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Show TIIB PAYSONIAN, PAYSOX. LIGHT ON ANCIENT HISTORY HAVE KEEN EYE FOR DANGER Some Interesting Data Bearing on ths Strange People Known to Fame as the Aefs." Hunter Asserts That It Is Practically Impossible to Surprise the Mountain Sheep. The Rabbit Evidently some one who had eaten a great deal of army corned beef In "The mountain sheep is one of the most difficult of all our American game to approach in the open, says Charles L. Smith in an article on the in Boys Rocky Mountain Sheep Life. It has eyes like a telescope tor keenness and can discover and make out a man farther away than any other animal Of which I have any knowledge, and where any considerable herd have been feeding one will see usually one or more standing on some prominent point where they cun get a view of the surrounding country. I know of no more inspiring sight than one of those old rams with his mussive horns outlined against the sky, standing as motionless as a statue. And it is a wonder to the hunter how they get across the rock slopes with such ease and grace. There has been much written of the mountain sheep, of its wonderful feats of springing from ledges and lighting upon its head and horns, which is without foundation in fact While it is true they can stand an immense shock in battle, yet if one of those sheep weighing 300 pounds should drop from a ledge of any considerable height and land on his head his neck would be broken. I spent several years in the sheep country in the Canadian Rockies and was near the sheep or among them during all seasons of the year and they seem to be less sensitive to the rigors of wing ter and the elements of the high altitudes than any other animal except possibly the mountain goat, and of these animals I think they have the advantage, because I have a number of times found mountain goats yarded in the deep snow in pluces where food was scarce, but I have never yet found mountain sheep in this condition. Easter Egg in front of Bal el Kali THE theplace busiest section of the whole BOARDING Easter time sees a Europe wrote this amusing skit in the Watch on the Rhine, remarks the Youth's Companion. The piece is headed, Documents Published in the Year 2473 A. D, by an American Historian : I have Just been Journeying along the Rhine gathering data on the ancient tribe of men known as the Aefs. The origin of this strange people is one of the great mysteries of hiRtory, Likewise their sudden extinction has been Just as baffling. The Aefs appeared in western Europe very suddenly about the time of the beginning of the Teutonic dark ages the latter part of the second decade of the Twentieth century. For a short period they flooded in great numbers the entire territory of Gaul from the Pyrenees to the Rhine. Then they suddeply vanished. R was recently thought that a clue had been found to the kind of food eaten by these nomads. In an old cellar in Andernach there were found what at first looked like peculiarly shaped , bricks, but what later proved to be cans of a strange sort of meat. Certain investigators soon decided that this could be nothing other thun elephant meat, and students were about to make trips to Africa in search of further evidence,' when the result of some chemical tests was published. This showed that the meat was at least 1007 years old. If not very much older; and. as the Aefs were in Gaul about 550 years ago, it is folly to believe that this store of food belonged to them. It is much more probable that it was left there at the time Hannibal and his soldiers and elephant supply trains made their long expedition It against Rome. Is probably a good thing for Amer- that the mysterious disappearance ica of the Aefs came about, for plenty of evidence that this race was planning to migrate America and establish itself continent permanently. there is barbaric to North on that HISTORIC TREE NEARING END at Washington, Closely Associated With Samuel F. B. Morse, Will Soon Be Gone. Elm Another landmark in Washington Is The old Morse near destruction. Elm," under whose shade Samuel F. B. Morse used to spend his leisure hours while working on his invention of the telegraph, will soon be removed. The tree was planted In 1820. In the early forties the future inventor of the telegraph used to foregather writh his cronies and newspaper men and crack Jokes about the Impossible" and crazy Invention of the magnetic telegraph on which he was working. The tree was in front of the old Willard hotel. Since those days the old hotel has been replaced by a modem eleven-ator- y hostelry. Morse, whose invention came true In 1844, died in 1872. But the tree remained. But It Is now in its death hour in spite of many operations of tree surgery and all known applications of "tree medicine practiced by Washingtons superintendent of city parks. , UTAH, MARCH 25, 1921. Houses of Mud. Women In California are building houses with their own fair hands. What is more, they are making the bricks. The bricks, however, are of the kind spoken of in the Bible as made by the people of Israel In Egypt i. e., of clayey earth mixed with straw for a binder. The straw is Indispensable, and It will be remembered how the kicked" because, it was Israelites not provided. Such bricks are merely sun baked. Missionary priests in California in the early . days used them for building churches and other structures which, covered with stucco, were very handsome. These dobe buildings were also substantial, weatherproof and enduring, as Is testified by many that still stand, unimpaired by the wear of cen-- . turies. With labor so high and materials likewise, the Idea of a mud dwelling, which one can put up for oneself, even the children helping, has Its attractions The Dress Problem In the Orient The Yokohama Reform association recently sent a communication to the in mayor requesting his endeavoring to prevent coolies and workmen appearing In public places with insufficient clothing to conform with (western Ideas of propriety. The associations spokesman stated that the Reason for the request is the presence of a large number of foreigners In the city, and the sight of the scantily clothed persons on the streets and In the tramcars will tend to give them an unfavorable opinion of the city. From the Japan Advertiser. Knocking a Tradition. Turkey Is a tradition. Because the parents were rotten shots and couldnt kill a quail on a bet, turkey was all they could find for meat on that memorable day. They had been a diet of clams so long that mayhap even turkey tasted like food to them. But that is no excuse for wishing the blamed thing onto posterity and making It a sacred duty to gnaw a bundle of concentrated flddiestiings on the last Thursday of every November. Topeka Capital. and the KS How did the rabbit get into the nest of Easter eggs? Of all the curious legends the centuries have gathered about the Easter season hone are more widely circulated than those having to do with the rabbit and the Easter eggs. Easter eggs are seen all over the Christian world on Easter Sunday, and wherever the eggs are there Is the rabbit also. Just where and how such a total abstainer from eggs, such a clearly of eggs as a rabbit, got mixed up in a nest of them the biographers of neither the hen nor the rabbit are able to say. But there he la, and there he persists la staying, however Inconsequent, irrelevant and immaterial his presence may be. Myths of tiie Easter egg are more easily The Ancient E g y ' Persian.-- Institution in England Had Its Inception in the Shortage of Houses and Housemaids. A small private hotel for babies Is the latest idea of domestic life. The baby gets a change and the mother gets a rest. The babys hotel or boarding house is the product of the shortage of houses and nursemaids. Parents have been forced into hotels and furnished apartments, and as many hotels have not the conveniences of the nursery, the babys hotel, where he or she may be received as a paying guest, is makThere is, of ing its appearance. course, accommodation for the baby carriage. Two certified nurses conceived the Idea. They have established a nursery in Hampstead, London. The walls are decorated with ducks and chickens, and each little guest has a white cot with curtains. A medical man and a dentist are in attendance. The tariff Is about $13 a week. The little guests may stay a week, a year, or merely for the week end, while their parents go house hunting or holiday making. A young war widow, who has resumed her former post as secretary, brought her baby to the nursery, and Saturday afternoon and Sunday they spend happy hours together, while another woman left her little one In our charge while she rejoined her husband in the tropics. Continental News. For European Children. Italy and neighboring countries, especially Switzerland, at the end of October held at Milan a conference on child welfare to discuss, more specifically, seaside and country homes for needy children, placement of children in foreign countries; vacation camps; also provision of institutional care in cities; state, local and International organization of child welfare; better training of social workers engaged in child welfare service, and improvement of technique generally. The public welfare department of the city of Milan, which called this conference, is especially concerned over the duplication of efforts, the lack of proper care in the smaller communities and interaction between town and country. One definite aim is that of In making international this field a means of encouraging closer relationship between the peoples. Immense Herds of Caribou. Late arrivals at Vancouver, B. C from the Yukon report that wandering herds of caribou are appearing in immense numbers on the banks of that river. They declare there are millions of the animals. Two men who tried to get down the river Just at the time of the first ice were held up for three hours by a multitude of caribou which were crossing the river below them. How long the migration had been going on when they were stopped they did not know. The stream of animals blackened the water on a space one-hamile wide and continued uninterruptedly during the period the men were held up. lf Egypt to Have Finest Hospital. The Egyptian government has decided to build what is officially described as the finest and most complete medical school and hospital In the world, In Cairo. It is to contain 1,225 beds, and will have accommoa day. dation for 3,000 Attached will be a completely equipped medical school, which will lie connected with the projected university, a special dental department, and departments for every branch of medical and surgical science. blem , city. HOME FOR BABIES , Gauls, Greeks and Romans saw in the egg an em- FIND SHELLS CENTURIES Belief That Relics Unearthed by Workmen In Oregon Were Used as Ornaments by Indians. An observer of the life during mixed human stream passing in and out through the "Gate of the Friend. This continuous stream is made up of representatives of all nationalities, tongues and creeds. Bal el Kalil is the center of traffic of the city. Here the vehicles stand in line ready to convey the natives, as well as the tourists, through the city and through the country. Camel caravans In their characteristic slow pace share the pavement with the modern motor-driveears. A scene at the Jsffu gate during the Easter season l.ns no equal In any cosmopolitan city in any part of the world, and Impresses upon the observer tile Importance of the city and the fame which it owes to the occurrences of the Easter season 2.00) years ago. Sea shells about six inches across were uncovered by workers recently at Big Eddy, near The Dalles, Ore., lying at the heads of Indian skeletons. They were decayed and crumbled whep touched. These shells showed Indications of having been used as ear ornaments. They nre of the species of shell-fiscommonly culled eohogs" on the Atlantic coast, according to persons who have observed them, and do not grow to the size of those found on the Pacific coast. Wonderfully perfect sjiear and arromade of obsidian, a rock found no nearer than California, also were unearthed. All of the chipping on the arrow-point- s found appeared to be much finer than later Indlun work, local amateur collectors declared. The relies found by highway workers at Big Eddy are an accumulation of centuries, in the opinion of D. L. Cates, city recorder, who has lived in and around The Dalles for more than 60 years. He points out that in the hills back of Big Eddy trails worn In the rock may be seen, evidence of the activities of Indians who used these trails for hundreds of years. Mr. Cates says that at Big Eddy the Indians find finer salmon fishing thnn at any other place along the river and have been making the trip to that place annually probably ever since salmon began running up the Columbia. h n CALVARY was a hill on OLD w-heads. which were crucified, The crucifixion was an old Eastern habit. The historical hill of Calvary, on which the three crosses of that Good Friday stood, has disappeared. On Its site the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been built by Ftelena, the wife of Emperor Constantine of the Byzantine empire. In the Fourth century after the Christian era. On this plnee the celebration of the font washing and the Ho'y Light takes place. The foot washing is celebrated on Greek Thursday in the court of the A TOAST church by the followers of the Greek Orthodox faith, reproducing the foot Heres to the girl that has been, washing that took place In the room She may have done her best; Zion 2.000 years ago. of Heres to the girl that will 'be, Shell soon be with the seat; ' Heres to the girl that should be, Wo see her in our dreams, Heres to the girl that may be, Tf we work out all our schemes, most attended festival Is BUT the celebration of the Holy Light But heres to the living, real girl, The celebration is world famous and The sprightly lass of biz The dear . old giggling, squeal girl, yearly attracts visitors from all parts Here's to the girl that is. of the world. At one oclock in the afternoon of the Saturday before Easter, the light is given out from the front chamber of the tomb by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch and is passed on by the anxiously waiting youth of Jerusalem. Every individual who carries a candle lights it from the light next to him and in a marvelously short time the light is passed on through the different parts of the interior of the church, out into the yard, up to the visitors on the flat roofs of the church, through the city and out Into the churches of the whole country. of immor- tality. In it life lay dormant. An insensate thing, a mere object, it had the power to become a living being. To the early Christians the egg symbolized the resurrection. Because of In certain parts of England, particuthis, and also because eggs were looked larly at Hallatou, there was an old upon as meat, Roiuun Catholics of custom of celebrating Easter Monday Italy, Spain and France were formerly with a hare pie scramble" and "bottle forbidden to eat eggs during Lent. Afkicking." Tills celebration began with ter the fustiug was over, eggs were the a procession leading to the house of first meat to be eaten. Every Easter the rector of the parish and consisting table held eggs dyed red, to represent of two men abreast, carrying sacks the blood of Christ, and piled In pyrawith cut-u- p plea Inside; three men mids at various points of vantage abreast, two carrying wooden bottles along the table. Before tlie eggs were filled with beer, and the third a large broken they were blessed by the priest. A special blessing for the Easter dummy bottle that was to be kieked Paul V, about; one man, carrying a pole on eggs was given out by which was fastened a hare In a sitting who sat In the papal chair from iCa" posture, and, last of all, a band of to 1021. Tills blessing, which is still music. The band was followed by used by many Roman Catholics, is all the people of the parish who could Bless, O Lord, vf beseech thee, this walk. The dummy bottle was thy gift of eggs, that it may become into tlie neighboring parish, where It a wholesome sustenance of thy faithwas burned, or drowned," after which ful servants, eating It In thankfulness bits of It were to thee on the mom of the resurrection of our Lord." taken home aR Greek. Catholics tielleve that eggs trophies by the laid on Good Friday have within them people. their own blessing, and that he wlyi The custom fell eats them as his first food on Easter into disuse about 1767. But other Sunday will be blessed throughout the customs in which year. They, too, hold that the egg is symbolical of the resurrection. tlie hare figured But all of these eggs are the frul were continued of the hen, she that cackles over to a much later when date, one having to do with thB every child believes that tlie hunting of a Imre rabbit is responon Good Frlduy, sible for the Easto be eaten on ter eggs. , Easter day, the alternative being Germany for a long time claimed that he who does that she was the not eat a hare moat aat a mother of he ring." Easter rabbit. At least one mythologist has tried She said that it to account for the Easter rabbit In me happened, England by making him the creature that the time, of the Anglicnn goddess Eostre, whose children of a very name, according to Bede, was given to poor peasant had the month of April, which was called been told that Griinm calls this god-deEstermonath. they could have Oataro, "divinity of the radiant no eggs at Eastc dawn, of npsprlnglng light. time because ilieir parents had no home and were too poor to buy a beo loe od It can bo said of very few men when they are pulled up by the roots therell be a hole to look at. Ashland (Mo.) Bugle. that OUR NEW REFRIGERATING PLANT Has been completed and has materially increased the efficiency of our Meat and war Turkish BEFORE the used the to police the cold storage department. It also provides cooled air for preserving vegetables, injhe basement, in tbe best of condition. oc- casion to prevent any disorder, but mostly to show that Islam is dominating even on the very sacred grounds But since the enof Christianity. trance of the victorious General the policing was done by Tommies or Australians, who were participators in the celebration and whose presence was deemed essential only for preventing molestation by pickpockets. Gordon, an English archeologist, discovered a hill outside the Damascus gate which has the shape of a skull with holes arranged so as to form two eyes, a nose and a mouth. At the foot of the hill is a garden, and on one side of the garden is a tomb hewn into the rook. The toinb corresponds to the description of the tomb mentioned in the New Testament. y, Our Prices on Groceries and Meats cannot be equaled, when quality is considered. Poor quality is never cheap. CHASo C. F. The Sanitary Shop Where Quality Counts. Phone 2. llll V n |