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Show " ' r 1 '' 3 In I llf f 'v 1i, i ! ft :i. -f -4- ' ! ' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY PLEASANT GROVE LOCALS i - Miu Johnson was' a Spanish Fork visitor with ber relative! the put week-end. Miss Jackson and liri. Marrott are sVasy with the costumes to be used In tk opera "The Boheralem Girl." Golden Pear who la employed at ftort Herriman spent the week-end with his parents-, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. rw. Marlon Jackson our local high school domestic science teacher spent the week-end with relatives at Togan, Ctrl Christensen and Rolfe Pratt of Provo were in Ploiwant Grove.Mon-day Grove.Mon-day to rehearse w lib the cast of the "Bobemletu Girl." Fred Foutx who has ieen employed employ-ed at Ploche, Nevada, for the past three months has returned home to tofts bis spring work on the farm. Mrs. Retina Tborne, Howard and Sab Thorn spent the week-end with Mr. And Mrs. Leo R. Walker at Cfw land. The M. Men of the Third Ward - gavev-a-- social 1b tb - Thbrd Win? snooting house Tuesday evening, dames were pUyd ami program rendered. Refreshments were served. J Mr. r and Mrs, J. - L. Harvey sinter liaised at a. birthday dinner for-lltUe Mary Louise Harvey, their grand- saaa and W. C. Harvey, father of Mary Louise, came out from ' Salt Lake to help celebrate the occasion. ', Work It Out for Yourself. Ton aro no gentleman -she wrote, If yon think I said such a thing m she said you said I said I bad "Dear stri." ho answered, "yon oat not think I think yon think fwn must be th kind of a girl I t!ak yon must bo If you said socb thing as yon said she said yon had Cfttd." It seems b knew she knew she aald just what she said sh hoard Mr friend had heard hint say he had ftoard her say, bat with Intuitive gesnlnlne . tact . she accepted the Bird teat a Train. The fastest express train betweeu Qtmberland, Md and Washington re-ejalras re-ejalras throe hours and 48 minutes to sake the trlti. ' A District of Columbia ffeeoQ recently negotiated I that distance dis-tance In one hour and 02 minutes, says Jfatare Magailne. The same bird In 200-mlle race some months previous tad taken nine weeks to straggle Its "army back Jo tbo homo cote. Some Banter had seriously wounded the bird arnica had painfully fought Its way tack home. .'. . ' ' . . . . Oliver Harford's Wit OUvor Harford, American wit, raco.i-lav, raco.i-lav, and author of "Neither Here Nor There," was speaking over the 'phone to Prof. Brander Matthews, who had Jut announced his Intention to leave for Europe' on the Celtic, which he pronounced "Keltic . as befitted his endemic status. "Ob, don't say. Keltic; Kel-tic; Brander," pleaded Herford. "If fgej deyyonUhavs a hard sea air th over. From the Argonaut. sp Net Paid (alary. The pop does not have a salary bat tins a certain amount of money set est do from the revenues of the church for fcla use, and receives contributions frees various organisations. This fond tl known as "Peter's Pence" end Is largely devoted by the pope to works of charity. Butter Wrappers PRINTED ON THE BEST PARCHMENT WITH WATER PROOF INK i 100 .,. '. . $1.25 200 ... $1.75 500 .. : 1000 .... AUK) - Lea ve- AnUMv tt Jr I . Thmp- iTfdiit'C-or iTfdiit'C-or mail to Alpine Publishing Company ALIERICAN 23, 1924 PLANT SURE DEATH TO RATS Would Stem It Might Utilized te Rid the World ef a Most Deadly, Enemy. "Wry ... not.-... P11" ... yonr own . rat poison T the Plilllpplne bureau of science Is asking the people. , Its name, is "dloscora blraata blume," and It frows wild throughout the island lowlands. The poison content Is dloscorlne, sn alkaloid which produces paralysis of the central nervous system. ... The dlscora Is s tuber; looks like a potato and grows like one. It- also tastes enough like the old-fashioned "spud" to fool Mr. Rat -for a moment. But It has a little reaction all of Its own. , ' ' The government scientists say that one nibble Is enough to kill a large rat A slice, without proper preparation, prepara-tion, would kill a human being. On the other hand it bus been determined de-termined that by peeling the tuber and allowing It to stand in running water for a period of 24 hours the dloscorlne content "Is washed out and the vegetable may be prepared for human consumption In the same manner man-ner as Is a potato. When thus prepared It has a slightly sweet taste and is auld to have a most agreeable effect upon the palate. - At present one of the largest of the government agricultural acDools In the Philippines Is making use of the tuber to kill rats and field mice, which are proving an. Increasing menace- to growing crops. COUNT THE DUST PARTICLES dentists ef United tUUs Department Depart-ment ef Agriculture Are Investigating Investi-gating the Atmosphere. . In connection with the solar radiation radia-tion work ' of the weather bureau, United SlatesDepartment of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, a dally count Is being made of the-number of dust particles In the st mbsphers, at : Washington. To make the count, the air pressure within the dust counter is suddenly decreased, causing a line of dust to be precipitated precipi-tated on glass, where the particles are counted with a microscope having a magnification of 1.000 diameters. On quiet mornings as many as 3,000 dust particles per cubic centimeter have been counted, but on clear mornings following precipitation the number drops to 150. Most of the particles appear to be extremely fine minerals or organic matter from the earth's surface, although al-though some unconsumed carbon from smoke, gypsum and calclte from building build-ing operations, and dlatomaceous material ma-terial have been observed. Undoubtedly Undoubted-ly there are many particles which, while large enough to act as nuclei for condensation are too smsll to be seen through a microscope with a magnify ing power of 1,000 diameters. Blosce loans. Vincents, Blssco lbanes (name pro nounced vee-then-tay blash-co ee-bab-nyaytb, was born In Valencia, Spain, In 1868, his father being a storekeeper. storekeep-er. He studied lew st the University of Valencia, but never practised, as ho took to Journalism and politics. He was first Imprisoned for his republican views at eighteen and has been twice exiled and Imprisoned several times since. He has lived la Parts and in Italy and has spent much time (n South America, as cowboy and lectur er, to mention only two of his occu pations. He has been a sea captain, has been elected deputy In Spain, has fought duels, and Is commander of the French Legion of Honor. He Is recognised ss Spain's greatest living novelist, his works Including: "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' "Blood and Sand," "The 8hadow of the Cathedral.' "La Bodega" (The Fruit "of "the' i'Vine). '"Th T Cabin "the Intruder" "The Horde," "Mare Nob-' trum". (Our Sea), "Sonnies" and "Luna Benamor." Pocahontas. .Tho real nam of Pocahontas was Matoaka. Pocahontas Is a verbal ad jective, meaning he or she Is play ful. This nickname waa used by Po cahontas father, Powhatan, la spenk- tog with the Virginia colonists. t 4S FORK, UTAH AMERICAN FORK CEFIED THE TOUCH OF TIME Sarah Bemhardt's Remark te Illen Terry Revealo Character ef Oreat Fronoh Actrooa. - - . On CTfOlng some . twimty-flvo years ago Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was the guest of 81r Henry Irving at' on of those Intimate little supper parties In the Beefsteak room of the Lyceum theater over which . ho loved to preside. pre-side. Comyns Carr. Writes In ths London Lon-don Times. Tba English actor waa stHSHlly always at his best when his day's work was done, and his, gracious hospitality provoked In those he gathered gath-ered around his table .a sense of ease and Intimacy that was scarcely to bo matched in any other of the bohemlan entertainments of th time. During her repeated visits to Engtand Mme. Bernhardt waa constantly to be counted count-ed among bis guests ; and In ths art of Sir Henry Irving, which she never wearied of praising, she found, I think, that note of strong personality which is also the surviving characteristic of all her .own work in the theater. On that particular occasion, as I remember, remem-ber, our tslk concerned Itself with the age at which some of the great actors of the past had produced their finest effects ; when on a sudden Mme. Bernhardt, Bern-hardt, leaning across the table toward Miss Ellen Terry, exclaimed la her broken English,' which lost nothing of force from Ita Imperfection, "My dear, there are two peoples In this world w hich shall never be oldyos jind me." - -":T'" '."--.'-'- RUSHED T0 GOATS DEFENSE 8msH- Bey's - Aryvmont Would Move to Be Admitted Both Logical and Reasonable. David's grandpa, who lived in the country, sent him a pet goat recently David's fsmlly wr.s 100 per cent gainst the goat, hut trandpa Insisted that the boy ought to have a pet snd, of course, David waa strong for the Idea. Mother fussed a lot about the animal, ani-mal, but David and the goat go through ths first week without being kicked out of the house and homo, snd everything bad - about . quieted down. . Then one day the goat got on a rampage. Before he was discovered he hsd devoured a tablecloth, dad's shoe rag, a sack of eJeahesplns and sister Nellie's fsvorlte mail-order cats logue. "David, this Is absolutely the limit l" mottier exclaimed. "You've got to get rid of that goat, nd get rid of hU now I lo you think I can have that animal around bore eating up the clothes snd the furniture?" "Gee whls 1" David exclaimed. "Don't you suppose a goat ever geta hungry T Kansas City Star. Couldnt Understand. " Recently a member of the polios do uartment was sued formvoree, Jti man was sent to police headquarters to serve the papers on him. The man, unfortunately, waa directed to the ser; geant's dt-sk - snd tulstftking the ser-; gennt for the defendant in the suit.' started to read the "papers without mentioning the defendant's name. ' The desk sergeant, listened patiently. patient-ly. Gradually his mouth drooped, a sorrowful expression came Into , his eyes and he appeared dejected. "I can't nnderatand tht,"-h,jal(L "I was only married last December. I just rented a new bouse and bought nome new furniture and two tons of coal. Gosh, she appeared cheerful and happy when I left this morning. 1 don't see whst's the matter." A few minutes later the mistake w ns noticed and the uesa sergeant showed bis relief, and the man with' the papers went in search of the do-' fendant. Indianapolis News. - - thark - Teat Swam -Sir K ansas ass." Agasslsodus variabilis, "a ahark from Kansas, will soon have his once wtrbed teeth brought to foodless rest In the National museum. Dr. George p. Mec rill, curator of geology, has received as s gift from Dr. Frank Springer the pa leont logical collections of the late Orestes St- Jobs which contained the funtl remains of this unique fish, which chased Its prey through a Kan sas sea many million years ago. The cartilaginous body of the shark disintegrated, but a complete set of teeth, such .aa has never -been found elsewhere, remained In the coal meas ures of Ksnsas to tell his story. Doctor Doc-tor St. John gave tbe name'Agasslz (Ins to his find In honor of the famous Harvard naturalist, Louis Agassis, who was his teacher. ' Lessons From Rain. When an Inch of rnln falls on nn arwi the Mr.?, say of Pennsylvania, him much wnter Is that? Do not bother to oiilculute It; we lli It. Ami It fltrurt' out the very t'.lv little tnfnl of n.l'S'J.fiiHi.OOO tons if pure, distilled water. Kvcry ounce f it v;iM dniwn tip from tlte occurs, t r.t-sported without clinrKC neross I'i'iti-. siml mountains, nnl deposited tly where neeiled. Ilo Is ungrate- f' I v;o roiniiln'ns of the occnliniil c iTvlty of the weather - and the : nf: .11. and Mind Indeed who rim-I rim-I In thoe vnt, silent move ; nts f wind anl suiter the Unper :i i!!ns Ood. liirm Journal. Museum Devoted to Indian Lite. I'orhe purjiyse of studying the liV rlined of the tnerlcn. n new mu um has been erVi ted In New Yurii ay, ui'ip iiivrsTu-u'ion or ina'ni! ;e may he condiK-toH The lastltu-i;i, lastltu-i;i, which already contains l.Sntliditt inH-imeM of ahoiliflnal nfe -on -this mtlnent. Is the only one inthe world evoted ermsirel.v to the prefrvntl(in r.tlre records of these early ra cea. CITIZEN LIMIT HAD BEEN REACHED Osed-Natursd Irish Woman Evidently Was Willing te Overlook a Good Deal, but - The Wwnea. according to ber prohv Ise, went to tbe suburbs to take dinner with friends She boarded a payaa-you-enter car snd settled down for a long ride. Boon her attention waa attracted at-tracted by tbe entrance of a big, fat woman with s large market basket and a huge bundle. She sat In tbe. seat nearest the door on the left, set the basket at her feet and then piled the' loosely wrapped bundle on top. All w ent well until a man got In at the next block. Then, aa tbe car gave a lurch, be fell over the basket and knocked oh the bundle, which burst open and a turkey rolled on the floor. "I beg your pardon," he stammered, .utterly confused, while tbe woman picked up her -turkey, re wrapped It and put It back In place. ( "Ah, and there's no barm done. It's all right, God bless ye." The car Jolted on and presently stopped again to take on another passenger. pas-senger. A second gentleman dropped In his fare, lurched forward snd tripled over the basket Again the Ill-fated turkey tumbled In the dust The passengers giggled, but not the woman. She rested her elbows on ber hips and eyed the man with a pugnacious pug-nacious light In ber eyor - "Sorry, madam, but" he began. - "Ah, it's all ripht this jrtme. rOod btess ye. But I'll give the devil to the next poor fool who comes In, And the glint In her eye told how much the neit jmssenger would have fotbe tfiwikfui JorU toes and avoided that basket New Tork Sun. FINALLY SAW GREAT LIGHT New Distinction Accorded George Washington by Wideawake Little Indiana Younostaf. Because Mllbujn had been reading about George - Washington at school, his mother gave him an Illustrated book about Washington, relates tbe Indianapolis News. The first picture In the volume waa thst of George Washington on a horse, gaslng with a rapt expression at a part of tbo country of which he was supposed to be the parent Under the picture was the caption, "George Washington, the Father of His Country." Mllburn opened the book end began to read, "George Washington George Washington, the father but there he halted. Finally, he apneaieuS to his mother. i "Study tbe picture for a while, and see If you csn't make It out," his mother sdlvsed. Mllburn did study the picture, Suddenly Sud-denly he had an inspiration, and al most bursting with pride, he shouted: Tve got it now. - George Washing ton,' tbe father of the horse." Up-te-Date Advertising. Aa. the late party-goer-opened, the door he saw s man wearing a burglar's mask kneeling before tbe safe. Tbo next moment tbe man bad turned and placed a revolver at the other's head. "Throw up your hands." cried tbe Intruder. With tbe meekness of a lamb and the speed, of an express train. , he obeyed. - : "You nnderatand.' remarked the man, pleasantly, "that I can. In the present Circumstances, loot the prem ises at my pleasure-" "1 do." "You realize that you are st my mercy r "I do." "Well, then," cried the masked man, "you will be Interested to know that I got in through your dining room window, without the slightest difficulty. Had It been equipped with Popson's patent safety burglar alarms this could not have happened. Installed complete with battery, 125. Allow me to band you a circular and to wish you the best of good evenings and all tbe pleasures of the season." Vanishing. Plant a tree and get free honorary membership In American Tree association. associa-tion. It hopes to Induce S million of us to' set out at least one tree this year, , Let's make . It . two million, or more. You appreciate the forestry problem If you recently hove had to buy any lumber. Lumber Is vanishing, along with the forests. Our national lumber production now Is less than 27,000,000,- OOO board feet a yenr. compared with 4a.ttOT,OOrvwi-i in WQ6r- thoughZour woodsmen are attneklng the forests more vigorously than then. Like llUor the rank Is getting emptier. He Arrived In Time. A veterinarian recently called to the home of nn Kast sldor was horrltlod on his arrival to see the children play-Int: play-Int: with n young timber wolf. The owner explained that he hsd ptir- cliRKod ihe animal believing It to he (Jennrn police dog. The wolf la now Incarcerated In n heavy wire cage In the hack yard. Detroit News. ., -Naming jhs. Dock.- V': H was a beautiful little lake; - The ninn who had purchased nn estate on It wild be must have n dock for his mnrnrrioMt nnd asked If there was tiny tltvl.or In the nelchhorhood. They tolil hl"i there uns nlentv of hlrkorv "Hulid If nf Hint," he directed, "and I on me It Hickory Dlckory Dock." Louisville Courler-JournaL Surt to Regret It . Never mnke a fool of yourself over s wotnnn. If she marries you,"you wll nver hear the Inst of it. Judge. Combi the Advantag of City and in Your Home Living away from the smoke and grime of the city gives you the advantages of pure air, .healthful surroundings, and beautiful scenes. The country home is ideal for childrenthey grow healthy, strong and happy. Nowadays the country home has every city advantage. Electricity brings its cheery light 4 in the evenings, and during the day, this same great force makes the work of "the-" country home easy and pleasant. . Electricity will wash- your-elothes,-iroti- them, do your cleaning and cooking. It makes the " housewife V working day short find her labors " light. We will be pleased to 6how you the efficient electric appliances in our stock. UM POWER LIGHT COt GjfidcntTtehcSetvice ICE PATROL IS NEVER IDLE Coast Guard Unit Constantly at Work Broadcasting Information aa . to Ocean Conditions. Describing the work of the Ice patrol pa-trol which was organized and placed under United States management by International agreement In 1913, an authority says: ' "A continuous patrol Is maintained by two United States coast guard cutters cut-ters capable of keeping the sea in all kinds of westher, Each one alternately alter-nately takes a two weeks' tour of duty and Is then relieved by the other. When one of these Ice scouts approaches ap-proaches the Ice region. It collects all Information from nearby vessels and proceeds to search the area south of latitude forty-three for signs of Ice, and broadcasts Information as to the limits of the Ice to all approaching vessels. In connection with this scouting scout-ing duty, the Ice patrol secures scien tific observations relating to the Ice area and forwards dally reports to the westher bureau." One of the things brought -out by 4ho-evldence- gathered - by these vessels, ves-sels, he stated, Is that there Is no truth In the old Idea that the cold Labrador current flowing south dives under the warmer Golf stream moving mov-ing northeast and comes up again to uie southward. When these two ocean currents meet, be claims, the Labrador current Is arrested, then turned toward to-ward the Gulf stream and finally pulled along In an easterly flow parallel to U. CHEATED OF JUST REWARD Oldtlms English Inventor Unable , fa Get Recognition and Died Broken-Hearted. ... It seems, always to have been.: true thst a pioneer of sny Invention which Is afterward to become indispensable must suffer misfortune, and perhaps even perish, before his creation can win the recognition It deserves. Tills was the esse with the steel loom for knitting stockings, "Invented In tbe Sixteenth century by William Lee. Lee todh his Invention to Queen Elizabeth, but she withheld her pstronage. Again he Jmproved bis machine, so that It would, knit silk stockings the queen's love x of silk hosiery hsd been one of her chief rea-sons rea-sons for disinterest but again he was disappointed at not receiving a royal grant. Things were no better under James I, so he went to France, and when success was almost within his grasp nt the French court the assassination 'f the king balked him ugain. Brokenhearted, Broken-hearted, he died, but In the neit century cen-tury Oliver Cromwell granted a .patent .pat-ent on Ms de.-ce to the Company of rrumeworK Knitters. Meaning, of "Stone Ag." The term -St.wie age" Is commonly need to denote the earliest recognized stage In the development of human culture as detinod by the materials used by man fur weapons, utensils, etc. The phrase Is someu hnf nnslpuri Ing, since It Is probable that primitive-man primitive-man made use of wood nnd otner perishable per-ishable materials to a fur greater extent ex-tent 'ban bf( stone, and -onOfluentJy the stage Is defined by the prevailing msterlui of the relics which Tin v survived; sur-vived; hot by that of actual tuple : ment in common use. 8ATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1S24 ne es V Country TWO OCCUPATIONS FOR UAH One to Work With and the Other fe His Diversion, Is Opinion of Philooophsr. :- A philosopher said every man should have two occupai ons, one to work with, the other to jlsy with, writes "Glrard" In Ihe I'hl.adelphia Inquirer. Dr. John H. Jopson'g other occupation occupa-tion Is fishing. When this eminent surgeon sur-geon was slashing a.tmnd the other day with a new trout rod It reminded J. Stodgell Stokes of a storr to nrovo that the biggest fish Is not always hooked by tbo most expensive tackle.. Stokes and other. Baverford con-' glans thought it would be nice when' the late President Sharpies was about to. retire to give him the finest basa rod, reel and lino that could be bought The old scholar waa duly grateful and accompanied by Mr. Stokes elected to christen his gift In a Jersey water where bass are almost as plentiful as tbe mosquitoes oa shore, A barefoot native lad wstchlnf open-eyed st th unfolding of the . beautiful . rod, whispered -to Mr. IVh . : "The butcher won't s3 much moat tomorrow.'' .' Nothing, however, thst Dt. Sharp-less Sharp-less could do would coax a flsh to taka the hook. Then the !aa7"waltlng i silence for an hour, gravely cut' a switch from a tree, rigged up a lino, took a rusty hook from his pocket dug aa angleworm and without comment com-ment proceeded to fish. Ton hsve slready guessed the sequeL- The bey soon had -string' of bass, while the scholar and his friend, a man of high business qualities, caught not one. HAVE HIGH NUTRITIVE VALUE According to Bureau of Fisheries, tea., '"" Mussels Are Net Appreciated as They Should Be. Officials of the bureau of fisheries declare that sea-mussels are, In a high degree, both palatable and nutritious. The bureau goes farther and says thai la view of the abundance of the mussels mus-sels snd the ease with which they can be obtained, the neglect of them for table use Is wasteful.' It points out that sea mussels are found along ths coasts of nearly all the northern haljf of the JM thern hemisphere, and that it-ii tin hit ncwcnginno coast so extensive that the mussels could be collected dally hy the ton. It adds that many persons consider the flavor of the mussel superior to -that of, the oyster; that, moreover, mussels are In season when the oyster oys-ter is out of season, nnd that they are more easily cultivated than the oyster. .It admits thnt fresh mussels are most difficult t? market, for f hey spoil If kept more than 24 hours, but asserts that If conned or pickled tbey retain their natural flavor for months, tile bureau recommends that .such vhoap ond nutritious food be- plseed on .tb market Tasting Fish. C n t1- V . ...... .MK. wM.suies smvsj; a. bl J stt Hi a' iuu what is said to be a very effective fway of determining the edible or non- edible qualities of any new varieties of flsh they may happen to run across. In the. water In which the fish Is boiled is placed bright silver coin,-'. It tVlA SaIs ' a.Aeln IOm Hnn n . AnlAK saiwi win itrHiiia iiai uniuiai vi during the boiling process, the fish. x U good to est.i Uut U H ,tum oarlt, the iooii. Is rejected. 7 .... , i r- |