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Show ll 1 June Brides All am t Should have a complete equipment ef pretty table silver; the kind tht will last several generations, an which Mother" can divide among her children. Let us help you in chocsing yours. Our modest prices make buy. , lng easy. rogues BOYD PARK 9OUMKI0Q MAKERS OF JEWELRY APPROVE PRESIDENTS PROGRAM TO RAISE LARGE ARMIES BY SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION. 160 MAM SAIT LAKE CITY STREET SNEEZING ONCE FATAL SIGN Measure Provides for the Drafting of Men to' Raise Suitable Army to Prosecute to Successful Conclusion the War with Germany. Washington. The administration's program to raise nu adequate army by selective conscription. tvue approved on April 28, the senate and the house by es overwhelming-majoritipassing the bill to raise a war army by selective he itnuf ToTTejiirs "brought into line behind the trill many senators and representatives who had fought for the volunteer system until routed by derisive defeat of volunteer amend ments earlier In the day in both houses. The senate, which had voted down the volunteer plan. GO to IS, passed the bill by a vote of 81 to 8. In the house the vote against the volunteer plan was 813 to 100, and that by which the bill itself was passed was 007 to 24. As passed by the aeuate the moas nre provides for the draft of aien between the ages of 21 and 27 years, while in the house measure the age limits are fixed at 21and 40. This and lesser discrepancies will be threshed out in conference, during the week so that the bill may be in the bands of the president as quickly as possible. The war department already has completed plans for carrying It Into effect, Senators who voted against the bill were: Democrats: Gore, Hardwick, Kirby, Thomas and Tramell 5; Ree publicans: Borah, Gronna and La 3. Total 8. Stmator Vardaman of Mississippi, DemocraL was excused from voting at his own request. He did not give a ' I I I ; T - - Fol-lett- reason, The twenty-fou- r representatives who voted in the negative were: Democrats: Burnett, Church, Clark pt Florida; CUiypool, Grosser, Dill, Dominick, Gordon, Illllyard, Sears, Sherwood, Sis n 14, Republicans : Bacon, Ilayes, King, La Toilette, Lundsen of Minnesota; Mason, Nolan, Bowers 8. Pro-h- l bit ion 1st : Randall 1. Socialist: London 1. Total 24.. Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader Kitchen,' and Chairman Dent of the military conmilttee. who had favored Ihe volunteer system, all voted for the draft bill on the Anal roll call. Republican Leader Mann also was recorded In the affirmative, as was Miss ll&nkin, who previously had voted with Huddle-ston.Kentin- g, the volunteer advocates. Both senate and house adopted amendments Just before the Anal roll calls, which would greatly Increase the pay of enlisted men during the war. The honse provision would make their pay $00 month, and that approved by the senate would fix It at $29 a month. The present pay Is only $15. Among the amendments adopted In the senate was one which would permit Colonel Roosevelt to recruit a volunteer force for sendee In France, A 'similar proiosal had been rejected by the house. . Among the more Important amendments adopted la the bouse was one empowering the president to exempt from the draft in his discretion persons engaged In agricultural work. Another would require each state to furnish a quota of men apportioned according to population and still provides that no bounty shall be paid to induce any person to enUst and that no person liable to military service shall hereafter be permitted or allowed to furnish a substitute for such serviced - -- n . FARM Colonel AND Roosevelt ARM" SLOGAN. Urges .Immediate -- vzTttfiirtfJz,!, EZrOort poorest and most rolling two acres of sand land on the farm. L grew Tnldly, and by winter the" ground was so completely covered with Its foliage that washing of Ihe land was entirely prevented. An examination of the roots Bhowed them set thick with nitrogen nodules. Early In the spring, before any other grass or vegetation began to grow, the vetch plants were pushing out their summer follnge, and by May 1 they 'were four feet In length. About the first of June the two acres were cut for hay. Seeing that he had found a valuable plant for the farm, Mr. Smith planted 25 acres to vetch the next year, the sowing being done on the poorest and sandiest land of the farm. It was decldedjo seed 21 acres of this land to field com and leave the other -- for pasture. .The vetch grew Big Elephant Butte Dam Will Curb the - Rio Grande Floods .vetch-show- look-Invitin- g, ed hig-ge- st two-tMrd- nu -- New-Mexi- co, . corn-cam- an hour be lost In dispatching troops to the trenches. His first speech was made at a luncheon at noon; Ids second at a mass meeting la the Immense amphitheatre at the stockyards, lie advocated universal trainiug as a permanent julicy ; t ycK-,he wnsyxUtion,.a'UL.hc. pleaded that he should be allowed to recruit a division for Immediate service with the allies. ne was roundly applauded when he rgod Thurdurlng the war the use of .Train for the manufacture of alcho-boli- c beverages le prohibited. of-vet- r ! 1 "v:?- - mx 1 ot Farm aud am! With Chicago. Gils battery Theodore Roosevelt entered Chicago April 28 and In two stirring speeches urged that every energy f the entire nation be directed toward making the potential might of the United States felt In the war against Germany, and he demanded that ,not i . al ActlonJnJVar with Germans. : gathered, hauled to market, and made by weight bushels to the acre, and brought a money value of $35 per acre.' The planter used to plant the corn was set to drop three grains to tjje hill, and never missed putting three grains In the hm, but too often dropped four grains, which made the corn too thick, and this condition reduced the yield fully ten bushels or more to the acre." But think of 72 bushels of corn being grown on land that had not forover 20 years produced more than 20 bushels to the acre, and this feat accomplished In so short a time and with so little expense, ns the cost of the vetch seed was but $3.50 an acre. This experiment with vetch made Mr. Smith a vetch enthusiast. The following year he planted ten acres of better and higher land to vetch, and the yield of corn on this land after the vetch was over 90 bushels per acre, the cost of the vetch seed for this field being only $3 per acre. Similar experiments were made with the growing of sweet corn and potatoes on land that had first been planted to vetch, and the results were equally successful. Vetch, according to Mr. "Smith, is no respecter of soils. It settles down pnd makes its home with the rich or poor clay as well as the rich or poor sand; and commences its business of soil restoration at once. It has no terrors of frost or draught. Wlntef will grasp It with Its hand aftd hold It In Its Icy clasp for months and months, and when the warm sunshine of spring releases It, It smiles With its freshness of green and continues doing business at the old stand. The drought of fall, spring or summer will blow its breath upon It, but It heeds It not, and continues its business of storing fertility In the soil as though it were being constantly caressed with refreshing showers. 72 -- er -- i T IS rnther unpleasant to see that the ir being Invited to face the cold, C raw fact of a gradually Increasing scarcity of the prime necessaries of life. Agricultural figures Just pule lisbed la Rome by tbo International X yV mdltule-of Agriculture. aliow thnt the process of scrapping the most essen- tlal of all our foods, grain, goes on apace. Steadily the arable land of the world shrinks s the area under permanent grasa, offt-a euphemism for land that Is - derelict, extends Its frontiers. At the present moment the United 'States Is dependent on Imported supplies for an appreciable amount of wheat and for different cereals consumed In this country. There Is not only a tremendous shortage of uheat In the Uulted States today, but of corn also, as Is testified by the price of $1210 per bushel paid In a number of Instances recently for the latter grain. This Is about three times as much as the farmer has received for It In normal times. Figures posted by the Chicago hoard of trade indicate that the visible supply of corn In this country today is less than half what It was a year ago. Of course, the war. has had much to do wjth. the depletion of our stores, ,and a consequent rise in price. But even granting that the demand has been phenomenal, the fact remains that our farmers are not producing. as lunch corn as they should. Evidently something Is wrong with our system ef growing corn. Most farmers understand the importance of good seed for planting, and the majority of them employ scientific methods of The trouble, then, would appear to lie with the soil. Everyone knows that unintentionally perhaps, most farms In .this country have been robbed of much fertility of the soil. In every state there are thousands of farms which formerly produced big crops but are now ao worn out that the land a 111 not return enough to pay for the labor of tilling it Many a farmer says, as he gases over his broad acres: I remember when I was a boy that field was fine for corn, but now its only fit for pasture." But if he only knew, that field la capable of producing Just as much corn as It did In the old days ; It Is-- even probable that It could be made to break the records established In Its earlier prime. This, at any rate, is what William C. Smith, an Indiana farmer, says, and Mr. Smith ought to know, for he has performed some seemland down Indiana ing miracles with worn-o- -- -- , . ed att. tsza-x- Announcement" w as j '43ppenhagen."made before the reichstag main eora-- j mittee in Berlin" that Germany will prod u red. In bad seasons the crop was an entire failadopt the sharpest reprisals if German jvhile ure. prisoners are embarked on hospital Mr. Smith had read in one of the bulletins of ships of the allies. .the department of agriculture that the value of an Wheat Speculators Bumped. acre of Sa'ndy Vetch plowed under was equivaI Chicago. Speculative wheat prices lent to putting Into the ground $20 or $40 worth-o- f withered away on the receipt of ancommercial fertilizer, and straightway decided nouncements that the British governto try It on his farm. Accordingly, he ordered ment had acquired sufficient supplies fuough (seed to plant two acres. for the present, including 33,000,000 The seed was planted In August, upon the i bushels at Winnipeg, . T' theJteftofjtyllj?; was Tery unlucky, says the London Farm Journals, agricultural colleges and the United "States department of agriculture have been doing a wonderfully good work In telling the farmer how to increase the fertility of Ms soil, but Mr, Smith, apparently, has discovered the a easiest, simplest and most Inexpensive, way of all, The spring of 1908 was very wet, and It was Almost anyone can tell how to spend a hundred .The United States reclamation service has comMay 1 before the ground was in condition td dollars per acre on fertilizer, crushed limestone, pleted by the building of the Elephant Butte dam break for com. Delays were such that the. 21 . a Teservolr capable of Impounding 8G22J00, 000,000 etc., and In the end Improve the land. But It acres reserved tor corn were not entirely broken-nntl- l takes a practical, successful farmer like Mr. Smith gallons of water. That is to say, within an artifl-ciMay 25. The vetch had grown to a height of to demonstrate how a field never known to have lake 45 miles long and with a shore line of five feet, and the mass of vegetation was so ,"210 on It a crop of any value could be made within miles, water enough will be stored to be heavy that It was almost impossible to turn under. A a foot deep over an area of 42185 square one year to produce 72 bushels of corn per acre spread half dozen makes of plows5 were tried with com- i miles; or. If twice that depth. It Would cover the at a cost of $3.50 per acre, aside from labor. The state' of Delaware. 'The purpose of this water is how and why of It all has been put into a book,' plete failure, when finally success was obtained with a double disk plow, and the field was finished. How to Grow 100 Bushels of Corn on Worn-Ou- t to' Irrigate 1S5.000 acres In four valleys lying be- -' dld-nfor bunches low the rtorn gejbftsln In JS'ew, Mexico a adTexas. Roll," which Mr. SmLth hnsdodlcstod to the Amer- - . The prospect here-an- d at other-farmth ere BttckI ng out 'of Td While the. dam itself Is not so high as others In can farmer. And he boiteveslhat-sa- y the ground. The field was worked down to airly . the United States for a kindred who will follow his teachings will be service, still the good condition for planting by dragging ' and massiveness of the structure and the capacity. of It all sounds like a fairy equally successful. rolling, and on June 3 and 4 was planted to yellow ." the reservoir make the project not story, but Mr. Smith has facts to back up all Ms only the ' com. , i statements. Furthermore, lie Is known nationally thing pi its kind In the United States but the Dire were the predictions made as to the outmost ambitious In the world. The famous Assuan for the remarkable experiments he has made. come. Many contended that the heavy mass of dam In Egypt Impounds only s In 1000, Mr. Smith purchased a farm that had as much vegetation woultbnhsorb all the moisture from the water and cost more $14,000,000 than the the reputation of being one of the poorest in Elephant. the corn would die. But Mr. Smith ' Butte structure,. It had been kicked and buffeted about as. ground and Elephant butt his gritted teeth, held Ms counsel and awaited . is Id . about twelve miles west of trading stock. Each owner no sooner got Into e result s.:The up' a splendid stanir'Dry Engle, and in order to carry materials to' the dam jvosscssion of It when he found he had purchased 'set weather which In, no little discomfort added site It was necessary build a branch railway a gold brick, and never rested until he succeeded to the situation. The corn grew slowly, and as ..thirteen miles long tapping, the Atchison. never victim. some nearly It other In unloading It upon soon ns it was sufficiently large the cultivators, Tqeka and Santa Fe line. The government conseemed to occur to any of Its owners that the were set to work, and were worked) with a little structed this road and operated something like a farm had simply been handled by soil rohlwrs and on account pf. bunches difficulty fourth of It, and In this way. saved $130,000 In Insufbounwas paying the penalty by withdrawing Its ficiently plowed under catching on the cultivator freight Its of charges nlone. because the farm Mr. Smith purchased ty. points. dam Is built of great rocks buried In a mass The was . and location .and possibilities, cheapness, The neighboring farmers came around, leaned-oveof concrete and blocks a canyon on the Rio given the laugh for so doing. the and In sarcastic remarks. fence, Grande.' From the lowermost point of the indulged The entire farm In its early history was covparapet The gist of these remarks was that they had never tiara 318 .cCt,, sad., nearly-- a third of L rises, ered. with large walnut, poplar, oak and other -" 4n aU their experience- seen "iso'"uhproJtntslhg a iMs is below the river bed. At its top the strucerrrire'' tTiiiheFirihTTi'aTHly land" having been as for corn as this field presented. prospect ture hap a length of 1.674 feet and on it runs a heavy as on the other portion of the farrn The The weather was dry, and the corn .grew five . fine roadway 16 feet wide. The dam Is '225 feet and was a portion of au Indiana resene, set or six Inches, nnd made no further growth for thick at its base and the entire mass, which called to In ISIS the Indians apart by the government more thap a week..At the end etdhis time it - for. 10.000 cubic yards of"maferiah represents a wrdd and-b- y ISikV and "was Indians "again irr the seemed to take on new Ufe. and grew with such dead weight of 1.000.000 tons. This cleared more than CO years ago, and for many strength and rapidity that even Mr. Smith was astounded. . inertia are needed to halt the onrush of the erratic years produced large crops. It had always-beeWhen the; corn reached waist height tfie pro- and the torrential Rio Grande and to hold funned upon the principle of getting out of It all the,. phots who had piicted Jts ,jarly ,.dcmlsa,onru-.io'8ecs7Er&l,atvr'atcrs so' thaF they . . . Wt . Yim .a a supplied i . Ar 4 j ? f'. e teBtTo'Bneerr-near'abUfiiTpl5t- T"V world ut an-otli- er . deemed JujckyjJo An enterprising Jndianalfar met followed advice given by the Department of Agriculture and planted sandy vetch on dead soil way. . i 6y -I- of Sneering from very remote tln! has been regarded with superstition Our forefathers went to bed again If they sneezed while putting on thrir shoes, A sneeze to the right Comr GROhzrjimx Robert H. (loultors. r . i Was the Origin God Bless You I" Still Heard In Europe. Superstition Phrase, Telegraph. Tradition has it that sneezing was at first a fatal sign every human being sneezed but once and then died but Jacob petitioned the Creator to remove the sneezing ban and succeeded. Thence arose the once universal custom of saluting a sneezer wlih God bless youl or May you live long!" The custom still obtains la some parts of Europe. In England not only was a sneezer blessed, but friends raised their hats to Mm as well. In an old book. The Code of ConducC lt la direct ed tbat If Ms lordship sneezes ye are not to bawl out God bless you I but bow to him handsomely." All over the world Whole the sneeze was recognized. nations were under orders to Make exclamations when .their king sneezed. Sneezing was Relieved to be a sure cure for Mccups and was also looked upon as a sign of sanity. If ancient and universal belief goes for anytMng It Is good to sneeze. PUTTING ONE OVER ON COW Japanese Solve Problem by Extensive Use ef Artificial Milk Derived From Soy Bean. The milk problem Is by way of being solved la Japan, where cows are scarce, by an extensive use of artificial milk derived from the soy bean. First, the Japanese soak the beans,' then boil them until the liquid turns white, when they add sugar and phosphate of potash. The boiling is resumed until a fluid results very similar In consistency and appearance to ordinary condensed milk. When water Is added soy milk Is hardly to be distinguished from fresh cows milk. In compos! tidn also the artificial-milis almost like genuine milk. Its proteins, fats and sugars are in very atearly the same proportion, although,-course, they are wholly, vegetable In -- origin. Whether the substitute is equal to real cows milk as a form of nourishment Is not quite clear, for much of the value of . milk as a food comes from the enzymes or vltamines IT con-- " talus. The Japanese, however, declare that It' serves all the purposes of cows milk, and that It has the advan- -' toge of being less liable "to infection when properly and carefnlly manufactured. Youths Companion. First of Printed Books." , Although neither Chiton nor other of early printers Included any port of the holy - scriptures among their produc-tion- s. It Is a noteworthy fact that the Bible was the first printed book In the world, being, moreover, the master-piec- e of the, Illustrious Inventor of, the art of printing, Johann GensflelschSou Sulzebach, surnamed Zitra Gutenberg,-havinassociated Mmself with.Johaau Faust of Mectz, produced with bis as(the book is unsistance, In 1450-5dated) the famous folio Latin Bible commonly known as the Mazarin Bible. the-firg bora discovered the library of Cardinal Mazarin. The expense of this production was so great that Gutenberg was unable to re- -' pay Ms partner the money that he had advanced, and was obliged to resign to him the whole of Ms printing establishment and plant, with which Faust, In partnership" with Peter Schoeffer, printed the equally famous Mentz Beal--tein 1457. By the testimony of auction prices these are the two most val- uahle books In the world. 5 st copy-havin- and-bor- - the suc ceeding six years, was taken up in preliminary operations before the great bulwark could -- be reared. Tills preparatory work called for the construction of a great sluice to divert the river's flow and enormous bulkheads or subsidiary dams above and below the permanent dam. The climate is an equable one In the region opened to the farmer, and the soil la abundantly productive when properly watered. A practical husbandman with- - $3,000 working .capital has a splendid chance. -- ' " r , Drumming Up Trade. In a certain Sunday school on a bot Sunday afternoob oifc of the teachers became somewhat faint, and was placed upon a form while, the usual restoratives were applied. Suddenly a little girl stood up and persistently Called 'Teacher"! Teacher ! in order to attract the attention of one f those whp were attending to the unfortunate invalid. At last the little one was heard, and thf teacher, turning- round, asked in a somewhat hasty manner: Well, what is it?" Please teacher," replied the child, my father makes - , coffins," rearh- - But the. corn refused' to side with these chronic croakers, and grew up and up until It reached the height of eight to ten feet, silked, tasseled. Its ears of golden corn. It was subject to six weeks of dry weather' after It had silked, and jft it had not fired and every hill was bright and green. Across the road a neighbor's com fired clear above the ears of the com, and did not mnke more than 20 bushels to, the acre. But Mr. Smith's corn finally reached its harvesting stage, sound and solid. It was , - zeTs- -. Vanity Fair. Across the Hall Say, Bill, can I borrow your dress suit? ( Fnok Again Sure. Why the for ( - mality? The Other One find N Well, : I couldn't it. Kind Words. ( Kind words are vvery valuable la ) ' this life." Of course," answered Mr. Caesar Chance. If you get enough of. 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