Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-04
From The battle-ground of Thought.

Returning to llorn thau O hundred
FranlSlln's Tlicorsyous have elapsed
OF Matter since Benjamin
Franklin. employing q
phraseology now superseded put forth
theory OF matter. Ii was pronounced
"a delusion" by the physicists OF the
nineteenth century, but the scientists
Of the twentieth century according TO
sir oliver Lodge. may be forced To he
habilitate II as the only means OF is
sue from the labyrinth IN which all
physical study Is NOW involved. stripped
OF technical verhiage and put briefly,
the Franklin theory Is that electricity
and matter In combination form a ueu-
trail substance which Is the atom of
matter as We know 1t, The most inter-
estlng part OF the problem for ourselves,
says Sir oliver, IS the explanation OF
matter IN terms Of electricity, the view
that electricity ~, as Franklin seems
to have supposed. the fundamental
substance" What we men Of today
have been accustomed 10 regard as an
indivisible atom Of matter Is nus built
up out OF electricity. All atoms-atoms
of an sorts of Substances" ARE built
up Of the same thing. In our day, to
put il more clearly, the theoretical and
proNiinate achievement Of what phio-
sophers from Frankllns day to ours
have always sought uniiicatlon of
matter--is offering itself 20 physical in
quiry.-Current Literature
Lincoln's Vow on the 18th Of Sep
After the Battle TENDER the battle of
OF Antietam. Antietam was fought.
OF which Mcclellan
might have made victory of immense
consequence. had he not. with his usual
indecision and procrastnation, let slip
the moments when he could easily have
han tor f1,.a Ia, fuf Aer
1t was, General Lee came near being
justified IN calling An-ietam "A drawn
battle He withdrew almost unmolest-
ed from the presence of our army across
the Potomac. But the battle of Antie-
tam became one of the landmarks
of human history by giving Abraham
Lincoln the opportunity for doing the
sreut act which crowned him with
eternal fame There is something sim
gularly pathetic in the stoIy-and 1t is
a true story--that Abraham Lincoln
harrassed by anxious doubts as to
whether the issuance of the emancipa-
tion proclamation, already once post
poned. would not cause dangerous dis
sention among the northern people, at
last referred the portentous question to
the arbihament OF heaven and vowed
In his heart to himself and "to his
Maker that the proclamation should
certainly come forth II the result of
the next battle We're in favor of the
Union. And SO after the battle of
Antietnm, the great proclamation, in
Lincon's heart sanctioned by the de-
cree IT Providence. did come forth. and
it made our Civil war before all the
world not only war for political
union, but also q war against slavery.
Carl Schurz's in McClure's Magazine.
Cruel to Force The practice Of
The Childs forcing young
Musical Talent. child's musical tall
ents, Moriz ROsen-
thai, the wellknown pianist, unhesi-
tatingly condemns. 1T is Il great injus-
tice to the public TO foist a child's
undeveloped talents upon him, but 1t
is far greater injustice TO the child.
There Is nothing SO inherently poetic
as an imaginative child, and one who
is unsteady inclined is apt to be i'm
agnative. If you put him upon the
stage before he has attained his mental
equilibrium you are running the dam
ger Of making him self-conscious, the
atric, and of stunting In him the devel-
opment OF a quality which az a musi-
clan no is lost without. But, Colt Sci
dank, the custom Is a passing one. -
From Little Glimpses Of Famous Mu-
sicians,' by c. +, Peters in Tho Bohe-
Milan.
War aud Peace The addresses at the
Discussed by meeting Of Mr. Car
Practical Men. negie's many distin-
guished guests at the
commemoratlon of his institute
abounded i'm evidence that the whole
world is seriously thinking that war is
drifting back into the savage past, and
that the powerful mon OF the world
are looking confidently to a time when
universal peace shall be established,
and when war between civilized ma
tons shall have ceased to be possible.
From Mr., Carnegie's own noble adj
dress to the most unimportant speech,
the occasion was more than a cele-
bration of the growing sentiment for
peace; II was an educational influence.
1t viii be many a year, doubtless, be-
fore our eyes shall see the passing or
the armed man from his control of gov
eminent; and II Is many weary year
that has passed since Tennyson fore
Swallowed the day when
The war drum throbbd no longer, and
the battle-lags We're fulled,
In the Parliaments of men, the Feder-
alton of the World;
but that the day is nearer Is manifest
ed by the development OF the dream
Of singer into a moral public qucs-
tion which practical men discuss az If
ii We're possible, while, rs Mr.. stead
said the rulers of the world are in ia
vor Of peace. and profess TO have
abandoned all desire for gain by war.
1t Is true, Of course that practical
difficulties, like cost and other things,
have helped transfuse the poets dream
with material considerations but good
comes often that way and remains
good. Mr. stead made too nucn of the
influence OF yellow journals. The year
1898 was possibly the last time when
they could bring a country into war;
and maybe they We're then not so in
nuential as they were thought 10 be-
Harper's Weekly,
Speaking About Some of us do not
The Comic read the Sunday pa
supplements pers at all some do
not think it right.
stlll more do not think II wise. But
in this day I venture to say that every
one Of us has at least seen Sunday
supplement- Many Of us have seen
our own children, or our neighbours
children, porting over tho atrOcious
da ubs representing still more afro
cious pursuits Of the elusive Joke. We
all know the harm they do. L asked
an artist whose name is household
word In al least half a million homes.
why hc made such awful pictures
for the ooiorej supplements. His an
swor was short Because the people
Ike ihem.' In the next sentence he