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Show Tire SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH P I mlSr " FORK. UTAH. w STATE UTAH IIEWS jubii.ni, June .mL- vp ,h lr 6f ,ie piVullV1UiJ Hme-f- or btm 1 kouk .k t4 idh WI, ,h ' from u anv?i It beta fur tbe coronation of a king, not tnort car could tho two bavo bestowed oa tba eleo tloa of that sulL Ripton, ba of tba tha eaiygoln shambling gait, untidy OBfa.creea socka god dingy brown tla. tadiknly critical, correct Ire, a verl able connoisseur. "ID nothing nobby," suggested tba all meaning Shelby, ielectlng from kl famplra a pronounced plaid and forgetting that what well beeam hla old god matured, tubby style might irt differently on bla elderly friend. "Something lass ostentatious Rip tea would Insist. "Nothing bizarre Shelby guessed tha naw Bor rococo words from tba rejection of bla aam p!r. "Cray, exactly to match." "Of course, nowr, fta your fuaerat." ghdby would acquiesce In cheerful regret. Rlptoa consented to a band kertbhf bordered with color. AD e e e e e e t pb of tbe and tba slimmer ankles?" ' wlco ,0 bis hJil ,u,t TbCy wMton-h- ar d0nl,"on my kind. Shelby burled hla amusement and nia amart. to follow eagerly In tba waka of this chance atraw. "Shell ba there. Tbe women are great on Itrt youll find her on the n r0M- - -- Oh. youre going ?' ait right, old Dan. 8e you tomorrow about Axing you out." sulted As they walked the platform, wait ing for the train to pull In, hla ault and plain tie according well quiet with bla Iron gray hair, Itlpton looked the part of a prosperous country gehtl man, albeit one with a touch of sport-jottood.es was evidenced In tba gay border of hla handkerchief. Not hit the nervousness and tha uncertainty. Ills hearing was dignified, hla trend nrm, and mors noticeably accented on tba right foot, aa became one 4io waa going back to keep step with "the boya." Rack farther yet. to things In herlied and conventional. Shelby, who, for the last few weeks, bad In turn steadied him, sobered blm, "Shelby, We're Nona of lie Derelicts 8cause Wa Set Out ta Ba or Because Wa Want to Ba." an his 200 pounds. "What yon got there. Bill?" "Warm for April," agreed Ipton, hastily shoving Into bla pocket a square white envelope. Ilia drooping, by defenseleasneai suggested failure, aad glasses stood on the table. "Takes the ginger out of a man to climb a hill summer weather-win- ter clothes." he Anally continued, teeter lag back bla chair, "how about that letter you chucked when you aaw me Looks aristocratic, somecoming? how. Society editor short o' maBilly," terial?" The older sheepishly man Aushed and smiled under the raillery. "Theyre not Inviting me now." In the rebound of the admission be drew himself up Into a semblance of y dignity. "Young man," he said ternly, "time waa when I danced with the belle of them all." mill-tor- Shelby nodded briefly. And a more slender waist, or a trimmer foot " he Hopped under the other's curious gaze. Shelby, were none of us derelicts because we set out to be or because we want to bo.' The weak, loose mouth, the hand waking in its effort to steady a news-PBP- er turned Shelby away In pity. Striking out at random, In kindly of his former chaff, he coaxed: 'What is the letter, Billy? Cant I ab-on- help?" Its nothing. Just a little are planning. No. ton the boys Well? "I moan pany ni" Tu In the boys my boys. Com- command?" Yes." Years concentrated their Bitterness In that word. He handed r the letter. you know, they never told Bie that." ' And you never guessed ? Oh, I now Ive pretty well concealed It. ven my walks mellowed now. The runph of thi d paper In his hand Now, do his It roused deter-matlo- Going! Going where? 'hy, to this here Memorial week nnlon theyve asked you for." m his eyes wandered over hi fllttl8)r, faded clothes. Im not jjj,. had selected and rejected half before he got Ripton. They would be-- my own kind 2,y- - nc9 more. Jo! a5 i v wandered to the glasses 0J' Tbey don't know. Each plaoded illness or business, ! . g HE survivors from a great and appreciation of tbs vast bestow meut that the blood of tbs fallen upon contributed to tbs nation and to tbe when world. Freedom est, especially unfurls her banner years havs passed sines one more, and lima t was over this the event This dispotbe gory Adds of fratricidal warfare; sition of tbs publle will this time It waa not to ths trumpeting ezplaln a part of tha attention which will bs of a declaralon of Independence, but given to tbs Grand Army to the sonorous sound of ths procla on Memorial day. Ths matlon of freedom for the servile men who will ride or march on that classes of the population Tbs South day are survivors of s war which o was freed from Its trammels and tbs younger generations has becoms blossomed out as tbs arc t low of ths almost ancient history. They art all most American country aid endowed old men, though many of them will with the wealth c unrealized greatest not adroit IL There Is this strange thing about resources. Tbe country blossomed he celebration of the day. Ths Civil out in the new power and Influence ot war became, before It ended, an anti- a union Indissoluble, of a house no divided against Itselt The slavery war, but ths men who were longer world paid tribute to the heroes of prominent In the antislavery movement will not appear In the proces- battlefields as (acred as any of those sions. They are gone. One can al which. In Holy Writ, set forth the most count upon hla Angera those who epochs in the progress of mankind in remain. But tbe men who fought tbe the theocracies of the past Freedom bar-roobattles that were brought on by their had given It a new content and civiliconfidence. Bet Bill's full," they agitations still live, by hundreds of zation bad bestowed upon it a new dignity, and life, and valor were given thousands. sniggered, "of the spirit of CL" e The explanation Is a simple one. fresh glory In the tremendous strugMartial sounds hurried him to the The- - antlslawry agitators were ma- gle which ta commemorated on Decomain street. There they came a big ture men some of them old men. The ration day ths day or solemn hush, of glorious recollection, ths day Aag leading, another down tbe line, Civil war waa fought, largely, by yet when ths tears of sad recollection are Memen tbe beginning and the end of all and youth. More than young hot through with tbe ralnbowa of a morial days. Two rode In front, tha 800,000 enlisted at seventeen or behorse of one refractorily Impatient of low that age; more than 2.000.000 perennial rejoicing. Tbe commission of liberty cannot the band's big. booming drum; tbe were not more than twenty-one- . Only little girls, clad in white and bearing 618,511 were twenty two and above, be laid aalde, even If tbe nation that has set up tbe standard of freedom w reathes; the local boys brigade; the and only 48,028 of these were twenty for mankind could discharge Its obliAve or fewabove. line of long carriages, noticeably to the world otherwise. gations er than last May, with their precious, And so It happens that among the Wherever there are oppressed there sad remnants; the young men of tbe marchers will be seen many who, Is felt tbe magnet of the Influence of Spanish war; tbe bandu; and, In the nearly Afty yeare after the cloze of American freedom; and ao from the In whose as will the the van, the not rear, Aag war, appear to be old. So, land of Russia, from thu stars had been kept Intact. also, It happens that the pension rolls landa of Europe, come Shelby scanned the faces In the car contain the names of more than 400,-00- the slaves of oppression and of harsh veterans of tbe Civil war, w ho are discrimination, the auhjecta of tbe rlages; once In sudden hope because of a wave of the band. It waa an- still living. curse of Inequality, that they may if one cares to compare these se- join In the song of those redeemed lected men with those who were re- from such conditions or those whose jected as physically unlit or defec- birthright It Is to enjoy life, liberty No tive, he will be Interested in noticing and the pursuit of happiness. the Grand Army button on the lapela wonder that tbe country is virtually of the coata of men, as at pause ns the observation of the he passes them in the street. The sacred day ot reverence for the nalittle bronze button, or the smaller tion's slain uplifts to the view of reJ, white find blue button of the mankind the dignity and power of Loyal Legion, appear very frequently, ideals that are woven Into the lire and that in oplte of the fact that hun- and character of a Dree people. No dreds of thousands of the men select- wonder that from the highest to the ed as At were killed In battle or died lowliest the officers of state and the of wounds during the war, and many citizens pay tribute to the men who others have since died from disease remade the nation. Animosity, recontracted during the contest. sentment, schism are all In the past The youthfulness of those who made and n united people rejoice In the outup the army of those days suggests a come ot n fiercely dividing struggle. To tb world of today, this great thought not often made prominent in discussions of the pension question. tragedy of half a century ago is but While a pension is not designed to tradition and not a living memory, but recompense pecuniary losses Incurred the passing years can never efface by the pensioner In his service, it Is that record from the very souls of well to remember that the boy or those who went through that fiery young man, from sixteen to eighteen, furnace in the great struggle for tbe who left school for three years In the nation's life with its frightful toll ot formative period of his life, was never precious young lives sacrificed to the able to make up what he lost in edu- Moloch of one ot the worlds greatest Look! There Hs Is!" She Cried. cation, and that those who were above wars. Costly Indeed was the price with many of whom were Just which the dawning peace was bought: swered by a slip of a girl beside bln. eighteen,the first steps in promising Fourteen thousand men killed and taking He whose feet kept time on the curb. wounded at Shiloh; 15,000 went down careers, by giving up their opportuniturned away from the last carriage In ties lost their chances in life. Tbe at Chickahomlny; 13,000 at Antletam, fails Ripton sharp disappointment. procession closed up, and wheh they and 13,000 more at Fredericksburg; ure dragged him down a little, and returned at he close of the war they 17.000 killed or crippled at Chancelall that gaping crowd; even the young were obliged to take a place in tbe lors ville; 23,000 lives sacrificed on the the field at Gettysburg; 16,000 at Chicks-maugthing beside him whose skirts slen- rear, if they got into it at all from back blew wind 18,000 at Spottsylvanla, while falskirtling Decoration of the graves of the der ankles. It shook out over their len heroes of the civil strife and of 17.000 fell in the Battle of the Wilderheads, the passing Aag. those who have subsequently Joined ness. In those four years of blood and Look! There he is! she cried. the ranks of the departed in the man in quiet suit and noblest war that has ever been carnage, 93,000 men perished by the An Iron-grahis dusty plain tie, the feet within waged, is indication of the country's bullet, 186, ui)0 by disease, and 25,000 for ths valor of the slain died from other causes a total of shoes marking time despite their reverence in a sufweary lag; his face drawn or weight of fering beyond weariness the most dangerous group of German but about hla mouth the NO NATION FREE FROM SPIES spies have their headquarters in the who fought look of the grandfather United States. who ancestor Hold at That Such the of Taken Has and under Perry, System This country has a secret service, it one a Is April It Practically Present fell on Lexington Common Is true, but the complex, underground the spirit Curse. of Universal full his eyes morning; machinations which are so Important her flown thick and to the statecraft of Europe at all have stories the girl, on beamed Spy Shelby yet times and so much relied on during fast, reading like magazine Action,have own pride glowing his heart. the war, are known to iis only of persons number through .. Mother knew him," she eiplamed a sufficient executed to hearsay. or Into cast prison Bhyly, glancing at her WkJ froclJ been It would be easy to become a little to these tales. was be give all needed realism of and father-t- hat Brooklyn. N. puffed up by this. "We Americans citizen a train London the on In him -f- ather and I found v is on trial for espionage. It Is sad and aboveboard. We do not work in He wanted to go back three day tha fact that tbe dark, Is an obvious comment Yet to crry the that his arrest revealed ago. But we asked him flag j . always art tragedy looked with Inter- aerf-affllcte- - gray-heade- d . JlvZerLRUit8 I , j death. con-russto- n flag-pol- youre going, slapped Dont you want to dJn0U-b- et go? i y crackling mirthlessness. Shelby to sudden gee here, youre going." In Rumors are afloat that Ball Laker are negotiating for ths purchase of n building site on the tabernacle bhsk at Provo, across the street west from the postoffire, for the purpose of erect-na f250.noa hotel. Having fashioned a pair of suspenders Into a hangman's noose George Moore, aged 3o years, attempted suicide at his home In Balt lake, hut wa rescued from hi perlloue position by a 13 year-olboy, J. Wesley, outfielder of the Mohr-lan- d team la the Carbon Emery league I In the Castle Gate hospital with of tbe brain, as the result of being hit In the head while playing with Mohrland against Castle Gate. Aa n result of the consolidation ptn. Banpete county Is divided Into two tho North Banpete unite, known district and the South Bsnpeto district respectively, with high school centers at ML 1leassnt end Mantl. Agnen Glenn, n domestic 23 year of age, employed at Balt Iake, committed suicide by drinking seven ounces of carbolic acid and two ounces of chloroform. Despondency over a love affair la assigned aa the cause. Ernest Keyter, aged 25 years, who Is serving thirty days on the Salt Lake city chain gang, was ahot In the right hip when he attempted to pelt David Crowther, chief guard, with stones, after having attempted to make hla escape. Joseph Henry Martin, alleged blackr now serving a mailer, sentence In the state prison for assault upon Detective Duvld Edwards, will be placed on trial In tbe district court at Ogden, June 28, on a charge of roblery. Vernon Spencer, aged 21, employed at Salt Lake, but whose home was at Centervlle, waa struck and thrown colfrom hla motorcycle In n head-olision with an automobile, nine miles from Salt Lake, and died from hla a few hours later. After drinking poison at her home In Salt Lake, Edith Tickles, aged 19 about her years, threw her arm and mother, Mrs. Albert Fearnley, aobbed, .Mother, It la all a mistake." These were the last words she utter-vd- . An hour later she died. Thousands of visitors enroute to the California expositions or returning on their way east are stopping In Salt Lake each week. The city Is a veritable tourist center these days and Salt Lake and Utah are receiving tome of the best advertising In their history. Upon the request of prominent Mantua residents the county commissioners have passed a resolution establishing a speed limit for automobiles and atber conveyances while passing through Boxelder canyon. Ten miles in hour Is the speed that must hereafter be adopted. In connection with the suspected opium traffic In Bingham, George Lee, proprietor of a local restaurant and laundry, was placed under arrest at Bingham. Lee Is believed to be a confederate of Louie Yong, who wbo was arrested with about 82.000 worth ot Dplum in his possession. After making an Inspection of tne orchards of Weber county, tbe county horticultural Inspector says he found the orchards unharmed by frosts, with the exception ot a few apricot and apple trees, but he adds that It I his opinion a frost would be of value ;o the growers at this time. Acting on the jurys recommendation for mercy, the trial judge sentenced Henry Davies to life Imprisonment in tbe state penitentiary for the tilling of . Arthur Davis at Salt ...ake. Davies declared to tbe court he was Innocent of any murderous Intent In the Bhootlng of Davis. Carrying two quarts of opium, a pair of opium scales, a pistol and a jaw. Louie Young a Chinese, was arrested In a Bingham rooming house. White slave charges, it is asserted, may follow the arrest of a Greek in Brigham City and the detention ot Valerie Biddle, a young woman in Ogg g ha started cajoled, flattered, browbeat and lie plrcd him, poured every ounce of his Rlptoa. It own vigorous will Into the other's "Whew!" ho panted, dropping vsclllatlng temperament, found himself undistauccd, unable to approach heavily Into a chair that commented this quiet, man by whose side ha trotted, and waa dimly aware that the change was Inward as well outward. Ills last words of counsel end pleading clove to his tongue as he gazed helplcsvly et his own handiwork. Perplexity wrote her beady sign across hie forehead He could onty rasp out, as e helped his friend mount the steps: "Not a drop, not a drop, mind." Understanding what the other would do for him, Rlpton wrung bis fat clammy band and. aa the train pulled out, carefully replaced the gay handkerchief with a white one. Its R' fastidiously arranged to view. Three days passed. Thursday Shelby surreptitiously hung around tbe station. Friday he met the trains openly and took tbe crowd Into hla that day Shelby began leisurely up the hill to find was spring real spring. 4 properly county. ing nn Illness of only oue week. The Indian war veterans of Utah and Wasatch eountlr will hold tbelr annual encampment In Aiixut, beginning on the 17th and continuing for four days. T. John Gundry, ao employe for tbe last seven year In tbe hiatla department of the Halt laike poatofflre department, died May S3. Death wa caused ly bronchial trouble. Pneumonia caused more deaths in I'tah In April than any other disease, according to the April health bulletin given out hy the state hoard of health. Gf sixty five esses reported sixteen re- .tiVh0! ,0h! ,k MM waist a Union flay, will he Peter J. Raid, a prominent resident ff Pleaiant Green, died of typbue fever on May 3) at hi homo, follow- dra-K- m num1 br..-r- T M!nr' fr the coming year to flnanra the eebnoia of Uintah - mt- Orab 11, fcktiialrg at Park City ihl year. A gram! mul of ITo.omj III ha naad-- 301,000 dead ono mao for ovary nine . who wore tbe blue. From the lips of thougbtlrsa youth wa eomctlmee hear tha flippant charge that tha "old soldier are atlll fighting tba old battle of tba Civil war," Uttla realizing what they mean to tha scarred survivors of those epoch-makin- day. Who that "marched with Stermaa to tha tea" caa ever forget 7 Who that came back from the slippery slopes of Gettysburg ran aver forget tha bloody tragedy which for three long days turned Its peaceful quiet Into a seething hell of ahot and hell? Who that wltnersed tha deal ruction by tha Confederate army Itself, of Ita last hope and stronghold, tba city of Richmond, In that memorable April of 65, will ever forgot tha Indescribable acena of horror with tba roar of an Immense conflagration sounding In their ears, while tha explosion of the gunboats shook tha doomed city to Ita very foundation? Thirty city blocks swept out of existence by tha spreading flames, 1,040 houses destroyed, while hundreds of hospitals and almshouse Inmates wera aid to have been blown into eternity. Such Is wart God forbid that our land ahall ever know another, but let ua forevermore remain one people, loyal to one flag, and nnlted In on earnest effort to make this nation tha grandest ever risen on tha tldea of time. Memories Ilka these are Ineffaceable, and who haa a better right to live again fight," if you will the battlee of that period, than tbe proud heroes of that day? But the honored ranks of that once powerful army are rapidly thinning. Day by day In ever Increasing numbers slowly winds tbe funeral cortege through tbe streets of Washington to that vast, silent encampment on the wooded heights of Arlington, that consecrated spot whose silence Is only Intensified by the dropping of an acorn or the whir ot a wild bird's wing. Not many are the years before other hands must deck our soldiers graves with tho flowers of spring, but when the last soldier of that great war shall have followed comrade and commander to that land which knows no bugle call to arms, may these lowly graves be still the shrine whereon an unforgettlnj people shall lay their tribute of bloom and blossom, and be forever guarded by that emblem of the world's best hopes, and the heritage of a people yet to be that splendid, costly flag for whose crimson bus. Every strips of on Held of blue. And every etar our brave end true of Ten thousand Have laid them down and died. g New Electric Bell. An original electric bell combination Is In use at Paris which is designed to get rid of all trouble caused by the question ot batteries, for these are now lodged within the apparatus Itself. The usual box bell shape Is retained, but the arrangement of the parts is different In this case. All the magnet parts are now lodged under the gong Itself, while the box being now left free, serves to contain a set of three dry battery cells which will last for several years. In this way there are no connections to be made between the battery and bell, and the wires and s are the only pieces which need to be attended to. Scientific American. push-button- five-yea- n den. Thomas D. Price, aged 46 years, who espionage Is the very natural outcome lost an eye while cutting granite on of the grinding contact ot nation the state capitol three months ago. as It against nation prevail at ail died last week at a Salt Lake hospital. times. The spy as a type must be A chip of stone pierced the ball of highly courageous and devoted to bis iis eye. While the eye was being recause. Mr. Price fell a victim to a It gives us a creepy feeling, Just the moved, of diseases. complication same, to think that plottings and inTwelve hours of continuous rain at ternational Intrigue may be going on In our busy and peaceful midst. De- Kaysville relieved the serious condition that confronted the farmers of '"J j troit Ncwb.' ' j ' ' ' the district. There was a prospect that a ' water shortage would reduce Probably the most Important the crop of sugar beets, grain and bay, club la the rolling pin. hut with tbe rain all this is changed. |