Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

Man Not Man Is not put into
Music Box the world as music-
hut Violin. box mechanically set
with a certain fixed
number of tunes, but as violin with
Infinite possibilities. This music no
one can bring forth but the individual
himself He is placed into life not
fnality. but beginning. not manu-
featured article, but raw material; not
statue but an unnewn stone ready
alike for the firm ohisel of defined
purpose or the subtle attrition of un-
controlled circumstances and condi-
lions II Is only what a man makes
of himself that really counts. He
must dlsinfect his mind from that
weakening thought that he has an
absolutely predetermined capacity, Ike
a freight-car with its weight and tom
mage painted on the side. He Is grow
Ing, expansive unlimited, self-adJust-
ing to Increased responsibility, pro-
excessively able for largo duties and
higher possibilities as he realizes them
ana lives up TO them. The individual
has no real limitations except those
that are self-lmposed
The Way story which WAS once
They Used told in the senate cloak
To Swear. room is repeated now
and then by one OF the
distinguished solons. 1t concerned the
days of the anti-rent war in New York
City. which grew out OF n controversy
between the patrons, Sschuylers and
Van Rensselaers, tho old original Dutch
land holders. who had the grant of the
land ana who rented 1t out to tenants
at a nominal sum, in some cases az low
as five chickens or two pigs, but they
hold absolute titles TO the land, and In
this way tho landlords maintained
social prestige which was very onerous
to the American idea. This was the
last death struggle of the old feudal
question. The contest for rights be-
tween burghers and their tenants was
an interesting chapter In history. This
controversy resulted in one special law,
passed by the legislature, providing
that service by the sheriff could be
legal If notice was posted on tho door
of the premises. The records show that
one sheriff made a rather significant
report after having started to post a
notice. The report was as follows:
The deponent says that in the afore-
said suit. he went to the house Of the
defendant, and, not finding him. he
was about to post a notice on Defend
ants door, as provided by law, when
said defendant raised q window and
pulled gun, saying that If deponent
did not clear out he. said defendant,
would blow said deponent to hell which
deponent verify believes he would have
done"
This grave statement of facts is now
matter of record in New York state.
and those relating the story always
reached a climax when the conclusions
of said sheriff is declared as to the
place he would have been blown If he
mad proceeded farther In carrying out
the legal requirements of the Substi-
tute Service Bill.--Joe Mitchell Chapple,
In August National Magazine
A Queens love all animals, even
Love OF spiders. they spin so
Animals. cleverly and are such
excellent mothers. Be-
sides. they are musical. My friend, the
Swedish composer, Hallstrom. told ma
that fer q long time he had two spiders
which would let themselves down from
the ceiling by long threads when he
played, and station themselves on the
piano to hear the music. OF ants and
bees ! VIII not speak; one who does not
love them Is so stupid that have MOTH
ing to say to him. Even wasps are not
as black as they are painted. For
snakes only I have no liking; they ter
rify me; but my aversion is doubtless
due to the fact that l have not studied
them enough. 1t seems to me lmpos-
sible not to love an animal whose inno-
cence and goodness one has accurately
comprehended.-From Carmen Sylva's
My Kittens" in the August Century.
A Scramble A writer in the August
For Degrees American Magazine
In Colleges. says: Your correspon-
dent on education
should have made some reference to
the Ph.D. mania IN our colleges Last
night | was talking with young man
who has been working for this degree.
Some of the facts that he reported
about the degree seem to expose our
universities to the satlrist somewhat as
the follies of the English universities
of the eighteenth century exposed them
to the savage pen of Jonathan Swift in
"Gulliver's Travels" For example, he
told me of young woman who nearly
worked her head OFF to get a Pm d.
in economies. The degree helped her
TO get professorship in a college, but
she was set to teaching Latin instead
of economies. Then there are the
theses they have to prepare. A candi-
date must select an original subject
and IL 1t Is shown that another student
in another part of the world has al
ready taken the same subject he must
discard his selection and make another.
This is not true of all universities and
of all subjects, but Il IL true in certain
cases. A candidate IN Chicago for eX-
ample, worked for months on thesis,
and then found that n candidate at
Harvard had chosen the same subject.
The Harvard man got through first,
and presented his thesis. This made It
necessary for the Chicago candidate TO