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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH PAGE THREE 1 TRAPPING MOLES FOR PELTS PROFITABLE I Little Problems ! gf cTVTarried Life j t t t $ By WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN J t (Copyright Why Girl Candy Workers Off Sweet Stuff While Miss Therese Cohen of 233 Minerva p su-- , the Bronx, tasting the cup of popularity in the candy factory hi West street, where slie works, the ten other girls in that place were tasting everything else In sight that looked big enough to contain a diamond ring. Later, Miss Cohen tasted the dregs of the same cup while the ten foolish virgins wrestled with the making of resolutions never, never to taste any horrid old candy for the rest of theit lives, so help em. It all began when, in the nddst of the forenoon, Miss Cohen suddenly gave a Bronx shriek and announced hysterically that she had dropped her diamond engagement ring in the peanut brittle or the chocolate fudge or the marshmallow creams which she had been stirring. Since she wasnt sure which, she began tasting the pieces of candy into which the three brands had been molded. Surreptitiously at first, but later when Miss Cohen announced a reward boldly the ten others began nibbling and quashing away at everything on the tables. Between sniffles and tears, Miss Cohen announced big marble-toppe- d that it was her engagement ring and, of course, that led to more sympathy and more search and more nibbling. Through it all she was the center of interest even to have lost a diamond ring makes a girl popular in the Bronx. And then, just when it seemed that the whole candy supply was to be demolished, the porter came in to ask who had left a ring on the window sill in the washroom and Miss Cohen remembered that she had taken off her ring to wash her hands after working up that mean old peanut brittle. Thats all there is to it except that not a single girl offered to walk home with Miss Cohen that night which, considering where she lives, may not be so strange after all. NEW ' Swore YORK. HOLDING MONOTONY AT BAY. acts of love, comradeship, thoughtfulness, confidence and interest that mean the joy of life; it is surrender to monotony that may at last bring revolt and a break for freedom. And two who have loved may just grow tired of each other, hardly knowing why or when or how and both may be to blame. Monotony means surrender to an environment, not conquest of it Man is the only animal that can consciousij change from within, change manners, thoughts, impulses, desires, dreams, ideals. Man is the only animal that can consciously modify his environ-men- t, by deliberate choice move to an entirely different one, transform an old or create a new environment. The blight of monotony is not solely one of wealth or of poverty. The less the Income and the more restricted the life the less Is required to do something that will break the spell of that will bring a change, a new Impulse, a new impetus, a new inspiration. A dinner away from home, an evening at the theater, a long ride or a sail, a day at the beach, a walk in the country, a visit or a guest, some new books, may be the trifle that may break the deadly dullness of uniformity. Business men realize the effect of cleanliness, comfort, convenience and change in making a store more attractive to customers. They vary the display in the shop windows, they deco rate in harmony with the seasons, they Monotony is the malaria of matrimony. It poisons tiie home atmosphere, gradually exhausts the oxygen of love and comradeship and leaves one stifling in an air of discontent, protest, and rebellion. It means dull, deadly depression of spira general tired feeling regarding AMERICAN MOLES HAVE FINER PELTS THAN EUROPEAN ANIMALS. its, life, weakened hope and will, loss of y (Prepared by the United States Depart- will he more or less hindered by snows appetite- for the trifles of every-dament of Agriculture.) nml by freezing weather. Moles are living, a listless, languid indifference, The trapping of moles for their pelts active all winter, however, and fre- a nervous irritability difficult to conshould be found profitable in the Unit- quently have been caught along grass-grow- n trol. It takes all the brightness and ed States as it has been in Europe, fence rows and in the deeper vividness from the color scheme of life especially since some species of Amer- runways of open fields when the and thought and leaves them a cold, ican moles are larger and have finer ground was frozen so hard as to ne- dismal gray. This monotony saps the pelts than the European animals, cessitate the use of a pick in setting vitality of mental, moral and physical resistance to trivial cares nnd worries which furnish the bulk of the worlds traps. Moles are alThe fur of the mole is perhaps at that assume portentous proportions like supply of moleskins. ready trapped in many places in the its best in the winter season, hut it is figures blurred into bigness by a fog. United States for the purpose of rid- classed as prime in midsummer also. It needs (he fresh tonic ozone of ding the community of their destruc- Less seasonal variation is found in change, the vitalizing sunlight of a new tive practices; and since the skins the condition of the fur of this bur- Interest, the windows of life opened are of considerable value, they may rowing mammal than in that of the wide for freer air and a broader out- rearrange departments, they continuwell be saved and marketed or used. animals that live mninly look. ously seek to banish monotony. This , In this way an industry may be devel- aboveground. Monotony in married life is an In- philosophy of change during Nevertheless, might well be oped which will result in the produc- the molting periods iu spring and fall sidious eviL It is hard to cure but introduced In many homes where the tion of beautiful and valuable gar- there is a deterioration In the value of easy to prevent. Husband and wife same articles of furniture stand in the ments or articles of adornment. the moles fur. Skins Hre considered should realize that it rests solely with same places for years as If they were To catch the mole requires the use marketable no mutter at what season them; the conditions are absolutely built into the walls. Rearranging the of specially designed traps, and to of the year they are taken, hut clear, within their control when acting in furnishings, changing the position of capture it for its fur requires the use prime pelts command the better prices. unity nnd harmony; either can do tiie pictures, packing out of sight the much, neither can do all. They can surplus of ornaments and of a trap that will not injure the pelt. Mole Traps. c It may be taken as easily as any other In Europe a great many moles are create an atmosphere of comradeship, that make rooms look like museumsand cheerfulness, and courage that defies bringing them out later and small mammal and the pelt secured taken by means of home-mad- e snaring retiring may be made to more than repay the devices. The trappers there also make monotony. It takes so little to hold tiie old ones, may freshen and brighttrouble and time expended in ridding e of both wooden and metal traps it at bay, in the beginning; it takes en a home and give a new life and ina lawn, garden or field of a nuisance. that are cheap and of simple con- so much to kill it, in the end. It is spiration. Moleskins in the Trade. struction. All types of mole traps in easier to dodge a few snowflakes than There is a tendency on the part ol Moleskin garments have been fash- common use in America are made of the wild fury of the storm at its worst. many married people to surrender to The secret of monotony is ionable in this country, particularly metal and depend for their operation to bother about maknot their moods, of the head or the hands in the larger eastern cities, for several on the same sort of trapping device to each oththemselves ing agreeable years, and fur dealers consider It n trigger pan designed to rest on an where the heart is not in it. It is the er. There are times when a guest cornea probable that undressed mole pelts obstruction produced in the moles overfeeding of one side of life at the to the home and the husband may be will continue indefinitely to have a runway when the trap Is set. The trap expense of tiie other; it is the prossurprised to see how entertaining his market value, the value fluctuating, Is sprung when the mole follows its trating effect of unbroken sameness wife can be; he bears her tell stories of course, with the demands of fash- natural instinct to reopen the run by to an environment. nnd Incidents that are new to him, that The wife in her devotion to her home nmuse and ion. In England, Scotland, and some harrow ing through or upheaving the brighten the atmosphere. of the continental coat countries obstruction. The entire mechanism of may place a false estimate on trifles. He may narrate entertaining episodes conmoles are trapped extensively both such traps is aboveground or She may become house bound ; never of his business life, talk interestingly abno In loose the cealed when for the and threshold soil, being for their pelts part private except crossing the of new inventions, new discoveries, bounties paid for their extermination within the runway proper. It is a solutely necessary, she may unconsci- city improvements, national men and on certain estates. The sole source of waste of time to try to catch moles ously convert her home into a prison measures, facts and fancies from his supply of moleskins for use by manu- with ordinary steel traps, rat traps, and submerge the wife in the house- rending, observation nnd experience facturing furriers of this country gopher traps, or like devices, for the keeper. Tiie unending repetition of and she may look across the table In hitherto has been the pelts of the Eu- animal almost invariably burrows un- the same duties, tills continuous per- a plensed wonder and try to keep back ropean mole, obtained through impor- der anything thus introduced into its formance without change or intermis- the expression of her rebellious proIn a period runs. tations from London. sion, begins to chafe and fret nnd test that with her alone he usually surThe catching and killing mechanisms weary her; it seems like the regular when moleskin garments are in fashion passes the oyster in silence except on the volume of business in furs of this of American mole traps are of three tramp of a vast army on tiie march, the old subjects now talked to tatters. class will reach two or three million types; (1) Choker loops, (2) gripping continually passing but never passed. Monotony comes from many causes; or scissors jaws, and (3) impaling The deadly routine begins to wear on dollars annually. can be held nt bay In many ways. It American Moles. spikes. Several different makes of the her nerves, like the irritating, insist- The courtship method helps by keeping on are or room. sale, sick a in a clock ent tick of harpoon trap The biological survey has found that impaling from settling dowm Into a matter-otwo the the skins of certain American moles particularly in the East and middle The narrow horizon of "her living de- f-fact, humdrum existence, by are of much greater value for the fur- West. In actual use, however, they presses her spirits; she grows fault- hallow ing trifles, by banishing a sense finding, dissatisfied, helpless nnd hope- of riers purposes than those of the Eu- are the least efficient of the three duty and putting the spontaneity of deless. The salt of life ha.4 lost its saThey should there- types. They are large, clumsy ropean species. love in Its stead. Comradeship helps catch vour. fore be classed by themselves. This vices, record a low percentage of puts both on a basis of consetoo;Jt have additional the and disadvantage some of She must lesson the tension applies particularly to the skins crated friendship, willing to talk unthe common large mole of western of injuring the skins of moles that way, drop the whole outfit occasional- complainingly together the rough or ly, forget she is a mnehine and reWashington and Oregon, which are are trapped for their fur. or the shadows, No better tool for use in setting member she is a human being, and the smooth, the lights and fur texture better have and larger or of living, just shallows the the deeps mole traps can be found than a good, get out for a change of thought and than those of Europe. as no with no awe, oppressive equals, strong garden trowel. Make the break experience. Let her turn her steps to Where to Trap. no fenr, but with freedom, dignity, no In to burrow or the restolarger nnd opening the green pastures of rest The mole is not an adept at concealthan Is necessary to accommodate the ration, take a walk or a drive, hear frankness, full respect and confidence sorrow and suspicion. that smiles ing evidences of its presence In lawns, trap; otherwise the mole may deviate a little music or see a play, make a Humor away gardens or fields. Telltale ridges or from livens trifles, takes it helps; the original course and pass visit or entertain a caller, go shopconspicuous mounds of earth plainly out of little the troubles and miswhen Even sting without for caught. being ping, that does not require money, Indicate the runways. The ridges When leaves at servant eries. the one of the shallow It is'only buying that costs, read some show the direction and course of the placing the trap on four need not minutes there notice, to Into will it one dig of pay book even though it is only animals hunting paths, which are so hunting paths, be grumbling, nnd protest, and fretto and the the will setting runway that adapt sellers or the best sod anything close to the surface that the to set freshen the mind, quicken the blood, ting. What if the meals are not up to the soil crust is upraised. The mounds known conditions, rather than the gladden the heart, or put a new edge pnr or the house not manicured and indicate deeper tunneling; for they from the surface by simply forcing Somesoil. given a heavy polish, for a day or two? or the into Jaws the loops on life. are formed by earth pushed up from There is no need for worry, the world or four three in also, times, digging, too too a soil is bit do Some take the lower workings, where duty people is not yet come to an end. If taken in forks of the burrow are discovered, compact to be simply crowded aside. seriously. It is delightful occasionally the to then but do and there is nothing right spirit it may be h picnic time to turn your back deliberately and imSuch mounds thickly dot the for both. Children have the advantage fill elsewhere. and the break try on a duty for a while, to give areas of the Pacific coast counof us older folks; they know how to of the biological politely a little The observations occurrence for the much rarer of are but vacation, duty try, saintship and to play things are different in the habitat of the eastern mole. survey seem to indicate that there Is does welcome you so when you return pretend from what they are. as no such to need take precautions so mole hard. of runs seem not the half of does the nnd It Many deeper A little of this spirit, sometimes, are highways of common traffic, used to disturb the runway as little as pos- Much of our loyalty to duty is simply often by a number of individuals and sible and wear globes lest the animal disloyalty to higher duties nnd when keeps us young; it brings imagination the scent of human hands. The we are dulled hv monotony, we do not to the rescue; it crowds out the opfrequented also by shrews and certain get location of one of the shallow huntof the serious side of Good catches field mice. of differentiate cionriy between them. pressiveness species Indicated mole is of when tears the ing tilings may be just trempaths continwomen There are honest, earnest, good usually may be expected from ued use of the trap in these highways, plainly by the surface ridges. To find who, like Martlm of old, are cumbered bling near the edge of the eyelids, like which commonly follow fences, hedges, a deep runway from which a mound with much serving." They let the actors in the wings waiting their cue. An honest laugh is worth a hundred of earth has been pushed out, clear house comcreature the home, walks, plant rows and the ridges of eclipse or for feel and the latter away prod are the Such situations fort overshadow heart comfort; they sighs in any market. It does not realopen fields. difference if the humor more frequented by the mole because the short passageway running obliquemake themselves unfit companions for ly moke much home-mad- e Follow tunnel. down seems to mnin and show signs a the hit ly husor shelter some concealment themselves, much less for their they offer of wear, if it please the two, who enand are less often disturbed by the its course, usually only a few inches, bands. They should cultivate the without criticizing, and carry a activities of man. It Is. especially de- and place the trap on the main run. courage let go; they should realize joy Utilizing Moleskins. sirable to trap in such places when is never a bargain, nev- bubbling laugh from their lips to their that monotony As a rule the farmer boy or the er worth what living. one wishes to avoid, in the operation, they pay for It. the disfigurement of lawns and gar- trapper who has accumulated a lot of Reading aloud, music In the home, no have who There are other wives den beds infested by moles that have moleskins will want to dispose of them cares nor responsibility, no tax on time the romping play of the children, the as he would any other kind of pelts, come in from the main runways. or energy, no money worries; burdens welcome guest ail help to keep moby selling to a reliable fur dealer. If on set ridges It will payto traps of housekeeping nre reduced to a min- notony at bay. Looking out for the over temporary hunting paths only local furriers do not handle this class imum hy the help of efficient servants; Joy notes in the commonplaces, findcurfour-lea- f clover when these have been constructed re- of skins information concerning (lie children are away at school. These ing happiness like a rent and methods cf shipping prices to look we because know where is just cently in damp soli, or, at least, have It wives, too, often face monotony. for it, seeing reason for thankfulness not become so dry that the mole no may be obtained by writing to estableisof of but not work, the monotony lishments doing business by mail. InIn what we have rather than regret in longer finds profit in following them ure. adwhat we hnve not, singing and smilin search of food. Since the ridges quiries in matters of this sort of money In the making absorption dressed to the Bureau of Biological a ing at one's work, make monotony fade usually have many turns and windings, and home of for the support family It is well to set the traps on a part of Survey, Washington, D. C., will receive husband may lose the true perspec- away like mist before the suu of the the path that takes a straight course. prompt attention. Really loving ones home tive of life. lie may become unduly morning. livIt is seldom worth while to set mole anxious for more money; he may keep is the best way to make it worth ing; having a pride in it will make it traps In a dry place. The animal de- CURING SEED CORN PROPERLY his desires too high ; he may be lights to work In a moist, rich soil, too much of his real self in ac- proud of us. Doing more for each othfor there the digging is easy and there Should Be Dried Fa6t Enough to Prein er Intensifies love, for we love most quiring wealth. In Love vent Molding or Souring Hang on those for whom we do most its food abounds. Then, too, a satisproviding all that money can buy he Corn Tree or Strings. and grows giving. by gains factory adjustment of the working that the greater things may forget parts of a trap cannot be made In dry Let us hold monotony at bay by utilmere money cannot buy, forget that of more recent dirt. The the signs Curing seed corn consists largely in mere material things do not bring real izing to the full our trifles of possibilmole activity at any particular spot drying It fast enough so that it cannot If he goes home tired, ity. If we cannot go to Europe or happiness. the better the chances for successful mold or sour. To do this, the corn physically, mentally and morally, nnd even take a trip to the mountains or trapping. It will pay to run the traps should be hung up on strings, corn is and silent or irritable the sea, let ns take a trolley ride or a trees or some contrivance so as to and twice 8 day, morning and evening. he is drifting to- walk; if we cannot do even these let When to Trap. keep the ears separated and off the wards the rocks of matrimonial mo- us look out of the window and smile v Trapping moles in the Pacific coast floor and then placed in a building notony. do anything that breaks our country may be followed successfully through which the air can circulate If two kill monotony in their The failure of many marriages is not at any season of the year and at any freely so as to' carry off the moisture. any great positive wrong nor even a hearts, they will kill It In their lives tiipe when weather conditions will per- If the corn freezes while it has too eerles of lesser wrongs but just lap- and they will be just glad and happy mit In the eastern states the work much moisture the germ is killed. sing Into the omission of words and that they have each other. life-givin- g y, fur-beari- bric-a-bra- Baby Plagiarizes Scene From Immortal Will debutante is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Artillery avenue. Although its a harsh charge to place against one so youthful, Miss Cole is a rank plagiarist. Merely to create an impression with the young set, she went visit ing Monday in a laundry basket. Miss Cole should be chided for DETROIT. A charming dabbling in sensationalism that way, She should remember that a certain writing gentleman, Mr. Shakespeare, anticipated her by a couple of cenMr. Shakespeare originated turies. idea in a show the laundry-baske- t many years ago, called the Merry f, Wives of Windsor. lie had Mr. a character in this show, do the laundry-baske- t stunt, and the old resl dents do say it was quite a hit. But even if it was not her own creation, Miss Coles tour in her mothers laundry basket procured her a deal of public interest. Her mother placed a basket of soiled clothes on the porch for the laundry man. In some way Miss Cole got in the basket, llow she got there seems to be a mystery, but it is believed she became hidden in the clothes and was put in the basket with them. Anyway the laundry man failed to see her and took her right away with him to the laundry, and her toother was frantic with worry, fearing she had been abducted, and policemen were called to search for her, and oh lots of excitement resulted. Her hiding place was revealed just as she was about to be dumped into a boiling vat at the laundry. On her return home Monday afternoon, Miss Cole refused to discuss the Incident. She is three months old. Ful-staf- Jewish Refugees Reach America in Terrible Plight ATLANTIC PORT. With minds and bodies almost wrecked by and other European war horrors, 89 Jewish war refugees from Palestine arrived here on a French liner. No brush or word picture could reproduce tiie story of their escape from Palestine, subsequent to attacks by Turks, rescue by representatives of the joint distribution committee of American funds for Jewish war relief, their safe arrival at Berne, Switzerland and the hazardous trip across the Atlantic. With trembling bodies and eyes filled with tears of gratitude, they told their stories. They told of Jerusalem, a city once holding 65,000 Jews. But 25,000 are left the others have starved to death. They were four months going from Jerusalem to Berne. Many died from starvation and exposure while on the way. The few who made the trip successfully arrived starving, emaciated and half nude. Temporary relief awaited them at Berne, where clothing also was vided. En route, they were attacked by a band of young Turkish soldiers who stripped them of everything of value, especially clothing and food. Many of them have relatives In America by whom they will be cared for. Others will be taken care of by Jewish charity. At Berne, an additional 1,000 refugees are waiting to be brought over. Their first act on arriving on American soil was to offer prayer for their safe arrival; their first request was for food. The request was granted im mediately by the New York membeis of the committee. To say that two million people are starving; that in the Lebanon alone more than 150,000 have perished of starvation and disease; that In Palestine since the wars the population of Jerusalem has fallen by over beginning, from the same causes, means perhaps very little to the horror-jade- d mind. But to have seen the naked children lying out in the cold and rain of streets of Beirut, crying out for a crust of bread, till even the garbage-strew- n the Turkish officials could not bear it any longer and appealed to the American ambassador to send help ; to have seen the thousands of deported Armenians, mosMy women and children, literally rotting to death on the banks of the Euphrates, these were sights never to be forgotten by those that heheld them AN one-thir- Wandering Ostrich Cleans Up d City Back Yarc CITY. John Stobbe of 3574 East Third street has an ostrich SALThisLAKE hands. Mr. Stobbe allows that it is some bird. At first it was gen eraliy supposed that it had wandered away from Liberty park, with a panel o:l wire fence in its craw. The only difficulty about this explanation was that the keeper found neither ostrich nor section of fence missing from his com pound. In the meantime, the puzzle that his presence la the neighborhood provoked did not disturb the ostrich. Ht approached the baek yard of the Stub-liresidence under squatters right The yard was strewn with pears and apples from fruit trees. These h (leared up forthwith, along with such pieces of broken dishes, knives, marbles, patchwork, tins and other bright morsels that appealed to his sense of things edible. Now the bird has settled down .to watching for the falling of the apples and pears, unmindful of the J decreasing supply on the trees. S, R. Lambourne, superintendent of the city I I parks, said last night that the bi:d undoubtedly belongs at the Wandemere S resort. Insistence of many persons who telephoned to him that they had I t served the city by finding one of its ostriches led Mr. Lambourne to investl-'Vgat- e notified the officials of the resort, but at when the bird had strayed. Tlest reports the ostrich was still holding down the outfield and Infield in the ''.1 ikobbe apple orchard. e u-- n mole-infeste- d sac-lficl- over-absorpti- fault-findin- g, |