
double loyalty. 1t has often been re-
marked that Jaquenetta and Costard
are first sketches for Audrey and
Touchstone. as Berowne and Rosaline
for Benedict and Beatrice. The poet
already embodies precocious wisdom in
gnomic lines and couplets, as
The blood of youth burns not with such
As gravity's revolt to wantonness;
Honest. plain words best pierce the ear
of grief.
Some of the mintage of this maiden
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II. LOVES LABoR'S LOST.
(Concluded)
Critical Study of the Play.

Critical Study of the Play.
Andrew Lang somewhere says:
:" Loves Labor's Lost ought to form
a part of compulsory education in
schools, colleges and newspaper Of
fees" I should be loath to subscribe
to this opinion. for the story of the
play is of the slightest, there is no plot
to speak of. and wastes of barren but
intricate verbiage tempt the under
standing which they battle and mock.
Yet he is right in recognizing its value
as a satire on the euphuism and pre-
ciosity which we have ever with us,
which begins with the sophomore age
or earlier, but often continues to be the
product of ripper years. 1t were need
less to multiply MISUNDERSTANDING
himself could furnish many-but here
ia one from writer who, in Holo
feTneS' phrase. draweth cut the thread
of his verbosity finer than the staple
of his argument; it is from am essay
of Swinburne's on the dramatist Chap
man, and the sense of it might be APP
piled to our play: There are beauties
enough lest in this thick and thorny
jungle OF scholastic sensuality TO
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A Washington dispatch announced
yesterday: AT the cabinet meeting to-
day the condition of the treasury in it's
relation to the stringency of the money
market was discussed; nothing win be
done at present to relieve the situation
as it is believed in the natural course
of events the heavy war expenditures
will reduce the large surplus in the
treasury" To be sure. The next move
will be another bond issue. and the war
Will so merrily on while William the
Conquerer. with the aid of Otis censor
and Marks bank account. will make his
next campaign as a military hero.
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NEW YORK AND THE ARCH.

Almost every mail brings an appeal
from New York City, principally
voiced in the metropolitan newspapers
for contributions to defray the expense
of putting the Dewey arch into marble,
New York very naturally wants to re-
tain it as a. permanent decoration and
the whole people are anxious to have
the great metropolis made as attrac-
tive as art and wealth can make her.
Everybody is glad to learn that the
wonderful arch is TO be preserved in
durable form and material, but sur
prised that New York City is passing
the hat for that purpose. 1t has been
the rather general impression that the
city where the arch is located is big
enough and rich enough to under
take this work alone. Chicago
would have scorned to ask New
York for a cent, and there are a
hundred cities in the United States any
one of which would be glad to build an
arch of marble in honor of such an
occasion as Gotham boosted.
Here is the great metropolis. full to
OAtA DOMlliS VI ciAiN OiiliOii-
aires, with Brooklyn as a suburb
draining all the land of wealth and
boasting commercial supremacy over a
hemisphere, organizing for appeals to
other towns and cities, TO all the trades
and professions, to the iaborer for his
hire and the widow for her mite, to
erect a marble ornament, historical to
be sure, but still an ornament for the
city selected as the place of the hero's
reception
In building a home for Admiral
Dewey it is fit and proper to ask all
the people for contributions. That is
a present to him whom the people de-
light to honor. The arch is a present
to a city of marvellous wealth that has
been honored by the nation and
the people and by the admiral himself
New York should build her own monu-
ments.
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Yale University.
Questions For Research and Review

Questions For Research and Review.
l. This play is a satire on a false idea
of human conduct. What applications
to- everyday life may we make from
the teachings of this comedy?
= There is an educational principle
which Rousseau condensed into the
maxim, Follow Nature" Do You find
this to- be the theme underlying this
comedy?
4 g 8 Loves Labors LOST has been
called al comedy of affectation. What
.affectation is there in the kings view. of
life2 What Alterations of speech are
most noticeable2 In what characters
are these affectations most. pronounced2
Does Shakespeare Seem To you. to be
taking off, certain speech-habits of his
3time2 a
4. Does the king act and talk like a
king? Sufficiently so for stage pur-
poses
5. How do the women and the men Of
this comedy compare as to strength of
character? seriousness Of motive2 read \
mess in emergency ability to intrigue !?
6. Hew does woman figure a$ the
teacherHin this play?
Z. What do you judge, from this COM
edy. is Shakespeares idea of the social
relations of the sexes?
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The local champion of trusts main
tains a sullen silence whenever it is
asked TO point out wherein the anti
trrst law OF 1890 has in any way been
abridged by Democratic votes, when,
if ever, it was repealed. and how it
happens to be in fierce yet with wider
scope than it had in 1890. if its effect
was injured or power limited in any
way. We trust our contemporary viii
get its Uncle Marks permission to an
swer this question in detail.
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sreunENBERe's GOLD BRICK

From all indications Mark Hanna has
enticed Governor Steunenberg to Ohio
and sold him gold brick. Mark has
rlaced Idaho's chief executive on exh:-
bition in the Buckeye state as the man
who takes the entire responsibility for
the presence of federal troops in
rorthern idaho to enforce the attorney
generals edict against the employment
al union miners. AS Atlas bore the
world So Steunenberg has shouldered
the blame.
There may be people in Ohio foolish
enough Ia think that the governor Of
a state can hold federal troops in spite
cf the prcsideut, but not many. General
Afcrssam's part in the drama is not
forgotten and labor unions in Ohio as
ELSEWHERE recognize the fact that Mer-
nam was carrying out The Instructions
ar Commander -in-chief Mckinley when
he declared his purpose to enforce the
American order.
Whether dozen or hundred men
are guilty of arson or murder, either
as principals or accessories before or
af4sr the fact, makes no difference. The
criminals should ali be punished. But
we do not believe that the miners
union is an aggregation of murderers,
or @nat it is in any way connected with
ol, responsible for the explosions and
ri9ts.
There was a convention of western
miners held in this city some time after
the trouble began last summer. Dele
gates were present from Utah, Colo
radc, Idaho. Wyoming, Montana, Ne
xsda and British Columbia. They were
not criminals. They did not advocate
xsosence. They deprecated crime and
fan moss lseenly the injury such occur
reuces do Them as individuals and as
ae-nbere of an Organization. They ex-
rcessed their confidence in the union
anS declared their own innocence by
resolution. This brought upon their
heads .he wrath and abuse Of the local
4sannbiicaf5 organ. which accused them
9of being .ipcendiaries ana murderers
Il heart The Tribune convicted the
federation Of high crimes and misde-
meanors and said:
rSs assert that there was MOI a man IN
4s,e eo-,.asled labor convention IN THIS city
+i,9$A is such a place as TimDuctoo in
< se,,,a that the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
r,iiis were blown uS IS union men.
7snf this was not proof. nor was ii
f,c,ns3ed upon proof 1t was a whole
ea;e charge of crime, an indiscriminate
..s.f.atfor of our Republican contem-
.,,..,r,.s wrath. Ard there was nothing
y .s..fl,af General Merriam or President
-s,,.{r,ier or Governor Steunenberg or
attnrnev General Hays had TO fasten
The gliit upon the onion. If there had
been anything else the Republican or
can would have used it.
9 q o
An order was made by state author /
ity and enforced by the aoIlillistration. !
e ,,i,essS unions from getting work in
{, "a, l,prn idaho and forbidding mine
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SOCIETY NOTES.

The marriage Of Miss Della Ander-
SON, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. q. y.
Anderson Of Grantsville, and r. Wes4
ley Early, general passenger agent Of
the Salt Lake g. Ogden railway, took
place last evening at 311 East Fifth
South street, the newly furnished home
of the bride and groom. The ceremony
was performed at 1870 by Bishop o. F.
Whitney, and was witnessed by the
family and a few friends. The bridal
party stood, during the ceremony. be-
meath a canopy of smilax and carna-