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most attention to vegetable gardening, ana
he supplied not only his own home table,
but also had the pleasure of presenting
many dishes of greens, fresh from his gar
den, to his friends and neighbors. He esti
mated a few days ago that his summers
labors with the shovel, rake and hoe had
netted him fully $75 worth of vegetables. to
say nothing of the benefits accruing from
the relaxation from dull routine made pos
sible by the tiny farm.
The community plan obtaining at some or
the other stations is not carried out by
members of No. IL engine company, be-
cause there the men decided that each
should have his own plot-ands thereby re-
ceive the fruits of his own labors.
The gardens of this company adjoin their
quarters at the intersection of North Capt.
tol and Quincy streets, where the firemen
have the use of a vacant lot about 100 feet
wide by $50 feet long This being divided
into eleven equal parts has given each man
ample opportunity to plant his own selec-
tions of alternating crops, and much friend
ly rivalry has added further spice to the
pleasure and profit of doing all that skill
and experience could suggest to produce
the largest head of cabbage, the best va
riety of potatoes, the most perfect toma-
toes. Private H. P Parker, 1t is said, came
out so we'll that he is considered the cham
pion gardener Of the company.
Chief Engineer William T. Belt has taken
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Members of Chemical Company No. are
now anticipating endless pumpkin pies to
be made from their last crop of the season,
which is just rtpening.
Six great flower beds in front of No. II
engine house, on Monroe street between
18th and 18th streets northeast, mark the
place as one Of the prettiest in the neigh
borhood The flremen now have in bloom
there all varieties Of geraniums, several
kinds of lilies. roses and good, oidfashioned
scarlet sage, while chrysanthemums are
just budding. Lieut.. Watt has given the
Evening star., 1905-10-08

NV HAT do the members of the
% NJ city fire department do dur
wv ing their idle hours?"
This question has been
asked many times. and as
many times answered by the statements
that the average city fireman spends
most Of hts time, between alarms, in
reading or in playing some game or
enother. In a general sense this an
ewer Is true OF Washington fire lad
dies as well as those of other cities-but
il is also true that some of the Washington
iremen have found another outlet for their
superfious energy and time. To the great
majority of the citizens this outlet Is an
unknown quantity-for only those who live
in the immediate vicinity of some of the
fire houses know how diligently have Chief
Belts men labored to make their surround
ings more beautiful.
To be more definite. all of the Washington
hremen who have the opportunity have
taken the spare land around their stations,
and even adjoining vacant land. and have
spared no pains TO make II Ideal from the
dorist's standpoint, as well as from the
point of view of the truck gardener. OF
course, the autumn season now at hand,
shows the flremens gardens fading in their
glory, but the remnants of achievement
are there and the stories or productive
ness told by the 1remen and their neigh
bors give some idea of the results at
tained by these guardians OF the public
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who is not bothered every day of his life
by the sort of unframed, would-be writ
ers Mr.. Greeley characterized as adjective
fools on the day Bayard Taylor called
to see him. He feared Taylor was one of
them, and, naturally, tried to discourage
him. Greeley's abruptness was to be re-
gretted, perhaps. as possibly likely to
chill the ardor OF q genius. but his pro-
cedure in the matter was perfectly sound
He knew instinctively. or had learned
by experience, that II the young man was
really capable of doing what he proposed
in the way 1t should be done he would not
and could not be discouraged Greeley
didn't stop to think all that out with re-
gard to the young printer before him at
that time. probably; he was too busy; too
engrossed in other things All he wanted
just then was to get rid of a chap who
was bothering him. But when Taylor
finally managed to make himself heard
his plans showed sense of the sort the
editor doesn't always hear from the
would-be contributor: the sort that the
editor of Judgment always listens to with
respect and often with enthusiasm.
Taylor had found out what the people
like to read about, he knew how to tell 1t
to them and he wanted to do 1t. He could
have told them things about their own
country which they would have read az
eagerly as letters of foreign travel and
he knew IL, but he wanted to learn about
other countries and their Inhabitants. and
SO preferred to go across the ocean for
his material
! He had found out what for lack of a
better term, is denominated "of human
Interest though the term has been SO
oyerworked, SO often applied to all sorts
OF the so-called literature that real news
Paper men call slush.' as to be some
what In disrepute as a descriptive term
Unless you~are specialist. capable OF
writing technically on your chosen spe-
cialty so fnformingly that other special
lists in the same line will pay you for your
writing, you must find out what is of real
fk1~,~,r tt4fa L.,
paper well, or abandon all thoughts of
successful writing.
Evening star., 1905-10-08
British Publishers Asked to
Boycott American Authors
cial Correspondence of The Star.


Special Correspondence Of The Star
LONDON. September q, 1905
British publishers are complaining of the
American invasion of their colonial mar kets
The Dominion, it is said, has ceased 10 be of
any benefit to- them so far as concerns the
Canadian editions of American books, and
now American enterprise bids fair to cap
ture-the Australian trade. To prevent this
and recover the ground that has been lost
1T has been gravely proposed that pressure
should be brought to bear upon American
authors. British publishers, it is suggest
ed. should decline to buy American books
unless they be given sole colonial rights
in them.
:. There is certain group of London
houses who, to all intents and purposes"
says the sponsor for this ingenious
scheme, control the English editions of
the best American novels. If they were
collectively to bind themselves to refuse
any book offered to them with such reser-
walton they would be able to impose their
own conditions. Transatlantic writer's at
tach more weight to. their popularity in
the old country than is generally supposed
The question of royalties is not the only
consideration; there is the fame attaching
to an English vogue which counts for even
more. and the threat of a boycott amongst
the leading houses over here would there
fore make strong impression. But the
combine must be thoroughly represe Sta
tive to be effective; there must be an IN
flexible observance of the agreement for
the period settled upon by the contracting
parties. We believe that a year. or per-
haps two years, would be long enough to
serve the end in view"
1t is hardly likely that the plan will be
tried. The competition among British
publishers for good American books is too
keen to make such combination at all
probable.
y
By the death of L. F. Austin at the COM
parativeiy early age of ifty-three London
newspaperdom has lost one of its most
brilliant wits and Industrious workers.
Had not journalism early caught him in
its tolls he might have won something
more than fieeting fame in literature He
had an Irishman for his father. and that
may have accounted for his blithe sense
of humor. He was born in America, and
that gave him the sharpened intelligence
that was as ready to analyze a government
report as to review a novel, Only those
behind the scenes will ever know the great
variety and excellence of his work. One
editor has said of him that he wrote the
worst, finest and best stuff of any journal
ist in London His caligraphy was quite
as bad as Horace Greefey's. 1t has been
compared to the tracks of an inebriated
ary adviser TO Sir Henry Irving. 1t was
expected that be would have greatly as
sisted the distinguished actor in the prep
aration of the autobiography which he has
promised to the world. Austin was man
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of imitators their success called into be-

OF 1m1tatorS their success called into be-
ing.
These imitators began to make their ap-
pearance in editorial offices. and their let
ters began to show up IN the editorial mail
very soon after. Views Afoot" had made
a hit. Year after year, ever since, they
have increased in number. know an editor
who swears 1t to be his belief that there are
eight millions Of people In this country to-
day, or one in every ten. who either have
proposed to tramp somewhere and write ar
ticles for his paper about what they see
while walking or are getting ready to do
Whenever any one calls upon him with
proposition to do this his naturally sweet
temper begins at once to, turn sour, and no
matter how balmy the temperature the air
suddenly becomes chilled in his immediate
son ething like this:
II have called, Mr. Editor, to propose
something really new and novel for your
paper. / want to go to Ireland Cor Japan,
or some other country that has been writ
ten to death) and tramp over the roads (or
wheel over them, as the case may be) to
see and study the people-to get out of the
beaten track. 1t were. and write letters
for your paper"
Sometimes, when the aspiring correspond
ent desires TO be facetious, he says he
this particular editor, though not often
gruff In the way he turns people down, is
prone to cut the story short.
For he knows as Greeley knew, by bitter
experience. that to give the average aspiring
traveller permission TO do as he wishes is to
insure the reception, later, of lot of the
dullest, dreariest copy imaginable, utterly
worthless for publication purposes. and fit
only for the waste basket or for foolish
would-be contributor to pay return postage
on. He said. and he knows, that you would
be surprised by the wide variety of people
who seek. without ever having the slightest
training for the task, to initiate Taylor
Some of them have no idea that they are
! trying to initiate him; there are those
among them. as my editor has learned by
questioning them, who have never heard Of
Taylor. incredible as this may seem. In
yariably, however, when he has questioned
him further he has found that the aspirant
knew all about the work of some later lit
erary tramp and was planning to work
along the same lines.
Evening star., 1905-10-08

Truck Company F, whose quarters are
on Whitney avenue between 18th and 18th
streets northwest have probably one of the
best examples of success at flower and
truck gardening to show to all their visi-
tors. Beside some little land which be-
longs to the fire house reservation, the
truck F laddies have been allowed by the
agents the use of five lots adjoining their
station. A. beginning at market gardening
was made their last year, and all of the
past season has seen the place under the
highest Cultivation.
: W. P. Cady, driver of the big apparatus,
is chief gardener on the plot. and he has
been ably assisted by Captain T. T. War
rem, commander of the company. The fire.
men seodred some of their seeds from the
Agricultural Department, but most of the
necessary sssupply was purchased in the
spring from a joint fund set aside by the
company. Lettuce, radishes, onions, beans
and peas-the earlier garden crops-were
followed, in turn, by potatoes, corn, toma-
toes and other vegetables, so that the mem
bers of the company and their friends have
enjoyed all summer the fruits of the fire.
mems labors. An excellent yield of sweet
potatoes, it is expected, will be taken from
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of charming personality, whose genieIity
and unfailing good nature endeared him to
hosts of friends. But only q few OF the
aware of the tragedy which made ship
wreck of his domestic life. In his younger
days he married harmaid The marriage,
as might have been expected, turned out un-
happily But he kept all his troubles to
himself. He was martyr to gout which
carried him off, and yet short time be-
fore his death he wrote a humorous arti-
Gle on the subject. His lively fancy and
genial satire amused and refreshed many
thousands who never heard of him. And
not few authors received their earliest
Communications from his kindly pen.
Evening star., 1905-10-08

the ground within a few days. Beside their
more profitable garden the firemen have
maintained a velvety lawn along the whole
front of the property, with. tastefuIly ar
ranged flower beds at intervals upon It.
For variety in farming on a necessarily
small scale. the men of Chemical Engine
Company No. 2, on Brightwood avenue near
Shepherd road, have without exception the
greatest range in the department. They
began. however, as early as five years ago,
when by subscription they raised sufficient
Evening star., 1905-10-08

Not all the variations of the letters of
travel type need the money that might be
got from the sale of their writing Many.
of them declare they wish to write solely to
fiil up the time while on their travels and
keep themselves from being honesick, from
dying of ennui.
large percentage of them, however.
want to pay the expenses of the trip by
Evening star., 1905-10-08

There are many editors who have read
and re-read Views Afoot' who are some
times almost sorry Taylor ever wrote the
letters. That is because of the vast army
Evening star., 1905-10-08

property in their new role. Only a few
of the 1853 men constituting the twenty
two different companies of the Washington
fire department have had opportunity
to so indulge IN beneficial and profitable
outdoor, work. but those few have done
their best.
Evening star., 1905-10-08

Literary fame in these days is not limited
by language or geographical boundaries.
A striking instance of this is afforded by
the part taken by NJ. Rene Huchon of
Nancy University in-the recent celebration
at Aldeburgh of the one hundred and fif-
tieth anniversary of the birth of George
Crabbe. M Huchon is recognized as the
greatest living authority on the works of
the parson poet. and it was he who deliv-
cred the chief address. Speaking of The
Village. he said that the poem was not
only realistic description OF Aldeburgh,
but satire directed against the pastoral
twas truths emphatic protest against hc-
ton and gave realism its place in poetry.
Among the English men of letters who paid
tributes to the little read poet were Thom-
as Hardy and Clement K. Shorter Though
Crabbe.s audience always has been, and
probably always will be, a small one, few
poets have numbered more distinguished
admirers. 1t is interesting to recall that on
his deathbed Sir Walter Scott frequently
insisted on having something from Crabbe
read to him. Crabhe visited Sir Walter In
Edinburgh in 1872, and the Wizard of the
North who had just returned from well
coming at Leith George w to Scotland, in
his great joy at greeting Crabbe as a guest,
sat on and smashed the glass out of which
the king had drunk his health. Sir Walter
had carried it off in the skirt pocket of his
coat.
Evening star., 1905-10-08

There is no editor OF any success today
Evening star., 1905-10-08

The London county council has just
placed memorial tablet on No 10 Young
street. Kensington. the house In which
Thackeray did his best work. 1t was there
that he wrote Vanity Fair" 1t is inter-
esting TO recall. in this connection. that
Thackeray once piloted Mr.. Fields, the
American publisher, to the various houses
In London where his novels were written.
Go down on your knees, you rogue, he
said to Mr.. Fields, when the Young street
house was reached, for here Vanity Fair
was penned; and l will go down with you.
for have high opinion of that little pro-
duction myself" It has often been re-
marked that American literary pilgrims are
more familiar with London houses in which
notable men have lived than are Londoners
themselves. BY marking such houses with
tablets the London county council now
makes II easy for cockneys TO identify
them. But 1t initiates against the joy of
discovery which lent zest to the search for
them by transatlantic visitors.
HAYDEN CHURCH. .
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Chief Engineer William T. Belt has taken
Evening star., 1905-10-08

NE day about sixty years ago a
troduced himself to an editor. a
man somewhat older than himself.
The editor was busy and not dis
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-10-27
M. A. No. 4037.
Application for Patent.

United States Land Office, Sait
Lake City. Utah, October o, 1900.
Notice IL hereby given that the
Duluth and Utah Iron Mining Comp.
any, corporation. by its au horned
agent. ii. Mounteer of Salt Lake
City, Utah, has made application for
a United States patent for N. D.
Placer, McCahill No Placer. Mon
day No. Placer, aud Monday NO. =
Placer mining claims situated In the
Pinto Iron Mining District, Iron
County, Utah, said claims being de-
scribed by legal su bdivisions of the
Public Land Survey as follows;
The n. j. Placer for the Ne OF
NEA of SWh, NJ Of NwA of Sc
q, VIZ of NEH, and lot ! section
26, towsbip SO south, range IA west,
s. L. NJ.
The McCahill No. 3 Placer for the
NWl4 of section 20, township 36
south, range IA west, 8. l.. M.
The Monday No. l Placer for the
NEA of section 81, towsbip SO
south, range IA west, S. l.. M.
The Monday No. Placer for the
M of NWl4, SE4 OF NWA, Els
of SW14 of NWH of section 81,
township SO south, range IA west, S.
l.. M.
The area claimed is 61s. % acres,
all of which is applied for, there be-
ing no conflicts.
Said claims are of record in the
office of the recorder of Iron County
at Parowau, Utah, in book .'E'
pages i02, 405 and 400 respectively.
Applicant claims there are no known
lodes or veins upon said claims, or
any part thereof
The nearest known locations are
the Sage Placer No l. and the Viola
No. 9.
direct that this notice be publish
ed in the Iron County Record at Co.
dar City, Utah, the newspaper pub
lished nearest said claims, for the
period of nine weeks.
FRANK ID. HOBBS,
Register.
II. &. Twomey and L. IL. Gray,
claimants attorneys. f>5 Il.
(First Oct. 13--Last Dec. g.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-10-27
ROCKVILLE.

Rockville, Utah, Oct. %, 1905.
John bennett and family have just
moved down from the mountain where
they have been the past summer.
Our district school will start in
the morning with Mr.. Jacob Workman
as principal. Our primary teacher
has not yet arrived.
Owing to the storms we are having
much cooler weather at present and
the farmers are very busy gathering
their crops for fear Of frost.
DIR. Middleton arrived here yester-
day to attend to Sister DeMill who
is very sick. The doctor started back
homo early this morning.
Bishop James Andrus of st.
George was here yesterday aud the
stocltmen have gone on the mountain
to gather steers to sell to him.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-10-27
M. A. No. 403S.
Application for Patent.

United States Land Office, Sal,
Lake City, Utah, October 10, 1905.
Notiee is lacsehg Sskiyen that tho
Duluth and Utah lrou Mining Comp
any, corporation, by it's authorized
agent, II. Mounteer of Salt Lake
City. Utah, has made Application for
a United States patent for the Nc
Cahill No. Placer, McCahill No. 2
Placer, McCahiI No. A Placer, Nc
Cahill No. 8 Placer and McCehill
No.6 Placer mining claims, situated
in the Pinto Iron Mining District, Iron
County, Utah, said claims being de.
scribed by legal subdivisions of the
Public Land Survey as follows:
The McCahill No. / Placer for the
We of NW14 Of section and E1s
of NEA of section A, township 81
south range IA west, s. l.. NJ.
The McCahill No 9 Placer for the
VIZ of NE14 of section A., township
81 south, range IA west, s. L. NJ.
The McCabill No. A Placer for the
VIZ of SwA, NEk of SwA, and
lot 10 of section "a, township Sc
south, range IA west, S. L. NJ ., ,t.r
The McCahill Nos Placer for the
E1k of SEA, SEA of NE14, and lot
of section 33, township sc south,
range IA west, S. /. NJ.
The McCahilI Nd 6 Placer for the
SWA of NEA, and lots 7, 8 and 8
of section "a, tdwnhip SO south,
range IA west, S. u M.
The area applied for being Cos. 6s
acres, there being nj conflicts. Said
claims are of record in the office Of
the Recorder of IRON County, al
Parowan, Utah, in book "E" pages
404, 41s and 419, respectively.
Applicant claims there are ne
known lodes or veins upon sale
claims, or in any pant thereof.
The nearest known locations are
the Rex No. /, Rex 10. 3, Rex No
8, Lost Iron, Lost Iron No /, and
Iron Glad survey 4S9.
l direct that this iotice be pub
lished in the Iron County Record a
Cedar City, Utah, the newspaper pub
lished nearest said {laims, for the
period of nine weeks.
FRANK D. HOBBS,
Register
III. G. Twomey and L. II. Gray
claimants attorneys.
First Oct. Lad Dec. 81
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-10-27
KAN HR RIA
Kanarra. Utah, Oct. 25, 1905.

The Young Ladies Mutual Improve
ment Association is moving along
nicely. How about the young mens
Coal hauling will soon begin as the
Reeves boys intend opening the mine
in the near future.
Mrs. Eliza Wood has been very i'll
since the departure of her son Lemuel,
but is now rallying nicely.
Potato digging is the order this
week, owing to the fact that the town
field should open about the Grst or
second Of November.
Since the rain last week everything
seems nice and fresh and the ground
is so we'll moistened that fall .plow-
Ing can be done to good advantage.
Mr.. Alvin Groves was waited upon
by the elders this evening, due TO a
stroke on the head, which he received
last Saturday from the man from
whom he was about to turn the water.
There is a little departure this week
from the regular routine, for almost
daily herd or more of sheep has
passed either through the streets oil
behind the field to and from the dip
ping corrals. One naturally wonders
where so many are going to find feed
for the winter.
Not long since there was but one
herd owned in town-now there are
upwards of half a dozen.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-10-27

An error appeared in the pubilca.
tion of the Republican ticket last
week. Instead of VIM. II. Holyoak
for mayor the nominee is VIM. Ii.
Lyman.
Her many friends will be- pleased
to know that Mrs. Mettie Durham
Nicholson is located at 81 Walnut
St., Chicago; is member of the choir
and organist at the l.. ID. S. church
in that vicinity, and enjoying life
generally.
Last night the store of VIM. II.
Carr was burglarized and robbed of
about 1915. This morning the
pocket book containing the money was
picked up nearly half block from
the store with about 500 In checks
which was restored to Mr.. Gurr, there
by diminishing the loss. The back
door of the building had been un =.
locked and the pocket book taken /;
otherwise nothing is missed. No clue
whatever to the robber.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-10-27
Notice.

For the convenience of taX payers
in the southern end Il the county,
arrangements have beer made to re-
ceive taxes at the Bank of Southern
Utah, Cedar City, up I, the 18th day
of November.
Always take your taSnotice along.
MORGAN RICHARDS,
County Treasure T