1 If
Bj effect in the memory, ns doos the other. Bach
Bj ought to stand on. Its own bottom Its qualities,
H and Its appreciation by the people.
B Thoro are plenty of folk who wouldn't oat oleo
B if they knw lt though they probably havo oaten
B a good deal of it without knowing, and are none
B . the worse for-Ifc But thero would still bo market
B for butter for those who preferred thoir bread
B spread that way, and had tho money to pay for
B : their oocontrloltles. And if the Elgin monopoly
B couldn't live with that sort of competition, then
B r Elgin ought tobe dissolved in oloo, and flung into
fl tho Fox rivor.
H , For Mr, Franklin MacVoagh doesn't compromise
B crime with any one.
Bj , Six months ago Mrs. Jones lost her
H , diamond ring while feeding the chickens. Last
Hi Sunday she had chicken for dinner. No,
H , you're mistaken. The ring, unfortunately, is
M . still missing.
H WHAT A WOMAN CAN LIVE ON.
B One of tho big omployers of woman labor In
Hj , Illinois has stated to the viae sleuths of tho Illinois
B legislature that any woman in health can live on
JH , eight dollnrs a wook. Woll, aside from arguing
jjfl that point, I want to go on record with the doc-
B la ration that if every woman wage earner in Illinois
H I were na,d 4hat much money, or more, some of
B their incomes would be doubled without tho re-
H I sprt ta.crlmcy and nlnetynlne hundredths of tho
H . sooial purity problem would be solved.
H , Mighty few women, are naturally bad. Mighty
H few of those in tho underworld either went thero
B , bqcause they wanted to, or Btay there because they
fl like it. . -This Is Jiot mere guesswork. And it is not
M' - the tawdry -sentlmentalism that is misled to tho be-
H , lief that an immoral woman is any more to be
B believed- than is an Immoral man. There are somo
B women who-simply are wiekod; who Jiave no char-
B j acter, ovon -when they have talent and somotimos
fl beauty. Thero aie somo though not many
B . who want headlong into a life of shame, and who
B coiild have left it any day, but didn't havo rectl-
B tuj3p enough to make the, effort. They will live
B , and die in tha life of tho brothel.
B But the very great majority of girls would stay
B , good if they could. .And the big majority of thorn,
B . ovon. when they have fallen from thoir high .
B estate, would turn their backs on tho bad life if
B they could. Give working girls and women a
B minimum of eight dollars a week, and tens of
B thousands will be savejl every year. It Is a pltl-
B . fully low wage, oven at that. But it is so much
fl better than the minimum now being paid thorn that
B it would make all the difference In tho world to -
B the women.
B l For there can be no denial of the statomont
B that inadequate pay for work doos make for ro-
M cruit3 to the army of the fallen. Hero is a poom
j ' that mny help to an understanding of the situa-
B tlon. It is from the pon of Ernest McGaffoy,
B formerly a Chicago lawyor, now a resident of t
WM ' Vancouver, B. C.
fl
B The wolf- of povorty follows mo on
B Through tho dingy streets of town;
B So close besldo that his shaggy hide
B Might almost brush my gown;
B And 'after him thrust, the wolves of lust
B , Oomo, eager to drag me down.-
B And body and soul have a scanty dole
B Prom tho pittance that I earn;
B And cold as the breath of the wind of death
B r ' At the lessons that I "learn;
B With a pitfall dug for my weary feet
H And a trap at every turn.
jH And ever a tempter is near at hand
H To lure me with a Judas kiss,
H And lead me away if be led I mav
B To tho depths of that black aby
H Where in serpent guise -old memories rlgo
H And' over the fallen hiss.
H I never may know surcease from woo
H !3iit I know of Fortune's frown;
I am one of a scoro of thousand more
Who toil in tho cruol town;
Ad tho wolves of lust and of poverty
Are waiting to drag mo down.
.And tho Christ that the Bible teaohos of
For only men did die;
Or else would hoed in this dioodful need
"My bitter, despairing cry;
And the Creeds always for the heathen pray
And the Christians pass me by.
And many and fast the days Whirl past
Whllo early I work and late;
And around my path for tho aftermath
Tho basilisk watchers wait;
And civilization bids mo choose
Tho gravo, or a harlot's fate.
And I dread the light ot tomorrow's dawn
And the weight of the future years;
My life is blurred by a hope doforrod
And my heart is numb with fears;
And my hands that rise to tho aullen skies
Are wot with a woman's tears.
Alone I walk whore tho spectres stalk
In the roar of tho mighty town;
Oh! God, for a knight to aid my ffght
Of high and of pure renown;
Is there novor a man to lift me up
Where myriads drag me down?
A New York burglar confesses to twenty
robberies, saying that he did it to bedeck his
sweetheart with jewels. Love makes the
yegg go 'round. -
BEEN A PItETTY GOOD LEGISLATURE.
In this country every fellow ought to got the ,
benefit of his good work; tho credit of his rank.
Wherefore, tho Utah legislature, nineteen-thirteen '
sprint, is entitled to walk up and receive its little
old diploma. It has been a pretty good legisla
ture. Some of tho gentlemen inhabiting house or sen
ate in past years may have tho notion that this is
a little the worst legislature that ever troublod the
printer, but they are wrong. Thero have boon
worse. It Is doubtful if thoie have boon better.
True, they defeated some bills that should havo
been enacted hto law, and they left to the death
of Inattention many others that could and should
have tfbon enacted Into law. But the record of a
legislature, like the record of a man, ought to
be made up nn the average of what ho did. And
there havo been some good things. If there isn't
to bo any racing, there iBn't to bo any public util
ities commission. If thore is to be no sterilizing
of criminals, there also is to be no Sunday clos
ing of decont and proper places and sorts of
amusement.
The roads of tho state -will bo better for the work
of .this legislature., The finances of the state will
be afe ns aver. The slate" institutions hero and
in other sections will do a little batter in the fu
ture than they have done in the past.
But -ever and nbove all tho rest, the monty
devoted to the construction of tha state oapltol
will bo used for tho building- of a state oapltol. It
will not be employed for the enrichment of any
private person. It will not be diverted from the
purpoBQ for which the people want it used. It
will not bo made the basis for tho banking forLune
of Any astute antlemon whomsoever. And tho
oapltol Will be at least -as good as was originally
planned. It will bo a credit to the state. It will
be n; advantago to tha wholo west. It will never
be regretted by any citizen of Utah.
There have been some mighty amall. potatoes and
few in a hill, in this leglslatmo. ButHhero -Jiavo
been some mighty big men; some .good men;
some that are going to appear again i house and
senate. I loak for tha future managumant of Utah
to be vested in the parsons .and the powers of the
man who oonatUnted the seaaion juet closed.
" Tyrone of Xs who have long opposed inter
ference of church in state affaips ire of the
opinion that a oommtrcial body ought to
keep out of politics and attend to business.
" ft
TRAIN LOADS OF SOLD11SRS. 1
One of tho rocont magazines printed a photo- I
giaphic picture of a train of cars in. . Bulgaria) I
carrying soldiers and supplies to the front. It re- 1
minded mo of the railroad that bisected our old i
farm in Indiana, and the daily pictures at tho -
time of tho civil war. Thore would be many con
secutive days In which the trains would go ptfst,
usually trains of freight cars, and loaded with sol
diers. If they went east it war tho Pennsylvania,
and that was the way to get from tho northwest
tc the southern states they were Union soldiers.
II they wont west- which was from tho seat of war i
they were rebel prisoners, going to Camp
Douglas, which now is a partjof Chicago. ' '
Thoso trains were wonderfully interesting to ,
me. a lad of seven or eight yeais. Glimpses told
of the men In all sorts of occupation. Thoro wore
bunks nt the ends and sides of the cars, and ho
wide doors were opened. Often soldiers would sit
thero in the door, swinging thoir legs, and shout-
Ing to every ono they passed. The rebel prison
ers were not allowed quite so much privilege. The
doors wore barred In their trains, and Union, sol
diers with muskets rodo on tho roof, with rlflo i
ready. They were an endless source of wonder
ment, and Imagination could conjure up all sorts
of storlos from the material of those passing
trains.
One time a soldier train was wrecked just west
of our farm, whero the road ran through a big oak
and walnut forest. I don't know what was tho
cause of the accident, nor how much damage was
done. But there wero strange soldiers In tho
neighborhood for days afterward. When my
father asked one of them, -who appealed for food
at the farm, how he was going to explain his ab
sence when ho reached his command, ho replied:
"I will tell them I was lost in tho woods." Which
stripped soldier men of much of tho romanco lj
they had previously worn for mo. Tho Idea of .
any one getting lost In the woods! ;
But for months after that wreck nearly every i
boy In tho molghborhood hud relic mementoes of
the event. Some had bayonets; some few had ;
guns. Thore wore omo drum sticks, -though I
nevor hoard of a drum bolng found. There wero
belt buckles, and fatigue caps. But mostly tho '
boys found those paper cartridges in use through
the second year of the war tho sort that had to ,;
be ripped open with the teeth before they could
bo safoly loaded.
Once a train carrying twonty loads of rebel
prisoners was wrecked in tho same place, and a J
lot of tho Johnnies got away. Thero wore storlos 1
of rebels appearing to frighten people almost to 4
the end of the war. They could be hoard of every-
whore, and at every hour of tha day if ono lylp- . Jj
pened to be alone. No one ever reported them as M
showing themselves bofor a number of witnesses, i
The railroad used to carry any quantity of can i
non and lots of those mortars that proved o of '
footivo in the campaign about Vlcksburg. Ome tluH
the train stopped -for some unknown reason right
in front of the farm, and a brakeman llfltod m$ f
brother and me up to the dock of the i lateAr, at fl M
let us touoh thoso mortars. He wanted to put hio 1
into one of them; but I drew the line at that. 'It " f
might have concluded to go off; and I had no do- I
sire to bo a projectile.
The' imaginative value of these things was in
creased by reading the dally paper, the Chicrtgo
Tribune. It must have had a vory capable corps
of- writers in the field, for tho impression their
storlos -made on me has nevor entirely departed.
They Invested ovory page with a moat thrilling in
terest. The pnsaing trains, loaded with soldiers or with
munitions of war, were welcomed with jubilation
by us boys. But whother they wont north or
whether they went south they wero, in tho eyes of
the women who watohed them from curtained
windows, freighted with the sad cargoes of tears
and fears and woeful -hondecing for their soldier
boya.