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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH REACH AGREEMENT -- Nothing can be more appro. priate nor so well treasured as a gift from Parks. Our modest prices ease the way. safe to order by mail.Perfectly CONFEREES ADOPT PLAN TO END WIRE SUPERVISION BY THE GOVERNMENT. BOYD PARK of jewelry MAKERS min 50 MAIN Toll and Local Exchange Telephone Rate to be Continued for Four Months, Unless Sooner Changed By State Commissions. was Agreement Washington. mid senate the reached Tuesday by house coufefees on legislation to government mntrol of telegraph, telephone and other wire 'j'lnni. The conferes adopted the home plan of terminuUng go eminent control at midnight on the Inst il.iy of the calendar mouth In who It the law is aje i proved. Toll and local exchange telephone rates would he continued four months unless sooner (hanged by slate commissions, under the conference agreethe ment a compromise between ninety days rate extension clause of the senate bill and the six mouths continuance proposed by the house. The practical effect of the legislation, the conferees stated, will be that all of the wires will be returned to private control and oinratlon at midnight, July 81, as It Is exjwcted that the law will be signed by he president early In July. The senate conferees yielded on the senate plan of returning the wire lines salt UA CITT HELP WASTED barwtMdtrcw,,ein' towns need barbers; tor men orer draft are. Barber n rood a officer commission r,rJJiVj hi few week. Call or write. MoleKrtEJ S3 CoUegw, 8. West Temple St . Salt akeCrtJT 1 re-pe- al confl-lentl- i.iijHisslhle and the house plau was accepted to avoid confusion In account- ing sltould the wires he turned buck in the middle of a month. FORTY-NIN- E YEARS Then He Saw the Advocates of tho Mailed fiet In Retirement Paris. "We hate waited 49 years for this moment," exclaimed Premier Clemeneeau as he oeneU the dispatch announcing that Germany would sign the treaty, at the meeting ef the council of three on Tuesday. "For forty, nine years, he exclaimed, "the mailed fist of the reltre (German trooper), who has governed Germany has menaced the world. Whether the mans name was Bismarck or William II It was still the same reltre of the middle by soldiery and ages, surrounded drunk with pride. "Be careful ; keep your powder dry. Be careful! Remind the world that It la living on a barrel of that powder." TRAIN RUNS WITHOUT ENGINEER Pilot ef Passenger Train Hit by Mail Crane and Killed. Lincoln, Keb.A Burlington train from Lincoln to Chicago, ran five miles without an engineer Tuesday, when Engineer James Edgar Johnson of Lincoln fell from the cub a mile east of Waverly after being hit by a mall crane. The train ran from Waverly to Greenwood before the engineer was missed. Flremnn Karl J. Zimmerman stopped the train at Greenwood and ran the engine back to Waverly. There the engineer was found beside the track. TIGER READY RETIRE. Clsmenceau Declares He Hae Aceom. plished Hit War Mission and Alma. Paris. Premier Clemenceau has expressed his Intention to resign from office as soon ss the treaty Is promulgated, feeling that he has aeeom-- he assumed plished the task the premiership, says Marcel Ilutin In the irfCho de Paris- - It Is expected for-whh- r TO parllary'nj -h NOT HOLD ARMADILLO Writer Admits Underestimating Strength f Little Animal Ha th Was Trying to Capture. When he was a Email hoy, w. Hudson, the author of "Far Away unj Long Ago," came to grief he was attempting in capture an armadillo. One da he says, j, I waa standing on the mound at the aide of a moat, some 40 yard-- from where men were at work, wha, an armadillo bolted from his earth and, running to the very spot where I was, standing, began vigorously d gmg t bury himself in the soil. Neither men nor dogs had set n him, and I at once determined to capture him unaided by anyone. 1 imagined that It would prove to be a very easy task. Accordingly, laid hold of his d black, tall with both hand and began tugging to get him off the ground, but could not move him. He went on digging furiously, and getting deeper and deeper Into the earth, and I soon found that Instead of my pulling him out he waa pulling me in after him. It hart my pride to think that tn animal no larger than a cat wai beating me in a trial of strength, and X held on more tenaciously than ever and tugged and strained more violently, until not to lose him I had to go down flat on the ground. Bat U wss all for nothing. First my hands and then my aching arms were carried down Into the earth, and I wai forced to release jny hold and get op to rid myself of the mold that he had been throwing up Into my face and ill over my head, neck and shoulders. Youths Companion. single-hande- d , y "forth w 1th." They stated that enactment of the legislation this month was practically WAITED FOR COULD HE Fourth of July how will It b celebrated In the future? What effect will the winning of the greatest war oftll history have on Its observance as a national holiday? The past gives no hint, for the Fourth has had many ups and dpwns In popularity and has seen radical changes In Its observance. But whatever the manner of Its observance In the years to come, Hie Fourth of July will presumably have much of France In it, now that tho ties between the nations formed In the Revolution have been strengthened and cemented anew. And as the personification of France stands Lafayette. Lafayetle. we have cornel said Pershing at the Great Frenchmans tomb. And In sentence he told the whole story of our debt to France snd .gave our promise of Its payment. What was that debt to France that we have paid? The story of Lafayette Is the answer. Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motler. Marquis de Lafsyette, was born September 6, 175T, In the chateau of Chavanlac, Auvergne, France. He married In 1774 and entered the French army. In 1778, In Meta, he heard the duke of Gloucester, brother of George III, tell the story of the Declaration of Independence and the struggle of the Americans. Then and there he determined to go to the assistance of the Americans In their fight for freedom. To Lafayette there was every enticement to remain In his native France. lie was the possessor of high rank, lie had wealth. No military or dvlg post within the gift of the French throne was beyond his reasonable ambition. And all the pleasures and the delights of a polished, witty and luxurious court were at his feet. On the other hand were the certainty of hardship, the risk of death and the prospect of no reward save perhaps the grateful memory of a people who had nothing but gratitude to bestow. In America there was nothing to beckon him but a people whose and troops had sustained defeat, whose chief cities were In the possession of the enemy, whose treasury was bankrupt and whose prospects were that their leaders would ascend the scaffold and their masses be subjected to the brutal control of e king yvho knew little of and sympathized less with those conceptions of freedom and those Immemorial rights which the colonists had Inherited from their English ancestors. But there was lu the heart of this young and n French nobleman a sentiment which bad ruled him from his earliest boyhood a sincere, profound and Inspiring love of liberty, a deep r'pect for the. rights of men. a compelling ad.re'Jpn for a people who, in spite of the most s'1d8, possessed the hardihood and the np arms In defense of their free- -- Ill-fe- d high-bor- chief of the American armies; and how, when Washington did arrive, Lafayette was one of the very first to lead a storming party; how Admiral de Grasses fleet did all and more than could bs expected of It, until Lord Cornwallis and his army had surrendered and been disarmed, are facts that every good American knows. In this final 'struggle the whole force of the colonies consisted of 7,000 men of Washington's army, 6,000 under Rochambeau and 8,000 of De Grasse's French marines and sailors Would It have been possible for us to win without the aid of France? Washington and Franklin believed not Fifty years afterward when the question was asked of Charles Carroll t Carrollton, then the only man' alive who had signed , the Declaration of Independence, that venerable Christian and statesman replied: . It was Gods will." d It will always be a question how much financial aid France rendered America. ' I seems Impossible to straighten out the account. Professor Marion of the College of France has expressed the opinion that the total expenditures were fully 2,000,000,000 livres. Much Information will be found in his Hlstolre Financier de la Flake In his Critical France depuls 1715. Period" puts the expenditure of France at francs. Trevelyan states the following In a note to his "American Revolution:" It was calculated that between the years 1778 and 1783 the war with England cost the French treasury 48,000,000. It was the main cause of those financial difficulties which led immediately up to the Revolution of 1789." This would be equivalent to L200.000.000 livres (francs), or 1240,000,000, at a time when the purchasing power of money was nearly three times what it Is In our day. When victory was ours Lafayette went horns to France. He came back for a short time In 1784. Then came the French revolution. Lafayette from, first to last consistently advocated a limited constitutional monarchy for France. Ills experiences were many, including five years In an Austrian prison, from which he was released much-vexe- 1,400,-000,0- served his country In three different capacities. Is a married ' man, the father of twins and one other child, is a 'major general in the American anuy and Is not yet twenty years old., Lafayette soon had an opportunity to show his mettle. The' English general. Lord Howe, waa approaching Philadelphia with a superior force. Washington marched out to meet him, and In the skirmish at Brandywine Lafayette waa wounded while urging his men to stand wrote to his wife: "Be entirely free from anxiety as to my wound, for all the doctors In America are aroused In my behalf. I have a friend who has spoken for me In a way to insure my being w ell taken care of, and that la General Washington. That estimable man, whom I venerate the more now that I learn to know him, has become my intimate friend. His tender Interest In my welfare quickly won my heart When ha sent his surgeon In chief to me he told him to cane for me as If I were his son, because he loved me so much; and, having learned that I wanted to Join the army too soon again, he wrote me a letter full of tenderness. In which he admonished me to wait until I should be entirely welt" Washingtons exact words in writing to the surgeon were : Take care of him as If he were my son, for I love him the same." On November 25, 1777, Lafayette was sent with General Greene to test the strength of the British advance on Philadelphia. Having disclosed their position near Gloucester, he attacked the Hessians with such fury that the latter were routed and Cornwallis, thinking that he was surrounded by the entire American army, retreated with his 5,000 men In hot haste, This pleased Washlngtejso 'much tnat he a regular command wrote to congress Ver Lafayette, to his for Lafayette Vthe command of greet firm.-Lafayet- 'b0' asj"' te by Napoleon In 1797. In 1824, when Lafayette was 00 sixty-sevehe was Invited by President Monroe to visit the United States. He came as the guest of the nation In pursuance of an unanimous resolution passed by congress. The occasion was the dedication of Bunker II111 monument He made a triumphal states of the Union. tour of the twenty-fou- r Every possible honor was showered upon him. Probably the most moving event In the whole tour The was his visit to the tomb of Washington. climax was the ceremony at Bunker Hill. Lafayette lived ten years" longer. When President Andrew Jackson heard the news of his death In 1834, he ordered on behalf of the whole American people that the same honors be rendered upon this occasion at the different military and naval stations as were observed upon the decease of Washington, The Father of His Country, and his contemporary In arms." Lafayette has been dead 85 years. His clay 1 dust. BuL his soul still lives. It has breathed French solcourage into the breasts of over the deported, enslaved diers. It has wept his women native land over the of and outraged And who may doubt Innocents. of the slaughter that his soul called across the ocean: Help us, America ! Help us as I helped you 7 At first we did not hear, or If hearing, did not - answer But at lastwe heard and heeded and went. The fighting men of France, staggering the womwi tb xronnds, lizzy with-- fat!gie,-n- d of France, white with horror over an Impending fate worse than death, saw the Banner afar and cried In thankfulness: "The Americans are coming!" We arrived young, husky, smiling, larking men. The French loved us for our looks ways. But eould we fightl Then came Vteau-Thlerrwhen we stopped the shock troops In their tracks. Xvibe Hun on the run and wonder all France went n, -- war-wor- n Star-Spangl- ed y, X through bone-case- EPIGRAM IS NOT GREELEY'S Great Editor Long Wrongly Credited With Advice, Go West, Yeung Man, Go West" Tho famous epigram .Go West young man, go Weak" to commonly attributed to the pen of Horace Grew ley, waa not written first by that venerable editor of the New York bnt by John I B. Soule, of the Terra Haute Express. In 1851 Richard Thompson, afterward secretary of the navy, urged Soule to g west and grow up with the country, and praised the editors talents as a writer. He wagered a barrel of flour that Soule could write an article thst would be attributed to Horace Greeley. The result of the suggestion was a column editorial about the Wests deopportunities for young men. It nevclared that Horace Greeley could er have given a young man better advice than contained In the words, 0 West, young man." Although stated merely as Soule thought Greeley all might have put It. newspapers Greecredit over the country began to ley with the epigram. So widespread did the quotation become that Gree81torial eleys paper reprinted the following from the Express, with the Tri-bon- e, ed-to- r footnote: The expression of this sentimentof has been attributed to the editor the Tribune erroneously. But so fully does he concur In the advice It S1 that he Indorses most heartily tbs Terrs epigrammatic advice of the saying In Haute Express, and Joins Go West, young roan, go West" Sky Went Along. where leaving a home 8 as she had been veryh- harpy, and, s vrnsto-boardedTh eTTraT- whTCfi her away, the tears came fat. little son, anxious to comfort tried the effect of a cheeringmodisco ery he had just made. Why, he exclaimed, "the 6ky Is faint-heaalong with us." Other me people need to make thewe Jcav covery. No matter what us. hind, the heat goe with - A woman wxi rt A Rusaetl Story. the late G. A story that Black with gusto was of tomb In tell told tn a north of England town. said: for ship presented some seats w inscribed this had and front, snd his boronch Presented to the Aid. Bogglns. -- The mayor. London i his and he made It. N-uc- .- k lde. Peculiar Feeling. cu IB for' roaCirV;Bj ''e chair, was stron?cr she hP for stood d ," ,he said, fee?7 . L - |