The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-06
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 the predicted disappearance of the Great Salt lake within the next forty years is of more than passing interest and every few weeks new "story" in regard to this phenomenon is launched into the ocean of American newspapers. The evaporation of Great Salt lake is now so rapid and so constant that this most remarkable sheet of water Is being lapped up beneath the very eyes of sci entists, and one can hardly blame them for becoming a trife excited. If no un- toward upheaval or reversal of nature occurs, it is reasonable to suppose that when, instead of a great inland ocean of salt water, HOO miles from the Pacific, a dry bed of salt will be the most strilk- ing typographical feature of Utah. Of course the huge basin of salt will be interesting, and it's shipment and sale may prove valuable industry, but one of the most beautiful scenic vistas of the country will be forever removed. There is potent yet unobtrusive beauty and grandeur about Great Salt lake that irresistibly holds the imagination. The Oregon Short Line railway from Ogden to Salt Lake City, traverses the shore of the lake for many miles, and the alter mirroring on it's placid surface the drift ing clouds and the mountains that raise their summits on the opposite shore, is indeseribably beautiful. A sadness broods over the great lake-a solemnity that seems to forebode it's approaching ca pitulation to the tireless forces of nature.
 An Indiana preacher-by the way, In diana people are always springing sen- sations-announeed from the pulpit last Sunday that if Christ should come to his town the elite would probably tender the Savior a reception or endeavor to en- certain Him at a card party. This style of sensationalism, which Is directed to- ward reform, has been rather popular with certain extremists during recent years. An Alabama man, former Con- gressman Howard, got himself widely talked about by writing "If Christ Came to Congress-, while the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon won renown with his If Christ Came to Chicago" The preacher of today who finds that his flock is wax ing somnolent and wishes to create a stir adopts this kind of talk-what the people of today would do if Christ should return to earth. As a matter of fact, it is hard to say how Christ would be re- ceived, but the Nominations of those pulpit sensationalists who assert that society would endeavor to lionize divinity are little short of sacrelgious and are probably accompanied by more excite ment than substantial results.
 Alas the noble red mani His ruin was begun by fire water and will be con sumated by cocaine. Probably the once proud children of the forest do not call the stuff dope" No doubt the lingering remnants of their picturesque personali- ty have designated 1t by some more in- teresting and more significant name but the fact remains that a great number of full-blooded Cherokees are becoming CO., caine "fiends." While this Is a compara- lively new vice for the Indians 1t is talk ing hold of them with startling rapidity. No doubt cocaine Is the best and most certain passport to the happy hunting ground that the Indians ingenious na- ture has ever discovered. Incidentally, it may be stated that whisky and cocaine for the red man are as rifles to Gatling