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Show TAEMTTLE CDYo' mimon lOLLIKINS Dear: So you want to know how I pant the Glorious Fourth? Wua I I sane and sedate, comuort- wanner be- A I ,n n,yelf PI I -- graduate, or did I run oil and romp with lirother Totn'a kiddles, aa usual, forgetting all my recently acquired dignity? Alas, my dear! ' I must confess that ey Fourth was far, far from ane, and that instead of recoverng my sanity I've Rut there, my studies In prose style should teach me better than to lamp at the conclusion of my story (ike that! I'll bogln at the beginning. It waa Independence day. The sun was shining In newly awakened splendor, when the casual observer might bave discerned a solitary female form gracefully healing the stone wall between the luxuriant bark gardens of the Hendersons and the ditto ditto of the P.artl its Tom and bis family are staying with ber mother, you know, next door. Tbla feat accomplished, our heroine thct' m!) proceeded up the l'.art-let- t lawn, collecting dewdrops on her trailing cheesecloth draperies and, incidentally, getting her new white shoes deplorably damp. Her slender form was draped also in a large American fag. and ber rawen curls were surmounted by( fillet of silver stars. This Goddess of Liberty effect waa the result of a promise to "dress op for tbe two adoring and adorable Arrived benephews. Dcrt and neath the window of the room usually occupied by the nephews, the Goddess of Liberty proceed to the ceremony of saluting them; this she does by setting off ten pack of amall firecrackers, followed by a "sock dolager" of a big one. No Aunt follow. acclamations Joyful Peggy la frankly puled; clearly, the boys are oversleeping, and she bursts Into song, rendering the ttanner" with dramatic effect, marred only by a breathless squeak time-honore- "Star-spangle- Mm?, coluldn't imagine who he 10 oe. HIS RECORD WAS ALL RIGHT However, it seemed to be up to iue to do aoraething. so I drew myself to my Black Spots Wiped Out by His Ffrm commanding height of five feet four Belle; In a Noiseless laches and begged his pardon for disFourth. him, llttla. turbing explaining that my nephews usually occupied that room, "Before I consent to let you have and that they were expecting me over my daughter," said the grim old gento celebrate the Fourth with them "there are some questions I bat it all sounded like perfect non- tleman, sense. Just then, to my mingled relief; would like to ask you. Are you qulcki and annoyance, Tom appeared at the tempered?" "Well. yea. to tell the truth. I'm window, too, with a fiendish grin, aa I am." he sized up tbe situation and my cos- afraid "11m. Ever wear?" tume. "Sometimes, when I become very an "Been serenading you, has she, gry. I do." Archie?" he asked affably, while I "Smoke?" boiled with helpless rage. "You mustn't "Yes, but I have never noticed that mind It, old man; It's the day we celeit injured me." brate, you know, and our patriotism "Every drink intoxicating llquora?" still runs so high that even the girls "I occasionally take a drink, but I'm out seek peaceable English visitors and taunt them with our Independence. not a alave to the habit. I assure Quite tbe usual thing." Then, aa you." "Have yon ever been in Jail?" "Archie" and I preserved a helpless "Once. I took some funds to which introTom and sobered down Hence, I had no right, but I did not do it deduced us In proper style, and as soon aa I heard the name I remembered liberately, I aaaure you. It waa the reof a misunderstanding." that Archie Vane waa Tom's chum in sult "Yes. It generally is. How about London, when he waa over there set your family? What kind of ancestors ting up Borne machinery. He had Just did you have?" landed and Tom, running across him "Do you think it is fair to bold a in New York the night before, had in- man responsible for what his ancessisted on bis coming home with htm tors did?" to spend the Fourth all natural "Answer my question." enough when Tom explained It. So "Well. I can't Bay that my ancesHon there I'd been bearding the British tors amounted to a great deal. My in This den with militant American was was In short, h noises on the anniversary of a day ig- grandfather was banged." nored by all good Englishmen ; and "You've never held a Job anywhere here was the British Hon looking at naa with his ingenuous blue eyea aa it very long, have you?" "I can't say that I have." he was trying to decide whether I'd "What was the highest salary yon bite or not. ever earned?" "I warn you." Tom added. In his "Nineten dollars a week." tactful little way, "that Peggy Is a "Ever Jump a board bill?" rabidly patriotic person, so I wouldn't "I call It that 1 advise you to start any discussions on owe awouldn'tfor exactly aeveral months' board Internationa issues. This Columbia that I lady had three or four ago, getup is quite in character, bo be- but I fully Intend to pay years ber somt Alice out and the boys came ware!" on the porch Just then and wanted me day." "Have you ever rocked a boat?" to stay to breakfast; but of course "No, sir, never." declined with dignity and went home "Have you ever set off a flrecrackei via the front gate, however. Instead ol under your grandmother's chair ol I tc wall. the garden When turned hurt while trying to make I latch it (bat Englishman was still look, been racket on the Fourth of July?" lng at me In a dazed sort of way. "No, sir. I believe in a noiaelesj The plot thickens. After breakfast Fourth." over kiddies be beloved to rushed my "All right. You may have her. I'm me to go with them on tbe usual fam to get you into our family." glad ily plcr.lc to the pine Brove. and hadn't the heart to disappoint them. 1 wore my moot sensible clothes, and 1 MERIAM'S CORNER, CONCORD tried hard to be haughty and distant to Mr. Vane; but be kept developing such nice qualities that somehow couldn't keep It up, especially as be Ig nored my crazy performance of th morning so succetsrfully. He waa a ITU OF JULY TRAGEDY THE UTAH BUDGET f HAVE TO MIND $1 5.122, t.liG.76 July First. July Second. &uTaL5 I e n fh' pi, 3 1 f V-?!-- :-fj kVV'fe mmmk July Third. - - V. v - . "J TE NOW TEB c- - s- CtO TO . BANGS I Foe mJ T Tom Appeared at the Window, Too. positive genius when It came to cbaa lng cows, fixing hammocks, unnacklni luncheon and ail the regular picnic stunts. Tbe boys adored bim, and be waa simply angelic to the old folks; and by the time we went borne couldn't scare up a resentful feeling. Yea, Polly, I know; you needn't re mind me of all tbe hateful things I'm aid about Englishmen and the times I've vowed I eouldnt, and wouldn't rare for one, not If be asked me on hli bended knee. Yea, and I've demonstrated often that no one but as American man waa a fit companion fot an America, girl. I've said heaps ol perfectly ferocious things, and I an Mcrlam't Corner, Concord, Mass., gained lasting fame In the early days of the Revolution because, according to tbe Inscription on a tablet erected there, "the Rrltlsh troops retreating from the old North bridge were here attacked In flank by the men of Concord and neighboring towns and driven under a hot fire to Charlestown." MUSIC FOR FOURTH OF Na- Other Three. July Fourth. ii By TvorerA vtEK per rr JJVT J V4 Gracefully Scaling the Stone Wall. Still m the final "Land of the free. tio Rob and Rett. Our heroine shies a bit of turf at the window, with a and command, "Wake op, lazybones as the window sash begins to creak to carol reponiveiy she begin of Freedom -Shouting the Rattle Cry I the top of her ery healthy lungs, lor Aunt I'eggy baa no foolish dignity when lit a question of amusing the kiddies. At lat the window opens wide and, looking up, she see Tolir, what do you think? Inrtead of fisxnn alliance with your bewildered two lit'le white nientles and two PEGGY. but blissful tous)d mrly heads, there was a man! A srsr-eyoung man, fty dear; In a Patriotism. bionde. bliyed. Immaculate at me "My father was wounded In the atlfil dirk suit toandt gazing war and my grandmild horror, Spanish-Americawith what se med nixed with aminwmetit, aa though I father lost an arm at Gettysburg" "How did yon get that acar on yowr Innatln. 1 felt like were an chleT jtio I sM'ire yoa. all the tntrm so he waa awfiiily good looking and "Trying to tie a bunch of firecr wi! erwriid and correct; an! 1 .ers to tbe tall of a bulldog." n repd Read It Again. the Declaration of Independ-ncthrough again. There may be tome essential porta of It that yon Read e ave forgotten. The most fervent prayer may be In silence and the most patriot! JUzen may make little aoLse. tde SOLDIERS EAT SNAKES. Food Supplies Cut Off by Insurgent Troops and Federals Starving. soldiers Nogalea, Arlx. Federal above Guayroas are reduced to eating snakes, so completely has tbe fooc supply been cut off by tbe Sonora in surgent state troop, said advicei Smallpox reaching here Tuesday. epidemics In the constitutionalist camps partlully equalize the situation. caused Despite the demoralization by fumlne and diseatte on either side, lighting waa reported to have con tin Ued late Tuesday. The Insurgents attacked Ojeda's column from both th front and rear. Many were reported killed, while tbe wounded He uiiat tended on the field. State officials Insist that the red erals steacily are losing ground In the continued battle, while theii ranks are being depleted by desertions. WILL ATTACK 'JUAREZ. n n wt - 5 o "And did you Inherit from them your iisinclination to pay taxes?" hr Strong Band of Constitutionalist Marching Toward Border Town. El Paso, Texaa. Strong bodies ol constitutionalist under Gen. Francises Villa, commander in the state of Chihuahua, are reported by couriers to , have reached Guzman and Villa, of the state. seventy-flvand respectively The street of Halt Iake will be a miles south of Uludad blaze of light and color during tbe N. eighly-lbreE. A. convention and a sperlal effort Juarez. Mexico, on the Northwestern will be made to make the decoration and Mexican National railway, oj march to attach scheme better than anything that baa their overland ever been attempted before by any J u arcs. convention city. Five Day In Jail for Murder. David Matbeny waa palnful'y homed Trnn. Five days la Jail Nashville, about the back and shoulder at sn for involuntary manslaughter was lb of unknown hour when fire origearly sentence passed upon Mrs. Anna Dot? in destroyed the cabin in which he Gat-latiwas sleeping at Fillmore. The cabin son, wife of Dr. Walter Itatson, a bere Sbf physician, Tuesday. wa In flame tie fore be was aroused was charged with tbe murder ol from his slumlwr. Charles Cobb, a barber, whom sb Dr. G. It Guthrie, a former shot down In a barber here last dentist of Salt Lake, who I March. On the stand sbop Mr. Iiotson In projo-sltioa land Interected big largely admitted she bad bad Illicit relations In the republic of I'anama. Is with CoMi home for a viML, and Is enthuPiaMle concerning the outlook for Americans Wet and Dry Divide Honor. In Ihe canal eone. Salt l.ke City. lj.iior force won Ogden'a first "Rose Sunday" was and loft in Un al option election held observed Junei 22 In the First Presby- In ttarious towns in Utah terian churrh with sjierlal servlie. Toelt. tiie most imirortanl Tuesday. where The fhurrh wa d"eorate;j with a pro such an ! tion was held,tity was carfusion of rose from Ogilen garden, ried by (he littOM-- forces, SStS to 378. to Ire made an Tr liioiiW n and the day prom;"llie other way, 95 to annual affair hereafter. M, as did Connue, f. to The Hoken Olsn. the Iluntsville storewere stiowej untler at Gunni"wt" keeper who ha been eonveed to H), but tarried both Frisco son. In the) paisl few years of the illegal and Netiouse. next ale of liquor, wiil end the n'ne month of hi life In the W'eSef county Explosion in train Elevator, enten-Ja.ll. according to the pro I' iii'la!o.-- -I our men are k'town to nounred by Judge J. A Howell, at Og- be dead, fifty were injored. some faden. tally, aii l four are unaccounted for as from tuberculosis and the result of an H'.iffering tApioiua late Tue-iawithout fund or friend. J. in tbe eieva.or and grain store an Inmate of the Salvation Army In house of tbe Husted comSalt !ake. ended his life by Jumping pany here. Fire followedMilling the explofrom a second story window at the sion and destroyed tbe wooden secrear of the hotel. Roger's skull was tion of the elevator. Tbe estimated crushed and hi neck was broken. loM la liQO.oOO. Wi Mary Vi!;iam. an Ozden g?rl England Honor French Ruler. a few day asm ascended to the topIxindon The friendly feeling bemost point of lien tjomond. the mountain east of North Ogfh-n- . whieh rise tween Great Itritain and France was to a height of S.2.0 feet above the manifested Tuesday on tiie arrival la level of (ireat Salt IVe She is the Ixindon of President Raymond Potn-tarfirst woman to reach the top of tbe The French president I the guest of King George peak. John II. Roe, ?2 year of age. who llysse S. Grant to Wed. led a company of Union Infantry a' San Diego. Cal The betrothal of a Gettysburg almost half century ago, S. Grant, won of the lata l!h rank of cart.;n. died Sunday at Ulynse i of his home In Salt Lake.. He had been TBRilent, and Mrs. A.I L Will Iowa, announced. Marshalltown, j to attend the panning The wedding will take piaee In Saa celebra;ion of GeUturg. Ij.'g' about tbe middle of July. well-know- d I Vernal, Utah Crazed with Jealousy while the sun dance, great of Ute festivals, waa in progress Tuesday, Tim Inchwltch shot aud killed hJs squaw and then tired a bullot into hta own head. He died instantly. Inchwltch waa one of the most prominent of the lite Uncompahgre tribe, which has been holding its annual sun dance near White Rock. 2 o'clock Tuesday Shortly before afternoon, his squaw apitroaehed tbe wera pole about which the dam-ercircling and placed a bundle of sweet herba at its foot. Almost at once, a young brave, one of the dancers, bent over the herbs as if to take them. This act aroused tbe aborigine's Jealousy. The squaw, frightened at the consequences of ber act, ran away, inchwltch followed her. aud when she had dead. gone some distance, be shot He then fled to his tepee. Ilia baby girl ran to meet him. The Indian picked ber np and carried her Into his tepee, then fired a bulelt into his brain. When news of the double tragedy reached the sun dance half a mile away, a hundred excited brave rushed to avenge the murder, but their purpose waa halted when they found inchwltch had already committed euiclde. Tbe brother of Inchwltch, one of the dancers, asked for revenge upon the person of the young brave whose act in stooping to pick up the A herbs had caused the tragedy. council of tbe chiefs was held, and medicine men said pecial incantations over the young brave and the murderer'B brother, resulting In the settling of tbe blood feud, the sweet herbe being divided "between the two, e JULY the direction of congress Investigation was recently made regarding what are known as our four national songs. According to the report the 9ldst of these song Is "Yankee ttoodie." It was sung 160 years ago and next to "Dixie" still la the most melodies. pone I mesnt every one of them. Hut popular of our national that was before Atrhle Polly, dear There are 1 different theories as to do you know, be says It was all cvet how the song originated, but the most w Ufa him from the first moment he saw reliable Information seems to point to me and In that circus parade rig! the fact that the aong waa written by Isn't It ahiurd and lovely? And, Jusl a Rrltlsh offlcer, brought to this counthink. It's only a week since we met try and first played by British band, though we both agree that It aeems thereafter being appropriated by the like years. And you should aee my colonist. The first printed version of song la found In Walsh's collection ring a quaint, old, old one, that be- the of dance music, published In the year longed to his And his people live In a lovely old 1?r0. The most substantial song In Elizabethan bouse. In a regular Cran-for- "America," written by Rev. Samuel r. town; and his mother's a dear ?tnlih, at Andover, Mass., In February, little old fashioned acrol with side curl, $32, but tbla song was eet to the mu-fof "Ood Save the King." The and Idolize him. Please don't remind me of anything I ever said about effete "Star Spangled Banner," which was tradition, will you, Polly? I'm hot written by Francis Scott Key, while going to Enrland yet awhile, though, witnessing tbe bombardment of Fort Mcllenry from a Iiritish man of war for Archie's h"re Indefinitely, to learn on Iwhlch be was held prisoner, has In American business method. In Tom's as the naline of work. I really have a little reeent years been adopted tional anthem and la now played on spark of American pride, I guess, for I ill patriotic occasions. Ry order of am glad he's only a younger son, with no title within reach, though I don't ihe government It I received In both and navy circles with bared suppose I'd mind that, or anything else. army head. not I'm shouting Hecause, Polly dear, the battle cry f freedom nowadays, A Pertinent Question. fomehow It gets all mixed up with "My people have lived In tbla coun"Rule Pritannla." Do core up with me soon and disease the new Ang1r try for five generation." 1912. Abu-mada- 1 "Yankee Doodle" Oldest of Our tional Songs Origin of the in Absolute exclusion of all fishermen and sheep from Parley'a canyon as a means of reducing the contamination of the stream to a minimum will be attempted by Salt Lake City. Standing beaide his mother with his father aud two younger brothers in the dining room of their home, near Ogden. Frederick M. Harris, aged 12, was struck by lightning and inBtantiy killed. Claiming that her husband threatened to alioot her, Edith Kargaa of Salt iJike atuck a knife in Frauk Kar-gas- " back, the blade grazing the luTsg. Kargaa la In the hospltul and will recover. Work on the million-dolla- r reiservolr on the South Fork of the Ogden river ha been abandoned by the construction company, which has filed a lien against the Ogden River Reservoir company for $29,000. After Buffering for almost a week from what he supposed to be a sprained ankle. Fitch Kenney of Ogden, consulted a phyBlclan and learned that he had been dancing and walking with a fractured ankle bone. The refusal of his wife to live with him after his release from the city Jail, where he served a ahort sentence for disorderly conduct, led to the suicide of William J. Moran. aged 29 years, a machinist, at Ogden. Only nervouandss on the part of the would-baulcide, prevented J. A. Mat-thia prominent druggist of Spanish Fork, from blowing his brains out. The bullet passed upward, tearing off his ear, but not entering his skull. Killed InBtantiy perhaps under the wheels of an Oregon Short Line train, the mangled body of a man believed to be Gunder Peterson, about 25 years old. was found on the railroad tracks a short dlutance north of Ogden. A Carnegie library, costing approximately $8 000. will bo built In St George in the near future. The citizens of St. George recently agreed to appropriate the necessary maintenance tax of ten per cent of fa,noo. Stricken with typhoid, Robert Lindsay MoGhie. for seven years associate professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Utah and a member of the general board of the Doaeret Sunday School union, died Sunday at Salt Ijjke. Old age waa honored at Lagoon Juno 2tt when more than 1,000 persons of 70 years or older, attended by not lets than &00 relative or friend, were the guesta of the three Weber county stakes at tbe annual Old Folks' outing. More than r00 of the old folks of Nebo stake went to Spring Iake villa Friday of lat week for their annual Automobiles and carriages outing. were provided for their transortallon and everything possible done for their comfort. That a deposit of slllela which ha formed In a wooden pipe which has carried water to Stockton for forty years, has caused many case of appendicitis In Stockton. I the general belief of some of toe health official e ff'SHiw" iQOARTeB.' CRAZED INDIAN SHOOTS SQUAW AND SELF The I'tah Dental society convention In Salt Monday and Tuesday, was attended by dentiata fioui all over the state. Tragedy Interrupts Sun Dance of the Indians, Dancer Shooting Wife During 1912 $17,371,969.26 life Insur-anc- e was written In the state of Utah, Whom He Believed Unfaithful. aa against $16,323,005.69 ju 1911. and r. MARINER. W. JEALOUSY r jcv, r f pjf-p-!-- tir 2'-'- j 6 ! (tTS A . 1 Ror. e. snu-ententla- |