THE CRICKET SONG.
Japanese,
Here In my lonely
Now winter
{ hearken to
And sigh
cottage,
winds are co
the crickets,
that I am old.
[ hear their small bells tinkle
Like beads of silver rain
That break on the brooks in summer,
And dream I am young again.
I see my native rice
Flushed with streams in spring
And | hear the frogs, so many
The waters seem to sing.
fields
Sweet are the rivers
The rice-streams sweetest of all,
For there all day In the sunlight
The cherry-blossoms fall.
of Settsu,
Nothing
Blown
No light
That
snow-flakes,
sky;
embers
die:
falls here save
from the wintry
here save
sullenly
from
smoldering
No sound
kets,
Somewhere In
And the sigh
For something
-R. H
save the bells of my crle-
the
of the
that
darkness rung,
poor old singer
still is young!
Stoddard in Seribner’s
His
Extra
Work
DLAFEDLEDLED, 80,40 ERED va va; »
gr
a
Hke they all do
eager, of course,
gait up It'll be tell
good bye for his”
They gazed at
beating out t
ar. Click
“l remembd
bill 1
he
Louis
Mere
he answi
cause he
bil. Click, ha
moment, strolled al
He halted
greeted the
“Bvenin’,
makin’ ?"
aver
reflective
bri ofly ¥.
Click
rick
ing one
iy.
“Romancy
wond:«
the word.
BOM
-
good
red
more
and
’
Ol em
‘Ah,
How
a3 gAyY as 3
young fellow
after we're dea
Some one
small copy
attention.
“As you'll find out”
and scuttled to
Obviously relieve
turned to his y
sheet joined the neat p
typewriter. In middle of
which he stared with worried
a boy announced that his s«
were required hy the eity desk,
“Man killed ‘
and made a
the hospital. Wife caught him
affinity on the street Here's
names.” “We can't stand over three
quarters to-night. Only a ten page
paper,” sald Mr. Pickle. “Smith can
take it on the "phone if it looks like
a late job. Gimme what you can for
the first.”
Hendrick rushed back to his copy,
folded it into a big envelope and slid
that into his coat pocket,
“Why does he lug a Sunday story
around on this murder thing?" pond.
ered CHcek, who saw the action. “That
boy's head is just so full of space-
grabbing in the magazine section
that he can't think of anything else.”
Hendrick, having garnered a story
good enough for the first page, re
turned in time to pound out a third
of a column for the first edition.
Then he rewrote the late and length.
ened it to the full column, to which
Mr. Pickle, being pleased with his
young man's gleanings, graciously
extended the space allowance.
It was 1 a. m. when Hendrick fin.
ished his night's assignment. Click,
going home with all the morning pa-
fe's under his arm, was shocked to
see Hendrick take out an envelope.
rapidly scan the typewritten pages
it had held and then begin upon the
“Sunday stuff.” The toller looked up
and met Click's gaze.
“You better go home, get out o
here and quit that dingdonging for.
ever Want any eyes or brains left
for your old age?”
Hendrick smiled coldly,
“My eyes are all right,” he retort
ed. “Good night!”
“pickle.” sald Click, kicking his
¥
your
boy sought
the
eves,
rvices
himself
now at
with
the
two, took gas
bloomer of it,
228 8 IDE NLEN A 800
way through the clutter of proofs
upon the floor within a two foot ra
diug of his colleague, “youn talk to
that kid. He's daffy, my boy.
writing since he got in at six,
for the time he was out on
shooting yarn. Make him
home.”
Mr.
interest in
the room
“I'd call this a day,
he said.
From Hendrick issued a hiss of ex-
asperation.
“I—am-
he said,
me in the
“Don't be
“1 hate to see
all. Nearly
“I hope to be sald Hendrick,
significantly; whereat they retreated.
Every member of the staff com-
mented on Hendr love of work
Between news stories he turned
innumer columns
“I believe e's doing a
Charlie Clubb, the juvenile individual
who did suc the Whiff as
the « men docline time
upon, “he's 80 ADR
Pickle also felt a very
Hendrick. He
if I were you,"
Sunday story!”
“Don’t
writing a
distinctly.
office?”
absurd,” sald Mr. Pickle.
you kill yourself, that's
done?”
you
soon,”
ick's
able
book,” sald
nn « hores for
Ider d to waste
heen
ince he rt
Mr. MclLemon, who
enderloin “Ain't
himself.”
Ove
police a bit
attempts
to ask
iisplay
nquiries
LWO
ed savage mper when
rnoon
rk as he d«¢
Why,
THE MODOCS.
the Tribe Now Living
Indian Territory.
indian
are
fiami, I. T.
the only
once noOw«
The
bored,
ern C
In 1872
refused
tions
ing
tory, \ illo
These fifty
gurvivors or relat
rial tribe
Modoes, it will be
were an Indian tri
alifornia and southern
they became turbulent
to remain on their
Gen. E. R 8 Canby
eran of the Mexican and Civil
was sent against them, bui
ter firing on the United States forces,
retreated to the lava beds. The
vance of the United States
was greatly impeded by
topography of the country,
good many of them were picked
by Indian sharpshooters concealed
behind the rocks and crags of the
lava beds.
to negotiate with them,
ference was held between Gen. Can
by and two peace commissioners on
the one hand and a number of Mo
does, including thelr chief, Capt.
Jack, on the other. While Gen. Can
by and his aides were
stones around a small fire two In
dians who were concealed In
bushes rushed from their hiding
place with guns and shot to death
the General and one of his compan-
fons. A vigorous campaign was thea
begun against the treacherous Indi
ans, and in the following summer
Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, who succeed:
ed ‘Gen. Canby, captured the Modoc
band. Capt. Jack and three other
leaders were tried by a military com-
mission and banged, while two oth.
ers were imprisoned for life. About
100 who had not followed Capt. Jack
were permitted to remain in Call
fornia. The remainder, about 145,
of whom the fifty are either surviv.
ors or descendants, were transferred
to the Indian Territory. Altogether
the war cost $600,000. Sixty-odd sol
. ¥
ives of
remem.
be of north
Oregon
and
reserva
a vet
Wars,
diers and Indian allles were
and nearly as many wounded.
Little Man, who ig sald to be
hew of Capt. Jack. i18 the only
relative of the famous war
Scarecrow,
4 one
a nep
Chief
y and in
vors of
twee 14
transported
now in
descendants of
the
rapidly
107,
now bent with i
of the survl
we
firmity,
des him are
three who were
The
others
California others
Ter: all
old warriors. If
tinues to dwindle as
the next few
past another mark the
death of the last indian in
America —~Kansas City Star,
from
the
the
iftory are
tribe con
during
years as it has in the
ade will
Modoe
dec
WHY MEAT IS 80 HIGH.
A Few Expressions that Don't Clar.
ify Matters at Ail
By this time, summing up the va-
ried ents of those in the busi
bl { remark.
statem
ness. it Is possible to form
ably clear ideas of why
more for
dents of most
tient and
retail dealer
nite conclu
The
th
The
n Bost
The
EUROPE’'S RIVERS.
Far Ahead
ovements
nmenta There
AZ a a Fn "we PS
Waterway Imps
commercial way |
their little
the
Great
(Great Britain,
the tiniest
dredge
been prove
is cheap
than the
to one of
streams int we do to
sippl In Aus
Srain in Aunstria,
A and Sweden
after. One may see
where. It has
water transportation
sometimes swifter
raliroads Besides, the waterways
keep open territories that would be
closed if the railroads had their way.
The United States is entering upon
a new era.
if a policy Is good for one
our country it is good for the bal
ance of the nation. Thus,
prove our rivers of the West, they
will help our fortunes In the East!
if we
East and West, bringing in
tria
Britain
NOTWaY river
ia looked
boats
ed that
er and
every
more
correspondingly Increase the
fits in other parts of the nation.
“President Taft struck a
vein, as did former President Roose
velt, when he said that the Ameri
nennle and the American Con
gress were committed to a broad sys
tem of waterway extension,
popular agitation could not be
thought of."—New York American
win as
Can't Please Everybody.
Mrs. Asquith came in for a good
criticism for inviting Maud Allen to
a luncheon party. Smarting under
it, she Invited next time the great
Parisian artist in clothing, M. Polret.
“This time,” she sald, “there will
be no mistake. As the only objec
tion to Miss Allen was thut she was
the artist who had reduced clothing
to the minimum, | have Invited the
artist who has raised clothing to the
maximum. Now there can be no
eviticlam.”
But, strange to say, there was.=
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s
of Trade says:
It was hardly
tha
would
recent high
glowing up, if only
spell, was natural,
ently is what
it makes no
Weekly Review
that
revival
execs dd
industrial trade
time at the
od, Some
for a breathing
and this appar-
is occurring, although
material impre
upon the great volume of transac
tions The unseasonabled weather
approach of the holiday sea.
gon, and the time for settlements
and taking of stock, incident to the
ending of the year, in considera-
ble part responsible for the slightly
more quiet aspect of business. The
rallroad strike in the Northwest is
an unpleasant and its
immediate are chiefly fe in
the flour trad
No uneasin
continue all the
rate Of Bp
B8100
are
development
regarding the
ull now manifest in some hranche
of iron and steel, as it is recognized
that recovery from past de i
has been ni
over and
on the
for n
r, mills
future
Wholesale Markets 8.
New York, — Wheat
: 9 He { inal
No. 2 red, 126¢c. nominal
3
Ry
GOIN
nominal
Dulut
1.2% %,
Northern
£. 0.1
trading
were made
for No
2 red, 1.9
No. 4 red and
1.01 for "ean’t
Corn-——8pot,
63%, : January
Oats We
White, as to
G46: No
43 Mixed
No. 3, 428 42%
Hay--We quote,
thy—No. 1, large
1%; , small blocks, x
No. as to location, $16.50& 17:
No. 3. 831450 15.50 Clover Mix-
ed--Cholce, $317@ 17.50; No i
$16.50@ 17; No. 2, 314.50@ 15.50
Butter We quote, per ib
Creamery faney, 33% @ 34: cream-
ery choice, 32@ 33; creamery good,
20@ 3 creamery imitation, 224
25: ereamery prints, 33@ 35.
Eggs—We quote, per dozen,
off: Maryland, Pennsyivania and
nearby firsts, 34¢.; Western firsts,
34; West Virginia firsts, 34; South-
ern firsts, 33: guinea, 16@ 17.
Live Pouitry — Market is steady
on choice stock and demand for such
is fairly good. We quote, per Ib.
Chickens—Old hens, heavy, 14c.;
do., small to medium,
old roosters, 9;
NO
per ton
bales,
$17.50@ 11
young choice, 15;
do., rough and poor, 13. Ducks
Large, 13; small, 12; Muscovy and
11@ 12. Geese Western |
12¢.;
Virginia, 12; Kent Island,
Pigeons-—Young, per pair, 20; old,
20. Guinea Fowl--0ld, each,
25; young, 1% Ibs, and over, do.
404045; young, smaller, 25@ 30.
Turkeys—Cholce, 17¢.: old toms,
16; rough and poor, 116 12.
SAN
Live Stock.
Chicago. ~Cattle~Market steady,
$5.60 8.50; cows, $3.50@
6: heifers, $366; ‘bulls, $360 4.75;
calves, $3@ 8.75; stockers and feed
ers, $3.75@ 05. 25.
Hoge--Market strong to 10c, high.
or, Choice heavy, $8.30@ 8.40;
butchers, $8.256@ 8.35: light mixed,
$7.06 8.06; cholce light, $7.90@
8.10; packing, $8.10@ 8.35; pigs
Bb. 6a. 60; bulk of sales, $84
3
Market
oep--M steady. Sheep,
Has 26; lambs, $6.15G 1. 15.
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RUTH'S
“This
Helen;
happy.”
down
one n
happy
but why
NOVEMBER
iad made
had made
ready
She had
cause she was staying a
grand ther
shak:
“Partly
“but that
The ne
n her curly
» been do-
anything bother him.
u kn« :
day, making his wheel-chair go with
that 1 1 works back and forth.”
“Well,
ere every
\ hh Knew
when s him coming I hi
the little tree in the
yard Just as soon as he
slip out behind him and
and I push till he's
that little hilL"
Aunt Helen put
Ruth “1 think that
April-Fool,” sald.
“But wait, let me tell you the rest,”
Ruth went on, squirming from her
aunt's embrace.
“The funniest part is to hear him
wonder why his chair goes so easy.
He talks to himself, and 1 almost
laugh out loud to hear him.
“ ‘What ails my chair?’
corne
push,
around
is a splendid
her
aris
she
he'll say.
Le'll say,
it looks
wheels,” and pretty soon
‘Dear me, am I going crazy?
hill.” Oh!
fooling him. Wouldn't he be the
most prised man in the world if he
ever did find it out?”
Aunt Helen tucked
“1 wish all April-Fools could be as
the said.
| Annie Louise Begray, in Sunday-
| School Times.
NOT HER FAULT.
It i= a very backward ehild that
on somebody else's shoulders. Little
Katharine, of whom the New York
Tribune has a story, does not belong
in that class.
Her grandmother had gone downe
airs for a few minutes, leaving
Katharine sailing some tin ducks with
a magnet in a bowl of water. Pretty
soon her grandfather looked up from
his book. The little girl had suc-
ceeded In drenching herself from head
to foot.
“Why! why!” he exclaimed In dis-
may. “What will grandma say now?”
“Oh,” sald the little girl, instantly,
Weis will scold you for letting we do
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