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Show Policy of British T1IE SPANISH FORX PRESS. aidmw min, nutiko, UTAH. By either. Colombia may hold a poor hand, but the has a first rate poker face. The worm has turned. clubs have started into being. a Things are moving rapidly when a horse that trots In 2:01 is considered alow. The more popular a driver is, the longer neck his horse seems to have In m. Frark Fayant. trade-union- a close finish. War between South American republics Is always useful m relieving the ennui between revolutions. Mary MacLane says the future is a lute without strings. It may also be described as an untooted flute. A chfil.m,. W. ..n And becked each erran, tres re. , While ran her mind, In wickca t dare. The stupid thing! He doeen vowed h man, I'm going to kiss her! 111 at ease, And chuckled, and was ?nknee And fidgeted, and nw ItT8eefmedtt somehow' downright sham. Deliberately to scheme like this, And play so treacherous a game Upon so Innocent a miss. . The conversation fitful grows; Demure Is she as any nun tor- eWith sudden grit, the scratch he ninny! she wv he sniggers, sheepisn Howdare you! she rebukes, ablaze. he. I did It ere I thought! pleads the (High time, (Well planned! fellow-worker- Mr. Balfour seems fated to play second fiddle. First Chamberlain and now the king Is taking first honors. Turkey is willing to bring about reforms In Macedonia if she Is only given time and her ammunition holds oat Personal Triumph of the Late Pope. Life insurance companies are not tending agents to Macedonia just at present, as the climate there la very unhealthy. By William T. Stead. C statistician says 140.000," safety pins aro mane in this country every year. What becomes of all the safety pins ? A careful 4)00 Ohio country Bcfcool teachers nre leaving their Jobs to run city trolley cars. Prefer to teach the young idea how to scoot, it seems. The farmers in Central Iowa are clamoring for elevators. Probably getting too blamed lazy to walk upstairs, Los Angeles Times. Harry Lehr says the lapel should be abolished. Harry Is always deeply Interested In soir.o of supreme Importance to man- . Doubtless King Edward fools that the salary he receives justifies him In amplifying the duties of his job to the extent of acting as his own managing editor, Prominent Citizens Urge Purchase of Jones Site So That Dam May Be Built at Once Opinions on the Dam project Headlines in Ohio State Journal, Col. Carroll D. Wright declares mat the world is better now than K ever was before and as the world Is what we make it, that's a big compliment to all of us. The Washington Tost asserts that Lou Dillon and Major Delmar are the only ones who ever kept the promise held out In the sign, Will be back in two mlnntes," Train robbers will have nervous indigestion and fainting fits when they .hear that an unguarded clerk earned $3,000,000 from Washington to New York in suit case. It is safe to suppose that when the man who was enjoined by a neighbor !from swearing received notice of the restraining order there was need fur .its application right away. In some parts of Switzerland they have .aws which make It necessary to have horses hitched to automobiles 'so that ether horses will not he fright-;ene- d by them. The horse still has hla vsee. if AT the little Italian lad wh. was learning his letters when the Battle of Waterloo was fought should have succeeded In imcenpressing the whole world at the beginning of the twentieth have should he own that his sense of a with personality, tury towered aloft above us all without exciting envy or provoking dislike, and have demonstrated to a thousand jarring and intolerant sects and churches the supreme beneficence of his character, Is an exploit the like of which we have not seen In our time. The organization which No doubt the Roman Church helped. covers Christendom with Its twelve hundred bishops was no doubt essential to bis success. But it was necessary for him to capture the organization. And It must not be forgotten that although the organization of Christendom. helped. It also handicapped him badly with at least And the greatest triumph of the late Fopo was not that which he won within the Church, but that which he achieved outside its pale. Greek Orthodox, Protestant and Freethinker alike learned to recognize that Leo and a true XIII, despite all his papistical trappings, was a great statesman him to the man. The Russian Government was most anxious to welcome conference at The Hague. The German Government repeatedly found occasion to appeal to his love of peace to assuage the bitterness of eccelslnstlcnl strife within the empire. The King of England this Easter visited him In the Vatican, and In the United States the press with one voice has proclaimed him as the wisest and best of modern men. That lopo Leo XIII. fulled In many things is less surprising than that he enema have euccee ded in so many, lie has left the chair at St. Peter surrounded by the aureole of his own virtue and his own wisdom, which not even the bigotry and Intolerance of the Roman Curia can dim. From a Character Sketch of Tope Leo XIII., la the American Monthly Review of Review' , one-ha- Alfred Austin has written a tragedy. The publishers confidently expect it to take rank with the best efforts of Messrs. Ade and Dooley. kind. i ring-tide- . A hew York society woman says the Goelets were extravagant In S3.0CO.OOO for the duke of Would she have approved of thuylng him If he had been marked -- down to $1,DD9.SDST pay-lin- g Rox-burgh- e. lf . A? A? A? Whistler and His Art. ..r. By Ernest Knaufft. the death of Whistler the world of art loses one of Its fore most light IDs fame presents, however, some curious contrasts. Though at every exhibition his works receive the he was an officer of the Legion of highest award-wh- ile Honor while his portrait of his mother Is one of the treasures of the Luxembourg, and his portrait of Carlyle la the Glasgow gallery one of the greatest of modern portraits, so far from being universal is his fame, it is notable that thero are none of his paintings in the permanent galleries of London, where he worked for half a century, nor are there any In the permanent exhibitions of New Yorkl Ills art will ever he difficult to classify. Bcallzlng that, though designated ns an American painter, his art cannot justly he called American cosmopolitan is It, future historians may bo tempted art, so which to weave a theory of exotic influence from the painters is, that his grandfather was a colonel, his father a West Point engineer, his mother came from Wilmington, N. C.; he was born some say In Baltimore, some In Stonlngton. Conn., and others In Lowell, Mass. He himself has testified In court that he was bora in St. Petersburg, Russia; hut in White's National Cyclopaedia of Biography an article which he revised, gives the placo and date os Lowell, Mass., lu 1S34. At auy rate, ho spent his childhood In St. Petersturg, Russia, where hts father was auperlntend'ng the construction of the St. I'elerslmrg & Moscow Itallrond. In 1$31 Whistler 'entered West Point, where he was far from being an Ideal student In drawing alone did he receive first class marks; chemistry was one of Ills stumbling blocks, and he has said; If silicon bad been a gas, I should have been a soldier." And It is not surprising that the map who was afterward so entirely a law unto himself should have cut a sorry figure in the army, Iwhere discipline takes precedence of tlw three IPs. From a sketch of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, in the American Mouthly Review of Reviews. life-histor- Orhctt thinks he can whip and Fitzsimmons thinks he can whip Corbett and both will continue to thick so as long as the he Is wiring to pay the admission fee the A? A? The hickory nut crop Is reported to he unusually large, if the coal trust doesn't behave we may burn hickory nuts. A? A? A? Uncle Sams Young Brothers. rrmx (he domain of the United States on the North Amert there have been divers Independent republics, tho very name of three of which known to but a few, while the record of two others, though memorable, is fast fadlug. How maty Americans of have heard, for example, ol the CommoRwealih of Watauga, which In 1772 was rguuizod as nu independent community by North Carolinians who had crovfccd the Allcghrnlcs, and, descending luto the builn of the Ternium, had tin do themselves homes In the valley of the Watauga River? Iaw many remember the Commonwealth of Trausylvonia, wlrieh was orgnulz. 1 in the eastern part cf wlut is now Kentucky in 173, and which sent to the Continental Congress u delegate who, however, was not admitted? How ii n.y have heard f tho thou Uved State of Franklin, or r nvhnt late was self created oat of certalu Franklund, whir' ,t western count I m ' iut4 Carolina 7 f the generation of school , ts t tunny are fVd'.Ur wi,h the early history of Texts, boys in the N c of which dechr. l.i ISdn. and which for some Bine e with foreign t . c - m ii"b!e g !n't) a I i Analn, hue little attention is now paid to that part of un- petud i Torvunt which detls with the fourteen yenra that nemo was an Independent republic, during which the t nitory unadmitted to tlu union of the Aia""sn although It disclaimed tv- of British general, and to the British crown, lejec ' . the bort a eonaplturii and useful parRevolution, Vermont j assumed a pm rmi calculated to tr.t tiw atuff vt which her patriots trort t made. Hur; ican louthsci-.- 1 to-da- y The Intending train robbers waved r. red llgnt across the track for Engineer Boss, hut he ran by without stopping. Tbs tnsn who knows when to disobey ironclad orders is the one worth money to his employers. Jimmie the Bum," who has Just died in New York, gets more obitu tries and editorials than though he had been a meritorious citizen. Yet there are 'bums'' dying every day, "unwept, unhonored and unsung." Ut if Vb-V- S Dr. George F. Kuna has discovered that the activity of radium is multiplied coe thousandfold by mixing it with pulverised willemlto, which costs Bttle -- r nothing. Thanks to the am tint of eoiea ttsts. the world la likely aooa to get the fall lenofit of that meteiteue fer, radioactivity. - tairt cislon, and, by marrying Hugh Damlt save her aged parents from the x. ntDll; ation of the poor farm ear his With open to every .n. of the auctioneers voice, he naT nervously up and down the JvT1 Would his letter reach her In tin,1' And would she answer favorably? y the hundredth time he stopped looked anxiously down the road. Gone! Jobs head sank upon his breast he exclaimed, in the bitterness of pair, I will laugh at your calamity He felt that this was a Just retrlbutL for his heartless cruelty toward lim and Martha. Great was his surprise to learn through a purchasing agency, the pri erty had fallen to John, who had left his service a few days previous. Sitting on his front porch, with head bowed In abject, hopeless dospoDj ency, Marthas belated reply was hand ed him. With reviving hope and tre bling fingers, he tore It open. Its sentence caused his heart to sink, ft read : Dear Papa I freely forgive yon, but cannot accommodate you by max ry Hugh He threw the inoffensive bit of paper down and set his foot upon It as If to crush it out of existence. n strodo up and down In a torrent t passion, muttering vengeance on tit whole human race. .8 his anger subsided his mood changed.' His mind went back to tkt time when there was no happier hon than that of Job Allisons. HU mist wandered to the village churchyard, where lay four of his loved onex Martha was the only child left to kin, and he had tried to barter away her honor and her happiness. A choking sensation came Into his throat and the hot tears coursed down his aged cheeks as he remembered that he had no longer a home to which he ooild ever again welcome her. His eyes rested upon the unfinished letter; he picked it up and read: to stay Will be home Have just married the farmer, the hoy whom you drove Iron home fifteen years ago. He calle himself 'John. . 138. HE refusal of the English higher classes to educate the working classes accounts, In a large measure, for the state of contented ignorance In which the submerged millions live. But no amount of education, unattended by an effacement of caste barriers, will put the English workingman on the same footing as the American. Our workers throw their whole strength Into their tasks because they are ambitious to go higher, and because they know that no one will try to stop them from climbing. But the English worker looks upon his trade merely as a means of gaining a livelihood, and knowing that he is expected to keep in bis own social plane, he does not seek to achieve greater things. English workmen have banded themselves together into organizations that not only cripple the Industries In which they are employed, but deprive them of any chance of bettering their condition. The whole Idea of English s Is that the workers are fixed on a certain level of material prosperity; as they cannot reach a higher level, therefore they must take measures to prevent their dropping to a lower. Labor, therefore, arrays Itself In direct antagonism to capital. It accepts the caste brand set upon It by the higher classes, Instead of fighting to efface the mark. The ca canny system permeates English Industry. To ca canny The English workers Idea Is that the less work he does, Is to go easy. tbo more there will be left to do, and therefore the less will be the cbance s of his or his getting out of employment. This system went on very well before the days of American competition; but now that the products of American Industries are invading English markets, the ca canny workers are in a sad plight Their slothful way of working so the cost of manufacture that the products of American shops may bo sold with profit In the very towns In which the English articles are mode, despite the fact that American workmen receive much higher wages, The while their products have to be transported thousands of miles.-Fr- ora plight of tbo English Worker, lu the American Monthly Review of And France won't be content with lialf-morocc- o the kiss. Trade-Unionis- ii PANISH POKK. He had written vam asking her pardon for his hasty and begging her to reconsider hers from him. rob-n'.es- , V.-t- r t' I If what, papa? Marthas gray eyes, brimming over with laughter, completely upset her fathers equilibrium as sne seated herself at the breakfast table. interrogator. yer mo "Why, I was jest What kin ye do? or, reether, The young man placed his hand that Is, I was jest to say, ef you upon the top rail of the fence 'and I was Juest sprang lightly over, saying carelessly: warnt too dead sot about thet feller, as how, mebby, It ud be better fer Oh, almost anything." Again the farmer scrutlninzed him you to wait a little while afore you from head to foot. His lip gave a git married. Of course, I want to see slightly disdainful curl as he said, sar- you do well. If you would wait, say a Need some help? himself Job Allison straightened from his stooped position, leaned upon his scythe and looked critically at his SHI castically: Yell find a scythe bangin' in thet tree yander; git it an see ef ye kin keep outen my way. The young man soon returned, and from taking the proffered scythe-stonJob's hand, drew It along the edge of the blade with a regularity, rapidity, and recklessness that made Jobs eyes open. Then, swinging Into position, he asked: Ready? Farmer Allison nodded, rolled his sleeves a bit higher, spat upon his hands, and ordored: Lead out." The stranger "led out with a pace Job Allison had not tackled In twenty years. For a dozen rods their scythes swung with perfect rhythm. Then the young mans athletic training came Into play and in a few moments Allison's pantings sounded In his ears like the puffs of a receding locomotive and, finally ceased. As he threw his scythe out, at the end, Allison turned and looked at the swath, straight as a line; the path smooth, clean and regular, then again critically eyed the stranger. What mout yer name be?" John. Job had always prided himself on not being one of them fellers whose tongues wag twice to their brains once. He was not quite satisfied with the answer, yet there was that mysterious something about this man that checked further Inquiry. Well, John, ye kin stay. Three years later he had learned these facts about that hired man: He was an indefatigable worker, an expert farmer, honest, reliable, and his name was John. Up to ten years before the coming of John, Job had been a prosperous farmer. A few bad moves on the mara few scourging? In ket chess-board- , Solomon's school, learning that He that Is a surety for a stranger shall smart for it," and his fine acre farm had dwindled to sixty. "I tell you, Marier, I'm agin It everlastingly and eternally agin' It. Fer why? Because I'm getting old and can't work the farm many years longer, and I'm opposed to Marthy m&rryin any pig headed, highferlutin', patent farmer as don't know the difference atween a post-holand a And him a settln' up on a high e three-hundre- e d pig-trac- HIS SMOOTH TALK Lost on Book Agent's' Wiles Strong-Eye- WASTED. the Woman. d The young man knocked timidly at the door of the house, and presently It was opened by a wona with a stony eye. I I beg your pardon, said the young man In confusion.! see I have made a slight mistake. I-matter of fact, I have here a m remarkable work on How to Becoet Beautiful and Remain So. Its pritt is $1, and But I can see, madaa that such a work would be useless I, you who have the secret already. Pt haps, however, there may be anothe' cf your sex In this house to whom tti book would be of valuer Strode up and down In a torrent of priceless Yes, said she of the stony ejt passion. there is. couple of years, mebby Hugh Danely And she disappeared. 'ud In a few moments she returned, xsf Ill never marry Hugh Danely, buUdot with her came a By Jeeminy, you shall. with teeth. I will not r The young man slid don Their eyes met; his determined, those steps like a thunderbolt in itnt hers defiant heard th He laid his knife and fork beside training, and as he flew he woman: stony-facevoice of the his plate, wiped his mouth upon the "This is the only one In this how corner of the tablecloth, and shaking tins his finger at her threateningly, said: your hooks any good to. Next doatfl and to talk come, you her, Martha, I dont allow no child of mine to disobey me. Ef you dont ilathersklting me. Im too tough! want to mind, you kin go. You under-stan- ? BOUND TO HAVE HER WAf. She did understand; there was no mistaking his meaning now; he was Woman Comes From the Grave hM i desperately In earnest. She arose Promise Is Kept from her seat, pale and trembling. It A remarkable ghost ktory is told h was the last day of her annual six the parish of Burton Agnes, EngbA weeks' vacation. There years ago lived three slstert lor five years she htd held a posi the name of Boynton. The youas1 tlon In the Pension department at of the three exacted the promise fro Washington, and during this perlo It the others that on her death her to her father, through mercenary mo- should be placed oa a table tives, had persistently used his influ- hall. She met with an accident ence to bring about a union between ly after, which resulted In her dM his daughter and Hugh Danely, a Her sisters neglected their pro1" wealthy, but profligate young man, to her and she was burled, head as who held a lien upon his remaining all. But on the night after the berk, property. the hall was thrown Into terrible To . Danelys woolngs and her fusion and the dead lady appeal j fathers Importunities she had turned her sisters with her head under a deaf ear, pleading time In which to arm. She upbraided them with ' ? decide this momentous question. and, placing neglected promise An hour later, as she Btood waiting head on the table, disappear,1 for a conveyance to take her to the morning the head was still there bo station, her father said: j Marthy, Id rn the coffin being dug up the like to know what you've done with was found to be headless. all yer wages in these five years. to remove the bend J1 reckon ye aint got no objections to tempt lowed by disturbances during tcllln? It was even burled at a D 4 Oh! cortalnly not, she replied; I night tance from the house, but UJ; have loaned the money to that 'pigstored by the ghosL Eventual!? &. headed farmer,' who Is spending It on head disappeared, but the diittf his education. anccs continue nightly In the hell- "The devil you did! Then It's my I sad-face- d sad-face- d a fifty-poun- d 8ad-eye- 1 - n op ilon" The slam of the carriage door and tho rattle of wheels, caused that vatu-abl- e opinion to lose its s wetness on the desert air." Fifteen years before, he had stood on those st.ps watching the receding form of a young hoy, an adopted child, in the gloom of gath- lti vv;H erlng darkness. For some trivial of- lhl" ymuh from i?1 him to alone with the world. A few minutes later a little girl hurried down the road, and throwing her arms around the boy's neck, begged him to return, Scrutinized him from head to tcot. tool, with four walls around him, and a little winder on top, things tollin' ns fellers how to far u, Why, Marier, she'a that ashamed of him she wont even tell his name." AIlon WI!bon would Mr. Allison seldom argued with Job t- -8 his way tbroush HfP ,ntl on knotty points. It didn i pay. hmV 7,1"nK flld she knew that Martha umal.y to feast upon thosohJ delicious her had way. umgh deceptive, promise 0f They haln't no use talkin'," ha du continued. I've worked nldh on to fifty yssr a glttln' this farm, an' I per '".'dog! Going! Going!" I d pose ter leave It to Martha ef under Albion realized that th llttl I say ef home f,.r whlrh he had etas', Marier given the iin S het The Meeting of the 8hlpa Two bark met on the dwp mid- When talma had atl.lul tn A few bright day of aumuitr There found them side by eld- - And voloea of th fair end breve Roe mingling thence In mirth; And sweetly nunted o'er the wave The meloiiit-of earth, that Moonlight on lone Indlea floudltna and lovely eleiit: While dunelng etep end frutite etr Each U(j(k In. triumph ewept. And hand were llhked, end ea et With kindly meaning ehone: aynitaihie' paaelng Like leavee together blown: A tittle while euch Joy wee eert O, brief and Over the deeprepose, Tbl the loud ringing w Inile Like trumpet mualo rure, - . ' And proudly, freely on their wJ Tho veeee I bur! tn calmporting or atorm. by ru-- er W-Tmeet O, nevvtnmlel Never to ttPnd In vMory'e rherr, .... To aid )n hours of vwi nr Atit iIiud bright Puth tier are tuimed k'e dt ILmarv tnl"g, lU,, M |