Army of the Corn.
Behold, the summer's promise
stands revealed upon the hillg—
Bivouacked, an army campeth by the
ever singing rills!
From the shock tents of the soldiers,
shedding sunlight back to sun,
Nods the tasselled flag of Plenty—
for the season's fight is won!
Ho!
In the golden glow of morning, see
the Army rise from mist,
Throwing off its blackened mantle,
loosing shackled {mb and wrist,
By the pickets that protect It stand
the cattle, wonder eyed
At the bladed horde of Ceres, at the
Army's stalwart pride!
the border
frightened
In the
skulk
brood:
hedge rows by
the quall, a
er at the mess
food.
Hark! Across the tented valley comes
the baying of the heund
the echo of the bugle with its
quaver, round on recund!
And
Sce! The Army wakes, to quiver
with the zephyr's ebb and flow!
the reveille is sounded by the
North Wind's lusty blow.
It wakens not to slaughter, but
to Peace and Hope and God-—
To the heraldry of Plenty and the
Bounty of the Sod!
Now
Ah!
Over all the sun is shedding tangled
gossamers of light,
Tipping Ceres’ band
crowning Ceres's
might—
the promise of
stands revealed
horn
In the rows of tented soldiers in the
Army of the Corn,
—RByron Williams in Chicago Tribune
with
brow
glory,
with
the summer
from
Aye,
f
rd
8 A Few
Letters
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level
ed lips in
i
The young woman with the
brows and firmly c
front of her desk staring at the photo
graph of a UNE man
It was in a gold frame
before her. She bit the end
pen flercely every now and then
Suddenly she made a dab at the ink
well and stabbed the sheet of pale
blue letter paper before her with a
blurred capital. Then she wrote rap
idly:
“My Dear Mr. Ferguson:
occurrence of last evening,
effectually my
true character the
your affections,
sary for me to
tell you that everyth
tween us. You, of
realized that before this letter reaches
you. There will be not the
use in your begging be
OI pre
y Yoda x
good-looking ¥q
and
After the
which so
eyes to your
unsiability ot
almost unneces
opened
and
it is
take e trouble
is over be
course, will have
slightest
to forgiven,
me my confidence is killed. So com
pletely has any fancy that I
cared for you been blotted out
remember with scorn and pity
foolish girl who thought you
her ideal man. I am almost moved
to thank you for rovealing yourself
to me and saving me a lifetime
misery.
“1 wish
the
wera
you much happiness
is certainly more your type
than I am. Many persons call her
joud and wulgar, but they
have not your diseriminating undar
standing of her.
“A package of the trifles
you have bestowed on me, including
an engagement ring, will reach you
shortly. Truly yours,
“Isabel M'Hatton.”
Then she frowned She read it a
third time. Then she looked at the
picture. Then she tore the letter in
two slowly and began to write:
“Dear Mr. Ferguson: The little in-
cident of last evening, which in itself
was nothing, suppli>% the finishing
touch which decided a question that
has troubled me for some time. |
feel that I do not care enough for
you to marry you. Wider experience
has taught me wher: my heart
I am relieved in telling you this to
feel that it will not be a blow to you,
®8, no doubt, your consolation
now is in your’ mind. With
wishes, sincerely yours,
“Isabel M"Hatton.”
She smiled in a satisfied way
“That phrase about experience teach
ing me where my heart lies is really
clever,” she murmured. "Hea will
think that 1 mean Clifford Gray. He
was always jealous of Clifford!”
She stared at the photograph and
lies
to her eves. “I'd Mke to show hor
once!” she said, under her breath
“She has tried to get him away from
me over and over.”
She laid the letter aside and
gan another. “No doubt she simply
made him Jdo it,” she murmured, “Bat
that doesn’t excuse him at all” She
wrote:
“Dear Mr. Ferguscn:
ha
not to approach me since an accident
in the Dawes's eomservatory. 1 fane;
you have some explanation as to why
you kissed Gladys Gaylord, but 1
would not be interested in hearing It,
1 prefer the very obvious cxplanation
that you did it becanse you wanted to,
She is perfectly horrid and bodsts
of her flirtations with engaged men,
but 1 suppose that makes no differ
ence to you. You are probably proud
of being numbered ameng her vie
tims,
“You needn't tell me yon weren't
instant I saw you, at least you hal
done so Just before that, because
there was no other reason for your
face being so close to hers. In jus.
tice to you, I will listen to any ex.
planation you care to offer, though 1
warn you that it will make no differ
ence in my resolution to have noth-
ing more to do with you. Sincerely,
“1. MH
For a long time she stared at tho
photograph. It returned her gaze
candidly. She reread the last two
letters. Then she bit the pen and
thought deeply. Finally she took up
a fresh sheet and wrote:
“Dear George—I1f you have any ex
planations to make, you may do so.
| Please write instead of coming to see
| me. Needless to say, I am very much
amazed and hurt.”
A tear dropped on the paper and
blotted it. More tears followed.
“l hope,” she sobbed, “that 1 shall
never see him again! And it was all
her fault, I know! Every bit! 1 hate
her, and 1 in
h-h-ate him!
® ® »
There was a ring at the telephone.
She stumbled over her gown in her
haste to reach it.
She said “Hello!”
eagerly.
Then she answered:
I'll be at home tonigat, George,
dying to see you.
and then listened
“Of course
I'm
could explain,
“No, of course I haven't worried
Chicago Dally
News,
Messenger Boy Detectives.
That messenger boys make good
detectives the assertion of
of one of the
Western Union
recently, and
was
local
Tele
when
of the
Company
offices
| “Not woman
and requested our
her five-year-old boy,
declared, had strayed from
gide in Broad street station.
{ tunately the distracted mother
came
aid
who
long
office
Ago a
For
of
to
h for the wan
his errand
his
which we one
with
{ boy, gave to
bright
to the station and sear
{ derer He departed on
While we were walting
the telephone bell rang and
if we had sent a mes
| the station. We replied in the affirm:
ative Thereupon the receiver was
| rung up, and shortly afterward
i mother had the satisfaction of clasp
{ing to her heart her lost dariing
The embryo detective received a
i bill for his work, and the woman left
| vowing she would recommend
boys to any one losing children.
terward
had heard
persuade the
lads instructions
{ asked enger
Af
trying
with him
our messenger
child to go
had prevented it until assured by
us that everything was all right."—
Philadelphia Record .
Another Food Fad.
Tea is proclaimed an as intoxicant
| by an inspired writer in a York, (Pa)
i daily newspaper, who mixes some
| facts with a good deal of fiction
i explaining his theory. The story
| sounds like an emanation from the
| producers of coffee substitutes and is
reading a curiosity. The
{ York paper says “Those good
sons who are Included in the
{ worth
as
| drinkers generally, will be interested
{in the statement of a medical
| ority that the juice of the tea
ranks second only to alcohol as an
| intoxicant,
| board of health, has compiled some
apply for treatment at the chief dis
pensary of that city, fully ten per
icent are tea drunkards,
| They are ignorant of the fact, but
| She symptoms of their case point
; unmistakably, to over indulgence in
{is confirmed by their confessions
| They suffer from headache, vertigo
i insomnia, palpitation of the heart
{ mental
hallucinations, morbid
spirits and sometimes
impulses,
depressing of
from
The Eccentricity of Salt,
i Perhaps the strangest freak
Mother Nature ever played
miner was at Lodi,
of the city of Indianapolis
Ago as 1829 a man named
{ Thomas hored there for salt, and
i fouad at a depth of 250 feet
from which he could make thirty
{ bushels of salt a day. Later he bored
to 500 fest, and was able to
fifty bushels a day Soma
pesscd, and he took a brother
srship and dec penad he well
They then got
daily, and the
made a large
that
upon a
Norbourn
parts
| still further.
bushels of salt
pricing Thomas
une,
In the soventios came the oll boom,
and the Thomas salt well was rebor.
ied in the hope of finding petroleum
A depth of 1,135 feet was reached
when suddenly the drill was blown
(out by au terrific rush of water, and
| the company was forced to abandon
| work. Five years ago it was discov.
| ered quite by chance that the still
| flowing well was producing water
{ charged with mineral salts of the
| very greatest value, and today Lodi
i1s a rapidly growing and flourishly
| heath rgsort. Answers,
The larger kind of West Indian
firefly gives a light so brilliant that
by it printed matter may be read at
a distance of two cr threo ifuchas
enter
forf"
"PANIC--HUH !
~
on
i
oF
—Cartoon by F. Bowers, in the Indianapolis News,
——————————————————————
re
SOME EFFECTS OF THE RECENT FINANCIAL CRISIS.
Panic began on October 16, !
f Ten banks in New York City suffered runs, some of which forced |
[ susp nsion.
Thirty-five banks in other cities suffered runs, |
Eighteen deaths have resulted, either suicides or through sickness
brought on by worry.
Three men have been indicted and arrested for bank fund juggling; |
| at least four others are likely to be, i
: Seventeen banks in New York City suspended payment wholly or in |
| part,
Fifty-four banks in other cltites suspended.
Fifteen of this whole number have resumed,
About $125,000,000 has been withdrawn from banks in New York
City, much of it, however, to be redeposited in other banks. !
535,000,000, estimated, has been withdrawn from banks elsewhere, |
{ Gold engaged from abroad, . es ‘a . 881,225,000 |
| Money sent from New York for relief of interior . . 100,000,000 |
| Citles over 100,000 population using clearing house certifi-
CARLOS. . ....:. 0 Wie eins . ‘ . .
Amount of clearing house certificates outstanding in New |
York. ..:::s «is0.04.. . “a 75,000,000 |
| *Mills and factories closed or party suspended 125 |
| *Number of employes out of work 135,000 |
| Number of factories and mills assigning 14
| **Amount of money involved in fallares. . £28 805,000 |
| Facts of Previous Panles,
1857... .8pecie payments
1873... .8pecie payments
1803... .Bpecie payments
23 |
suspended
suspended
suspended
a
“0
weeks,
weeks,
* Only enterprises employing 500 or more men considered.
way operations included,
** Only failures involving $5000 or more considered,
Above facts and figures taken from telegraphic advices to the New |
York Tribune from all over the country.
RESUME OF THE PANIC.
Rail- |
Yragedy and Comedy—~t{ow the Country-Wide Financial Squeeze
Grew From a Small Fallure.
New York City.—The been on for a
Wore than four weeks, and people all over the country, realizing that
the worst is over, fire gathering about the stoves in the corner stores, dis
ussing what might be called the superficial developments of the panic
me of these are mentioned, even yet, with the old shiver of alarm. In
hany of them, however, Is found humor; In others tragedy
For instance, back In Kankakee the experience of the old “tight wad”
fnoney lender who went to the city to collect a note, insisted on currency
phd had to charter a truck and a freight ear to get it home is greeted with
uproarious laughter, But the story of the little widow just around the cor-
her is recalled In gllence. Her small sum was {n a city bank which closed.
Bhé stood before its doors a whole night and a day, and came home, when
the suspension notice was posted, weakened in body and literally scared to
Yeath,
The whole trouble seemed to start from one apparentiy—at that time
s-insighificant fallure, The fallure, however, was followed by rumors in-
volving the names of several prominent bankers. These were soon forced
eit of oMee, and rung started on thelr banks. The trouble spread in waves
ever New York City. The community's spine was shaken with the cold
chills of panle and the ague passed in waves from Wall Street to Harlem,
Yhe Bronx, Brookiyn and Wwitliamsbure. Bank officers who had been skat-
ing on thin ice scrambled for the shore, but their moves only shattered
what support they had had, and they found themselves struggling in the
fold black water of the law.
inancial squeete has now
# %s 40
Lie
trifle
active in the banking world for nearly two Score years commented.
Banker on the Panle.
he kald, “wha would live to old age without the
money he has ‘borrowed’ -=guote that word, please-—so safely that he will
Actually be able to returf it if everything goes right.
he knows hig bank Is Involved in trouble like that we have just passed
through, and he finds his books in the hands of the bank examiner. Before
jumpihg on necks with hobnailg in our boots, let's stop and think how many
honest meén to-day would have had the blight of Btate's prison on their past
had A finaneial furry occuffed at just the right, or, rather, the wrong time
Who can tell?” :
hattap Island. This wave's progress ls
The day of the first trouble here, Hoston
sending in optimistic reports in an "I told you so’ tone. The next day the
digpalches from these éities told of precattionary measures. Then the pre
reflected In the news dispatches.
themselves involved in runs ahd suspensions,
Vroke iteelf, so to speak, on the Pacifié Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico,
Different Kinds of Runs,
There have been, bankers sa¥, three kinds of runs—panie runs, silly
ring and runs started by mistake. The pahie runs were the general order
resulting from the unsettled state of eredit.
At least {wo rung were started by mistakes in newspaper stories about
he getieral banking situation
A rufi oft a bank up the Slate was cauded in this way: The eashler got
A telephone message from home that some medicine was needed Immediately
for the baby. The cashier eéallied ati offices boy, followed him to the door of
the bank in telling him the errand, and sped him on his way with the ad-
monition, "New run.”
entering and heard only the word “run” coming from the cashier. They
were influential men in the commufiity; and when they immediately drew
out all theie deposits theif eumple wis followed by geveral others, Rumor
took up the case there And handled it in itd old thorough-golug manner.
The use of clearing house certificates and the premium on money have
resulted in some curious incidents. In Bt. Lotis the certificates were ac-
cepted on etreet cars. In one town in the Middle West where the lack of
currency was peculiarly felt the mefehants, nearly all of whom were mane
nfacturere, paid thelr workmen id the old-fashioned ‘shin plasters,” and
the town is now in poesesgion of a currency of ils own, supplemented by
that of Uncle Sam,
Lots of Silver Used,
Restaurant men down town, especially proprietors of the grab-and-run
thops, say they have never in thelr lives séon 80 many silver dollars and so
much small gold. One of the cheaper restatiranta {n closing business on
Friday night had more than $200 in sliver dollars, Most of these were
bright and new, hut dated from 1870 {0 1880. ‘The young woman cashier,
who heretofore has done the banking for the concern, was unable to carry
the deposit to the bank, and 8 walter had to be sent with her,
In the mining communities and towns in which large rafiroad opera-
tions are going on the employers have been put to it to pay off thelr men
and keep them cheerful, A check means about as much to an ordinary sec-
tion hand as a Sanskrit hand bill, and when the men found they were receiv-
Ing these unusual bits of paper instead of thelr wages they struck, and in
many Instances riot ensued. Many of the shut-downs and curtallments
shown in the accompanying table were due solely to the Inability of the em-
plosera to get money to pay off thelr men, and not to Insolvency
And now the climax of the situation seems to be past. Factories are
rosuming work and paying their men in Surreney. Money has poured out
of the banks of New York City and other large financial centres, and been
raplaced, at least in part, by gold from Hurope. Stockings are once more
giving up their hoards, and the thin layers of new dust have beert swept off
the covers of the strong boxes and the lines of depositors are forming at the
right windows to give confidence to the weak kneed. The thirty-day limit
that many savings banks put upon withdrawals has expired, with few, in.
deed, to claim their money; the goose is hanging high.
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Dear Eustacia—We had
Iv lovely time at Glitterby's
Bertha A, Biffington’
ent, and I must tell »
“last cry” in
you haven't heard, |
clerk who has had
we did and came
getting admitted
brought wedding
ai3e}
Suc
®_O
8,
our
minor exhibits and only those
ghown
We 1,
have reception
the higher priced counters
had a “'pienic;”” it
and tear at all The
is The
no flat silver at all, the clerk said
| Mrs. Biffington herself had bought
trunkful of knives, forks, spoons, «
No cut glass, bric-a-brac
sired; no china, except coalport
giitest edged on earth, you know. )
Mamma wanted awfully to gel
exquisite hand carved, full
a
cards are
A
wasn
direct metho
80 restful. Biffingtons wan
tc
Was de-
rns
structions” said "No"
then he graciously added that the
ver dishes—dead finish or brilliant
{ from bon-bon sizes up.
No jewels were desired, the clerk
{| said, as Miss Buffington believed in
| inherited jewels only, The real es
tate and government bonds, of course
though the instructed clerk didn’t
| say so-—will be given by Mr. Biffing-
ton. (No alarm clocks, of course.)
That is the “correct” arrangement
too-—don't youn think so, Eustacia?
| Wouldn't it Jar your delicacy to have
; outsiders giving you bonds and
{ houses and lots? It would mine.
I Well, we selected a lovely little sil.
| ver bon-bon dish—Mamfa didn't
: groan but twice when she paid for it.
{ As I'm the only daughter left, this
will leave the Biffingtons $17.50 in
| our debt; for you know, Eustacia, I'm
going to be a spinster forever: so 1
{ can go around in long, lank, willowly
{ wallopy gowns, with a book to match
i under my arm.
I'l send you Bertha's note
| she acknowledges the $17.50
be ultra swagger
Yours fondly,
EDMONIA.
Cousin Abraham Martin is awfully
vexed because he didn’t get a “"duan’
| to the Biffington wedding, --— From
Puck.
when
It will
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in township 19, range 18, according
to the Government survey, one plush
raspberry cow, aged eight years. She
is of undoubted courage and gives
milk frequently. To a man who does
not fear death in any form she would
be a great boon. She is very much
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stay chain, and she will be sold to
any one who will agree to treat her
right. Bhe is one-fourth Shorthorn
and three-fourths hyena. I will also
throw in a double-barreled shotgun,
which goes with her, In May she
usually goes away for a week or two
and returns with a tall, red calf with
wabbly lege. Her name is Rose. 1
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