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GOODWrN'8 WEEKLY 3 I noon. I have seen the minister look On with dis approval, of course, but without the slightest ef fort to restore ordor. Oh, yes. Nice times. Such a thing as an election without a succes sion of fights was totally unknown. Men of op- - posing parties never argued politics. They had a collection of Insulting texts or adages to fling at each other, every one bitter to the point of provoking an assault. And these formed the pre liminary details. When they had gone to tho usual length, the fighting would begin. Judges and clerks of oloction would adjourn and watch the conflict, leaving tho ballot box to take care of Itself till tho really Important event of tho day was ondod. Then they would go 'back and enliven the rest of tho afternoon till closing time by tell ing .each other details of tho fight, which nil had seen. And tho result of tho balloting would be expect- ed to bo guided in largo degree by tho result of the rough-and-tumblo fights. oBttor days? . Sweet Solaeo of Religion. Tho spirit of strife went into the churches. They talk about politics In the pulpit these days. I wish some of tho eomplalners could have heard-tho hardshell Baptists blazon tho wrath of God against tho black abolitionists, or tho freosoil preachers Invoke the blessing of the Almighty on the hosts of tho Union at tho front, and on tho faces and the fortunes of friends of Lincoln hero ct home. One Republican of another denomination prayed that the Lord would take all rebels "by the nape of the neck and tho seat of the trousers and shake them over tho horrible fires of hell but don't drap 'cm." He came pietty near being churched for tho concluding four words. Jt was iegard d as less than he ought to have asked, while ho was asking. NIco time to raise children. One morning about the time we Republicans were suffering tho deeps of defeat because tho battle of Bull Run had turned out directly op posite to tho way wo oxpectod, the preacher In the Methodist church dellvored a sermon so strongly Union, so exuborant In Its prophecy of final triumph, so glittering and blazing with the red punishment in store for all who opposed tho armies and the efforts of Unionism, that tho con gregation largely .Republican roused,, to onthu . siastic appreciation; and ono beatitlful young lady rose In her pow, clapped her hands and exclaimed: "Bully for Brooks!" That being tho name of tho dominie. Oh, a fine tlmo for the peacp-on-oarth thing. Good old times? Why, when anyone In my neighborhood got sick, some man had to saddle a horse and ride for a doctor. There was no hpood. limit lnJm(il6rH of that kind, and it was common enough for a man to ride a hdrslTto death in his burry for a physician, and the doctor had to get up any hdur of the night and start In a gig, a two wheeled Instrument of torture, and drive like tho wind ton, fifteen, twenty miles, over the worst roads that ovor were seen, to the" house of a pa- tIentrdiagnosvadminIsterrttnd-rlde away with the porfect consciousness that he never would get . a penny of pay. No tolephones. No hurry to the side of tho sick. Good old tjnjes. Go on! Wow Tlicy Telegraphed. T10 telegraph nowg ,paim In actually printed dots and dashes on a tape of papor that roelod off o spool hndor tho oyos of tho operator. He didn't know for years that ho could road tho sound, but sat thoro and watched tho slow spelling of tho message as It passed from right to, loft boforo him, and then mado a copy of It .as. accurately as he could romombor. But as 'messages were- costly, they wore brief, and It Is likely tho oporalor tran scribed correctly as ofton as ho missed. Wh'Ich Is all you" can ask for tho good old days. I They burned wood In tho engines, and ono tlmo ' a fireman tipped a chunk of rod onk from tho tender to tho top of my dog's head Just an the UTAH AND WHY. I ! !1 Ropectfully Dedicated to tho Commercial Club, Utah Deelopmeiit Leaguo ami Boosters Generally. H John Brown went away and was gone for quite a time A "time" in length and in' other things as well. He saw the seven wonders in every other clime, ;jfl And when John returned he had a Jot to tell, i I (You'll notice, though, that John came back.) fl Other Johns have traveled into many another land J And found great things wherever they might roam; Everything they saw was so "wonderful" and "grand," :H That the biggest wonder is they came back home. H f You've noticed, though, that they're still here.) . I They tell us of the beauties and wonders of the coast, H Of the marvels of the climate, and of cities' giant strides H But the gladdest note of all in every blessed boast ' H Is that they are home and glad 1o get back home, besides. - ' ' I (To tell the truth, you couldn't drive 'em away.) - - - H They tell about Chicago and its splendid civic pride - - H And all about Manhattan's rise it certainly is great. JH But the lads who rant the most abotit things far and wide - - 9 Are always glad to get right back to Home in this old stater ' H (Why, they wouldn't trade places with St. Peter.) ' - H For the beauties and the wonders by other cities shown ,H Are found in great abundance right at our very door jl And what we have we've made ourselves and call it all our-own, H But what we have is nothing like the future has in store. (And, take it from us, the future is unbelting fast.) -..-... More energy, more enterprise, more spirit and more force ' -H Are needed now to magnify the gems in Utah's crown, And the spirit of the booster must spring from every source H To make the state we call our home a state of great renown. H (All of which is easy if you are earnest about it.) H barking, galloping old follow was threatening tho wheels of tho ongino, and he never chased a train again. They didn't have any air brakes, and the brakoman was what his namo implied not tho leisurely ehaperone of tho passengers that ho Is now. Ho had to stand at the end of the coach t nd twist those brakes whenever iho whistle- of tho engine told him to. And the starting and tho slopping of tho passenger train was rougher than coal cars onjoy these days. Tho rails wore of iron excepting at the top, where a veneer of stool had been fastened on so well that it usually stayed put while the section men were spiking It- down. The rails weighod thirty pounds to tho fop und they wore expected to stay In place forever. So that when they spread on tho curves- thoie at a general expression of surprise all tho way from neighborhood to railroad headquarters. No ono expected ialls would somotlmn bo soemo. Good old days! Business? Commoice? Well, you looked at a piece of goods or a pair of boots that seemed to suit you, and askod the price. Tho merchant or his best clerk would declare, since it was you who asked, ho would make you such-and-such a price. Then you would call him a thief and a liar, and declare you could go next door and get the same thing for lobs money, and he would argue with you, and you would pretend to lea c, and he would come down part way, and vou would start part way to meet him, flinging the tender over your shoulder as you wont toward the door, and he would give another notch, and you would Kive another, and' finally you vo'uld buy at a good deal less than the original price. But other peo ple, not so olevor as you, had to stand tho gaff. Fine. Farming? Well, wft had only ono scientific - H farmer in our township. He used drain tile In his H land, and bought commercial fortllizois for the H sort of ground that could not be enriched by barn . fl manure. Other people laughed at him, ovon whf n ;fl ho raised forty-four bushels of wheat to the aero H on a flold near the road, -that he had treated fir the express purpose of proving to his neighbors H that "trusting to luck" with thalr planting was not H qulto tho best way. All tho others followed the H system of the gent who buys long shots at a rac - H course. Maybe they would win. .Sanitary stables t ifl and- comfortable barns woro tlj.e, eqoptlon, Dry S floors for the horses could always- bo depended on H in summer, until it rained, .Other times tho horses H stood to tholr hocks in .absolution of poison that H could bo warranted to permanently lame them H And thoro was no moip attention paid to good H brooding in cattle and swjlne . than thoro 1 n babies nowadays. Lot'$ get back to it. . . Old Stylo Jo u'liaUsm. Journalism? Well, 1 wish' some of those people v-ho howl for a return tb tho-good old days of journalism could turn back tho yollowlng, musty files of those old papers, and see the different stylos of sons of hlckoilos odltois used to call each other. I wish tho bold men among these critics hot tho women, for tho sake of decency could read the nasty terms in which editorial at tack then was couched. I wish they could seo tho careless" and incomplete formation of sentences, tho defiance of grammar, the printed evidence of ignorance. One of my editorial employers once wrote a paragraph to the effect that the govern ment was going to sell a lot of muskets to Cuba or Ha tl or "some other South American t ountry " IE .' protested that these islands wero not In, Soui.h H Continued on Page 12.) "'? J