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ropes shredded into oakum till ones
finger tips grow dull with pain, the
mental offices with which each day be-
gins and finishes, the harsh orders that
routine seems to necessitate, the dread
full dress that makes sorrow grotesque
to look at, the silence, the solitude, the
shame-eaeh and all Of these things
have to transform into a spiritual ex-
perience. There is not a single degrade
ton of the body which / must not try
and make into spiritualizing of the
soul
| want to get to the point when ! shall
be able to say quite simply. and without
affectation, that the two great turning
points in my life were when my father
sent me to oxford. and when society
sent me to prison. l will not say that
prison is the best thing that could have
happened to me; for that phrase would
SAVIOR o. too great bitterness toward
myself l would sooner say, or hear
1t said Of me, that I was so typical a
enid of my age. that in my perversity,
and for that perversity's sake, 1 turned
The good things of my life TO evil and
the evil things of my life to good.
~ i4Ci4 ili 81 L was put INTO prison some
people advised me to try and forget who
l was. 1t was rufnous advice. 1t is ONLY
by realizing what l am that 1 have
found comfort of any kind. Now 1 am
advised by others to try on nv release
10 forget that have ever been in prisc.,
at all. L know that would be equally
fataL 1t would mean that l would al
ways be haunted by an intolerable sense
or disgrace, and that those things which
are meant for me as much as for any,
Dooy else-the beauty of the sun and
moon, the pageant of the seasons. the
music OF daybreak and the silence of
great nights. the rain falling through
the leaves, or the dew creeping over the
grass and making it silver-would ALI ne
tainted for me. and lose their healing
| power and their power of communi.
eating JOY. To regret ones own exneri-
gnce is to arrest ones own development
| 70 deny ones own experiences is to mt
lie into the lips of ones own life II &c
! no less than denial of the soul.
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my life, indeed, I was to do little else.
But so has my portion been melted out
to me; and during the last few months
1 have, after terrible difficulties and
struggles, been able to comprehend some
of the lessons hidden in the heart of
pain.
y great friend of mine--a friend Of
ten years standing-came to me some
time ago. and told me that he did not
believe a single word of what was said
against me, and wished me to know
that he considered me quite innocent
and the victim of a hideous plot. !
burst into tears at what he said and told
him that while there was much among
tkn definite charges that was quite IN
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Went to the Depths.

The gods had given me almost every
thing. But / let myself be lured into
long spells of senseless and sensual
ease. / amused myself with being a
faDeur, dandy, man Of fashion. |
surrounded myself with the smaller ma
lures and the meaner minds. / became
the spendthrift of my own genius, and
to waste an eternal youth gave me a
curious JOY. Tired of being on the
heights, 1 deliberately went to the
depths. ceased TO be lord over myself.
! was no longer thu captain of my soul,
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and did not know it. 1 allowed pleasure
to dominate me. l ended in horrible
disgrace. There is only one thing for
me now-absolute humility.
/ have lain in prison for nearly two
years. Out of my nature has come wild
despair; an abandonment to grief that
was piteols even to look at; terrible
and impotent rage; bitterness and scorn;
anguish that wept aloud; misery that
could find no voice; sorrow that was
dumb.
A week later l am transferred here.
Three more months go over and my
mother dies. No one knew how deeply
l loved and honored her. Her death
was terrible to me; but l. once a lord
Of language. have no words in which
to express my anguish and shame. She
and my father had bequeathed me a
name they had made noble and honored,
not merely in literature, art, archae-
ology, and science, but in the public
history of my own country, in it's evolu-
ton as a nation. I had disgraced that
name eternally. ] had made it a low
lbyword among low people. had dragged
il through the very mire. 1 had given it
to brutes that they might make 1t
brutal, and to foes that they might
turn it into a synonym for folly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-03-19
New, Grade for Streets.

Legislation resulting from the fire has
proved to be q powerful aid in the work
OF rebuilding the burned district An
entirely new grade has been established
for the streets. which viii make them
easier for traffic. New streets have been
created, others have been widened and
otherwise changed, SO that when the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-03-19

A ND when they brought Him one
~ taken in the very act of sin and
n showed Him her sentence writ
ten In the law. and asked Him
what was to be DONE He wrote with
His finger on the ground as though He
did not hear them, and finally, when
they pressed Him again, looked up and
said, Let him of you who has never
sinned be the first to throw the stone at
her" Would 1t not be worth living to
have said that?
I remember when I was at Oxford
saying to one of my friends as we were
strolling round Magdalen's narrow bird
haunted walks one morning in the year
before / took my degree, that I wanted
to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the
garden Of the world, and that 1 was go
ing out into the world with that passion
in my soul. And so. indeed, went out.
and so I lived. My only mistake was
that / confined myself so exclusively to
the trees of what seemed TO me the sun
lit side of the garden, and Stunned the
other side for its shadow and its gloom.
Failure disgrace, poverty, sorrow, de-
spain, suffering, tears even, the broken
words that come from lips In pain, re-
morse that makes one walk on thorns,
conscience that condemns, self-abase-
.ment that Furnishes, the misery that
puts ashes on its head, the anguish that
chooses sackcloth for it's raiment and
into its own drink puts gall-all these
were things Of which 1 was afraid. And
as ! had determined to know nothing
OF them, l was forced to taste each OF
them in turn. to feed on them. to have
for a season, indeed. no other food at
all
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"The Way Is Dark"

Linnaeus fell on his knees and wept
for joy when he saw for the first time
the long heath of some English upland
made yellow with the tawny aromatic
blossoms OF the common furze, and
know that for me. to whom flowers are
part of desire, there are tears waiting in
the petals OF some rose 1t has always
been SO with me from my boyhood
There is not q, single color hidden away
in the chalice of a flower, or the curve
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ed with such coarse brutality, used to
quote In her humiliation and exile;
they were the lines my mother often
quoted in the troubles of her later life.
absolutely declined to accept or admit
the enormous truth hidden in them. |
could not understand it, l remember
quite well hoa l used to tell her that
did not want to eat my bread in sor-
row, or to pass any night weeping and
watching for bitter dawn. ses
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Gne Kind Act.

What l suffered then, and still suffer,
IS not for pen to write paper to
record. My wife, always kind and gen
tie to me, rather than that ] should
hear the news from Indifferent lips.
Travelled, i'll as she was, all the way
from Genoa to England to break TO me
herself the tidings of so irreparable, SO
irredeemable loss. Messages of SYM
pathy reached me from all who had
still affection for me. Even people who
had not known me personally, hearing
that new sorrow had broken into my
life, wrote to me TO ask that some ex-
preston of their coincidence should be
conveyed to me-
When / was brought down from my
prison to the court of bankruptcy, be-
tween two policemen, X waited in
the long, 1reary corridor that, before
the whole crowd, whom an action SO
sweet and simple hushed into silence, he
might gravely raise his hat to me, as,
handcuffed and with bowed head, l
passed him by. Men nave gone to heav-
en- for smaller things than that. 1t was
in this spirit, and with this mode of love.
that the saints knelt down to wash the
feet of the poor, stopped to kiss the
leper on the cheek.
l have never said one single word to
him about what he did. l do not know
to the present moment whether he is
aware that l was even conscious of his
action. 1t is not a thing for which one
can render formal thanks In formal
words. / store 1t in the house
of my heart. l keep it there as a secret
debt that L am glad TO think j can never
possibly repay. 1t is embalmed and kept
sweet by the myrrh and cassia OF many
tears. When wisdom has been profit
less to me, philosophy barren. and the
proverbs and phrases of those who have
sought to give me consoIa ton as dust
and ashes in my mouth, the memory of
that little, lovely, silent act Of love has
ursealed for me all the wells of pity;
made the desert bloom like a rose and
brought me out of the bitterness of lone
ly exile into harmony with the wound
ed, broken, and great heart of the
world. When people are able to under
stand not merely how beautiful KS
action was, but why it meant so much
to me, and always Will mean so much.
then. perhaps. they will realize how
| and in what spirit they should approach
me.
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The Evil That One Does

The fact of my having been the COM
mon prisoner of a common saol 7 must
frankly accept, and curious as II may
seem, one of the things | shall have tc
teach myself is not to be ashamed NJ u
must accept it as a punishment. and
IL one Is ashamed Of having been nm
lshed, one might just as well neye-
nave been punished at all OF coursa
there are many things Of which | was
convicted that had done, and a still
greater number of things in my life for
which l was never indicted at all
ana as the gods are strange, and pun-
ish US for what is good and humane in
us as much as for what is evil and ner-
verse, L must ACCEPT the fact that ona
Is punished for the good as well as for
the evil that one does. l have no doubt
that II is quite right one should he II
heips one, or should help one, to realize
both, and not TO be too conceited about
either. And IL / then am not ashamed
OF my punishment, as / hope not to no
1 shall be able to think, and walk. and
live, with freedom.
used to live entirely for pleasure. 7
Stunned suffering and sorrow of every
hiiiu' ii"'eu po'h- resolved to ig-
more them as far as possible: to tres+
tleln' that Is TO say, as modes of i'm
perfection They were not part of INV
scheme of life. They had no place in
my philosophy. My mother, who know,
life as a whole, used often to quote me
Goethe's lines. written by CARLYLE in a
book he had given her years ago. and
translated by him, l fancy. also:
WHO never ate his bread In sorrow
Who never spent the midnight hours
Weeping and Warrington the morrow
He knows ye not, We heavenly powers. -
They were the lines which that noble
Queen Of Prussia, whom Napoleon treat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-03-19
Beneath the Rod.

has happened to me good for me. The
plank bed, the loathsome food, the hard
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-03-19
at Is Still for You and Me-"

] had no idea that it was one OF the
special things that the Fates had in
store for me; that for a whole year or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-03-19
Remarkable Document Written in Reading
Gao With the Understanding That 1t
Should Be Published After
His Death.

shameful unspakable
a
himself perfect liter
period
defend his hfeh explain
a
of all
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

nErECrIvE-First class work 6hsdowin1
~ speciality. Address, Combinatioo Box
"a, Flossnos, Colo. e67is
AIL LRABES-Ths Tribune Office has In stock
" printed blank oil leases for sals. l1.tl
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21
Classified Advertisements

w Ter House. Steam heat, bath, electric
light and other modern COS venienees. Over
Hohman's bakery. S3-H
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

KOHLMAN FUNERAL-The fun.
eral Of Edward KohlmAn who died
Sunday morning Of pneumonia. Wa
held from the Dsibert undsrtak Ing
parlors at o'clook this aissrnoon. a,
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21
HAssEN SENTENCED In Il

HASsEN SENTENCED - In the
district court this morning Frank
Hassen who stole horss and buggy
from Mrs. L. Livesy Of Canon City
few days ago, was sentenced 20 from
flve 70 seven years In the penitentiAxy.
John Enright who robbed ths 81 Paso
boarding house In this city Was found
guilty this morning Of burglary but
sentence has not bsen given. A
sealed verdict was handed in BY the
jury. ea1 f. sso
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

ENoOURAOIN0-It is reported
that the Santa Fe has promised the O.
r snd I. milne st Rockville plenty Of
coal cars for shipping purposes. and
shas from now on the mine will work
pretty steady. a'
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

HARD TIMES SOCIAL-TheO Chris.
tian Endsavor Of the Presbyterian
church will give . hard times social
st the Eakins residence tonight.
There will also be . business meeting
in con neotion.
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
FREMONT.

Mose Marx. Denver; Leo sh.pe.
Denver; q. z. Thomas. Cripple
Crsek: A. 7. Crptehsz. Lipoeln; J.
r. Gardner. Denver; J. L. Northup.
Dsnvsr; 3. E. Watts and wife
and son. city; Z. J. Walsh. city
Nis Miner. city; A. H. Baldwin.
Cripple orsek; b. wsiskettls. Pitts.
bsrg. ~ 81,
81. n. Burnstine. Chicago: A. b.
Hartman. Chicago; T. A. Curry.
Denver, ". 8. Godfrey. Cripple
Crsek; L. A. Rothenberser. Denver
A. L. Frank. Lincoln; N. Y. Hell
ler. Ailwaukee.
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

Tickets 70 points sass via the Ms.
sousi fAoiAo ersa OA.oo City. cd
seas1sns wsss shsrsof. viii allow par.
ehassrs side trip from Pueblo 70 Den.
vsf end rstsru whom desired. Plsass
hsas lAis n ninA. n
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

HOSTING COAL-Ths Florence
Goal company Of this city. operating
the Wiley mine at Williamsburg. has
hoisted $50 tons Of coal 70 far this
month. The working force Las been
increased from four 70 eight.
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

TURKEY sUPPER-Ths ladies' Of
the NJ. e. church Of Rockvale sre
arranging to Rive turkey supper on
Thanksgiving night for the purpose
Of raising funds With which to meet
the current church expenses. II musl
be remembered that after two years
Of coal mine depression in that once
thriving ooal Damp has left the church
In bad shape and all tho Florence
people will be glad to lend their mite
10 making the supper q success. Be
sure that Florence sends . good dele
cation 10 the supper.
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

OOLDER-Cloody with local snow
toniaht and Wednesday; colder 10.
night. 1Hi ui intrsr Ale
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

French, German and Spanish
Taught BY the latest methods. Ad
drsn !. o. g.. 3eiK Main. OAner
Oity, Colo. br ss-s,
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

PORTLAND PAYDAY-Yssssrday
was payday at the Portland cement
works. II Wa the Last halt Of last
months work. And the amount
distributed was about o.. 800. so.
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21
ABOUT YOUR NEidnB0RS
AND YOURSELVES

-E. q. Miller returned frsn Dan.
ver this morning. elssa IA 4
a. L Hadlsy went % PusbJs
On business today. Y
81. A. Ramsay won't 70 Port.
land shii afternoon. - * ise ''a8
y. r. Terrence il transsctins
business in Cripple Greek today.
Miss Ida Goe Of keeksr arrived
this morning 70 visit her friend Mn.
L. 8. Hill fer . few days.
p 3. HArps'l came down from
villa Grove last evening. right fresh
from the stssl Canon mines, tsi,,
-Nisa Grace Andrews cashier u
Tho Jones Grocery company. IL On
the sick list and OF from duty.
james Reed returned yesterday
from = visit with HIS family in Los
Angeles. California. He has been
absent since OCT. 81st. 5l8N iluodi
Mrs. Nellie Richardson Of New
Hampshire. cousins Of George Rud-
Aick and Mrs. p. r. Whedon Of this
oity. who spent . day or two here.
left today for her home. She had
been to California. fl ii9s'ii
The daily tribune., 1905-11-21

n Daily rsts... ~ ~ .s.AA
The wageworker., 1905-11-13

of small means. When rich man
gives $4,000 to a church the news
papers all over the country advertise
it, and the impression has gotten out
that the church is supported mainly
by ten thousand dollar donations.
Without discussing the merits Of
the tainted money question, I wonder
il workingmen have noticed that prac-
tically for the first time in his life
Mr.. Rockefeller has consented to dis
cuss the matter of how his wealth
has been accumulated. He has been
absolutely silent to the criticisms OF
the press. He has apparently been
Indifferent to the DEGREES of the court.
But when the church questions his
methods. he Instantly replies. And
yet many workingmen have been
scorning the only institution which
has the power to move men to give
an account of their stewardship.
The wageworker., 1905-11-13
A GOOD IDEA.
Novel Scheme for the Employment Of
Convict Labor.

Novel Scheme for the Employment of
Convict Labor.
Before the recent convention of the
New Jersey State Federation OF Labor
the state commissioner of charities
and correction of that state declared
that he wished that when man of
family Is sent to Jail the work he
does therein might go toward the sup
port of those dependent upon him. who
otherwise would likely have to be
sent to the almshouse and to be sup
ported by the public.
The statement was received with
considerable applause. If this could
be done and the man was to receive
remuneration for his work equal to
that paid free labor it is likely that
general grounds of antagonism against
this kind of labor would be consider
ably removed. But at the same time,
if this more equalized competition of
convict labor were to assume such
proportions as to affect the chances
for earning a decent livelihood for
free labor to any considerable extent,
the scheme would fail.
The idea has certain elements OF
attraction, and considered abstractly
seems to be of indisputable value.
We would, however, commend to
those who have taken up the idea
With so much enthusiasm that their
| first concern, and the first concern OF
all, should be for the man who is
content to earn an honest living for
in any way the subject of penealogi-
cal theories.-Bricklaye and Mason.
The wageworker., 1905-11-13
ITEMS FROM CARPENTERS.

Bro. D. T. Beck, who was sick with
blood poisoning, is much better.
Bro. s. J. Kent was granted leave
Of absence for several weeks to visit
Wyoming and Colorado. His son will
supervise the hall in Bro Kent's alb
sence.
What is the matter with having
another social before long?
Work keeps up pretty well and
there are no union carpenters idle
that we know OF.
Four applications at last meeting.
Bro. Ogen was elected and installed
as warden.
Henceforth apprentices and men
over fifty years of age will be ad-
mitted to membership upon payment
OF IS initiation fee.
During the business agents absence
any one having business pertaining to
the office or hall will please call, Bell
telephone, F12O5.
The old style due cards are no
longer recognized by the general Of
flee.
The wageworker., 1905-11-13
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
And Rev. Charles Stelxie Proceeds to
Make Answer to It.

%uo NeV. NndTie8 SteIzte proceeds TO
Make Answer to It.
1t has sometimes been said: "The
church is composed of hard-hearted
employers who are always grinding
out the lives of their employees"
There are more than seventeen million
protestant church members in this
country. or Roman Catholics there
are not all of the employing class!
Sometimes the rich control the
churches where they are in the ma
jority, or where they have been
placed in official position by vote of
the members of the church, but it
does not always follow that because
a man is rich he is hard-hearted and
cruel. Furthermore, the poor man
who has the necessary qualifications
is usually given the place he deserves
in the church, because the church is
man as is the merchant and the
manufacturer.
1t is admitted that some hard
hearted employers are in the church.
But they are not the church. They
are the parasites in the church. They
might better be out of it, so far as
the good they do is concerned. But"
somebody says, they are the men
who support the church" Don't you
believe it! AS matter of fact our
churches and great charities are sup
ported by Christian men and women
The wageworker., 1905-11-13
CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
viii Meet in Regular Session Next
Tuesday Evening.

The Central Labor Union will meet
in regular session next Tuesday even
ing. 1t was the intention to hold an
oyster supper and social on this date
for the benefit of the Y NJ C. A.
building fund, but the committee on
looking over the field decided unani-
mously that it would be better to
postpone the event for time. The
reason impelling the committee to
this action will be fully explained at
the meeting.
1T is hoped that every delegate will
be present next Tuesday evening. The
central body has not been doing much
for the past year, and it is high time
that renewed interest be taken in
the work. There is plenty of work to
be done, and the work if properly
done will prove beneficial to every
labor organization in the city. A
number of affiliated unions have not
been represented for months. The
unions can not afford this. If every
union will send active delegates the
central body can be made to WELD
a powerful influence for good in labor
circles.
The wageworker., 1905-11-13
RATHER SMALL.
Judge Waters Makes Bad Play With
John Ledwith.


On election night John Ledwith, un
successful fusion candidate for coun
ty judge, met Judge Waters, the sue
cessful republican candidate In the re
publican county committee rooms. MIR.
Ledwith offered his hand to Judge
Waters and said:
You have won, and I want to con-
gratulate you"
Il don't want to shake hands with
you, john" said Judge Waters
whose face was pale with wrath.
Mr.. Ledwith merely turned and
walked away.
It is none of The WageworKers
business, but it stops the press to
remark that Judge Waters refusal
to shake hands with Mr.. Ledwith
showed him to be a small bore, and
had the people known before election
what they now know, the chances are
that the result might have been differ
ent. There seems to be a big differ,
ence between Waters and Ledwith
and Ledwith seems to have all the
best of it.
The wageworker., 1905-11-13
WIVES OF PRINTERS PETITION.
Business Men to Stay Neutral or Help
Settle Strike.

1t is stated by officers of the Typo
graphical Union that committee OF
the Ladies Auxiliary of the union
met the executive committee of the
Business Mems association by In
vitation Thursday at the Commercial
club to confer concerning the job
The wageworker., 1905-11-13
PRINTER PARAGRAPHS.
Some Slight Changes Made in Offices
About the City.

H. w. Smith, who has been fore
man of the Independent for some time
will go to the Western Newspaper
Union the first of the week.
Robert Buckham is working at the
Nebraska.
The Typographical Union will elect
officers at the next regular meeting.
The nominees for president are F.
c. Greenley, F. M. Coffey, Fred
Nickel and Henry Bingaman. There
is no opposition to SecretaryTreas-
urer Hebbard and Recording Secre-
tary Strain. Sergent-at-Arms Sayre
has held that Office SO long that it
wouldn't look natural without him,
so no one thinks of making the race
against him.
Owing to the lateness Of the hour
the Colorado Springs club did not
meet last Sunday The members will
probably pull off social in a short
time and start the club with eclat-
which is French for boom.
The home committee is still hust-
ling and has several propositions in
mind. A report will be made next
meeting.
V. 3. Kinney of Omaha was in Lin
coin last Wednesday. The Omaha
situation is about the same as it was
at the start. The union is making
progress and is not at all discour-
aged at developments.
Remember the Auxiliary supper
and social next Wednesday evening
Supper from $50 till Z. 1t costs
quarter. See bill Of fare elsewhere.