her. Another came forward and did a like service for Ostrander while still another untied the weeping babe. The astounded emigrants no longsr faced scowls of hate but saw grouped about them faces grinning with good nature and hands outstretched to grasp their own in amity. "How, Cola, how, how," said these Indians. The poor couple were nearly stunned with the joy of this transformation. Then as Mrs. Ostrander gazed intently into the face of her liberator a light broke in upon her and she cried: Yes, yes, she knew him, she knew him and she laughed, while the tears ran down her cheeks and the strong man at her side clasped his babe in arms, bowed his head and wept. As the chief continued his gestures, telling his story to his fellows in the picturesque Indian way, the woman again lived through a brief though vividly remembered experience of nearly eight years agone. She again saw the small Indian running along the top rails of their home fence-saw him leap off upon the hard This structure will be located on the main central avenue, with frontage of 525 feet east and 650 feet north and face the main lagoon. path in front of her house and run toward her open door. Something in his tense, excited face told her of his desperate strait. Instantly she admitted him to the house and when a moment later she saw horsemen galloping hotly over a rise she thrust the fugitive into a cellar hole beneath her flight of chamber stairs. On came the fast riders-a dozen Pawnee warriors-and several of them dismounted at her door. They came and peered within for she left it purposely open, and she shook her head solemnly at them when they questioned her with gestures. So they went on evidently looking for the man's trail, until the dust of them disappeared far down the valley. Then the fugitive came forth, got his pony out of a cornfield where he had cunningly hid it, and went his way. What High Wolf and his band thought of the affecting scene between husband and wife when his story was concluded, may not be recorded, but their action, at least, was energetic. The emigrant wagon was quickly reloaded with its rifled effects. Its tongue was lashed between two ponies after the manner of a travois pole, and the lariats of half a dozen saddles were hitched to its front in all sorts of ways. Not knowing what was to be done with them, only that they had been rescued from a terrible fate, the overjoyed and half clad Ostranders donned their proper dress and took their places upon the schooner's spring seat. Hauled by the ponies of eight rollicking young Sioux the wagon was dragged across the river at a shallow ford, and out of the valley upon a high prairie to northward. High Wolf and several of his sober braves rode dignifiedly in its rear. It was lucky for the Ostranders that their vehicle had been provided with lock-wheel brakes for the young Sioux made no difference in their pulling in going up or down a hill. More than once the emigrant wagon, with locked hind wheels, and spouting dust and stones to rearward, coasted down a steep incline at imminent risk to the necks of its occupants. These perilous dashes furnished vast amusement to the pony riders. At length, toward the close of the day, this adventurous journey came to an end, and the odd cavalcade rode in at the Big Sioux Agency at Pine Ridge. That evening Spotted Tail, high chief of the Oglalla bands, which were then visiting the Brule towns, called, with his interpreter Frank La Frambeau, at the office of Agent McGillycuddy. "There are white people, a man, woman and child, at one of my villages,” he said. "My young men went hunting to southward. They saw the cattle of these white folks and shot them, mistaking them for wild cattle. I am come to ask that these white ones shall have two of the mules, which the Great Father gave to my people and which they have not learned to use. I have spok en." McGillycuddy, canny Scot and shrewd interpreter of Indian nature, betrayed no doubt of any part of the old chief's statement. "I am sorry your young men have been careless," he replied, with Indian gravity. "Let these strange people choose a team from among your mules." Then to La Frambeau, "Send the man to me in the morning, Frank. If he can build log houses and is handy with tools, I've a job for him." So it happened that Ostrander got profitable employment at the agency and when, a year later, letters from Nebraska informed him that the "hoppers" had flown for good, he listened to his wife's entreaties and they returned to their homestead. And there, thanks to an Indian's gratitude, they yet live, and prosperously, with children and grand children near at hand. Consolation. A solemn calmness steals around, BOB BURDETTE. But still this consolation 's left To cheer the drooping soulThat tho' of all things else bereft, I cannot lose the hole. This is one of the buildings of the new Washington University Group which will be used by the St. Louis World's Fair Exposition Company and is 118 feet wide and 325 feet long. The whole group consists of ten buildings situated on 110 acres of ground, and are massive and permanent several of which were donated by public spirited men of St. Louis, and named for them as follows: Busch Hall given by Adolphus Busch, of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association; Cupples Hall given by Samuel C. Cupples, of Cupples' Wooden Ware Company: Liggett Hall given by Mr. Liggett, of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Both are the result of a long period of growth and development. Both are here to stay and both will continue to develop to a most perfect state. This being true we will eventually be forced to apply ourselves to the conditions which they create, whether we like them or not. Such gatherings as this will contribute much towards bringing both capital and labor to a realization of this fact. position in an organization, in order to be successful and to insure the permanency of his organization, must be practicable in his plans, logical in his arguments, and absolutely fair and consistent in his undertakings. There is no place in the up-to-date international trade organization for an impracticable leader. What the workingman desires in his organization is immediate returns for himself, with the idea in view that *Address before the Convention of Employer and Employe, at Minneapolis, Minn., September 23, 1902. If there are to be organizations of labor, there will continue to be more or less friction and strife with employers until some course is agreed upon that will bring them closer together. The right of labor to organize is generally conceded. The present trade union, while not perfect, is a great improvement over that of even a decade ago. Behind it is a century of experience, with its blunders and shortcomings; its enlightenment and achievements. It marks the orderly rise and development of the wealth producing classes through the evolutionary, educational process. Its methods and results stand out in bold relief when contrasted with the revolutionary eccentric methods applied by the reactionary enthusiast. It is the logical refuge of the producing classes, and leads straight to the fulfillment of labor's hopes and anticipations. The trade unions, as I have said, are here to stay. As their influence becomes greater, they will become more of a factor in industrial affairs, and it will be necessary to deal with them for the insurance of industrial peace. On the other hand, the organization of capital on the present "community of interests" plan is nothing more than an improvement on all past efforts along the lines of organization. It is the natural and logical result of commercial strife. Its future development may be retarded for a time by unfriendly legislation, but it cannot be destroyed; it may be controlled, and the people may at some time decide upon the policy of owning and operating the industries it controls, but this much may be said, "There is little hope for returning to the days of keen competition, and the small industry as the factor in our commercial life. From the time of the first combination of either labor or capital there has been more or less friction. This has grown and developed at times to mammoth proportions. It has often seemed that there was no hope for ever bringing about a conciliation, and even if one side by mere force compelled an adjustment, there has been left behind a chasm that has seemed impossible to bridge. Ignorance has had much to do with the difficulties of the past; not that kind of ignorance that is defined as illiteracy, but each have appeared to be uninformed of the troubles, the griefs and the worries of the other. Often have I heard both sides of a controversy when it seemed that each had reasonable ground for complaint. This emanated from the cause that there was too great distance between them. Some argue that the relations of the employe and employer are not, and cannot be identical. I am of the opinion, however, that while there has been frequent hostile relations, it does not necessarily follow that there cannot be a reconciliation. In the seeming complexed economic conditions of today, we have overlooked some fundamental facts. We call that labor which is the active source of production whether exerted through brain or muscle, and we must recognize capital as nothing more nor less than accumulated labor. In other words, one is energy and effort put forth in the present, the other is the fruit of such energy and effort put forth in the past; while in their nature identical, their having assumed different forms they have acquired independent rights and each must necessarily obey certain laws peculiar to itself. These two forms of human energy, labor and capital may be and generally are owned by different persons. One individual has present labor at his command. This, from the very nature of the case, must be his own. Another has capital or accumulated labor. This may be his own or that of others of which he has come into possession. In a healthy economic condition of affairs the two forms of labor must come together and help each other, otherwise they must languish and die. We have in the last few years reached a stage in human history at which it became necessary to define in a practical way the status, rights, duties and immunities of these two producers, labor and capital. Let me note here that I distinguish between capital and wealth. Capital is that portion of wealth employed in reproduction. The distinction involved is an important one. All capital is wealth, but all wealth is not capital. The very use of the term "reproduction" testifies to the feeling of man that the object of anything is not fulfilled in its own creation, but that there is an endless series of propagations, with a constant view and with increasing force to some ulterior end. A man may have much wealth and use little capital. Wealth is as it is had; capital as it is used. For exam ple a man may live in a house worth $40,000 and have $10,000 invested in a ship, from which he derives all his support, and which forms his capital. It may be asked: Is not the house itself capital. It is, so far as necessary to production in sheltering the producer and his family, even with the style and comfort usual to such a degree of society. Beyond this it ceases to be capital. It is devoted, not to the creation of values, but to personal en should divide the results of industry in good faith and in good feeling. False philosophy or unprincipled politics, may alienate their interests, and set them at discord. Capitalists may encroach on labor. Laborers may in their madness destroy capital. Such is the work of ignorance and evil passions. However far such strife may be carried, it must result in mutual injuries, and health can only be restored by obtaining the recognition of the full rights and obligations of each. The condition of well L. W. QUICK Editor and Manager of The Railroad Telegrapher, Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. being is peace. A false philosophy has set the world at war for ages, proclaiming that what one nation may gain, another must lose. It has been said that hatred and retaliation are the normal relations of capital to labor, and that mutual distrust and hurtful ness are inevitable in all the developments of industry. Such a belief is sightless before the glor ious order of man and nature. The cruel, shallow selfishness of capital has robbed labor by means of law and labor, impoverished and degraded has often turned upon its tyrant. A man of very ordinary powers of penetration must see as he looks into the future that both labor and capital will reap a rich harvest of happy conditions from the efforts at adjustment now in progress. When we come to reflect upon conditions as they were in the centuries that are not so very far |