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I - - TBDTH. - m perforce- turn in yarloui llnei of the ' noun substantive and keep at it. The head will not dwindle or become enfeebled or add discomfort or dan- ger to the rest of the system if it be not fed, but you don't want to neglect the interior department for more than a few hours at a time, or all the other functions become deranged and event ually prostrate. This is not all. Among civilized people, certain lines . of raiment conforming in some mcai ure to established methods in ap pearance are a necessity, especially . at this time of the year; and a little fire in the stove and some sort of light arc a sine qua non (Latin)- if j one -of those books are to be enjoy ed or much of anything else. To give a better idea of the situation, let us illustrate: It is this time of the year, just af ter dark and cold enough to convert the lower regions into a skating pond. The place anywhere. You can't go amiss for it. There is no coal in tin cellar, no provender in the pantry and nothing to make a light with. The prevailing stringency has the house hold in its merciless grasp. Children begging for a morsel to cat, wife in tears, cat stretched on the well-worn rug too feoblc to catch a mouse if any were left. Suddenly the snow con tinues to fall and the wind to chant its miserere for the sorrows of man kind. Finally the well known step is heard, the reliable tread of the nominal head of the family, the rcg uhrity of the steps indicating tint the festive lid as well as the money market is tight. The threshold is crossed, the door is opened and like a veritable Santa Clause the husband r.nd father happens to his family. He is well laden. In the concavity of his left arim he bears a Webster's Un abridged, an enlarged edition of "Baxter's Saint's Rest," a full set of Dickens' novels, the "Lady of the Lake," "Roughing It," a bound vol ume of Truth and the "Conquest of 1 Hannibal by Scripio Afracanus;" !i while his (the father's) pockets are 'I fa:rly overflowing with good things " such as "Midshipman Easy," "Don Quixote," Hoylc's Games, etc. The wolf disappears from the door, and no wonder; being himself an intelligent -r animal he is no execj tion to the rest of the kingdom to which he belongs and looks first for such aliment as will keep soul and body on terms of reasonable intimacy, -additional en lightenment bc'ng a subsequent com sideration. The mistake made by the givers spoken of is in reversing this arrangement, if indeed the real ly beneficial benefits referred to fig ure in this computation at all, which' is doubtful. To those who really want to aid their fellows in this life and be at heart and in soul what the two spok en of are so industriously advertised as being, but arc not, the way is easy and the results certain. Man cannot live by bread alone and he cannot live without' bread; nevertheless, "ho folieriteJ at his birtl) the "right to live, just 'as" many-others' Inherit "means 1 i - 'it'1 i which- they carnot enjoy -or -deserve. It does not follow because of this that -there should be a general or even a partial equalizing of condi tions, but there can and must be a more just and equitable arrangement of our relations with one another. Inherited or acquired wealth in the possession of one who doea not foster indolence and v:ce by indiscriminate . and ostentations charity on one hand, or look with lofty disdain upon and treat with supercilious contempt those who have been less fprtunate than himself on the other, is a bless ing to .the community at Jargc. It requires a large brain, a cultured mind and a wide range of experienco as well as a heart in the right place to enable the owner of countless mil lions properly to disencumber him self of large portions of it; and the overloading of universities with en dowments end libraries with volumes, all of which deeds are fully proclaim ed from the housetops, and the over looking of those smaller but more consequental bestowals which would add so much to the sum of human happiness, arc circumstances going to show that the letting-go feature of a financial career is a branch of Christian endeavor in which, if John D. and Andrew shine at all, it is as a dead mackerel in the moonlight. Once upon a time there was a man who attained to prominence and dis tinction throughout the world, but who began obscurely enough and was not known outside a narrow, circle unti more than half of his life wa spent. He then occupied a positio-i in which substance and the evidence thereof flowed in upon him in an ever increasing ratio, and his omilcncc became considerable, more than th.it of any other person in the common wealth in which he lived. The people whose head and front he was had ac companied hinn to an out-of-the-way place where for many years there was no such thing as wealth and the strutrplc throueh hard to comfort able circumstances was a very try ing one. During all this time and after, up to the close of his career, there were always those who were in want, some much more so than some others, as is the case in every com munity; but by reason of the prevail ing isolation wants were more pro nounced and relieved with greater difficulty than elsewhere; yet none perished or came ncir it. The man snoken of saw to it that what there was in the way of sustenance was rassed around, so that none should have very much more than needed while others were having very much less. At no ti'ne did the thought cf establishing libraries or distrib uting books occur to him. even when the sternness of the sitintion had be come somewhat modified not "until it wfis overcome altogether and tlfcn, when a well stoqked head could be produced unon the basis of a well filled stotnach, he gay.e not only bib 'linrrv'Vic but cveryjother rovns of scholastic training earnest and con- tlnued support. First feed, then clothe, then house, then educate. Does not this sequence strike the reader as being safe and sane? Cer tainly, it has produced good fruit fruit which is not rotten at the core and shriveled in its tissues through its producers having ignored the source of most of the crime of the land want, worldly want, that hung ry, meagre fiend whose presence is desolation and whose companionship is death. The man performed In numerable acts of charity, none of which" were proclaimed with brazen trumpets ' and mostly, therefore, known to but a few, but he did not give a stone to the one in want of bread nor a book to him whose feet were upon the naked earth; and It was a part of his giving to provide work for those able and willing to perform it, so that in the acceptance of assistance there would be no trace of self reproach. The man was a statesman, a philanthropist, a pat riot, one of the greatest of his time or anytime, and each succeeding- year adds to the long list of those who recognize the fact by appreciating him for what he was and what he did. His name was Brigham Young. ESSAY CAIGII. ' SUCCESS IN ART. The success of a few Utah art stu dents has been recorded in the city press, as well as in these columns; bnt it seems that we have not yet come to that period of development in taste and knowledge regarding art that we can refrain from being daz zled by young men's and women's feats of mere technique while at the threshold of incipient careers. Still it is not to be expected that they should yet be able to produce works of weight and vital force, or of origin ality and inspiration, and their begin nings, of course, are all worthy of commendation. Too much praise of students and debuntiantcs, however, is not always conducive to continued development, and should be avoided for their own good and their ad vancements in the progressive stan dards and requirements of an exact ing art. But the praiseworthy efforts which the young men referred to have exhibited show them to be of the stuff of which artists arc made, and their initial successes should spur themi on to greater endeavor than M ever, as they have already created .1 i 'M greater interest in art and its pos- jl'l sibilitics in the breasts of others. M Originality in artists is not to be 1 M had merely for the aspiring thereto. M One artist should not care to make Ills i M own of what another has disdained, j M thinking that thus he might make 8 himself original, for the chances are ) M he would be found to be only trivial. M The great innovators of former times M studied hard and long in the schools M that were open to them, and whose ; M precepts they afterward departed M from; though even they kept in a ' M measure to the traditions which had M been handed down to them. Schools, M however, cannot deprive a student of J M originality if he possesses it; but M thorough training and years of study M are essential to its finished execu- H tion. Correct observation of human nature, sound reason. and scientific ,M knowledge are likewise necessary re- f H quisitcs of the artistic equipment, M while the day that ar'ists cease to be j M poets just so soon will they no H longer hav; reason to exist. Even the I H vulgarities of certain of the old mas- ! M tcrs Rembrandt, for instance have M in reality been covered up with tits M poetry of color and effect. A few M seasons at drawing school by no means make an artist. U That so many of Utah's sons and S daughters are so rapidly coming to l the front is the cause of local pride, H and we wish all who enter art's broad M and brilliant domain the highest M success attainable. What they can M do is before us and it is a record to 11 be emulated and preserved; what M they can, may, must, yet do is still iM further along tind higher up. But II don't get giddy; don't flaunt complc- 'H tion before us until preliminaries and ' M intermediates arc thoroughly digest I ' o ' H As a "butter in," the new senator j H from Arkansas is entitled to all th-: j H fruit in the basket and the basket too. j H Most members of that r(ugust bodv j'H refrain from making speeches or be- M ing otherwise conspicuous during the j H first session of their membership; but l Jeff Davis (honored name!) turtud H loose on the senate in an outburst of H two hours duration after being there p H only two weeks. ' H H WILSON WHISKEY, That's nil. I With a few cigars. we have that's suf- ! H ' fiVient, and they arc good cigars too. ' I RIEGER & LINDLEY, I i The Whiskey Merchants. f ! I I JIM