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Show PLEASANT GROVE NEWS Horse i By P. EVAN JONES fciAW a tior.se fall on a Y t thWrircr aritlTt polirptnim had the harness loosened the erowd littl in iiiiihii Itn: iuu.-m- in au li rewnv.ciY luiVA iuuiu IV iiiuc, much less to.' pet upon it. feet. . " Then a livMmuler in the form of a man hegan to kick the fallen animal before it was given a chance to", try to get up. ' Other drivers, u tio were hcinp deUiv,ed, began to yell and swear. The harsh yell?, cohplui with the kicks and strangeness of its position, served to completely terrify the animal- It soon began mil to ifiake blind, frantic efforts to rise, but every time it scrambled scram-bled ftp its feet slipped on tile "car tracks ami slippery cobblestones, throw ing it tlown and makimr rm h effort . It took three-quarters of an hour to get that, horse up, traffic being ) locked in four directions in the meantime. If the crowd had been kept Dack, the horse kept calm and a blanket spread under its feet to keep it from slipping back it would have lukcij perhaps ten minutes. When this horse finally gained its feet it was quivering from head to feet and really should have been rested and ealntcd More being started on its way. However, there were .those 15 lost minutes and so the driver fwung himself up to his seat ami jerked the poor animal's head this way and that, becoming crosscr. cm ry minute because the horse didn't seem to know what to do. A driver who doesn't know the simplest helps to give a horse in cases of emergency certainly has no business driving on the city streets.. Blind treatment of balky horses only makes them vicious and more stubborn. Treat a balky hore us you would a stubltorn child try to draw his attention to something else. .,, In the United States army the forefoot of a balky horse is held up for three. minutes, at the end of which time the -horse hasvgenerallv for gotten uhl he was balky Urondering whv his fuot is be.tng held up. (Quickly readjusting the harness or tapping the forefoot or rubbing the legs will often start tlie horse. What a contrast U'lucen these quiet, pimple methods' and the slashing, slash-ing, cursing and general waste of energy 'employed by those ignorant of the simplest principles of "horsi-ologv." . ' Many city streets slojic lon abruptly at the gutters. The mechanical mechan-ical forces are all against the Imre that tries to start a load hacked up against the curb of such a street. It is an absurdity to ci'ied a smooth shod horse to start a loud from stub a Mi.-iiion straight out to the middle of the street without asistari-e. Still it is a common occurrence: to sre the teamster. Applying the Igp wjutt oply n little Jn'elligeiiee is needed. In the first place, no' horse thai pti!!s hem v loads should, be smooth sIkkI ; init 11 H is, men mm n iiiugniiaiiv up ine inciiue; u uns is im '- Parmer Small Factor in Greatinj Hih Prices street er is . i .hated Br H. L WR1CHT fanners fur thai prui' -wfi onti a pound for the fore ijuarit-r and tune cent for bind ijimrti r. Our hogs sell for nrlv ei-bt nnt a jfutid mi the hoof and can he pun ha -d fniin fannero. Li!lel arul drcKMI at i rnts. There is no waste in either 1 r---l jrk r l-eef purt ha) from farmers - same kind as that wu g-t from our Kx-al butcher. Tlie farnier t p.img high pru- for rtirihirfg be ini and his land fnu! -arn an n("iif ti an metmel of from $t0 u $?iM p r a re. Hi farui iiijihiii.iv an.! !ii.r doublet in prn. iMn't blame tl fa'tix-t . 1 1 i -working hard f"f rr r lti4r wa-e I am farnun r. I wil! ! I;g! Ay plfmmil if I grl ? an acr' for my np. t !..'' fur t! ' rmp f'r n nt. i-af!. ih- l.'ti f t a ur'i wort f r nn-!f. wif- and ' on, and .'. wf.rtb I ? and iel..tHr To cam t!u f I.Oini r , work from I a. in. until " p. m . ' month of th- ar. anddur-ing anddur-ing th tt!:-r t ur loyoth ; . n n '- ?t an -!jrht hour, a djiv at hard manual U'.r It i O'lt aii ti.i : tli farmer, a a nun r ii- i mi '. a mJ:k for rthl-IU-tf ii. f vr;g lt .!! Urn? tb "f.!! c !le r. 1. wt.i Texas Leads in Making Good Roads i . r. tf ica w. a. cf n t ft. frXTa woo. a t 13 Pv as r a-'-z-" ' Kl'. li " lin-tl-, - . T- Ignorant Drivers SnoiLYaluable Animals citv thoroughfare recently and before more ditlicult. sible lxcauc of the congesteil condition of the street: put a weight on the animal's back and take hold of .the bridle and o help it along. With the load down an incline it takes considerable consider-able of the horse'sforce lo keep on the ground, as the mecliMiiiiHl tendency ' to raiw it off its feet, The weight ou its back tend to counteract this, "pull." It would much easier for the horse if the driver transferred his weight frwm the loud 1o the back of animal The farmer is not guilt t. - He is a very small factor in the high prices now ln-ing paid for product. A study of prue paid at i't stockyard for U"ecs, she'p and bog und on South' Water for prmliiii' will Imw that the f.irin- not getting mev tbsm ,i shan-. than a week ag tb' wr:t r pur - i:i . r t i a hind quarter of .vf, dr,-.,l lilncrl on hi farm, for nine cent a pound. Ti t Nitiif pi.ir f , meat would nlail in I'liMago fr Iw-m- that amount. Anvotr can buv dr--J m-nt from the w ar The larnl'oM g f oiH--ha!f th j fli f. rm al;d the writer ! a! a f.r.j . r , .,ivn- .-. iv.n auto- - mi irMh atrvJ t. I and d r of tKe iir. . ir , .... t ,i . I lah r Vr.J I. .- ! '. '.t frkHM .. j ,-.-! .. ;t I r ..'t oo ;'iw f . . r.? ;rts 1 i tr-.r . irt rl f-4f 1 w n e, -..-jar. of l,n . . I I ' - . J ! t tU c vry I i I-r on :i 1 A NEW IMF i li ' ' ' i 't j i -- '-t il : ;: .... , h, .0 : i f ' . P'-l 1 I f v1 . z- ry s L ,Cj &..:. ' ' - ? I The government Is honoring the memory of this Intrepid sea captain of revolutionary days by the erection of a monument In Potomac park. Washington. Work on the monument Is now In progress, and It is expected that It will be ready for unveiling In the early summer. SOLVING A Engmeers Working Upon Prob lem ot Paris to Madria Line. Efforts Being Made to Overcome Distorting Dis-torting Effects of Long Lines by What Is Called "Loading-to FseJIItate Speech. London. Telephone engineers all over ihf orld are endeavoring to solve the problem of long distance work, and It may pe, posnible soon to speak from l-onclon to Madrid - via Paris The French postal administration bss forwarded to Madrid for slgna ture preliminary agreement on the question of a Psr I Madrid telephone line When the agreement Is signed the laying of lb telephone wire will be commenced The line from Loo don lo Madrid via Paris would b about 1.000 miles long The British post office regard 700 miles as the limit for ordinary working, but In aoiue recent tests telephone conversations" conver-sations" were held between Liverpool snd Maraelllra. a dliitshcw of just over l.OeO tnllea There are. two main difficulties Id the way of long distance telephony The 0rt Is that the greater tb distance dis-tance the weaker will be the sounds j n"r1 ,n lh telephone; the second l toai n electrical property of all and-telephone line, known a. "capsctty- phone lines known as "capactty bends the waves transmitted through the wires out of shspc and distort the aounda The SO miles of aubma rtne telephone cabl between Sangatte Sangat-te and St Margaret's nay on. the i-cn-doo Paris line Is as great a draw tack as two or thre hundred mile of over head line, and It Is this that demands caution In talking or speaking from London to great distance abroad Telephone engineers are trying to overcome the distorting effects of long lines by whsl Is called "loading" At short Interval! slong the line small rolls of wire are placed acroaa the two telephone line, and thee. If apace at distances property In accord with tb ow hlatorkal calculations of Pnpla, overcome the effects and reader speech poeaible over muck greater d la tancea Ibex Hunting PMUdetphia Man Ha Crest Ti I China, tut Object t To Xew York IVnjitrlo Chew r Q. ' L Harris.. of Philadelphia Uv I c-b4 ih my oa tbr bom from n omc'tt lbt b.-t la i fata. r ue4 I II0 R.xky nt! S-'. but lo hr'.-'r. that the bl ret tm fea bad m tsr has f Ols t c up ta 't T&la. saa. an 4 a4 Ice r k is Teti?i i ffseita 4'sj cm fe!: trxa Its !, '4 I -.; frf above tfce ieH rY 5 M y Harrow rrmA t ., . , 1 ot lt fei To ft lo i t lit tag irwttl llt k'9 llol-iul IM - - - ' W ' iW by frl . At t hey had l't itirty T' Tt & . ... . - 1 fa ! S iet I !"! I r- f I e t - Vr 4, fc - as STATUE TO JOHN PAUL JONES MYSTERY As in wet weather the distortion of the speech waves Is bardty suitable for overhead wires; It has. nevertheless, neverthe-less, been tried and is stated to Increase In-crease the limit of speaking about three times The longest distance over which speaking is possible Is stated to be between UoMon and Omaha, a dtance of about 1.600 miles Listens and Gets Bad News. Columbia. Mo Idle curioflty to know what was passing over the wires resulted In Pearl McDaniel, a telephone operator in the employ of I ?Jx'??Tl?I1K" titat totd of her mother's death Mr. N. B. McDanitl, tnother of the girl, was a patient In the Parker Memorial Me-morial hospital here and when she died suddenly the physician In charge of tp9 hospital notified Or. Frank Nl-fong. Nl-fong. the physk-lsn who had been attending at-tending her. The call came to that section of the switchboard under Miss McDanlel's care. After she had made the connection con-nection the girl listened to the conversation. con-versation. A moment later ah screamed and fell to the floor In a taint. Simple Language for All Raady-Mad Tongue Are Doomed to Di. Short Ufa If Latest In vention Will Hold. Albany. N. T If the Inventors and promoter of socalled "universal language lan-guage continue their activities, artificial arti-ficial languages will at last b nearly as numerous as thos of natural growth. Quit a number of years ago the Idea that It might be possible to construct con-struct simple tanguag that could b mad readily avallabl for com mercial Intercourse ajmong all natlona was materialised la the jargon that was called Volapuk. For thst. all tb good points wer claimed that have sine been claimed tor Ita various successor. suc-cessor. For a time It had limited vogu. A few eotboslasu devoted themselves to tb atudy of It and held is Best Sport eaty, but sometime It takes weeks to Bad a herd. I was golog along a rtdg aod ram aero a herd of buck Ibes. Before could do anything ometbing frtghteoed th aalmala and tbey ram 00. a rwa toward m I brought down sit o thsa, aad It was from that sis that I obtained my b!gget bead $4 tfxh AO th t ror hie I ts'hred I tatead ad 'leg to my collect loa" Mr. Cbew Mid titer were time he h becam raveaowsly burgry dsricg long tramr from tt casrp alt II wcm.d have b-a better I plMe4. b -444. tf t's reai had sot U'4 of mvttm rd o- aad potatoe atid cutt. bt te eer i weal abort of ! t-co tor b CCd Win Dec Ct rrt. Cotstsbia. Mo T"ti wooe :-deta :-deta f th I'tlWi' ef Mlseonrl hav he kwh by Mis ra js . woacaa 4vter ct 't fTr. sty. t foext? r: of l)ett tor t tds's J:r- t mr. I N rHr to arak trjVs la th rvrwry? U tt err ta r'ay ear4 e dssjr ry wit.g at -tpe at a Kr4f a.n. ? - - . .- I W "recwr to frl fr 4ar BITTER DOG FIGHT IN COURT Sheep-Killing" Canine - Attacks Farmer's Farm-er's Pet in Court Woman Retain Re-tain Her Dog. Ovid. Mich. A Justice court- was thrown into a panic by a dog fight the other day during the hearing of a dog case. Mrs. Mae Cameron was on trial on the charge of harboring a sheep-kllllng sheep-kllllng dog. She formerly Owned two dogs whose particular delight. It ,1s alleged, was to raid flocks of sheep. John Holland suffered the loss of nine sheep killed and several Injured Other Oth-er farhiers also suffered losses Mrs. Cameron finally put one of the dogs to death, but refused to kill the other Complaint was made and she was arrested and haled Into court. She brought the dog into court with her. One of the numerous IBteresta4"'pee-istori IBteresta4"'pee-istori also brought along hJs dog. Tb two dogs met and wer soon mixed up In a chewing contest Women creamed and rushed for tb door, while men wrestled with tb canln combat anta to pull them apart Tb dogs separated and the bearing proceeded. Mrs. Cameron was adjudged ad-judged guilty and taxed 138.40 At last accnunta sb still had ber dog A bachelor ts a man with enough confidence In bis judgment of womii to act on It Puck. meetings at which It alone was spoken Then It gradually passed into the limbo of forgotten things Next Esperanto wa brought out wmh roploua assurances that H ws Indeed th real thing. Then came Rd. another artificial language said to b perfectly good Th latest addition to ! the list Is called Ido- There may hav been others but w do not now recall them t All these ready mad language hav j this feature In common, that they look Ilk what Is called "bog Latin." and aound like It when on trie to peak th word. They ar constructed mostly from Latin roots, with a few conveniently adaptable Anglo-Sato ones mixed in.. Their "simplicity" ta la tb us of a tart variety of ter mlnatlona to denote gender and number num-ber la tb case of verba That ao artificial language win ever hecom usefal for any kind of inter-rours inter-rours among tb people of th different differ-ent countries. foregone cooclav slow Only a Il one can becom universal. uni-versal. Aa artificial laeguag U stlll-hora. stlll-hora. and It 1 aa Impossible to gal-vaats gal-vaats It Into life aa It would b to revlT and brlag back into u oo of the dead language t ales all sign fait ther I Just owe Uv langwag that I 4ttB4 t hecom th universal medium f busV-aes busV-aes iBtercour. aad that oe t Ceg-lish Ceg-lish .. " ' " Hratingio.. r-Daafl fks.i.y. a kx-al farmer. te!!s a story of how h ar4 death tfcrojfS the sag artty of a rt bsuS. wfckh kicked a black r to V'h Jt a It was gittaa Sfcawter a death htzg Ftsw'y ha fct eral esi 1 1 txr. t b tear Tt other Bsoraiag h wect om a hsctisa trip with a shotgia tl had trsd th two harref at a Ker tei tt rinsed with t!a fawSey i';e4 ,v vaoi. ti etii Accc-rdirg to hi etory. "V4" satbied t tb - of tt a-r.at ie s let tj wf;j tA tee'a. k;:;:rg tS br 5iay exit- a i4 l-t we-ft'.Ej rJI toatis U im ki story TOOK GOOD FATHER'S FANCY, pimple Explanation of Incident That' Was a Puzzle to the Housekeeper. ' Father O'Connor was feeling' uncomfortable. un-comfortable. ' .' "' ' ' ' ; ' A friend, calling, advised Him to see: a physician. "My doctor." said his reverence, "Is out of the city.'" . I -But, said his friend, "there is Dr.' Bailey." "Yes," replied the priest Bailey is a drinking raan." 'but Drj "Nevertheless," said ttie fjiend. he can prescribe for you." ; . So Dr. Bailey was sent for,..and af-i ter the diagnosis he said: "Father O'Connor. 1 Jind the pulse normal, the heart beats regular, and no organic difficulty whatever." ';ilut what ails me?V asked his reverence. -f . . : "Simply' overworked," replied the doctor. ' "And what, sir. Is your remedy?" Thus asked Father O'Connor. "Hot punch," responded Dr. Bailey. "I have two objections to that," said : his reverence.' "In the first place I haven't any punch and secondly I would not like to have my. housekeeper housekeep-er know that I use it." "I can dispose of hot h . objections, saidthe physician,"for I can furnish the.. punch and the hot-water we'll ask. Mary for. will be for shaving." So the priest consented, the doctor supplied the punch, secureC the hot water, found two tumblers and prepared pre-pared the remedy. The doctor tried It and the good father inquired: "How Is it. doctor V Said the doctor: "Father O'Connor, It is a drink fit for the goda."- The good father then experimented and greatly relished- It. It was a Week later. Dr. Bailey met Mary, the housekeeper. In the street "Mary." asked the doctor, "how Is hit reverence?' . ' "Doctor." said Mary, "his reverence. ror, is well; yea, lttolrely so, but ther is this that's peculiar about the case of his reverence ever since the afternoon after-noon when you came asking for water: wa-ter: Father O'Connor has been shaving shav-ing himself ten times a day. Sunday Magazine of,theJxs Angeles jlerald. Irishman's Clever Trick. The story of how an Irishman over reached a Jewish broker was related at a Glasgow court recently. The Jew. owns two brokers' shops which are situated Immediately facing each other In the same utreet, o that, during dur-ing the absence of- his w ife, who attends at-tends to one, the Jew can keep his eye on both bhops One night James Duffy visited the first shop and sold the Jew aeverftl article of hi attire for sixpence. While the Jew was crossing cross-ing to hi .other establishment Duff lifted a kitchen" chair, which be 'a few minute later carried into th Jew' aecond ahop, and coolly offered toaell for a ahilllng. The Jew said be could not give more than tenpenc. This Duffy accepted, remarking that "times were hard." A neighboring broker, who bad seen Duffy's movement, informed in-formed the Jew. who. on examining his purchase, was s mated to discover that he had bought bis own chair. Th -magistrate said the story Bounded ' more like comic opera than a police court case, and passed a sentence of 60 days. Tragedy of. a Joke. An extraordinary thing happened at Olassboro. N. J., one' day recently, which proves once more that truth Is often stranger than fiction. . A man named Wesley Sw.eet was owing a merchant. Kugene Doughty, a little bill of tO rents, and told, the clerk that If. he" w as. ajlre be would certainly rail and pay It that night He failed to show up. "I gueaa Sweet must be dead," said the clerk, to Mr. Doughty, ' jocular way. Next morning Mr. Doughty and his wife wer at the store, when In walked Mr. pweet. "Wd- hello!" said Mr. Doughty "I 'bought you were dead " "Wn. BO- ' ." repll! Sweet "But you are." jokingly replied Mr. Doughty. "Tou are a man of your word, and you said last Right that If you wer allv you wer coming In to see me; so you must be dead. Just then a friend of Mr. Itnughty s caste Is. aad as be turned to greet him Mr. zweet reeled suddenly aad fell dead Th Crwth'f Language. Ther Is aa Interesting and from th Rational point of view a awtUfactory statement la th statistic lately published pub-lished la aa !u!laa r per coaceratag th growth of modera Ungwage. say tb tVetmtater flatett. Accordtag to tb f gwre given th Csg'.lsh La T-isge. which a century ago was spokes spo-kes by Individ aaJa. ta bow th Beast by which wo tkas a auBdred anll'loo glv expreln (a their view o thinr Frewrh, o th Atke Bfttiil kit Sfiresa tmM IBs ss of the chief Karcpe tre, tm rtT, H ... ed by ti.tmjm m at the Uectaateg of the alstwb ew try. I sw spoke by 4K.0-yS SO tevesty Kl'.'tn ItiiitUa1 speak Or tr.su tfsy agaisst 3 --0 e'-9 a ks 1rd yr so. t.4ow Rla. agslest i:.w tu:u gVBt t .' '" th. sktfs : A A C'1 M') ya th k c' I 1 f9 1st Ik AavrrVaS ra,riUl aKarket,' I4 KH rv "I ahaU svT tsire. f tiat Is . tat y- ts. ilf rfjst FkuI I kat !' t minlr4 M e -Tr- A-i a good tl'.i a ag y tverard ali I'-e f? 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