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The wheat markets are lower, owing to stagnation in the export business. In Chic- ago the May option closed on Saturday at $1.13. There is great rejoicing in Win‘aor at the decision of the Canadian Pacific railway; to build a road to that place from London. The hearing of the case of the Canadian Pacific railway v. the Western Union Tele- graph 00., before the Sunreme Court, has been postponedmo the February term. A severe storm raged on Monday along the Eastern coast from New York to Boston, Much damage was done to shipping, and many lives were lost. i The Labour Reformer says that nineteen Toronto Aldermen have declared in favor of the $600 exemption on houses. Au influential deputation waited upon Mr. J. H. Pope yesterday to request Gov- ernment aid for the construction of a. rail- way under the Laohine canal. near Mon- treal. as. was committed, to éaol for five days for contempt of court in refusing to state from whom he got certain information which he had published. Five persons have died of diphtherin 3 Waterloo, Iowa, since S .turday, and all the schools have buen olosei. The meeting to settle the question of the northern boundary of Ontario and Quebec will shortly be held in Oshawa. It is stated thnt the oficials of the United States House of Representflivea now claim a Democratic majority 05 three. A syndicate has ofl‘ured $150,000 for the Philadelphia Baseball Club, which the pre- sent proprietors think is too small a. price. Dr} Duflield, the Detroit health officer, gays he did not make the remarks concern- mg smallpox in Canada credited to him in a recent Detroit despatch. The National Sabbath Union held unmet- ing in Chicago on Monday, and decided to hold 3 national convention in the interest; of Sabbath observance in Washington from December 11 to December 13. The favemge expense Per week for each Inmate of the Elqin House oil d yea-r amounted to 31.07. D Ilsatry 183': The Dominion Government; have finally awarded the Sault Ste. Marie canal contracts to the Mesara. Ryan & Haney. In Ottawa. on Sunday Father McGovern denounced in very vigorous language the proposal to do away with tax exemptions for churches. ‘ A number of politicians friendly to the Mercier Government are at present: organ~ izing in Montreal 3 joint stock company for the purpose of exploring the Beauce gold mining district and the natural gas wells of the province. An American has submitted to the French Government a contrivnnce by which dyna- mite shells can be fired from ordinary guns, exploding at the target. The Executive Committee of the newly- organized Chicago Anarchist Society are 001- lecting money to found Anarchist Sunday schools for children throughout the city. f In the first Ward Public school. Long Island City, Thursday, a cry of fire created a panic among the 900 children, and many were severely, but not fatally, injured in their wild rush for the door. The announcement is made of the intend- ed assimilation of the matriculation exami. nation of McGill and‘Toronbo Universities. On the recommendation of the Minister of the Interior, the fees payable under she Torrens Land Act in the N orth-Weat are to be'considerably reduced. Kingstnuhna have struck on the idea of building a railway from their city to the Georgian Bay, cannecting with the Pacific Junction mm at vaenhurst. In St. Paul’s church. Kingston, the Bishop of Ontario stated on Sunday night that dur- ing his twentywix yeare’ connection with the Episcopacy he had confirmed 30,000 qersona and opened 166 churches. At the civic bribery investigation at Que- bec Mr. W. J ._Ma_gnire, 0319 of_the yvitnege- At the meeting of the Elgin County 'Council yesterday a special committee was appointed to formulate charges against the county judge for having insulted the council inhis address to the grand jury, and for having occupied the Court-house when the council was in session. Mr. Powderley has been re-elected General Master Workman of the knights of Labour. Dakota millers have formed an association with the object of advancing the in’tereata of their trade. The Knights of Labour are favourable to the passage of a law to place a penalty 0‘ fine or imprisonment on enabling on wheat and other necessaries of ife. Mr. Louis VVertheim. of Frankfort, Ger- many, has purchased the Bhosphate property of Mr. James Reid, in btawa county, for The chairman of the Parkdale Finance Comittee says the financial statement recent- ly submitted no the Toronto Citv Council puts the liabilities of the town $200,009 be- low the true figure. CANADIAN. The Dominion Parliament is ergvcted to meet on the 17th or 24th of January. It is intended to bore for gas at Ruthven, Essex county, going dOWn 2,800 feet for it; if necessary. The decision of the Supreme Court in the railway crossing case will not like] be ‘ for three weeks. y given The Numismatic and Anti Daria. ‘ of Montreal wanb to hold a. \gorld'gn $303 that city in 1892. $40,000 A large petition has been filed with the Secretary of State in Ottawa. asking for the repeal of the Scott Act: in Victoria. county, Ontario. It is stated that the Dominion authorities promptly refused the request of the Mormon elders that old Mormons coming into this country might be allowed to continue their polygamous habits. The Pope has instructed Cardinal Gibbons to congratulate Mr. Harrison on his election to the Presidency. Mr. Phippen, owner of the 0: Point quar- ries. near Belleville, has contracted to deliv- er 2,000,000 cubic yards of stone for the St. Lawrence canal. NEWS OF THE DAY. AMERICAN. Copenhagen was brilliantly illuminated on Thursday night in honour of the Princess of Wales, who, with'her daughter, departed for England. A warrant has been isued for the arrest of Edward Harrington, M. P., on the charge of inciting tenants to adopt the Plan of Campaign. Thousands of persons attended a. demon- stration in Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, on Sunday at the monument to the Manchester martyrs. Gen. Harrison, referring to certain ru‘ mourn, says that he has made no pronounce- ment whatever on the question of the annex- ation of Canada. Mr. Gladstone’s amendment ‘to the mo- tipp for the renewal of the Ashbourne Act was defeated in the Imperial 'House by 330 to 246. The “ Journal de St Petersbourg” denies that a secret treaty has been entered into by Cores and Russia, but admits that: Cox-ea has granted Russia facilities for 5 across the frontier. Sir William Jenner, the English court: physican, has resigned from the British Medical Association because the British Medical Journal published the late Emperor Frederick’s note to Dr. Mackenzie. David Sheehy, one of the Nationalist M. R’s, Was inveigled into the lobby of the Home by e messenger on Monday, and was there served with esnmmona by a constable. A oommitee was appointed to inquire Into the matter. The Hungarian Reformed Church Con- vgntion in Vienna, after a violent debate, voted in favour of the celibacy of clergy- men. France has sent another war ship to the East African coast to co-operste in the sur- veillance of vessels engaged in the slave trade. M. Numa Gilly refuses to fight M. Raynal or any other gentleman mentioned in his book. He will only fight them in the law courts. There is a bill before the German Bandea- rath for 60,000,000 marks for extra. expendi- tures on account: of the army, navy, rail- ways and telegrapha. In the House of Commons on Monday Sir J amen Fergusson in reply to a question stated that the correspondence relating to the Fisheries Treaty would not be pub. lished. Lord Salisbury stated in the House of Lords that the concession made by France, with reference to the blockade of the East African coast, would enable the Govern- ment to atop the slave trade. Cardinal Rampolla. says there are only two things which would dunpel the Pope to leave Rome, war in which Italy is defeat- ed, and the stoppage of the Vatican’s com- munication with a foreign country . Before the Christian \Voriiers Convention in Detroit, Rev. J. M. Wilkinson stated that: it was intended to erect a $45,000 Gos- pel theatre in Toronto, in connection with which there would he a uniformed band and orchestra. The murder of Daly, the Irish farmer, at first laid to the credit of Moonlighters, is now said to have resule from family feuds. ' Mr. Jaa. F. Joy. of Detroit, denies the rumour that the Canadian Pacific railway will run trains to Chicago over the \Vabaah System. The intention is to deliver the Canadian Pacific business in Detroit; to the Wabash railway for transhipment. A farmer named Daly has been murdered at Tralee, County Kerry. It is believed the Dominion Government will enact legislation at the coming session of Parliament; restricting Chinese immigra- tion. - Sir Charles Warren, who recently re- signed as London Chief of Police, has been ofiered the command of the brigade at Alder- 81105; Mr. John Dillon intends visiting Australia during the coming winter, mainly to recover his health, but he will also work in the interest of the Irish cause. In the Sydney, N. S. W., Assembly an address to the Queen was adopted, request- ing that Colonial Governments be informed of proposed nominations of governors. It is stated that Gen. Boulanger’s wife is taking steps to obtain a divorce, and that one of the richest widows in France is will- ing to marry the General as soon as he is free. The Berlin “Freineing” declares that Emperor William is the prosecutor of the A sensational Detroit evening paper ha': a rumour to the effect that Gen. Harrison is determined to annex Canada, and if the 35°- eumption of her debt is not enough, he will recommend the employment of part of the United States surplus for the purchase of the Dominion. The Parnell defence fund now amounts to £20,000. The estimates of expenditure in the Ger man Budget: total 949,000,000 marks. Two hundred Alsatian recruits mutinied on their way to join the German army. Mr. Harrington says he will not pay the fine of £500 imposed on him by the Parnell Commission. A conference of influential Canadians and Australians was held in London yesterdav to consider the proposal to lay a cable froril Vancouver to Australia. A It is stated the Sultan has formally agreed to the joining of Bulgaria and Eastern Rou- mania. provided Prince Ferdinand renouncea all designs upon Macedonia . It is rumoured in Boulangisb circles that the Government intend expelling Gen. Boulanger and charge him with conspiracy to overthrow the existing regime. An impression that the French Republic is in serious danger prevails in London. The Czar has placed the Chateau Yalta at the disposal of ex Queen Natalie during her stay in the Crimea. United Ireland has made a furious attack on the Parnell Commission on account of the fine imposed on Edward Harrington. The German Colonial Company have de- cided to fit out an Emin Béy relief expedi- tion as speedin as possible. The first railway in China was officially opened on the 9th inst. when Viceroy Li travelled over it some distance. Cardinal Lavigerie has submitted his anti- alavery scheme to the Pope. He relies es- pecially upon England‘s support. FOREIGN. Another route Satan is apt to take in his active travels is thorugh the mercantile esta- blishments. " He steps in and says to the clerks : ” How much salary do you get '1 Is that all ? Why, you can't live on that l You have a right to enough for a livelihood. A few quarters out of the money drawer will never be missed ; or here and there is a remnant of goods you could take home with- out being found out ; or you could change those account books a little, and you could make that figure eight a nought and that figure five a three, and if you do not feel ex actly right about doing that, you can some day pay it back, which you can do perfectly easy. Don’t feel like running the risk ? Well, then, you can‘t go to the theatre. and you can't go on that round with the boys, and you will have to wear that plain coat, whereas you could have your overcoat fur lined and take board at a tip~top place and walk amid plush and tapsetries posi- tively oriental. While you are making up your mind I will just go through the difierent parts of this great commercial establishment and try every one, from the wealthy firm down to the errand boys.” The result of that Satanic visit is that one of the partners has drawn so much out of theconcern that the whole busi- ness is crippled, andabright and promising boy is sent home to his mother in disgrace, and a young man is in jail for embezzlement. Three lives ruined and three eternities. Whence comest thou, Satan? “ From going to and fro among mercantile houses and from walking up and down among them. I like to ruin splendid fellows and blast parental hopes, and of all the liquors that I ever tasted fill my glass with a brewing of agon- izing teats. Come I let us click together the rims of our glasses and drink to the overthrow of the fifty thousand young men I ruined last year 1 Huzza l” Satan would rather have one young man than twenty old ones. If he could win the septuagenari- ans and octogenarians he could do but little harm with them. But he says: “ Give me a young man, especially if he be bright and generous and social.” He sees that young men have for lgood or bad been the mightiest influence in this‘world. Hernando Cortes conquered Mexico at 32. Gustavus Adol- phus became immortal in history so early that he died at 38. Raphael. the most famous of painters, died at 37. William Pitt was prime minister of England at 24. Jesus Christ completed his earthly life at 33. Five years in a young man’s life are of more power for good or evil than the last fifteen of an old man’s life. So Satan is especially greedy for young men, and in going to and fro in the earth he has especial temptation for them.â€"[Talmage. A Paris despstch to the London “Daily News" says :â€"Notwithstanding official as- sumnoe to the contrary, nobody here has the slightest doubt that the railway acci- dent which so nearly proved fatal to the Czar was the work of the Nihilists. The minute impaction to Which every railroad used by his Majesty is invariably subjected almost precludes the possibility of an ordin- eryeccidenu. Moreover, it has been known here for some time past that the Nihilists have given signs of revived activity. In. formation to that efl'ect reached Vienna simultaneously with the intelligence that caused the local authorities to take unpre» oedented precaution for the safety of the German Emperor. The accident near Borki will, it is apprehended, prevent the Emperor and Empress of Russis from mvel- lit-g ea much as they have done of late. The baobab, or monkey bread tree, is a most extraordinary production of nature. Imagine to yourself a tree, 30 feet in diame- ter at the base and only 40 feet high, with the trunk rapidly diminishing toward the top, and then spreading out into what looks like a little forest. In one of the old trees the branches form aspherical head 100 to 150 feet in diameter, the centre branch ris- ing to the height of 60 feet, while others drop over the main trunk and conceal it from view. Some of these trees have been hollow- ed out, and a space made large enough to hold twenty to thirty men, without any ap- parent injury to the tree. The baobab must e the slowest-growing plant in the world, as it is supposed to be one of the oldest. A tree has been cultivated in the gardens at Kew for over forty years, and this far it has attained the height of only 4% feet. Some of these trees are estimated to be 5,000 years old, and dates are cut in the bark which were made in the fourteenth oentnry.â€"[Banner of Life. The following story is told of General Harrison in connection with a public dinner given him on one occasion : “ At the close of the dinner one of the gentlemen drank his health. The _General pledged his toast by drinking water. Another gentle- man offered a toast'and said : ‘General, will You not favor me by taking a glass'of wine?" The General, in a very gentlemanly way, begged to be excused. He was again urged to join in a. glass of wine. This was too much. He rose from his seat and said, in the most; dignified manner : ‘Gentlemen, I have twice refused to partake t I' the wine cup ; I hope that will be sufiicien‘. Though you press the matter ever so much, not a drop shall pass my lips. I made a resolve when I started in life that I would avoid strong drink. That vow I have never broken. I am one of a class of young men who graduated together. Six- teen members of my class now fill drunkard’s graves, and all from he pernicious habit of wine-drinking. I ow my health, happiness and prorperity to that resolution.’ ” Liberal journals, and that the fact of his being so is tantamount to an admission of the genuineness of Emperor F rederick'a diary as pubfished. The German official and semioffisia‘ press are warning their readers that. an altogether too optimistic gloss has been put upon Emperor William’s peace utterances in his speech at the opening of the Reichntag. While war is not imminent it is tolerably certain. The latest despacches from Samoa say that a. battle was impending between the rebel King Tamasese, strongly entrenched and supplied with rifles and ammunition by the Germans. and King Mataafa, who has a. much larger force of more formidable war- riors. Really the Work of Nihilists. A Whole Temperance Sermon. The Monkey Bread Tree Satan and Young Men. Whatsfearful plunge the river makes and yet what wonderful 'beauty! The waters look like so many beaded pearls and crystals The spray sways over all like a fairy’s wand. The majestic rock- domes walls wonderful coloring of the canon and all conspire to impress us deeply. We gaze and. gaze on and on in silen: admiration; each lost in his own thoughts. Yet from this fresh Wonder we must tear ourselves away; for the Grand Cmon isstill below us. Surely those jub- But these are only the Upper Falls ; the Grand Falls are still below us. The path- way leads by the hotel that has recently ‘ been built at this point, and down across a rocky ravine, on past the falls of Cascade Creek, down around a rocky point into which the road has been cue in the solid roee. The objective point once reached we find ourselves leading against a strong guard - rail and gazing with speechless awe upon one of the most sublime and awfvl scenes ever beheld by mortal eye. The towering clifi's on both sides of the river rse in solemn grandeur from a point 300 feet below us to many hundred feet above us. Their scarred and sculptured sides are curiously diversified by the most startling combination of colors. Dark red stone predominates, but this invaria- gated with patches of bright yellow set here and there with patches of palest green verdure. The falls are below us. The river makes a square break at our right and falls unhindered three hundred feet. The roar is terrific ; conversation, unless shouted out, cannot be heard. We stand and gaze. The mist below is so dense that the eye can- not penetrate it. Even as we gaze the rays of the ascending sun fall upon the scene be- fore us and paint the prismatic colors upon the whirling mass of vapor. “ This is the token of the covenant which I do make be- tween me and you and every living creature for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in tne cloud, and it shall be a ttkeu of a covenant between me and the earth.” We pass from the high bank upon which we first emerged from the timber and stand near the mouth of a now dry ravine. The waters of the river wash the shelving bank at our feet, but with a spiteful, rest- less movement, that seems to speak of some welldefined determination, some over-shadowing ambition that ’impels them onward. Two great rocky piers stand midway of the channel, as if to atâ€" rest the river in its onward, mad career. One is crowned by a small pine tree that bends as if imploring the river to stop. But the river stops not for barrier or en- treaty. [impelled by our aroused curiosi. ty. we pass on to admire the beautiful cas- cades, but all the time becoming nore and more impressed, by the sullen roar that reaches our ears from Delow, that we shall see greater things than these. What means that awful chasm that opens before us and those rocky clifl's that loom up so stately and seem without visible founda- tion? The river, after narrowing to a width of eighty feet, suddenly disappears from our sight. An irresistible impulse impels us onward toward the brink of that precipice. Ye gods! What a sight! Bv one mad plunge the river descends 16?. feet. Its waters are transformed, as if by magic, into millions of crystaline globules. Their fearful rush is appalling. The most reserved nature is roused into astonished exclamation, and the whole company stand with awe and admiration strongly depicted upon their countenan- ces. In peering down into that terrible abyss of seething, maddened water, a jut- ting crag, far below the brink of the preci~ pice, offers us a better view-point from which to gaze upon this stupendous won der. No time is lost in making the de- soentof the rocky cliff, We stand fora moment with averted glances, for the spec- tacle before us is too awful to look upon until our astonished sense have gained their equilibrium. There now we glance up and down. We are astonished yet more, and a sense of fear momentarily over- whelms us. What if our footing should give way and we be hurled into that foam- ing abyss? Involuntarin we clutch the rock against which we lean and find it firm. Now we become more composed and gaze about us. The precipice over which the river leaps is not perpendicular as at first supposed. About midway and toward the bottom the rocks protrude further out than they do at the top caus- ing the falls to asumea lightly curved form. 0n the farther side from us a large boulder stubbornly resists the terrific pres- sure that comes upon it, and sends the water ad diagonally from the main falls. The high, steep precipice, on the same side of the falls, partially covered with the most delicate verdure, lends a charm to the scene. The rocky canon be- low ns, and the stream emerging from the seething mass of waters at the foot of the falls are objects of interest. Thoughts come crowding into our minds about the Majesty, Power and Wisdom of the God who is greater than all these wonders of nature that he hath made. And we, too, would bow before his throne saying: “ Thou art worthy, 0 Lord, to receive glory and honour and power ; for thou hast created all things and for thine own pleasure they are and were created.” Oar party first came in sight of the Yi-l- lowatone river at a point about two miles above the Upper Falls, and as we followed on down the stream, Wfl were impressed with the quiet beauty of the smcothly-glid- ing waters. The channel of the river is up parently about two hundred feet wide and the water from two to four feet in depth. The banks of the stream arein places densely covered with a growth of small pines and are high and rugged ; but for the most part they slope gently to the water’s edge, and are covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, verdant and fresh, as seen by us, from recent showers. For a time the wagon road diverged from the river, and the stream was hidden from our view by the pine timber that intervened. But hold! Here is a. Iootpath branching ofl‘ from the main road and running in the direction of the river. We will leave our team and go on foot. After a walk of a few hundred yards the river is again visible before us. But that feature of placid quietness that first attracted our attention has completely dia- appeared, and we behold a visibly narrowed channel and the stream fretting and worry- ing itself as it rushes by large boulders and madly leaps over shelving rocks. TLT. mus AVID GRAND CANON 01" THE YELLOWSTONE. BY REV. A. H. LYONS Foreigners generally speak with a. loreign accent, says a Texas paper. A carpenbe. with a. brond-axsentz. A writer of plays with a four or five acts-sent An Indian with a little-ax-sent (mmahawk). And a butcher with a meat‘ax’sent. Mrs. Gladstoue'presided at a meeting 'this afternoon in support of Lord Compton's can- didacy for the vacant Parliamentary seat for the Holborn district of F insbury. In the course of a speech announcing that she was working to achieve Lord Compton's election Mrs. Gladstone said :â€"“ In working for the election of Lord Compton you are furthering the cause of justice and right in Ireland, and also in the rest of the kingdom.” Lady Compton followed Mrs. Gladstone, making her maiden speech. She was exceedingly nervous at the start, and remarked at the close:â€"‘ The next time I hope I shan't be so terrified." These seceding Mormons accordingly took the oath and voted wherever they were all lowed to do so. At one place the deputy sherifl‘s who tried to prevent them from vot- ing were arrested by order of the U. S. Marshal. In other places attempting voters were arrested and held for perjury. It is evident: from all this, that the problem of dealing with Mormonism wherever it has got a foothold is a very difficult one, and the great lesson for us Canadians to learn is that, as prevention is preferable to any amount of cure, this system which is so abhorent to the prevalent religions sense of the day, should not be allowed to obtain any foothold on our soil. It is in every way better, if you don’t wish to be troubled with a. poisonous snake, to kill him outright, and not content yourself with merely scotching him. Again we move on'until Inspiration Point is reached about a mile further down. Now let us look about; us. Cathedral spires of resplendent colors and Gothic shape. Pinnacled rocks of antique pattern, and terraced olifi‘s flanked by a. dark back- ground of sombre pines confront us on every side. The brain is bewildered by the sight of such stupendous loveliness, and our souls enreptured would gaze and gaze until the wonderful scene before us is deeply engraven upon the tablets of memory never to be efl'aced so long as time with us shall last. The Mormon problem gave a. more than usually exciting turn to the recent election struggle in the Territory of Idaho. Itwould not be specially interesting to Canadians, how- ever, but for the efforts the Mormon Church is making to obtain afoothold in our North- W‘est. We therefore give a more extended reference to the case than Would otherw’se have been justifiable, so as to show both how Mormonism is regarded in Idaho and wha steps Mormons are willing to take in order to combine the exercise of their peculiar religious liberties with that of political rights. Some three years ago the Idaho Legislature passed a Test-Oath Act which was avowedly intended to disfranchise every member of the Mormon Church living in the Territory. This Act requires every voter to make oath that he is “not a member of any order, organization, or association which teaches, advises. counsels, or encour- ages its members, devotees, or any other person to commit the crime of bigamy or polygamy, or any other crime defined bylaw, as a duty arising or resulting from member- shipin such order, organization, or associ- ation; or which pramiccs ,bigamy or poly- gamy, or plural or celestial marriage as a doctrinal right of such organization.” Mormon attempts werevmade to break through this Act in the Territorial courts, but unsuccessfully, and a test'case was laid before the United States Supreme court. There was no hope that a decision could be given before the election, so that the Mor- mons had to find other means by which tht y might vote, unless they meant to allow the matter to go by default until anather elec' tion. So some of them determined to swallow the oath. Their oaths were allowed in some cases by the registrars, but rejected by others on the ground of their belief that the Mormons were taking it merely in order to vote, and with the express intention of violating it. A test case was tried, and the plaintiff adduced some interesting evidences to the general effect that “ While the practice of polygamy had been a doctrine of the church and had been permitted by it under some circumstances, it cad never been taught and enjoined as resulting or arising from membership alone, and that the teaching or practice of polygamy had been forbidden in all the states in Idaho ever since the decis ion of Judge Hayes declaring the test oath constitutional, which decision was rendered about two years ago; and that plural mar’, riage had never at any time lceeJ celebrated in Idaho.” The Judge decided against the plaintiff, nevertheless, on the ground that though for two years the Mormon Church in Idaho might not have taught, advised, counseled or encouraged the practice of polygamy in the territory, it had not formally repudiated it. Check- mated in this way a number of Mormons de- termined to evade this decision by ‘tempor- arily separating from the church, and did so, in spite of the manly stand taken by the Salt Lake Herald, a Mormon newspaper, which among other sensrble and honourable words used these : ting clifl's in the distance will afford us a fine view. A walk of half a mile brings us to “ Point Lookout." “'e are hundreds of feet above the stream, that now seenis shrunken to one-fourth its former size as it winds its troubled way among the rocks. The falls in the distance present features of interest different from those of near contact. We move along the crest again until an- other point of View is gained. Far below us, rising from the side of the clifi is a tall, rocky pillar inaccessible by man. On its top is an old eagle’s nest; where from year to year the maternal pair have reared their young. While we look with curious inter- est upon it, a half-grown eagle comes and rests a few moments from its flight. As we Look up and down the canon a number of eagles are seen circling and screaming as if terrified with the awful grandeur. “ Politics justifies a good many things which would otherwise be condemned, but: we cannot think that even the exigencies of the political situation in Idaho would ap- rove the course that it is said will be taken. f membership in the Mormon or any other church is at all valuable to the individual, itis because it is sacred, and, being sacred, it occurs to us it ought not to be trifled with and played upon in this manner.'_’ Mrs. Gladstone in Politics. The Mormon Problem.