The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20

I found him also uttering the old word with
a new meaning, Justice.
AS the lights of the city bloomed out of
the vague masses which lay below US, we
stood in the cathedral-like door of his hut
and looked down at the splendid great
garden of golden and sapphire lights-look-
ed silently. 1t was too beautiful for words,
and yet under this veil of mist, beneath
| this starry sparkle of lights, we knew
! darkness and human Indebtedness and sin
and vice lay-both felt this and wye silent.
We went down the hill together. Watch
dogs barked at us as we passed, but they
only threw into more impressive relief the
peace and beauty and spring-like silence of
the night.
Miller talked on with an under current
of deep feeling telling how much he
| wished to get people of sincerity and fra
ternal feeling to come and live with him
| here on this hillside slope, building city
of simple natural, peaceful souls.
His belief is that if Christ were to return
to this earth he would not live in a great
house in the roar of city, attended by
servants-it would be impossible for him.
He would live near to nature, would serve
himself or be served by those who loved
| Kim; he would live simply, without greed
or envy or reproach (Miller went on), and
his action, if taken for example, would re-
form whole society.
Miller believes that the one positive law
of God to man was this, "1n the sweat of
, thy face shalt thou eat bread all other
laws are negative merely. He believes that
if this law was absolutely carried out all
inequality, all grinding toll all the hurry
and bitterness and insecurity of life here
on earth would vanish. I can only recall
the main idea, I cannot recall the lofty
diction express the almost solemn earn
estness of his manner
This is somewhat in the way of the
philosophy of Tostoi; it is, in fact the
Christ idea as expressed in his every day
life. And Miller teaches with great clear
ness and with the majesty of simple truth,
that it is time to consider the daily life of
Him who plucked the standing wheat for
his MONDAY meal 1t is time to make
action conform to creed. Christ was not
money changer. He believed in justice. He
was a commoner.
the bottom of Millers later poems, and
forms the basis of his new work in which
he shadows forth the effect of such living.
The totality of impression made upon me
by this dreamer was very strong, and when
l gripped his hand in goodbye, it was
with that vague pain of parting which we
feel at times when we take leave of men
and women of kin nearer than blood rela-
tion-brothers and sisters in the deep cur
rents of common thought and common ac-
ton
I walked off down the road, seeing in an
distracted way the splendors of the lighted
city below, and smelling the bouyant fresh
warm air that swept softly down the noun
tain side if gentle and weary with it's
long journey across the eastern deserts
My mind was filled with great ideas called
up by this man whom the world smiles at
and whom l call the most interesting if not
the most important figure the Pacific
Coast.
1 followed him in fancy as he stalked up
the hill, wrapped in his bear-skin going
back to his simple life ON the hills and
wished the message he is uttering might
reach the heart of every murderous city,
of every insanely selfish business man in
America of ours.
Miller impressed me as being as great
as his poems and possibly as contradictory
l do not know of any poet who has sung
| of the mountains and the plains with the
same strength and sincerity of passion, and
with the same native and noble music
Whitman had this estimate of him and
| said so. Throwing out all imitation, all
Byronic romance, all effectism he remains
our very greatest singer of the mountains
and of the race of overland pioneers. Of
his life beyond what he told me l know
! little. Certainly In our talk he impressed
me man of striking individuality, high
| social ideals, and tender sympathies.
| HAMLTN GARLAND.
Hint for Fly Time.
| An efficient fly poison, which has the
| merit of being poisonous only to flies, is
made of the yolk of an egg beaten up with
a teaspoonful each of ground black pepper
and molasses. 1t should be poured in shall
| low plates and set about. This is a simple
process by which to catch the few flies
| that slip into house before the screens
are put up for most housekeepers wait
until warned by the buzzing insects Of their
arrival to put in the safeguards.
Resolution Adopted by the State
Central COmittee.
Resolved, That the State Committee
Of the Peoples Party respectfully re-
quests the chairman of each county
committee to at once call his county
| committee together and thoroughly
organize his county, by the appoint
ment OF township committee (where
none now EXIST Of not less than three
members, and to request each of these
town committees to take steps to see
that the Peoples Party In their re-
spective towns is represented at their
county convention to elect delegates
to attend the state convention.
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