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Show TRUTH. evenly-balance- ARTICLE II. Years ago women were scarce in the eastern Montana range country, and the few who were there were mostly There were the wives of ranchers. men to one unprobably twenty single married woman, and the woman who remained single in that locality long could not attribute her condition to lack of suitors, for as a general rule she would have the refusal of at least a dozen men during the first six months of her stay in the country. There was one notable exception, a typical old maid who, so far as became known, had but one suitor Old Doc and the story of her courtship will be told later. Doc never married. His single state was certainly not due to a lack of energy nor a failure to invite women to share half his fortunes, for he never let a chance for a wife get by him. There are women in that country today who have received upward of twenty separate proposals from the old man. His place being along the stage line it happened that women passengers occasionally came along in the stage and less often in some priDoc never overvate conveyance. looked one. If his blunt inquiry drew forth a reply that the lady was unmarried she. was invited on the spot to link her fate to Docs. It was not even necessary for the fair passengers to dismount to receive a proposal. Doc could make one in less than a minute. Even the married women were not exempt, but all received the assurance that if, at any time, their husbands should prove unsatisfactory. Doc could always be relied upon to lead the wife to the altar subsequent to the divorce. His unfailing proposal naturally became a great annoyance after a time, and many of the husbands and fathers of the neighborhood gave instructions to their wives or daughters to pass Docs place at a high lope if the old man were in, and he generally was. . The Wedding Day will probably be repeated again next week, I regret my inability to give the exact dates, which will, probably, be a night or two in the early part of the week and the following Saturday. The box office receipts have been something unusual. Mr. Derr, despite his professional dexterity, could hardly throw the tickets fast enough. Prof. McClellan announces that the Tabernacle recitals will hereafter be four oclock Sunday given at half-pa- st The Innovation will be afternoons.most welcome to many who, heretofore, were unable to spare the time to go during the week. Prof. McClellan will have a large attendance at the recitals from now on. - The Belle of New York is announced to appear at the Salt Lake Theater next Wednesday, October 16th. After its splendid Casino success, The Belle of New York was taken over to London and the great metropolis went wild over the piece. It is doubtful if anything from this side of the water ever before so completely and thoroughly captured our English cousins. The lips of London caught its tuneful music and made the damp, heavy fogs vibrate with melody. Filled to bursting with musical gems, bright and costumes, gorgeous stage settings, and music that tingles with excitement, The Belle of New York" is as clear and bright now as when it rang itself into favor at the Casino. Every Casino production is celebrated for the beauty of its women. The Belle of New York," though grammatically in the singular, when referred to its female contingent is decidedly in the plural. eye-pleasi- ng There were a few girls of the locality who, in a spirit of deviltry, pledged Doc that they would marry him in a few years time, but after the old man had circulated over half the county a story to the effect that he was engaged to a pretty elghteen-year-ol- d stockman, daughter of a the joke did not seem so funny to her, and to her family, and her father had to carry to Doc an explanation and a demand to cease telling the story. In justice to Doc, it may be said he frequently gave evidence of a careful early training in manners. Had his head been in good working order, he probably would not have been so profuse in his offers of marriage, and the ranch people who lived near him would not have had so much diversion. It is not. recorded that Doc ever attempted to get familiar with a woman except in one instance. On that occasion he began negotiations looking to his imprinting a kiss on the yellow cheek of the old maid referred to above, but that affair is a story by itself. Docs custom of proposing to every woman who came along gave opportunity for plenty of jobs at his expense. Dozens of them were perpetrated successfully, but perhaps the best one was arranged by Frank, the stage driver, one of the few men Doc trusted implicitly, as he had never detected any of Franks jobs. fun-lovi- ng Mr. Pyper and Mr. Mulvey were conspicuous figures in the late city Democratic convention. Both gentlemen are Democrats. The Republicans may raise the cry of amusements In politics. It would not be a proper objection, however, for politics are always amusing. well-kno- A Barrel of Money" makes its appearance' at the New Grand next Thursday, October 17th, with the usual Saturday matinee. It is a farce and has been doing a successful business on the road. Coming as it does during the heat of the campaign, A Barrel of Money" will be doubly welcomed by the city chairmen of both parties. Mr. Mulvey seems to have been most happy in booking A Barrel of Money at this opportune time. Every one who attends will receive a barrel of fun as well as a barrel of money. The latter is not promised by the management, but I make it on my own responsibility. HARRY LE GRANDE. side-splitti- ng well-kno- wn cow-count- ed ry tered heartily into the spirit a dre'J thing. When the stage one passenger, a Doc's it contined but ea veiled large woman, closely the in Taking ing black gloves. .h Frank called Docs 8 a -- Doc, said he, there wapassenger. d n fine, strappin woman in the going out gon. Shes a widow and isfolks. I e to cook for the Captains and shes ,a, been talkin to her, woman. I think snes a a great cook, and if you let her get by a tap for you your place Ill never dolive. She says as you again as long looks she and world in the alone shes like just the woman for you. That was more than enough to send Doc stage like a thorfrisking out to the in less than thirty and colt, oughbred seconds the colored dame had received a formal proposal. To Docs mixed his surprise, pleasure and perplexity, The offer was accepted like a flash. right there lady said she would stop the house at would and begin fixing up onc-eceremony the marriage deferring to a more convenient time. Doc was slightly nonplussed, but the good accent of the woman and his partial deafness prevented him from detecting her race, and he assisted Frank in contrunk and hand baggage veying her low cabin, while into his three-roothe lady dismounted ponderously and lumbe:ed heavi:y into the house. Frank immediate drove out of sight over the hill, hitched his team and stole back to watch the result. Franks version of what occurred inside was verified by the colored woman at the Captain's ranch the following day and also by Doc the following year when the soothing hand of time had softened his wrath and healed his disappointment. good-natur- i ed Doc. BEANS AS REFORMERS. ' Uncle Sol Kimball was in a reflective mood the other day. He had Just fin- ished a game of solitaire, when Truth ran against him. He had beaten himself, and was somewhat dejected. Well, he remarked, I suppose the boys are about through with their beans now, and I guess Ill lock up for the night and go home. But he stayed a moment longer, and I was thinking as I was then added: playing that last hand, he said, what virtue there Is in beans. In beans? Yes: you see, we never feed the prisoners beans more than three times a day, therefore, there may be some latent virtue that we have not yet been able to discover on that account. There may be a dozen latent virtues, in fact. But there is one thing that we have discovered, and it has never even been mentioned by the dally press, to say nothing of the great scientific magazines. Beans are the greatest reform agents on this earth. Why, do you know that the hardest hobo in our jail here would rather be preached to all day long that have beans succulent as they are served up to him three times a day? Those fellows know that the The lady pulled off her gloves and only possibility of being, preached to Is veil and Doc staggered. Whats the on Sunday once a week but beans are matter, deah? she said as she com- given them three times each day. I was talking to an old fellow the other posed herself in the attitude of one exday who has not been within the walls pecting a caress. Why, nothink, of the city Jaid for at least three years. missis," said Doc, only Hi can catch During all that tlm?, he tells me, he has Frank by following the creek while 'e been roving, and whenever he struck a goes haround the bloomin' road, and camp of hobos, the Salt Lake jail and then you can go hon to the Captins, its bill of fare was bound to come up. Wha yo mean? demand- And there was always universal exeyou see. ed the woman with a fine assumption cration on the head of the man who inof surprise and injured Innocence. sisted on a bean diet. That is one reaDoan yo' want me t stay heah? son, he tells me, why Salt Lake has not Didnt yo ask me t stay heah wi been overrun with hobos, as have some "Oh, yes, stammered Doc, other towns. The hobos are not afraid yo? thats all right, you see, but Hi think of the jail, bad as it is; it Is better hit would be better should you go to than they have out in the open, but the Captins for a few so that Hi when the smell of the beans circulates can ave a chawnce todays fix thinks hup through the corridors and into the cells, haround ere somewhat. Has hit his, there is a universal to quit. No, he continued, lamely, you can see for personally, I am not inyell favor of Increasyourself hit his no place to hask a lady ing the amount of money that Is now to stay hin. Hill come hover hafter expended to feed city prisoners. There is many a family In this you a Sunday. which is The woman started to give the plead not half as well fed as thecity In prisoners ing and almost tearful Doc a tongue the city Jail. But keep up the beans. They are lashing In her most vivid style, but she broke down midway and her peals great reformers. The more beans, the of laughter, ranging from soprano fewer hobos. , m wn The efficient services of John B. Moreton, who has been connected with At the extreme southern end of the the public schools of Salt Lake for twelve as twenty years, clerk of stage route which passed Docs place years the Board of Education, has been re- was the cattle ranch of a wealthy and warded by an advance In salary, which prominent citizen of the county, a man he thoroughly deserves. who had earned the rank of Captain in the Union ranks at Gettsburg, and after the war, amassed a fortune. who, Lieut. F. T. Hines, whg recently ob- The Captain kept his family at the tained an appointment to a Second ranch during the summer months. He Lieutenancy In the artillery branch of had erected what was a mansion in the there and lived in style the regular army, has been assigned to with a retinue of house servants. It coast artillery at the happened that the Captains household the Twenty-nint- h Presidio, and is now attached to the was in need of a cook, and a colored Twelfth battery at Fort Douglas on woman, black as Erebus and weighing temporary duty. He was warmly close to 300 pounds, started from the at the Fort, partly on account county seat to take the position. Some of the fact that he and his men had minutes before the stage reached Doc's handled the identical guns of the place Frank, who had seen a grand Twelfth battery in the field in the opening for a job on Doc by means of the colored cook, broached his scheme wel-eom- shrieks to deep bass roars, made the hills resound. Frank surrounding brought back his team and went onward with his passenger, but never again was the guileful stage driver fully reinstated in the good graces of developed, A QUEER MONTANA CHARACTER to that dusky lady, who, itand she enhad a high ser.se of humor, of the whose life is a tempest between the two. 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