Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-28

were good and clear and kind as those
OF q setter bitch | used TO shoot over.
lie nodded and waved his hand and
began to talk to me- In verse. Ay,
and very good verse. too nin1be-trot
ting on its i've feet What he wanted
was tobacco And when he had broken
IN some Russian cigarettes TO stun
a plps with. he rhymed his droRue.
Fifty years OF age, this man had been
q university professor The steep road
he came down was that of alcohol. IA
wandering poet. a son OF old Homer"
said he, land like him, / follow tho
road" A volume of his verses had
been published: his name was Oresime
Loyc and he had been professor At
Lyons, he took q tattered copy OF his
poems front some nook in his rags
and read To me. one line | have not
forgotten: '''rhe eartht's my only bed,
my curtains the blue sky" ! left him
there, smoking Russian tobacco, chant
ing his rhymes of the road-a KIND OF
tramp unknown in the Anglo-Saxon
world. He had tried all sorts of life
and found this best For him II held
the dream, that vague ideal which most
of us lose in youth and only fitfully re-
member. In n little while he would
pick up his bundle and his crooked
stick and journey on toward that horl-
ION which IL always Just little fur
Their beyond From 1.-THE Vagabonds
of France" by Vance Thompson, in
the Outing Magazine for April.
The Tcrrors Drink Is not always at
OF Alcohol IT'S worst when its APP
Are Many. parent sway Is most
complete. The crimes
of alcoholism. violent explosions of nj
coholic mania sometimes murderous in
character, are put down In the records.
Put no one has reported the crimes
against the world indirectly resulting
from alcohol IT is by the terrors OF
its indirect results that the alcoholic
il, driven back to the dangers of its
direct results. But alcoholic poison
ing has not run it's course even With
the strongest when its first infiamma-
ton has subsidized. How often have
| seen men upon whom great interests
depended hesitate from a sheer, I'M
natural fear of themselves and their
powers, to venture on the blyiness OF
the day before stimulating their de-
graded nerves anew. They were
afraid TO sign their own names to pa
| pers or checks, to meet their subor-
| dinates, to consult with their equals.
| Their purposes, so bold the night be-
| fore, shlvered and disappeared in the
| dawn of the morning after. Their
| courage was turned into timidity;
| their minds were filed with appre-
| tensions of danger; all their symp-
| toms stimulated acute nervous pros
! tratiou. They were capable only of
| meannesses and treacheries that fears
| beget. They dared not venture. They
were distrustful of the world and OF
| themselves. Can any one tell me
! that a judge who has sat up all night
| revelling. is fitted properly to admin
| lister Justice in the morning--that he
| Is not either timid, careless, nervous
| apprehensive, afraid to carry out the
functions OF his office. or, If the drink
| persists in him, violently prejudlced
| irritable and oppressive ?"-Americar
] Magazine.
The Cost OF No big city has yet been
Social Vice able to suppress the So
To Big Cities. cial vice. In countries
where disorderly houses
are differently handled the evil probab-
| ly is reduced to minimum. That
there are promises OF protection from
some source Is indicated by the fact
| that only this week double house that
| had been opened only a few days, in
one of the uptown streets where rents