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Show THE KAMAS COURANT, KAMAS, UTAH Boy 3 Presentation Pieces Are a specialty with us. For individuals, lodges or the things our MYSTIC BOYD. PARK MAKERS OF JEWELRY EIS FOUNDED SALT Francis Grierson, the American mystic who was brought up on tke prairies of Illinois, is recognized to- RHODE ISLAND REDS FAVORED mysterious Latest Addition to List American Breeds—Good and enigmatic figures in the world. He is able to do things that lead to the belief that he is something more for hour most gifts have after hour of delight improvise music, to the of the world’s won- great- of the heart of America in the period immediately preceding the Civil war. Many of this strange man’s utterances have been startlingly prophetic. He foretold the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, the wars of Japan with China and Russia, the Boer war and the present great conflict. He has now been making predictions as to the results of this war. What England wins, he If the says, will be dearly paid for; whet she loses will be lost forever. In the meantime Japan will allies win England will have to fight Russia. strike when the moment arrives heedless of any neutrality that may exist. -TRAVELS A LONG BEAT -. Harry man J. Christoffer whose beat is and more than 1,000 day trick is three he patrols a district midnight sun. And home on a furlough fy $500. Actually, ehief warden in the ton far miles long miles wide. His months long, for in the land of the when he comes it costs Mr. him for the recently he to eame spend bureau to Washing- two months resting and compiling his report. Mr. Christoffer is well known in Washington from the time he spent there as scientific assistant at the bureau of fisheries. When the §am, task he volunteered to assume the of being the chief warden of He chose to deal with the Otis ais of thy interior, While his as: _J8 are stationed along stretches 7 the bleak coast where they also Mr. Christoffer’s principal work is look after the salmon and seal fisheries. in protecting and developing the new industry of breeding the silver gray fox, which many Americans now are embarking upon in Alaska, in the hope of duplicating the profits already made at that enterprise by Canadians. ‘A silver gray fox is worth MRS. $1,000 or more. PALMER'S “PRINCIPALITY” ton Mrs. Potter and Chicago Palmer of Washingand her father, Col. H. H. Honore, who is ninety-three years old, are developing their “principality” in southern Florida. Mrs. Palmer has the largest plantation in the state. Twenty experienced real estate men are working under Colonel Honore, and none is more alert than he. “T expect to make a fortune,’ he said, “out of my property in southern Florida, which I intend to hold for 20 years.” Colonel Honore, who is a Kentuckian, has approached the century mark without a care line on his smilewreathed face and confidently expects to realize Thousands of acres of gulf-bordering fested more than a century ago by Gaspasilla, who erected a stronghold this dream of longevity. Mrs. Palmer, social queen of two continents, never allows a day to pass without indulging in a tramp of eight miles or more on the beach that adjoins her vast estate near Saratoga, unless she is hunting pirate treasure. land owned by Mrs. Palmer were inpirates, including the Spanish terror, on Gasparilla isle, site of the thriving port of Boca Grande, from which he and his band sallied forth in search of defenseless merchant ships. of high-sea cutthroats ~ aBYG” THAT MADE GOOD rE In & {sland, shop ove at evening Rosebank, Staten recently Albert 8. Janir, cabinetmaker, took off his apron. walked up to the foreman and resigued the job he had held for 14 years, as his fellow workmen crowded around with beaming faces. “Congtutulation?, Al,” said foreman, aud from somewhere in erowd. svoke the the office that the had man decided who made e unanimously the hydro- ig thet, enlike a whole in the last war, of clean living and wholesome are of the stuff of ancient con- more so nearly that the resembles breed the today unfamiliar with war. They have it as an inspiring tradition, for all of these monasteries in the beginning were armed forts to repel the invasion of pirates. The Russian monastery, four hours by muleback from the capital, is the best example of this defensive style. Mount Athos a Place of Thrilis. “As you approach,” tells a recent visitor, “you are impressed and bewildered by that strange fortress sanctuary, with its bristling array of bastions, towers, turrets, redans and parapets, all stained, riddled and crenellated by the action of time and tempest. As far as the eye can see there is no opening anywhere along the whole expanse of walls. Wooden galleries project beneath the roof, hut they are of comparatively recent CcMi- lot of others, The best it’s going to bring part of this us money-~ was adjusted the governing with some council of difficulty by monks at Karyas. For these men, rugged through long | —the Leghorns ideal beverage for every social occasion. querors, despite the transforming spir: it of the church. It would be inter. esting to know just how diffuse among them is the old crusading spirit as shown by the action of Father Bulatovitch, who believes he will be fighting for a holy cause. _Karyas an Eveless Eden. The Saloniki steamer puts into the small port of Daphne, but even though a woman landed there in d?sguise and were not discovered, she could not consider herself really in the forbidden precincts of the Eveless Eden, The envied objective is Karyas, the A proud grandfather might as admit that he. is aging a little. War’s Does ing capital, on the easter slope of the moun. tain, a gem of a settlement, almost hidden among gardens and olive yards, a scattered mosaic on a field of green.And yet in this garden there is no note of the appealing cadences of a woman’s voice, no “sound of childish laughter, not one touch that would tell of the presence of Hive. well Tumult affect Pa ry lm NEVER ‘@ i ie American army of contentment and get your uniform of Never-Rips today. They are union made and GUARANTEED. At Single Comb Rhode Island erel. Red Place for Brood Home Dealers. WANTED } MEN AND WOMEN to learn barber than does either the Plymouth Rock or Wyandotte. One fundamental difference still exists that shows the Asiatic origin of the red chicken: They are persistent sitters. The Rhode Island Reds do not reproduce themselves with certainty as to shade of color or style of comb, but in practical points they may be considered a distinct and well-established breed. AGE FOR FATTENING your Cock- Preferring to be absolutely certain, he said nothing while the routine was | being gone through. But as the party was about to go out into the single Give Them AIl They Will Stuff of street of the capital he suddenly pointCornmeal and Middlings—Fured to the floor and exclaimed in pernish Supply of Grit. fect English: “Be careful, please!” “Capons should reach full size beThe girl instinctively made a motion fore fattening, and this should be as though to gather up her skirt had when they are from ten to twelve she been wearing one. That motion months old. Fatten them from two to discovered her. She was. escorted three weeks before marketing—two if back to the little seaport with less they are shut up in dark coops. Feed pomp than is due to an empress. them all they will stuff of cornmeal Wars may sweep the earth with fire and middlings, wet up, but not Bo. and steel, and women bear the bitterwet, with milk. est penalties of the loss, while they Cracked bits of glass are used as rise to the supremest heights of heroan aid to digestion, but good grit is ism and self-sacrifice—being angel to safest where the ground stuff is used. friend and foe alike; but there, at Grit of some kind they must have. Mount Athos, she can have no part The farmer who does not keep over either in its peace or its peaceful wars. a lot of male birds as capons will lose For she is the enemy, the insidious a big spring profit on fowls, as turkeys foe urged to invasion by the most do not at any time sell as high as powerful of feminine motives—curiocapons per pound. sity. Dampness Causes Leg Weakness. Against her the army of the gard Leg weakness in ducks is usually and the army of the isolated faithful caused by dampness. If a duck is are unceasingly on guard. And we, compelled to sleep in a damp house who are in the high fever of life, in the full consciousness of what misery, she is likely to be attacked with rheu: suffering and crime such an obvious matism or cramps, for which there is no sure remedy.: Overfeeding will thing as sex may encompass—who ofus can say, with anything of verity, also do it. Sometimes ducks break down by persistent attention of heavy that these earnest men of Athos are ‘. not entirely and supremely happy in drakes. their Eveless Eden? Optimistic Thought. It dawns not the saener for all one’s early rising. not the man who wears? Join the grow- That there may be no invasion the army of fifty Albanian guards watch night and day. Women have endeavmitages. The population is composed ored by various ruses to enter, but inof more than three thousand monks variably have been discovered and and as many lay brothers, who are turned back. But who was the Byzanclassed as ‘“‘wordlings.” There is an tine empress to whom the chronicler army of fifty Albanian guards sta- “refers who insisted upon the forbidden tioned at the capital, Karyas, to see visit and who lived to regret it? You that no woman enters. And so rigid naturally settle upon Theodora, the is the bar against the weaker sex-that wife of Justinian, who, having been at not even the femalé of any animal one time a performer in the circus and More Eggs Produced Than From much given to adventure, is likely to may oe admitted. _Fowls Given Grain Ration Supplehave undertaken such an exploit sim| is a Romantic Garden Spot. _ mented With Meat Scraps. Think of this garden ‘spot, where, + ply becaz se it was forbidden. A sterf is told, also; of an American According to a general opinion of -despite- the iron impress of celibacy, girl student in Greece who essayed it, many who have given the matter there are romance and poetry in the and nearly succeeded, but for the clev- much attention, the value of skim very air! There is mystery, too, for, erness of a monk who was endowed milk to laying hens is from 70 cents looking from the sea, the cloak of the with.some of the subtle craft of Sher- to $2.15 per hundred pounds. The latter dense forest that lies over the titanic She went about to pré- figure is evidently a little optimistic. shoulders of the holy mount is full of lock Holmes. pare for the adventure with painstakAccording to experiments conducted blue and black shadow and silence; ing deliberation. She practiced for ‘by the Indiana experiment station, then, grimly medieval, clinging to the days walking after the real masculine $1.73 was returned per hundred side of the elevation, even in the style, assisted by the young man whoa pounds of skim milk purchased at 30 bright sunlight losing none of its imThese experiments covered a pressive character, is the ‘mysterious was to accompany her on the mission. cents, She could smoke a cigarette like a period of two years; one pen of laying monastery” of Simon: Peter. Mount Athos might have. still man; but considering this as not being hens received corn, wheat, oats, bran absolutely convincing, she mastered and shorts in the same proportion, in drowsed in the serenity of its recent dream picture days had not Father the cigar, and then, with a heroic et addition to all the skim milk the fowls would drink, and another pen received Bulatovitch, who at one time held a fort, conquered the pipe. American Girl’s Exploit. only the grain portion of the ration commission in the army of the great that the former received. In averaging Her voice was a deep contralto, ané white czar, been stirred by the marthe results obtained from feeding when she was at last ready for the tial spirit and declared his willingness these rations through two years of exadventure she was as perfect a young to go to war. He had been an officer man as one would expect to see out ‘periments it has been shown that the of the guards and as abbot of a monaverage number of eggs laid per hen for travel and instruction. The party astery brought something of the mililanded at Daphne without the disguise receiving grain and skim milk was tary discipline there. 133.5 eggs, whereas the hens that did being discovered. He made it clear he did not intend not receive skim milk with the grain On arriving at Karyas one reports giving up his religious orders, but, in ration produced an average of only 36 to the prefect, who is in charge of the imitation of the crusading’ monks at eggs per hen. It was also shown that Albanian guard. One of these soldier the time of the Tartar invasion in the during the winter months, December, monks watched the proceedings with thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. January and February, when eggs are keen interest. There was nothing in would head his troops with his unithe highest in price, that the pen rethe manner of the disguised girl to ex‘form covered by his priestly vestceiving skim milk produced seven per cite suspicion—she was playing her ments. He may be fighting now, or part to perfection—but this fierce look- cent more:eggs even than the pen rehe may have been mustered in at ceiving a grain ration supplemented ing soldier cleric rust have receive¢é Jast for the long twilight march. with meat scraps, a feed generally some subtle intuition that the enemy But even the monks who have been recognized as a great egg producer. was at hand. trained in the paths of peace are not thrills. Not long ago the Bulgarians made an effort to seize the Servian monastery Hilendar-and annex it for their own monks. The matter caused intense indignation in Belgrade, and poking fun and scoffing—I never would have made it. gobs of it,” Turks Though peaceful in general éffact, Mount Athos has been a place of -peroplane possible was not Glenn H. Curtiss, but Albert S. Janin, the poor eabinet-maker of Staten Island. “We put it over, didn’t we, mother?” Janin said that evening, affectionately patting his wife. “If it hadn’t been that she stuck to me— believed in me, when all the rest were {nvention the pirates ceased to harry the holy mountain. They are painted a defiant blood red, The whole mass of masonry clings acrobatic-like to a rock, which is covered with luxuriant verdure.”’ In this curious republic there are Russian monks and Greek monks and Servian mvuzks and Bulgarian monks. “The ‘Bug’ has made . good. ‘Whaddaya know about that?” That afternoon word had been weceived from Washington that the ent from struction, having been added since the one of Janin’s intimates: ‘board of examiners-in-chief of the pat- ERE.) GIVING CHICKENS SKIM MILK work of protecting the fur-bearing animals of Alaska was undertaken by Uncle Alaska. head of Mount Athos rises into the serene turquoise sky and looks down its slopes, solemnly verdured by dark forests and gardened by olive, myrtle and rose, is the most remarkable republic in all the world, into whose arcadian confines came again , the call of war—the world’s greatest of wars. This dominion, at all times on a military footing to repel its one great, human enemy, has passed through -Many wars with pirate invaders, not to mention the invasion of curiosity of the Byzantine empress, who insisted upon visiting the place to the mortification and scandal of the good men— so there is small wonder that Father Bulatovitch, once a grim soldier, volunteered to go forth and fight for the ezar. Mount Athos is on the peninsula of Saloniki, which territory Greece wrest- years work, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. There are twenty monasteries in the republic, eleven villages and 250 her- is After two years of duty North production, ed near- Christoffer of Alaska of fisheries. is a police- 1,500 O. The Rhode Island Red breed constitutes the latest addition to the list of popular American breeds of chickens. This variety differs from the majority of breeds in claiming for themselves an origin based solely on practical considerations. They are partly of Asiatic blood, but in their selection, which extends over a period of fifty years, attention has been paid to ravid growth and egg the est musicians; his writings in Hnglish and French, both prose and poetry, have won the warm praise of the most exacting critics. Born in England, Grierson was reared in TIilinois, and as a youth made his debut as a musical prodigy in Paris. Because cf his wonderful improvisations he became at once the musical celebrity of the day and was heard and feted in most of the capitals of Kurope. Later in life he gradmusic for literature, and he has written some notable books. of them is ‘“‘The Valley of Shadows,’ which has been called tially abandoned One of the best (By the greatest of living he can sit at the piano and beautiful der and a picture His prophetic of Popular Egg Pro- Rapidly. CAPONS Coops. If possible place the brood coops near the cornfield, which furnishes both shade and fresh ground. trade. Excellent opportunities open for you. Tools furnished and commission pnd while learning. Only eight weeks required. Call or write for particulars and catalog, 18 Commercial Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. THE Barber NEUTRAL Was LANGUAGE. Taking No Chances His Customers. The barber was busy. mer looked up at him and With The custo said: “How do you s’pose th’ war is goin’ to turn out?” The barber body said something understood. The that no- customer re- peated his question. The barber repeated his answer. It sounded like Choctaw is supposed to sound. ‘Then he said: - “How cold did it get today?” A little later on his oldest customer asked him what he said to the man. The barber grinned. “Did you hear what he asked me?” “Yes.” “Well, I ain’t gittin’ in no mo’ trouble if I can help it. I’ve lost three of my best customers by answerin’ fool questions. Yo’ can’t tell by lookin’ at a man which way his war sympathies jump. No, sir. When dey begin th’ war questions I give ’em back the kind o’ talk y’ just heard me giv- 1eteeee “7 didn’t understand what you said. What language was it?” The barber tested his razor on his thumb nail. Then he grinned. “Dat’s guage,’ Dealer. what he I call de neutral replied—cCleveland Appropriate lanPlain Problem. “You women ought to organize a society for the encouragement of pickpockets.” e a “What do you mean?” insignia the “And adopt as your dangling handbag.” ee Her Money’s Worth. “T declare,’ exclaimed an old lady, watching several people file down the aisle in a continuous movie show, “this is the most accommodating theatre I was ever in. They never do get out o’ patience with late folks. I’ve seen ’em start this show three times just to accommodate ’em, but I’m going to stay an’ see it all if it takes till 10 o’clock.” Hard Work. “So you have a government clerkship, haye you?” “Yes.” “Don’t have to do any . work, I! suppose?” “T don’t eh? I have to get my pay arrante every month, and .get it cashed.” Alas, Too True! There was a time when a young man went with a girl for six years and looked up her pedigree in the old family bible before he married pee ee astounded scientists; @ cen than human. ducers and Grow children; nomena most titna eee the een of her. But nowadays he gets a marriage license without even ldgk ine at her teeth. His Skilled Arm. The Parent.—And do you think you can support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed? The Lover—Certainly, sir. I have taken many prizes at tangoing!— Yonkers Statesman. How Poetry is Written. “This is a pretty poem of yours. Something tossed off to gratify a whimsical fancy?” “No; something ground out to pay a wash bill.’—Louisville Couriers Tournal. rae one CITY for his hers. eee ny eames penetra as A man works woman lives for es day 1862 LAKE sree anon AN AMERICAN weddings, churches, any purpose. Wehave or will make them. Get Catalogue. Free a) |