Show ALTA COnnESPONDENCR I 1 I Table Talk About Sundry Things Storms Clouds an Eagles Good Night A fit 1 Fail to OlIh Rely Toll ond limit IIhhI Ilik11WO I I I uuP The Poison has been exceptionally One la Little Cottonwood tan yen very little front almost no rain until the closing meek 01 September and no now until tho first day of October There wa one hall storm In August that loft the ground white for nil hour or more 1 observed a singular phe IlUmcnoQ ILl the time or Ihlll slorm The hardy little plant known ns pen nyrujal la I found along the mountain aunmll 1 had been watching the clouds l gather and pile themieUcs In denso masses of threatening darkness The deonfall began tn the northet and I could hear the roar of the hall social minutes before reached Alta Hut In a short time after It came the atmosphere was loaded with the pungent pun-gent nroinn at pennjrojnl The hall had torn the plants and the storm forced the e > lor down Into the valley Ancient Inhabitants slid It I was the worst hall storm they had ever Been hreThe The first ot October was a Longfellow Long-fellow day that Is one might have described It by Iataphroslllg its lines thus The day li I cold and l dark nnd dreary It snovMi l and the wind li I never wears The vine null clings to the cloud capped hill Uut ill every gust the dead leaves spill And the day Is I dark still dreary But the day nflrl Neor wo the sun more bright and cheery Before I noon the show on southern exposures had become Water unit wall hastening to Utah salt Pea In the evening ns the golden cloud of the moonset rose In the west I saw n magnificent bald eagle rise above the skyline of Hot Tomal mountain And sweep slowly and gracefully round In on ascending plrol such as all 0le only can trace In I the air It appeared to me that he was rising to keep the sun In view ns It sank In the west With that thought In mind 1 brought out my glass 1 And oth1 him Ile moved ever round anti round nch Incomplete circle crrlog him farther vicstward and upwnrd When nt length 1 lowered low-ered the RllBS 1 the eagle had dl ap poll He man Invisible to tile unaided un-aided eye and yet I fancied he was Btlll gazing upon th suit while around me In tile alley the hade of night wore talllllg rnot etc MoolIlIhl nlorhts nip superb hereIn There here-In neither dust nor smoke to ob score the face of Lima nn1 l she shines white and l cold And 1 still at her very het Ono night when she was on hr monthly full I lay for hours watching the magic Play or light and hnle as the clouds driven by a hrlk southern breawepl ncross her face Now hug normsses of vapor ns while as piled now floated by their edges Is they crossed me moon hemmed 1 wIth glowing silver Again great black Thor stormers dashed lIy III ursult of the nymphs of the gossamer hutting the light out an suddenly and completely as when you 1low out the gas for the night 11 lie cause 01 title effect Is found In the nearness 01 the clouds 10 the eye of tile bhohler From the plain you see the alOe clouds nnd their thase but they are much farther away and the horlzc Is BO far removed that the light Is I never wholly obscured Hut In the canyon whore at hr greatest ailltudol came neo saying Alt ludoIh moon Is I merely peeping ot yon Over a mountain moun-tain crt And all the shadowed round Is black and tile horizon seemIngly seem-Ingly so clop that you cOlll touch It tile play of the moon and tile cloud become wonderfully Inteiestlng I I have had a buy and charming summer up hero among the stars I have cHirthell enough 10 earn mo nol less I than fifty miles straight Into the skies You see I om becomlo liarntllir with the way of mv flnnl Iromp though there are people tn Salt Lake foolish ennugh to say that I will be go Ing the other way I met a seetheart 011 one of my trips She was A daughter of the gods Divinely toll and most divinely fair or course she will never know how I much her charmingly Intellectual and I chastely beautiful face has been tome to-me arid I only tell you because my friends among tile readers of the Ne Nat hove carelessly accused me nt times of appreciation of the VIir lIla lnfe betterhalf Of 11 e I tied n rl up the canyon SOMetime lime ago wllh a vlvoelou i llltle vvldov who was the unfortllnote Owner of on Alta mine that had been devouring her house for years She wa running or wllh assertions or what he wo about to do to make the old camp live again I Innocently asked IvIly mile halt not lone so long before for hr own Lenent All I said she 1 have been btraI I have ben betrayed betray-ed Then I put my front In my mouth as usual by declaring that If she would show me the rascal who did It there should bo a stop put to his evildoings evil-doings Alta Is I profound The hlot alanx her hllli do not disturb her tlumber There goes on the little efforts of years to Jump others claims steal what the Incautious prospectors leave III their cabin or built fur ore In mine that have been abandoned Yet I believe she will wake again There Is I wealth > ct In old Immo ond when tier owners give over the policy of emplojlng snap hunters to manage their ptopsrty und 1 gle a practical common sense Miller control NjIth orders 10 go down they mill again find ore Then there 10 plenty ot uncut groul1 < < 1 as good no that of the olden time All that Is needed Is I nelnrenco and pluck There Is I no truth In the torl of Patted mines up here and no Occasion 10 ue salt The mountains Are bursting with mineral and one of these days nw men win reap the golden harvest The output of the present season must be credited to the CRY Hocks the Grizzly end tile llryan with a few Backe or Arm frollit several others CIiAnLEB ILLIS Alto October 4 lEn at the League rooms this elt Ima3 I which nil Interested In 1 M I A nnd I especially the oltlceis of the associations I associa-tions throughout the Stake are Invited In-vited The preliminary hearing of Benjamin Benja-min r Ontario charged with the imur tier or Martin Mock at Sandy will bo resumed before Justice Wenger at ten Oclock tomorrow A farewell concert will be tendered 10 Elder Walter ttomny In Ih Twnllelh ward meeting house tonight to-night cOIIIIIInelng lit 8 oelock An excellent progiam has been prepared No charge will bo made for admission |