Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22

Bridges. past III INDIANA the
earliest steel bridges
were built in the early SOS, and as the
| life of a steel bridge does not usually
exceed twenty-five or thirty years un-
der conditions of highway traffic, II Is
| apparent that the time is soon coming
when the earliest OF the steel bridges
| will have collapsed under some unusual
| load of a steam road roller or traction
| engine. The number of such failures
| is becoming alarmingly frequent, says
| Cement Age, New York Many coun-
| ties of Indiana have discontinued the
| building of steel bridges and are now
| building of reinforced concrete instead
| because OF the permancuce OF this type
| of construction and its freedom from
| repairs Reinforced concrete bridges
| have many advantages such as absa-
| lutc pcrmaucncc, handsome appear
| ance, Siavelled roadway, and freedom
| from Hood renewals. Wabash county
| Indiana, built it's first concrete bridges
| in 1902, and since that time has built
upwards of 100 arches up to SO-fuot
| span. Since 1903 no steel bridges have
| been built in this county.
Dumb Animal There was nothing
| I'm Example noteworthy nbout the
| vi rain. horse as he stood
untcthcred at the
! curb in one of the busiest downtown
| Sti't'S' SuNe tuat ne seemed timid and
| Shranh ut the approach of passing ve-
| hicles.
He is blind" said the Humanitar-
| IAN stone blind"
Just then man stepped from a
| nearby doorway and as he approach
| ed the animal cooked his ears know
| inglY in that direction.
| Now said the Humanitarian,
shall YOU see sublime spectacle.
| Remember that this animals whole
| pathway Is one long, dark pitfall peo-
| pied with terrifying sounds and mem
| acing presenCes, whose terrors must
| be exaggerated by his unseeing mag
| nation
| And as one listened to the crash
and roar of traffic, the grinding of
wheels, the changing of bells, the
4 snorttng and honking of automobiles
! the raucous shouts and the rush of
| hurrying feet, one began to under
stand
The man stepped into the rig and
| said: "Gddap.
And straight into the black vortex of
unseen terrors of crashing and clang-
| ing and shouting and trsmpling, went
| the animal with head aloft and hoofs
shifting the pavement as though his
| pathway lay open to his sight.
Wonderful intelligence" said the
| onlooker.
Wonderful nothing" said the
Humanitarian 1t is the most beau
| tiful picture of absolute confidence
| and unquestioning faith that you
| shall ever see. He hears his masters
| voice: he feels his masters guiding
| hand. That is all. Yet he Is ready
| to dash straight to the lannon's mouth
| or to plunge unhesitatingly into the
bottomless gulf, which for aught he
| knows, lies right before his feet. May
| you and have such blind faith In the
| guidance OF our Master Think it
over"
And as the dumb toilcr Jared fear
lessly forth amid the clty's din, one
| felt inclined to-think 1t over
| Pittsburg Gazette Times.
| \ Sermon Has the market in Ted
| On Animals dy bears indeed been
| And Dolls. dun since the end of
hrdterm possibilities?
| So say certain wholesale dealers, for
| getting, apparently, the heavy decline
| before last Christmas. No toy, except
| the tested simple few, can last for
| ever. This genial nursery quadruped
is not likely actually to become extinct.
Less than year ago there was an ex-
pressicn of concern among certain
| troubled souls lest the small boys at
| titude toward the denizens of the Wild
| wood should be subverted by this affa-
| BILE playfellow, and lest the example OF
| her brother should in time cause the
| little girl to transform her many dol
lied creche into an ursine menagerie.
Nature is more stable. The small boys
vision of Wild animals is in no danger
of immediate subVersiVe change.
Some bold Adventures dsdain
The limits of their little reign,
And unknown regions dare descry:
Still az they run they look behind,
They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch fearful low
Many boys for some time will he
more interested in Long John SILVER
than in Rollo. They will attend more
eagerly to a bear, albeit stuffed. than
to AN innocuous wolly lamb As for
the girl, there Is small danger that the
Teddy Bear will supplant the doll in
her affections. Not beasts, but little
sawdust human legs and little enamel
human faces. provide the outlet for her
impulses. There are girls OF whom this
is not true. but nature will take care
of such. on the whole, such a girl
tends to extinction with her individual
life. The maternal instinct must re-
main strong, because those girls who
have il are the ones from whom the
next generation is descended Editorial
in Golfers for August S.
Gorgeous Perhaps one OF the most
Auroral sublime and gorgeous spec
GIorcs. tacles which this beautiful
earth of ours affords is
sunrise as viewed from the summit of
q very high mountain. A sunrise after
II storm at sea, when the great orb
| rises from out the boundless expanse
of the ocean. tinting the crests OF the
rolling pillows in glorious hues and
| illulnining the feathery tufts OF driven
| surf in the same lovely color Is mag
| nficent, but however grand 1t may be 1t
! Is far surpassed In subimity by a
mountain sunrise. The shades of night
| have gradually faded away. the morn
| ing star no longer glisters in the west,
| and the auroral glow continues ever
! to increase in brightness. Now the
doomed and pinnacled SUBMITS Of the
! long range of upreared snow clad
mountains, until now scare dlscernible,
! approach gradually into view, and soon
| bilowy sea of cloud resting on tho
| mountain a few hundred feet beneath
| Is plainly glimpsed Brighter and yet
| ever brighter, the eastern skies now
have thrown Off the early tlnts of
| mauve and violet, and are gradually
assuming rose pink hue, while al
| ready the highest of the mountain
| submits are glowing in the same love
| ly hue; the few wisps OF feathery
vapour floating overhead being also