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Show yet warmly human, and Interesting from cover to cover. There is a quality In Helen Markhams character like an exquisite fragrance, and John Markham, the stern unyielding lawyer, with an eye for an eye, and a tooth for tooth creed, is strongly drawn Helens talk with her husband when she believes herself dying (she having been frightfully burned.) Is a powerful projection of the spirit, simply told, yet' seldom seen in a womans writing. Her bodily hurts stung her like an fire, but some part of her seemed to rise and float suspended in the upper air, conscious of the pangs of earth and yet victorious he was sufferover them. John for Markhams this sake, ing and immediately it was good to her. He had ignored the great counsellors that stand above sense to bend the mortal life to other uses, and she was the vicarious sacrifice, to balance all the pain attendant on his word. The body did not seem to her so important: as it had sometimes. It was the creature standing in the breach, and allowed; most mercifully to do the work of souls. She had but two wishes to save her husband and to save Heres something of Rosamond. what she. says: Our debts to human creatures, they must all be paid. And paid in kindness, dear, in love nobody must call to us again without our Pain is one of answering. the ways of life. We must bless it i and not shrink from it. But we must . save other people. We must make the mistakes that come from love, not - that other- kind. She stopped to smile at him with a radiance beyond anything he had seen in her. This is my will, she said, with a little low laugh. " I am leaving love to all the world. You will administer it for me. You will divide my goods; that was all I had love. But Its enough. In the October Scribner is a little gem called The Road of Love, by Louise Morgan Sill. It is singularly- descriptive of Helen Markhams character, and I quote it for you: Yes, I have loved you long and loved you well, Yet there are deeps untouched and heavens sealed. More yet lies hidden than has been! revealed, And there are songs .to singt and tales to tell. is , ever-prese- , nt - , - Loves incompleteness is its T RUTH . 11 i. people who have the most children a manager once, but no longer, I bedoes he wan.t more. of the same kind? lieve. Can you guess his name? Hes It occurs to m that what we want dark and smooth faced. tall, is not more children but better: betJ & ter stock all around. Mr. James will undoubtedly make a .The mediocre makes no mark, but good mayor when elected, but two the superior challenges the world. It or three of his backers are dead lies with women to bear such children as will: redeem the world in very weights on his hands. He ought to truth. The betst foundation for a pray, Lord deliver mo from my friends, and straightway put his faith man or woman, is a healthy body; the to the. test. by getting out of their superbest mind is impaired unless clutches. Mr. James is an excellent well housed. Often, and often I have man if fighting you dont believe It watched the Idling crowds on Main street and r ealized that evolution was ask. Arthur Thomas. Its time for me to go to dinner and I must fly this ina slow proc ess. One sees them, stant. chested, spindle legged, men with Hastily, low foreheads, small eyes and futile ALICE. mouths, and meagrely developed, anaemic-o looking 'women with equally poor CONFERENCE VISITORS. Is the hope of the race built promise. on such? Hardly, and yet the broad-cheste- d athletic man is the exception, The conference of the Mormon and a woman who does not take minc- church this fall was an unusually well ing steps an unusual person. Good attended event. While the number of clothes hide a multitude of sins. Women refuse to bear children because visitors cannot be given accurately, it of the work and care, though the is certain that a very discernable inmoral responsibility appals a few. crease over the conference of last fall That wife wh goes to her grave was observed. This was evidenced by childless misses the supreme crown of the numbers in actual attendance womanhood. To .be sure she may have the meetings. The merchants of escaped heartacbie and uneasy nights, upon but what can compensate for the curl- the city state that they-havenjoyed ing, rose-lea- f fingers of a babe, the soft a nice increase In trade and that the head against her breast, the tender visitors brought considerable money feet making their first venture alone? here. One feature of this conference, And by. and by, 'what marvel under heaven like the young mind unfolding as compared with those of a number our its beauty neath the mothers love and of years ago, is in the dress-ocousins. look country better They care? And if she does her part who shall say that good will not come of than they used to. The girls always were pretty, but pf late years their it all? beauty has been- enhanced by the J Jt fact that they wear neater and betWhen I see girLs and boys flirting ter made garments than they did. a bit I smile sympathetically, but when The bright colors, blended together in I see a married man or woman flirting a sort of careless confusion, have I want to smash things. Wednesday I passed away and' more quiet and saw a well known man promenading pleasing effects are noted. The boys, with a slip of femininity in a blue too, have cut out the celluloid collar. suit, she all smiles,- he making an ef- That is a mighty step on the march were fort, to be .dignified and gracious, but to progress. Celluloid collars ' o a old because designed by bachelor, crusty failing, There are people who think him hand- who hated a woman so badly that he some; his wife, for instance who does would' not pay one for. doing up his him the honors to. .be jealous but he laundiy. The sentiment which anithinks... so most of. all. For iny part mated him permeated the collars and the yellow streak In. him destroys his young men who wear them are never individuality. He . was something of popular with giris. No girl wants to , narrow-- . e f - "self-consciousnes- - s. ' - j ' richest foil. Tis easy running to the bounds of But loves road, is of toil. the long, long road hate, THE SCENIC LINE TO: -- ! The blatant-tongue- d Individual who; preaches against race suicide doeSi about as much good as a hell fire; revivalist he reaches the sensational-- : ist, and the effect of his word evappr-- ; ates like ones breath on glass. Any, man resents such women! d and all ignore it. Do you think, what Presi-- , dent Roosevelt says about race sui--; cide will eradicate . womans vanity; and selfishness? No,it furnishes ma- -, terial for. s at card parties and; after dinner epigrams, and the condi--j tion remains unchanged. When . women grow strong enough to face the subject honestly, to bear the pangs of maternity unflinchingly because, they wittingly,, joyfully anticipates the condition and prepare mind, body and, soul for the development of a perfect human specimen,.. and not until them; will worthy souls come Into the world' at Natures call and women realize their privilege as God bestowed. Heres another point. Roosevelt reacbeg tb iGLenwood Springs, Aspen, Leadville, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, . self-respecti- Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis,: Chicago, - and, all points eaat i , " Connecting at Ogden Union Depot with all Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Lino .The. only Transcontinental Uqe passing directly through Salt Lake City. . Train?. iscussion ng lavendar trousers, spotted along the legs thereof, and are attiring themselves naturally. Flat hats, tilted to one side, are jgolng out' of date. Neither does the medal appear as it used . Time was when a boy from the country did not consider"-himself dressed unless he had' on a medal commemorating the landing of the pilgrims, the coming of the pioneers and the merits of the Jersey cow at the fair. But all is changed: and the Utabr boy and the Utah girl are getting better looking all of the time. As to the old folks, there isnt much to say.. As they remark dbwn in Georgia' ,The old folks is mighty sot in their ways. to. o Often I wonder if mans most, manifest curse is not niggardliness of soul moral laziness makes impossible .the most splendid height. J four-in-han- d - Loves imperfection its most precious trait. lean up against a celluloid collar, with its camphor-lik- e smell, reminding her of one long, continuous headache; We note with a degree of satisfaction that can hardly be expressed in words, that the bit of neckwear, designed also by the inventor of the celluloid collar, which covered the entire shirt front and, like charity, covered a multitude of sins, has disappeared to give the more modern and better a chance. Those looking fronts which many times concealed from view the foremost portion of a very dirty, shirt, were abominations. The boys have also quit wearing bright blue coats and vests with pale high-minde- SPLENDIDLY , EQUIPPED ' FAST 'TRAINS DMLY BETWEEN ' OGDEN ' AND d i DENVER Via Thins Separata and DUtlnet Beetle Route. a. a . 3 bon-mot- v:' Ordinary Sle epingf' Cars to : t Oinaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago without change.' Free. reclining chair cara Personally Conducted Excursions. Dining. Cars, service a la Carte on all through trains. Tor rates, folders, free illustrated booklets, eto., Inquire of jour nearest ticket agent, specifying the Rio Grande route, or address Governor Mickey of Nebraska, is an elder in the Methodist church. He is a very, very pious man. He does not believe in . dancing, and protested against an Inaugural ball. He' deplores drinking and swearing. And, according to the San Francisco Argonaut, the president shocked him: When the presidents .special, train, during his recent tour of the west, reached Nebraska, Governor Mickey Joined the . party to escort the president across the state. The president was delighted to meet the governor of Ne braska, and asked him about questions political, industrial, social, and personal winding up with: How many children have you, governor? Nine,r answered Governor are a damn good .man, Mickey, You exclaimed ' President Roosevelt;. you-araJbetter- - man than- I am. IThavei had only six. And Governor Mickey gasped with astonishment. e - o J. J. Greenewald will leave for Washington,. D. C., early next' week to attend the conclave r of : the supreme council of the mother consistory of the world Scottish Rite; Masons, of: which he is a member. The meetings will be held during? the week beginning Oct. 19. - L A. BENTON; G. Ai P. D. SALT LAKE CITY |