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have seized and imprisoned men on the ground that they were stirring up sedition, and have forcibly sent such out of the county, warning them not to return. The situation has been badly complicated by the fact that the military head of the State, while a man of great bravery, as shown in the Rough Riders in the Spanish War, and of strong loyalty, is also in temper hot-headed, overbearing, inexperienced in positions of large public responsibility, and by temperament and training utterly unfitted for the exercise of such authority.

What the outcome of the present unhappy condition of affairs will be it is impossible to say. There are many excellent and influential people who hold that while the Governor has made unnecessary and grave mistakes in his extraordinary executive action, yet, on the whole, the results attained in the pacification of the mining districts have justified the wisdom of his main policy. It is charged that the record of the Western Federation of Miners has been one of such high-handed violence and crime that the State authorities were justified in resorting to the most extreme and unusual measures to break its power. It is, however, a perhaps somewhat sig nificant fact that Governor Peabody seems not likely to be renominated by the Republican party, though with this the fact that he is an anti-Wolcott man has much to do.

A recent event has added fuel to flames already seven times heated. April 21 President Moyer, of the Western Federation of Miners, was brought by General Bell and a military guard to Denver to appear before the Supreme Court. While Moyer was being taken from the train, W. D. Haywood, the Secretary-Treasurer of the Federation, attempted to hold a conversation with him. When ordered by the captain of the guard to stand back, he struck the officer a stinging blow in the face. fracas occurred in which Haywood was badly beaten by the soldiers and came near being killed. At the hotel another fracas between Haywood and the military occurred, and he was struck on the head with the barrel of a revolver and beaten into submission.

April 25 the Supreme Court denied the motion of Moyer's counsel for release on bail, and he was taken back under military guard five hundred miles to Telluride. The Supreme Court has set May 5 as the date on which it will pass judgment on the question "whether the Governor, under. the Constitution and under the conditions known to exist, can declare martial law, and as an incident thereto suspend the writ of habeas corpus."

The decision will be awaited with keen interest not only in Colorado but throughout the country. G.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 26, 1904.

May

By Sara Andrew Shafer

With a Drawing by J. Conacher

Over the pebbles the brown brooks flow,
Singing their cool songs, sweet and low.
From white-boled beech and elm-top tall
On lilied shallows the deep shades fall.
In swaying cradle the white eggs rest
Safe and warm 'neath the brooding breast.
The sweetbrier lifts her winsome face,
The bramble weaves its lines of grace.

All joys are here, each dear delight,
And April's faith, in May is sight.

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The Edward Clark Club
Club House

T Elizabeth, New Jersey, an interesting and important endeavor in uniting religious and social work has just found physical incorporation. The Edward Clark Club House was formally opened some weeks ago, and in the short time which has elapsed since then has abundantly justified the generous energy of those who have made it possible. The house is the gift of Mrs. Potter, wife of the Bishop of New York, and of her son, Lieutenant Clark, U. S. A., to the members of Grace Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, of which the Rev. Henry Hale Sleeper, Ph.D., is rector. The special interest of this gift, not only to the parishioners of Grace Church and to the citizens of Elizabeth but to readers everywhere, lies in the fact that it is a signal example of intelligent contribution to the needs of the whole man, religious, physical, social, and æsthetic. Under one roof there are a chapel, kitchen, restaurant, dining, reading, card, committee, smoking, shuffle

board, and billiard rooms, swimmingtank and other baths, gymnasium, running track, and bowling alleys.

Life cannot be separated into distinct departments. On the contrary, man's life is a unit. This building is the expression of that idea. Architecturally the structure is a simple but very dignified and impressive one in the late colonial style. The material is buff terra cotta and "old" brick. The architect, Mr. F. E. Wallis, of New York City, has known well how to combine the stately yet homelike colonial details which one may still find in Bleecker Street and in Old Greenwich Village, New York City. The comfort of the interior is evident at once in the dark oak finish and trimmings and the quiet greens and reds of the decoration. In the basement one finds the swimming-pool and shower-baths and lockers. On the first floor there is the chapel, and on other floors the other rooms already mentioned, and on the roof a garden. These rooms may be

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Club was played the other night. The interest in cards and other games is great, as it is, in point of fact, in almost every grade of society.

As these attractions are available in a district largely occupied by the workers in such vast manufacturing shops as those of the Singer Sewing-Machine Company, the Crescent Ship-Building Yards, and the repair shops of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, it is easy to see that the response should have been immediate. And it has been. Although the church has a very considerable membership, that of the Edward Clark Club is already larger in size, and would be doubled by the admission of those on the waiting list. The yearly dues for boys under eighteen are $3 a year, and for men $6. The Club thus appeals to those who can afford to pay something for the attractions offered, and who will appreciate them in the promotion of social intercourse. The by-laws have been modeled on the lines of those governing similar institutions in New York City, and especially on that of the famous Hollywood Inn at Yonkers, a notably successful social institution.

The Club-house is open every weekday from ten in the morning to eleven at night, and on Sundays and holidays. the library is open from two o'clock until ten. No games may be played on Sunday, and no cards may be used except those provided by the club authorities. Of course no betting of any kind is allowed. The equipment of the Club is all that could be desired; the same attention being paid to furnishing the gymnasium with its splendid array of apparatus for various forms of exercise, as to furnishing the chantry with its pews, kneeling benches, chancel railing, lectern, and altar.

But the main thing is the fact that a working parish has successfully attempted to put into practical effect a fundamental truth concerning the life of man. One is glad that the Edward Clark Club House is as large and fine as it is-it is the incorporation of a singularly felicitous social plan. But one is still more pleased to learn that even it is not now adequate enough for the number of members who have come to take advantage of its attractions since the opening a few weeks ago.

The Climbers

By Mary Frances Wright

O ye, so far beyond me on the Height,
I cannot hear your voices as ye stand
Facing the Vast, invisible to me.

But I can see your gestures of delight,
And something guess of that wide glorious sea,
The glimmering isles of that Enchanted Land,
The winds which from that ocean freshly blow.
And so your Vision lifts me toward the Height,
Although ye have forgot me far below.

But you, my brother, you, my near of kin,
Who some few steps above me on the steep
Look smiling back to cheer me ever on,
Who lend a hand as I the chasm leap,

And stay your haste that I the crag may win,
Thinking it scorn for Strength to climb alone;
You, with your morning song when sings the lark,
You, with your surer footing where I fall,
You, with unflagging purpose at high noon,
And quiet-hearted trust when comes the dark,-
To you I owe it that I climb at all.

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