Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14
Gathered On The Battlefield q Thought.

Origin OF MY attention has recently
Some Party been called to nn articlt
1 symbols. In your issue of September
49, in which Mr.. Albert
/ Rigclow Paine credits Thomas Nas'
/ with inventing the donkey as the SYM
Dol of the Democratic party. This
i statement. originally made by Mr
| Paine In his book on Mast, underrate''
the extent to which Mast utilized the
4 symbols of the earlier American car
1 toonists. THE first Democratic dom
key" to use Mr. Paine's phrase, is to
| be found IN a cartoon issued In 1851
| representing Jackson as n moueru
| BALKAN riding an ass. The ass stands
| for the Democratic Republican party
! OF that day Its progress Is stopped by
the angel of the Lord, brandishing a
| flaming sword, and Van Buren step
| ping in its tracks, is saying that nc
| follows IN the footsteps OF his iliustri-
Gus predecessor. Thus the Denlocfatc
donkey originated in an application OF
the story of Balaam. The design re,
ours IN modified form in the so-cailed
"shinplastcr' Garicature. \ cartoon ~ 9h
the campaign of 1874, drawn by g. "
Clay. represents Tyler rs trying e
balance himself between q Wing horse
and q Loco Foco,' or Denocfatic
donkey. There were probably othet
uses OF this symbol. At Il later day
Mast revived, consciously or uncoh-
sciously, the symbol used for the DEM.
,ocratic party by the earlier cartoonists.
In the csiricatureS Of. Jacksons admin-
istration the United states bank was
represented as an elephant with Jack
son twisting its tail. The elephant
Mast used for the Republican party
From a letter in Harper's Weekly.
Words That A little dubious as to the
Add Force exact shade of signifc-
To Speech. ance, hut certainly nllur.
ing to the ear, is "pang-
wangle.'' 1t eXpresses--well, what does
1T express?--a cheeriness under minor
discomforts, a humorous optimism un,,
der small mfsfortunes. though indeed
these seem dignifed definitions for so
Informal a word. Il Just pang-wan.
gled home in the rain" says a friend
of mine, and know he got there
drenched, but sood-tempered, We
Went pang-@angling off TO the theater
last night says my nearest ncighbof;
and l feel pretty certain they had
been blue over something and felt the
need of some small gayety. 1t would
do us all good IL we pang- wangled q
bit more, 1 think A very meaning
word is the Southerner's "honlng.,
My, honey, I've Just been honing to
see you'll 1t is not SO stilted as rye
been longing" and 1t Is much more
emphatic than ct have been wanting"
IT'S a warm, affectlonate, intimate
Let mo put 1t INTO
the addendum, well toward the front,
for 1 love the sound of it. These words
are not slang. They are not exactly
as one hieh-brow friend Informed me
-''low collodua!isms,' They have u
place in language, and they add consld-
erably to its color. Just you wait un:
til tunder the influence of that row OF
hollyhocks and that noble picket fence)
NV addendum is tinished Then let the
purists sauirrn.-The November Atlant-
ic.
German German Hionists are now
Zionists not only the most splen-
did "Landsmannschaft,
having an enViable or
gnnization and contributing the most !
to the movement, but they have be-
come. so to say the brains of Iionism.
laying it's plans and carrying on us
strategy Another feature of the Ger
man Zionists deserves notice. The Ger
man Zionsts were in Herzl's time the
most stubborn adherents of political
Lionism and the boldcst denunciators
Of Couture Zonism' and the immedi-
ate activity in Palestine theory. NOW
they are the most ardent promoters of
Jewish culture, forming clubs for |
Jewish music, giving exhibitions or ,
Jewish art. establishing courses of
Jewish literature, and they are the |
most vigorous and systematic workers
FOR the rehabilitation of Palestine. And |
.hese endeavors are indeed rewarded
~ splendid results. Jewish nationalLsnl
S gradually extending its influences
,ver everything Jewish in Germany.
in no other country are COM
1aratively so many Zionists without
Zionist consciousness as in German
[ewry. The "Bezalel' school in Pales-
inc thus owes its existence to the
which creates in Palestine such insti-
utions as kindergartens, primary
teachers seminaries, and a
chool of technology on Il national basis
md in the national spirit. is, of all nom
Zionist organizations working in Pales-
inc, such as the Alliance the A. j. A,
he only one that understands the role
hat the Jews of Palestine will play as
people in the awakening of the near
ast."-From the Maccabean.
Rope Trick In the dark middle ages,
)f Indian when superstitions OF all
[usglers. kinds We're rife, and
witchcraft and sorcery
we're very generally practised; and al
o even at the present day in those
,arts Of eastern Europe where educa-
he belief In the werewolf and vampire
vas and is largely prevalent, These
,houlish creatures We're believed to be
he materialized spirits of those who
lad practised any kind of sorcery dur
ng their lives. When dead it was be-
ieved that their bodies did not de-
ay, remaining quiescent during the
lay, but at night rising In the form
f these weird, murderous ghouls, and
ither deVouring the dead or sucking
he blood of the living The grisly,
adaVerpus creatures were believed to |
20 ever prowllng and lowering about
t night, now in a graveyard searching
or prey, now, If any We're SO indIscreet
$ to sleep in the open air at night,
oftly allghting upon the sleeper, and,
Without waking him, sucking away
lis life blood. Even. it Is stated, to
his day in those more benighted parts
hose who believe in these chimerical
FEATURES wear a Were-wolf-band as a
sfense against their attacks Put al