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Show TRUTH ALICES LETTER. Salt Lake, Sept. 2G, 1903. My dear, dear John: I put in two dears because you are so far away. Why do you not write lengthier letters and oftener? The times between them seem so long and when the postman does not even stop I want to cry, but I dont. Time was when I did, but now when you disappoint me, I put on my hat and go somewhere, find a book or invite two or three friends to luncheon. Little good' comes of a hurt and less if we allow the hurt to grow. Ah, my dear, what days you are missing! Doubtless it is Autumn where you are but no such Autumn as this. Just to sit here and look out is much. I think the trees are Bohemian widows . : remarried, their going away, gowns are so gorgeous in color. Sometimes when the wind is still I sit and look and dream, submerging my spirit in beauty until I seem to touch that color near the patch of brick-re- d we see which can from our bedpeak room window. And then the wind stirs and whips along the trees and all at once I am so lonely O, so lonely! What a wonderful thing it would be if we could put our thoughts and: feelings into words. Music, color, beauty of any kind, how far beyond our speech is its description.. In one of Brownings letters to his wife there is something like this: Who ever gets what there is of beauty in the world gets about the best thing that God gives to man. It is a wise that to a child. parent What a great thing it would be if evm eryone rwho finds life relentless, overpowering, awful, would say: I will look unto the hills from whence cometh my' strength. Would not each i see the wonder of life rising in splendor from out of the blackness? How brave is he who turns from his grief to hear the meadow lark sing or to watch the colors in an evening sky. Often I have wondered where Browning was when he penned that i -- who-teaches raptur-ouscouple- t: world as God has made it, all in beauty, And knowing this is love, and love is duty! O i - .. The other day Mrs. Blank said to me: O dear, Im tired of being neither good nor bad. I wish I could be one or the other, just genuinely good or everlastingly .bad! I hate those medium people who never vibrate to a tune but make only a little tang-o- f sound! Someone sings to the tang every time, I ventured. Humph! I want to do my own singing! she cried. So we all do, I assured her like a philosopher; but to make a true tang of sound is to do a lot. Hereupon she turned her back on me because my reasoning was not satisfactory, and when I told her that i most people acted that way when things didnt suit them, she fairly ran out of the house. i ,;.l When I packed The Mettle of the Pasture in with your white shirts I .thought you would have something to reread that was worth while. My inattentions were good, but I hope youllrlforgive me. I did not thing it possi4ble that James Lane Allen could Jfwrite-spoor a book. I understand 4 vthat Allens original intention was to irScall the book Crypts of the Heart. after jAs it is he. has strained fearfullyShakeback fallen upon h'jk title and japeare. Do you recall where he says, iT-lovto. think of his, a man who - o e isn t it? But to fall from that to the Not Caesars brain could compass gether with a perpetual right of way old, old question of a mans sin and deed like this appurtenant to and to run forever his necessity of confession to the woman he would marry, and to hang his tale upon such puppets as Isabel and Rowan and the grandmother Conyers is too much for patience, Isnt it? Here is Isabel with ideals which cause her to cast off the man she loves because of the sin of his youth, and yet after years of suffering she comes back and marries him when he Elect a bouquet and a smile, I wis! It would be iminossible to make rhyme describe Mr. Bamberger. 1 can only think of one word to go with his name and that would be offensive to use. is practically dying. A woman who once held the standard that Isabel dreamed of could never lower it death itself could not prevail. But Isabel is a mans woman. As for Rowan what an unheroic hero! Poor chap, he isnt given a chance. He is a pale shade upon a sombre canvas, generally lost to sight, never starting vividly into life, and dying with the weak words, I am tired of it all; I want rest. Love has been more cruel to me than death. The grandmother Conyers, seventy, yet handsome, a leopardess with sharpened claws, delighting in scandal about her own grandchild how horrid! And unnecessary, too, it seems to me. I am haunted with the possibilities of Allens title, but his conception of a great idea is pitiful. . es-sio- J JC The last Harpers Weekly has a charming picture of Julia Dean, which you will like to see. Do you remember the lawn fete and the time she dressed as a gypsy, and told your fortune? You said she had the dramatic instinct to her finger tips. Kate to me last night, O I just love champagne and claret and so on, dont you? Mama is such a fanatic she wont even let me eat a brandied cherry. Kate is a pretty but her hover about good ideas girl, times and good things to eat to an alarming extent. I told her about a man and woman I saw while driving with a friend the other afternoon. We were near Seventh South coming home when we met a man and woman driving out of town. The woman sat up rigid as iron and drove; the man had his arm about her, and bent forward loosely across her lap, peering up into her face and laughing in a silly way. The expression on her face was a livid pain, -e tired lustreless eyes looked on and on and saw nothing. I wish Kate could have seen that couple. Doubtless the harm in anything is in the abuse of it, but it seems to me that an aloofness from some things is a balm to true pride. B. said w- Jfi Youll be surprised to know that certain people are excited over the society notes in Truth. Velry few consider that Truth and social news hence the should be synonymous jection. ob- & Candidates for mayor are many, What with Mr. James, Mr. Bamberger and the dear, little Mr. Knox we shall have our fill of variety. Mr. James stands for ability, Mr. Bamberger for popularity and Mr. Knox for buttonhole bouquets .and a smile. Somehow the idea of Mr. Knox for mayor is tremendously funjnyj. We havent a single campaign song to suit him. How would it do to try the pretty lyric that Dutchman used with such effect in The Prince of Pilsen, Haf You Effer Been to Mr. Knox would never veto anything; he would have no one to blame but himself should he do so, but who ever heard of such a thing with regard to Mr. Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to Zin-zinnatte- Box-Kno- - - The country needs men with politsomeone like our own or the dauntless Jerome. Theodore, Men need to be agressive even arbitrary to make their way in anything, but more so in. politics than aught else. Politics! . What a prof n it should be! Mothers ought to train their sons to hold high political ideals; women ought to scorn the weakness that spells indifference and learn to glory in hardships for their sons. Do you remember the fierce words of Macbeth, where despite the horror of his wifes plans he yet admires the vigor of her qualities and cries: Bring forth men children only, For thy undaunted mettle should comprise Nothing buc males! I fancy if Lady Macbeth had been a twentieth century woman she never would have taught her children to compromise as mothers of. today ,so often do. ical mettle e? x? 4jiad known trouble, writing the words clay Hath sent his ghost within T. Kearns jThe insuppressive mettle of our I its. to stay. Then think of him with the idea tihat-man- , a pasturing animal, derives Alas, dear Tom, think not to stop your box IJiis mettle from his pasture, this Jsmall - grass grown planet hung in With precinct billets for the sweet Frank Knox; tpace. Now, so far, that is excellent -- 13 with said described parcel of land which is described as beginning at a point G rods south of the northeast corner of said lot 8 and running thence west 20 rods, thence south 1 rod, thence east 20 rods; thence north 1 rod to the place of beginning, together with improvements thereon, has been set for hearing on Friday, the 2nd day of October, A. D. 1903, at 10 oclock A. M., at the County Court House, in the Court Room of said Court, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Witness the Clerk of said (Seal) Court, with the seal thereof affixed this 18th day of September, A. D. 1903. JOHN JAMES, Clerk. J. U. Eldredge, Jr., Deputy Clerk. Sutherland, Van Cott and Allison, By. Attorneys. E. W. Taylor, Attorney. Commercial Block. NOTICE. In the District Court, Probate vision, Salt Lake County, State Di- of Utah. In the matter of the estate of Moses Wilkinson, deceased. Notice. Specific written objections to the payment of the claims filed against Jl J said estate must be filed in this court Do men hold higher ideals than on or before Oct. 5th 1903 and upon women? Man the practical, childlike the 9th of October 1903, at 10 day creature, competent, creative, con- oclock a. m., those filing such objecstructive; woman the intuitive, emo- tions shall appear in this court at the tional creature, comprehending, lov- court house in the city of Salt Lake, ing, enjoying how different the two, Utah, and show cause why Buch and how little each understands the claims shall not be approved by the other. It makes one think of the court and ordered paid. story I once heard of a Frenchman Witness the clerk of said who was traveling in a railway carcourt with seal thereof riage with an American woman as fixed, this 24th day of Septemsole companion. He wished to talk ber, A. D. 1903. to her, but could speak only his naJOHN JAMES, Clerk. tive tongue. At last in desperation By J. U. Eldredge, Jr., Deputy Clerk. he held up a French newspaper and E. W. Taylor, Attorney for swept his hand across it imploringly. Comprehendez vous? he asked. Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! cried the D. C. Eichnor, Attorney. American woman wickedly, and the City and County Building. Frenchman never found out. NOTICE. What a silly letter this has been! Im nervous and worried about a In the District Court, Probate divisdozen things. Jack Morton and has ion, in and for Salt Lake County, bride are coming through here the State of Utah. In the matter of the estate of John first and will stop a week. I wish C. Bablett, deceased. Notice. you were here to help entertain them. The petition of Amanda E. Bablett, Instead you are with the Lavanaughs. O. Alice Lavanaugh, why dont you praying for the issuance to herself of send my true love home? Your de- letters of administration in the estate of John C. Babiett, deceased, has been ALICE. voted set for hearing on Friday, the 9th day of October, A. D., 1903, at 10 oclock Probate and Guardianship Notice a. m., at the County Court House, in the court room of said court, in Salt Consult County Clerk or the respec- Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Witness the clerk of tive signers for further information. said (Seal.) court with the seal thereof affixed, this 25th day of SeptemSutherland, Van Cott & Allison, AtA. D. 1903. ber, torneys, JOHN JAtyES, Clerk. Keith Block. U. J. By Eldredge, Jr., Deputy Clerk. Dennis C. Eichnor, Attorney NOTICE. In the District Court, Probate DiviA worker, active in promoting the sion, in and for Salt Lake County, ticket, was approached State of Utah. man the other day, and a Kearns by In the matter of the estate of offered good money, if he would get Elizabeth Edwards Hurst,, deceased. into the Knox mayoralty line. He was Notice. invited to go to a place and get $50 The petition of James Hurst, ad immediately as a starter. v ministrator of the estate of Elizabeth 0 . Edwards Hurst, deceased, praying Hi Thompson has been reinstated for an order of sale of real property as a water emergency man in order of said decedent, and that all persons that Earl Ripley the regular emerinterested appear before the said gency man can devote all his time to Court to show cause why an. order the Knox campaign. His especial field should not be granted to sell so much is around the Second precinct saloons. as shall be necessary of the following described real estate of said deceased, af-(Sea- l.) . anti-Kear- ns - to-wi- t: Beginning at a point 7 rods south and 10 rods west of the northeast corner of Lot 8, Block 23, Plat A, Salt Lake City survey, and running thence south 3 rods, thence west- 5 rods, thence north 3 rods, thence east 6 rods to the place of beginning; to-- - OABTLE BATE CLEAR GREEK WINTER QUARTERN GURRY BIDE D. LUMRi RUT, BLAOK . ANTNRAOITE ALL BIEEBm J. SHARP, Agent TSLEPHONB 420 73 MAIN STRUT |