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Show THE BOX ELDER NEWS, PASS THREE. No matter at what speed you shave with a Gem Damaskeene Razor it leaves your face Cool and refreshed. Thats because the Gem has a soft, comfortable, velvet like feel and does such smooth, clean-c- ut work. We sell the complete Gem Damaskeene Razor outfit for 1. The outfit includes the razor, seven Gem Damaskeene Blades, shaving and stropping handle -- all in a handsome leather case. Enjoy the comfort of velvet-smoo- th Come in and get your Gem to-d- ay self-shavi- I. The Eddy Drug Store Brigham City, Utah. Good Way Out of Difficulty. but Undesirable. If you cant tell the truth, do not What is that which I have not, tell anything. If you do not wish to Mch I do not wish to have, and yet a mans question, tell him that answer II had it I would not part with it if did it would embarrass him and you Edin-rgh A bald head. r anything'! and hell be glad ta let you yourself, Scotsman. off. , Indispensable RECORD OF WAR8 HAPPENINGS WILL BE SHOWN TO POSTERITY. In order to keep a true and authentic record of the great world war, Austria a year ago requested the burgomnster of every town and city, both In Germany and Austria, to record events and occurrences during the conflict in their various communities. According to a German newspaper, this will constitute a tremendous amount of authentic mnterial from which a comprehensive history of the war can The be written in the future. idea is to learn how each town and city suffered during the war, the food the population had, what they ate, drank and wore, how many from each community went to the front, how many were wounded, and how many died, and anything of interest relating Immediately to the struggle. The material is to be sent to the public librarian at Vienna, who will compile It and file it so as to make It readily available. It is estimated that this matter alone will require over a hundred volumes to adequately tell the story of the struggle and privations of the people. This will not include the history of the military operations, descriptions of battles, etc., which will he written by military experts who actually took part In them. several eminent In addition painters and artists who went to the front will contribute illustrations giving a pictorial concepThis ention of the struggle. tire history will require years of preparation, hut when completed It is asserted that it will he tile most interesting and comprehensive history of a great strug-blthat ever hys been compiled nr published. o PART OF FRANCE How IN AMERICA Soil Sufficient to Cover Fifty Acres Was Brought Over by United States Transports. It is not necessary to go to France to put your foot on French soil. There are fifty acres of land almost Tn the heart of Norfolk, new-mad- Delicate Mechanism otL , J. JC: he ec ased. miuiai n atioa CRE! f uas esent alert1? inty, I 1919. Rji LJ.JO Chemists, engineers, accountants, and other specialists arc required to take care of our intricate problems. Why Sell Eggs by the Ftnind. For several years the plan of selTtrrg eggs by the pound Instead of by the dozen has been agitated among the uou m Tot: resent idersip if ta Branch house organizations must show activity and energy to sell at the market in the face of acute competition from other large packers, and hundreds of small ones. Sey :rcyb Estrtf ation ider $1 ps ' G be done with expert skill and scientific precision. A highly perishable product Alert wisdom and judgment must be used in getting stocks of goods into the open channels of demand through our four hundred branch houses. CRED' ity, Experienced men must know livestock buying with a knowledge of weight, price, the amount and quality of meat the live animals will yield. must be handled with speed and care sirstor All these requirements of intelligence, loyalty, devotion to the task, are met in the personnel of Swift & Company. Yet the profit is only a fraction of a cent per pound with costs at minimum. How can the workings of this delicate human mechanism be improved upon? TG IONDA' )AV NTS. rains. iS' Va., composed entirely of soil brought to avoid loss. Despite its scope Swift & Company is a business of infinite details, requiring infinite attention. Each manufacturing operation must attor. pfere" e from France within the last year. It was brought over by naval transports. When American transports sailed for France from American shores during the war they carried troops and supplies. When they started back to America there were no cargoes for them In French ports, so It was necessary for some of them to carry something for ballast. There being nothing else handy, tons upon tons of French soil was loaded into the holds of returning ships just to balance them in case they encountered rough weather on the voyage. When the ships reached America the soil was unloaded and used to reclaim marshy lands. More than fifty acres of lowland was filled with this French soil at the St. Helena naval base. This land was never used before the French soil arrived. Now it is being made into attractive grounds, which may also Include flower gardens. ). Do you believe that Government direction would add to our efficiency or improve the service rendered the producer and consumer? Let us send you a Swift Dollar . It will interest you. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1919 Y WHY DO Bobby Burn Should Have Been Alive Today January 25 was the one hundred and sixtieth birthday of Robert Burns. Robbie is one of the fellows we have sadly missed during the past four Think what he could have years. done in the way of answering Hymn of Hate, or revising his Address to the Deil to make it fit tlie kaiser, whom he certainly would not have called Holy Willie." It is generally said that the Scottish dialect is the supreme lingo for the celebration of two things love and whisky; but there is another emotion that Scuts are good at expressing, and that is blazing, contemptuous bate of cruelty and cowardice. Burns came ery near being an American poet. In 17S0, after a disappointment in loe a matter in which he was not generally disappointed he engaged passage on a vessel for the West Indies. Then he changed his mind and decided to stay in Kilmarnock and console himself by printing his poems. If he had got as far as the West Indies, he would certainly have come on to the states and probably would have gone to Ben Franklin in Bliiladelphla to get his book published. What jovial cracks lie and Ben would have had I Burns fame is secure, for he is almost the only poet who has ever had p cigar named after him. Also, lie is probably the only poet who has lured the staid Encyclopedia Britannica into a joke. That work says that his thirst for stimi .mts passed ail bars." Colliers Weekly. Lis-saue- AWAY WITH IDLE HOURS Why a Hobby," or Something to Take Its Place, la Neceoury for Women. Replacing Knocked Out Teeth. Teeth that are knocked out In boxing, football or by fulllUg against something, need not he thrown away. A good surgeon or dentist Will clean them and the cavity, replace them, perhaps put a stitch In the gum, perhaps put a pad to bite on for about forty-eigh- t hours, during which you will have to live on a fluid diet, and then gradually restore solid food. Before many weeks you will be able to bite upples arid tackle hard crusts. j There Is that everlasting appeal to people to get a hobby. It Is all very well for the writer or speaker to prepare his hobby sermons, but, like Portia, it is easier to tell twenty what Is good to he done than to he one of the twenty to follow their own teachings. A hobby fs a most commendable thing. But most hobbles are expensive, The best thing to do is to plan out a daily routine for yourself where you know every hour where you will he uni what you are going to do. There should he no idle or haphazard hours at nil. These are the hours which make you nervous, allow you to think H. C. of yourself, and which the preachers VETERINARIAN of the hobbies would therefore have So 1st E. ttli Ollice, Irone, 2l).V you fill with your hobby." Utah. Brigham City, Vacant, restless hours, if you have no hohhy. can be filled with reading CALL ON good hooks, calls on tiie sick, calls on the places of interest in your city, and T. W. with nil such things which cost little FOR or nothing. In this day of great needs, when letters and packages are enjoyed so much by the soldiers, there should i Rhone 233 he no woman who Is idle, who CHnt find anything to take up her mind and Is so hard pressed that she must have M. . D. C. a hobby. Exchan go. j rofessional Cards... RUSSELL I)R. , COLEMAN Plumbing and Heating a-t- OLSEN, Chiropractor 148 So. Main. Phone 1781. Some of Our Ancestor. Lived. HOME CALLS. According to James Curie, who has discovered some old caves and houses in Scotland, life in a ROY R. YOUNG flat, ATTORNEY-AT-LAwith tlie janitor on a strike, is idiss compared to what people used to put PRACTICES IN ALL THE COURTS up with, lie has found several large First National Hank liaildiHg caves in Scotland which were used ns Utah City, Brigham houses, a couple of thousand years CUSTOM IS VERY OLD ONE ago. before modern comenienoes were invented. In other places he houses YVM. How Ceremony of Baptizing Boats were built underground. Many relics LAWYER Has Been Handed Down to the have been left in tlm.se dwellings. COUNTY ATTORNEY Present Age. There are weaving combs, whorls, nnd IN THE COURTS ALL PRATICES spindles used hy the women, enameled Ptah Date of (he origin of the launchbrooches, pins, and colored class arm-let- s Brigham Pity, . is uncertain, but recwith which they docked ing ceremony Womens ami childrens shoes ords tell how the ancient Egyptians W. blessed their ships as they entered the were ulso found. Besides these are water, and the Greeks and Romans household utensils, wooden dishes and AND CONVEYANCER. are known to have done likewise, us- spoons, stone lamps and platters, and Utah pottery of nrlous kinds. The men Brigham City, ing both wine and water. When tlie British ship. Sovereign, have left tools and weapons, plows, was launched, in 1488, in the presence lucks, and rakes, made of door antlers, & DWNN of Henry VII, the vessel was named wheels of carts, harness mountings and ceremoniously blessed. We read and large decorated swords. Prof. BONDED ABSTRACTERS. that a mitred prelate with attendant Carle declares that the Romans who were once in possession of the country INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE train of priests and choristers, in hand, with candle, hook and taught the people to make all these Utah Brigham City, hell and holy water," participated in things. the benediction. How Snow I. Colored. V. In France during the eighteenth and A study has boon made hy Messrs. of the nineteenth early part centuries, VETERINARIAN. the launching ceremony was singular- A. N. Winchell arid E. R. Miller of the ly akin to the baptismal service for an University of Wisconsin of a shower Residence, Garland, Utah, Phone No. 9 Infant. This was especially so where of dust which discolored falling snow Day or night calls promptly attended to Auto conveyance. merchant craft and fishing vessels at Madison and elsewhere. According colwere concerned. The practice lay to somewhat scanty reports, this ored snow covered an area of at least close to, the hearts of the pious peopl D. I). S. 100.000 square miles and probably C. H. and the parish priest usually officiated. much more. The total quantity of Not infrequently the ships godparents Phone No. 31. estimated to have been at least were mere children. No wine was dust is and have LOdrtooo tons, may greatly Room 22, First National Bank nwl, hat holy water was sprinkled on exceeded this, even amountperhaps, Build big the how with the giving of a beneing to hundreds of millions of tons. A diction. Utah study of the character of ihe dust and Brigham City, of (he attendant meteorlogieal condiHow Oil ts Discovered. tions lends to the belief that the dust In the early days of the oil industry was blown all Ihe way from the arid search for now oil fields were carried regions In ihe far Southwestern United ATTORNEY AT LAW on in a haphazard way. Few or none Stall's, .and was therefore transported knew exactly where to look for petro1.000 miles or more. leum Ttnnls, and It was usually only by 52 North Main St., Brigham. persistent drilling of wells and fools How Prejudice Affects Living. my-2hick that prospectors made their Prejudice plats n huge part in our strikes. Vastly more failures than sucfeed purchase. Toko the case of butcesses resulted from this unmethodical ter versus oleomargarine. Experts in procedure, and fortunes w ere sunk in the former have been known to fail in testing hopelessly dry or only slightly ability in di'tmgaMi the wo, yet wc productive territory. Tn course of time, are willhig to pay 20 per cent more Practices in All The Court however, scientific ideas crept into the for butter than for the substitute. The Office: First National Bank Building-Brighaplans of the oil seekers and the geoloprejudice against goods from storage Utah City, gist was called upon as counselor and help bolster the cost of living. Were guide. Nowadays the judgment and it not for storage facilities butler nnd advice of the man of science are indiseggs today would he luxuries for the pensable prerequisites tothe exploitavery rich only. The public was tion of any supposed oil region. Tn iciinhly informed tlmt storage consequence. The pursuit of oil. though eggs had proved fresher than fresh stdl attended wilh risk and uncertainThe rabbit would furnish food eggs. ty, has been made far less a matter of as well as fur if our dont like did guess work and chance and loss. Tlie not stand In the way. Our cant eat geologist can not see all that the earth and dont like are niafuly psychohides in its bosom, but from certain logical states fixed in habit nnd prejudindications he can determine whether ice.-- Detroit Free Press. underlying strata on any given tract B. . may lie probed with possibilities of an 11 ATTORNEY AT LAW yield. Leslies. Egyptian Pyramids. It took 123.000,(4! slaves, working r C" Huw Red Cross Raised Money. H hnnn ft day for thr.a o nltirW to W1" l'racllce ln U h U. and State Courts, cult Courts, of the When a resourceful member of the complete Egypt, and pyramids Land S, Department. Red Cross at Anderson, S. C1.,- sug- the mummies exported from them gested that a hag he hung in the public Lave not brought, ail told, $1,000,000. Suite 33. First National Bank Bldg., New York Sun. square to receive discarded samples of Brigham City, Utah. cotton from dealers and small gifts of. the same product from fanners, the Idea proved unexpectedly profitable.. One day some one, in lieu of a cotton gift, pinned a $5 note to the bag. It was decided to allow the bill to remain as a suggestion to others. In less than ten days $000 In cash, besides many pounds of eotton. had been collected by the hag. The idea was COMMERCIAL soon copied In neighboring towns, with ACCOUNTS WELCOME good results accruing in every Instance. Popular Mechanics Magazine. The First National Bank especially Why Overwork It Wrong. welcomes the commercial accounts of Sir Edward Carson, speaking at a corporations, firms and individuals, meeting at Belfast recently, said for assuring them ample facilities and a grent part of his professional career good service. he used to get up at half-pas- t four. He came to the conclusion it wik a dogs life, and gave it up. The principle of going to work so early that you are ulmost tired before you begin, and are certainly fagged out before the day is over, is wrong. There Is only n certain amount of work in a man, no matter how willing he is. How LE two-by-fo- E. DAVIS them-sohes- JOHN 1 he SEMI-WEEKL- Canadian grocers, and in sore towns the system has already been pnt tn practice. A trade journal which called upon a targe number of dealers for an expression of opinion of this point states that the weight of opinion was In favor of file movement. The ordy obstacle in the way of a unanimous indorsement vf the plan is that the public has not been educated to buy in this way. As refuting this objection, it is pointed our that in view of the wide variation in the size of eggs the consumer would quickly realize that the system offers a fairer and juster basis of charge than mere number. PHILLIPS Abstractor LEE cro-zier- Chambers, Jr. Dr. J. BRYAN, CHAS. E. FOXLEY 1 jy-2- WM.J. LOWE Lawyer HOWELL JONES j Why Japan Has Few Autos. report just issued by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce says that as a general rule tiicre are no suitable romls to bo found throughout the Chinese republic. Shanghai is the center for motorcar, as a result of its A population of approximately Registered cars in the dty number about 1,000, and some two or three hundred are lu storage. There are only 2.700 car In all of Japan, but the recent prosperity has greatly stimulated the demamL Americans have had most of the business since the war started. The abundance of money among the buying class and the desire to own cars Is, however, offset by the lack of suitable road and bridges. foreign 20,000. Why Waterfall la Nameless. The largest and most beautiful waterfall In the Southwest Is unnamed as far as the United States forest service can learn. It is supposed to have been forgotten. The nameless fall Is that of the Little Colorado river in Arizona, between Winslow ahd Flagstaff on the Navajo Indian reservation. The Little Colorado makes a sheer drop of 100 feet at this point. The width of the stream at the precipice is about 300 feet at a season when the stream is at its higher levels. The rock formations about the fall are brilliantly colored, some of the strata being red and yellow, which to a considerable degree constitute the unusual beauty of the falls. - IRST MFIOMLBANK BRIGHAM CITY Why He Was Not Jubilant. "Arent you glad to get hack from France? Of course. But I dread the job of learning the language all over again. 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