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BY GAfiKELL
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We find that the Koran can dis
count the Bible in the matter of its
account of giant and eo can the
Bacred books of the Hindoos and tbe
rihinojo hat they all eerie only to
show how widespread was the belief
in such monstrosities Some nmy
eay tat as tne belief waa so cide
r spread and universal tbera must
have been ground for it in the first I
place Bat dear reader have you
not revisited the home of your child
hood wince your maturity eeen the
insignificant bill that you remem
aud the
bereJ a s a huge mouutaia
river reduced to the magnitude ot a
creek and noticed how diminished
everything else seemed to wnat your
childish recollection painted the
acene So the ignorance far nfl
antiquity is i but aa the childs knowl
f edge of yesterday and what is huge
c f and monstrous to its inexperienced
11 eye dwiudlea before the knotviedKf
j ot today to witnio reasonable propor
tions Like the forty cats that the
boy Mid he > eW investigation and
seeking for pmof dinimhed then
DUiu ii dn to our cat nut aii
OUter kV a tn most tuihtul r
pertHiua cauuui uiways led tOt irutb
whatever may be his desires in that
direction For even masters in the
line ol language make mistakes at
times and do not say exactly what
they desire to or others do not under
Bland tiieir cayinga exactly as they
were intended < o tie undertied
VVf might p rp unl z one of
tbe TumuiiB ii III Ots ul aud
gloiiuuH AiurricHu RPUMIC AS ou
nil iiiifi < jftaut oecftiHi euuti in 1 the
F iitii ft J > < y ii Birauu dtJ nut
e > tf UI I ilig I h l tO >
bin r t i act g rti u ibery
pBlw 4d inu JityUy Ilr etnrry fl v
toils IuSlrMM H And if f he l wcr
o > v iniKswaicl 1 Fanrr N mhs iron
Ulaciliit v nit I hHU iit Oil tit r
attack u twit Iud ititr art buts to
aim cm fveryiniug sboulJ bo punt
disloyal where would we ne And
if captured or killed wodoubt much
if there would be timber sufficient in
Utah to build him a gallows high
eunuch to nans him or enough lum
ber to mete him H cotfin end 11 vc
did not bury turn the eteuuh Iwm > hI
enrolls would orfnta a pesulrtuce
eqitU l to tb > u created by the hate
etsrpeot tntt tOe army 01 tae Rjaiau
olD ul Rd ulas faugbt with all
their military engines and appliances
for three days in Africa which putri
fied under the torrid sun and caused
the deatn ot nearly ouehalf ol his
men But no one need believe this
unices he eels BO inclined aa we give
it not as a matter of face or doctrine
Do we believe the axtr ordin ry
terrifying descriptions of Grecian
A writers who tell us of the mon troul
oneeyed Cyclops Or of the Titan
or 01 the race ol Oentaura half horse
and half men They are fully as re
liable as Gullivera travels among the
Lilliputian the Brobdingnagians
and the Hougbubrima but no more
reliable Yet such a belief was com
patible with the existing state of the
minds that conceived it but not to
the present matter of fact demon
strable age Why not similarly sift
the exaggerated l statements oi the
writers oi toe noiy rnuio jney were
but men lice ourselves good men
perhaps yet men who learned truth
B3 other men learned Itt by the bor
rowed experience of their fathers or
by that they underwent themselves
Does anyone now believe that the
heavens are upheld by pillars that
the earth stretches away indefinitely
as a comparatively level plain When
we would look for the ends of the
eartb where would we find them So
withhundreds of other statements
bat might be painted out We all J
know the Ometim a strango eflecti
of fear As casa in point examine
and contrast ibe statements of t Joshua
and Caleb wita those of their fright I
enedtbomrads Nambere xiii 30
88 When the Ureeks met the per
Bins at JTnermopylse they were no
0 l r ntjiiture tnan their enemies
rtjnlylhey were invinsible to fear bad
bettertwining and were more
perfectly developed Yet they de
generated when no longer obedient to
n tonl1olinst ution3 And became the
prey to intestine division and foreign
enemies Such a change was not
owing to any lack of brain and
muscle but rather to its misdirected
zeal Tbe English soldier of a hundred
years ago marched day after day
under the burning BUDS of India
with a burthen of seventy pounds
upon his hack whilst now
be would quickly become exhausted
under amuch lighter load not be
cause he is Jets strong than bis father
was but that customs and military
evolution and science bare changed
and his strength is developed in h
different manner and direction The
blacksmith is i mostly developed by
the exercise ot his cralt in the arms
while the billet dancer who acarorly
can raise one of hi ponderous ham
mers can with ease poise herself
upon the point ol her toe a feat that
he with all his herculean strength
finds to be impossible 4
David speaka of his mighty men
more particularly mentioning three I
2d Sam xxiii 811 Adiuo the I
Ijzmito who slew 80J at one time I
and Eeazer and Shammah but it is i < I
nowhere Bid they were unusually
large of stature Likewise of many
of the greatest warriors of antiquity
or of the middle ages they were men
of stature noways noticeable from
others Aristomenss King of Mis
eenia is said to have twice oflered
sacrifice to the gods for having slain
a hundred men in each battle with
his own hand This if true is more
remarkable when it ia taken into
consideration that his enemies were
SparUns mon who bail been trained
to the exercise of arms and inured
to the tjilsof war from their earliest
youth yet he is not represented above
the usual height men Tbe cela
brated Pyrhus was only of the usual
stature and so was Kaled surnamed
the Sword of God in Mohamme
dan history yet few men could stand
before them AH the nephew and
son irjlaw of Mohammed is said to
have been but five feet eight inches
in height yet he was of powerful
build and is said ty ocntemporariea
to have split a man from he crown
oi ins neau to ma saddlebow at
one stroke GO that the halves
fell apart to hare cut a I
man in two so cleanly that the
spectators thought he bad missed bit
blow < until the horse moved and tbe
discovered parts fell to the ground
But it is unnecessary to swell par
ticulars only mentioning Samson
who carried ofl the honors over all
competitors with the jawbone of an
ass slaying his thousand Judges
xv 15
The jew of today is almost the
facamile of his ancestor of the
days tif oar Savior modified
somewhat by change of circum
stance and the onward march
of civilization yet in all tbe essentials
of race of color characteristic and
strength tbe equal and in charity
culture and intellectual growth far
superior to his progenitor of those
days Being of a distinct race and
by his traditions ani institutions for
bidden to amalgamate with gentiles
H
i
ho is jute mEnne a representative
man of past days wbo has no foreign
intermingling of blood in his organiza
tion consequently if the dootrine cf
physical retrogression is true the
Jew should be proven inferior to his
ancestor
Bat should it really be true that a
physically larger and stronger people
than our present race ever existed it
was as we have said in a prehiatoric
age but nothing but legend and tra
dition proves it Tradition alone gives
inch an account and all know bow
uncertain that is to depend upon
As well might we place dependence
upon the legends of Grecian and i
Roman mythology in which men
are represented as gods and gods
are shown to nave had more than
human voices When the Romans
first came in contact with the Teu
tons and tbe Cimbri fear magnified
hem into monstrous and barbarous
giants bat alter watching them for
several days they became aocu
tamed to their fierce appearance and
savage cries their fear vanished away
and entering into conflict they well
nigh exterminated them It was till
a comparatively recent dat that
navigators represented the Patigo
maud to be a race ot giants Thus
we sea the love of the marvelous and
trauge baa not yet died out and
only as experience explodes error do
mankind relinquish their pet theories
The place only of such wonders ia ye
1 n bd Irom age to age or from land
en land ns toe leograpmcal and
physical knowedge ol our world in
creasES and tbe epoch and place of
the existence of such monstrosities
are either in a Jim dark antiquity
or in hyperboreoua regions whore oo
travelers venture A Funoo Da Loon
sought the fountain of youtha Sir
Walter Raleigh an El Dorado Yet
they were more than representative
men for their age
The Arab or Iibmalite of today
is the typo or counterpart ot his lin
e toril ot 3000 yeara ago He is
till wild and unUmeablo and nit
aud irf agaiuit every man lie has
undergone but slight mixture with
itberp The European on the other
hand has mixed and intermixed time
nd again Yet has not the amal
gamation with new blood been benc
foist The Englishspanking the
dominant most enterprising and
persevering race in the world is i
lormed of a score ef different ances
tries Toe Briton the Gael the
Roman the Angles the Saxon the
Oano the Norman the French aud
the German have each contributed
to the formation of their character
and in untiring energy physical
strength Bud skill and intellectual
culture they stand preeminently at
the head of those who are or have
been upon the earth
Why not leave such tales of won
derment and extravagance to tbe
poets who mostly deal largely in
them Homer Milton Tasso Ari
osto Dante and others use them as
adjuncts to arouse feelings GI fear and
astonishment in the minds of their
reader and as they use them they
are allowable and appropriate as a
sort of poetio license without being
implicitly believed in as mathema
tically correct in dimensions and
form
In this essay we may hate been
giving importance to what of itself ii i
unimportant for we do not suppose
any one cares much whether such a
race as that of giants ever existed or
not but as it can do no harm we
have loosely thrown tozether a > few
facts and ideas our reading has Sup
plied ui with Forourown part we care
not which hypothesis is true but if we
have swept away a few mental cob
webs from our own or ethers intel
lects we have done fully as much
good as wo expected or if we have
added to their pleasure byarousing
certain trains of thought or simply
amused them we are satisfied
though be the case otherwise we
mast perforce accept the reeult
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QN SATURDAY CHRISTMASDAY December 25 1880 I shall close my Whole
sale and Retail Liquol Store therefore my Patrons will please take notice so that they
can get their Supplies on Friday December 24th
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ON CHRISTMAS DAY at 3 oclock pm I shall open for the ptirpbs di dis
tributingtothe Poor People of this City 1d
500 LOAVES OF FRESH BRE AD from Idaho Bakery I1 I
100 POUNDS OF ROAST BEEF pat Lannans Best 1
BIG CFnElLSE from Walker Bros
50 GALLONS OF CHRISTMAS PUNCH Our Own
And lots of Etceteras
My intention is to confine this presentation to the Lame Deaf Dumb Blind and Help
less of this city but any poor person who really needs good Bread Roast Beef and a clip of
Christmas cheer will be made welcome Poor little children very old people and cIipples
will have the preference Any person who takes advantage of my liberality on this occa
sion will if discovered be reported to the newspapers and duly branded as a Bilk NO
DISTINCTIOV WILL BE MADE BETWEEN SAINT OR SIN JTBR All the poor are
welcome while the grub holds out It doesnt make a bit of differ i e whether you ever
spent a cent with me or not you are just as welcome as my dearest friend If you are
hungry or thirsty dont be ashamed but come in and bless the man who invenieE Christmas
If illhealth or infirmity prevents you < leaving the house send some 1 person with a pint
bottle and a napkin and you shall not be forgotten
forgottenwi
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On Christmas Day call at the BUSINESS SAMPLE ROOM the best in Utah one door
east in same building and BUY your CHRISTMAS HEERand show by your patronage
t THEREthat Yl ae Will1IgThtO heJp the poor when you can without hurting yourselves
Hciiing that tillS JI JeefQJt to cheer the hearts and supply the stomachs of the poor
may be suggestive to those who have more dollars than I have cents I wish all my
Patrons and everybody else friends and enemies if I have anv a Merrv Christmas and
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l llereafter jd accordance with preYlou9 t
pres iou ounce ent I shall open no new accounts nor extend any now current in any case In all
lbusInteSB transacition both Wholesale andJietail my Terms are STRICTLY CASH
f yi I respectfully ask all to w hem I the bid firm
or of and settle wIthout
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Salt Lake City mali
CALIFORNIA BREWERY
lager Beer Ale and Porter
WhoIeBala and Retail
Beoond South Street three doors east of
the Elephant Store m28
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Lager Beer
Our extensive
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plate for the manufacture of Lacer Beer
With the best facilities for taatsingnnd
storing our flock
we are prepared to
supply
BOTTLED OR KEG BEER
That cannot be excelled if
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No ISO jJIaiii Street
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Parties within anything in his fine
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Having secured the agency for the aboru
Brand of Ojtun I an prepared to offer an
inducement to lorers of Good Blralvei to give
the CIKCUE BRAND a trial
They trill be cooked in the most approved
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