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cry of pain, and Juan sprang back,
pressing his hand against his side,
where blood came from between hfs
fingers. The Indian had worked his
left hand to the sheath OF his knife,
and stabbed the giant who had SO
nearly overcome him. Staggering, the
two again stood erect, and yet again
came the cries from the many red
men and the little band of whites who
were witnessing this babarous and
brutal struggle. Bows were bending
among the blankets, but the four rifles
now pointed steadily out. One move
ment would have meant death to many
but that movement was forestalled in
the still more rapid happenings of the
unfinished combat. For one-half Sec
ond the two fighting men stood apart
the one stunned at his unexpected
wound, the other startled that the
wound had not proved fatal. Seeing
his antagonist still on his feet, White
Calf for the first time lost courage.
With the knife still held in his left
hand, he hesitated whether to Join
again the encounter, or himself to
guard against the attack Of foe SO
proof to injury. He half turned and
gave back for pace.
The man pursued by foe looks
about him quickly for that weapon
nearest to his own hand. The dread
Of steel drove Juan to bethink him
self of weapon. He saw it at his
feet, and again he roared like an angry
Eull, mis- courage and his purpose alike
unchanged. He stopped and clutched
the broken war axe, grasping the
stone head in the palm of his great
hand. the jagged and ironlike shaft
projecting from between his fingers
like the blade Of dagger. With the
leap OF wild beast he sprang again
upon his foe. White Calf half turned.
but the left hand of the giant caught
him and held him up against the
fatal stroke. The sharp shaft Of wood
struck the Indian in the side above
the hip. quartering through till the
stone head sunk against the flesh with
fearful sound. With a scream the
victim Strengthened and fell forward.
The horrid spectacle was over.
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and went down headlong. A murmur
at first that their leaders blow had
proved fatal. A sharp call from
Curly seemed to bring the Mexican to
his feet at once. The Indian lost the
half moment which was his own.
Again the two engaged, White Calf
now seeking to disconcert the Mexi-
can, whom ne discovered to be less
agile than himself. Darting in and
out. jumping rapidly from side to side,
and uttering the while the sharp STAG
cato OF his war call, he passed about
the Mexican, half circling and return
Ing, his eye fixed straight upon the
others, and his war club again and
again hurting dangerously close to his
opponents head. One shade more OF
courage, one touch more Of the daring
necessary to carry him single foot
with him, for no human skull could
have withstood the impact OF pound
of flint impelled by an arm SO power
full.
Juan the mozo stood almost motion
less, his own club half raised, the
great muscles of his arm now showing
under the brown skin as he clinched
hard the tiny stem of the weapon. His
readiness for offense was the one de-
Tense that he offered His brute cour-
age had no mental sido. The whist
ling Of this threatening weapon was
unheeded, since it did not hurt him.
He glnred in fury at the Indian, but
always his arm remained half raised,
his foot but shifted, side stepping and
turning only enough to keep him with
front toward his antagonist The des-
perate. eager waiting of his attitude
was awful. The whisper OF the wings
OF death was on the air about this
place. The faces Of the white men
witnessing the spectacle were drawn
and haggard.
White Calf pursued his rapid tactics
for some moments, and dozen times
sped blow which still fell short. He
in. He feinted and sprang from side
to side, but gained little ground. His
people saw his purpose, and murmurs
of approval urged him on. It seemed
that in a moment he must land the
fatal blow upon his apparently half
stupefied opponent He sought finally
to deliver this blow, but the effort was
near to proving his ruin. Just as he
swung forward, the giant, with a sud
zen contraction of all his vast frame
sprang out and brought down his wal
axe In a sheer downward blow at half
arms length. White Calf with light
ming speed changed his own attack
into defense, sweeping up his weapon
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tereSting to see, as we have already
seen, how humbly and how simply he
writes of his defects. He says. Il
have no genius for war" He finds it
hard to learn this business-warfare-
and at the same time to practice it.
He excuses Sullivan's defeat. "All OF
us" he says, want experience in NOV
ing men upon a large scale; ouj
knowledge of military matters is linn
tied"
AS critic of war he was the first
to insist again and again that the COM
mand of the sea was all-important.
him, but not the plans Of his adver-
saries on land. He predicts Bur-
goynes disaster. and tells Greene that
such defeats as his are victories.
We have been told that he was no
great general. If, with half-fed, i'll
clad men, with constant lack of arms
and powder. and at last with inertia
everywhere and a country in ruins; IT,
with such means he baffled foe rich
in men, money and sea power; if with
little he accomplished all he set out
to do. there must at least be a label
for this form of greatness
Turning from his fiery courage and
reckless exposure in war, there are
in these letters many evidences of ten
derness and humanity. They are
shown early in life, when he says that
he would readily die in torture to
save the frontier people from Indian
cruelty. They appear in his extreme
unwillingness to make reprisals on
innocent men. He steadily refused, as
he says, ito avenge cruelty by cruel
ty." He reproaches general for such
conduct, and pleads mercy for the
Tories while Sir Henry Clinton is car
rying on a savage warfare of murder
and rapine.
This man had no children. He wM
the ancestor Of nation. Let no repte-
tition OF his praise lose for you the
true value of the man. He left to us
the heirs of his renown, a record of
unfailing courage, a story Of heroic
conduct, an example of lifelong duty
the unequalled life of an unequalled
day.-From an address by DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell. a,
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The Character of Washinoton.

Notwithstanding his reserve, or
the "shyness" upon which his biogra.
pliers descant, Washington knew men
and how to rule them. He may have
lacked elements OF companionship,
but he knew how to control the undis-
ciplined patriotism OF the country
and mold to his will the rather un-
promising material of which the patri-
OF army was composed. There were pet
ty jealousies to allay in the army and
in Congress, and thousand discour-
agements to surmount. Through 1t
all he followed calmly his guiding star
OF hope. The earlier eulogists defied
him; the colder and more philosophi-
cal analysts who succeeded them
found human traits in him. Mr.. Hale
says he was man of hot passions, of
strong impulses, of vigorous deter
mination; "a man who forecast tho
future, kept it in sight, and meant to
have his own way; and he was
man who had his own way very re.
markably."
All this is very delightful to know.
1t brings Washington into kinship
with humanity. This is a hero Ilo
may be understood. in part, at least,
by Americans Of the most distant age.
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CHAPTER xI.-Continued.

Yet huge and menacing as he stood,
the figure opposed TO him was still
more formidable. Juan the mozo over
topped him By nearly half head. and
was as broad or broader in the shoul-
der. His body, q dull brown in
color, showed smoother than that Of
his enemy, the muscles not having
been brought out by unremitted exer-
else. Yet under that bulk OF flesh
there lay no man might tell how much
OF awful vigor. The loop OF the war
club would not slip over his great
hand. He caught it in his fingers and
made the weapon hum about his head,
rs some forgotten ancestor of his. tall
Navajo. or forgotten cave dweller. may
nave done before the Spaniard came.
The weapon seemed to him like toy,
and he cast his eye about for another
more commensurate with his strength,
but. seeing none, forgot the want, and
IN the sheer ignorance of fear which
made his bravery, began the fight as
though altogether careless of its end.
White Calf was before his people.
whose chief he was by reason of his
peiSOI pIO"tSS, anu WITH All the
vanity of his kind he exulted in this
opportunity of displaying his fitness
for his place. Yet in him natural
bravery had a qualifying caution,
which was here obviously well jus
tilted. The Mexican made direct as
sault, rushing on with battle axe pois-
ed as though to end it all with one
immediate blow With guard and
parry he was more careless than the
wild bull Of the Plains, which meets
his foe in direct impetuous assault.
White Calf was not SO rash. He step
ped quickly back from the attack, and
as the mozo plunged forward from the
impulse OF his unchecked blow, the
Indian swept sternly at him with the
full force of his extended arm. The
caution OF the chief and the luck of a
little thing. each in turn prevented the
ending OF the combat at it's outset
Half falling onward, the Mexican slip
ped upon a tuft Of the hard gray grass
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depend on his own exertons, he learns
to survey land and accepts daily
wages-a thing not fancied by the Vir-
Sinia gentleman of that day. We see
him at the camp fires of the trader and
the Indian, and in the stiffness of the
Ohio forests. plotting surveys and
measuring trees. At nineteen he is
sent as envoy to the aggressive French
on the frontier; next, as a militia ma
jor he strikes the first blow in the
Seven Years War, little thinking what
it was to bring forth, and what to
teach. At the age Of twenty-three he
comes out Of the defeat with Braddock,
one of the few who won praise and
honor. The long border struggle which
followed is record of exasperating
struggles with ignorant governors in
efficient legislators, drunken militia
and unframed officers. We come next
to the fox hunting squire, the accom-
plished farmer, master of slaves,
still longing for war-the profession of
arms. Did he dream that he should
see too much of it. and would some
day write that he hoped for a great
republic of mankind. where the growth
! of commerce would become the most
| certain peacemaker and all war would
be at an end? At forty-four he was in
command at Cambridge. Last OF all,
he is twice President. Then come two
happy years at Mount Vernon, and or
a December night the tired man finds
| in death that which earth denied
the peace which is past understand
ing.
My purpose to-day is to speak to
you Of Washington as l lind him in his
written words, where most he seems
to be alive. l want you to share with
me what l got out of months of pa
tient study of Mr.. Fords collection Of
his letters.
These are in fourteen volumes
eight thousand pages in all. He was
the most productive Of American writ
ers. There are three thousand docu-
ments, some two thousand entirely
from his own hand. Mr. Ford tells
me that, In all, this untiring man has
left us about ten thousand letters
None are mere notes, and the letter
of that day was no trifle.
The handwriting demands word
OF comment. How clear it is! How
steadily the same, with never a sign
OF haste! l have seen the letter he
wrote to announce Arnold's treason
1t betrays no sign of the emotion that
awful hour must have caused-an
hour which, informed with the sad
loneliness Of the great, wrung from
this tranquil soldier, Who is there
now l can trust?"
Like most great rulers. George
Washington was silent man To be
called upon for public speech embar-
rassed him. He was shy reserved,
undemonstrative, and, De Lauzun says,
difident. John Adams said, Half his
reputation was due to his talent for
silence" Well had it been for his
critic had he had that virtue for both
tongue and pen. This reserved gen.
tleman confessed himself readily to
paper. He who in talk and diaries
said nothing personal of his views, or
of what he seemed to himself to be
in his letters gives us freely to know
what he thought he was, morally and
mentally. 1t is an autobiographv
quite innocently revealed
with all his love of ceremony and
his personal dgnity-a man with
! whom no one took liberties-it is in.
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Quite Different.

did papa have any money when
you married him?"
NO, dear"
How did you come to make such a
sorry blunder?"
You mustn't call it blunder, child.
You know your father has plenty of
money now. Besides, l would do the
same thing again"
Then why are You making such
a fuss because want to marry a poor
young man."
"Arabella, if you can't talk sense
don't talk at all!"-Chicago Tribune.
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CHAPTER XII.
What the e-Hand Had to Do,

In this wide, new world Of the West
there were but few artificial needs.
and the differentiation OF industries
was alike impossible and undesired.
Each man was his own cook, his own
tailor, his own mechanic in the simple
ways demanded by the surroundings
about him. Each man was as good as
his neighbor, for his neighbor as well
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Moribund Enolish Parish

The parish council Of Topcraft, In
Norfolk. Eng, has the notable dis
tinctlon of not having incurred any ex-
penditure whatever during the past
year.
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RAsBAND FOR SENATOR.
Republicans Name Park City Man
Summit Ticket.
lspeclaI Id The Herald.

Park City, Sept 15.-The Republican
senatorial and county conventions were
held here today and candidates NOM
mated for the coming election. Every
thing passed off harmouiously, the con-
ventiOns endorsing the national and state
platforms and the candidates put in the
field on both tickets. John Pickett called
the convention 10 order at 10 o'clock this;
morning and Alma Eldredge Of COalville
was chosen permanent chairman with G.
p Pr!Sk as permanent secretary. The
committee on credentials was composed
Of James Don. George Beard and William
Archibald committee on resolutions.
Henry Welsh. l.. Y. Wright. II. L. Han
sen; committee on 9ermanent Organiza-
ton. J. NJ. LOckhart. Alex Wright and
Peter Martin. Nineteen delegates were
selected for the senatorial convention.
which met al / o'clock and nominated
Fred Rssband Of Park City on the first
ballot
At o'clock the county convention con-
yened and the following slate was put
through without opposition.
Representative. NJ. j. Daley: assessor.
Peter Martin; treasurer, James Don #:
county attorney. Frank Evans: county
clerk Walter Calderwood: recorder l..
Eldredge; sheriff A. r. Berry: county
commissioners. William Archibald -four
years.. j. p. Hoyt two years.: county su-
perintendent Of schools, p. J. Sanders
surveyor r. A. Jones
Henry Welsh was chosen chairman OF
the county committee and S. l. Radon
vice chairman
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BUSINESS RESUMED
Mukden Moving Along as if Nothing
Had Happened.

Mukden. Sept +. via st. Petersburg.
Sept 10, 3:25 a. m.-The panicky con-
ditions prevailing Immediately after
the battle Of Lao Yang have entirely
disappeared among the Russian army
now concentrated here. Business has
been resumed, and the city is quiet.
The Russo-Chinese bank has re
opened.
The failure of the japanese to follow
up the advantage gained at Lao Yang
has caused surprise here. An indepen-
dent authority who accompanied the
rear guard from the positions south Of
Lao Yang to Mukden says that this
failure is accounted for by the fact
that the japanese lost 10000 killed and
wounded in one days fighting. and
that beside they were too tired TO COM
tinue the advance.
The Japanese are reported to be en-
trenched around Lao Yang and TO have
repaired the bridge over the Taitse
river.
Twelve thousand soldiers wounded at
Lao Yang have been treated at the
Red Cross hospital here.
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RANKS ARE THINNING.
Two of SEWER County's Pioneers Pass
Away During Week.

Richfield, Sept. 15.-Sevier county has
lost two of her pioneeS settlers within the
past week James W. Elliott of this city
died last Saturday. He had been an in
valid and bedridden for the past two
months with general debility. He was
native OF Scotland and was GA years of
age. He came to Utah in 1874. He leaves
a wife and nine children. several grand
children and a mother aged 81 Years.
William NJ. Carter of Joseph died at
Joseph at the age of 70 years. He was
born in Illinois and was an overland
trailer to California in 1851. Coming TO
Utah in 1884. he found his parents here.
and decided TO locate. He was leading
spirit in Iron county in the early day )
and one of the first group of. settlers who
founded Joseph, in this county. He was
a victim of Bright's disease and suffered
so much during the past three months
that Opiates had 10 be constantly admin
istered 10 relieve him. He leaves wife
and five children, and several grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren.
The following is the calendar arranged
for the term of court next week:
ter Sept -i-''iNs ~S"Siie'o vs. E. l. Lar
Sept. Estate of Utah VS. Dorius Brad
bury, fornicatiOn; state of Utah VS.. Eiz-
abeth Murphy. fornication.
Sept. 23-Thomas Ferguson VS.. Lo-
TenZo Nelson: Richfield Commercial d
Savings bank VS.. II. T.. Taylor ct al: j.
M. Peterson bank VS.. Abner Gay ct al;
Myron Prisbey VS.. II. G. Veal; Salina
Stock company vs.s Niels Thompson.
At the meeting of the county commits
sioners this week Sl50 was appropriated
TO purchase additional right of way 10
widen the roadway between Richfield
and AnrabeHa and $3.50 TO improve the
county road between Salina and Aurora.
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ORDINANCE rs PASSED.
Council Grants Franchise to B. Nah
Ter For Electric Railway.

Kavsville. Sept. 15.-The Kaysville city
council was in session Monday night and
the principal business before il was the
application of Mr.. 3. Mailer for 100-year
franchise on the streets of Kaysviile city
for the construction and operation OF an
electric road. which is TO connect Provo
and Logan. There was some opposition
to the ordinance as prepared by Mir. Nah
Ter. chiefly to the provision granting the
applicant the right 10 select any streets
in the city within two years from his &C
ceptance OF the ordinance.
Finally the matter went over as the
special order at an adjourned meeting held
last night. Councilman John 6. owen
was absent in Idaho. and after a lengthy
discussion between the two couucilmen
who opposed granting the franchise on
one side and Mr. Mailer. Attorney s. X,
Thurman of Provo and Mr. Roberts OF
Logan on the other, roll call was ordered
resulting in a tie vote. Councilmen II j.
Sheffield and Levi Taylor, Jr.. voted loI
the measure drafted by Mr. Mailer S at
tornev. without amendments and Council
men John H Blood ana George II. Blood
against Il. Mayor Burton cast an affirm
alive vote and passed the ordnance
tits doubtful if a score of the citizens
Of Evansville knew until this morning oil
the application for so sweeping and unre'
suricted q franchise, and Wnen IL OecaIns
known that the measure had pesn, fFalr
roaded" through so neatly, there were
many expressions of surprise and mucI
dissatisfaction. The genesal opinion
that If Councilman owen had oeen pres
emf the result would have been different
and Mr.. Mailer could have had a chance
to make good his threat to pass nays
vile by. -,
The ordinance was signed by Mayor
Burton last night. IL,
Similar ordinances. which, by the way
are presented to the councils IN pTlnleo
form. have recently been passed py Farm
ineton and Bounttful Cities. -,
". ]. Parker, representing the tai
Selling & Storage company, the CannerS
combine was in Kaysville today lnspeet
inc the local plant. He Will report TO MS
company that the kaysville cannery is u
eScelIent shape and Is making q gooe
naeE OF fine quality. The local concern
l. rated as one of the large plants IN the
state The company expects to put up be
tween $500 and 1000 cases OF tomatoes
tbs s-ear. o..
Mr.. Parker who is manager OF the star
cannery at Roy, reports that the tofflate
crop though somewhat short in quantity
owing to blight destroying y pertce OF
the vines. is of prime quality. peter, ~
fact, than for years past. lie eS eiinat we
thar 275. 600 cases of tomatoes VIII De ph'
IN, by the fifteen canneries in the combine
His company at Roy expects 10 pack oO,oo'
cascs. 80 >,
Mrs. Jane Layton, who was hooked oy
a vicious COW last week and seriously IN
1ured. is improving, and DOCTORS oehefe
She will soon be out of danger.
Mrs W. A. Hyde of POcateiio, la, u
In Kavsville visiting with friends.
About 100 KaysviAe people Joined the
excursion 10 COalville today. .,
The Davis county PUBLIC schools VIII
commence work next Monday.
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Some of the Callers.
PROVO NEWS NOTES.

Provo, Sept. 15.-Sidney lie Sieur. who
was indicted in st. Louis for illegal use
of the United States m=ess--~In connection
with the lie Sieur opal mine in Idaho, has
returned. Upon investigating the charges
made against him 1t was found that he
was In no wise connected with any i'm
proper actions in the matter fact which
was fully believed by all the people here
who know the young man and are ac-
duainted with his connection with the
mining company.
Earl DunShee OF The Herald was in
Provo on business today
In the case of William MendenhaI ct
al Ys. ri. .. Packard ct al. order 20 show
cause has been set for Sept, &c in the
Fourth district court. The case of Spring
vile vs.. Mapleton is again being heard
by Judge Booth.
The corner stone of the Sikh ward
meeting house was laid yesterday after
noon, a large number of people being
present. The services We're participated
in by President David John President Jo-
seph B. Keller. Elder Hugh Clayton,
Bishop Ralph PoultOn, Elder Brig John
son and Elder J. c. Graham.
Miss Lulu Gates viii give a concert
here on the 26th Ior the benefit of the
Brigham Young university domestic
science department. She will soon after
leave for the east to continue the study
Of music.
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Juab Socialist Ticket.


ISUtt'IdI TO 7 nc I1tId III
Eureka. Sept. l5.-The Socialists held
their convention here today and the fol-
lowing ticket vas put I'm the field:
For state senator. George y. Hobbs OF
Nephi. for representative. J. Zirker of
Eureka: judge OF Eighth judicial district
Joseph T. Wilkinson of Cedar City: dis
trict attorney. Joseph Stevenson Of Cedar
City. county commissioners. 4. T. Bag
ley OF Nephi -four year term. r. r.
IsaacsOn Of Eureka ftwO-yCar term
county clerk W. J. Hansen of Mammoth
assessor Z. A. Wing Of Eureka: treas
urer. Mrs. Bessie Sparks of Nephi: count :
attorney, Byron Wheelock of Mammoth
recorder. Niels Lundstine Of Levan: sur
NeyOr. Rc-be- Carter OF Mona. sheriff.
George Stakel of Eureka: county super
intendent of schools. Elliott Miller of
Nephi.
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SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR.
Daughters of the Confederacy Are
Doing Things.

A called meeting of Salt Lake chap
ter Daughters Of the Confederacy viii
be held this afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock
in the Kenyon hotel pariors. All mem
bers of the chapter and all confederate
veterans are requested 10 be present.
On Oct the chapter viii celebrate the
birthday anniversary Of General John
II. Reagan. the sole surviving member
or Jefferson Davis cabinet, by con-
ferring the cross OF honor upon all
confederate veterans who have sent
their certificates 10 the secretary. Mrs.
Kate Bridewell Anderson. Those who
have not forwarded their certificates
are expected to do so at once. Mrs.
Anderson is secretary OF the chapter,
and her address is 7s9 South Ninth East
street.
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CHINESE DELAY.

Shanghai, Sept. 15.-The taotal still de-
LAYS giving a formal answer TO the Jap
anese demand that the crews of the Rus
sian protected cruiser ASkOld and the
Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi
be confined on board these vessels. but II
Is understood that Japanese cruisers VIII
Illustrate any endeaVor to ship The crews
away from here. The disarmnS Of the
AskOld is concluded.