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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH Wl Ha must be an hopest burglar I" Harry opened the letter and read the penciled lines: baL The Cuckoo Clock From Mother "Dsre mr. Peeper Hears yore wife wont have it In the house,clock, she K hates kookoo clocks. Its the wiles houss I ,i3 OPEN LETTER SECRET IS FOUIID Jet hsr have what she wants, rs specnily MASTER'S TO WOMEN nobudy you no. The Peppers langhed until they cried, and the laughter and the tears By DORA MOLLAN seemed to wash away all the soreness and the bitter feeling caused by the clock. ( We shall keep them all, de by McCluri Newipipar SyndleiL.) dared Mr. Pepper generously, to re Young Mr. Pepper stood In his own mind me of my selfishness." dining room, hands in pockets, pipe We .shall keep only one and ask between bis teeth, surveying the whore to change the others for permission with an air of perfect contentment. else, declared Mrs. Pepper, His bachelor dreams were realized. something and this being the wifes house you . Be was married at last to Mabel must let me have what I want I this was the first day in their own it is yours, grinned Mr. Pepper. home and they had been arranging "Then my way is that it is our their wedding gifts, with delightful home and we ninst both have what Interruptions to explain how wonderwe want and the best way to do. that ful that they two had met and loved is to make up our minds to each like and everything. what the other likes and the rest There is only one fly in the oint- was buried in the shoulders of her adment, remarked Harry Pepper. Aud miring husband. that is Pretty Mabel hung ton his words ex- ERROR COST ARTISTS LIFE What is it, dearest t she pectantly. asked. How A. M. Villard, French Draugns-man- . "Tne the cuckoo clock, looney. Unintentionally; Violated Tlie she Drastic Law of r'hioa. stammered, why mother gave me that 1 asked her to 1 it, .Harry Of the design of a postal stamp that Tears brimmed ber lovely eyes. Harry cost the life of the artist, the Trait kissed her and assured her that he, dUnion says: too, hud admired those impertinent reA. M. Villard, a draughtsman of exminders of the flight of time, but al- ceptional ability, was in tS49 employed 1 never in the Chinese customs office. He was ways at a distance. expected to have one in my own home, he requested to design new postal stamps ended. to he issued on the sixtieth birthday of But you knew you knew, Harry, the emperors mother. Proud of the distinction thus conthat I adore them they are cunning. I knew it, I ferred upon him, Villard did Ids best . he admitted, thought after you married me you to satisfy the Pekin government, but would not care for such an absurdity. made two fatal mistakes'.- Ue used the Vou see, darling, Im tired at night abbreviation Imp. Chinn. Post Instead g after a day at the of spelling out Imperial Chinese Post office,' and then to have a silly lfttle As a Chinese public official he was ex' bird pop out of ambush and remind pected to know that the criminal code me its tin6 to go to bed but never forbids any abbreviation in a public document under severe penalties. mind. Ill get used to it after a while. Still, lvorse was Villards other Youre an old dear, cried Mabel, offense. One of his designs was in but while Harry Pepper smiled pathe uqp of which color was purple, tiently his was no martyr spirit. the exclusive prerogative of the imCaine one morning when the neigh- perial house, and a capital offense for borhood was rife with tales of burgother any person. laries and the Smiths home had esHis artistic achievement and good caped ransacking. Came another mornintentions notwithstanding Villard was a frightened disgraced, and told that he deserved ing a week later when rushed upstairs and. announced capital punishment for his unheard-of- , Siaid the silver spoons had disappeared-fro- even if unintentional, offense against the sideboard and that the cuckoo the imperial house. clock was missing from its accustomed In deference to France (Villard plnce. was a Frenchman) he was not put to 1 cannot feel sorry, darling, said death, but sent on official business to innocent Mr. Pepper to his distracted Tibet, a mission that was considered wife; hut I will call up the police another form of execution. And instation right away, and he did. He deed Villard was never beard of afterwent to the dty that morning with a ward. curious feeling of satisfaction.' Some To Wearers of Artificial Eyeo. discriminating burglar,, he muttered, I'd like to give him a tip about the Wearers of artificial eyes usually blue glass vases that Auut Lucretia their glass eyes upon retiring in donated well, perhaps Norah ... will order to rest the oebitai tissues during break them some day when shes dust- the hours of repose. This ' practice, ing I I love my home but some of absolutely necessary with eyes of the the wedding presents! simple shell type (until comparatively In the meantime Mabel Pepper had recently , the only kind used)? if a called up her sympathetic mother and disagreeable - suppuration is to be ' related the story of the burglary. I avoided, need not be followed by wearreally miss his cheerful little call, she ers - of artificial eyes of the double most commonly shell type, added. Never mind, dear, comforted her used today this on the authority of mother there are Just as good fish Doctor Coulomb whose paper on this In the sea as ever were caught, and subject was read by Professor de there are just as charming birdies as 1.apersonne at a recent meeting of the medicine. This feature ever sang in a cuckoo clock! So her mother told Mabels sad ex- of double shell eyes Is attributable to Lucretia and to the fact that, because of their speclnl perience to great-authey permit the tears to Harrys Uncle Benjamin, who called on construction, her that day. In the meantime the flow' normally through their natural channels so that the secretions are police searched diligently for the midcarried away instead of accumulat... night marauder. Mr. Harry Pepper lost his cheery ing In the hollow of the eye socket to cause maceration of the tissues. bearing. A troubled look came Into From Le Petit Parislen. his eyes, and he made several grievous mistakes in his work.' Hang the - Grave of John Howard Payne. he muttered savagely cuckoo clock In Georgetown, the oldest part of one night after Mabel hud confided it was wretchedly lone- Washington, is burled the author of to him-thHome, Sweet Home, the song which some all day there without him and that the empty .house seemed more has been translated into almost every cheerful when she could hear the cun- language lu the world. John .Howard Payne was the American consul In ning little chirp of the clock. where he died about seventy ! Tunis, cried. he clock the cuckoo Hang VV. W. I never heard such a fuss made over years ago. Many years later a noted Corcoran philanthropist, anything in my fife. thinking it a shame that a man who Of course Mabel was a sensible home so much should be buried loved of and many woman, thought young thousands of miles away from.it, paid oilier things, and had plenty of amusement to distract her mind, but for the the expenses for the bringing- of He was then moment her new home was paramount Paynes body home. buried at Oak Hill cemetery. GeorgeIn her thoughts. One Sunday morning, a couple of town, In the plot in front of the wee after the burglary Mabel came chapel. The spot is marked by' a peddown to breakfast and found the table estal on which is a bust of the poet. gay with roses, while .her chair was '"Historic Mountain. heaped with packages. " a mountain of M?e . Abarim-range- , said her Pisgah, darling, Happy birthday, of the Dead sea. from the east on a as husband, pearl ring heslipped 1 must kiss you how top of which Moses viewed the promher linger. ised land. lias been - identified1 also many times sixteen? ' Mabel told him and then began to with the modem Naha, a ridge which Such large ones. projects westward from the .plateau open her packages. dear, she exclaimed ; you must 'help of Morflv nee the northeastern end of the Demi sea. It Commands an me." -f "A cuckoo clock from mother. Just extensive view of the whole of XveThere are two sumern Palestine. like tlie Other one. ; Isnt I tV 'titer?. D hang it In the old plnce, Harry there. mits, the higher, Itas Naba ; the lowet She squealed again when she found and. outermost. Bas Siyagah. The ial ter commands the- whole of the Jor that Aunt Lucretia had remembered her birthday, Lwith ra. jrtickpo clock. dan valley, and Is probably identical with And once more when- - Hatty's,, Unde rays the. Jewish Encyclopedia, gift was unwrapped and the top of Pisgah which looketh down v disclosed another cuckoo clock. Upon Jesiiiimm." : r- , Three i laughed Mattel hysterically'. of 8oftness. we do with them? Speaking Harry, what shall h il soft is! - 'The more the merrier. How . beautifully said. Harry gloomily. Then, to the Covering maid murmured as lie sat . on a low stool at her feet, laying his hapd on her servant. Whaf Is It, Norah?" . , Please. Mr. Pepper, I found his on glorious Vvliite.-arHoW-Jes- sbeautiful, but joh.- 'how the back doorstep this morning ".She she tenderly replied, gave him a large package wrapped In pinch softer ' laying her Jeweled hand on fhe tup newspapers., , What can It be, Barry "isbcd hi of his henil. ' V , ' ' . wife cautiously. In Lonetyville. "Im afraid, dearest yes another Why hang around the station like clock!" He held it up and untangled No train fo. four hours." the weights. To one of them' vns fas? tlilsT ' I wan to see 1 1 cant Intercept a tenpd a crumpled envelope, "Its the one that was stolen why cook stiirtinit hack ifor " town "Lenin . . did he bring It back? wondered Ma- - elite Cimr'er-Jonms- l Mrs. Little Tells How She . r nerve-wrackin- e -- , the-typ- nt 1 - ' . I - ' ' 1 Illinois Banker Discovers Lost Suffered and How Finally Cured Process of Stradivarius. HAS lo LABORED MANY YEARS Can Now Finish Instruments as Did the Famous Cremona Master 200 Years For Many Years Violin Makers Ago Have Been Searching for the Secret Process by Which Stradivarius Varnished H!s Violins 3anker Has Net Disclosed His Secret. Lost for more than 200 years, (lie secret process by which Stradivarius varnished violins is claimed to have been rediscovered by Fred A. Horn, a banker at Laoinl, III., who in his leisure hours manufactures instruments as nearly as he can like like those of tlie Italian master. His violins are in demand In Spr'ng-fiel- d at substantia! prices, hut Mr. Horn is not in the business of making violins. He does it only for the pleasure it gives him. and lie works at it only as he pleases. For years lie labored, bis friends say, completing violins, varnished and Unvarnished, touching his bow string to one, and then to another, forever listening with critical ear to the qualities of sound. . Banker Works in Shop. Lately lie announced lie believed that at last lie had found it the secret process of tlie maker of Cremonas, which other violin makers for 200 Mountaineers of Senegal, years have songht In vain. Mr. Horn has demonstrated the qualities of h:s French administrators have earned (Prepared by the National GeograpLlo Soimproved instrument to a few friends, ciety. Washington, D. C.l the gratitude of tlie large and influenbut has not yet submitted it to a jury Senegal, brought into prominence tial trading class in Africa by breaking of critics. because of the thpusands of Senegalbrigandage and policing the eara-- ' His workshop at I.aomi is a small ese who, as soldiers and laborers, as- up van routes. . The Moslems are all comfortable shed near his home, where sisted the French in the World war, is because of the French policy, slabs of wood hang from the ceiling. the gateway and main trade route to grateful which has. insured .pri'tcy. to the After banking hours, when the spirit Frances West African possessions. mosques and liarems and has permitmoves him, Mr. Horn enters hi3 work!n that country and in the regions ted them to continue their schools and shop and, builds a fire. Then he sits inlund to the east, Mohammedanism colleges, and in some cases has even down, he says, and waits for a slab to hold? almost undisputed sway ; and subsidized such institutions. speak to him. Take me, a slab apfrom there, some observers declare, But though Srance has permitted and see wliat you can do, Mr. peals, is likelihood this that religion (here Moslem schools to be carried on, she he hears one say. says jdorn will sweep southward unt". the great has not left all schooling to tlie MoThat one he takes down and starts majority of African natives vwlll be- hammedans. Public schools have been the process which has produced instrucome Moslems in name at least. established in Senegal and elsewhere ments of beauty, pretty as a picture. SeneOn its west, or Atlantic coast, in the West African possessions, In Iocs' orchestra leaders say, which gal may be said to mark the beginning which children of the various races, stand comparison with the best made of tlie real Africa the hot, moist tribes and are taught in of modern fiddles. religions with dark continent peopled negroes. French. At these schools reach Mr. Horn has not disclosed the procFor northern Africa is to a large ex- only a few present thousand children in Seneess he says he has rediscovered, nor tent desert, and is the land of Arab extended the manner by which he found it. gal, but the system is and Berber or Moor. As one steams as rapidly as possible. being Varnish Secret Lost. down the Atlantic coast of Africa, Excellent fonds have been built by The search he has quietly conducted leaving the last of the perennial the French in Senegal, connecting the has been the common search of many streams of Morocco, he skirts a forbidvarious towns and supplementing the violin makers. Different and contrading desert coast without a permanent river and rail routes to the sea coast dictory theories have been advanced stream for 1,800 miles. The first large which is situated under the from time to time to explain Cremona stream ' encountered Is the Senegal, Dakar, lee of Cape Verde,- - the westernmost varnish. It was in use only from 1550 a Into sea the systhrough emptying of land in Africa, Is the best port to 1750. After that It wonld seem tem of lakes and lagoons, navigable point on the whole west coast, and almost vanished as comp'etely and mysduring the rainy season for 600 miles the port on that coast at which teriously as It appeared. inland. This was naturally one of the ocean-goin-only g vessels can tie up alongOne of the many theories advanced best' trade routes into the interior of side a quay protected from the surf. is that successive and superimposed northwestern Africa, and by the con- As a result, the commerce of the port coats of oil and spirit varnish were struction of a railroad from the river's is and the trade route to the applied by Stradivarius. Most makes heavy, inrapids to a point 435 miles farther east starting there is used to distribute now are finished with oil varnish land, it has been made still better. and collect supplies to and from exi'l alone. Real Control by France la Recent. tensive regions in tlie interior. Dakar of the varnish ' is not Importance The foothold of France in Senegal is the seat of administration for all by Mr. Horn. It Is em dates from the days of Richelieu. In French West Africa and has a larger In various hooks on the sub phasized 1636 Fort St. Louis was established as European population (about 3,000) and especially In Grove's Dictiona trading post at the mouth of the Chan any other town in Senegal or the ject, ary of Music. to could river. France Senegal point neighboring countries. It was the understanding of the relittle more than the maintenance of hetween perfect proportions No Men. Place White lationship for coast stations in this region, however, and a pliable protective covering thai coununtil relatively recent times. It was white a mans not is Senegal clings to the wood and vibrates with it. not until near the middle of the Nine- try. Because of its climatic condithat made Stradivarius violins so teenth century that there was anything tions it is unheaitLful for Europeans superior ro all iike an aggressive effort to consolidate and probably always will be. The transcendeutally What the dictionary. others, says How control. made French recognize tills and have Senegal under French vere the component parts of tlie vargreat the progress has been since that no efforts to colonize the country. The nish employed by Cremona's famous time by the fact that there European population is made up almost uthier it is impossible to say. Two are now four municipal entirely of administrators of- various mndred years have passed since their communes in Senegal, and they jointly kinds, and traders. This situation has a .period long enough for send a deputy to the French chamber made necessary the French piau of ippiication he gums, resins, and ililutents to have in Paris. on the the country largely organizing lecome oxydized beyond the reach of The portion of Senegal which may basis of native states under protecor qualitative analysis. luantitive be regarded as having progressed far tion. v Besides which even the most enthu-dasticattle-raisintoward . becoming, like Algeria, a part on the grassy Although inquirer would hesitate before of. France, is small, embracing less plains of tlie upper Senegal has long cost :he entailed,' though the task than 1,000 square miles imd having a been the chief industry, agriculture nas been unsuccessfully attempted hundred few a e of iinpor-lanchas of a only, attained population place greater with fragments of instruments that thousands. The remainder of Senegal, in recent years. The principal with an area of more than 70,000 article of export is the peanut,, and have been damaged beyond possibility Apparently the sesquare' miles, consists of native stales considerable amounts of .other oil of reconstruction. under French protection and under seeds, oils, hides, rubber, timber and cret must remain a secret. the supervision of resident agents. cocoa also are sent out. Senegal ships OBJECTS TO QUESTIONS Situated between desert Africa and largequaiitities of kola or cola nuts. moist tropical Africa, Senegal is not These; are eaten by the natives unnaturally a legion of mixed races. throughout wesleru Africa, and even Man Seakir.n a Wedding License An .As- one advnnces from the north, the in the more remote parts of the contisacred Some. the first encounSenegal driver mal-k-s nent, because of their, stimulating Tlie man wanted a license, at least ter with; predominantly negro tribes, quahtles. that is what he informed John Lehr ag'It marks the end of tlie desert and Cotton grows wild and its producwho issues dog licenses at the court-sousOn the north tion might be made into an its fringe of in Cleveland. important side .of the river dwell people of Ber- Senegalese industry hut for the habits customer for a dog license, Another ber rr( -- Moorish of the natives. They are unwilling to Lehr thought to himself as he reached , To straight-hairedstraight-noseengage in tlie cultivation of a crop for a blank form. 'the south of tlie river tlie tribes vary ifhich requires considerable'- - steady How old? he asked in his most ac much in appearance, but practically work and a relatively long wait for .ommodating voice. chocoall are negroesrbiock or dork the man answered. Just twenty. maturity.; They prefer to raise sucli late colored, with broad flat noses aud crops as peanuts and millet which re Long or short hair? .kinky liair. Close to tlie coast are the quire little attention between planting the tnan Why. JOs rather long, members of the Wolof tribe, who are and harvest. .aid with, a little surprise. usually regarded as typically SenegalAnd what color? While there are a few tribes of naese. They are said to be the blackest tives Seneof White, the why, shes white, of course," ia outlying portions negroes known. Even their lips are gal whose members practice fetish Male or female? black. The people- of tills tribe are Say, said the man. trying :o spe ik worship, tlie grent majority of the Inparticularly loyal to tlie French and habitants of the country profess in a normal voice, just where tlo you have served. in large numbers as sol- Mohammedanism. This religion was get all this question sniff? Since when diers, Introduced both by the Berbers or did yon go into a girls pedigree for a Wise Methods of Administration. Moors" from the north and by nearmarriage license? ;Iq Administering Senegal, as indeed ly pure- negroes who came from tlie in sdmin siering all her'African po- West about the Thirteenth century Kept Coffin Sixteen Vears. ssessors, France has depended on tact and set up the powerful sultanate of For 16 years, a erttfin contain'ng the rather than off force, flier officials not TInibuetu. Rome of the tribes of Sene- ashes of iter husband, lias occcp'ed a ' MohamplRce of honor in Ihe parlor of Mrs. only reqognlze native chiefs, but also gal are apparently staunch treat them with consideration. The medans, but others are only Emma B. Everetts home at I afav-ette. of the Prophet, preserving Ind. Mrs. Everett has Just died, greatest of the rulers are presented their superstitions and pagan pracivlth valuable gifis, which emphasize at the age of eighty-siyears, and she the wealth and power of France, and tices much as nominal Christians con will he hurled in the coffin while the Some of the leaders are taken in Paris tinned to hold to such super sthh ns is ashes f her husband will be scattered as guests of tlie government The Europe during the Dark Ages. over her grave. . I was not able to Philadelphia, Pa. my housework and had to bo down most of the time and felt bad in my left Bide. My monthly periods were irreg ular, sometimes five or seven months apart and when they did appear wouldJast for two weeks and were very pabifuL 1 AiU was sick for about a lfjyear and a half and doctoredbut without any improvement V neighbor recommended Lydia E. ?inkhams Vegetable Compound to me, tnd the second day after 1 started tak-n- g it I began to feel better and I kept Now I in taking it for seven months. ceep house and perform all my house-iol- d duties. You can use these facts as rou please and I will recommend Vegetable Compound to everyone who suffers Mrs. J. S. LITTLE, 3455 is I did Livingston St.; Philadelphia. Pa. How much harder the daily tasks of i woman become when she suffers from such distressing symptomsaud weakness is did Mrs. Little. No woman should illow herself to get into such a condition because such troubles may be speedily jvercome by Lydia E. Finkhams Vegetable Compound, which for more than forty years has been restoring American women to health. x To Encourage Salvage. Hollowing tlie policy of rigid economy laid down by tlie secretary of war. and with his approval, the quartermaster corps hereafttr will teach enlisted men salvage work. A reboot for training tlie personnel in tlie repair of clothing and shoes lias Just been established tit (Simp Jackson, g. C,, and another school for the rejiair of typewriters at Fort McPherson, Ga. This training of the men will he part of tiie routine work of the salvage shops, and additional schools wilt tie established as soon as possible at convenient points in other corps areas. In tills way much material bought for the war can he repaired and utilized for tlie peace-tim- e needs of the army, saving thousands of dollars to the tax- payers. Old Acquaintances Every ship curries the sort of passenger who seems to have devoted Ms whole life to making a record in the matter of Atlantic crossings. A girl was once making a little fun of a passenger of this type. Be said to her: this Is my forty-nint- h missing! It is? she said indifferently. It's lty one hundred and eighth." Realty? the man exclaimed. Oil, yes, indeed, she answered, Its an old .. story yawning. crossing the Atlantic. Why, actually. I always recognize more than half et he waves we meet! Do you know, -- to-m- Observant Child. little girl war asked t go fot loaf of bread and was given (he A money. Is that asked. Yes, enough, dear; that amount". mamma? she is exactly the right Weil, youd better give me a.litth more, cause the bread may g. ay New Haven Regfoie I .get there. ister. . g e semi-deser- ., t. stock-i-swarih- y. , . - BETTER DEAD Life is a burden when the body is racked with pain. ' Everything worries and the victim becomes despondent and downhearted. 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