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Show "The ffevwn," of course, controlled directly, or Indirect ly, all but a few of tie newspapers with which i had ads vertislns contract. They also con trolled the main aource tbrougi which the press was supplied with ii. ws and often and well they had used this control, and s- prising!? cautious had they been not so to abuse it that the editors and the pub He would hcron.-suspicious. When my war wus at itx height, when I was beginning to congratulate myself that the hugs of The Seven were empty almost to the point at which they must aim for eace on inf own terms, all In four daya 43 of my 37 newspapers and they the most Important notified me that the? would no longer carry out their contracts to publish nyr dally letter. Jhey nre aj nr reason. Tot the real oiie. Tear" of The Seven," but fear that I would Involve them in rulnoua libel Suits. I who had legal proof for every statement I made; I who was always care to understate! Next, one preaa association after another ceased to send out my letter as news, though rne.v had been doing so regularly for mouths. The public had grown tired f the sensation. they said, I countered with a telegram to one or more newspapers In every rity and large town in the t'nlted States: The Seven are trying to cut the wires bkweeii the truth and the public. If you wish my daily letter, telegraph mo direct and 1 will send It at my expense." The resiMinse should have warned The Seven." But it did not. Under their orders the telegraph Companies refused to transmit the letter. I got an Injunction. It waa obeyed in typical, corrupt corporation fashion the? scut my matter, but so garbled thgt It 1 appealed to the was unintelligible. courts. In vain. To nte. It was clear as sun In cloud noonday sky that there could be but one result of this insolent and despotic denial of my rights and the rights of the people, this public confession of the truth of my charges. 1 turned everything salable or timrt gugcuble into cash, locked the cash up In my private vaults, and waited for the catai lysm. Ap- Thursday Friday Saturday. pari-uilall wax tranipill; apparently the people accepted the Wall street theory that I was an "uxpluded sensation. "The Seven began to preen the strain upon them to maintain prices, If no less than for three months past, was not notably greater; the crisis would pass, I and my exitosures would be forgotten, the routine of reaping the harvests and leaving only the gleanings for the sowers would soon be placidly, re- Fhe rams Into the room and LtiiM.lt. "Won't you uip. the pfeaxu, tor a moment longer? Mid. "I hope that, at, leant, we can . 1 undersund part without bow thaL everything la over between it. A woman' vanity makes her belief that a man rare fur her die bard. I aui convinced now I assure you. 1; am. I tdiuil trouble you no riore anout the past, iiut 1 have the right to ask you to hear me when 1 say that lauigdob came, and that 1 myself -- cut him away; sent him back to Ms w.fe. "Touching m if aci itlcc," aaid I, me. seated bliu-rnexs- Thsra is as bsttsr than a a piaca at jaaralry ar a goad watch. tw I aaa save yaursalf all aasiaty hy hayiaa jy . tract tram as. Oar (Maraalaaa ara wa ara (lad ta haaa iaquiriai abaatuta, a a avaSa. - ; c j , ' ii'jiiually. muL-aziue-s "No," she re lied. "1 cannot c'sltil any cieilit. I stnt him away only be"77IE COSZWe cause you and Alva had taught me how Djt DAVID GRAIIAM HELLOS, Aulhcr to judge him better. I do not detplse LTWLHSr "XS I;- him as jjtu you, j know too well vital 1 I In that tias made him 'what he Is. But I Uad XXXiI. win. My Iniig. hi .el s'ltti-ih.nl put to send him away. uPhy uml muii u. .".V.Y RIGHT EYE OFFENDS ME.". .1 My comment was an Incredulous wavcicd. me in hi- ,ii!e of in : ii in wl.hh it Is Next d.i l.un.'d m s stoi-s"1 must be going," 1 i,i!i to i rcii t ,,n I, Iieein being look and shrug. i:ii f.iir.g up a lilllc. yd::g down a IB'lc Wl'll H or HU UC- - said. lliUt I, ill pi jctlcally The i.i!in IBtin'i'S n tfiuL hill no; a "You do not believe me? ahe asked, Thus the . T at wl.'cli I bey had I; ill, .ions lu my place, would you believe? l.i her made job j that ti.v I..n,dui wpraiiu m on i no mii. "You cav l have taught you. bn.ighti replied il.c bis ticniar and cliicic though pai , her and have taught me, too for lu Well, gone, you Ci.'it: olicil the Textile Ti'iat. did lull With them lied cone nil llat ha-Malice, shat the vea is youve spent on own mi iiiiii li as one fif U li of tlx vmIII. - hi-- i lialiii.-inOit like your knees In the niUHty temple of Tiuc.inl jii.s nf Indus lug hiuek il t'lieicoiiiciiiioii pal't-rto, cou vent loualiry before false gods have " iil,! !: I IIM try' I lull tl.i-- Wenwhich her )ii,, tor assis'lateH made you lit only for the Lang Ion Hill III Ilf bill till out ill's lint pit her. lint I was Having to sort of thing. Yen can't learn how to h;v m uiii. s th.il with ifistii U d ah til A trai' self: mi l.:ing't"ii ha gone stand erect, and your eyes cannot bear of the Iwothiid.i ol the ea a if-- . Flo turiiH to me." the light." j baeli to his in an. n't filing Trust, and out of lo-- r A lot I loved a id hilled her. "I am Horry." she said, slowly, hesiI s.nd in ci.nt-lIninils an. I ticks. "Never. thought I. "has aim shown tatingly, "that your faith In me died Bion. o poor an opinion of me aw now." Just when 1 might, perhaps, have Justi"TI.c ;.t!-t- l nwiii r of lo slock Is me day before yes-- j fied It. Ours has been a pitiful aeries told uiielo "My an of rioi-.igWalter G tenlay that It was not he but you, of nilHtinderstuudinKa." Inmost loan Send mir ml.i g "A trap! A trap! I waa warning she said, lifting her eyes to mine. It to liitu. itiiil ha can take the Textile Is Inconceivable to me now that I You've been a fool Jong myself. now company away from those could have misread their honest story; enough, Illacklock." And aloud I said; " it "Well, Anita, the series la ended now. yet I did. Ah th annua! clot 'ion of tin Trust "I had no Idea your uncle's notion There's no longer any occasion for our was only six weeks away, l.imgiloti of honor was also eccentric," said 1, lying or posing to each other. Any arwere In a p.iait:. They with a satirical smile that made the and his rangements your uncles lawyers sugrushed Into the market a.ul bought blood rush to her face. gest will ho made." frantically, the puldic fibbling against I was bowing, to "That is unjust to him," she re leave without them. Liingrinii lilrnsolf went to hands with her. But she plied, shaking earnestly. KiluuindM-thto reason with ai "He says he utude you no promise of would not have It bo. "Please!" she Is, to try to had out at wluii risen secrecy. And he confesKed to me only said, stretching out her long, slender he could be bought. And an on, day because lie wished to com luce mu arm and offering ine her hand. I after day, faithfully roorliiig to that ho hail good reason for his high What a devil possessed me that day! the public the main iircuiTetict-ben lou of you. With every atom of me longing for her, opl hind ttn- scenes. The Langrinn atReally!" said I. Ironically. "And I yet was able to take her hand and Con I rid liy piiiclms-tempt to no donlit 1ih found you oi.cn wide to say, with a smile, that waa, I doubt Me and his uilii-of stock f.iiii-d- . to not, us mocking as my tone: "By ail conviction -- now." This a sulilb-itnado what lave lien to liiinn i s: hut at me apai!in.; high prices they (itTcrcil, 1'iuiipai alive-llittle of the stock appeared. 'Tic- ciiu'.-h- t them, said 1 to Joe the lira' time, util the last, during that campaign Ilia: I Indulged In a boast. "If Kdmutids atleha to you, replied cautliiiiH Joe. Itut Kd mu nils did not. I do not know at what price lie sold him aeir. I reliably It was pitifully small; turned. cupidity usually snatches the Instant Sunday. Roebuck, taken 111 as he bait tickles its nose. Hut I do know sa phsalng the basket In the church that my faith In human nature got Its of which he was the shining light, died HvercMt shock. at midnight a beautiful, peaceful Fortunately, Edmunds had held out, death, they say, with his daughter or. rather, had delayed apreading the Bible aloud, and his Upa proaching him, long enough for me to moving In prayer. Some hold that, over hail he lived, the tranquillity would gala uy JueJu point. Tlw the Textile Trust had become so great have continued; but thla la the view of that the national department of comthose who cannot realize that the tide merce dared not refuse an Investigaof affairs Is no more controlled by the tion; and I straightway, bgan to great men than la the river led down to the sea by Its surface flotsam, by spread out in my daily lettcis Hie facts of the trust's enorjiiotis earnings which we measure the aped end diand of Mo shameful sources cl those rection of Its current. Under that ter, earnings. rific tension, which to the shallow lu the midst of the adulation, of seemed a calm, somethng had to the bln res ujmu the trumpets of fume give way. If the dam had not yielded that saluted my waking and wore where Roebuck stood guard, It must wafted to me as I fell asieep at night have yielded somewhere else, or might In the inldiit of all the turmoil, I was have gone all In one g"and crash. often in a great nn.l brooding silence, Monday. You know the story of the longing for hnr, now with the Imartist ami his Statue of Grief Ifow he molded the features a hundred times, perious energy of passion, and now with the sad aehe of love. What was always falling, always " ttlng an antiahe doing? What was she thinking? climax, until at last In (.espalr he gave Now that laingdon had again played up the Impossible and finished the her false for the uhl price, with whnl I statue with a veil over the face. yes was ahe looking Into the future? have tried again and again to assemAlva, settled In a West Shin apartble words that would give some not ment nut far from the ancestral white loo Inadequate Impression of that treelephant, telephoned, asking me to mendous week In whlc.i, with a succescome I went, beeaiise she could and sion of explosions, each like the crack would give me news of Anita. Hut as i of doom, the financial structure that X I " 'TOU DO NOT BISt.lKYB ME? SUB ASKED." entered her little drawing-room- , housed 80.000,000 of people burst, colaid: "It waa curiosity that brought I lapsed. was engulfed. I cannot. me. I wished to see how you were In- let Iter know that I undertsood why ineana let us be friends. And I trust must leave It to your memory or your she was seeking me. you will not think mo discourteous If I Imagination. stalled. "No,'' she answered, lowering her say Uiat I shall feel safer In our "Isn't it nice and aniall?' cried she. For years the financial leaders, friendship when we are both on crazed by the excess of power which "Hilly and I haven't the slightest diff- eyes. "I knew better than he. For an Instant this, spoken In a neutral ground." iculty In finding each other as people the people had In ignorance and As I was turning away, her look, so often have In the big houses." And voice I had loug given up hope of ever and slovenly my own heart, made ine turn again. I permitted them to acquire, had been It was Hilly this and Hilly' that, and hearing from her, staggered my cynHut "Possibly she cu tight her by the shoulders. I E12Pti ical conviction. what Hilly said and thought and felt out the honest foundations on If I could only trust tearing iny Into Kor eyes. and before they were married, she hn.l thinks she Is sincere," reasoned which alone so vast a structure caa slnrer-est you. could oply believe you! I rrijj railed him William, and had declare.) head with my heart; "even the to rest solid jmd secure. They You cared for me when I wun't hope women, brought up as was she, ul-"Hilly to he the iiiukI oltcuslve coni been substituting rotten bextna had blnatlon of Idlers that ever tell from ways hav i the calculator underneath; worth it." she said. "Now that I am painted to look like atone and Iron. they deny It. they don't know it often. nmte like wliat you once Imagined me, The crash had to eonve! the sooner, human lips. j there It Is; with them, calculation you do not can." I needn't ask IT you are fiatu-v,the better when a thing is wrong, 1,11 Involuntary and automatic us I'p between its rest I.a:i ;ri.ra fe.e each day's delay compounds the cost said I present I v, w Ith a rilsni.il failure 1 pulse." So. I mild to her. mock-cynical. at looking choei hil. niixiklug, eonteinpoigg stitv h it ' of righting It. So. with all the horrors I 'igl : "IVuhtlesi. vonr opinion of me "Your heart Is his! You tehl me h! of "Wild Week" In mind, all Its physmoment. I added, ami ir And ical and mental suffering, all Its rnln obeyed my feelings. I'd l ave rir.ett up Has been Improving steadily ever since Mini't lie to me! I before aim could re, ly. I w Konfc and taken myself and my pain .iwuv j ' heard tent M's. loing'ion had and rioting and bloodshel. I still ran Out from the Spe'.l 0f to me i covered her .v.c'.iuid. sui'iiiutidlngs as lial-.-fInsist that I am Justly proud or my , She winced, as if I hail struck her. presence, hack unun-the as a summer sunrise In a death-chum- In bringing it about. The blame share th"Oh!" she nr.i.tnured. If she had been mid her. traps :m-- amtiusfei-- i and the shame are wholly upon those AVall of Street. I hI;i Oh!" she exrlnltnrd. in some cou the ordinary woman, who in every ji,;;,-:,,who nitde "Wild Week" necessary and fusion "Then excuse me." And she crisis with tn in Instinctively resorts lievod tlrmly the lm'lp'.:.'l g,e Inevitable. weakness. devit that possessed me. "Fi., to weakness' strongest hastened from the room. la catastrophes, the cry Is "Each for 1 thought who had gone to order, or t''ira. ink!' have a different story to have viv.-- you a brief r.r,'s .iradite" himself!" Rut In a cataclysm, the fouclit buck the tear wild that del II. "Then wh - a hidem! The hum tell. Hut selfishness is generosity, pcrlini'H to bring, the ten wise obvious Arid I iw.ikeiiuig! h.t I 'n wlilch her eyes were swlmiulna tm-n.limles dragged a wav mm! Is: "Stand together, for. the cry and i: ithered lierself togevher. 'Tliat Is when New nrls insil1-a catapa.vse.l. Ilejiing a rustling In Ilie h.dl i,i singly, wo perish." This was hitii-Hfhad tempted I rose, vn:.ito take lean the in knltd." she said, with nut a touch or save could one No Itl ' clysm. orten-urge- d atant she mpeared. The nis'lin : haughtiness, hut not humbly, either lug me on that dn'ia.lmg , j;.t.lf aft( except the few who, taking my 1 I:. I ihserve w "Put i d f a outside. "respiciabiiliy." welted and following niy examJut Stiy advice "M she il'H's not ftmi-sel- f "Tht-rwas t time, I went on. ve:t'li r:b-- ; "Well, I'm the nrk of ready " ke 'vt ple, had entered !1 sis'll. " said 1 to ' i, , .vejd In a swii is rn-n- t of cold rage. kt'. '.v want to be olon-time and artisan and pro 'I Farmer !l money. i ;o e. tht-rwas a tin: when I would have pul my own to conn," and adv t'l '.l pi rtjl t fessional man and laborer owed mer; i'.i ti It was not A'vu you on almost unv terms. A eyd offends me. I win j,;.., j. out" chant; merchant owed banker; banker there- it was Anita. :nn never makes a complete fo,d tif owed depositor. No one could pay be I imseif i beg your pardon, aiioiit a wotiuu but once lu said I, cnii ly , i i'll P'!"i-;icause no one could get what was due If tle're had h sn risim to unj 'WILD WEEK." his lite, they say. 1 have donu my him or could reullze upon his property. s! or.id have g- r- It Is over. hWhat "The Peiea" binds ios stretv h f, The endless chain of credit thatsnol-1 me? Ci- -' il:i!y lu a'! our n l.i ly She sighed wearily. 'TamirJon came on rpdogiiitr udv i whole oCinodon the i:Bl;t together t.iu.s l..id ni'iil lo-- dln'cl a':d rnnk. to tue soon after I left your bouse, :hy woiil.l not have ad-In a thousand places. It snapped hail IVIf any t'.:ng. Phi frank, It Mint to my unric, she Bald. "I gesilon had it n "t must be repaired. Instantly and sewas t!o i'.il'.teiice A my w;'l tell you what happened." congenlal to their own ti'- -r Rut how -a- nd by whom? curely ' down t wit. where for so ni.r.ty "I do not wish to hear," replied I. rogance and tyranny nt:.l (To be ('ontlnued.) l( I had b. n ilcaling with (iiu 'Mtort-card- '' ii.Mli pointedly. I have hewn waiting the people who meekly jutr' rrowit of high li'i.'itice. who ter since you left for news of youi year, presented Life la like sea water; It never gets ' would hardly play the gam sti.ua!;i p'ars shearing with until It Is draws up Into quite tweet ven wheii that tin be grew white, and my heart atuote Ihuslasm. way u heaven. Richter . U i ; - citi-M- ig t l M-- r I ni'-'s- W'-i- j ! j J - - I : r mul-jt-i- j i ; j . I pii-xic- plun-dcriti- le-o- a Clil-cait- s - s t - Alone. Msln'i I.is;i t kiI mi uruiiilniii, llllli- till Imy, aul'IutiK cl a unitiiii KtilililN'ii in it wnrlii nl Jiiv! At y-- 170 MAIN St SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH I tn- - I tin- - HI HU IIHM'illll, (l.i-- wtuf In soiriiw's sIiimii: IIiihIii-i- I t l:v rliililrrn unit wuiuli riiM'knl ulxlllt tils IH( fillin' laiy 'l "Mtiln't yeti set no uranitiiis. Willi.-Is sin; vlKutin' iroiikli-AnJruiiilui Minays kism-tin- llili'KS uwsy! Winn 1 biiinp iiiym-l- or tut mi-- , Htu; "1st tolls iiM- - mil to cry: ilixN n.it tin; trouble; It Mill lv nil right liimr by! ? y" s In-I- lUlit'l you K"t no Kiamlma. mister -U ye man. In MorroM'M mart? Ilaln't you K"t no gramlniii. minium Woman vv it ii ill,- - ui liliu: Is there no e ! i 1 ''-ei- r . 1 a rn-s- r The Best Man. "The Rest Man.' by Haiuld McGrath. pulilii-hcby the Itobbx-Mer-ricompany. Indlutripolix, is a neatly render? "Ilnlu't you K"l -no "Is Ktie lisa linprinted Look which contains three site's gone fnreier r, tale which do not deal with wedione foreier, and alwuy! dings, a the title might Indicate, but are stories of txriiiicx, of ambition and Is-- t us stop our of love. It Is true the finish of each "She '1st tells us mu lu ery; i (lii- innihli; Koliltliiij lines not of them find a wedding in prospect, It will ls all right hum- - hy!" and In each the best man wins the fair lady, despite the scheming of rivMind Meanderinge. When atmui to su something un- als and ambit Ions parents. "The Rest kind of anyone, try touching the tips Man is written in Mr. McGrath's liext hf your index und little fingers. After manner, and can not fail to help tha you have dune thla. If you can, don't lovers of good, clean fiction while away a few very pleasant hours. say it. Rome people giv tlielr children so Quinine in Sunflower. much advice, they never have an Ad eminent Spanish scientist has original thought of their own. It Is always a good plan tn get a made the recent discovery that ths Letter job before you threw up the sunflower yields a splendid febrifuge that can he used as a substitute for one you have. I see that the crisis in the Chicago quinine. More than ten years ago reported to the Therapeutical street car situation has come again. Somebody ia going to get slapped on Society of Paris with relation to tha same subject. Accordingly the sunflowthe wrist in one of these crises yet. Rave your dollars now. Christmas er should not only by its growing exis coming, when they slip away like ert great effect, but also yield a product which a flock of quail from u pointer dog. used mj In nil how xweet bho vantageou-dNever l a liHiks. Tell her how sweet she Is. Riley, the People's Poet. One way to got. even with your ena collection of poemi Morning." Is to on him the the emy give tip races that :he stable boy hauded written by James Whitcomb Riley, ths Hoosier imet, has just been published you. hy the Bohbx-.Mcrricompany, India naptdis. It is a tastily 'printed little volume, the poems all being new onet never before presented to the pub 11c, and are of the kind that appro-tthe every-daman, for James Whit comb Riley Is essentially the poet oi the people, and his are the songs ol eternal youth. This little volume should be In the home of every lovei of the good, the true and the beauti ful. . - - l . 1 I J l cui'-.-e- j j r.c-i.- - e-- , j d 1 ! - e lai 1 t ' j - 1 1 r - ; f.it-n.'i- s t ll ? - In-- Mon-corv- fever-dispellin- y t'-l- y A sea Sea Trout Fattened. trout was caught at Aberdeen recently, which swam 120 miles In 49 days, and doubled its weight on the way. It waa marked and 'put Into the Coquet In Northumberland, and when recaught at Aberdeen, Its length waa not increased, its rapid gain In weight being due to corpulence. Bid you ever see a iessiinist dodge a bicycle Just after he has been telling you there isn't anything In life worth living for, anyhow? Sometimes you can borrow money of a fellow when he doesn't feel like hintself. There is a great ntyrtery out in my town. This morning I followed u wagon track on the sidewalk for ten minutes. Then all of a sudden 1 saw where the blamed horse, or whatever It pras that was pulling the wagon, or whatever he wax pulling, had jumped over the fence and left a lot of tracks. The fence wax all right and too high for anything to vault exceiit a flying machine. How In the dickens did that horse, or whatever It was, get over the fence and get back again without breaking down tlie fence or smashing the wagon, or whatever It wax he wax pulling? You can search nie! I xs-n- t fifteen minutes trying to figure It out and then came on down town to (0 you. Does Esperanto include the golf and hasehali languages? Some men think Huy have bought your eternal sou when they do you a favor. n j - d " Kran-ltiia.- un-li-- r ! e to soothe you, ionto wle- uHiiy your lours? Not one lorim; I, .ind, None to imIui yum Mtiriiimi fears? Norn- Smr good-natur- Gama of Chance. are very largely a matter of accident, writes Giles Edger-ton- , In the l'i aft sinaii. Given the utmost rare and wisdom lu the selection of subject and lime, it I nevertheless true that the nnvii-- may secure with bis kodak a more artistic negative than the tiained veteran, and that the veteran himself will get the most artistic negative largely as a result of chance." Good negative rhe following advertisement, r ly appeared In a Stillwater (Min newspaper: A "IXT'ANTKr. unit, - AXYWHU V V the iiin-i- i of Pi don't cure a so . ,l ,nn work and is witling. Imu'i what tlormlity or broke or i illy Need her In n family of W,, w nt-i- wIh-Hu- t . Will pay we lmve tn Iiuirtipire ply to Mm, W. K t ho npi'itili-M- Third street. S'iilivi'.i-a- I . riglii lie Khhi-mi- , Mum.. nag.-- jji I s The Bible as Good Reading. We have always contended that the Rlulr waa the most interesting reading of any book we have ever read-Ithis opinion wc now have the sup port of a United States senator, Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, whose hook, "The Bible as Good Reading, has Just been published by Henry Altemuc company, of Ihilndelphia. Whoever ha neglected the reading of his Dible will find in this lmok a valuable guide to the Interesting portions of that other Rook, and whoever reads what Senator Beveridge has to say will be sure to read his Bible also. Woodsn Soldiers Found in Egypt. Among the objects found in recent excavations In Egypt waa a whole company of wooden soldiers fifteen Inchea high. The Essence of Dullness. It ia true, no doubt, that many learned people are dull; but there la no In- dicailun whatever that they are dull because they are learned. True dullness Is seldom aequlred; It Is a natural grace, the manifestations of which, however modified by education, r main In substance the same. Fill a dull man to the brim with knowledge, and he will not become less dull, as the enthusiasts for education vainly imagine; but neither will he become duller. He will remain In essence what he always has been and always must have been. But whereas his dullness would, If left to itseir. have been merely vacuous, it may have become, under careful cultivation, pretentious and pedantic. Balfour. Russian Yellow Journalism. Since the appearance of the cholera In Russia the Ruxxkoye Ziiatnla, the orgifa of the union of Russian men, has daily been publishing articles accusing the .Tea's and the constitutional democrats of preparing poisonous syringes for fiioculaiins the people with riiorela virus, "according to the method of (he anarchist Ktapoikfn'." Highly Colored Family. Painter Riark. one of Red Walk's sons, came in from Orange City yog. terday for a visit with the old folks at Typhoid Preventive, home. Ho report everything on the it lias lioen estimated that typhoid boom In Orange City. Aleen (Tex.) fever costs the United States Herald. a year. It I within the power of every family to do something Partial to Widows. cutting down the grand total of Advertisement in Houston (Tex.) expense, and toward Post: "Position Wanted. lob work- a proportion of It. avoiding bearing ing for widow woman: will work rea, sonable. Gathering Ostrich Feathers. Ostrich feathers ran lie taken every sight months. The plumes are not, as some suppose, pulled, but ara cut with a sharp knife. The stumps with-- r and fall out. $200,-Oun.n- |