II V THE OLD "WII 'j' Great Slaughter fM WASH GOODS SHIRT WASH SKIRTS CHILDREN'S DRESSES SUMMER PETTICOATS SILK JACKETS, ETC. SiLK VADSTS gC':.. HALF PRICE A visit to otir store will American store, conducted on aayt-ruse is irue. . Markets O '. ' " HVEKPOOL, July 1. July wheat, C tlftd. C'bieago, July 1. July wheat open ed at liUHtfiMVGe an. closed, at 93. Barley I7(a)l9c Flax $1.25." ! "5 Morthwestem $ 1.43. ' 1 8:tn : Francisco, July 1. Wheat, tl.47 teColJM. , j . Portland, July ; J LVheat Export dub, f?2(o,S3c; bluestem, SOfiZyOc. Local Markets. Oats 40 to 42 eents. - Hay Cheat. $9; elover, $S to $8.50; timothy, f Il.oO to $12. Flour f4.4Q per LLl. retail. "Wheat 77 cents. - fc Flour City retail selling price, $1.15 Mill Feed Bran, $22.50 per ton; aborts, $2f. Eggs 17,vsents. Hens 9 cents. Butter Country, 15 cents. flutter fat 19eents. Ducks 10 cents. Wool 26 to 27 cents. Mohair; SO cents. Potatoes 25c' to 30c per bushel. Hops 25 eents. . Salem Live Stock Market. Cat:le 1100 to 1200 lb. steers, 3 to Lighter steers, 2. Cows, 000 to 1000 lbs., 2 to 2Uc. ITogs 175 to 200 lbs., 5,e. Stock, 4c. tUiejf Itest wethers, 2 e. Mixed ewes ami wethers, 2uC Lamb (alive), 3c. .Veal Iresel, 4 to 5c, according to ., - quality. LIGHT FASTER TIXAN SOUND About a tl ousand yards from the win. low where I sit is a factory which L.ows its whistle every nOon.Tlie steam always comes front the whistle some little time before the sound is heard. I once counted three seconds between the time when the first steam was seen and the time when the whistle was first heard. The whistle r is heard when the weatheajs foggy and clear, hot or cold, windy or calm. It is sometimes-; loader than at other1 times, but, it always takes three sec- ends to travel the three thousand feet from the factory to jny house, i We also hear often an' echo of the whistle, whieh conies two seconds later than the first sound. This is the same ou iid coming by a ronn.latMt.it journey fi,00O feet long." It travels 1,000 feet to a hill beyond, anl is then sent back 4,000 feet to our house. A few days ag. I heard a land of .musicians playing upon the. street, and although- they were far distant from me, the high tones of the piccolo and the low tones of the bass horn reach ed me exactly together, showing that high and low tones travel at the same peed. During a recent thunderstorm I no ticed a llash.of lightning and counted ten seconds before the sound of the thunder was heard. This showed me that, the storm was about ten thousand feet away. A little later however, the time between- thee lightning and th - t bander .began" to grow less, and the 'noise f -the thunder became louder, which showed that th storm was get ting nearer. Finally a dazzling flash of lightning' was followed immediate' ly by a deafening crash . of thunder, . and at the same time the shingles flew from a, patch of roof on a farm near by. It had been struck by lightning and was noon in flames. . ROTAI TIPS. . Some of the European monarchs give ery large tips whenever they trajrel, and others, on the contrary, are mute niggardly. Emperor Nicholas of Bus sia is the most liberal in this respect. During his brief visit to France three year ago he spent $16,000 on tips ta servants and almost as mnch on pres ents -to official and others. ; King- Ed ward of England is not quite as gen ' erous, but as he travels a : good deal both within his own realm and abroad he is obliged to lay aside each year $32 000 aa an allowance for tips. Era neror William of Germany is much mere cenerous in foreign country than at home, and during hia recent visit to Cowes, England, he spent 4 not less tha $10,000 on tip. Ot the remaining ruler, om PnJ rsonable sum and other very little, but probably quae much is they can affd. . . j. i'te' COR.NER. ' ' WAISTS SHIRT WAIST SUITS White Waists I HALF PRICE convince you that ours is a real American principles. 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For a jong time 1 have been afflicted with dyspepsia, liver complaint, constipation and generally run down in health. Ir. Darrin has so far relieved me that I feel like a new man. I commend him to all similarly afflicted. I reside in Junction City, Or., and will gladly answer all qiiestions. ; . E. MOUSTQAARIV Dr. Darrin's Place of Business, i Dr. Darrin can be consulted free at the Hotl Smeede, Eugene, Or., until October 1, from, 10 to 5 o'clock daily; evenings, 7 to 8; Sunday, 2 to 4. The doctor makes a specialty of all diseases of the eye, ear, nose , and throat, catarrh, deafness, bronchitis, la grippe, "heart, liver, bladder and kid ney diseases, or those who suffer from npathv and indifference; also genito nrinarv and skin diseases, in either sex. such as blood taint, seminal weak ness and lost vigor, varicoceles and stricture. t All curable chronic diseases treated at $5 a week, or in that proportion of time as the case-may require. 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Legal Blanks, Statesman' Job Offinp. ED G Alt ALLEN POEj " FATHER OF i THE SHORT STORY," DISCUSSED By Qartrudo Chancer is aptlv called the "Father of English Literature ' ; Washington Irving the "Father of American Liter ature," and with equal candor can we place beside them the name of Edgar Allen Poe as the " Father of the Short- story.". 1 By that statement we do not mean to affirm that Poo was the first short-story writer, and more than that Chaucer or Irving was the jjriginator o Jierature. ; There were many writers in England before the time of Chancer, many writers in America before Irving, but each marks an epoch in literature; they stand, out in history as land marks that , denote a transition, a : material change, an advance over that of earlier times. J .. . ' Viewing Poe in t, the same light, we readily see the wonderful advance, in form, over the- short-story of the, fif teen years previous. .Before l&JO. tne publication of Poe's ;Jerniee," the short -story was practically an experi ment. The tales were , criticised for lack of appreciation of material. It was not this, for the writers did ap preciate the wide field "of new material which the New -Worm afforded, but it was rather a lack of skill in expressing it. There was a looseness in plot and a decided tendency toward native themes and local sketches at the sac rifice of unity and time perhaps one of the most generally violated princi ples of the short-story, as well as plot. The works 'of Cooper and Irving are splendid examples of this local color ing. Irving's "Kip Van Wrinkle" shows a slight change in the tale, but so slight that it can hardly eount n.f J attitude, but usel themas well U,:nTel0p, ent f , f ,hort ,rtory-as the scenery, to forward the mood. P. Willis comes a little nearer to thai. J ' ,; , - . ideal ,n his .construction and I Haw- thorne steps a notch higher because of his great imaginative power, -which Po says is not originality, but " pe culiarity" and to be peculiar is to be original; and this is the highest liter ary virtue, -if it springs spontaneously from an aetive imagination, giving col oring and character to everything with which it comes in contact. It is this peculiarity which deprives Hawthorne of popular appreciation But "the few to whom books belong and who belong properly to books, do not criticise like the public, altogether by what he does but estimate an author by what he is capable of doing." One obvious point. However, is monotony in tne use of allegory, 'which seems to overpower many of hjs subjects. Among t be literary people of Ameri ca, llawtnorne - holds much the same place as Coleridge did in England- But it is to Poe that the literary people turn for their model of the short-story. A model which outlived the author's day a model for the futures When we consider the large, number of tales published, and the great de mand for them in -this age of short stories, it is remarkable to note how very few have style. The short-story has extensive and , fertile fields to choose from, and, in many respeets, has advantages over the novel, but at the same time there are certain re strictions whjeb must . be observed in order to reach the highest degree of skill. Perhaps the three most univer sally broken principles, even of the present day, are brevity of time and space, and swift movement. William Austin makes his "Peter Rugg" lab ored and monotonous by giving too full a treatment to a subject which conld be made much more effective in less time and with swifter movement. Hawthorne falls short in his "White Old Maid" by choosing, for a short story, a plot dep enough for a novel. In this, as well as many others, for instance, Irvings 'Rip Van Winkle," "Peter Rugg," Hall's "The French Village," the unity is broken by a long lapse of years. The secret of Poe's success was his skill in starting in immediately upon the story without long description, and holding the mind of the reader with intense interest until he had reached, with swift and steady movement, the inevitable climax. I have said it was the secret of Poe's success; so it is, out it was more his skill m usine it: for it is this sympathy between writer and reader which is the goal of every author and a true test of any writer's success. jus immediate attack and rapid movement permitted him. to make use of the unlovely and horrible, which must necessarily be brief. Herein lies an advantage over the novel.- His story of "the Black Cat," "lierniee," "Ligeria,"! and "The Tell-tale Heart" illustrate this necessity for haste. "The Black Cat" covers but five pages, and "The Tell-tale Heart," three, but could we longer endure the awfulness of the scene, the intense rage into which the innocent black cat throws its master until he strikes his gentle little wife In the bead with the as"; or, in the latter case, the cool de liberate murder of the master of the house because of the one wicked-looking gless eye, and then the sickening sight when he eaimly cuts the bodv to pieces and bestows it under the floor, which Poe depicts with awful minute ness. Poe's stories deal with plot and in cident rather than with character. Yon see his eople and feel their presence ia the story, bot they impress you in something of the same manned as n large ero?I or persons merely . passing along the street. , You do not get ac quainted with them; any man or woman might be substituted and not change the story in the least, but put in the place of the prisoner in "The Pit and the Peadulom," 6 even Bret Hart's gambier of f'Poker Flat," and immedi ately we are interested to know just bow th! cool, seiipossessed man of the world will receive or overcome this cir cumstance. We raa feel with him be cause we know,: him. One might ask, before, reading, ' are not i Berniee," "Eleanor," or "Morel L" character stories f But finish reading and -von find there is no definite character, you are more impressed by. the even, ivory "jujj 1 --v a ui urrnice man or any definite -character1 of the girL In "Morella," the quiet, silent suffering manner of the .woman, ' in whieb we v see no reason for her husband 'a bitter repulsive feeling, ? is more ap- f parent. In " Eleanors, 4Poe has" given a description of the Valev of the the Ifanv-ednr.! -fi.. i..vf . Many-colored Grass,'? hach,, to-my. rV. Johnson. mind, is the most beautiful piece of wtwkmanskip that he ! has produced in the) short -story. 'There. i a certain irieloneLoly, bnt it lacks that weird, grotesque, almost repulsive atmosphere, characteristic of his works. But, after all,' the sweet, innocent peasant girl ib not a distinct living character to us. On the other -hand, observe how he makes his reader feel and live the in eideat. In " The Descent 4 Into the Maelstrom," the reader himself, seems to be there; he sees the storm; he feels the convulsive heave of the boat; and at last he holds his breath as he beholds the bottom of thewhirlpool and his slow, but steady progress, as he whirls round and round, each time nearer his fate. Still, even through the most exciting- moments, the reader ia made to feel the inevitable end, the rescue of the man who is telling the story. But up to the climax, the question is, "How is it to be done! " ' ' In his plot tales, the same intense interest is felt, only held for a longer time upon a more complicated mystery. In 'The Gold Bug," for instance, from the moment the death's head is made visible, by heat, upon the dirty, thin parchment, aceidently pieked up by Le gard to lift the gold bug, the plot moves steadily on, each incident ad ding strength to the main action. Even the effect of the gold bug on the super stitious old negro attributes to the i mystery of the final discovery. This , use of loading eaeh incident and wordiy we find that it lacks colloquialism, with significance is one great charm of Poe. ell did not possess the wonderful Vocabulary of Hawthorne, but made use of the vocabulary he had by select ing wrds charged with meaning, which monrnful howl aB), pe0uHar actions. of thJ fl while th diiB in the dog while they are digging wrong spot for the gold, and then his sudden change when they find the right place, add to the loneliness of the night and the seeming madness of his. master. In his "Ligeria," and also "Metzen gerstein," the slow weird Miiovements of the waving uraperies add to -the surrounding gloom. The terrific storm in the "House of Usher" coincides with the perturbed minds of the in mates of the house, and also with the terrible destruction of the House of Usher. Unlike the short-story of the present day, Poe's does not ueal with the social problems. In fact, his stories are not of any one place they lack locality. I can think of but few tales that he has definitely plaeed. "ThO Descent Into the Maelstrom ' is laid off the coast of Norway; "The Mnrder of the Kue Morgue," "in Paris; hi first prize story, "Ma Found in a Bottle," is plaeed between Batavia of Java and the Archipelago of the Sunda Islands; and the "Adventures of One Hans Pfall," is laid in Rotterdam. His lo cations, as well as his characters, be long to no one particular place or age. Wc get, perhaps,, as in no 'other one of his btones, : a slight glimpse of the early Dutch of America, ia the tale "The Devil in the rlelfry." He enters into a detailed description of the ap pearance of a Dutch settlement, the mode of living, and some of their pe culiar habits. We see the good house wife' as she continually busies herself auoui me one jiving room auu now ou j then stirs with a long spoon a pot of J jiHrrmge which iiaugs uvcr lue uiaze t in a large open fireplace. We find just 1 outside the door the heavy-set Dutch roan, who has sat in the same place, as Poe says, "time out of mind," with his long pipe in his mouth, a watch in his hand and his eye fixed upon the clock in the belfry. The watch and clock were important articles in the life of the Dutch, and Poo apparently delights in setting off the extreme hobby in the most ridiculous light when he- describes the pigs walking about with small watches dangling from their tails. But it is in this sphere of imagination that he lives, and with such absurd situations he f b a Ka irw.oir I li tab. f mostly deals. His earlier stories have this same unreal, unnatural element, but lack the smoothness and finish of most of the later ones, and, to a certain degree, lack that subtle reasoning "that is ap- jii-ui in mi uesi Bionrs an.l especi ally the detective tales, of which Poe is master. In these, he seems to take the tangled situation and with perfect ease pick out each detail and arrange them in such natural order that the reader feels, when he is through, that there could "be no loop hole, no flaw In the reasoning, that every detail has been so nicely investigated that no other argument is necessary. Follow Dupin through the, "Murder of the Rue Morgue.". 8ee him at the scene of the murder. How carefully he ob serves the elightest ev-ence in favor of, or against, the unknown murderer. How his "lynx eye" immediately per ceives the broken nail and the hidden spring that has baffled the detectives. He even discovers the little bunch of peculiar looking hair tightly clutched within the icy hand of tho old lady. He notes the force which it must have taken to thrust the bony of the girl up the chimney, the unmolested gold upon the floor, the flagpole outside the win dow, wis fact, not a thing, inside or outside, escapes: his scrutiny. Yet, how nicely Poe conceals the real reasoning of Dupin until all the others have giv en their testimony, and t be police are quite at sea, before he gives his argu meats with great precision and care, disclosing the whole mystery with a masterly skUL "The Purloined Let ter" shows the same shrewd thought, but does not deal with quite so deep a subject. "The Go,. Bug" Is another illustration of his genius along thi line. How cunningly he unravels a plot which has been woven for the sole purpose of unraveling. Legard tpils silently, patiently, and wearily over the figures and signs visible on the dirty: parchment, testing each fig ure over and over again, f Yet we are not wearied by following him. through all these trials, and, after the gold vis found and we are still mystified as to ine means by which be becomes ac quainted with his great fortune, he quietly and deliberately lays bare the mystery. - - ; y ; , .. , All of his tales are earned on in a sort of a monologue and his h.ibirnsl " " """But auu ims nabitnai use of the pronoun I," is exceedingly conspicuous, giving "a sameness to all fain works, altiiouet his best and moat effective, stories -are written in this way. . Since, as has been said, the.peo rd of his tales have no definite char acter, Poe has very -little use for dia- 1 ia 4 It a art iaii iini: at inn UUCf Ml .9 - " - of real lif es, A principle very much emphasized by the writers of today. After all, those books we; enjoy most are those in which we become acquaint ed and attached to the persons by their peculiar speech, their quaint colloquial-1 isms and tueir personal mannerisms. We no not need to have Smith of Bun ner's " ae Live Letters of Smith"; described to us, nor do we have to be told that he is an uneducated farmer;, we see the character of the man. in. the erude notes passed across the cor-' nice. Shakespeare does sot have to de-I scribe his people before he begins his ply; we -cannot finish before each character has become definitely formed id our minds; each has become a liv-j mg, moving being, to be admired or abhored. itb Poe, We most look en-, tirely to the incident of the story for. the interest. For in .those tales in ; which there is dialogue, it. does not seem to throw much light upon the character or manner of the individual, r but is rather a more direet way ofr bringing the reader into close contact with the incident, or for the purpose of making the incident stand out more ' forcibly.. With Poe s former descrip-' tion of some peculiarities of Dnpin, sueh as his uesired mood when think ing, we infer through his long speeches, when he is stating bis arguments, that he is exceedingly calm and deliberate, nothing ru.-.fS or excites him. The only evidence of inward exeitement is the sudden ehauge of the- color of his eyes, and the "perfect whirlwind of smoke," which envelopes hm at sueh times. In the interviews between Dur pin and the Prefect of i'olice, we come nearer, having an informal conversa tion, but if we examine it more elose- and is rather the words of the author himself. His little story of "Three Sundays in a Week" is mnch more ef fective because of the Short dialogue between the uncle and nephew, which opens the story. Here the author seems to step' out of his usually gloomy fan ingly calling him witty, when be' can scarcely refrain . from calling him a tasticality and indulge in a little good natured fun. We have the old uncle introduced to us in the first word by the nephew: "Hard-hearted, dunder head el, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty, old savage! with his feet upon the mantle piece, and a bumper of port wine in his paw, making strenu ous efforts to accomplish the1 ditty, Rem pi is ton verre videt Viths ton verre pleint" -J" However, he tries to conceal his feelings before the old man under bland smile and winning speech, laugh - villian. The old man obstinately stands by .his decision, that they' shall, be married "when three Sundays' come to gether in a week." Even when tho two friends, Smitherton and Captain Pratt, return from a trip around tDe world, the one from the east and the other from the west, making the one from the east a day in advance bf Lon don time, and the one from the west twenty-four hours behind the time of London, the old. man tries to make one more effort to save himself by the opinion of Dufcble L. Dee, but failing, gives his consent. . Poe has written a few others which are not overeast with shadow or sloom. but they all deal on too great a scale with" the absurd to be appreciated f or anything but the structure of the com- position. " Besides the monotony eaused bv the use of the persona! pronoun I, there is another element which creates nracti- eaily the -same effeet, and tbs tat is, his aDufrt mal imagination. It is quite necessary to use one's imagination in order to produce a EOO.J ' COTO position, nevertheless, I believe that 1 Poe has 1 a. r 1 1 t . proven that it is possible to go to ex tremes.' We can read a few of his stories and enjoy them, but the perusal of even, one volume without spicing it well with stories of a different nature, is exceedingly monotonous and. tire some. The mind is kept too long in the antie, unearthly atmosphere. The continual gloom is too oppressive for the average mind and we are prone to lay it aside for something freer and lighter. However, there is one thing which prevents ,them from being in tolerable and thftt is his great diversi ty of subjects It is true ihat every author leaves more or less 'of his influence and char acter upon hia work. The same state' ment holds goou for the artist, the scul-' ptor, or the musician, although it is uiftre noticeable, perhaps, in the work of the musieiaa and writer of liter-: ture. Hawthorne was an optimist, and though he wrote, as did Poe, from his' wonderful imagination, his tales werej not "a be all and end all here.- Foe's1 were, ite was a pessimist, a cynic, and his stories all bear witness to the fact. His. sad, dissipated, wasted life is reflected upon almost every page, and at times unutterable despair is. ex ceedingly pathetic. In all of the nu merous stories that he has written, only one, I believe, has spoken of forgive ness in the next world, of peace, love and future life. Still, even as he ut ters those words: "Hleep in peace! for the Spirit of Love reigneth and smileth . thou . art absolved, for reasons which shall be made known to thee in heaven, of thy vows unto Klcanora"; it seems that there is a sad note of longing and despair. In fact, the whole tory of "Eleanora" seems, to be a cry from his very soul for the pure and beautiful life whieb be has cast iron him and is powerless 10 regain. Alter having read that story, I cannot agree with all of N. P. Willis harsh criticisms, bnt must argue who .a&rs. usgooa -in maintaining that he was not altogether a hard-hearted wretch who seemed to have no "moral susceptibility " and whose ebief aim was to rise or succeed that be might gain a right to "despise a world which gauea bis seix-eonceit." . As to which of his stories is the best. it is difficult to say, though most of his aier woras snow an improvement over the earlier ones. lie himself declares that if they were all bound in one vol ume he could not decide which one was the best, for they are ail good, of their kind. Still, he thinks that his "Lig eria" may be called his best, as he be lieves ;th highest imagination is the loftiest literary virtue. EOEN. pBOHE On June 25, 1903, at Gopher, ,;Or, to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Grohe, a son. William Norman.. jar. and Airs. 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Miss Johnson displays powers of both criticism and literary composition in the vssay, and the article will be read by Statesman .readers this morning with much interest. She shows at least a high appreciation of the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and also a deep Study of bis writings, and her compari sons of his short stories with others Show a de.'n stu.lv of literature an.l literarv method.' .The only thine in her article that will not be generally accepted is- her acreptanee of the charge that Poe was so dissipated that h considered himself a failure. That lie was a dreamer, is not denied; that he occasionally drank to execs may have also ben true, but that he wm a subjeet of constant dissipation has been denied by many men who knew him. intimately. Rev. John B. ' Tabb, known as the poet priest of, the south, processor of English literature at St; j Charles college at Carrollton, Md., was one of Poe's friends an.l kuvw him well. A gentleman of this 'city has often heard Father Tabb speak of Poe and of their acquaintance, and has oft en heard his denial of the charge of utter dissipation against Poe. Many others have taken the same stand and made the same statements as Father Tabb. That a gn?at many of Poe's critics were such from pure jealously has been often charged, and - seemingly with foundation. P. L. Willis said of Poe "that with a single glass of wine his whole nature was reversed, the demon became uppermost, and though none of the usual signs of intoxication were ; Vc , 11 , ? P3Pa,,,T "same." J oc . ' . Alur.n'an Ka,u gar A. Poe's stories st-era all of them 10 nave been written under the inspi ration or gin and water," but the P.c5la.lor' g London critic, ' "a a lnal i stands ai as much alone ; among verse writers as Salvator Rosa among painters." . Mrs. Osgood, however, did justice to ; Poe, and she appreciated his charac ter. She esre(Ma''y referred to his ap preciation of womanhood, and of his Christian, graceful and tender rever ence therefor. Hs wife's mother al ways spoke highly of Poe, and said he seemed more than a son to her in his.l And daring' all tlie years since, hb has 'seen the McConnlck constantly at the front in every improvement that tends to aa(ve grain, and save it esonom' icauy. . , - The McCormick Reel it unquestionably the most satisfactory reel, used on a binder today. -. It not only baa a very wide bearing, but with Its two lever the driver can xet an ad justment that will fairly pick the grain right off the earth, be it short or long, thick or this, standing or fallen. This feature is really of th utmost importance, as many a farmer discover- JT I VfflE YOUR Wmf flTHER I WAS A jZv, BOY WW-- HE USED A 7 MCCORMICK i W5 IMPLEMENT' HOUSE Farm Machinery, Vehicles, Automobiles, Bieyeles, Sewing Machines and Sundries. - 253-237 Liberty Street Salem. Cor. State and Liberty Sts. Salem, Or. long continued observance of every duty to her. This dMs not indicate that lie was Knh a terrible character as h.s b.n painted. At least admirers of Lis works have preferred to think well of him. A SURPRISE PARTY. A phtasant surpriHe. jrty may be given to your stoniarh andj liwr by taking a medicine whirh will relieve their pain and discomfort, viz.: Dr. King's .New Life Pills. They are a most wonderful remedy, affor.ling sure relivf and cure lor headache, dizzineM and constipation; 2-V aNDan'l J. Fry's drug store. THE BURDEN BEARERS. .r Cro'l,f. with the "loaded hod, You think you carry weight Enough t. rrutth you to the earth; And curse the cruel fate That puts the heavy )u.l Von While other men go freel ,. Of all the burdens that you tcir . As-far as you enn see.' Yon think because a man is rich And does not lug a-hod. That he has nothing else to do ' But live and l.mf am! ju1, 1 And wear fine clothe and eat line f.Mi.l, And whoop jt up for fair Wdl. you don't know a little bit . About a rih man's care. Look at the'' wrinkles in his face, And note tli.ii- tired eyes, And see him turrV away from food That you wouM think a prize; And see the marks of ajj nn youth, The gray hair 011 tin head Yon lay your l.ur.b ii down at 11'ght, He carries his to bed.. .t "lv growler would you like to sleep With that hard hod of vonrs, And have it sera po' you lvn the bark And SKil your soothing miohsT And, give yon dreams to make 'the niyht A - wretchedness that brought' You "to your morning work ajjain, Au old man .overwrought f Your load is heavy, imnc denies; Your days are hard and lone;, And lalxr in exeetf. no doubt, Seems bttlo jshorf of wrong; But wealth is not-ii cure, for that, Whatever it may do Thank Jol yo'u do not have-to take Your hod to bed with you. William J. Latiipton, in Leslie's Weeklv. ! STATESMAN1 CLASSIFIED ADS BHIXU QUICK BESCLTS. ed daring the short crop of 1901 when every straw 'saved meant money to him. Drop us a line for catalogue, or come and see the machines. Many exclusive features on the McCormick. ' Hay Tools, Binder Twine, Sweep Rakes, Mowers, Rakes, Machine Oils. and everything that the farmer need! in his harvest fields.