Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
Gathered On The Battlefield Of Thought

throw up his work, choose a new sub
1ect, and begin again. OF course so
ciety has a right to expect that schol-
airs viii not cheat. II seems reasonable
to suppose. however, that arrangements
might be made whereby two men could
work on the same subject INDEPENDENT
~. At least arrangements might BIO
made whereby two men who have
worked OH tho same subject indepen-
IDENTIFY should not be punished for an
accident Of fate. What matters an ex-
ira thousand pages or so on such
subject as the perpendicular OF an
isoscoles triangle?
The Danger Perhaps you think we
OF Breeding are unkind TO the mos
House Flies. quito and the fiy-keep-
Ing after these denizens
too persistently, undertaking them
with too much virulencc. II you love
the fly, therefore, skip this paragraph
Another board of health. that OF New
York, IS after him. 1t informs the
public that the tlys body Is covered
with disease germs. and asks us all
not to allow decaylng material of any
sort to accumulate near our premises.
All refuse which tends to fermentation.
such as bedding, straw, paper waste,
and vegetable matter, should be dis
posed OF or covered with lime or kero-
seno oil. All foods should be screened.
All receptacles for garbage should be
carefully covered, and the cans cleaned
or sprinkled with limo or oil. All
stable manure should be kept In vault
or pit, and screened or spriukled With
lime, kerosene, or other cheap prep
aration. Tho sewage system should
be In good order, and not exposed TO
flies. Kerosene should be poured into
the drains Food should he covered
after a meal, and table refuse burned
or buried. 10 kill the flies in the
house pyrethrum powder may be
burned. If you see flies, their breed
ing place is nearby. 1t may be be-
hind the door under the table. or in
tho cusptdor. IL there is no dirt, there
Will be no flies. This sounds much like
what we wrote the other day about mos
quitoes. There are Offences, but part
of the same general treatment applies
to both. Cleanliness, broadly under,
stood, counts Tor much In vigor health,
and comfort.--Collier's for August l.
France Now France at one time the
Has Become most radical and unsta-
Conservative. bic of European powers,
Is now rapidly becoming
one of the most conservative and fixed
In its institutions. Nothing better il
Illustrates the change that has come over
the temper of the French people than
the manner In which the nation
frowned upon tho attempts of the anti
Semitic section of the press to make
the transfer of the remains OF Emile
lola to the Pantheon an opportunity
To revive the Dreyfus scandal and to
use 1t as a means to overthrow the
government There was a great deal
pr opposition to the placing of the ashes
of one of the most distinguished of
trench literateurs among the minor
tails, but the government determined
TO carry out Its program. At the close
of the ceremonies Louis Gregori. a well
known member of the staff of a mill
taIy Journal, an anti-Dreyfus publica-
ton, fired two shots at short range Mt
Dreyfus. Except for the momentary
excitement that the affair created il
had not the slightest result. Gregoris
act was properly characterized as that
of q fanatic, and except by the anti
Dreyfus press was condemned in all
quarters. France no longer welcomes
strife and disorder 1t wants the Sc
curity that comes from proper respect
and obedience to law and constituted
authority.-A. Maurice Low, in the Au-
gust Forum.
OS, Cog, Magog It Is matter of per-
Some Giants pleNity to most small
VI History. boys whether they
shall become giants
or clowns. There are plenty of clowns
today. but there will probably never
again be such formidable giants az
Og, Cog, and Magog. Og, we are told
in Deuteronomy, was the last real
giant. He was that King of Bashan
whom the 1sraelites slew, and his bed
stead was nine cubits long, or about
thirteen feet This bedstead story
may be based upon the huge sarco-
phagi which the Phoenician kings had
made in imitation of the Egyptian
custom Cog and Magog are mention
ed several times in the Bible with more
or less Indebtedness. In the Koran
they represent barbarous people in
habiting Central Asia, and they were
probably born out of the terror in
spired by the Scythian hordes that
overthrow the Assyrian Empire.
Wooden statues Of Cog and Magog
fourteen feet high have occupied ped
estals IN the London Guildhall for
centuries, and were formerly carried
through the streets in the Lord May
or's shows. They welcomed Henry "
ON London Bridge In 1415. Accord
ing to Caxton, Cog and Magog were
the survivors of race of giants found
in Britain by Brute, son OF Antenor
of Troy, and brought by him as pris-
oners to London, where they were
chained to the gates of palace on
the site of the Guildhall and kept as
porters. All primitive races seem to
possess legends of giants, as did the
Greeks Romans, and Arabs. bnt nine
feet seems to be almost the highest
authentic stature recorded. Topin-