Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-13

When Nature The western vice of
protc,fs drunkenness has not
Her Children. reached Turkey IN any
appreciabie exte n {.
Wine is used freely, but there Is little
or no drunkenness In the streets. Very
little opium is used and there Is no
drug evil. The people OF the cities are
not protected from disease except
cholera and plague) by the authorities.
Quarantine is well carried out when
necessary, but sanitary laws are not w
existence even I'm Constantinoplc; yet
the life Is so much out OF doors, that
the swift currents OF the Bosnhorus ana
the breezes from the Marinora ana
block Sea Join In helping to keep back
contaEion. The surrounding country -
still Asia Minor the beautiful OF which
xenophon wrote and there are no eVil
conditions that could not be met ana
overccme.-~L. Il. Palmer in the June
Charities and the Commons
Selection of In the early conven-
Delegates TO lions there was little
Conventions. system In the selection
of members. They were
either appointed by some party leader,
or they went to the convention on their
own account. The conventions were
really large caucuses composed OF men
Interested In party success. After a
representative OF the party impressed
itself on the leaders, and system OF
electinR delegates was developed. III
has passed through various stages, until
ut the present time the campaign for
the election of the delegates is OCCASION
ally more exciting than the actual cleo
ton of the President himself. The GUS
tomary unit of representation Is the
congressional district Each district Is
entitled to two delegates to the national
convention, and four delegates at large
are chosen to represent the state, These
four delegates are commonly elected In
a. state convention. The congressional
district delegates are also the product
of district conventions and the district
conventions in many cases are the pro-
duct OF primary elections held in every
polling precinct, The national conven-
ton is a genuine representative body.
the selection of which is in many, II
not in all, the states hedged about by
laws as complicated as those which
govern the final election of candidates
for office. The delegates to the district
are chosen at primary cleo
tons, at which fraud is punished as
vigorously as If committed on the gem
eral election day. Delegates to the
state conventions are chosen under the
same eguards-George William
Douglas, in Nominating a President"
in the Youths Companion.
Mistakes Now no one is likely to
OF Grammar lutte linguistic inspiration
In the Bible. stand up for the abso-
of our translation of the
Bible. There are unquestionably gram
faults in It, though the num-
her OF these is far fewer than Is often
Still, thoa. exist for which
no defence can be pleaded on the score
of haste or inadvertence. They are as
intentional as are some of the violations
of idiomat.c usages into which modern
sorupulosity occasionally betrays men.
One OF the errors committed in 1t there
Is which deserves mention for several
reasons, but most of all here for the
lesson In verbal criticism it imports.
First, 1t was accidental, but clearly de-
llberate. Secondly. it is found not in
frequently at the present day, some
times because the writer Is careless
but more often because he is trying TO
be careful without knowing how. The
third and much the most important
reason is that II exemplifes strikingly
the other side of Coleridge's dictum.