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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-06

in the free heaven of ideallSm. Prose
had been vigorous during these great
thirty years, but quite subordinate to
poetry. The day was to the dreamer
of dreams and seefs of visions-and
what visions theys were that Shelley
and Keats beheld! go
When the music of these wonderful
singers had ceased there followed 2
short IuH in which nothing of great in
terest was written; then. in the decade
between 1880 and 1910, literature rose
again Carlyle, Newman, Thackeray
and Dickens, as we'll as Tennyson and
Browning, all made their first appear
anee before the English public in these
ten years. Literature thus rose in a
two-fold glory, of poetry and prose
and, indeed, of the two, prose-hctiOn
and essays perhaps the more sig
nificant art-form of the modern world.
1t has at least advanced through mod
ern times step by step with poetry, and
has reached an amplitude and express
siveness never known before. The life
Of modern poetry is vigorous and not
able, but it does not shine, with "a
diance that almost Obliterates all else,
as il did in the days of Spenser and
Shakespeare. or in the days of Words
worth and Shelley. The great names of
the Victorian period, leaving out the
novelists, are Carlyle, Newman, Rus
kin, quite as much as Tennyson and
Browning, and ClOugh and ROsetti;
they are also names of men equally
at home in either form OF expression,
ike Matthew Arnold and William Nor
ris.
But it is cause for gratitude that we
should have had a great poetry at al
in the Victorian period. For poetry be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-06
The HEALTH ORDINANCE.

Mayor Thompson ought to be con-
WINGED by this time that his efforts to
make a spoils machine out of the city
health department are viewed with
great disfavor within as well as with
out the council. One-third of his own
party members, it appears, have joined
with the Democrats in defense of the
public health, and the plan to turn the
department over to ignorant and in
competent men, in Payment Of political
debts, may as web be abandoned.
While the effort to override the may
or's veto of the health ordinance was
defeated, through the assistance Of
Councilman Hartenstein. ten members
Of the council Immediately passed a
new ordinance, which transfers to the
health commissioners the duties here
tofore performed by the sanitary in
sDector and food inspector. The mayor
cannot complain that this ordinance
is an encroachment upon his preroga-
tives. as it confers no appointing power
upon the commissioner. It cannot be
perceived what objections the mayor
can urge against this measure.
All good citizens viii approve the
action of the council and applaud
every move in the direction of in
creased efficiency in the health depart
ment. The health of the city must
not he entrus ed TO the ward politician.
Pledges were made by the Republi-
cans and their municipal executive that
the city in general and this depart
ment in particular should be managed
as d business proposition, regardless
OF politics.
It was to be expected that the mayor
would break this pledge; he was put
into office by professional politicians
who make promises for the sheer joy of
breaking them. and the mayor has al
ready shown that he cares nothing for
ante-election obligations.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

Salt Lake was given the opportunity
last evening of hearing one Of the most
gifted piauiStS who ever visited the city
Mr.. Liebling comes from Chicago. Per-
sOnally he is plain-spOken and charm
ing, and displays in his conversation
that magnetic quality which is one of
the principal characteristics of his
playing. The audience was completely
charmed with Mr. Liebling. although
many were unfamiliar even with his
name before his arrival here. In his
playing he displays, first of all, q
breadth and originality of conception
and a dramatic soul; then he has fine
technique, and an endurance which can
best be told by the fact that he played
about twenty-five numbers during the
evening, all interesting, and many great
with enormous technical difficulties.
His magnetism enables his audience to
readily grasp his conception of a piece.
A most enjoyable feature of his pro-
gramme was the explanation which he
made before each group of COMPOST
TONS These gave the audience a 6 cat
er interest in the music and a better
understanding of the composers idea
as conceived by the player. The pro-
gramme included great variety of Sc
| lections from the well-known cOmpOs-
ers, and also introduced some which are
less Familiarity known to us-those of
the extremely modern school Three
! pieces of Mr.. Liebling's, the "Gavotte
MOderne," 'Serenade" and Spring
Song, were very delightful. It is not
too much to say that every number on
| the programme was a gem, and all who
were present will remember the con-
| cert as one of the treats Of the musical
year.
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The marriage of Miss Edith Van
Colt. daughter of Mrs. Caroline Pratt
Van Colt. and Ezra T. Palmer took
place last evening, Apostle Anton Lund
officiating. The ceremony was per
formed at the new home of the happy
couple, 1925 South West Temple street.
The PRETTY furnished rooms were deco
rated with ferns and made a most at
tractlVe appearance. The parlOr was
done in pink and white. Over the bri-
dal party was suspended a horseshoe
of bride roses and ferns. The door
ways were arched with roses, while
bouquets of the same flowers covered
the mantel and piano.
The bride wore a white organdie over
taffeta, with trimmings of old lace. and
carried bride roses. She was attended
by Miss Tessie TurnboW, who was
gowned in blue organdie. Ray Van
Colt acted as best man to the groom.
The LambOurne string orchestra
played the Lohengrin wedding march
during the entrance of the bridal party
and also furnished music for the recep-
ton which followed.
The living room was beautifully deco
rated with roses and palms. In one cor
ner was stationed the punch bowl, pre-
sided over by Miss Gertrude TurnbOw.
At II o'clock an elaborate supper was
served at the home of the brides moth
er. which adjoins that of the newly
married couple Assisting in serving
were Mrs. Annie Palmer. Mrs. Oscar
Van Colt, Mrs. Lavina Van Colt, Mrs.
Joseph Madsen, Mrs. Joseph Parry,
Miss FlOssie Rogers.
The happy couple will be at home at
ter June 10 and will be followed in their
new life by the congratulations OF a
large circle of friends.
g 9 8
Miss Gratia Flanders delightfully."- en-
tertained Emil Liebling yesterday.
During the morning the noted musi-
clan was driven over the city and
shown the different points of interest.
AT l o'clock he was taken to the Alta
club, where through the courtesy of Mr..
and Mrs. Fabian, Miss Flanders enter
tanned at luncheon. The menu was
served in the private dining room. The
/ table, around which were seated the
] guests, was handsomely decorated. In
| the center was mound of La France
roses and ferns, while tiny rosebuds
were scattered in prOfusiOn over the
snowy damask. The place cards were
small booklets. On the front page was
a piano. done in water colors, and in
| side were verses on music, each one be-
4 ing applicable to the different musi-
/ clans present.
Those who enjoyed meeting the hon
ored guest were Mrs. F. J. Fabian. Miss
| Zane, Miss Alton Young, Mrs. ChTisty,
! Miss Lowe, Miss ColbOrn. Miss Geneve
! Ellerbeck and Miss Moore.
q 3 81
| The marriage of Miss Bertha Gates
/ and ". c. Brown was solemnized yes
! terday.
- . o
Miss Vie Christian is up from Bea-
yer visiting relatives and friends.
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GUILT AND LABOR UNIONS.

Our morning contemporary is still
giving vent to its malice toward la
Dor unions. A crime was committed in
northern Idaho last year. The Herald
said that every guilty man should be
punished The Tribune said that every
member of the miners Union should
be punished The Herald contended
that no punishment should be inflicted
until. after a fair and rigid investiga-
ton, the guilt was fixed upon the per-
son to suffer the penalty. The Tribune
declared that every member of the
miners organization was guilty and
that punishment should not be delayed
BY an investigation. And our Repub-
lean contemporary clings to this no
ton and gives voice to its malice to
this day.
The minority report on the Wardner
labor troubles as telegraphed from
Washington and printed in yesterday
papers shows, and the majority report
does not deny. that General Merriam
sent about $50 troops 10 the town OF
Burke and arrested without warrant
the entire male population of the town
consisting of about 800 persons. This,
say Representatives Hay and Lentz-
was an outrage on the liberty of the
citizens which has no parallel in the
annals of this country.
The investigation before the congress
sionaI committee revealed further that
there were over JOG men confined II
the Wardner stockade. guarded by ne
gro soldiers and punished without q
hearing.
This is the arbitrary method oul
contemporary recommended and tbs
military despeusm it. approves. Wher
a crime is committed in a community
in which there is an organization tina
our contemporary dislikes, no matter
whether it be a religious or labol
organization, the Republican organ
stands ever ready 10 accuse the organ
ization and demand the punishment o.
its entire membership for the commits
sion of that crime. The people Of Utah
know this to BE- a fact. Laboring men
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longs 10 the ages of faith and enthus-
laSTn, and ours has seemed to many
people an age OF doubt and cautious
experiment Poetry rings the clarion
note of joy in life, and too often it
has seemed as if pessimism and wear
mess were invading the modern world.
Poetry is nourished by the unseen
forces Of emotion and aspiration. and
our practical age has been eager above
all in the discovery and application of
the mechanical forces Of physical ma
ture. Science, rather than Imagination,
has ruled the day And yet we have
needed poets, and they have risen-no
one poet. perhaps. like Milton in the
seventeenth century or Dante in the
fourteenth, but real and great poets
who will not die. Surely this means
that humanity has not become less
sensitive to the spiritua: universe as
control over the forces of the physical
universe widens and deepens.
Tennyson and Browning are doubt
less the greatest poets Of the Victorian
era. They began to write first. they
kept on longest; their work had more
volume, more variety in its beauty,
more expressiveness. than that of any
other men. Their first books struck
quite new notes Can we say that now
Of any one among the young poets who
are asking our attention year by year
Tennyson's first volume came out in
1888. The poems in it bore the mark
of youth, but already they showed that
fairy fineness Of ear which was to
characterize him to the end. Several
OF them expressed the mood of inward
brooding, which has so belonged to our
century. In all, the poet reached that
final test of a poets genuineness-a
melody wholly Individual In the same
year appeared Brownings Pauline -
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DIsPosINe OF THE TREATY.

The report of a resolution for the
abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty is encouraging. If the isthmian
canal is to be constructed by the Amer
lean government the American people
who furnish the necessary funds want
no English cloud upon this republic 5
title TO the property.
AS a matter Of fact the Clayton-Bul-
wer treaty was abrogated long ago by
mutual Indifference of the contracting
countries and by the passing of the
conditions under which it was made
and Of the necessities which called it
into existence.
But our present anglicized secretary
of state, under guise of securing its
formal cancellation, actually agreed tc
a renewal of its terms with a few tri-
fling changes. thereby recognizing its
validity and renewing its binding force
as far as lay within his power as the
authorized representative Of this gov
eminent.
With the treaty finally and formally
disposed of nothing remains in the way
of the work of construction which
should begin at an early date.
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throughout the west have learned from
experience that this organ of the ad-
ministration is governed by prejudice
rather shan a desire for justice, and
that its demand for the wholesale ex-
termination Of union miners in Idaho
IS based on deep rooted dislike for
an organization whose conventions
have annually denounced its unfair
and abusive Il satment for the last few
years.
The desire of The Herald is that no
guilty man shall escape. but it is not
right or lawful to trample on the in
nocent to reach the guilty, or to pun
ish a whole community because some
member Of it has committed . crime
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~. Swinburne, indeed. still lives. yet
it is fair TO say that. after comparative
youth, he found no new note to strike:
his poetry simply repeated a familiar
music, and since he was poet rather BY
virtue of melody than of noble thought
or passion, his day Of real power was
Orief.
Still. side by side, the two stronger
spirits held on their way NoVelists
essayists. as well as poets, appeared
and vanished. Ruskin and Arnold re-
placed Carlyle and Newman as leaders,
and their power in turn was in the late
SOS passing to its decline. Tt was not
till 1889 that Browning died; in 1892
Tennyson's spirit crossed the bar" Of
Time. Within the last ten years only
have we been able to look at their
work as a whole, to discern, compare
and judge at last" their power and their
message
Note-This study win be concluded
tomorrow
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TRIPLES.

Our cars are no better-in themselves
than the cars of other lines. 1t is
what is INSIDE them that makes them
more comfortable.
For instance: The seats in our re-
Ginning chair cars are provided with
linen head pieces-clean and cool. Our
dining cars have electric fans, and are
gorgeously decorated with flowers. In
every car is a thermometer, which the
porter constantly consults in order to
keep the temperature of his car as
nearly uniform as possible.
BY themselves, these things are tri-
aes. but the sum total of them goes a
long way toward making a trip over
the Burlington a mighty enjoyable ex-
perience.
Burlington trains leave Denver and
10 y. m. for Omaha, Kansas City, st.
Louis and Chicago.
Tickets at all r. G.. w. ticket Offices
Through sleepers daily, Ogden and
salt Lake City to Omaha and Chicago.
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MORE LANDS FOR SETTLERS.

The announcement that the house and
senate conferees have reached an
agreement on the Fort Hall Indian res
ervation bill is good news for South
ern Idaho and northern Utah, where
hundreds of citizens have been looking
forward to tie opening of these lands.
But it is of far more Importance to
the town of Pocatello, which will now
advance with mighty strides and be-
come the metropolis OF a productive
and popElous region. PocatellO has
been entirely surrounded by this res
ervation, a single tract of land having
been set aside for the tOwnsite in the
heart of the Indian lands. Thus the
town has been handicapped, no ada
cent lands being open to settlement.
But the lands ceded by the treaty viii
now be thrown open, settlers by the
thousand will flock in and the resources
of that region viii be developed. Poca-
tello will naturally enjoy a rapid
growth in trade and population and
become a most important city
The amount of land opened by this
bill is about $4,000 acres. and the bill
provides that the Indians shall be paid
$500, 600 in installments covering a pc
Rod of nine years. Indians who have
settled upon and improved land en-
braced in the ceded tract are permitted
to accept such land by allotment from
the secretary of the interior. Upon the
completion of such allotments the re-
mainder of the ceded lands shall be
of the president and shall be subject to
disposal under the homestead. townsite,
stone and timber and mining laws All
lands lying under the canal of the Ida
no company, and which are susceptible
OF irrigation from the water of this
canal, shall be paid for at the rate of $40
per acre; all agricultural lands not un-
der this canal are to be paid for at the
rate of $3.50 per acre, and grazing
lands at $1.25 per acre, one-fifth of the
amount to be paid at the time Of entry
and the balance at the time of making
final proof. 1t is provided that all lands
lying within five miles of Pocatello
shall be disposed of at public auction
for not less than $40 per acre.
It is estimated that the ceded tract
contains about $4,000 acres of good ag-
ricultural lands and it is known that
there are rich mineral deposits within
the area.
The ratification of this treaty is an
act of the utmost inheritance to the
states of Utah and Idaho.
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and it was an achievement yet more
significant for it handled a new
method and achieved a new end-the
close self-revelation of character
through the dramatic monologue.
From this time the two great poets
continued to produce for upward of
fifty years. So far as art-fOrmS went,
their development was in curious con-
trast Browning began with drama;
soon discarded it as a formal, artistic
method, passed through a brilliant Sc
ries of dramatic mOnologues to that
unique epic which marks the high
water Of his achievement, THE Ring
and the Book: then, during his later
years, produced a number Of narrative
poems, more or less ironic in charae-
ter; while his old age was finally
marked by a revival of lyrical passion
and power. Tennyson's development
almost reversed this order. He, too, at
tempted the drama, but late in life
and without striking success. His early
years were given TO lyric and narra-
tive. and his work eliminated in that
profound revelation Of the sufferinSs
and aspirations of his own spirit, his
In Memoriam." Despite the divers ex-
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offers to deal me a glass I winks, joviai
ike, an asks him if he can't put stick
in it. He seems kinder juberous, but says
I'll try, sir an before I could stop him.
out he goes.
IN about a minute he comes back,
smilin' an shoves the glass at me again
I couldn't find stick, sir he says. but
this is the next best thing. Johnny, that
glass had dandelon stem floatin' around
in it. An ever since I been tTyin' to fig
ure out whether the kid was joshin' me
or whether he really wasn't next"
"Tn bet it's a long time before they
rope you into another commencement,
said Johnny.
"Oh. I don't know" was the reply
Maybe you'll see me settin' on the plat
form with the teachers and the board of
trustees some day, if you keep your lamps
trimmed
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who had been boxing at him curiously,
broke the ice with.
Sort. you must be in love. never
seen you act this way before.
IN love? No, Johnny" was the reply.
81 had a chance Of that kind oncet. but I
chooses the tiger instead of the lady an
here 1 am. Instead OF the merry music of
kidlet voices, I hears only the rattle of
the poker chip. The happy songs of child
hood was long since merged in the growls
of the kitty. I'm melancholy today, John
ny, an I think maybe it's because 1 wan
dered into a place the other day where
some mavericks was dom a commence
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kids singin' Happy School Days Now is
Ger or words to that effect.
Il seen a bunch of mammas and papas
goin' through the big door in front, an
havin' nOthin better to do than keep
cases on my melancholy, 1 concludes I'll
chip along So IN 1 goes, kinder wishin
I'd left my white hat an my check suit
at home. There's a lot of kids settin' on
a platform, Johnny, an when 1 goes in
one of 'em gifts up TO say a piece. 1t was
about Spartacus somebody or other.
Il listens close for a while, thinkin
maybe the fellers a candidate for gov
ernor or somethin'. amt never heard of
( him before, but that don't signify nothin
because I'm still a tenderfoOt in the game
of politics. Well, old Spart Iams along
( for quite a while, mOonin' about some
rocky big mitt deal he had got from a
+ duck he calls Praytor. I'pretty soon gets
next that he amt runnin' for anything,
/ but is Just tellin' his troubles. The kid
! that spoke for him done it fine, too, an l
gives it out cold that if ever old Spart
does want anything in the gift of the
/ people, Sport is goin' to be right in his
/ camp"
There was a curious shadow in the Old
| SPORTS eyes, and the choke in his voice
was not all caused by mineral waSer, as
/ he went on. Next thing that happened
! was a song -Four kids sung it. Two was
girls an two was boys. 1t wound up, "A
boys best friend is his mother" Johnny,
| do you know I amt thought of my mother
before these thirty years? 1t all come back
/ to me while the kids WIS singin'. Johnny.
T I thought of her as she stood in the door
wav of the old homestead back in New
York state, the day 1 told her goodbye
ar started out in the world.
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XZIV.-THE AGE OF TENNYSoN
AND DROWNING.
By VIDA D. sCUDDER

The age of Tennyson and Browning
is practically the Victorian age of
English literature. To name a period
from a sovereign may seem arbitrary
and foolish, but it is often convenient,
and in this case it has really some sig
nifcance. The work OF Tennyson and
Browning begins only a few years be-
fore the accession Of the queen, and its
whole sweep and power is included
within the fifty years from 1910 to 1890.
The Victorian period, however, is quite
distinct in character from the period
that went before; separated from it by
a complete change in spirit and the
emergence Of a new set of controlling
ideas. From the time Of the French
revolution, at the end of the eighteenth
century. to the deaths of Keats, Shell
ley and Byron, which happened be
tween 1920 and 1925. English poetry had
scared and sung like Shelley's skylark
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the great things, an worst of all, I've
forgot my mother" The Old Sport had
turned his head away. But the emotion
was only temporary In minute the old
fellow looked back at Johnny He was
smiling now. smiling through mist of
tears.
I'D orter been a woman, Johnny" he
continued. Somehow 1 can't stand
thin=s like I used to. But 1 want to tell
you the res this here commencement
play. The Z, Tamme was long, but it
was pretty dern good. There was more
songs an more speeches, one lad lettin.
on that he was "a duck named Rienzi. He
allowed he was goin' away somewhere, TO
the Philippines, maybe, but when he
come hack he was goin to make old
Rome get a w'sgle on itself 70 keep from
gettin' run over
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Figures Show the Progress
New York SUM

The advertising man was telling about
queer breaks n.lde by his fellow men,
and he remarked: philadelphia mer-
chants are mighty candid advertisers. I've
always known that fact, but | never saw
1t so strikingly illustrated as | did in the
Philadelphia papers last Tuesday | pick
ed up one of the leading papers there and
read over the bargains the big stores had
TO offer and in the middle of one adVer-
tisement under the head of hats 1 found
this:
What do you get when you buy a 81
hat at other stores stuck. Same here
$3.50
"Of course ] thought it was break,
but [ got the other papers and found the
same thing in every one of them. Just
suppose Q New Yorker was as frank as
that in his advertising announcements
wouldn't be do a trade. thought"