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Show A- a,i b. J ' o. .vb A. V i. THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH HELPING YOUNG FOLK TO INCOME BANKERS Vriter Gives Only Firi-Harr- J Account of Russian Royal Tragetty. New work. Gleh Botkin, son Of the pers'w.id physician to the late Czar Nicholas of Russia, has written for the North American Review what fie describes ns the on!. account of the murder of .the Russian royal family at Ekaterinburg, on the night of July 17, 1918, by a Bolshevik firing septa d. first-han- d Botkins story, he asserts, is f the version of the massacre told to him by the mysterious Princess Anastasia" whose arrival hi America two years agc created a sensation, which was heightened by the fact that she never gave public confirmation to the claims made by her friends that she was the youngest daughter of the czar and the only survivor of the massacre. 1 not merely believe her to be Anastasia I know that she is. declares Rotkin. whose childhood was spent as s playmate of the czars children, who accompanied the royal family on the first stage of its exile, and who, since his arrival in America in 1922 has made a livelihood as artist and author. His father was among those slain along with the czar, czarina. Prince Dolgoroukoff, and the grand duchesses. Saw Czar Shot Through Head. She tells in detail of all the events preceding the shooting on the night of July 17, 1918, he relates. Her last recognition Is that she saw the Gommisar Yourovsky shoot the emperor through the head. She herself hid behind her sister Olga. Then she heard Olga scream and' lost consciousness. She came to herself in a peasant cart, traveling along the highway with She was two men and two women. covered with wounds and for a long Later lime remained semi conscious. t was explained to her that the two n?n were among the Pdshevik shoot ng squad and accompanied the bodies t the victims to the forest. They no iced that Anastasia was alive nnd in he night preceding the cremation of he bodies, stole her and hrought her ro their farm. From there, taking ilong their mother and sister, they farted on the same night in a cart in After direction. southwestern i weeks of weary travel they reached eye-witne- Christ church in Alexandria, Va, where George Washington was a vestryman. boyhood he attended the rural church at Pohicb. In his His Greatest Exploit. When he attacked at Trenton his army had been shattered by Its experiences at Brooklyn neighls, by its narrow escape from the Howe, by Its retreat across New Jersey, by When Washington took command of losses in battle, by desertions, and by the New Ragland troops besieging the defection of the surrounding counBoston lie assumed responsibility for tryside. more men under aims than lie had It is true that something had to be ever seen before. The numbers were done to revive the expiring flume of embarrassing not only as a problem of American resolution and courage, but direction hut as one of organization here was an exploit of pure detprmi He owed his appointment to two nation and serene heroism which took things, one the necessity of overcoat the fragment of a beaten army across ing the colonial Wlousics in New Eng the Delaware to risk an adventure land and the othei of bringing the which might have meant the end. South ilethi tel.v in with the North When Howe moved out of New York Irincipall.v tor the second reason John on the misguided campaign which took Adams oppo-'ethe appointment of at the sacrifice of Philadelphia John Hancock as chief in command Washington placed himself beand- procured the appointment of Coltween the British and the capital. He onel Washington, was defeated at Brandywine, hut in Probably at no time was the professpite of that he later attacked a. Gersional soldier s contempt for untrained mantown and nearly won. It has been citizens in arms, for trained bands, said that his plan of action was too militia, and an armed rabble greater that it required movements hl3 than it was before Concord and good, officers and men were unable to exeBunker Hill in New England, but the cute. This attack was regarded as anattack od the hill taught respect for other audacity proving that Washingthe Colonials behind earthworks and ton did not know when he was licked in entrenchments. However, it went and could not be. The consequently no farther than that. battle of Germantown, although lost, In spite of the inherent defects of had its part, along with Saratoga, h the troop organization and supply the convincing France that in supporting New Englanders had done their work the Americans it might pick or make well. Their chief, Artemas Ward, and the winner. his associates. Heath, Knox, Arnold, Glorious Victories. Stark, etc., may not have been skilled When Howe withdrew from Philasoldiers, but they were determined and delphia to return to New York, Washbrave, and devotion never reached a ington undertook to harass and, if poshigher level of courage than it did in sible, intercept the movement, and at such men as Warren and Prescott. Monmouth he again attacked an enemy The 17,000 Colonial militiamen whom which was not hunting trouble at that BosColonel Washington found about time or place. ton had taught the British professionTlie taking of Stony Point by light als two costly lessons. Distinguished under General Wayne was au infantry British generals with a competent of example military maneuver obviousforce were besieged and uncertain both ly attractive to the character of Washas to what to do and how to do it ington as a soldier. It was without Knew British Weakness. powder, and the men who climbed the Several things dictated Washingtons bluffs in the night knew that the nearsubsequent military course. First was est officer would kill anyone who fired his own physical and moral courage a shot. They had nothing but their That was his best military equipment bayonets. Again, at the taking of reIt was unhesitating and unfaltering. doubts No. 9 and No. 10 at Yorktowa, Second probably, was his experience the French the one, the American light with British regular troops. He had infantry the other, there was no powseen them lose their discipline under der. terror. It was not a proper indictment At every opportunity Washington of Braddocks regulars that they could took the aggressive with conrage and not fight the French and Indians as confidence which disregarded cautions the Virginia riflemen could fight them. consideration of what he had to hit The disaster was that they would not and of what he had to hit with. When obey. orders. The third was his dishe took command before Boston ho trust of minute men. militia, and of had many military lessons of generalundisciplined riflemen. ship to learn from experience, bat ho It is true thae men of that type won did not have to acquire courage. That the principal American successes, as was In his stout heart, and It was the at Oriskany, Bennington, Saratoga, ipirbiy lib li made the Declaration of Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, but It Independence "eed. was Washingtons army which kept the pressure on the British points of conFirt Birthday Celebration centration.' George Washingtons birthday first It was Washingtons distinctive charwas celebrated as a patriotic holiday acteristic that he would attack. That at Newport, R. I., in 1781, 18 years bequality was developed in him as if he fore he died. Washington was present had the experience, the genius, and at some of the most notable of the the resources of any one of the great early holiday occasions in honor of generals of history. He had two plans his birthday. to throw the British out of Boston. He attended a gigantic patriotic ball Both were vetoed by his council. Both in his honor at Philadelphia on Februwere amazingly audacious. Both may ary 22, 1792. His birthday was celehave been very foolish. One was to brated each from then on but attack across the ice if it became the greatest year' of all the celebrations solid enough to permit it. The other took place in New York in 1798. was to attack in rowboats. It is one thing for an untrained general and an untrained command to resist behind Lenity will operate with greater force, cover, but only a man with Washingin some Instances, than rigor. 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The organization holds an annual convention attended by hundreds of young bank workers as well as senior bank officers actively .interested in furthering the institutes educational work, at which numerous technical subjects of practical banking application are presented and discussed. This yeara convention will be held at Denver, Colorado, June 16 to 20. T Indicate Presence of Oil The Geological survey says that an anticline is an upfold In rocks, and such a fold in deposits, that are buried beneath fonnations ol more recent geological age that were not subjected to the folding, cannot he defected at the surface. Such upfnlds called anticlines are regarded ns favorable to the accumulation of oil and it is foi this reason that oil prospectors endeavor to locate such structures. 1 Cedar Widely Planted The Arbor Vitae, also called white cedar and cedar. Is one of the most widely planted evergreen trees In North America, says the. American Tree association. It develops a con ical symmetrical crown and usually reaches a height of 25 to 50 feet, and has a short trunk usually 1 to 2 feet in diameter. Rumania. There Anastasia married one of her rescuers and gave birth to a son , Soon afterward her husband, was killed in the streets of Bucharest. Anastasia's son was taken away from her, nnd placed In an or ohan asylum where he is said to have lied. Anastasia made her way where she wanted to find Princess Irene of her she In Berlin, Arrived Prussia. brew herself from a bridge in a fit of despair, hut was rescued by the police. Since she refused to answei t single question, she was placed B in insane asylum. It was there that he was recognized by Russian vlsil had known her In childhood They obtained her relsase from the Tchai-kowsky- r. on-wh- asylum in 1022. At the instigation of his sister who had visited the young woman then known as Madame Tchaikowsky in Berlin, Botkin went abroad in 1926 and was instrumental in bringing Anastasia to New York. Leeds Oppose Her Fight for Fortune. Here she was received as the guest of Mrs. William B. Leeds, the former Princess Xenia of Greece, a distant cousin of the czar. But later, Botkin charges in the North American Review article, the Leeds took the sida of other distant relatives who were claiming the considerable fortune left ay the czar In England, Germany and Home Again The very original traveler, who planned to do all the little places In Europe off the beaten track of tourists, Is back and telling about the nice young. couple from Des Moines she met In the. Louvre. 1 Miners Drink Salt Water Mine workers endure the heat In the shafts more easily when salt Is added to their drinking water. Excessive perspiration causes a loss of salt from the body, and replacing this loss prevents much of the exhaustion that would otherwise result. f Deadly Tree The cannibal tree .of Australia, a in appearance, Is giant credited with power to entrap and crush to death anyone ' touching its pine-appl- e leaves. 1 Vast Lake Lake Tanganyika, in frlca, Is estimated to be the long-s- t fresh water lake in the world, measuring over 400 miles. Its breadth carles from 30 to 45 miles and the irea is 12.700 square miles. Fresh-Wat- er east-centr- al 1 Real Help Blobbs That girl doea a lot of talking about helping the poor. Do They readily admitted her identity, you suppose she really does much he says. - But somehow the policy of charitable work? Slobbs Well, she the imperial family prevailed. Anas- once heard of a starving family and tasia was not to be officially acknowl- sent them a book called One Hundred edged. Ways of Using a Chafing Dish. Anastasia left, the Leeds Long Island estate suddenly, spent a short Pedagogical Term time in the tiny studio apartment of The method of teaching reading John R. Goiter. New York newspaper whereby the child is taught his letters man, then found haven for a year first and then words alphebetically with friends in Garden City, L. I., and phonetically is called the alpharelates Botkin. For the past year she betic method" has been living with Miss Annie Burr ' 1 Jennings, a member of an old New Means Condemnation York family, in her suburban home. ' . The expression thumbs down origfrom the old Roman gesture inated Astronomy Hard on Eyes disapproval, given ns a sigexpressing On the whole, astronomical work ts nal to the victorious gladiator to slay apt to overstrain the eye; (a) from he loser. excessive light of the sun, when it Is : t an object of study; (b) from the exobtreme faintness of some stellar Michigans Many Lakes In addition to Lake Michigan, there jects, and (c) from the danger of too much use of the microscope in measur- are said to be more than 6,000 lakes In the state of Michigan. ing astronomical photographs. Finland. - , - ; BANKERS REPORT DROP IN SAYINGS Lure of Stock Market Partly to Blame, but Slackened Specula tion Expected to Bring Return to Thrift. , The first recession In the natons savings account in banks in the twenty years during which records in this field have been kept by the American Bankers Association was disclosed for last year in the recent annual compilation prepared by Its Saving Bank Division. The shrinkage amounted to over 1195,000,000, on the basis of figures for the year ending June 29, 1929, whereas a year earlier the reported Increase was over $2,300,000,000, the largest ever recorded. The number of savings depositors also decreased during the year covered by more than The lure of the 500,000 accounts. stock market and affiliated activities are cited as part of the explanation for these changes. The associations statement says that savings deposits in banks and trust companies of continental United States on June 29, 1929, stood at The recession in savings, it declares, indicates a fundamental change in the savings situation, irrespective of whether it is temporary or not How Savings Used to Grow 1926 savings deposits increased $1,562,000,000, in 1927, almost $1,400. 000,000 and in 1928 over $2,300,000-00- 0, In it says. It appears now that some influences in one year have taken the gain that might reasonably have been expected in savings deposits for 1929 and lowered them from the high mark of the preceding year. This recession is not one coming as a result of drouth, famine, unemployment or conditions outside of the United States. A year ago it was stated: The year closing June 30, 1928, registered the largest gain in savings deposits in banks and trust companies of continental United States ever recorded in the history of this country. What a difference one year makes! From a gain of more than 24 billions of dollars in savings deposits to a loss of almost 200 millions! The loss in savings deposits is reflected also In the loss of savings depositors. The year 1929 showed a total of 52,664,127 depositors, against 53,188,348 for 1928, a loss of 524,221. "Industrial production was much higher last year than the preceding year. Factory payrolls wers considIn production, emerably greater. ployment and trade, advances were made over the preceding year. In the farm areas the Improvement noted for 1928 did not recede in 1929 and the livestock industry in all its branches was prosperous. The Causes of the Drop "The causes of the recession are possibly multiple. There is scarcely any reason to doubt that one of the important factors draining away savings and decreasing depositors has been the lure of profits to be made In stocks. For a number of years the people have been regaled with stories of profits made in stocks in all types of companies. During the last , few years there has been a specious phi. losophy preached that panics such as formerly occurred were no longer possible. If it was the lure of profits In stocks which caused the recession in savings, then a factor in future savings will be the success attendant upon this venture of savings depositors in stocks. If the experiment did not prove generally successful, then another year will doubtless witness an increase in savings deposits as well m In savings depositors., y 1 Mayflower Reproduced On the d north side of the two the bridge connecting buildings of Liberty & Co, on Regent street, London, is a weather vane of gilded copper as faithful a representation as can be made of the Mayflower. Although it appears small from the ground the vane is four feet high and - , weights over a hundredweight tfiree-storie- y -- t Simple A New England professor has proved the temperature can be absolutely determined by counting ,the number of chirps a cricket make? In 15 seconds and adding 40. All that is needed is a cricket and telegrapher to count the chirps. Detroit st News. 1 Conversational Bankrupts A womans expenditure of speech is astounding, says a 'Writer. And it so often exceeds her income of ideas. London Star. 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