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S ti ., l West *Main Street, Mis " !t )$, Montana. .blterid atthe poMtofflce at Mssoula, MMontana. as second-lass mail matter. SUBNSRIPTION RATES, (In Advance.) Dally, ane month ...........................0.76 t illy, three months.............. . 2.15 i . six ·m onthsu.............................. 4.00 T i , one year.................................... .00 added for foreign countries. BELEPHONE NUMBERS. .................110 Independent ...... 10 Munney building, Ernest Heaen Pull man, correspondent. Hamilton Office Main Street, near Second. SUBSCRIBERS' PAPERS. * The Missoullan is anxious to wive the beat' carrier service: therefore, sub scrlbers are requested to report faulty delivery at once. In ordering paper oalnged to new address, please give old address also. Money orders and checkls should be made payable to the Missoullan Publishing company, SUNDAY, AUGUHT '8. 1910. PASSING EVENTS Lbst week was strenuous in Mils soula and her territory. Twice before In, her history has the city been an deeply stirred, and the old-timers say only twice. Once was when Chief Joseph marched over l.olo trail, and Missoula thought he was coming this way. The other time was when mur der followed a day of battle with fire here in the city. Each of these In cidents in Missoula's history was thrillingt; the mentiomn of each recalls to old residents the terror which pre-o vailed here, and the excitement which thrilled the city. Last wce~e there was no terror, but there was plenty of ex. citement. The city was stirred and its heart was touched. Nuibered In the ranks of the thousands of men who were fighting the flames in the. tim ber were some of her own young men; everywhere In the timbered districts were friends and on all sides were neighbors, whose lives and homes were endangered by the rushing flames. There was intense anxiety for these friends and neighbors, and this was -heightened by the shower of hot ashes which well upon the city. blown forty miles or more by the gale which swelt over the mountains' sides. Thie dark ened sun, the choking atmosphere and the talling ashes, here In the city. gave sume idea of the terlible condl. tlons which prevailed at the scene of the fires. But this anxiety was for gotten, or, at least, was made sec ondary when the trains began to un load their 'hundreds of refugees from the fire-sticken district. Of foremost importance then became the relief of the distress of therse people. Ajd Mis soula got busy. Never, 49 course, was there any relaxation hii the offort to get nows from the men at the front. but the care of those In need becamun the first thought. And to this wus the week given by Missoaltl. It was a memorable week, important In Mls soula's history and significant, we be lieve,n n Its bearing upon the future. MISSOULA'S PART - It was ;1 u'clock Sunday Imorning when ''The Missoulian office notified Secretary Breitenstein of the chamber of coin merce that the first rescue train was comning froin Wallace' uelid that there were three hundred people to be Ilet and fed and and housedti. Fro that I1in ute until this morning, tie activity fr the people of the city has not re. laxed. When that first train pulled into the Northern Pacific station at Missoula, Its afflicted passengers found u sympathetic welcome which was not spokel In words, but which found e'x pression in hot coiffee, wholeusone food land comfortable beds, Mliai,ula's homilnes, hotels and hospitals were thrown open to tie visltors andti they were blidden to make themselves coin fortuble. Thus, Sunday---other trains followed and other hundreds were fed anld housed. Monda) mlloring optened with the systeiniatic organliztinii of the work: eacth department was place'd iin good hands and the work was car ried on through the week 111 excel lent shape. It will bhe continued as llong as there is Ileed for it. Menl and women responded w;Lh a dugree oi heartiness that was conmllllnedablc; money poured in upion tie rilief co.t ll inittee In such volulme that word was sent out Thursday night that there waw enough in the fund for the wort in hand. Personal services were ren dered unhesltatingly: there were willi Ing hands for ever'r task that war a)p-; pointed. We have been proud of Mis soula always, but never have we been .ti proud of the city and her people ta upon this occasion; Missoula was splendid. ..149 FlIRt--Th.Fje fire was awful In Jt devatation,. It wss terrible in its )e:,. I, was appalling in its resist s With relentless advance it 9IIy W l 14qe of to flfht* era and swept down upon dotenseless towns and remote cablns. Those who saw it plactre the conflagration as the most impressive might they ever beheld. It had smnouldered or had made but fitful advances for days and days and the people lhad become ac customlled to its presence; It had shrouded tile sky in dense smoke, but tie people rested in fancied seturity unlll that hurrlcance of $aturday, Sun day and Monday gave the flames new strength and felled great stretches of timlnber for the blase to feed upon. Then it was that hell broke loose. Then camne the awful destruction. Theni camtl the calamity which robbed peo ple of their homes and destroyed whole comnllnities of hiouses. But the fight era continued their battle In lthe face of overwhelming odds; Wednesday brought reinforcements In rain and snow which gave tile warriors a new clhance. Thursday dawned upon a hopeful world and It appears this morning that the fight usainlt the flames in this section of tile country has been wun. It has been a terrible cumbalit, but it has brought victory. Wide as has been the destruction. It would have been greater had it not been for the efforts of the men in tile field. They prevented tile fire from attatinig tile broad scope which was reached by the fire of twenty-one years ago; they would have held It down to a smaller area had tiley pos. sealed tile equipment which they should have had but whhic was denied henll throughl the lack of comprellen lon onil tile part of the folks at Wash. Ington. THE DAMAGE-It in too early yet to attempt any entimlate of the damage wrought by the fire. Enotgh tb nay that It will not be as great ans has been figured in nomne quarters. ftce. liable Information from the Blackfoot country is that the fireos up that way did not neriously injure tile saw tim. ber; front about Alsitese definite, state nient is made that the loan In market able- thnber is not great: the hot fire did imont of its work In the lodgepole pinelll there In considerable saw timber that is injured to the extent that it mlust be logged very soon or It will ldie, but the lumbermllen wil be able to Imeet this contingency and will so regulate their logging operations that their loss frOllm tile fire will not be great. O(ver lit the tit. Joe country the situation Is less clear: from Informlla tion which is now available. It suenes that the llurricance which preceded the fire felled a lot of timnber anl that this burned after it was down; if this li the case, the loss Its timber will be greater there tlhan anywhere else. Ine tile yellow pine and the tantarek the fires did scarcely any in Jury: they were beneficial to the bx tent that they cleared out tile under growth. Certain It in that the daim ago is vastly less than it wduld hacve been without the presence of the fire figiters. Before tile fiercest stage of tile fire cale, tile men in the woods had ground-burned no much of tile forest that It was saved; In other In stances their efforts diverted the fire away frosn valuable timber; every where tiley saved somletitlng. And it should always be borne itn mind that never, sines tlhe white occupation of the ilorthlwest, Ilehave conditions beenl so favorable for the quick sprsead of firesn is tills year. THE RANGERS.-Yo'u call get al must O ilsny olpilion you Fsek regarding the work of tilhe forest ranlgers. Sllllle tihere be of tile ileyburn type who refuse to se.e anything good int tile rangers or inll their work. There are, others wllho go to the olther extr'tclll and glorify the ranlgetr-- ake anll idell being of himIh. lBetween these two viluews is founld the' correct estimLate of tihe ranlger sland eof tlhe! effectivelntess and value of ills worke'. Thie ranger in MllanuIll ad, therefore, not Inlalllble. But lie in all earllest fellow its Inost calest, Interested ill Isli work landl fuith ful it tile perforlllance of Ills duties. 'rel eslergenley recruits for thils catll alignl added to thle regular ran1gers A I ilterogslsleiOUs Iot of 1Illl l; S1 ollna f s them were ears l liest andll deternedlllll: miost of thlles were tihe smerest Limse I servers ansd deserted sit the first shIow of' duleger. Hy tiaking individual in stancll.es out of tisl. wide r'aLge of hlu tull charactli :er, It Is posisible to prove anythinsg tihat Iyou wasnt to prove', Biut, takinlllg tile ranlgers as it claes, they are' a splenlli lot of smein. The Missoutlln offlce has bheen closely ins toluchI witll these;v slenll for t \weekl. It hIas fouend solllc of l the rangiers worthless fel lows, puffed Iup withl their brief au thority, otverelarig land inso.lenit, But these have, bOLess rare Uases; We are willlslg to go oin record t i the' effect that tile forest ranllgrs, as it class, are as filne a body of young Illnes as cean be found anywhere. The extenit of their service t| o tile country Iin this present crlss will never be fully aup preciated because IL Is impossible for those not close to the fires to realize the terrible danger whichll they faced and the perils which they endured. This was no ordinary fire; it was a seething, devouring mlonstrous thing: acyompanied by a cyclonic wind it was like a blasy, furnace. hatt- it beat back the rangers and their men It f9 o tO Clre lscrnedlt. M.el! who have been in the mountainsln all their lives er tell The Missoultanl that a blast froun it the fire would kill it a iltllUlet'e of half at nule fromrn thlt illin body iofi tilt blaze when it was swteepillig alrs (I the nlountainsn t the heead of (ledllar inh creek, Bear tlhat in inlld andi think h how ininy of the rngerlr there lwere 1 who stuck toIll heir pionts; thenl you will realize, perhllaps, whll it a .old I fighter the rallger is. iI1 THE 80LDIER8--T'il s.oulle.r.s I " the regular airiy w.eve lilt h it glet ting Into til' gaiIII-, but they ,swta.n tI Inlto the work wllth chllralct'lrlsli (,n- I erg' and dlscipline. T'lhey fought tle1, ' flames Just as hey hullad fought I'll - tl pinoes and tiey were Just am HUiles1 -ti ful. Wherever thle soldiers fung.t tilt- u I flamles liIated: thlere waas ita dradl fires' where these felilow raillled. Wallace t from all tecounts. owes iiher niilvtitonIt to the mlen of theI 'l'wenlty-fifth Iln-I, fantry who worked like deons aglIRllest I the flames which threatened to dtie' strey the entlre city. ITp at the hleadtll of .uiol the added forie f tr ooips lon- , alided the rangers to tiurnl back the firec-, which tllhreateeeL'd to cross the raLnge fromll tile Idaho side iland to destroy one of the llost dellghtful plates In tile west. Ill tile l'laithetlld cutllry the d soldiers hlave worked well; ricporls frome every section where they have' beIen sntationed are In effec.t tIhtI the service rendered lhas Ieen splelndlll. THE PIRE'8. LESSON- Th'l'ern It * i lut to be learned froml tllhe fire. In l thle filr t pIlace, it liles dolitllterlstraltlet' emlphatlcally the value iof the nlationll foreat, service. As we htave alrealdyLL said, the forest fTres ee f 1381l were l Sworse thuan those of this year', although the condltlions were not so favorable 1 for the rapid spread ias they were int 191)0. If the fires teach us anything, they teth that there Ins need to t strengthen the anurs of the forlet serv Ice; to nllmke it possible for the reanig ers to lo do (lteer work in to add toi their effectiveness lin it c-rtIsis like that through which we' hliave Just plassnn'ed. Ill sole Ilatcies wherel the fire sweplt, it caine uptte Ilen cr'azed with i qiiiW; there In itlehsll there: till' wliill whoI Is granted ilithuor license should ll a manll wio len wus 'lse enough to keep hIls liquid fire locked tllp in occ'lsionsll like thills. Also, tile fire taught thie necessity for care' atit all tines Iln ki-ep lug tile city clen lued free froml lit terl. There was quick acltion whenll( tills dallnger wals fuiclly lppreiucateld, which lies In tilhe' 'eeumIulationI of rell Sblill: but It might hiuve been too laIte f then. The thing fm. Mi.noulh to i],) r Is to keep her yards iand alleys ujletall all tie tiete'. BItl the n iluln lessone that cumces froull tilhe fire Is found lee thile urgenlt nieceessity which Is showen to exist for broadeningl tlle otpratiolnH of the forestry folk.s and for aidlding to tile effectlvenless of tile service by giving all lthe aid that Is neoeded. C PRESENT DANGER--I'u asuLme that all danlgel'r is Ietssed Is to fall into error; the rainl of Wednesday made. It possilble to get the upper laned of the fires for a day or two; during that tite tile forest service took adv.antage of thile opportulllty alild so strengtlh I ened Its position its to IIIIake It sceneII likely that tilhe' fires will not agali I tleek 'awaly fromll control. l'ver'y hur i l since Wednesdal y hiets s.een ltdvtlnce'.i iiitde by thile t' lR9ILe's. But Iunt11 the luat sparilk In iexthllgulshed, thllre is danger. Ili tile' citly there mlust be lno reluxinglll oL ti VheI v lliltnet wta l h h' Its lbe1 lelallhltallll'd fI'ur a wee'k. THE NEWS---lurtllu the hlours tef the week, trying hours for all oi uts, 'IThe AMlsoultln's nlen sought at all ittoeis to get til'he feetls ilnd to ipe'tslent thtre pl inly. The worst wais hadl In California's Race At right, Theodore A. Bell, nominated for governor by democrats; at left, Hiram W. Johnson, insurgent, nominaed by the republicans. man Yruncwlco, Auig, 27.-Now tha&t the I'allrornla piImurnles urt ovoer uuid the respcttive nominees named, a hit tear ight tea loutted for between the in Murgent repubtllrn noinr.Žale Hiram W. enough without any attempt to make it more serious than It was, and there were scores of lurld storiles 1n1 circu-I Iltlil wlich had to lie verlflied beforl i(they could be plublllshed. There were L hlllundredls of nqrluilrlies t lbe answered. aIdl always there wail the lnecessity i ifor ointlraidi'ting the piallpably false 0 repOl'ts which were sent out froml poinlts rohlote. from the fire, where thier, could Inot rossiblly be atny de.si pilidllle Iinfolrlllatlonl regarding Ilmen l r people. . 'Il'hls was tile lmost liffl- tr cullt tuak of tIhe wleek frollm thie poinlt of vieiw iof T'he lissoulialt; thel public l -ll Is always willing to accepit the ,lllt t ilolerul view of tlie situation It Uny ki tillnc, andl when Sphllllane reported thll fI there wire six hundred Iltctl dead nelar ''l ulitinsoni, thll'ere were Iany who snllered at TIle Milsoutlanl's Insistunce fl that there coulll nlot possibly be a fI tinth of that Itunlllwr dead .ill tlhat 1 srclioII. Hu11 the official figurr'a ire a1 provingII that thel' Spokiane stories werew entirely wrong. 'l, Ioss of life has q been depllorallel; It is bud enough with ni thlle bar facts set forth; tihere was nevelr at any tlllle the necesslty for unlargling iiupon tIhetll. Thlere are milen in The M lllssllUllan olffce who worked ti twenty olrs it day for five if thile a days of last week II tlhe endeavor to e1 give the nlews of the fireis anld to give It currectly tin1] completely. Ilow well they siccoeded Is perhaps best shown lil tile facti that thle sales of ipitpers during the weekt were tihe' high Ill in t(Ihe histlory of Thile t lluaollltan. S't.he pl'revious high imark was miade a wlhen the story of th(l Johiumiit-Jei'frle 1h llgIht wais Ihbil.shied: l.st week's days lstpllllshcel it recoird whlllch placed the l lstampllll of apllllprl'oval upl the work of rl' the newspa pelr iiii, and It ciiniln- t satce fully for tlie efolrt. Furth'ermlorie, the railways have not Ieen st) blusy with their ownl troubles that they could nlot help otlhers In troubtle, anId t(heir reilef services have tbeen notabily goold. Criticls of the firefighters shliould r'. imembitiir tlhall It i i difficult to (Ind it nI who iare experienced i n the timblller; t in iilonllsile to find i ,000 of thleit aIIr at once. The titan who stole lbla nkets from the liesthouse Is. iMiraytini )low un oa e cu'tlutit or that Institution hllninelf. Nia turte works quickly whenlu slhe In out raged. CI.llouel Rousevelt laid a Lot tmllne i I 'lheyenne yesterday and there Is ita ihot time iawaiting hint in New York iwhen hell gets Iack homell; he enjoIys both kinds. Thrie weathellr manit hs i greatI re ilponslllliiy y let ri'.ling upon i11111; 1hi. Iexcellent pierformancllle last W'edlien i day wai i nt enol ughI to clear hliIIm. If thle strcets were keplt all the tltllt as free oif loaters as they were dlur oIng the, crltical days of last week, It I would he greal''t thllllng. It shouldl lie noted, also, that there were ,15 menl, with Ranger Ialtim and noLt 74, ian had bleen stated froml \Wal lace and Spokane. When ai man quits his job oun tihe llfiring line, hae has Init right to iexpect ithe forestry service to feed h1i1 at t headquarters. The fellows in Washington, 1). ('. Sla\o itclllh t9 leilrn heforo tlhy kntil.: tlan)'ythlng ablout colldltlions in Washingll (ton state. r. Cheyennlle dlltn't stiltop yestterOlday to considelr wHlllther lshe i Insurgent or not. but tti hall a ''regular whoop-ull Iitit'. ' i'heI, wt, ru'(lixte how luuch worseI'n(, It millght hilve ieoenll, we understand what thile forestry folks have done. f Th'e men who vnlist in the forest I s,"ervice gt thelr moIlney If they fulflli I their contract. Tlihat in ftair. AMr. 'T'aft's lecli.alon to keep Ihanl.s im' lit N'ew Yorl Is Soilticlthing Ilui tLie.. Johnsoii, andtl deInqcrutke nominnee, The odore A. Bell. Thie v'iews or Bell and Jolhnson are practlcallyl Identical .on ullebi qustuions. Bell being Just as i Sstrongly opposed to railway domina- " I ion +e iii rttpuiAtiea iitnalnea. . The Jaunts of a Tenderfoot 'VIU --I, IForest "J1' e4. tMy tenderfoot dlays are not ljver. I Pvery we'k--allnmot every day-brings a ,somlething n!w. Once, when a youngster on a cotton I plantation, I went with my rather to burl .the crab grass from a cornl frelol so that the ground could be plowed I for wheat. 'To confine the fire to one tract of land father had it ditch- ia fire. line they cull it here-cut. I I was asked to help him aupply the torchll ',but was not told the purpouse of the newly mIadea trenchl, and before hoe knew what had Ilhappened I fired both sides. Por three- hours we fought to save a 10-acre forest. bwt faitpd. T'ilha was my first and last forest fire until I arrived here.. I had heard of the fierce turllentine forest fires of tihe fir t half of the last century, but hand naever seell oall'. Tlherefore, I halve. learned sMoaiethlng l alout fires. InI flat, I am a pioneer whial it comes to that queition. Judge Wootly has vcury little advantage over mle inI that line cf experience. I had not been in Missoula long bu fore I saw l n lumber of gentlemen packinhlg b)lundles or bud clothing on their backs, hliking about town. I sam' two, three, a half dozen, or nmore In a squad. Day by day the parties be caune more numerous and larger. "Whuat are these guys selling?" I uasked. "Helling?" Inquired a westerner. "Yes: they look like peddlers to mlo. The only men that carry packs In my country are Syrians. who hawk their goods ablout tihe c'oulntry." "Thle joke Is ocle you, old maUn. Those are fireflghters, or lharvestt hanllo. We' have manly forest flrec this year." oon Ili adse a trip to Dixon, to see resuloitlion of it nman Who concludes not to piclk upil a hot coal a second time. A few mInn like Jim Corbett--our Jhn-would make the city mighty or derly and 'would keep it so. - Thile courthouse clock is also a re minder that time flies, and it is well to keep busy all the time. t Also. lRanger lhlmn came back, de- I spite,. the dubious predictions froum Wallace and tSpokane. 'rlThe corespollnents who are ilth I the Roosevelt party are not having t a vaetClon tour. Wulluce is assured that the gate reitiains opelin at all times In case of need. Of them all, Alderman' Corbert of th^ Second ward, comes back strongest. The week showed, mnoveover that The Missoullan gives tile news. If Cololnel Roosevelt Is not hlurt i this morllllig. lie never will be. The danger Is not over anid the ne cessity for caution yet eaists. Itunger Halmh i a welcome addition to the list of resurrected. John Barrett of the International Bureau of Amerloan Republios, who may be asked to head new undertaking. Washinllllgton, Aug. 27.-A sweeping industrial ulid conllllercial campaign with tire entire world as the market pilace. Is the latest policy of tile United States gov\'erllnnlt. It will be inaug urated by the state departmeno t In con Junction \wltlh tile department of coin mnortle ind labor. Ilol. Joihni Barrett of this Interna tlonal Bureau of American Republics, limay hi prevailed upon to undertake the working out of tile plans. His work along 'cumlniercial lines between tile Amlericas Ihas been remarkably sue cesuf ult Thls pdliy., which Is expected to at Itract wide uttention and may cause bitter commllercial warfare between the 'United States and Europe, will be directed by Secretary of State Knox, Thi Idea of a groueater American conm inerce board is that of Presaldent Taft. Tile entire diplomiatic and consular I organizations of tills country will be utilized. In addition a corps of six conimercial experts. trained and fa milliar with the various parts of the globe, will be attached to tile depart ment of state to gather data and Ia formation of practical business value that might eseaple tile consular officers. It Is also planned to establish a bu. rean of international commerpe, under thile state department's jurisdiction. whose functions will be to cull all the tinformation received' about coin iierciai and industrial conditions in foreign countries and bring it to the attention of Amerlidti business men. 1 It has been estimated by official ex I perts that, 4nIjnlresue of American i trade abroad boalhing.' $1,750,OpO,000 *opught to be the r'$ ult of the firit five l'ears of hits plliv. the buffalo of the National l' abn a range, with Alderman McCormlik. t Clouds of smoke were rolllhg 'out of a the mountains west of Dixon. 1 "That's a bad forest fire," said Mr. 1 McCormick. "1 may have to fight It s before I go In," We saw the animals and returned to Dixon. The fire was raging back ins the hills. A telegram from the capi tal of the state advised Mr. McCor mick to hire men and give battle to I the flalnes. I learned sometlhingt about fire laws: I ntin told that edould ,he a forced to go tand fight fires by an & officer. That was encouraging to a man who had not handled a pick and shovel in 20 years. But, 'being noercl- a ful and kind-hearted, Mr. lMcCormick let me off, and wont after more prom Iaing material, An hour after supper l ,two wagon loads of husky montwers on the way to the woods. About 8 o'clock the next morning they' returned, the grimlest and most weary lot I ever saw. *me of them were so tired they could tlrdly get to their rooms., It. was then that I discovered that firefighting was no child's play. Two weeks later, when Junketing with O. L. Stark in his auto-wagon, up the Blackfoot river, I saw a party of Butte firemen. We were at Bill Dilts', spending tlh night, when the telephone rang and some one announced that he would be there Inside of on hour with a force of firefighlters, and wanted supper for II persons. Mr. Dilts prepared a meal. About 9 o'clock the party arrived. I had never aeen a more motley crew. We sat bhack and looked on while the ham and eggs and other good things were consurdod. Two men were not A Tribute From the Ranks When it comes to the final human judgment there are none better fitted I to judge 'us than those with whom we I have worked. It is at our woik--par ticularly if that 'work be hard, nerve racking toll--that our little and big faults sluow up 'lith greater clarity, and It. is thei mnl who are working with us thait can see them most read ily. The petty opinion. of our close personal friends- or of oulr encmies - are biased, and n .hl it comes time to write a m s,.'.. j's..ui.ry tac only real decision of this world i. that Inmadi 'by those wilo have stood'J houlder to shoulder with us In the battle; not theI pla,'. Whell that rare man comes c,'iio canl bre pointed out as one whose fellow workers have called a mall, he an ilbe counted on as being one of tile best and no better epitaph can be given the very hlghd-t of us than the words: "Hlls fellow-workers placed him high." Those of us who were friends of William IIovoy VPolleys know him to be one of these. We realized that he would have made an extraordinary man. But at that it was comforting and pleasing to hear the judgment ,given last night by one who had work ed beside him and who knew him even 'better than did we. The man -was a big, clear-eyed Ir ishman. liaised Ill the woods, lie had been, as tile depth of his blue eyes and the strength of his brown, bare neck testified. 'eIo was surely out of place in the smoky, odorous restaur ant tl)at early morning and the tarn Ish of the city's wild, dissipated civil Ization rested heavily upon him; wind 'blown and pinesceedted -as he was. But he was lin earnest when he spoke and his 'words rang with a conviction that meant truth. When lie started he .did not know that anyune there had even heard of Hovey 'Polleys-in -fact when he start ed lie told only of fighting fire and the attention paid him was of the lightest. But when lihe began to speak of him who was a friend of more than ono of Ills Ilsueners the atmosphere changed and when ihl was told that some of us knew his hero he warmed to his subject. "Boy, did you know young "Poileysn?" lie said. "There was a man -for you. I worked under him when - lhe was killed anl' a 'better fellow I never knew. I told you how lhe was killed, merely through tile ignoranln of a I 'bunch of domined Dagoes. It I had been in Ills shoes and had had a double-bitted axe ovelr my slloulder like he had I would have comnmitted murder. There would have been wid ows and orphans In Italy today-but young Polleys? No, He was not that kind. unll, he gave his life for them ignlorant men. !eI had time to escape, but not him. He stood there cool and collected trying to urge thim diviis on down tile trail and out of danger. He 'waited too long, that was all. "How did it liappel? You go up that trail today and you will see stick Ing In tile butt of a young pine tree a wedge of a windfall. It Is a piece of the same tree that killed that lad. It hias been hanging there ever since. "He was just going to dinner, Down the hill was the camp and young Pol loys was leading u,--hlm being our 'bossL-and these Dagoes were ahead of lilm. Then somebody yelled "timber- down tile hill." The minute them be hunks heard that they scatterdd in a6 directions, one running this way, the other that, acting for all the world like a steamship load of government mules, The ,pst of them stood tier' like sheep, crossing themselves and calling on their gods to help. Pulleys, cool-headed like he wasi, kept puoihlng them and urging them on down the trail and then the tree struck a young pine on its way, to the ground, broke into perhaps twenty pieces, the butt of the tree hit young Polleys a glancting blow on the head and it was all over, '"I It hadn't been for thif. Dagoeu- but what's the use. It was cool, cal culating brain, against the Latin hot headed Ignorance. If It bad been, me -but Polleys was dltfereqt. *'Lad," and there was more than the glisten brought by late hours in hiM 'eyes, "I'f you knew young Pollaey you knew a man. H"e'was clean, healthy and atronl. and l"p i the r?.t, of the at the feast. One follow, who was too full to navigate, was peacefully sleeping In one of the rigs at the baln, and the other, a short, comical looking chap, sat pouting on the front WstepD In the dark. "Why .don't you come in, Spud?" sonice one said. "I hvenI't been invited,' said he. "(1lei) That's why." "Everybody Is invlted" said the man in charge. "Come on In." "I'm a New Yorker (hic) and you must ask me In the proper way," answered Spud. I learned 'about flrefiglgtors from Spud. He as goting forth to get some of Uncle Sam's money. As time passed. the pakit men In creased. One day I saw more than 100 crossing from one railway station to another. They weore going out to battle with the biases. Soon carloads and later trainloads of firefighters dent from Butte. IMlssoutl and elsewhere' Into the burning districts. Yet I had never taken thli forest fire seriously. However, I"'had come to the conclusion that it was .0 pretty good thing to turn loose about *2.0)0 a day in this community for rtl'al fire *men. It made -business better. But, about 10 o'Clock Saturday night a week ago my eyes were opened. I learned that forest fires were seriou'4 probositions when gales Of wind got behind them. For days and nlights I have written about nothing but'forest fires. I have seen some of their fear ful results. Like Dutch Davis, no firefighting for me. I will watch the forest itle from a long wayqff. H. E. C. B.tTANT. men who -worked undor him, fairly loved him. He had none of your fault finding stuc-up airs about tlin. He never said to you 'I'm the son or the boss here and you will pay attention to me or there'll be trouble." "No, there was none of that in him. He was none the better of the wdrst of us. He would come around where we were talking together and Join right in with us-but not until some body had said, 'sit down; Polloys.' And mind you, lie was the bWas and his word was law, but he would wlt un til he was asked to join in. And he would argue and toll stories and lie with the best of ujs. lle was a tinilnee, ladt If there ever was one. "And to think that it was him that wa. killed. Why hie was as strong as it bull and as full of energy and life. lie was phenomenal, that's *hat he was. He would have made a man. 'And 'when he was hit. boy. we couldn't realize that it was him. When Harrington, he is the ex-forehian for the Polleys Lumnber company, and *a prince--though he has a low-lived timekeeper. When Harrnglton heard of it, I say, he didn't know what to do. He couldn't understand It. "Lad, I'm glad I met you, If you are a friend of young Polleys. He was a prince-a real prince-and when he' died the world lost a man. I don't know the rest of the Polleys, but if they are like that lad I wouldn't ask to meet better." An eulogy that, of which the best of us might be proud. There is no, man who in harder to understand, whose confidence and friendship comes more slowly or who has a keener dyo for strength of character and the ,things that make a man than he who has lived and grown under the blue sky and among the pines of tile forest. Nfo magn whose personal and business mor a.k are perverted can stand as an equal with him. MHe may harbor one of iis own sort, who .has sunk .- little low. and tolerate him. He may have falllings of which the city Pharisee might be ashamed and he may not have tile grace of some of his fellows but he is a clean, whole-minded man and the outsider who is accepted as an equal by him at hIs work must ,he strong in those qualities which make fo' manhood. That Hovey Polleys stood with thLs man of the woods as he did speaks more highly for him than any other word that could be spoken and to be called a, "prince" by the men. over whom he had charge and with whom hie worked is to receive a consummate praise, a eulogy of which you or I or the very best of us-no matter who he may be-might well be pgroed. THE LITTLE THINGS, Mv dear, the' little 'things I did fur` you Today have brought me comfort, one by one. As through the purple dark a shaft of sun Strikes far. at dawn, and changes dusk to blue: The little things It cost me naught to do noemeonbering how slow life's sands may run, Today a. web of purest gold bave spun Across the gulf that lies between us two, Oh, dead and dear, the many little thingsl The loving words I did not fall to say. The kiss at parting,. the caregllng .touch What shriven peace to me the memory I/ brings-. And weppiidr at jour open gravE today, No ailngle pang 'beeause I did too much. --Myrtle BRad in Harper's Basar. HIS LOCA'TION. \ Knicker': Where do you live? Booker: i've miles from a- lemon and 110 from a steak. THE PRESENT STYI. ,4 Mary had ae'i ttle skirt Tied tightly in a bow, .; . And everywhere that Mat'y Wiht She simplyt..oIf otu4n't so. i 'j'pr's 'W9klr,