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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH 1 xn!7? UncleVJalte 5 Wal 4 I I Attractive r ' ' U' X Commercial club, on Business observed the r Efficiency. and the next day his store was closed by the sheriff. t 4 , t ? f U v-YX'- J? L - Life is full of such Ironies, doggons it, yahj the hotel- - j Low down Jokes are being played on the best of us. almost every day, and I often won- der sort of I an eviigtnlus la behind it all. ,v- I used to know a man who was a wonderful lns breaker. lie used to give public exhibitions, turning brutes, and the way be could make them eat out of hia band, half an hour after being formally Introduced to them, was a sight worth going miles to see. lie always bad Immense crowds at his exhibitions, and It seemed that his future was assured. Hut one day he was loafllng around a livery stable, just because he liked the atmosphere of the place, and an old, weary hack horse reached out a long, crooked limb, handed him one with It, and broke Ida i . rner-chan-t, 4 4 ,, ! i g leg. go to a hospital for a while, and when he came out, h!s ocwas as good a cupation was gone. horse breaker as ever, but people wouldn't pay Jhetr, money to see the exploit of a conquering hero tyho had ben inanhnndled by an old hack horse. You must admit that there was some sardonic Intelligence back of such a Joke as that. If the man had been hooked by a cow, or run over by a traction engine, or chewed up by an honest watchdog, It wouldnt have hurt bis renown and prestige. Rut. no I A blamed old relic of a horse had to put him out of business. , A long time ago. a very Imprudent case was tried In an Irish court The people were greatly wrought up over It and the courtroom waa crowded. When It was announced that the Jury waa ready with a verdict the Judge addressed the audience, saying he knew there was much feeling over the case, hut the hall of justice was no place for a display of It, and If there waa a least sign of disturbance when the verdict was made known, the guilty parties would be arrested, The Jury brought In Its verdict and the people heard it In silence, but Just then a whole doggone gallery, with about a thousand people In It, eame crashing down, and the noise could have been heard forty miles out at sea. After the Judge'a solemn warning ' against a disturbance, the fall of that gallery has always seemed to me like a painful joke. A long time ago. I waa called upon to address a crowd of voters on the living Issues of the day, and I framed up a speech that would have been a credit to any orator. I swiped It from Roscoe Conkltng, and I have always insisted that he waa one of the greatest of American speakers. The house was full of refined and cultured peo-piand I was determined to make the bit of my life. I was just getting warmed up to my work, when the lights went out, and the ball was plunged In Mack darkness. There's nothing makes a man feel more Idiotic than to have the lights shut off at such a time. The women in the audience were giggling, and ttys men It Beemed funny to everybody but me. I thought I knew where the little table was, that held the pitcher of Ice water, and I moved toward It, aud fell over a chair, and flattened my nose agklnst the edge of a piece of When the lights were scenery. flashed on again, as suddenly us they went out, the audience bch4d the silver tongued orator on his hands and knees, climbing slowly to his feet, and trying to mold bis nose into Its original shape. I never saw such a delirious crowd In my life. Some of the women laughed themselves Into hysterics, and the fool men weren't, much better, lie had to 5' vna v-A-; f yr - e, ? n ' s t i ; ' f j i $ ! ! ! i r A i , ' X k.S lr - - haw-hawin- g. They nerer heard the balance of that 'oration, and tha last, part waa tbt best." Alliteration. Alliteration occurs sometimes In the writings of the ancients, but not. It la supposed, designedly, as they regarded all echoing of sound as a rhetorical blemish. Cicero, In the Offices, has this phrase: Senslra sine sensu aetas aenesclt; and" Ylrgff in theAe-peld,has many marked alliterations. " William Mathews. - Try, Try Again, "Lottarox was telling roe that he bas been trying for six months with-ou- t success to get a passage to see th ' battlefields of France." wind has changed. the Evidently Me spent two years trying not to see them, with success." Legion Weekly. The American Greatest Revenue. The internal revenue bureau. In the fiscal year ended June 30. made the greatest annual tax collection since It! stabllsbment In 1SC2. t- - ! price V PARK o X t 'V BOYD PARK. BLOC f fc ter: r.c, fift v mm I te 'f ARTIF.CIAL LIMBS w y'Jt gpi JEWELERS V - V'VJPS? 'te "orldreIu at reasonable BOYD 4 O . S.A 01 kiT WELL ARTIfKI,ir7lwiwX'-toccatIn ay 77lz 5rxAirj i. vv fesi a 1 I O L,, m M JUAUTY INSt ti'UVTUBS )mv return UH t ""'a, -- MYERS CLt VM It IH hast Broad,., ANo Th EVS pit U flu jrzxrizr&iiD zzAjZZzzAtt' P Ini -- Chile to Pay Belated MADE Honors to First Man to Circle the Globe C tt&h 1 1 The sailors sickened fast; Their eyes began to stare. Now, wolf like ravening, from the mast Ths leathern thongs they tear; For none of their small lives Did that great captain care. . 1 He bade their labors halt To swing some luckier comrade down The water still was salt; The east wind still blew free Sudden ths sailors crowding ran From starboard and from lee . Story Weekly. e, fczTsrsjY jAmzAco s d Into the foaming vault; And still he smiled and said: " The water still is salt." lows : Trinidad. 110 tons Captain, Gen. Ferdinand Magellan; pilot. Estevaa Gomez, San Antonio, PJO tons Captain, Juan de Cartagena. Concepcion, 00 Caspar Quesada. Victoria, S3 tons Captain. Luis de Mendoza. Santiago, 75 tons Captain. Juan Serrano. The crews of these fire ships were a mixture of many nationalities peculiarly fitting complement. since the voyage waa much less a gain for a single nation (as was the discovery of the new world) but rather a contribution to the fund of human knowledge and an Introduction of the' world to ainhe people who llv upon 1L There were about 20 men on board. Of the four captains only one proved faithful The others had plotted treason even before the ships sailed and while they knelt t the fical mass before going on board, Magellan was warned and was unafraid. The little armada left the Canaries on October 3, 1319, and ran down tbe African coast for several weeks, buffeed by heavy storms, while food and water grew scarce On November 29 the ships reached the coast of n hn Kr ,,n e a .. Thresh. February ar.d followed tle coast southward, and 'Mircirihey finally found shelter lo the harbor of St. Julian and settled down there to pass the winter on tie last day of .March. On tbe next day. which was Easter, the smoldering mutiny broke out. Tbe way in which Magellan crushed that formidable uprising in his own ranks t? the best Indication of the character of the commander that has been left to us. When the mutineers had three of the five Mops In tbelr control. Magellan ' tnsde a raid on- - Mendoras'shlp. the Victoria rut and -- that captain-me- t Ms death rirh dagger-thin the throat. The two other ships were blockaded. Strong parties then boarded the San Antonio, and that ship was captured. The third sh'p, the Concepcion, thereupon surrendered. Quesada was beheaded and quartered. Cartagena of the San Antonio and a guilty priest. Rero' tons--Capta- ln, - 1 1 v,a ri Sanchez, were kept In Irons until the ships sailed and on shore to perish. left ' In the following rotwrth tfie Santiago was wrecked while reconnoiterlng. but without the loss of any of her crew. On the 24th day of that August 400 years ago the remaining four ships started on the great voyage. On October 21 they reached and found the passage through the southern tip of South America. More than five - weeks passed while the little fleet made miles of the strait, explor320 Its way through the nere ing Its many perplexing twists and turns, which they were deserted by the San Antonio, turned back to Spain, where It arrived six month later. Finally, on November 28, Magellan looked upon the great western ocean. To be sure, he was not the first European to set eyes upon that vast expanse of water. That distinction belongs to a young Spaniard, Nunez de Balboa, who bad slipped over to Darien from nispanlola by way of an empty cask on board a ship and from a mountain had looked out over the Bay of San Miguel, below the present city of Panama, upon what the natives called the Great South sea, and whose fame bas been eclipsed by the unfortunate slip of the poet who put stout Cortez" upon that peak In Darien. Half a century later a young Englishman looked upon the same overpowering sight and swore he would sail an English ship upon that ocean. He did. and followed the great Magellan In the second voyage around the world. His name was Francis Drake. Mugellan sailed north till the middle of December, then turned west. He sailed for three months and eighteen days across the unknown Pacific. What must have been the agonies of that voyage Into the unknown; what "triple bronz and heart of oak for a commander to have met all those trials. We know from the Journals of the physical tortures of the long Journey. Food am! water almost disappeared. The leather from the yards was soaked In the water and eaten. Men laid their nostrils while they drank the putrid water. Scurvy broke out In Its most malignant form. Many died and nearly all the others were sick. At length, on March 6, 1321, they reached tbe Islands they named the Lndrones, islands of the thieves. March 16 they reached the Philippines, the first Europeans to visit those Islands. Magellan named them the Islands of Saint Lazarus. Here the great explorer met his death lu a miserable fight on the shore of the little Island of Mactan, or Matan. literally overwhelmed by a svvnrra of savages. They refused to give up bis body, and bis burial place can never be surely known. A few years ago some Spaniards erected a frail and tasteless monument ou the spot where they supposed Magellan fell. The king of the Island of Cebu, having previously professed conversion and been baptized, decided to get rid of hts visitors, by means of a banquet, followed by a massacre. Thirty of the leading men of the expedition fell In jthls way. Of the 280 men who bad sailed from Spain orlfllS were now left. The Concepcion was po longer seaworthy and was burned. There remained the Trinidad and the Victoria. Sebastian Elcano, who had been among the mutineers of Port St Julian, become captain general otihe two remaining ships. The two remaining ships visited Borneo next They were ready to start on the rest of the voyage home over the familiar route around the Cape of Africa when the Trinidad sprang a bad leak It was therefore decided thaHhe Victoria should set out alone, while the Trinidad should make repairs and then sail for Panama with a cargo of sp,ices:- - ,9f th,e, 1.01,.,renTpow surviving,. M were to the Trinidad and 47 to the Victoria. The Trinidad never finished her voyage. After .running north some weeks she ws forced to turn' back, nearly a wreck, and reached the Moluccas with only 19 men left alive on her. The survivor were seized by the ho&Ule and onlv tbe capta.n. F.spinosa, and three of the crew ever saw Spam again. " In the meantime the Victoria, with more starva-tlo- n and more scurvy aboard, had made tbe of Good Hope, crossed the on June 7 and equator soon reached the Cape Verde Islands wher the Portuguese tried to seize the ship. The, tumbled i t the crew. b?,rhand on the bttle 5 scudded away with all ! i sail, Ttds was on July U and eight weeks later Into th, V ',h'. "Klrt I r1v vic,A i j r recorded. He had the advantage of having taken with him a very capable reporter, an Italian gentleman from the city of Vicenza, one Antonio Plgafetta, who completed the whole tour of the world and wrote an account of It. It was soon translated Into English of the sixteenth century, and Shakespeare, there Is good reason to believe, read It, for In The Tempest, Calibans Sctebos-Inone other than the devfl-goof the Patagonians as reported by the faithful Plgafetta. says the New York Times Book Review. The Journal hns been more recently translated by Lord Stanley of Alderly in his First Voyage Around the World." while F. II. IT. Gulllemard of Cambridge has supplied an excellent biography of Magellan aDd account of the vo) ago. In recounting Magellans momentous voyage It Is necessary to go back to the famous bull of Pope Alexander VI which divided the world between the Spanish and the Portuguese. The Spaniards were forbidden to sail to the Iudies by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, and their only hope of reaching this most desired of all lands was by finding a way to the west through the Mundus'Novus. At this time a belief that such a passage existed far to the south was well fixed In many minds. Having propostxl to his king, Manuel of Portugal, that he make this voyage through the struit be presumed to be there, and having met with a refusal, the Portuguese asked permission to offer his services eNewhvre. The king said he 'might do as he pleased," and did not offer his hand to be kissed at parting. In October, 1317, therefore, Magellan arrived in Seville and at once found the favor he had missed at home lu the sight of Charles V. It was decided at once to fit out an expedition. More than a year passed In preparations and on September 10, 1510, a little fleet of five vessels cleared the mouth of the Guadalquivir and passed out to sea on the culminating voyage of the great age of discovery. The ships and their commanders were as fol- At even and at morn hlst-ory- P -- -- -- Torture (W ht M She had ,h, oty 1 l,f, men on W board thrp, rnn 1,1,, tr er 1 it J f All dag they cursed the ship; All night they dreamed of Spain. They called the strait a river of hell; He swore it was the main. For oft at eve he dipped And found it salt again. -- CHEAT Great Britain great business nation hut s'H(ni talned her position f M , In the eighteenth .md i In v-h 4 The steady wind blew west Along the tortuous strait ; And still the lean and scowling crew Consumed with helpless hate. Beheld Magellan smile As if he joked with fate. EKDIXAND Magollau, four hundred years ago this full, discovered the straits now bearing his name, lie worked bis way westward through the stormy and tortuous passage between seas at the southern end of South America, Finding the western ocean peaceful, he named It 1aclflc. He then sailed to the Philippines, where he found an unknown grave. One ship of bis little fleet finally completed Its long and trying voyage around the world The world made much of the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus' great discovery. Only Chile will celebrate this anniversary of Magellan. Yet It may be fairly asked: Was not Magellans achievement the greatest? And If It was. Is not Magellan the greatest of navigators? To be sure, as John Flske very properly points out, Magellan's voyage has not the unique historic position of the first voyage of Columbus, which, brought together two streams of human life-thhad been disjointed since the glacial period." Columbus satled to reach the Spice Islands and mistakenly believed to his dying day that he had succeeded. Magellau succeeded In doing what Columbus attempted. ' Before Magellan met his death In the Philippines he had, the first of men, completed the circle of the earth, for before setting out on his voyage to the west he had visited the Far East In the Bervlce of the Portuguese, and had passed the meridian to which he attained n his last voyage. While he did not live to finish his career intrlumph on the one ship whjch finally reached Spain, after an absence of a few days under three years, he had In his two voyages, one to the east and the other to the west, made the circuit of the L globe. considered from the So Magellans voyage, a scientific of Its of results, voyage of viewpoint of a of endurtest and and courage exploration ance. seems the greatest achievement in ocean -r navigation of ail It Is fitting that the Chileans should celebrate this anniversary of this great navigator. Portugal, his native land, and Spain under whose flag be made the great voyage, have been Invited to par: ticipate In the celebration. both ceremoules Punta at will be Arenas There and at tbe Chilean capital, Santiago. A" bronze statue of Magellan wljl be set up. Punta Arenas will be the center of activities. It Is a small and inside the wide arm of the rather dreary-placstraits at the end of South America In the lju;d of Fires." The life of Femao Magalhaes, to give him his Portuguese name, has teen as neglected as that of Yet of all the Columbus has been exploited. career offers the least bis lime his explorers of doubt and bis voyage waa the most carefully NAVY fit tv-- t MAGELLAN IN TIIE STRAITS And lifted up their eyes Ujon the Western Sea. Sarah N. Cleghorn in Argosy-A- ll BRITISH at Lm, According to p. Pond in Hyde Park Aok Ambition of Youl'i hard-earne- d i u. UN Va,, f man-killin- r ' Wa.rtCf i vbt I Bt e,! nothisvsedZT M'T'OMtELSON mode a talk to ths n Silver; For the table make, hon. ing. Good silver U noth.ng prized more IRONIES OF LIFE keeper. 1 O' turles. It came about In t'"s ny. a Catherine, consort of (,1)r!S qn. Interested in l.mig oui ndJn that. end of llvd,- - part; ;tjt now called Kensington garden 5. elded whimsically tlat a ter was needed. Th s is the f .rj Round pond, the germ from L.rhi British sea spirit was horn. Ur it boys began to sail on the pm -boats of their own f.i'h'o'nn; pjfv,,, shops sprang up to supp') th m mass production pattern ni there is practically no am.veur Ing today. It became the fusion for superior boys to wear sailor micsutJ paintings of little bojs in the eirj nineteenth century show that a jarnty ship In hand was considered arusr and proper, too. It was sea Imagination that th Round pond awoke In Great and without It the greatest of fl would never survive. It Is sea as a national fandty that America needs and niut have. There should be a Round pond for boy ship experimenters in every part of the United States. The Xjhfisi Business. - ei L ro-- 1: rl -- Eri-j- baa-natio- Lite and Death a Unity. Life Is a state which follows r Death Is a state whirl) redeath. cedes life. Which of us under. jUi the laws that govern their suoceWof The life of man is the resultant forces. The aggregation of theefo death- - w life; their dispersion, conn-tlvthen, life and death are but c what states 'of existence, for sorrow have I? s W And so It is that all things men phases of unity. What life.dfipj In Is the spiritual essence of they loathe Is the material Is e But this state of death. 0 ? tion gives place to that state of pirl;V Ituality and that state to this state gives place In turn Therefore we test corruption. in the universe h cwp- -j that all In unity; and. therefore the bP' amoug us have adopted unity Irar. criterion. II. A. Gib--. !n Literature. Chinese Gems From 01 FrancGrowing Rosea in their w The French farmers set , u In tows about four feet aP8 an . hills, tbe of gentle slope is possible, where thej . eastern exposure. Youngbn taken from when they have trimmed to about a foot 9 such buds as appear are plow In $ preserve the vitality the to assure a large crop tor - five-year-o- Far: th After the bush attains & even years It does tot P R j, of i quantity or quality and Jv pulled up Its p'ace. The rose br Js In April, runs through May 1 - Meaning of Word The hut of - the -- 1 Navajo. "hogan." It covered framework Conical bark and earth.' The north, south and west. trance Is on tbe east si the shelter of the Rim tr called w " tre jU , called bogans. Toy. Mot Profitable y Toys, as a whole, have cla. profits than any other tions. Water Stored In Form a With the Idea of gettio? the expensive constrtfctmo wthe puriKse of storing ths made gestion has been be stored In winter In b ff and allowel to melt a sired in summer time. 1 sure water in sufficient - -' Q- small lrrigstiin svtt,,n- 7 - toTe . f ' e; & ! te j t t'J - |