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Show TIME lw( VJrtJ TABLE SOTJTH-flOUN- D For Payaon. Santaquin and Lou Angeles ... No. 3 For Payson, Nephl sod No. 61 - ..... Mantl NOBTH-BOTJN- No. 6:68 pm D .. 9:4S ant ; For Proro, Pl.Grove. ican Fork, Lent, Merour, Salt Lake ....ll:Wm No. 64 For Pruvo. Salt Lake and 11:30 pm intermediate point Palatial trains are now running daily between Salt Lak and the Paettto Coast UTAH COUNTY Is In direct touoh with two Beat local train service. greatH.oltlei. J. BiJRTKKii. Uintrlct Passenger Agent. N. Pitirhcn, Depot Tloket Agent. Amer- ft . r IS iilB RIO G Arrlral and departure of tralni from Depot: No. Springvllle.ProTO.9alt Lake and all points east and went. ...1:10am No. -- ForSprlnvllle Frovo.Salt Lake and all point east and weat....8:4ipm No. s Knr Kuruka. Mammoth and SU- 6:87pm verClty No. ta-Eureka, Mammoth and Su6:15am rer City rnnnnntlnna marie In Olden tfnlon dftDOt with all tralai of Southern Paclfle and Oregon Short For For LIU. OFFERS 3 CHOICE OF FAST THROUGH 3 DAILY TRAINS AND THREE DISTINCT SCENIC ROUTES Pulman Paluce and ordinary Sleeping ears to Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, fst. Louis and imcago wunout -cnange. Free Recltntna- Chair Cars: Personally eon. ducted Excursions; a perfect Dining Car Ser- iOe. For ratea, folder, etc., or write Inquire of Ticket Agent, 11. T. MArrmwa, L A. BENTON. O. A. P. D., Salt Lake City. F. J. C. C. CRISMON NICHOLS It fa the desire of Sec- State of Kuox ts it was that retary I Secretary Root, to put the consu- AT I f y ASHIXGTOX. - nearly as it is j onalb'e ro vo do, upon the plane of the civil service. All are consular appointments made largely upon the recommendation of senators and representatives and other men of political influence, but the appointees are given places of the lowest rank In the service and must depend upon the excellence of their work to secure promotion. Moreover they must rass a satisfactory examination before the department will assign them to posts of duty. The administration, it Is known, would be glad If it were possible to apply civil service rules to these appointments of ministers and ambassadors, but as the holders of these high diplomatic offices are forced to great expense of living, and their salaries are comparatively small, no man can become a first place representative' of his country abroad unless he belongs to the class of the millionaires. The result of this is that In many cases money, rather than ability fixes the appointments of some of our ministers and ambassadors. In the past there were many literary men of standing but whose books did not bring them In a large revenue, who sought places in the consular service in order that they might have a regular income, comparatively little office work, and an opportunity also to get the atmosphere of Europe or Asia or of some other continent to give life and color to the books which they intended to write. The y has to stand on the same literary man level In seeking an appointment as a consul as that occupied by the lawyer or the merchant. There are not as many writers of books and esas there were In the says in the service past, and in one way the United States government is the loser thereby. If some one would go far back through the files of the state department and read the consu'ar reports contained therein, he doubtless would run across some clever bits of writing put on paper by rm?n who knew the art and who gave Interest and color and life to some seemingly dry as dust trade subject. It is very likely that the reports that Francis Bret Harte wrote when he was consul at Glasgow, Scotland, would make delightful reading even though they treated on the subject of . wool or, it may be, of Scotch whisky or Scotch cattle. There have been other literary men In the service, some of them better known than Bret Harte. It is only necessary to give the names of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Haw thorne to prove the point. - Not long, ago In the. service abroad the government had .Albion W. Tourgee, Arthur Sherburne Hardy,, James Jeffrey Reach, and George Horton. Two of these meu died comparatively recently, but they lived long etiough to see some of their writings appear in print as public documents and to know that the manner In which they treated their y to-da- to-da-y Crismon & Nichols Assayers and Chemists. Office and Laboratory 229 S.W. Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah Reference: National Bank of Republic P. Both phones 0. Box What's the matter A S IDAHO with 78 of acres of land have beeu reclaimed tocumvauou y during irrigation in that State the past 10 years. ' Thousand Thousands more will be. reclaimed within the next 10 years. This means an ODeniim for many thousands of home. scrub oak, and thickets of white and pur-- , , VaV JJr V, II Mr ill W 1 ' WS FXn$r:?t pie gorse, fight- . InoBlnhhnrntv for- a hold upon the shift- - h ing sands, with here and some straggling there groups of pine, the protesting remains of a great forest which wind and sand, and fire, and water bad spared." This was a description - vm 'i ii am a i i y a ar ': r jit ! m Havb Tou Investigated IDAHO? It has been truthfully termed a Land of Opportunities A Land of Homes - The Oregon Short Line Railroad Co. will be pWsed to send descriptive mat. rite ter regarding Idaho's A-resources. to D. E. Hurley, G. P. - or L. 8. Spencer. A. . P. A.. Salt Lake City. Utah. Benjamin Hughes Littery and Feed Stables HACK MEETS ALL TRAINS. B. H. BROWN, Jv' Livery i-Fe- ed -- Stable Hack Meets AH Aoxf?s sirrtcwsc imfrcm leewo Trains 'PHONE NO. 12 - - Spanish Fork Utah Spanish Fork Co-operat- ive Dealers Id General Merchandise, O . and ttaaafaoturers Flour, Grain : Produce. ; of Harness, and subjects was appreciated by thousands of their American countrymen. Some of the other consuls abroad, men who made no pretense to literary ability, have turned In from time to time trade reports that were picturesque In their nature and written with extreme cleverness. Not long ago the government decided to Issue In a form between a pamphlet and a magazine the Daily Consular Reports. As the editor of the publication a veteran newspaper man, MaJ. John M. Carson, was appointed. With his training he saw to It that tho best of the material received from the consuls was given a place of prominence, and he succeeded In making of the consular reports publication of real Interest .In the records of the department there Is one report which from the first paragraph holds tho close attention of the reader. It was read tho other day by one who did not know until tho last line wns reached whose hand had been at work In Its writing. The thought was, here Is something worth while. The tltlo of tho article was simply "Itefor-estatlo- n In France," and the first few lines showed little of Interest. Then tho eye reached Ibis: "One after another great waves of sand, moved by the rentier winds that swept across Ibe Atlantic, continued their unceasing march across the fair plulns of southern France, buryvine-rarding all before them fields, meadews, houses, chtircln, even vlltagei leaving behind them only Rray billows, to which clung butiche U bracken, a few starved IiihUcs of t Institution, ' I y' Boots Shoe's. ,toiiN JONL's, supt. O s, W-- l vrY. cf of the Irresistible march of the gray sand dunes from the shore of the Bay of Biscay toward the heart of the most productive land In Europe. The description was embodied in a consul's report, and It was so utterly different from the descriptions written by most consuls, or by thefr clerks, as Is more often the case, that the reader's eye and mind went on wondering, with curiosity held In check until the signature should come at the very end. The thought was that here was a consul or a clerk who should be writing books Instead of commercial pamphlets Intended for the eye of the few. The story this official communication Is a story and nothing else leads to the final planting of the pines under the direction of Napoleon pines which saved the fields of France. "Wherever the foot of the sand dune rested, there was hopeless blight. A little wiry grass grew In the shadow of the heather and gorse, on which the sheep browsed under the eyes of , shepherds perched on stilts and knitting as they watched. On and en crept the phalanx of the terrible dunes, slowly but surely blighting all In their path, not only ercAilng a desert but destroying hope. As long as tho winds blew from the wcttt the dunes niRrchcd , solemn-faced- to tho fpri; the dexcrt fires ravaged the intervening spaces; flocks grew fewer, the desolaIn the heart of sunny tion more. extren:e. Franco a doaert was established, ever Increasing in extent and threatening to stretch across " It Sahara." j fairest fields the arid--- 'i The official document then tells us In the words of Its contributor how France was saved by the adoption of the idea of Bremontler, one of the sons of the seemingly doomed region. The seeds of the pine, the "pin maritime" of the French, were gathered and sprouted carefully and the young trees were planted In places "where the moving sands did not overwhelm them until their tough roots had taken a firm hold, their wiry leaves, which loved the briny spume, would offer no resistance to the wind, and, failing about their roots, would give shelter and nutriment until a forest grew which would hold the sands In cheek and save the threatened Interior from desolation." It was Napoleon who seized upon the Idea of Bremontler. "His vision penetrated the centuries and he saw the march of the deadly dunes arrested and the desert they had created made to blossom like the rose." The consul tells us that after a century has passed the statue of Bremontler looks down one of the great furrows which lie between the dunes be showed how to conquer. Today, as we are told, "the dark squadrons of the pin maritime are posted on thousands of sandy slopes, faithful guardians' In the shelter of which the vineyards and wheat fields rest secure. The gray dunes which were sweeping over the land have become serried fortresses which shelter civilization and prosperity." At least one real live Item was contributed not long ago by O. Ble Ravndal, United States consul at Beirut, Syria, to tho pages of the consular reports. When this was put Into the publication it Is probable that the editor was on a vacation. Otherwise the Beirut consul's tale would have been put on the first page Instead of being sandwiched in between "Rubber Cultivation" and "Commercial Failure In Germany." According lo the consular report Pasha Ab- dul Itahmnn at one time Imported Into Damascus a booster steam threshing machine throuch the agency of a gentleman named Michel Nasser of Beirut. It is tho belief of Consul Kavndul that tho Indiana thresher will rout the Bedouins of the desert, and ho lends up to this clluinx with a picturesque recital of tho facts attending the arrival of the nincMne and Its subsequent career. Ills tale of the thresher follows: "Its triumphal march through Damascus stirred the White City of tho East from center to circumference. On lt woy into the country It broke down bridges Innumerable, but pulled Itself out of the creek beds beautifully, and It bad the honor of being started on Its pioneer career In the presence of tho governor-generaof the province, the field marshal In command of the Fifth army corps and many other gentlemen of high station In Ottoman civil and military life. With Its self feeder, automatic bagger, straw bruiser, etc., It Is a marvel of Ingenuity, and Its service to this country in biasing the way for labor saving machinery, with its accompanying amelioration of Industrial and social conditions in a region east of Mount l Hermon, where people live and work as did their forefathers when Abraham crossed thotr pastures with his Chaldean flocks, Is beyond In the llauran thousands estimation. of acres are lying idle; they are likely now to be reclaimed, and the predatory Bedouin tribes who Infest the country will have to retire before the new order of things." Consular positions do not pay large sums of money, but the life Is In many respects an attractive one and there are always many applicants for any vacancies which may exist. It Is virtually a necessity that the person who desires a place in the consular service shall be able to speak at least two modern languages; that is, one In addition to English. While the examinations are not supposed to be hard some men who have been through college with credit In their studies have failed to answer properly enough of the questions put to them to give them a hold on the service. At times the United States consuls have dangers to encounter. It was exceedingly unpleasant In Spain for same of Undo Sam's representatives during tho months just prior to the beginning of actual hostilities at Manila bay. In Chill and In Turkey within a comparatively short time the consuls have bad occasion to put up a brave front analnst thn populace and (o show tho stuff that they wore mado of. Fresh lit the memory of everybody Is th-- i awful tliuo which the bclengucvil legations had within the walls of "tho forbidden city" in Chins to-da- y ' |