Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], August 14, 1915, Page 3, Image 3

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GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. 3
by comparison; apples like those that beguiled
our great, great, grandmother; peaches that re
flect the color of Utah girls' cheeks, and carry a
1 honeymoon flavor! grapes like those the spies
carried back from the Promised Land to (he chil
dren of Israel.
Then the Utah potato should have a special
chapter. A big potato crop in Ireland used to
be the herald of a revolution. In Utah they
mean that peace -which comes of satiated desire.
Utah spuds stand alone in excellence.
Dr, Higgins
A GREAT old doctor was he. He early cut
loose from the ethics of the code -which
hedges doctors about and forbids them irom ad
vertising what they are or what they believe
they are, and was thenceforth under a profes
sional ban. But that neither humiliated nor dis
couraged him. He still had left his Prince Albert
coat, his whiskers, the cheek beneath the whis
kers, a professional education and below all a
courage that could not be bluffed.
When he first came to this city, the city was
crude in more ways than one. A band of Utes
came down Main street and one of them was
wearing a white woman's scalp as was evident
from the long, silky brown hair.
The doctor saw it and in a transport of rage
seized it and snatched it from the savage, at the
same time hurling invectives at the red mur
derer more terrible than a surgeon's scalpel. The
Indians were here under a safe conduct from the
authorities. The disturbance brought the police
the police in those days were all saints, but not
all angels, and they intimated to the doctor that
he must go slow. Then he turned from the sav
ages and launched his anathemas at the police.
Bystanders intervened and drew the doctor
away, but the incident could not bo referred to in
his presence for years after without an outburst
of fury.
The doctor loved high-stepping standard-bred
horses; in his younger days he always had three
or four of them and they were one of his pleas
ures and his advertisements.
The best side of him was his love for children.
He was wont to stake them with money for goody
goodies and gave a band of them horned-toads,
stuffed serpents, birds and lizards, to start a
museum.
He had some very deep sorrows in his life.
Sorrows that would have driven some men to
desperation, but he hid them in his own heart
and smiled as usual at the outside world. Many
who knew him well did not know his deeper na
ture, how public-spirited, how good a neighbor,
how true a patriot he was, or how much he loved
his friends.
It is a comfort to think that his passing was
painless and to hope that the sleep that has come
to him will not be vexed by one disturbing vision,
but that should a vision come it will be or a Drosky
with gilded bow, a toppy buckskin steed in the
center with bay and black yoke-mates.
I General Tracy
f BNERAL TRACY, who has just died in New
- York, was a marvelous man, a great lawyer,
a great judge, a great general, a great secretary
of war one of those men whose mind seemed
to be a perfect cube, who filled every position as
though for that particular duty. Theh mingling
with and handling men at will, his perfect integ
rity was never doubted through all the eighty-five
years of his eventful life.
He was one of the highest examples of the
perfect American. From the first mind, heart
and soul he was a watchman in the temple of his
country's libertiep ad he goes to his grave lear-
1 ing a memory thai u kes on more and more honor
1 the more if Js studied.
Judge Van Zile
JUDGE VAN ZILE has shrunken a little in vol
ume and age has fastened a few marks upon
him during the thirty years that he has been away,
but he is still hale and strong and has all his old
winsome ways.
The judge was United States district attorney
here when things were somewhat different from
what Uiey are at present. But he was true to duty
then and the office of judge that he has held so
long in his own state is proof of the faith thatl.
the men of Michigan repose in him.
He is a very welcome visitor.
Welcome
THE lawyers and judges who are arriving in
Salt Lake for the convention nex week are
very welcome. They are to be congratulated too,
that Judge Taft is coming to meet for at least a
brief visit with them, for there is no better
trained legal mind than Judge Taft's.
He is, moreover, one of the most genial and
companionable of men. Had he been as aggres
sive when president as President Wilson is,
things might be different now and very much im
proved. All these eminent gentlemen are most wel
come, whether they can agree upon a uniformity
in state laws or not, we trust they will when
they go away, hold a uniform belief that Salt Lake
City is a good place to come to.
THE commander of the Russian "far-flung bat
tle line" in Manchuria, in the Japanese-Russian
war, begged his government not to treat for
peace, declaring that the Japanese had exhausted
their strength and that in the next battle he would
turn the tide of war, but the treaty was made.
That it was Russia has always held as a re-
proach, and she evidently does not propose to
repeat the mistake in this war. Her armies may
bo hurled back but it will not quicken by a ihrob
her slow beating pulse.
ITALY is sending six hundred and fifty thousand
trained men to the front; it is said that no
one but the war authorities knows how many
hundreds of thousands of men Great Britain has
r.ent 'nto France; France is putting up her full
strength; every military station in Germany and
Austria has been converted intt a camp of In
struction. A great many thousands of brave men are yet
to be killed or maimed before there will be any
effective peace talk.
"South America open for hardware trade." So
is Europe. Wall Street Journal.
Ty Cobb never drinks, but it is thought that
he does not object to seeing the bases full.
Columbia State.
OUT OF ROME
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Clinton Scollard. fl
Cut of Rome they march as when H
Scipio led his serried men, H
While the cry of "Viva! Viva" H
Rings again and yet again. M
They, in dreams of high desire, H
Rousing them to holy ire, M
On the Capitolian altars M
Have beheld the vestal fire. M
Rear and vanguard, first and last, M
They have caught the virile, vast, M
Emulous centurion arddr M
From some legion of the past. M
Win they laurel wreath or rue, M
We must feel that this is true, M
That the ancient Roman valor M
Thrills through Italy anew! M
New York Sun. M
THE PRIVILEGE OF AN ENGLISHMAN I
You laugh and loaf, while others dare and do. f M
And yet a woman risked her life for you! M
Braved her ordeal, counting not the cost, HJ
So she might add one mmi to England's host; HI
His arm her shield prfze of triumphant pain. M
O bitterest pang! to know her travail vain. M
London Spectator. M
THE PARAGRAPHERS
Americans never hunt a fight or run away from M
one. Birmingham News. M
Caruso is the last man we imagined Italy M
would exempt, considering his unequaled experi- M
ence in charging. Columbia State. M
Just because the president works his own type- H
writer, von Jagow mustn't think he takes dicta- H
tion. Columbia State. M
Who would have suspected that Thomas Edi- M
son Avas a "deserving Democrat?" Boston Tran jH
script. M
Mr. Bryan's advice to the people seems to be H
"Support the president. I can't." St. Louis Globe H
Democrat. H
"I am thinking of the country," says the Col- H
onel. Not, we trust, what he thought of it three H
years ago. Columbia State. H
Reports that the smart set are staying away H
from Europe ought to cinch their claim to the H
title. Washington Post. H
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