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Show f , THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, JTAH r.Icrchandise Good wt r li d be el eierckeftjwe we efl, we would iniUaily pal te meke, CUlm t Miperiarity eie timet JScek to vpkold. the record of ora a kail nd ee il fat yi VJksik ; coukl g ny r-- 'P PARK MMAINStUT OF JEWELRY ' iALTUUCnrf . 'iAWAKi .Wv.'vsu'-- . STATE HEWS Bounty on six bear killed In City retk canyon, near Salt Lake, was last week. A natural bridge larger and higher !tuu 'any other known in Utah baa .ml been discovered tn Iron county, v.' j col--ccs- ed ,r S 'Wf fvw ; i : r V .)'! i-. V yjf c 'Realty. WORSE THAN FACING GUNFIRE IITMI jPrrWfCg 3 v Poet reliability. makers &c V'4 i h reported.-Twent- y thousand spectators wltnesa-trade held in honor of i rlneehs of the Salt festival, at Htit Luke City Monday night. Ft ahs postmasters will hold their vnnual convention tn Provo Wednesday, ih tober 5, according to announce-ous- t t out by the associativa. While walking on the Denver & ,Uo Grande railroad track, John Wood-lousa pioneer of Lehi, was ln-intiy killed when a train struck uuu. Despite a shortage of funds for road miles purposes, more than thirty-twf- i of public highway in Weber county have been improved during the present year.- , According to the farmers organlza Uon, only 2.300 acres of land tn Weber county are devoted to fruit raising, w hlle 45,000 acres are devoted to other farm crops, Owen William Owen, 93 years of age, probably the oldest miner in Utah, died at his home in Salt Lake on September 11. Infirmities Incident- to old age were the cause of death. 1 ik' the fiatlant Seaman Found Himaelf In Dilemma From Which Ha Waax. trlcated in Nick of Time. p K-n- e, jack tar from FI. M. S. entered London post office' to I ith western change a money order. A it was a government pay order wai asked, according to regulation, to show his certificate of Identity. But the sailor had lost the certificate. In the post office 11 the girl anxious to help, Haven't you your name marked any where!" urged one. Jack thought gard, suddenly kindled with Inspiramouth to speak, and tion, opened A flush deepened stood silent then tanned complexion. tls Welir urged the young postal lady, fe sailor wanted that money adly. Ha faced the guns, "Tea, he blurted, my names marked on my shift" Post office girls have no training tn the technical lingo on his majestys navy. Whatever Bort of document docket or disk this "shift" might be It a as her duty not to pay the money "Then let me until she had seen eee your shift, " she demanded amiably but firmly. Small veins knotted on Jacks tem- -, pics, a moisture stood on his brow.But desperate finance needs "desperate Have you got a Bcreen measures asked in a hollow voice. he here? A screen ! echoed the post office Aye, a screen I" girl in bewilderment repeated Jack on a rising note of agony." It wgs then that a colleague, saved ene pf his majesty's A M.s from apoplexy by a hurried and whispered ex- planation to Ids inquisition. Ierhaps because the gods love laughter the sailors identity was then accepted without further evidence. London Daily Mail. vt Men tbho knewJames Whitcomb Riley and his work intimately tell something about , the great Hoosiertvho played upon the heartstrings of a be-.ga- ' it - Strength of a Flower. A rock split asunder by a growing, tree that has found lodgment in what at first only a small crack is a miliar sight to most people. The force that a tree exerts in accomplishing this feat Is tremendous, but relatively It Is not equal to that exerted by the lowei that John Burroughs describes In a recent book, The Breath of J - life." One of the most remarkable exhibitions of plant force 1 ever saw was in a western city, where Lobserved a wild sunflower forcing its way up through , the asphalt pavement ; the folded and compressed leaves of the plant, like a nans fist, had pushed against the hard but flexible concrete until it bulged up and split, and let the irrepressible plant through. The force exerted must have been many pounds. 1 think if doubtful If the strongest man could kave pushed his fist through such a resisting medium. life activities are a kind of explo-Ioand the slow, continued explosions of this growing plant rent the pavement as surely as powder would have dona It Is doubtful if any cultivated plant could have overcome such odds. It required the force of the n tamed, hairy plant of the plains to ns x n, accomplish the feat. Everyday Heroines. No one ever suffers (la h long run) from whatanything are termed Trd knocks." On the other hand, and knocks Will develop fine qualities one. Many of the worlds best work- - h 18 f i fact. most of them are all who haT known hard knocks w an loved heroes, the seroes held up before theespecially public gaze, hut we all know the brave girt who, KmplalnIng!y goes off daily to her !rdiwrtl- - We know that It is she keeping a roof above her raoth-bea- d and sacrificing many little eoui'ortii and pleasures that sne may Y the fact that she la a aerolne never enters the girl's mind, htr houlder,bravely to the eei, and somehow finds the world place after all. nation foith his songs of common folk and manners two-quar- man or a lawyer or a pyeacher or photographer. Not.. since the time of Edgar Allan Ioe have real poets worn their hair long as In the comic pictures or affected the soulful expression. Nowadays when a man wears his hair like Spanish moss on a Florida oak he is suspected of being hard tip. And If he exhibits what Is supposed to be his soul by certain shifting and staring of his' eyes he Is pitied as one whose mental gearing has sand in It. - Bliss Carman, former editor of the Independent and a poet of note, was one of James Whitcomb After ' the Indiana Rileys .closest friends. songsters death on July 23, Carman told much about Riley to Mr. Joyce Kilmer of the New York Times Magazine and Mr. Kilmer In turn told it to the public. Some 30 years ago Carman was introduced to" e the already famous Iloosier. Rileys keen eyes surveyed the tall frame of the new and Gosh, youre a stalwart, young acquaintance: aint ye?" he remarked, grinning, I guess your parents must have trained you on a trellis." Then, as reported by Mr. Kilmer, Carman went on to say: "The next time I sAw Riley was In Philadelphia. I went to read before the Browning society, and I dont mind telling you that I was scared to death. When I got out all alone on the stage and saw a thousand people staring up at me I felt more like running away than doing anything else. But when I saw Riley down in the audience, looking at me In his qua In, friendly way, then I felt all right I wasn afraid to read my. poetry to KUey. .After the ret ding was over Riley tucked me under his arm and said: Now, lets get around to the hotel and well take off our shoes and get a chew of tobacco and be comfortable. You know, such remarks ss this were all the more piquant because Riley was so very punctilious and scrupulous m all his persona! habits. He always was Immaculately dressed. I never knew him even to make so much of a concession to comfort as to put on a smoking jacket or a lonnge coat But he liked to go to his room and stretch himself on his bed and talk. And he never talked about anything but literature, chiefly poetry: ' great fund df knowledge of Riley had S and knew lots of homely poetry verse. lie delighted particularly in ridiculously bad newspaper verse. Riley liked to read poetry aloud. When I went to his house of an evening, he generally was waiting for me with some favorite book, ready to read aloud." What sort of poetry did he prefer? His tastes covered a wide range. Two poets to whom he was especially devoted were and Swinburne. Riley liked Longfellows directness and simplicity. The things that pleased him In Swinburnes work were the music and the deft craftsmanship, from his received had degrees After Riley some of the colleges, he seemed to feel that he ought to be known. as a poet, rather than as a humorist and writer of dialect verse. He tried hard to live up to the name of poet, and wanted his nonsense rhyme of his' vagabondage forgotten. Yet his vernacular verse or, as he called it, his dialect verse, was his chief contribution to a backed by many Napoleons of Indus- try throughout the United States, to elecjtrlfy America, Salt Lake City la to have an electrical celebration this fall. A permanent county farm bureau was organized at Murray when farmers from alt parts of the county assembled to consider plans for the promotion and the welfare Tf the agricultural Industry, Stricken with heart blrd-Uk- we Q error er nm rusf atnsKJt vary uurpmjc Am wanted to. get even with him, ro he wrote hla Imitation of Foe, and had It published In a paper In another part of the state with an elaborate story about the discovery of the manuscript. At once It made a great sensation all over the country. It made so great a sensation that Riley was terrified, and feared that he would be accused of literary forgery. Meanwhile the editor of the rival paper wrote: 'No doubt our young friend Riley will belittle tjils poem and say it la not the work of Foe. But It la Poe, end Foes best manner. The t atlon grew to such proportions that Riley had to confess that he had written the poem. . And then the editor of the paper discharged Riley because he had not published It In his pnper, Then the Indianapolis Journal gave him a Job, which he held for years. He wrote reams of nonsense verse, and wrote up in verse the shops of the merchants who advertised In the Journal Riley's first book was railed The Old Swim min Hole and Leven Slore Poems. lie pub-- " Ushed It himself. It sold so well that It was soon taken over by a pubiisber, and passed through many editions, Riley's exquisite penmanship showed the care with which he wrote. Originally he wrote a careless and rather Illegible script, but he had so much difficulty in getting the printers to read his writing, end printing his dialect verse correctly, that he took up the study of penmanship. He was careful always to get the dialect of one part of Indiana as' distinct from the dialect of any other part Any mans character,' he said. Is best re- . membered, I suppose, by some of his habitual I remember Riley ss gestures and expressions. In his deliberate motions, especially In his very last years.' Smooth shaven, ruddy, well groomed, he looked tike a benign old English bishop more -- Long--fello- w literature. Riley was Just a poet That was all he ever cared to be. He was not interested in anything of politics he had but poetry. He not voted for 30 years. And as for philosophy, he had nothing but contempt for the modern Ed g N Word 1or Love. impossible to kick" a man In Yoa ast give him a blow thinkers. The Portuguese do There was something very pathetic and charmnot at one ; they close and ing about Rileys tenacity In holding the serious, e eye," la the languages of poet poe. Ills nonsense wos just one of Ms ways 52? with s!idrll!zed tribes there la no of writing which happened to prove popular; which to convey the Idea when be got a chance to write- la another way r.!.a DS pcrliaP3 because the Idea how eagerly he seized it and how persistently be so vague. It Is related ef ae of the clung to it! early missionaries that, Ills last years were the happiest of his life. tempting to translate the Bible I think. He had Ms own car and rode around Algonquin, he could find no word Indianapolis and Its suburbs every day. generally EJ c him jotse- - riend.JIe - as .honored taking-with 10 and loved, and I think he felt that life had been L good to him. ..... L Slight ktifldertafsdifi" was a lawyer, nis grandfather father Rileys did the tulip bulbs I sent yoa - His grand-- r came to Indiani from Pennsylvania.out ? Inquired the congressman was side Pennsylvania mother on his mothers with aa Ingratiating smile wasIrbli. father Ills THp bun, 8? We did get a mess of Dutch. had many prejudices. He disliked Poe Riley yhn from you, and they were a much. He disliked Foes character so much stress lot," Louisville Courier. very that be could hardly read his poetry. Of course, Journal, be must have liked Poes music and splendid " metrical effects. Sounds That Way. of Rileys fs- j the know story Of course, you rich little kids got a place Imitation of Poe? He had taken s position Louse he calls the buttery. 1 of aa Anderson. Int. paper, and the f,ua staff rival what that tar paper kept ridiculing him. Riley of a a. ky. It the place where be keeps goat, you boob." I -- - ? -- -- w - "hi t A bottle of preserved strawberries brought twenty day In the city jail for James McNally, 62 years of age, when he was convicted at Ogden of having stolen the fruit. The 12 year old daughter of Mavis Baker, a dairyman of Ogden, sustained a fracture of her right leg above the knee when the team of horses attached to her fathers dairy wagon ran away. Aa part of ft national movement, OWADAYS a poetic genius doesnt look like one. On the street, you might guess him to be a business knew-nothin- - - . than anything else."- ! 1 con-cer- . Mr. Don Marquis of the New York Sun aptly consider Riley and Ma poetry from an entirely different angle. "James Whitcomb Riley," soys he, wss the companion of fairies In Arcady; for the Hoosier tblougs to 'rttce apart And while some are captured "and broken to trade, the gentle poef escaped and kept always the vision of hidden things." With these prefatory remarks the writer goes on with his essay: There are two sorts of Indianan the ordinary Indianan, who Is not so very different from the Ohloaij or the Illinoisan, and the Hoosier, - The Hoosier" belong not merely to a race apart, but to a separate species. He Is human, but .with s difference;, he I aware of the kinship betweed humanity and the lower ani- Night: . , .In loot hours of lute and song. When he was but a prince I but a mouth For him to lift up slpplngfy and drain To his most ultimate of stammering sobs so-call- n . long-legge- d L mals (and even the plants jand streams) on the one side, and on the other side of the kinship of humanity with the elves. n Whf-turns the mists to silver and the owls wall and the frogs wake up along the creeks and lakes and the fairies saddle and bridle the fireflies and mount them and go whirring and adventures .ha , shlng ..off yin. jpegixh "HOosiera steal out of the farmhouses and ham- lets and. creejt .down to the Jhotlora Jaada ..and dance and sing and cavort under the summer arA-Tbey-do secretly. dodging ibemwre ha. mans, for secrecy Is the essence of their midnight, the-moo- -st- , whimsical revels. In the daytime they pretend they are Just ordinary Indianans; their own brothers and mothers may hot realize that they are nooriera. But In Indiana, as elsewhere, there Is business and the need to attend to it There must hove been even In Arcady somebody owned the flocks and herds of, Arcady and turned them Into butchers meat and leather, nrwf the shepherds sufferance of their commerriai- only piped on-the mlnded masters. Theae Hooriers, these wild bardl lover of the moon, are and prancing, often captured and broken and tamed to trade Snd Industry by the more sordid citizenry. They are yoked to the handle end of the plow, chained to the desk; by the hundreds and thousands they become clerk and salesmen and railroad presidents and novelists and business men - of all aorta. James Whitcomb Riley wa a Hoosier who never captured, never happily escaped; he hidden from the rest of us, the enslaved; things or revealed only tn flashes, remembered bat vaguely from the day of our own happy Hoosier doin, he continued to see steadily ; he lived among them familiarly to the end, and until the end was their Interpreter to us. 'Bud come here to your uncle a spell' aaji Riley In effect, and m,how you not only a fairy, but a fairy who ha for the moment chosen to he Just as much of a Howler as the Raggedy Man, or Orphant Annie, or Old Klngry, or the folks at Orlggsby Station. "The critic and the learned doctor of liter ature are already debating as to whether Riley bad Imagination or only fancy, (It would ba a terrible calamity to some of them tf they said It was Imagination and It was officially declared later to be merely fancy; that la the sort ol mistake that damns a critic and makes the som and grandson of critics meek, ' hacked, . apologetic young men.) And doubtless the pdlnt la exceedingly Important For If a poet has Imagination they say his work Is significant And U be has only fancy his work ts not significant The chief merit of Rileys dialect verse which' the most popular part of his production find the part with which the critics chiefly themselves is Its effectiveness ts a medium for character portrayal. Whimsical, lovable homely, racy.' quaint salty, pathetic, humorous tender are his dialect poems; essentially, he hat shown os life as a superior writer of prost ak etches might do, adding the charm of his lyri" cism. But, personally, w never like him so well at when he la writing sheer moonlight and music Probably no poet who ever wrote English certainly no American poet got more luscious language than Riley. A sweetness that Is not st sugary that it cloys, haring always a winy tang For Instance, from The Flying Islands of tht n failure jvhllo travenngby automobile from Salt Vo Ogden, Wesley Dockstader, 45 aged year, of Brigham City, was dead nearly an hour before bis com pan ion s knew of it, j Benjamin H. Allen, an electrician, was instantly killed at the substation at St, Joseph, near Salt Lake, when a pole with which he was Juggling came In contact with a high ten- sion wire carrying 44,000 volts. While the canning season in Utah of the canneries has begun are at this time .unable to get enough tomatoes to keep them running, according to Information received at the office of the state dairy and food de- , one-fourt- h partment As A means of further emphasizing the work of the United States forest service, the ranger station float built for the annual fashion show parades of last week at Ogden is to be used for exhibition purposes at four fairs within the next few weeks. Ferdinand Rodriguez, Jose Franeone and Aquiline Arcantawere sentenced each to an Indeterminate term tn the state prison, after they had withdrawn their pleas of not guilty and pleaded guilty to robbery of the Highland Boy Mercantile company at Bingham Con-yo- n, on August 8. t h Homer Plake, an employee of Power A Light company, had a narrow escape from death when a car he was riding plunged over the Sioux road near the Iron Blossom mine. Mr. Plake suffered several bad cuts and bruises around the headT Joseph Reddick, aged 47 years, mill man employed by the Ophlr Hill Consolidated Mines company, and weu known in Sait Lake by union mill men, shot and instantly killed his wife, Mary Evans Reddick, aged 42, and turning the weapon, an old fashioned pistol, on himself, committed suicide atrflphlr, Tooele county. Andrew Frederlckson, a farmer of Lehl, had a narrow escape from being killed by lightning while working in his field on Lehi bench. He Was plowing with .three horses' on his. farm, when a thunder storm came up and a bolt of lightning killed two. of his horses and knocked him unconscious. A loss estimated at several hundred dollars resulted when the old North Bgden canning factory, a frame structure, was totally destroyed by fire. the-Uta- ' For the past several years the buildAnd maudlin wandering of blinded breath- - . . ing had been used for a fruit ware-- ' There Is no better evidence of the genuine- house and at the time of the fire it ness f Rileys sentiment, particularly tn th dia- contained a large quantity "Of ripe lect poems, than the discretion with which ht fruit, ready foe packing andshipplng."" To assist in the development of touches the pathetic chord when he touches tt Utah and la making Little southern One of the most popular poems he evei at alL accessible to tourists, the Elon wrote was valley Roses, and one worf too much, one pressure the least bit too Insistent federal government has appropriated would have made the thing as offensive as a 115, QUO toward the construction of a vaudeville ballad. The taste which told him tt highway through Mubuntuweap monument of .which Little Zion ...he almplc. and the,, sincerity, which , begat. th valley is a part. taste save the verses from the reproach. J JTtiL.yerst . Tor., children .and about chtidret Plane for opening far western bead . could only have been written by a man whom quarters at" Salt Lake with Senate: .lore und understanding of children wa rent, fo Smoot in charge are cow anjer conchildren are quick to detect and repudiate any sideration by the Republican national tldng of the sort that is pumped up for effect committee, according to information and they contributed enormously to the genera received at Salt Lake. feeling of affection for him. The regard of th A veritable .vild man of the bills children was In a way a testimonial to hla per was taken into custody by deputies th slating you! hfnines of spirit; he was still the!) from the sheriffs office wb-- n playmate; perhaps tt Is an earnest of immor stranger was discovered by North tality. tf Immortality can be. Certainly love en Ogden young men in the fotl!a dares longer than anything else, and this mai cear that place. Tht mm who Is with the childlike sweetness la hla soul goet to ha insane. Is about Sd y::x from cs loved as few men have been." 7 of age and a foreigner, pr; Italian. na-Tion- . 7 -- . eved |