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Show Iter $Uw (he.$0 TAN DING WIXOM, END OF STRIKE rroprietere. OPERATORS Tear, in Blx Lonths Three Months Cm 3tdc.... K HXBt'M STANDING, Editor. ' S ) f I Instruction to Corroapoadaote. Item of newt are aolleltad from all part of the oountry. Write upon one aide of the paper only. Write proper name plainly. In order to protect the publisher from Impersons, tha full positions from Irresponsible name of the author should be signed to all communications Tne identity of eorrespoadeats will be withheld whenever desired. - w i? PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. Contracts for the building of a new Jiil at Proro bare been let. & . U I 4' Typhoid fever is epidemic in Richfield and other portions of Sevier county. The prediction is made that flour will advance soon, owing to advanced wheat prices. There is said to be a scarcity of teachers in the small towns in many parts of the state. W. S. McCornick of Salt Lake haa been elected a director of the Oregon Short Line railway. The government crop report plaeee the average yield of Utah spring wheat at 24.2 bushels per acre. miles of new Utah has seventy-fiv- e railroad track credited to it for the second half of the present year. Senator Clark ef Montana denies the reported sale of the holdings of the San Pedro to the Short Line. The Ladies Literary club1 of Salt Lake has adopted a resolution aaking for the strict enforcement of the curfew law. W. P. Read, of Salt Lake City, has been elected a member of the execa-tiv- e committee of the American Street Railway association. ' St. V. Le Sieur claims the discovery of a mouutaiu of opals on Indian creek, Ida., and has broughtdown a thousand of the gems to Provo. rs destroyed the safe at the Sierra Nevada Lumber company's office at Salt Lake last week, and secured about 8400 in cash. Any registrar who refuseses to register any legal voter upon demand, is made liable to a fine of from 8100 to 81.000, and a year's imprisonment. A sugar factory is to be erected at or near Maiad, and it is said the Short' Line will build a branch from Brigham City to the factory, via Corrinne and Bear River City. The Indiana under Agent Myton, at White Rocks, draw an annuity from the government of 882.50 for every member of the tribe, juvenile or adnlt, approximating 870,000. The public schools of Manti were ' opened Monday for the first time this year, owing to the prevalence of contagious diseases which have swept the city for some time past A sneak thief entered the bakery and confectionery store of James Stevenson at Springville Sunday afternoon and took a cash box containing 828 in coin and bills. Great Sait Lake was two feet and eight inches below the aero mark on the 5th, and the Saltair pavilion waa entirely on dry land, the water having receded beyond the fireworks atand. d The daughter of Arnoe Thornton of American Fork, while playing around a bonfire with other children last week, waa burned to death, her clothing having caught fire. The Deep Creek country it just now furnishing a field of operatiou to the knightsof the road in tha direction of horse stealing. Within a apace of ten days three valuable horses have been Safe-blowe- I l! ii ? f n nine-yearol- , 1 5 5 stolen. James Holly, one of the early settlers of Springville, died laat week 4 t i I I ib f 1 4 V J I h from the effects of a paralytic stroke which he sustained eeveral mouths ago. The deceased was a native of England and was 80 year old. Insurance companies operating in Salt Lake have raised insurance rates in the business section, alleging that scarcity of water and lack of fire fighting facilities make risks too great at present rates. Business men say the raise is the result of a combination of the companies. Frank Croft, aged 12, of Deseret, while hunting rabbits accidentally shot himself through the calf of the leg. He bad forgotten to let the hammer down and a small twig caught and discharged the weapon. He waa two miles away from borne and had a hard pull to reach home. The county superintendentof schools in Utah will ask the legislature to re. peal the present school law, and abolish district school trustees and replace .them with a county school board to have charge of all schools in the county. George Wade, principal of the Mound Fort school at Ogden, while in a de lirinm of fever Tuesday of last week, secured a revolver and shot himself through the breast, dying seven hours later. Mr. Wade was anffering from typhoid fever. Two reservoirs will be constructed on the upper Weber valley to store the surplus water that runs to waete in - the spring. . The undertaking will be accomplished by an association of the which take y Irrigation wa ter from the river. George Smith, a western pioneer, died at Marysvale last week, aged 78. He crossed the plains in 1865, followed mining in several western states, and of late years engaged ia the grocery business, first at Satins, then at Belknap and Marysvale. warBiwi"v"ewjt iw I DECIDED TJ 91.25 Entered at the Poatofflea at Brigham City aa aecond-claa- a mall matter. i a FINALLY ARBITRATE Term ot SabtarlpUoai V HAVE IS IN SIGHT Way Is Mow Open for a Complete Settle-mutand It Is Hellevnd Miners Will Boon Beta me Work y authority of J. P. Morgan, who, with his partner, Robert Bacon, and By Secretary Root wss in conference with President Roosevelt at the temporary While House for an hour and a half, a statement was given out by Secretary Cortelyou, in which the presidents of the cost carrying railroads and mine operators propose a commission of five persons to adjust the differences and settle the coal strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. Tha proposition is believed by the adminiatra tion to be satisfactory to the mineral as it covers the proposition made by President Mitchell of the United Mioe Workers union, with additional con" ditiona, which, it is believed, the The statement miners will accept. follows: The operators have agreed to the appointment of a commission, to be appointed by the president of the United States, to whom shall be referred all questions at issue between the companies and their own employes, whether they belong to the union or not, and the decision of the commission shall be accepted by the operators The commission is to consist of an army or navy engineer officer, and expert mining engineer not connected with the coal mining properties, one of the judges of the United States courts of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, a man of prominence, eminent as a sociologist, and a man who, by active participation in mining and selling coal, ia familiar with the physical and commercial features of the business. The operators also make it a part of the proposition that the miners shall return to work as soon aa the commission ia constituted and cease all interference with men. The commission is to name a date when its findings shall be effective and to govern conditions of employment between the companies and their own employes for at least three years When no official statement was made at the White House after the operators' address was made public by Secretary Cortelyou, the opinion was expressed that the way is now open for a complete settlement of the strike and that the mines will soon be in operation. non-uni- on STRUCK BY TORNADO. Over One Hundred House Demollehed by Twister in Illinois. The storm that raged at Quincy, Ills., Sunday also visited other sections of Illinois. Reports indicate the complete or partial demolition of more than 100 houses. Many people were hurt,' but there were no instant fatalities. At Camp Point, the southeastern corner of the town was struck and twenty or more housee were destroyed. Henry M. Jacobs home was among those destroyed. Jacobs is a complete wreck from nervous prostration and may die. Robert Garrett was sick in bed. His house was unroofed and part of the wall fell on his couch. He was unhurt, but may die from exposure. Mrs. Robert Tribue wss buried in tbe ruins of her home and may die. The southern part of Quincy was struck by the storm and Green Mount cemetery wae stripped of every tree. Boer Generals Visit Parle. The Boer generals, Botha, Dewet and Delarey, arrived in Paris Monday. M. Paulitte and the committee received them at the railroad sta-tio- o. After speeches of welcome had been delivered the party drove to a hotel. Tbe precincts of the station and the route to the hotel were thronged with spectators, who heartily cheered the generals, although the crowds present and the enthusiasm manifested were nothing like the assemblages and demonstration witnessed on the occasion of Mr. Kroger's arrival here, two years ago. A Battalion or Turkish Troops Annihilated pro-Bo- by Macedonian. A dispatch to tbe London Daily Mall from Volo, Greece, says that twenty-tw- o villages in Macedonia are in complete revolt and that half a battalion of Turkish troops bad been annihilated by inanrgents in the Kresena defile. Thit news, continues the dispatch, emanates from sources which have hitherto minimized tbe trouble. Tbe eituation, consequently, appears to have suddenly grown worse. Enpbatlt Dvaltil Mailt by tha Porta NEW YORKS GOVERNOR REBUKES COAL OPERATORS. LOUISIANA MILITIA IN HIDING Very Plain Talk From GorernoiOdDlI and President Baer MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL What do you mean by politicians? I wantyouandall operators to understand that I am the governor of New York, the chosen representative of 7,000,000 people, aud that I am here in this matter solely in that capacity, and to relieve if possible, an intolerable situation. And, what is more, I intend to use every power at my command to do it, 1 he forgoing statement was made by Governor Odell of New. York to President Baer of the Reading road, in tbe irescnce of. United States Senators Platt of New York and Quay and Penrose of Pennsylvania, in a conference on the coal strike at New York Friday. It was the culmination ot a heated interview in the office of Senator Platt and tbe result of the meeting between Governor Odell and President Baer. Mr. Baer was not in the best ol humor when, accompanied by E. B, Thomas, chairman of the board oi directors of tbe Erie railroad, he entered Senators Platt's office. The conference began by a statement made by Senator Penrose that the situation wai becoming 60 serious that some solution must be found at once. He suggested that the operators should in cline to some concessions toward I settlement. If you mean by that, said Presi dent Baer, that vve are to recognizi the existence of a labor union, I tel! you right now that the operators wik consider no such proposition. Governor Odell was on his feet in aq instant. Holding a half-bur- nt cigai in his hand, and white with exciteAre we to nnderatand ment, be said: that no kind of conciliatory proposition would receive attention at the bands of the operators? Ididnotsay that, answered Mr. Baer, but I do say that we will not accept political advice or allow the interference of politicians in this, out affair." Then it was that Governor Odell made the statement attributed to bits at tbe beginning of this article. President Baer, evidently appreciab ing that be had gone too far, bowed tc Governor Odell and said: Governor, I beg your pardon. No personal affront was intended, HDd we will listen tc any suggestions you may have to make, Bnt again I repeat that we must refuse to recognize the union represented by Mr. Mitchell." I do believe,- said tbe governor, that your position, from a public view, is absolutely untenable. If coal operators, railroad men aud other business men can combine for mutual profit and protection, there is no reason why laboring men should not. - Illinois Men ho Mysterious Disappeared Found to Hospital Lewis Sylvester, an Aurora, 111., con- tractor, who baa been missing since August 23rd, bas been found in Portland, Ore,, ill with brain fever. His wife has received a letter from him Stating that be had been in a hospital When Sylvester for several weeks. left Aurora, starting for Chicago on a business trip, he carried about 81,000 in currency. His letter stated that he remembered going to Chicago on a certain day, but remembered nothing more until he found himself in the Portland hospital. Hooper Young Hold for Murder The coroner's jury that has been investigating the death of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, whose body was found in tin Morris canal on Sept. 18, rendered a verdict io Jersey City that the woman came to her death through violence al Abe bands of William Hopper Yonng. Col Will Come In Free of all Duty. The practical effect of Secretary Shaw' recent instructions to collectors of ports and other customs officer to facilitate as much as possible the importation of coal at the present time will be to admit Welsh hard coal free of customs duties. Customs officer take the secretary's letter to mean that, while they are to carry out th tariff law in regard to the collection oi duties on coal, where there is a chanc to construe the law liberally theyar to do so. Weleh daughter and her husband, prevented Thomaa Doherty, a blacksmith of Ottumwa, Iowa, from exterminating his entire family while in a drunken rage. He waited et tbe head of tbe stairs et bis residence to pick them off with a goo aa they came up. They fled to a neighbors and later when they reappeared Doherty opened fire. The shots went wild, and, having but one bullet left, he shot himself through tbe mouth. He will die. General Strike Kiprcted. A Monos, Belgium, dispatch says: The miners of three pita in the Grand Hornu colliery went on a strike MonThe movement threatens to day. spread through the whole district. An increase of wages is demanded by the miners on the ground that the price of coal haa risen in consequence of the strikes in the United States and France. It it said that the mine owners fedora tion baa refused the demand to inerease wages and that a general strike is expected to be declared Thursday, GUARD SEEK SERVICE. Declare That Many of th Striklnx Crma ar Their Friend and They Do not Caro to be Ploeed la a Position Where They May Have to Bhoot Them. Tbe street car strike eituation in New Orleans is becoming graver every hour and serious trouble is expected. The governor ia being urged by the business men to endeavor to settle the trouble without a resort to troops. Out of 1,600 militiameo in the city at 6 o'olock Friday night, 700 had reported at the armories, or bad been brought In by the corporals guard. The squads had to exercise a great deal of patience to refrain from resenting the attacks and jeers of the crowds on the streets. At every point they were greeted with derisive epithets by the crowds of men and boys. One militiaman rode around the city on a horse and was attacked several times by boys with stones. Many of the soldiers do not want to go on this service and are hiding. They say they have friends and relatives among the strikers, and they do not want to be called upon to sboot them. ALL COAL MINERS WILL BE CALLED OUT. Effort Will be Made by Miners lo Fores Operator to Brins Btrlk to nn End. George Allen, a lineman, was electrocuted at Stockton, Cal., Friday. James P. Treadwell of Pittabnrg, Pa, shot his wife et Pasadena, Cal., Friday and then committed suicide. American anthracite coal imported at Hamburg last winter le being for shipment to the United Statea Commander-in-Chie- f Stewart of the Grand Army has reappointed Quartermaster General Charles Burrows of New Jersey. King Edward is reported to be taking an active interest in the educational bill and in ecclesiastical appointments The thirty-firs- t anniversary of the big fire in Chicago, waa observed Thursday of last week by banqneta and speeches. At Whatcom, Wash., dry kilns oi Loggia Brothers mill burned Friday, entailing a loss of 825, 00X There is 810,000 insurance. Tbe New Mexico Republican Territorial convention nominated Bernard S. Rodney to succeed himself as delegate to congress. In Lexington, Mo., the electric light plant and Hoffman's brewery end several dwellings were destroyed by fire. Loss, 8100,000. King Oscar haa bestowed the grand cross of SL Olaf on Captain Sverdrup, tbe Arctic explorer, and has given him an annual allowance of 8810. Boliviana have put to death four Brazilians at Puerto Alouzo. They alio have arrested many other Brazilians and are holding them as hostages. Six hundred thousand dollars In the treasury, half of which is gold bullion consigned to Japan, was carried to the Orient by the steamer Nippon A Denver dispatch says: Telegrams have passed between the officials of the Western Federation of Miners and President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers looking to a complete tie up of all bituminous coal mines in the United States and Canada. The telegram of President Moyer and Secretary Haywood of the Western Federation, says: Exigencies demand that no coal of any kind be mined in tbe United Mau. States and Canada until the anthraSecretary Moody has decided to have cite strike is won. The Western Fedthe floating dry dock at Havana transeration of Miners will to ported to the Pensacola nary yard as tbia end. toon aa it can be made ready for tbe Mr. Mitchells response says: Tel voyage. egram received. Shall give careful Rear Admiral George W. Melville, consideration to your 'suggestion engineer-in-chie- f of the United States Many thanks for the proffer of navy, who was stricken with Intermitand assistance. tent fever abont ten days ago, haa reThe significance of this correscovered. pondence, said President Moyer, ia Luther T. Ellsworth, United States far reaching. - It means that, if Pies-ide- nt consul at Puerto Cabelio, cables to the John Mitchell will call out all etate that all communicadepartment his men in every soft and hard coal tion with tbe interior of Venezuela mine in this country and Canada, tbe has been cut off. Western Federation of Miners will imThe Mexican government has ordered with them and mediately a military force to guard trains out we have in the withdraw every man Nacoal fields of the west, northwest and and stations on that portion of the a affected road tional at by present Canada. And this will mean that tha of strike employeA stubborn mine operators iD Pennsylvania- will have to bring this long Preliminary plans have been restrike to an eDd or the people through- ceived from Chicago for nine and two-thirout the country will know tbe reason miles of intramural railway why. This is the only way to end the which will carry visitors around th trouble. world's fair grounds. OPERATORS ASK GOVERNMENT At Emporia, Kansas, last ,week, TO SUPPRESS COAL STRIKE. James Pendleton, mayor of Gentry, Want Striker Prou.cut.d Under Sherman Mo., convicted of bigamy, waa senLaw Against Bent mint of Trade. tenced to five years in tbe penitentiary, David Wilcox, and the extreme penalty. counsel for tbe Deleware & Hud ion The mystery surrounding the disRailroad company, and one of those appearance from Sioux City, Ia laat present at the recent conference called Friday of Mrs. T. F. Buros.a musician, by President Roosevelt at Washington, baa been solved by the fioding of her has sent to President Roosevelt a body in the Sioux river. letter demanding that the federal govIlls reported that tha Japanese government proceed against the miners' ernment, within the next six years, organization in the courts, on the will build four battleships, six first-cla- ss ground that it is a conspiracy to precruisers mod various leeser craft, vent interstate commerce. Mr. Wilat a cost of 860,000,000. cox, it is said on authority, represents The Mercantile Trust company of all the coal operators in this section, and was selected as their spokesman. New York, announces that it is furThe letter was made public in New nishing 822,000,000 to David Moffat York together with a letter written and associates, of Denver, to bnild the several months ago to the president Moffat road from Denver to Salt Lake. the same line. along The entire silk cargo of the Tartar Despised Ruslan Thistle Cultivated for arrived at Vancouver, B. C., was Forage. 82,000,000. The much despised Russian thistle ia valued at approximately to be cultivated for Bummer forage. A The Tartar brought 539 tone of raw force of men is now breaking ground silk and other silk in a manufactured ttate. on the Wbitebouseand Palmer ranches, Charles M. Schwab, president of the near Laramie, YVyo., where thistle seed will be sown as an experiment. Stock United State Steel corporation, ha will be kept off until next summer, chartered Anthony J. Drexel'a steam when they will be turned into the enclosure. Last summer a tract of land yacht, tbe Margarita, and will spend on the Whitebouse ranch became seedpart of the winter ernieing on the ed voluntary, and in July, when the Mediterranean. , plant waa in the right condition for line Kosmos steamer Kambyses The feed, about eighty head of stock were turned intotheloL The cattle stayed is a wreck on Gninos Point, on the with the thistle until not a weed was coast of Costa Rica. The vessel left left, and seemed to do as well on it as San Francisco September IStb.'bonnd on grass. for Hamburg. She waa the finest TeaTerrible Crime of Schoolmaster. sel on the line. At Altona, Dakota, J. J. Toews, a Count Eugene Eserhazy has created school teacher, had aome trouble with a sensation by retiring from the order the school trustees and, meeting them of Jesuits and commencing legal proon the road while going to school, to recover hie fortune of drew a revolver and shot A. Rem pel, ceedings 8175,000 which he gave to the society J. Hiebert and P. Kehler. Toews then it In 1885. returned to the school house and ahot onjolning Oil cannot compete with coal for three pupils, two of them daughers of Mr. Kehler and the other a daughter naval use. At least that is the con. of Mr. Rempel. He then turned the clnaion reached by the board of naval revolver upon himself and will die. engineers, which for many week past has been making a series of practical Rempel, Hiebert and two of the girls testa with various oil burner. ", are also fatally wounded. East side. New York, confectionery ftllMl to Hoed Commands of Sentry. manufacturer are supplying cocoannt William Durham, aged 25, a vetera0 shell to tenement dwellers for' fuel. of the Spanish war, waa shot dead by The shells are sold in bags of fifty to Private Wadsworth of company A, sixty pound for 10 or 15 cents a bag. Eighteenth regiment, at Shenandoah, The material furnishes more heat than Pa. Wadsworth waa a member of a coal. quad that had been detailed to guard Tbe eorner-stoof the proposed a miners house which waa dynamited memorial bridge aeross the Potomac alon Monday night Durham, it is to connect Washington with Arlington leged, waa walking towerd the house cemetery was dedicated at a big open-ai- r Vads-wortand waa commanded to halt by h. meeting in the White House lot . He disobeyed the command afternoon. . The stone Thursday and the sentry fired. The bullet seven tons. weight pierced his heart. A notable party of Pennsylvania and ) October Crop Report. New York bankers looking, into PaThe monthly report of the statis- cific coast securities and investment tician of the department of agriculture for their eastern clients, has arrived show the average condition of corn on in dan Francisco. These bankers are October 1st to have been 76.9 as comtraveling in a special car, and there pared with 84.3 last month,. 52.1 on are forty in tbe company. October 1, 1901; 78.2 at the correspondHaving made and lost four fortnnet ing date in 1900, and 77.7 tbe mean of and finding himself broken in health the October averages of tbe laat ten and almost penniless 'at the age of 70. years. The preliminary estimate of Charles W. Lewis, a well-knopro the average yield per acre of spring motor and member of a leading Fiftl wheat ie 14.4 bushels, subject to re- avenue club in New York, Saturday vision when the final wheat eetimate snded hie life with morphine. ie made. ChtuMe-Bliid- e Counterfeit Silver Dollart Circulating In Manila Counterfeit silver dollars are being made in China and circulated iu Manila The suspicion is that extensively. some of this money was shipped from San Francisco. The dollars are of silver and of standard weight They have been detected through the improper stampingof .the word Liberty? on .the Goddess. The low price of silver insured to the makers of this counterfeit money a profit of 100 per cent. American silver circulates as gold in the Philippines. Many Deserter From Army. The annual report of Major General Robert P. Hughes, commanding the department of California, deals mainly with the routine work of the department He recommends that the camp at Honolulu, Hawaii, known as Camp McKiuley, be made a permanent post. Daring tbe year the total number of recruits in the department was 10,416. On tbe other hand, there was a loss in those recruits amounting to 0,617, resulting from assignments to other stations, discharges, deaths aud desertions. Desertions numbered 826. ne wn 4t orcaace SUMMARY. . Botba Suyt Kruger Did Not Curry Awe) Treoeveal State Fund. The porte, through the Turkish ambassador In London, denies tbe report General Botha denies tbe report! cabled from Parie to the London Stanwhich have been circulated that Mr dard Saturday, that, according to ruoff Transvaal stat mors current in the French capital, Kruger carried and declares that, on the confunds, private negotiations were proceeding the had contribute! between Russia and Turkey, which, if trary, to the Boer cause money from his own successful, would result in an agreement to close the Dardanelles to all pocket. General Dewet, referring U bnt Russian ; warships. Tbe govern- the controversy on the subject of ac ment of Turkey declares that no nego- audience of the Boer generals with tiations are on foot with the object of Emperor William, said his majesty had opening the Dardanelles to Russian not invited them, and that hence th warships. generals had not refused an audience Went Gunnlug for Entire Family. of bla wife, Only the TO EVADE NEWS A Philosophical Observations By BYRON WILLIAMS The October seal of varlcolor ia uion the valley, set by the handoijT I frost king. The haze, the quiet, the miscellaneous tints are omnipresent, v I rustling leaf, the purpled sky at sunset, the crispness of the air, the ribbon I scarlet of the leaves clinging upon the dark treetrunks all tell the totT each bespeaks In silent language that he who runs may read. Yet he l I Iconoclast who hastens past the signs of now, a rude, corn-fed- . unpolit fellow failing to read the beauty o? the day. with deliberation. Gods greeuZl I to be trivially disregarded. The lesson of fulfillment is too Impr-sMv- e Is hollow and at night chill, start ng the grates as centerpieces about wwl love and affection group themselves in the mansions and the cottages home is. All tend to happiness, teichlng the heart in the autumn of lit tj, is a ripe and peaceful glory, surcease from the heat of activity, the worrjin.1 I strenuous time of existence. In the woods the oaks are mocking Fate as the strong men defy th,l 1 1 a inevitable. Their leaves will fall at last, tough and sear, but fall they I lr even as men do who long defy the end of earthly man. The belated bee finds little nectar in the dying Bowers, but like the I fleeting joys of earth, the sweet Is honeyed. Mans final joys are reluctautij I relinquished. The lethargic insects seek the noonday sun as man the warning rtlfciq heat before the book of this life ie closed. The days are numbered, and thl lesson is that all must go the Inevitable way In time. There Is no escape; tki I I noonday sun narrows In qcarmth from hour to minutes and from second n, I summons. There is make His no shall He when the last abyss of time wbq way, no subterranean or aerial pass or interstice all In the end lead not y, I I Rome, but to eternity. The bosoms of the river are placid as dreams of .childhood. Calmly th I like thoughts of youti lie sheening the silhouettes from natures mercury-back- s and long ago, when mothers arms shielded and defied the world, when 1$ nocence was peace and sympathy as great as mothers love. ipi Along the banks the grasshoppers are springing In the In rustling discords, clinging to the dried and bended grasses as age holi fast with feeble clutch to sunset days. Beetles hide beneath dry trunks, t$ I mullein leaves and scattered bark from fallen trees. Like the ostrich, wij head beneath the sand, they fear to face the light of day for fright ot what tlfc future holds. And the squirrel, safe against the winter by his storehouse full, sputten and fumes and chatters at the vandals of the wood. Like the miser hi hit plenty snugly hid and guards with Jealous care his heritage of labor. The gunners wander In the woods with gun and yelping dogs, startling tE pheasant and the tiny quail, overturning logs and sending charges of lead it the scurrying rabbits form. Even in such a panorama of peace and quletuiU and beauty, man must shed blood. In the country store at night the "Colonel, conservative in dement, doles out his sugar and his plug while village oracles guide the ship of ttate amid the smoke of battle from the pipes of cob and clay and briar. Th, grocers shrewd, quick eye, sees the "poor pay guest, the most spectaculu of all, the loudest talker and the greatest puffer at the fragrant stem. The store is small, yet there Is a snugly social air about the stove when grouped in grotesque array the "strategy board Is now with Grant, nov asking prices on the harvests yield, now relating an Incident of Billing, cow, now mourning for a president. Through their converse runs a honelj strain of truth and candor. The redolent onion and the hook-nosesquh are keeping vigil waiting death by fire and mastication, while oil and cider, vinegar and lasses stand barreled Id arrays of miscellany. There is the time, dulled hatchet and the oil lamp, the tiny postofflee fixtures and the bundle These and many more make up the picture that October gronjs of within the country store. October in and out of doors! Vive la October! Queen of months th, harbinger of snow and yet the forerunner of evenings at home, evening! others' homes, being of beauteous comfort and holy peace the golden that binds the summer to the winter, outpalnts artists, outdreams dreamer, overshadows the doctors and puts health in the body, Joy in the heart ui thankfulness In every prayer. 1 sun-kisse- d I I d text. An editorial writ? The fickleness of the public has been an discussing the inconstant people calls attention to the fact that the fund hi purchase a great monument for President McKinley is yet very inadequati Oh, the fickle public," he write. and seems not to promise of completion. Indeed, when one stopi to Shame to so unfaithful and thankless a race. Yet fickleness is no new criticism. In the is there ponder, just reprimand characteristic and he who accepts this disposition of the people with philosophy, is wise. Far easier is, it to be as Henry VI : I am a soldier and unapt to weep Or to exclaim on fortunes fickleness. Great men have too often become cynics because of the changeablenaa of their constituency. Oliver Cromwell, returning to London from a successful campaign In Ireland, was received with every honor that Parliament and th people could bestow. He did not despise applause from the people but I realized its intrinsic value. Some one remarked, What a crowd comes to He replied, If It were to see me hanged, how see your lordships triumph. many more there would be! Individuals are fickle; why should not the public be Inconstant Th great multitude Is made of Individuals. Many a young man has spent hu salary week after week and been in all manner of embarrassing situations for the sake of some young woman as fickle as she is fair. Husbands grow fickle and set snares for their own feet, an erstwhile honest business man is expose! to fickleness and contracts the disease and a jail sentence. Ministers grow fickle and hug the choir girls, cot often, butt occasionally. We are all more or less fickle and changeable. We may not be like Cleopatra but we hive a touch of the same stigma. The earnestness of life, to say nothing of th sorrows and griefs, makes us fickle. Life is indeed real. Many find the task of living all absorbing. Under excitement or awakening, the emotions in aroused. It 1b then we plan to build monuments, to do great things. Tki hearts are right, but the struggles, the trials, the absorbing things, dampen our ardor and make us forget. The social system Is such that a fierce contest rages. In the heat, the battle, the turmoil, is it any wonder that we are some times fickle and forgetful? oft-use- d Smoking a cigar through a mouthpiece is like kissing a pretty girl through a heavy veil. Many a young lady has taken off her veil, however, and demand as her tribute abrogation of the weed of which Hood says: Some sigh for this or that; My wishes dont go far; The world may wag at will. So I have my cigar.! Rudyard Kipling in The Betrothed tells of a Cupid who would not work in tobacco smoke. He Bays; For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between The wee little whimpering Love and the great god Nick OTeen. Time was when It was not uncommon for a young woman to balk at the made a solemn and binding obligation plighting point until the Benedict-to-b- e to quit smoking. Is it not true that women are growing less opposed to to bacco? An extract from Bulwer-Lyttofrom What Will He Do With Itr Is: "Woman in this scale, the weed In that, Jupiter, hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say 1, the next time June ruffles thee O Jupi ter, try the weed. To be chivalrous, however, in making a choice we say, Women, lift thy veil. n Many are the styles of religion There are creeds and sects aud red tape as long as the string on Johnnies kite. Even learned men quarrel and let rancor breed within their hearts over the way to be religious. All this when the most human, the simplest creed is the best the belief and Do unto others as you would b practice of being kind to your fellow men. done by. A man who is kind and who does by others as he would be doni by, needs no other religion.- - He need not necessarily forswear creeds or re main away from church, but if he lives up this simple, yet grand standard, he will have been truly great and good, a sincere follower of Jesus of Nazareth. Wnat we need is a practical softening of the heart of this j world, a kindlier interest one in the other. There are too many scowls and not enough smiles, too many hard faces that should be bright in the enjoy ment of an ennobling spirit of brotherhood. Be kind! Do unto others as you would be done by. It ia enough! to-da- money-grabbin- The time for gathering nuts is here again. Do you recall the great acreagi of wood where in its denseness grew the stalwart shell-barhickories, the spreading butternuts, the walnuts? There were squirrels chattering in the branches, quarreling as they scurried to Jhe hollow trees, weighted with plunder. In the basswood trunks, under prostrate logs, they hid swT the toothsome yield. Alas, after many days of labor, boy vandals came, turned over the logs, uncovered and made way with the stored riches, leaving destltu tion and ruin in their wake. Poor, unfortunate squirrels, thus to suffer si the hands of the strong. In this instance at least, twas satisfying to hire a giants strength but tyrannous to vse it like a giant Were you one ut those boys? Or were you a girl? k great-girthe- d , The figure of speech, Footprints in the sands of time, may have been founded on fact, although Longfellow possibly had no of this when thought he used it It his oft quoted "Psalm of Life. Geologists have found fossil footprints, the impressions of the feet of extinct animals, made on the mud of former geological epochs. The footprints have become hardened into stons Reptile tracks, worm burrows, and prints of the claws of cruF taceans, while not common, are numerous. Amherst- college contains over twenty thousand such specimens. Centuries ahead some child of a future aud much more enlightened generation may pounce upon the footprints of some one of us made in vacation time along s marshy lake shore. Moral Be careful of your footprints. fish-spin- Lot b wife looked behind her and Yas turned into a pillar of salt A ft1 of being metamorphosed into a streak of saline bitterness would be a goof We are a11 too much to looking backward, gazlul into memory s bright avenues, turning over given old photographs and mussing W health'ln mln ad body one should live In tW nuUnL 'lther han ln the Rastfns Past Let the memories linger benedictions T, wear them not as crepe upon the hat Mi |