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

The South rhe capture of Jefferson
After the Davis was Il very serious
Civil War. thing, and Il was regard-
ed by not few cool
headed aud long sighted men as u very
unfortunate one. II has become well
known that President Lincoln wished
that the downfall Of the ConfederaCy
would not deliver tbs chief OF the Con-
federacy into his hands. A Lincoln
anccdote current at the time seemed to
have good authority behind It. After
Lees surrender a friend asked Mr..
Lincoln whether he did not think It
would be best to let Jefferson Davis
get out of the country Lincoln an
swered by telling q story OF a Methodist
preacher out west. strict temperance
man, who was offered a glass of water
with dash of brandy i'm II. and who
replied that he would not object to
a drop OF something strong IN his drink,
II that drop could be put ln ''unbe-
knownst' TO himself Lincoln no doubt
saw clearly that the capture OF Jeifer-
son Davis would burden the govern
ment with a most embarrassing dllem-
ina. The public voice would insist up
on the chief OF the Rebellion being tried
and punished for treason. Now. his
cilme OF treason had been committed in
the South. A trial for treason by n
regular tribunal in the South would be
mere farce, for It seemed furegone
conclusion that no jury IN the South
could be found that would pronounce
Jefferson Davis or any of the heads of
the Rebellion guilty of treason. A trial
by u military commission might result
in verdict of guilty: but resort TO a
military tribunal for the trial of n po-
lttical offeuse after the close of the war
might have looked like a stretch of ar
bltraiy power bafitting an Old-World
nj eaFaa. A. 4
republic. General Schurz, in the April
McClure's
The Canada small wonder we differ,
That kipliug Here is people with no
Discovered. people at their backs,
driving the great world
pillow which wins the worlds bread up
and up over the shoulder of the world =
~ spectacle, as II might be, out OF some
tremendous Morse legend North of
them lies Ninheim's enduring cold, with
the flick and craolIle of the Aurora for
Bifrost Bridge that Odin and the A2sirs
visited. These people also SO north
year by year, and drag audacious rail-
ways with them. Sometimes they
burst into good wheat or cumberland,
sometimes into mines OF treasure, and
all the North is full of vOices--as South
| Africa was once-telling discoveries and
| making prophecies. When their win
ter comes, over the greater part OF thlS
country outside the cities, they must
| SIT still. ana cat and drink as the .93sir
| did. In summer they cram twelve
months work into six, because be-
| tween such and such dates certain far
| rivers will shut. and, later certain
others, till at last even the Great East
| ern Gate at Quebec locks, and men
must go In and out by the side-doors
| at Halifax and St. John. These are
| conditions that make for eStrome bold
ness. but not for extravagant boastings
| From Rudyard Kiplings copyrighted
letter in Golfers Weekly for March
| 81.
! Professor A French tramp of the
| BECOMES visionary imaginative
| Poor Tramp. sort | met in the forest
| of Rambouillet. My fell
| low wore the rags of a frock coat nnt
| was not very dirty, though hair ans
| beard had grown to monstrous length
| He was sitting with his back to tree
| Bread he had and was eating 1t; 10y
| his side was a broken bottle. half-filleG
| with wine. His face was rather fine and
Intelligent and tho eyes, / remember