| Show The Strike in the Clarion Office BY CAROLINE ' (Copyright by J Helen Leland looked sweet and charming in her fluffy white gown as she left the ballroom with Harold Mtmning "Shall we have an ice before we go As they passed home?" he queried under an electric light on the grand piazza he glanced appreciatively at the delicately flushed face "No Indeed! Not just now 1 must go to the office first and arrange my copy then while the men are putting it into type if you please we will have our ice After that we will go Busiback while I' read the proof she quoted ness before pleasure" gayly as they turned into the street toward the Clarion office “No one would dream of associating business with you especially in that stunning gown" rejoined Manning with cheerful gallantry Helen smiled wisely “And yet it Is serious business" she said “this being society editor oh a morning daily — even if we do go to balls in full dress and have a good time dancing" Manning offered no contradiction but really he could not associate anything serious with the petite graceful figure at his side To him she seemed a gay little butterfly and even the question of her good looks scarcely presented itself to him definitely Indeed she was not beautiful though possessing a charm that often serves in good stead She waB bright vivacious quick witted and tactful always saying just those pleasant things that put her companions at ease Barely 22 and in the morning flush of glorious youth Helen was full of enthusiasm and enjoyed the ball quite as though she was attending it only for pleasure with no idea of its being material for “copy” The daughter of a country editor in a fashionable watering place Helen was glad to earn a trifle during the gay season by writing for other pa “I Used to ‘Stick Type' When In College” Was pers but was careful not to let it appear how much of this work she really did feeling that her pen was freer if unembarrassed by the clamor of notoriety seekers That she was society editor of the daily Social Review she did not care to conceal since It gave her opportunity to get material for her department and incidentally current gossip for her letter to metropolitan papers Harold Manning had no idea of the work she really did Truth to tell he thought her rather frivolous though sufficiently amusing He had met her casually and attracted by her airy persiflage because her cavalier pour This evening he passer le temps had accompanied her to a ball at one of the largest summer hotels her father her usual escort having a "publication day headache" as she termed it after bringing out the Weekly Clarion They reached the office soon after midnight and giving him a novel from a pile of review copies on her desk she turned to her work "Miss Leland the copy sent up this afternoon is still on the hook and Smithers and Morgan haven’t shown There are not enough men up yet up there to get up the stuff in time to go to press at five o’clock” It was Mr Hurst the publisher of the Society Review who spoke and it was evident that he had been drinking Helen absorbed in her work silently looked up with a puzzled expression A B f IIULING Lippineott Co) "Can’t we call your father? I can send one of the men for him’ the publisher suggested "Oh no indeed!” she replied "Father was too ill when he went home and 1 know that if he is disturbed he I’ll call will sufTer all day up the Unjon office and see if they can spare a couple of compositors to help out" "There is one ‘sub’ down there who will come at once” she said a moment later laying down the receiver of Jier desk ’phone "but I need two” A tiny frown wrinkled the high forehead which Manning was beginning to admire “Cannot I help out?” he hastened to ask unwilling to witness her dis“I used to ‘stick type’ when I tress was in college— you know I worked If you have got to my way through stay here I might as well make myself useful” "I will be awfully glad If you will” she eagerly replied "I can’t bear to arouse father" removed his Manning Smiling dress coat and vest and protecting his linen with the gingham "jumper” that Helen proffered — kept by her father for such emergencies — he mounted the stairB to the composing room and stick in hand was soon busy It was an hour later about two o’clock when Helen had finished her copy and sent it up While waiting to read the proof she turned to the novels she was to review for the Clarion Just then Mr Hurst reappeared and this time his condition was very apparent “Miss Leland the men have struck They say your father didn’t pay off in full Saturday and they won’t work nights without their money If this paper isn’t out I’ll take my work to another office” “I will see about that myself” Helen replied instantly her eyes blazing with wrath The She fairly flew up the stairs men sullen and defiant had gathered in a group around the imposing stone "What does this mean?” she de“Get back to your cases at manded once! The Review must be on time or we lose the Job” We can’t “We want our money work for nothing” responded one of them doggedly "How much does father owe you?" “Three dollars” “And you?” she turned to another "Five dollars but Hurst said that he gave your father three hundred last week and that he paid out most of it for a ball dress for you” "For shame!" she cried "I buy own dresses and — why — Hurst my borrowed $200 of father last week I am ashamed to pay for some paper of you to allow that man to influence you Can’t you see that he is We intoxicated and not responsible? must get this paper out and then he can take his work elsewhere My father has been as kind to you as to his own sons and this is the way you act when he is sick and I cannot tell him! Frank you learned your trade with us I am deeply grieved by your I will pay you myself toconduct I have ho money with me morrow now Back to your cases every man" and the strike was over— quelled by a girl in an evening gown Manning had been a silent but by no means uninterested spectator of the scene which had passed too rapidly for him to take part In it Now he turned in astonishment back to his case his eye taking in the copy before him and his fingers mechanically Just putting the little slips of metal In the stick in his hand Hi3 mind was not upon the work that he was doing Dancing before his mental vision was the picture of bed this girl— woman in very in a fluffy white gown with throat and shoulders modestly bared but with an expression of firmness and determination upon her face and eyes alight with indignation at variance with her coitume which of itself was so out of place in the dingy He had seen the efprinting office fect' upon the rough workmen a vision of femininity novel to their so that they eyes but As had been thoroughly subdued they returned to work and the girl heard mutter: he them left them "We can’t stand Miss Helen We’d But if that do anything for her Hurst comes up here again we’ll throw him out good and plenty” Manning noticed that Helen had checked Hurst as he was about to reenter the office but he did not hear her say: "You would better rest awhile Mr The men are angry with you Hurst Just now They will work better without you” and the fellow returned to saloon a near-bThe dawn was breaking when Manning took Helen home for she had the forms made up and see to stayed A long cloak the paper on press covered her white gown and there was no one on the streets to remark their appearance at an unusual hour A thrill of pride in her stirred the cold man of the world who had been only amusing himself with this lightHe had been a fool hearted child but his eyes were opened at last This was the girl he had assumed to be a He had trifler a frivolous butterfly not thought her even pretty Now to him she was loveliness incarnate and in his heart hope planted a germ for whose future lusty growth the mutual glances of young eyes augured well Indeed Eskimo Graves of Stone To the Eskimo mind everything animate or inanimate possesses a soul Thus in their graves we found they invariably placed every cherished possession that their spirits might serve the departed spirit in the same capacities in the life to come There is little room for burial beneath the scanty earth in Labrador even if the frost would permit it So the grave consists of upright stones with long flat These not only ones laid across serve to keep the wolves from the body but wide chinks also afford the spirits free passage in and out — From Wilfred T Grenfell’s “Experiences on the Labrador” in'the Century Only Backbone In public affairs your milk and water fellow with a putty spine a mealy mouth and the grin of a cowHe ardly ape - makes no enemies holds office half a century and two weeks after he is dead nobody can remember whether he was in congress or on the supreme court a governor or an ambassador So dissolves into oblivion everything but backbone — New York Press New Cars for the Metropolis With a view to supplanting the horse cars of crosstown lines in New York the receiver of the Third Avenue railroad is experimenting with two cars one an electric storage battery car using the new Edison storage battery and the other a car in which a gasoline engine is employed to operate a dynamo that furnishes current to motors on the car axles Too Big a Price Does the pursuit of wealth-cu- t the American man of business off from relish of books and the society? In other words is he paying too big or disproportionate a price in and time and strength for wealth commercial prominence? My answer would be: Yes beyond question— From A Barton Hepburn’s “The American Business Man” in the Century Added His Testimony the Absence of Knowledge of Text it Was Best Cowboy chapter of Genesis At last he broke out: “God made the wffrld!" The dominie lifted a hand to hide a sudden smile but bowed to Jim's Curley was Once upon a time not so long ago neighbor in the circle even worse off than Jim had been and a couple of cowpunchers found themfor the life of him could not think of selves guests in the home of a minisAt last remembering the ter of the gospel whose custom was anything occasional virtue of a good bluff he to hold family worship of a morning twisted one foot around his chair leg and to conclude the same by asking and with all the confidence he could each one present to give some quota- muster remarked: “He shore did!” tion from the Scriptures One after another repeated some text says Probably ou suppose the Venus Recreation until at last it came the “How turn of Jim Bulstoke of the Crowfoot lost her arms?” ranch "She evidently dropped them to "My dear young friend” said the grab her bath robe which you can see dominie as he saw the latter hesitat- is slipping off” ing "surely can recall some verse in 1920 from the Bible" JIm’B face was bathed with perspir"Express elevator for the roof!" “We drop the ation but at last there came to him yelled the starter at thq one hundred and some approximation of a memory of g-car floor — Western Christian Advosomething he had read or heard at some stage of his life about the first cate In Could Do PIRATES RAID JUNK IN STYLE " i TALE OF MURDER LOOT FROM VICINITY OF’ SINGAPORE THRILLING AND Victoria B C — A rousing pirate story comes from the vicinity of SingIt is told by officers and pasapore sengers of the recently arrived oriental liner Empress of China A large Chinese Junk left Singapore Tor Hainan but found the winds unfavorable and next night dropped anchor between Pulo Tokong and the mainland of Johore not far from the sultan’s Asian Monte Carlo The crew at 14 and four passengers were aroused at midnight by the barking of the They Proceeded to Strike Right and Left Among the Sailors junk's dog but the alarm was spedlely Two silenced by a Malay knife prahus had cpme alongside and in them were ten men some Chinese and others Malays They proceeded to strike right and left among the sailors laying several low Then they seized the chinchow and proceeded to hang him up in buccaneer style to force him to disclose the location of the most valuable carThis he did and the pirates havgo ing secured all the booty they could make away with departed as silently as they had come The booty was not immense It consisted of $4 in money gold leaf valued at $80 raw chandu valued at $90 and six boxes of personal effects When the survivors came to count losses they found five dead on the junk two were missing their bodies having been thrown overboard and four were wounded one of whom died later Depositions were taken at the General hospital at Singapore Seven of the occupants of the junk were practically unhurt and these started to bring their vessel back to Singapore the chinchow coming on ahead in a sampan When he arrived a police party put out in the launch Lady Evelyn and met the junk off Tanjong Katong She was towed into port and the injured men were conveyed to the General hospital and the five bodies landed for burial The survivors turned over to the police four weapons found on board after the pirates left These may help in dientifying the criminals The weapwho escaped unscathed ons are two long Chinese knives with narrow blades and bone handles an ax with a short iron handle and the heavy murderous fighting blade with was which the greatest execution wrought MINES AND MINING During 1908 thirteen Utah mines paid dividends aggregating $5537716 and this will be eclipsed by the Utah' ' producers in 1909 During 1907 and 1908 the coal mines' of Utah produced 3812000 tons of coal the retail price of this product1 ' exceeding $21000000 The International Smelting & Refining company Is building in Tooele county Utah thirty miles from Salt Lake City a plant that will cost James Earl superintendent of the Hunter Mining company of Boise Idaho died at his home in Salt Lake City July 5 following a siege of Bright's disease Iron county Utah has the greatest Iron deposits In the world A Pennsylvania expert estimates the body of Iron ore in one section of this county qt four hundred billion tons Martial law prevails in the southern Cape Breton coal fields Troops are' guarding the collieries of the Dominion company and an attempt will be made to operate the mines under military protection To pay dividends aggregating the large total of $25609657 In five months of 1909 despite continued low metal prices is the record achievement of eighty American mines and ' metallurgical works Near Kanab In Southern Utah deposits of cannel coal have been traced for several miles One man has bared a deposit twelve feet In thickness on the surface and local capital Is taking up this valuable land The Guggenhelms have no hesitation in saying that the earnings of the Yukon Gold Mines company the present year will reach a total of while these will be undoubtedly' Increased to $2500000 next year Stockholders of the Mining company are much encouraged to learn an additional paymenti of $15000 has been mad® on the mill' debt leaving a balance of only $20000 unpaid says a Philadelphia dispatch It is proposed by those In controlj of the Yukon Gold Mines company to increase the par value of Its shares from $5 to $25 holders of the present shares to receive one share of the new for each five shares of the Golden ' With its Jumbo plaster works and Keene cement plant the little town of Sigurd In Sevier county Utah has suddenly jumped Into first Importance as a shipping “point and the Richfield Reaper says that Its resources have not yet been half exploited A mining engineer who has been Investigating the mineral resources ol the region about 'Caliente Nevada says some Of the largest bodies of gold ore in the state are at the very door of Caliente awaiting develCobalt carrying nickel Is opment abundant Nickel is found In gannierite and noemlte Charles Hofstetter of Spokane and his associates have secured a lease on 200 acres of state land near Kamlah Idaho containing valuable asbestos rock deposits From tests already made It Is found that sawing machinery can be advantageously employed tn cutting brick and other products from the large blocks The announcement made on reliable Interests authority that the ire Identified with the proposed road means that the Ely district Is about to realize another of Its The hopes says the Ely Expositor reputation for doing things which the people so firmly established inust be taken Into consideration with the announcement of this fact In spite of the fact that the election aeld in Idaho for the Issuance o? bonds for the construction of a new road Attacked by Mad Otters Snow Hill Md— Made rabid through from the vicinity of the Lost Packer to and smelter properties fights with mad dogs during the re- Mining the road cent scare apparently seven otter vi- uhallis was unsuccessful The Lost Packer comciously attacked Stewart Purnell and (vill be built pany is behind the project and the Thomas Martin two colored men cutoad will be completed ting wood near Porter’s bridge in the dense swamp along the Pocomoke lays It Is announced that there is to be river and the men declare they had a i new smelter in the Salt Lake Valnarrow escape from being killed in a dense ley the smelter to have a capacity of The attack occurred place and it was impossible to put 1000 tons daily and to be confined up an effective fight as the vicious sxcluslvely to iron ore In addition to animals had the advantage of being the smelter there will be a rolling able to attack from points of van- mill The company which will erect tage not possessed by men The cut- Ihe big plant is the American Steel & ters tried to retreat to their boats but Fuel company and the ore is to come were cut off by the largest and fiercest from properties In Wasatch and Utah of the otters which Purnell says got rounties In the property of the Gold Nugget so close that he could see right into the creature’s eyes Mining company at "White Rock NeEven when the men finally reached vada on one of the ledges a tunnel the boat the animals continued the tvill attain the depth of 1500 feet by boat until It running In on a body of ore which at fight following the reached deep water but keeping out the surface Is eight feet wide and of reach of the men's oars The men Averages $2060 a ton From several declared that Borne of the otter were other ledges a large tonnage of ore five or six feet long and that they lias been taken by surface work much heard more of them back in the of the ore running from $52 to $100 a ton swamp A forecast of the report for June by Those Hats !he Copper Producers’ association sets “I read a funny story once which Ihe surplus of copper in this country told how a woman put blinders on her at a figure showing a decrease of husband to keep him from about 20000000 pounds although vathe on at street” pretty girls looking rious unofficial estimates have set the It's im- figures at 12000000 to 22000000 “No need to do that now possible to see their faces any way” pounds |
