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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLErUTAH Cuff Links If foe My team spy pail of cuff links made by M it not Miiifactory, we will give you a new pair. Tbi it (be guarantee that goet with each pan. We believe we make (he beat cuff link to be bad. Out modest pricea make! buying easy. BOYD PARK rcvMOco too MAKERS OF JEWELRY The interesting story of the writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence July 2 or August 2 better entitled to celebration than July 4. RUTTY SPOTS IN A ROADBED Uncontrolled Water la Cauae of Manv Bad Roads Drainage Is Recommended as Remedy. 104 MAM StJUXI - V v Good Road in Colorado. the matter. The fact is that just above these seepy places where the ruts are, there is a vein of hard clay coming gut, which the water cannot readily penetrate. Hence it comes out under the roadbed. Just as a slough comes out on the side of a hill The remedy for this is tile drainage, and the drain Bhould not be located In the seepy place, but above it, so as to intercept the water that makes the seep. Just on the same principle that In draining a slough with many branches nnd prongs, the work Is done best by tiling around the prongs and Into the slough below at tho lowest of them, instead of In the middle of It. For whenever water gets Into a slough, the damage is done. The point is to keep It from getting In- .of A little attention to this, together with dragging the road after every rain, will give us fairly good roads dirt roads without any hard surfacing for nine or ten-- months In the year. Of course," when these seepy places are drained, they muBt have a ditch into which the water can run. - Permit us to repeat once more tt statement we have been making ever nincewe mado cur first address on good roads, 30 years ago: that water uncontrolled Is the cause of bad roads; that there aretwa kinds of water, bq to apeak; the under water and the upper water. The under water is that which crimes in under the roadwhat comes bed; and tho upper-wate- r on It from above or flows In from the sides. The way to get rid of the first Is through drainage; particularly In these seepy places. The way to control the second Is by grading and then dragging, to put an enamel on the surface of the road. Wallace's Farmer. CAPPER DISCOVERS MUD TAX Farmer Loses on Wheat Crop Because Roads Are Soft and He Can not Get to Market. -- While taxation problems are ao generally In the air comes Governor Capper of Kansas and deposes that he has discovered a new tax. mud tax. There Is an average mud tax of aix rents on every bushel of wheat grown in Kansas, saysThe governor, and loss. -- It the farmer, kaa-t- o stand-th- at costs him about $900 a year because the roads are soft and because be cannot get to market when the price is Motorists will be among highest." those who Indorse the governors words. Co. , Salt Lake City, Utah s&sr SiSnrpLvS'JiSs as Salt Lake Films OIULAIt history has fastened upon TTTv I our Impressionable minds a poetic I picture of the signing of the Declara tton of Independence as a graceful J nnd formal function, tubing' place July 4, 1776, In a large, handsomely furnished chamber In Independence hnll, Philadelphia. To give the necessary touclj, of vivacity to the picture there is the scene of the small boy darting from the door as the last signer sets his autograph to the previous parchment and dashing down the street, calling to his grandfather, to King! Oh. ring for liberty Our Ideal proclamation of the charter of American freedom must be shattered In the cause of truth. The Declaration of Independence was barn-stormer- he-w- Magazine. n ns e best-know- n at - m - Great Day Was July 2. In a second' letter,, written the same day, he said: But the day Is past. July 2 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that It will be celebrated by Cod-Almigh- h h - for-th- is -- d -- - -- ty. s, by-kitch- en was well-know- OF POET William Shakespeare, the monorch of mankind. was in life a humble youth who came, with his people, from an interior village t a place in the fields outside the walls of the chief ' city. He had to do ' with a stable. He returned whence he came, and wag not aeen by his disciples after his disappearance from the theaters. His companions and disciples citing to his memory and printed his hook, the . learned brushed It all aside. He him- - . self had cared no more for his dramatic works than Democritus, Epictetus or Socrates cared for literary fame. As late as Doctor Johnsons time, the Shakespeare book was to be denounced by scholars as larking In many poesies necessary to auch a work if good. But never did th.e disciples and their lowly kind depart from the devout worship of, Shakespeare which we ourselves must finally offer. He who had been of the lord of the kings kitchen servants (by courtesy) poor players, strutting their brief hour this meek and lowly lord, when he arose Into heaven, was servants who worshiped had no literary comb to lose. We shall note, in all the time that now is' counted this side of Shakespeares death, that his most faithful worship-er- s have been of humble state and Shakesmall . account. William speare, John McGovern, In National d. nslt result of the favorable voting upon "It Lee's resolutions thnt the committee, roiniKised of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman nnd Robert It. Livingston, was named to draft the document. The committee nsslgned the task of preparing the Instrument to the Virginian. Jeffersons was the master political ndnd nnd It was by no mere chance that called upon tow-ritthedocu- went which hnsjcen termed the TuisH ever come from the pen of an Individual. Drafting of the Declaration. Thomas -- Jefferson Wns' the personification of method," remarked Doctor lluntrund Immediately upon receiving his commission to write the declaration he retired to the two rooms he rented ns a working place at Seventh and Mnrket place, Philadelphia, nnd prepared to give his country one of the greatest monuments of human freedom. The department of state owns the first draft of the Declaration which Jefferson presented to the committee for Its approval. Ills confreres made n few alterations, which are clearly shown In the Text, nnd Jefferson has written beside each change the name of its author, making the document of Inestimable value. lor TheTatreopirw hlclThe-nadepresentation to congress, and which bears the congressional amendments and alterations. Is lost. The latter Is the formal Declaration of Independence laid before congress on June 23, 1776. It was then rend and ordered to lie on the table nntil July 1. On July 2 a resolution was passed declaring the Independence of the United States, although the exact form of the proclamation as prepared by Jefferson was debated upon until July 4, when, with some alterations and amendments. It wns signed by John Hancock president of the congress, nnd "the. signature attested by Charles Thomson, secretary of congress. July 2 wns actually the date of separation of the colonies from the mother country. On July 8 Jefferson called the we Jlnd John Adams,-whocolossus of the colonies, writing to his wife, Abigail, In the following words : i esterday the greatest question which was ever debated in America was decided, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among Supplies Great Ones of the Earth Long Re. jfuaed to Recognize Shakespeare, But He Had Hit Disciples. signed behind locked doors, nnd wus not generally signed upon the Fourth of July at all. The city was not breathlessly awaiting the event outside, nor did the Liberty bell pen! forth on that day the triumphnl note of freedom. The nccredited historian of the United States department of state is Oalllard Hunt, Lltt. D., LL. D., now cldefof the division of manuscripts th the Library of Congress. "There is really no reason for our celebrating-th- e Fourth of July more than July 2 or August 2, said Doctor Hunt recently to an Inquirer. It was not until the latter date that the document was generally signed. The Virglnin bill of rights, of which George Mason was also the nutlior, was drawn np nnd adopted in the last colonial assembly In Virginia prior to the Revolution. The bill of rights li In effect n part of every constitution In the land today. It Is beyond doubt that tills famous document, of which his elderly friend was author, was largely drawn upon by Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. The fundamental principles of government set fortli in Mnsons hill of rights were the same ns those in the English petitions to the king, the acts of the long parliament und magna chart a. You know, perhaps, that it was another Virginian, Ilk bard Henry Lee, who presented to congress, on June 7, 1770, a set of resolutions eontaln-In- g the words, That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free und Independent stntes, nnd thnt all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain Is, and ought to be, totally-dissolve- City Cameras LOWLY FOLLOWERS J West, the Jefferson highway, connecting the lake.s and the gulf, and the succeeding generations ashe anniversary festival. Djxie overland highway, are. a It ought to be coinufWhorated as the day of deliverance by solemn actsof devotion. Jo Three-IncTired Wagon Best. There is little doubt but that the participants Buy the wagon with the three-incin the event considered July 2 as the true date of tire, is the advice that the highway colonies,- bu t popnl a rfrra ey independent e ' commissioners at Ames'give 'the seized upon the 4tlv the date" of heceptahceof Jefwidth tire Is not "only the formal-andetailed settlug-forth as the - least wearing on " the Toad ' of any fersons of celebration. date proper widths buLaccord!ngiatest, It reJohn Trumbull's famous painting of the scene, quires less draft to pull it The narroin the rotunda of the capitol, is a poetical w-tired wagon cuts the road too hanglug work and ghfs many of the portraits of of pleqe much, while the wider tire requires Hhe tilth faithfulness, but it Is somewhat signers too much of a draft to pulL silken hangings draped the window No fanciful. of that Stiffing room on July 4, 1770, and the beauClean Brooder Lampe Dally. in ahlch the men are ranged up foe Brooder lamps should be cleaned tiful order Immortal document la also flction&L signing the very day. farm-era,--Th- 8. Mato Street EXPERT KODAK Finishing Network of Good Roads. This whole country will some of men. these days be a network of good roads, which will havraTlace on the maps along with the railroads. The Lincoln highway linking the East and the CITY' Salt Lake Photo Supply 1 J LAKE Any size roll film 1I A developed . . . U CeiltS Any size film pack Oft developed . . . ZU CdltS 71 We have been quite interested lately In traveling over roads in central Iowa at a time when we did not expect them to be at all good, to find that where they were dragged the going was quite good; and where not dragged, quite rough. Hut even where good, there were spots in the roadbed that were rutty. Now, what is the cause of these ruts every mile or two of good, fairly well dragged roads? Nothing but water uncontrolled. These are seepy places. Filling up the ruts by dragging does not prevent the trouble. The drag does not reach the root iAi.1 . Sailors Do Own Washing. Did you ever notice how splc and span Uncle Sams Jackies always look Then they are on shore leave o t aboard ship? And did you ever real; lze that Jack la his own washwoman? have w&shdaya aboard the fightDrafting the Dectiration ofJndep endenca They ing ships aa well as the housewives hare theirs. Every man has to be was read to the people July 8, when the Liberty e.n the job when the boatswains mate hell was rung and the first public celebration was orders "Wash Clothes. In the old made In honor of the event." days this was some task. Each man had to wash his soiled clothes in a Signed August 2. Declaration m the ordered that buckets of water and hang them on congress "Jpty It was the line to dry. Bat on the newest passed the 4th be fairly engrossed. very beautifully done on parchment. This is the battleships washing and drying madocument which received the signatures of all the chines have been Installed which do members of the Continental congress present In away with alPhand work and much Independence hall, August", 1770. By this time, labor. The old familiar sight of a however, the membership had changed slightly, so long line of clothea strong up is no thnt the signers" were noi Identical with the longer to be seen. Also the boatswains mate has forgotten how to pipe wash body of delegates who had declared for Independence a month before. Presumably It was at this clothes." When Jacks apparel la s time thnt Hancock, making his great familiar sig- colled he it Into the washnature, Jestingly remarked thnt John Bull could ing mach.ne and In a few minutes It fer see It yithout his spectacles. One or two of the comes out clean and dry. a later signatures were not actually affixed until 2. Fox Liked His Comfort. than August date The president of the congress, John Hancock, This Is the treasured Declaration of Independwith the secretary, Charles Thomson, alone signed An unusual sight met the gaze of a ence now in possession of the department of Du&rta (CaL) man when -- he opened the autograph Jefferson document on that date. state, said Doctor Hunt. It Is kept In a hermetic- his house the other morning and found Immediately afterward It was hurried to the official printer for congress, John Dunlap, to put In ally sealed case, which Is opened only by special hla swinging seat occupied .by a full order for very especial reasons. It Is faded, and It grown fox. With th cushion for a typ and several espies were made. By next would have been better If this engrossed copy had neat the fox was morning the printed copies of Jeffersons Declararesting comfortably been made on paper rather than parchment. It Is and tion of Independence were In Hancock's hands. hla quarter. enjoyed evidently are recognizso faded that few of the signatures When he came to write the proceedings for the known the became When his presence able. Nothing can now be done which will perma members of the Fourth of July, 1776, Into the Journal of Concame trooping family gress, Charles Thotnsmt secretary of the congress, nently benefit 1L see the porch climber. Then to out was the left a blank space torjhe Declaration and It Is this I believe the main cause of the fading the fox disappeared nnder the house, broadside which now appears watered Into the Impression taken In 1823, by order of President where hla nature prompted him to Monroe. Two hundred facsimiles were then made space left for It In the JournaL hide until the left the spectators to give a copy to each of the then living signers This broadside was sent out to the governors of coast the when, again finding porch, the states, to the Continental army, and It is the and others. Taking the Impression removed the on the fox clear the gracefully jumped which from Ink." the Declaration of Independence paper porch and Into the swinging seat, and, it with an almost human air of comfort .and satisfaction, adjusted the pillow retrue all Americans let today highly history solve on a new birth within their own souls of and settled down to complete the -- the faiths of those men 140 years ago, of faith In morning nap. When again Interrupted the fox disappeared and headed fot themsefras and of faith In America. the .mountains. The theory that it - -- Just-throw- Jndepertdencr - THEY BELIEVED IN AMERICA half-hundr- ed the justice of theircauseancL.th.e...righteousness oflhelFundertaklng? They believed in themselves; In their ability to do right and justice. They believed In the competence of stalwart manhood.tft4tovern. Itself amL Common wel fa re."' They betaTpro lieved tlH'T could make, better, arrangements In" government than men had made before them. They believed in themselves, tn their people, in hie-for-t- he Americas- - of late- have done a great deal of with America. There Is not so much now as a year or two ago. The spectacle across the Atlantic tendw to hush It, and to give new point to the saying that other countries" are what make Americans so proud of their own. In the light of that spectacle and of our own Americans fault-findin- g - from a luxurious captiv- had One hundred and forty years ago some men. sent by their communities to concert measures for securing their rights as Englishmen," became convinced that these could not be obtained, save by ceasing to be British subjects and declaring themselves "American citizens. Let us look behind the formal phrases of the immortal Declarations the faith of these men and of the people for whom they spoke. What was he faith that made vital their appeal for Reaped OF GREAT MOMENT IN HISTORY.. probably accounts for the domestie ity The declaration of American Independence was tastes of the Tlsitor. of unequaled moment In history. As the result of that fact, the United States of America has Electric Light risen to a greatness which has changed the face The basic discovery of the possiof the world. In a little less than seven score bility of electric light was made by of years It has changed us from a nation of peo- Sir Humphrey Davy In 1810, but for ple scattered thinly along the coastof the" Atlantic, to a nation of over a hundred millions of people stretching over the whole continent from the Atlantic to tho Pacific, and even Into the lands beyondLthe sc as. Moreover, In wealth and in material energy, as In numbers. It now far surpasses the mother country from, which It sprang. r TRIBUTE DECLARATION.: The historian Ruckle was cordial and sweeping In his praise of the Declaration. He said among other things: That noble Declaration ought to be hung up In the nursery of every king and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace." If such were the brilliant historians Idea, It was as Professor Tyler remarked, because the Declaration has become the classic statement of political troths which must at last abolish kings altogether or else teach them to Identify their existence with the dignity and happiness of human nature." -- TO-THE -- the next 50 years the developments were solely scientific and no practical use was made of them. In 1862, however, an arc light .was .installed. In a., lighthouse at Dungeness, and this is generally believed to be the first electric lamp in regular service. - Only Look Longer. J. First Landlady I manage to keep , my boarders longer than yon do." Second Landlady "Oh, I dont know.-Yo- u keep them so thin that they look longer than they really are." The Pathfinder. An Inch of Rain An inch of rain coming down on a tingle acre of ground would fill more than 00 barrels of 48 gallons capacity apiece. This amount of water would weight more than 110 tons, or nearly; 125,000.000 pound. |