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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH come mayor of the city or governor of the state who knows? Then shed be sorry Then he would look away from her as she had looked away , from him. And Esther? She had gone with her father and mother to Washington, but she was not enjoying herself. Nothin? seemed rftht. he realized that she had been hast. She had' been silty! Suppose J antes had been with a pretty girl? , She might have beep a relative, a fourth or filth cousin. Lots of persons have relatives turning up when they least expect them. She wished slie were home, but she couldut leave until her father's busi ness was finished. She couldnt write directlj that would be fooMiumiliiiting but she could write to Norm and tell her to gie her address to whomever . , called. Happy thought! But Nora had left and the housekeeper had installed a new maid in her place and Jhe letter was forwarded across the continent to her, Esther waited. He wont write me, so there must be another girl, and lie is glad I have given him this chance to conclude that all is over between us. if I only knew for certain, she 1 Circumstances Alter Cases By LILLIAN H. CROWLEY , DEMAND FOR SAFE ROADWAYS Some I Kind of Protection Should Provided to Keep Cars From Skidding Off Dirt Roads. Bo What value (to we place on a human life? To judge by tome of the roads over the country it is uot much. Lives ore log! many times where a few dollars or a little extra time would make a road safe enough so that taking a ride along them on a rajny day in an g auto would not be such a experience as is often the case now, says a writer in Successful Farmer. Recently a friend of mine was driving along' a road within a half mile of a small town and ran into a ditch six feet deep, upsetting his car and smashing things up generally, though lie escaped unhurt, and had no one with him. Many complaints had been made about that road, but nothing was 'done by anyone. On either side the ditch tame within less than two feet of the roadway, and there was "not even a ridge or anything to ward the wheels oft and keep them from sliding over. When hundreds of automobiles are owned in every part of the country and it is impossible to always keep off roads when they are slippery, it is not morally right and should not be legally right to leave them Q a condition that would make an accident under ordinary conditions possible. During the last two years I have been riding around considerably and we have been in places where it was very dangerous driving, and often came up on such places with no chance at all to avoid them. In one case we crossed a bridge after a light shower, and on the far side found that it had caved away to within six inches of the road, though that was solid. For a rod the ditch was not two feet from the road, with nothing to check a slide into It. A very steep hill began just beyond the bridge. Our car could not make the hill, and we stalled, and bad to back some. The least bit of skidding would have been certain to have car- hair-raisin- ' , l 1921 by McClure Newspaper $ Syndicate ) James VVrightman was getting on famously with the firm. It made him feel pretty good for two reasons: One, because he was ambitious and meant to succeed, and' the other and more important one was that he was going to marry Esther Granger. They intended to be married just so soon as' he should have another raise in salary. He had been most successful in his work lately and had reason to I I I I hope. Of course, sticking as closely as lie did to business curtailed his pleasure, for he had had to refuse invitations that came from his loved one. But he was working for her. Estiier had been so sweet about it. I understand, dear, she had said lamented. more than once. There was no joy in the return and This very morning the president of she went to bed with a headache the firm had slapped him on the shoulheartache rather. der and saidf Jerry Suflerin, president of James James, my boy, I want you to go firm, was a particular friend of her to court this morning and take charge fathers and lie and Mrs. Sufferin were of our suit. Miss Boatwright will go giving a bail. Esther bad to go. She with you as she made out the concould not let an one else see tier moptract for the defendant and is a pret- ing. Her parents had realized that d ty girl. Phone me as there was something wrong between Boon as it is over. Go ahead and their daughter and James, but had rewin! frained from interfering. The president sent Miss Boatwright, James was not ats the ball. Esther his private secretary, to accompany found herself seated on a divan with James, and the two set off for court. Jerry Sufferin. James had the faculty of concentratI tell you, girlie, youre a lucky one ing on his work of the immediate to get James VVrightman, for hes present and he hardly noticed his com- bound to make Us mark. I raised panion. She was simply something his salary that day after he won the belonging to the wOik In hand like lawsuit and I made him take' our stai the books under his arm. idiss Boatwright, to the witness, He never lost sight of an advantage Blackmar for luncheon. They did a for his case, and Miss Boatwright big piece of workfor the firm that proved to be a clever witness. In fact, day. Hes doing wel, Esther, and i' they won the case on her testimony hope youll be married soon. Why as much as on any other one thing. isnt he here tonight? When James, about twelve oclock, I I think Ill call him up am see, phoned the president triumphantly the Mr. Sufferin big man was elated. , Go right in to my den and tell him Take Miss Boatw'right to luncheon. to come. Give her the best the Blackmar has Esther flew to the privacy of the to offer. tIm grateful to her, and I retreat and called James. He was at know itll be a treat, because she has home, ft here he had spent all of his to support her mother on her salary evenings, lately. and her fiance is in South America. Yes, she heard the strong tones So go as far as you like, and its on of his beloved voice. the firm. am at James, dear, its Esther. James by this time was pretty hun- the Sufferins and I have something gry himself, so he didnt mind doing to say to you. as the boss ordered. He called a For a moment James hesitated but taxi and they were driven to the hotel, only for a moment for the sound of where the waiter escorted them to a Esthers sweet voice had driven away little table for two. He all his stern resolutions to put her out never slighted any work that was of his life. given him to do. Therefore ho was Ill be over right away, he ex" most - solicitous that his companion claimed. " should have a luncheon that was Ill be waiting for you in the den. w'orthy of the name. Miss Boatwright dear. ' level-heade- - , ' ' I rose-shade- d Properly Protected Road. ned us over the bank and for several minutes It looked like we were to go down six or eight feet intc a creek. .It Is not always that such places are on unimportant roods. In fact the first place mentioned was on a main traveled road betwjen county seats, and automobiles used it on long distance travel. In the main it was a fine road well kept, bur there were two or three places that were really dangerous, though this was the worst of all. Wherever there Is a place at the side of a dirt road that has much travel, that is deep enough to upset a car that went down into It, some kind of protection should be made to keep cars from skidding off. We are not considering the quick dash to one side from careless driving or going too fast in mnd, but the unavoidable skid that is bound to occur now and then. Our roads should be safe In muddy weather as far as we can make them for often at such times we have to use them with our cars. UNITED STATES GOOD ROADS Work Is in Prpgress in Every Section to Give Country Superior Highway System. The time is rapidly passing when the bad roads of America can be pointed out as a reproach. In every section of the country work is in progress to of give the United States a system roads which will compare favorably With those of other countries. Roads are being built at 2,985 different points. Fully 30,000 miles of road have been approved by the secretary of agriculture. It is estimated that this construction will cost tlie country nearly $400,000,000. At the end of June. 1920, the government. reported tliat different projects, or a total of 16 POO miles of roads, had been complete!. Boys Life. NEW CHARACTER OF TRAFFIC Most of Existing Highways Were Not Constructed to Support Heavy Loads Now Imposed. Most of our existing roads were not designed with a view of carrying the heavy loads now imposed upon them, and in new roads It would seem the tmllders changed acter of problem cannot realize the present conditions and the new charthe traffic; In any case the Is not an easy one. appreciated his thoughtfulness. After he had given his order and the beaming waiter had gone to fill it, James let his eyes wander about the large and beautiful room. They did not wander far, for a short distance away sat Esther with two other girls. Her glance was turned away from him and he could not catch her eye. Then It dawned on him that she was purposely looking away. His heart sank when he realized the situation. He recalled the many times lately that he had been unable to join her plead-lnbusiness. His companion spoke to him and for the first time he discovered that she was pretty ad extremely, pretty girl, - . daintily dressed. What a situation ! Here he was doing the work the firm demanded ; having luncheon with a girl he barely knew; he wasnt even treating her fo the meal. Business pure and simple and Esther, with averted head, hadnt understood. Why couldnt Miss Boatwright have been old and ugly? There were plenty of ugly women connected with the business. He couldnt leave his guest and go over to explain to Esther before her friends, friends of hers he had never seen before. He felt like a trapped animal. Miss Boatwright sensing his abstraction thought that she herself must be ' dull and so tried to be pleasant James replied to and entertaining. her efforts with disconnected words. Esther and her friends soon left, without a glance at James table. When he got back to the office he was closeted with the president and other members of the firm for several hours and did not get a chance to ' telephone. He had received the raise in salary. He could explain to Esther about the luncheon and they could be married at once. Esther was not at home, the maid informed him. She was to be out for dinner and go to the theater later. He left a note asking her to call him up at his rooms as soon as she should get hoihe, no matter how late it was. Esther did not call. He telephoned in the morning as' early as he dared. She had gone out of town to be gone indefinitely. No. there was no message and no letter. Repeated calls over the telephone brought only the same answer. From bewilderment and grief James turned to anger for' consolation. To be so completely innocent and then to be treated as though he were a criminal for such a little thing anyway. It was well that he found out. Hed have an awful time with a wife who was so suspicious and saw harm In nothing at all. He was through aDd would concentrate entirely on business; then, sometime, he might bp-, Hurry, INTRODUCING A WISE 'GUY. CALLS STEADY FOB NERVE n Cesfc East Duty Devolving African Monarch Can Not Be Called a Sinecure. The Rev. John Roseoe, rector eC Ovington Norfolk, kept members of the Royal society wondering for more than an hour while he lectured on kin Journey through East Africa, where he went on a tour of Investigation on behalf of the government and the Royal society. King George was amused by the travelers description of the royal servants at Bunyoro, one of the plates Mr. Roseoe visited. He described their duties in his lecture in Loudon. The kings chief cook has a very The trying job, said Mr.' Roseoe. custom is that every inomiug he brings to the king a pot of specially prepared meat, with which he must walk all around the royal enclosure. With his face whitened he enters' the and in a dead silence presence, throughout the court, which may not be broken by coughing or sneezing on pain of instant death, the chief cook puts a piece of meat at the end of a fork Into the kings mouth. He does this ftfur times, but If by chance or nervousness he touches the king's teeth with the metal fork he dies Instantly. "These servants find the ordeal so trying that they can only carry It out for a few days, after which they are sent away for a six weeks holiday. That is all the meat the king is supposed to have in a day and for the rest he lives .on milk." London Daily Mall. t IS MAILS GUARDIAN P&ODLE Small Kansas City Dog Dirty and Shaggy, but as Faithful aa They Make Them, Mr. and Mrs. Perkins had sat silent for half an hour, when he looked up from his paper and said: My dear, you are very silent tonight. Has the cook Quit her job or do you feel sick? No, neither," replied Mrs. Perkins. It is that I have something terrible to tell you, and I dont exactly know how to begin. It Is horrible terrible and I expect, after you,, hear It, you will not speak to me again for two weeks. x You fill me with alarm! said Mr. Perkins, but go on and lets hear the .worst of it. Well, you know that 1 had a birthday two weeks ago. As a gift, you bought me a $600 ring. It was beautiful, and I thought I would always treasure it, but something has' happened. I went shopping today and 1 lost lost You lost the stone out of the ring, didnt you? Yes, Mr. Perkins, 'and I have done nothing but weep for, the last four hours. Well, my dear one, weep no more! Yes, you had a birthday and I gavel you a gift, but it wasnt a $600 diamond ring. Knowing'what a careless woman you are and knowing you would lose the diamond in less thau a month, I paid $25 tor a glass diamond. You have lost it, but we have saved $575. Instead of crying, let us relolce and feel good. Yes, dear, we have saved $575, and tomorrow night s reswe will go out to some taurant and get a bang-udinner. first-clas- p Graphomania. In the cow-patthey call it vanity, and that is the name the preacher, who was king In Jerusalem, had for It when, his own cows were lowing But Prof. Bergson, by the Jordan. in the most ndvanced manner, calls It graphomania, or tlie mania for writing. Ji.venal had yet nnother name for it. To him it was cacoethes scribendi or the Itch for writing. On the whole. Solomons name is the simplest and the most impressive. It is a case, presumably of every one to their liking, as the old lady inthe proverb said when she kissed her cow. But just where that cows- - path lay no one seems to know. T. U. in Christian Science Monitor. h avenue. dependence He draws no salary from the post office department, but is as regular in his attention tO his task as though-hwere receiving the top wage. Someone is always at the door him. Then, after a casual inspection of the office, he hunts up fils chosen friend, Ed Easton, carrier 109, and commences his dally duties as guardian and friend. He waits at each stop for Ed to unload his mail and accompany him back to the station, staying till Easton goes to lunch. Then he will trot off to his own home for a rest, and at one oclock may be seen on duty once ' more. Even Sunday mornings, when his friend does not come to the office, he will run up to the door, wait patiently till he Is tired, and then will disappear and not be seen any 'more till Monday at the usual hour. Kansas City Times. , -- - -- - - - Eski-Sheh- Eski-Sheh- r, Eski-Shel- He Had the Proofs All Right High School Johns three spinster sisters were all sentimental.' They treasured all the relics of their early romances-tras-h that John would joyfully have discarded so that he could have more room for trophies, etc. One night he scornfully called the familys attention to a gayly decorated clock on the mantel. Its no earthIt wont run and ly good, he said. fts out of style, too. Lets get one of those mahogany ones like the Browns have. One of the sisters looked at the relic. Oh, lets dont, she simpered. Lets keep it for memorys sake. It has ticked so many happy hours for alt of us girls. Yes, Ill say It has, John agreed scornfully, and according to present evidences it has sounded a good many alarms, too. Keep Control of Temper. Repeated outbursts of violence have the same effect on your delicate mental and nervous mechanism that they have on the machinery which controls the energy generated by the waterfall. In a very little time the person given to violence will be unable to control his energy. It will burst forth at all times, as in the case of a Tradly spoiled child. And then 'there will be little work and no thought. All the energy that is generated by the mysterious processes of life will be wastJohn ed, never again to be recovered. Blake in Chicago Dally News. Freeze' Fruit to Keep It Strawberries, grapes, ehertfes, raspberries, and other small fruits, as wtII as tomatoes and some other vegetables, can he kept along time intact from the genus that bring about decomposition. Germs may be present in tlie air and in the fruits, but their activity is suspended by freezing. The department of agriculture has found that fruits frozen to a temperature as low as 10 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, up to 32 degrees, and then stored in a temperature not above 16 degrees, will keep, for several months. Popular Science Monthly. Making Them Learn History. Enactment by the state legislature of Indiana of a law to make the teaching of American history compulsory In every public and private school of the state is urged by the national Americanization committee of the As It Appears to Jud. Jud Tunkins says some of the motio- American Legion. The bill provides stars begin to look as if. also for the compulsory teaching of schools a they paid whole lot more money to civil government in the high state. the of to snd scenario writers. colleges lawyers than n-picture Butlervtlle,. a farming district near Miirray, proposes expgjid in the neighborhood' of $59,600' for a water system x The engineer' fhr the Price River Irrigation district announces that the FORMER MEMBER OF CABINET Mammoth dam will! Be rebuilt at a MAKES ANALYSIS OF THE cost' of $150,000.' INDUSTRIAL SURVEY, After April 1 the shopmen employed by the Southern. Pacific comIn Ogcjen will work five davs 'Declares Taxation Is Big Question Up pany out of each week. t to the United States. Settlement Two additional air mail routes out of Peace and International of Salt Lake, one to Los Angeles and Problems Declared Vital. another to Denver, are contemplated ' by the government Baltimore. David F, Houston, forWhile hurrying - over a polished of the treasury, iu floor mer secretary to answer the telephone Mm. survey of James of Salt Lake analyzing a country-wid- e slipped and fell, industrial, financial, agricultural and breaking liter in two places. right leg declares other economic conditions, to declared have been of inFire; that tlie big national question is taxthe big city ation with peace settlement and in- cendiary origin, destroyed dance Price. The hall in and pavilion next. ternational trade loss is, estimated at $8000, with insurThe survey, made in- all of the geo' ance of $5000. graphical divisions of the United Charlotte McFarland, aged 5- years, States by field agents of the Fidelity and Deposit company of this city, con- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles formerly of Salt Lake, was quessisted of answers to thirty-si- x instantly killed when struck by a1 Setions by farmers, bankers manufacturers and public Officials. An. interest- attle street car. Ten additional stalls to the present ing feature of the statistics i that iu at Provo of the Salt Lake eery section except New England roundhouse and the Iioiky mountain states build- Route are to be built When the ing operations, show a marked' in- building is completed it will bring. 300 crease. General transportation con- additional men to Provo. Thirty-on- e Germans and Austrians ditions in every state were reported good and raw materials- plentiful. who were unable to assume the duties Savings accounts, the survey showed, of citizenship during the war, were', admitted to suffrage rights at Salt; increased in nineteen states. Lake one day last week. Police officials of twenty-seve- n An ordinance which provides for instutes said there has been a noticeable increase in crime over lust Septemcreasing the license of transient merber, but a decrease was reported in chants from $25 a day as at present Massachusetts, Maine, New Hamp- to- $100 a ddy, Is being considered by shire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Con- the Salt Lake commissioners. necticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Mis. George H. Dern of Salt Lake-waDelaware, Maryland, District of Coelected, regent of the state orlumbia, Yirglna, West Virginia, North ganization of the Daughters of South Carolina, Georgia, Carolina, Revolution at the first anFlorida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala- nual conference held In Ogden. v bama and Mississippi. H. H. Huntsman, subcontractor, was In every state the consensus of killed and three other men were seopinion was that the farmers have not verely Injured in a premature explodisposed of all their last seasons sion at what is known as Bide Cut Low prices and shortage of on the crops. highway. money and labor are said to have Ed. Tinkler, working for the Utahi caused a eduction in acreage in all Fuel company, lost his left arm in an states except Hlinois, Iowa, Kansas, accident in the- Sunnyside mine of the Pacific Missouri, Nebraska and the It was caught between a. company. edast. states. The crop outlook for falling rock and the edge of a mine 1921, however, in every case, was- recar. ported fair or good. The Central school building at Bingham was- slightly damaged by NINE DAY .BATTLE CONCLUDED large rocks rolling down from the hillside. The wall was badly damaged in Greeks Have Been Defeated by Turks one of the rooms and some glass was r. at: broken. t Constantinople. Kiaziin Kara Bekili, Rulon Johnson, aged 11, was fatalcommander of the Turkish nationalists ly injured at Provo when he jumped in Armenia, with his army of salvafrom - the running board of a truck tion, is nearing Sivas. a The Greeks have beta defeated by and fell under the machine in such rear over a wheel that way passed the Turks in the battle at and crushed his head. ' says a communication issued by the Asserting that the state needs a Kemal of headquarters Mustapha whipping post for such offenders, City Paslia, internationalist leader. , A Turkish communique dated April Judge pen Johnson of Salt Lake sentenced George Christiansen, i7 years 1 sas that the, battle on the frontier, lasting nine days, has of age, to six months in the county jail for beating his mother. been concluded, Biledjik being recapThe new automobile law, passed by tured and the Creeks retreating toward the recent legislature became effective Brusa! Turkish transports conveyed by Bol- April 1. The new fees will increase-thcost of licenses for passenger shevik gunboats have landed part of vehicles about $5 per- car and for Kara Bekirs army at Ineboli. Greeks declare that there has been a trucks about 50 per cent. Gall Cowley, 18 years of age, marrenewal of tlie fighting on the Eski-Shefront ried, and the father of a child; committed suicide at the home Mrs. Emnja Casto of Ms mother-in-laYouths Slay Jailer. M. Hunt several miles north Of Monroe, N. Silver After Rumaldo , City, Lorenzo and Elitro Corral, aged 14 and shooting himself tnrough the heart. The city commissioners of Logan 17, respectively, lmd escaped from the county jail here, Ventura Beneomo, the have entered iutd a contract with the jailer, was found dead. He had been General Appraising company of Seatalmost decapitated by a hand ax, found tle, Washl, for the appraising of the near the body. The jailer, according to Logan City municipal electric light prisoners, was slain while asleep. plant and the lighting system of the s He is just a little shaggy poodle, and as black as coal dust and smoke can make him, but he is very devoted to bis duties. He may be seen each morning waiting at the rear door of Post office Station Cr 3021 In- . Meet Mr. Perkins He Has Thought Out a Wrinkle That ( May Save You Money. Husbands, iioirswoF BEHEMIBIEI te MIIIMLEU ir city. American Radical Editor Arrested. Mexico City. Federal authorities have arrested L. A. E. Gale, an Ameri- Formal denial has been entered by the public utilities commission of Utah of the petition of the Utah copcan radical, who for more than three per company for a rehearing of the years has published a monthly magn-zin- e application of the Utah Power & Light here, which of late has been company for an increase i power rates. sharply critical of the Okregon administration. After five honrs deliberation, the jury at Ogden In the case of the state, Former Ruler Charles is ill., against Jennie Scardino, 17 years of Former Emperor age, charged with manslaughter in Steinamanger. Charles is ill with bronchitis. He is connection with the death of Mike suffering from fever and Is having Termain at the Scardino home, Febnervous coughing attacks, according to ruary 20, 1920, returned a verdict of a bulletin issued by liis Budapest phy- not guilty. ' sicians. The bulletin says he is obliged By decision of tlie public 'utilities to remain in bed. commission of Utah, the Burleson rates now in effect on the Kills Drunken Husband. Utah portion of the Mountain States Chicago. Curl Pellegrinis, a musi- telephone and Telegraph companys cian, 43 years of age, was shot through system are upheld, with the exception the heart by his wife Sunday, dying in that the measured service stanfly. Pellegrinis drank freely, and of the company Is seriously modified, seldom' worked, depending upon his to the profit of the patron. wife to provide a home and funds foi A movement is on foot 'for the adhim. vancement of the Delta thigh school so that the full four years course can 'be had there. The school at present Engine Sparks Cause Blaze. Omaha. Fire which was started by gives only two years of high school sparks from n Builington rail- work and patrons In this community road engine pnninlly destroyed the have for some time been urging the American lota li company, Antioch, educational authorities to take action Neb., doing $.100, (kill damage. to make this a standard 'high school. With a view to arousing public senBergdolls Captors Released. timent in favor of the soldiers bonus Coblenz. Carl Neuf and Franz Zimbill, to be brought before the next mer, Americans released from1 prison session of congress, the world war in Baden, where, they had been con- veterans and the veterans of the fined for their part in the attempt to and Civil wars held a arrest G. C. Bergdoil, American draft monster parade in Ogden. evader, arrived here Sunday. The sale of more than a million and ' Charged With Widow Death. a quarter pounds of alfalfa seed in a New York. Mrs. Carolina Verderi single transaction Is announced by osll, stepdaughter of the the seed marketing association of the dead woman, and her husband, Lu- j Utah State Farm bureau In connec-- ! ciano, 28, were arrested Sunday, tion with the successful pooling of charged with the murder of Mrs. Cath- j the 1920 crop of more than 400 in- dividual growers.erine Trotta, a widow of Brooklyn. pa-si- - |