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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK, UTAH As Big Guns1 Roar arks-rSing- j PENS PRIZE POEM IN WILDS toff gets too heavy they Songsters Where Battles Rage Is Surprise, Ethelwyn Dithrldge Is Given 'Award for Sixteen Llnee Written " In Labrador. - DLDIERS ARE FOND OF PETS Sort of Mascots Abound In the Trenchee Many Also Are the Red Cross "Doge Pest Are Valuable. .h L d to With the British Armies In France. One of the distinct surprises to the comer at the war is to find larks 5 Unito. Ch T lglng over the front ,e would think that birds of every rt had long ago been driven far from line trenches. IS war zone, but. Instead, they lurk It In great number. Very ton the sudden flight of a covey from secluded thicket or remnant of wood g given the first signal of a shrapnel . a, e and about ' tack. The drumming of m In of Tire ij? er j general ears,W ajJ den langerott said, i pistol dephont nade i lion to t It! )n. i return in last y ty of C; grains: week ra would t gowns trlght red son! brasks ited to I a In Cat ce t the h: pensions e suppi.' 00 acre f miles and ped count! ortage ie pro1 4a jrocer, led u he of machine ms, the whirr and bang" of "plum sent over and "rum-jar- s ddlngs seem mortars trench the enemy have lost all terrot to the feathered They chirp as gayly and ngsters. as if jdly over the muddy, "line ere were no such thing In all the rld as war. The British Tommy Is very fond of When he can safely do so he fs. crumbs over the parapet for m larks, and If he had his way would I up every nook and corner of the ach with some sort of animal mas-t- . As It Is, there Is a strange mix-r- e of pets and peats In these deep the outposts of t tings In the earth ttle where the men themselves live sort of animal life. It la a life no unan being was ever Intended to e, and yet the health of the troops positively amazing. Rat the Leading Pest Of all the trench pests the rat, of urse, by reason of his size, takes No He Is everywhere. ecedence. lount of cleaning up has tended to terminate him. In fact, he waxes tter and fatter as the war goes on. of the pets the dog Is by far the There ire numerous and popular. e goats and cats and canaries and rlous species of mascot, but the dog more a part of the life, than y of the others. com-mdMany a subaltern has gone "over the top Into ttle with his dog leaping and bark- happily beside him. Scores of dogs ve been killed beside their masters In the fight-l- . d hundreds wounded. about Mametz, during the great ush on the Somme, a Red Cross arching party came upon a pathetic tie group composed of a subaltern, i dog and four private soldiers, just they had sprawled to their death In burst of machine gun fire. The dogs In the trenches have great a chasing the rats. They will even ip over the parapet after them Into o Mans Land. And sometimes old rltz from the enemy trenches will Ipe them.' There Is one old terrier w ,ln the front line who has been lunded four times. If he survives the ir the old veteran Is going to have a liar with four gold stripes on It. Red Cross Dogs Valuable. Hie Red Cross dogs (if the French nlly come under the bead of pets, icy are a lasting tribute to the part iub animals have played, and are iflng, in the great world conflict ie dogs, however, render a service ireely more notable than the little nch donkeys that carry ammuni-i- n to the front line trenches. These tie burros are as wise as they are '7. Their long, straight ears, al-- 7 poking forward, are attuned to sounds of battle and when the fir- - t OreE' He hi' t illy to "s ill pup the cars his wtf(l i Rayboi Judf by ourt to r Jail il be yf B-- ' it fumi ,h. accotnpW le state suhje' Wondeff ihllshed ie Mr-- . ve wort health. tb nbllsh atlon patronb lahof lulpiuc1, tier of h th ary - In r cotnP j he con'4 ndef fC msplra olubrntlu' the Sail voted l ,MH unb' spiled until loved I is uso ntHth1 entity T Jaeger of Alontctuir, N. bad mode a special sized huiul-- 1 nntoh her costume in which to , l0r warm while out for an The bng Is lined with lambs the dog hns little chance to 1 ?, Quite likely that the atlon will be taken up by tbe 188 ii J J0 f New York Crowd Flgck In Fifth to 6e Jack "Hit" the Meerschaum. Mend Boy's Skull )Vith Dime. Memphis, Tenn. When a mule kicked Livingstone McConnell, a d negro boy, In the head, the blow broke the skull. Surgeons replaced the broken bone with a brand-nedime of the mintage of 1917. The dime will go to the grave with t&e negro. Coming generations may flna and marvel at It York. Jack, a snow-whit- e War Cause of Divorce. three-year-ol- New York. "Ill go back to him If be will concede the allies will win, said Mrs. U. Decker, Russian, In tbe domestic relations court "Ill never do that, answered Decker, German. They were granted a divorce. British Navys Mystery Fleet war vessel I could see circling far overhead three or four airplanes of the patrol. Snuggled' well under the surface of the water a little to the left was something gray that resembled a whale come up for a breath. It was a submarine. Will sea war of the future be out largely by submarines?' fought I had asked one of the fleets chief spokes- Because It Steals Away Quickly and Brags of Little It Does. Called CHANNEL PASSAGE 8tate-Wld- e Prohibition Law, Approvs Public Utilities Commission and Workmens Compen- satlon Act and Provide for Road Improvement. ' Salt Lake City. The twelfth session of the legislature of Utah passed out of existence early Sunday mom- lng, iM&rch 11, but the journals will ehow adjournment at midnight of MKirch 8th, the lawmakers working on borrowed time In order to complete the pressing business before the legls.ture. In the senate, Senator Dera moved that the senate adjourn sine die at Ave-n- u English bulldog, has learned a new trick, and as a result Fifth avenue at least nine blocks of it stands still 4 for a few minutes each day. ( Jack now smokes a meerschaum pipe, and his smoking hour Is every noon, when he leads the secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith from that office up to the Union Trust company. Jack and the secretary between them carry the gifts for the last 24 hours to deposit them. Jack's accomplishments do not end with his smoking. He washes his face, combs bis hair and salutes persons who call to leave donations. Only Three Merchant Ship Have Been men.' "There might be such form of war Lost Out of 21,000 Starting on tho fare, was his rejoinder; "one can Trip Germans Find Channel never tell. In this war Too Warm. everything has grown bigger guns, . destroyers, submarines. Perhaps, he said with a By JOSEPH W. GRIGG. smile, "therell be a gun In the next (Special BUS Correspondent of tbo New war which. If . placed at the proper York World.) With the Dover Patrol. This Is the angle, might loti shells into America from Europe, or vice versa." mystery fleet that moors in mystery Down In a Submarine. port It Is the mystery fleet because It Bteals away quickly and brags of Uttle In company with her commander I that It does. Ita mooring Is the mys- was soon to visit the undersea boat tery port because here, are concocted which I had seen from the deck of the plana and here are many of the her giantlike patrol brother. Once inmediums with which the patrol has side, I was hopelessly confounded by wrought Its enviable record. a mass of brass and bronze pipes, so g drifter may hold Immaculately clean they could have A the' secret of a tale that can be told well done the work of mirrors. She, for strategic rea- too, had had a recent cruise and lay only after the war sons." Here Is an old salt who, if ply- ready, as all patrols must be, for any ing his trade of fisherman, could now rmergency. be making $500 In a day in these times "Down and at Em, was her motto, chrved In a shining brass plate In a of high prices. place. "Thats what my father made one day couspL-uouHer commander was acquainted with Inst week, said a young fisherman. "But he cant join us because hes too Captain Koenigs exploits In tho Deutschland. Officers of the fleet conold. These drifters run across things sider It onl) an advertising undertakwhich have been hidden away In Davy ing, and a very expensive one, and la Jones locker for a good many years; Itself a conspicuous example of the use of the submarine as a and they also discover things more modern, which perhaps accounts some- merchant ship. ac"We could go to America, too, but what for the diminution In tivities in the Neck of the Bottle," as there Is no reason why we should make such a trip; It Isnt necessary. the British channel Is called. There was only a gentle movement Work Is Well Done. to the submarine. I was taken for one the of agents are only They from one her to the other end through Gercounteracting the work of the and came out, after a final lust look In mysthe seen others mans. I have through the periscope, with a recoltery port. How well they have worked lection of colls of pipe Interlaced In fact the Is shown by months of recent an arabesque design of unfathomable that only three out of a total of 21,000 Intricacy. the through merchantmen that passed "We can be ready to leave In eight means patrol were destroyed. That said her proud .commander. minutes, pa-jrof the mind to the only one thing the Germans are going elsewhere, too having found the channel a bit warm. HE FED HER CAT It hns been my privilege to see the AND HORSE MEAT men who are doing this work, the ones at the top os well os those at Los Angeles, Cnl. Cat soup the bottom. They ore men of few not constiand horse steaks words hut good humor. tute good provisions, according Out In the harbor lay a formidable to Mrs. William Vaznnak, who In court here to press croft, one the Germans of the Belglun appeared const know well, for many of her "soua charge of failure to provide venirs" have hurtled their way pre she brought against her husband. cipitately Into their fortifications, The woinun declared that Vaz was told I might hove a close Inspecnnuk boiled a kitten to make the Intertion, and soon had traversed chowder and furnished the table with several choice steaks cut vening stretch of water and scampered . received by from the carcass of the family up her gangway, to be on officer who bad not lofig since been nng. with the German trying conclusions built been have butteries. She might the on a concrete foundation, for Bullet Comb Flatten effect whatever no had harbor choppy 111. Mrs. Henry SuthermaneuverFenton, the watched I upon her. which were snld to land of West Frankfort a bride of a ing of the big guns, weeks, was struck by a stray bulnmke no noise Inside tho turrets, bur few which come through the door of matter. let outside that was a different esthe chief her fathers home, and narrowly ( Paragraph deleted here by Sutherland fell Mrs. death. wrote caped censor of the admiralty, who a stove. Tbe bullet hud struck In Its place: "Sorry, but It hud to go. against the metul comb. The comb against D. B.) practlcully suved her Ufo. . Standing on the bridge of this big c Enact bulldog learns new trick oclock Sunday morning aa President Funk finished signing a number of bills from the house engrossing committee. In the house Dr. Grace Stratton-iAlremade the motion to adjourn sine die at 12:49 oclock Sunday morning. With the adjournment of the legislature, a revenue measure having been passed, a special session of the legislature was declared unnecessary by the conservative members of both bouses and by Governor Bamberger, who was "on the Job until the two. houses notified him that they were ready to quit the labors of the session. jemzgjtoazaz Governor Bamberger is quoted aa TRIO WHO FIGURED IN PECULIAR PLAY. saying: "The legislature Is fortunate In been able to do eo much, Failure of the fans to know what has actually happened on the field la for hawing the benefit of the state. The very often the reason why the umpire gets into trouble. If It were possible In Democratic party and the administrasome way to let the crowd know the reason for this or that ruling, the umpire tion have redeemed the pledgee they would usually escape much of the criticism that Is heaped on his poor head. made to the people.1 We have a In a game at St Louis between Washington and SL Louis, a play came up state-widprohibition law, which will which caused the admirers of the Browns to say many nnklnd things about the be enforced by the governor. We have a public utilities commission, a umpire, when, aa a matter of fact, that official could not possibly have ruled workmen's compensation act and we otherwise He was unfortunate In having a play come up that the fans were have guaranteed $2,000,000 for the not wise to, hence they believed their favorites were getting all the worst of the construction of roads. decision. "The legislature has performed Its In the eighth inning, with SL Louis enjoying a one run lead, Washington duty In the highest patriotic sense. got men on first and third with only one out "Eddie Foster, a mighty good Differences of opinion have arisen, hitter In a pinch, was the batter. He sent a liner through the box that looked but in the end the legislature did that Uke a sure single. "Johnny Lavan, dashed over, made a wonderful stop of the which 4s right. The majority ruled. one has any apologies to offer, bit, touched second base and threw the ball to first In time apparently to double No and I believe every member can go man from crossed third had the plate with home .satisfied that he has contribup Foster, Jn the meantime, the what was the tieing run If there had been no double play or If the ball had uted something to the progress and gone safe.. The home team rooters gave this man no attention, as they figured development of Utah." the double play had ended the Inning and made the run void. J. W. Funk, president of the senate, But something had happened when Foster hit the ball that changed the declared: "We have given everything entire complexion of the play. Catcher "Sam Agnew, working close behind the platform called for or the admin-the bat, had touched Fosters bat just as he was about to strike at the balL istration pledged Itself for. We have laws of benefit enacted for the the Possibly the sUght Interference in no way affected the swing, but the nmplre was forced to do things that displeased the Brown rooters. What was the people and we have given the state a progressive legislation as a result nmplre forced to do under the conditions? of which we hope the state will prosAnswer to Problem. per. We have not been able to go The play In which the catcher tipped the bat of the batsman just as he into the details of the laws, but we Was about to atrike at the ball narrowa the play down simply to a case of have gone far. Other legislatures are Interference. While both players had apparently been retired neither was out. coming end 1 hope they will do as Tbe very moment the catcher touched the bat of the batsman, that player was well." "I will go home well satisfied, for I entitled to first base. That base being occupied, the runner was entitled to know we have fulfilled our, promises be to few retired. since second without to Naturally, people to the liability advance people of Utah with regard to In tbe stand knew that the catcher had interfered, a big ronr resulted when remedial and progressive legislation, were declared The on safe. runner to out third seemed be who put both runners said Speaker J. F. Tolton. "We went who bad scored was, of eourse, sent back to that base. As Is usually the case, as far as we possibly could In the the next batter followed with a double that decided the game, way of making good our pledges. (Copyright by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) There was a barrier In the way that could not be entirely overcome, and that barrier Is the constitution itself. We have kept the faith. We gave our best thought to all measures and went fairly on record. I' am proud of the honor that was mine In presiding over the house during the session of the legislature which has just 12:42 e . adjourned. The Important measures that re- ceived 'the final approval of both houses during tbe Twelfth session Vcro j rusty-lookln- State-wid- e effec- prohibition bill, tive August 1, 1917. Public utilltes commission bill. Carries appropriation bill of $50,000. ' Workmens compensation bill. Car-rles appropriation of $90,000. s . ;llng ,t PARTY LEADERS EXPRESS SATISFACTION OVER RESULTS OF TWELFTH SESSION. O) LU oC3 UJ CD 2 o DC Corrupt practices paign expenditures. act Limits cam- , Inltative and refrendum law. Bond Issue of $2,000,000 for building of good roads In outlying counties. Irrigation district bill to get federal aid in the development of arid lands. law and bills afClayton anti-trufecting labor. Appropriation bill, carrying $3,207, 864.91. Appropriation of $100,000 for Ogden exposition In 1919. Creation of a budget system for tbe state, starting ln 1919. Occupation tax on mines, collecting $1 for every employee, excepting laborers, and imposing a net production tax at three times the net proceeds of mines for 1917 and thrice the net proceeds thereafter. Increasing the state levies to the constitutional limit of 5 mills. Increasing the justices of the supreme court from three to five. Giving powers to corrections board to oust state prison warden wltbo4 4 mwwwwwwwwmHWj ' ed zoo. GUARDS V t i 1 New the most amazing of all war pets, however, was the Hon cub adopted by the Americans In the French aviation service. They read In a Paris newspaper that a perfect dear of a cub was for sale and promptly sent emissaries In to buy him. They said when he grew up they were going to drop him In the German lines, but he was spoiled Into being a pampered pet Instead of a maneafer, and finally because his playful howls at night became a nuisance he was sent to the So ; I-- League Umpire.) t PROBLEM , (Written Expressly for This Paper by the Famous American - New York. While in ' the vwllds of Lnbrmlor several supuners ago, Miss Ethelwyn pithrldge, a teacher of English In the Bushwlck high school, Brooklyn, had , a poetic Inspiration. She sat down before a fire In the Grenfell mission there and wrote 10 lines. The short poem was named, "Aa Thou Wilt. The poem expressed kindly thoughts toward children. The judges In a contest recently held under the auspices of the St Louis Art league picked the poem from 000 as the best literary Effort of the season and gave to Its author the first prize. The prize was a check for $100, which Miss Dithrldge received at her home In Hollis, L. L ol ion of coring C al that i Probably er count! jvlslon big guns, the "pat she11 SOLVES BASEBALL , ho!es antl lle bur the drivers until danger tempo-rani-y i$ pnat , Some of the strangest animals of the war are the wild cats of The Ypres. old mother and father cats of Ypres were once domesticated. But when the frightened population fled at the first bombardment the cats, true to all oat traditions, remained behind. Now Ipres is a wilderness of ruins and all the cats born and living there have become like wild animals. A Canadian sergeant major came marching out of the line a few days ago with a magpie sitting on his shout- Prlvate to the same company had a kitten curled up on the of his knapsack. All the overseas top troops bring mascots with them. The South Africans started out with a great collection of springboks, baboons, duikfi ers and a variety of queer animals, but the climate of northern France In winter mood Is far from friendly and the warm weather pets have mostly been "done In. ulfK 4 to Newcomer. f dart for the . , Miss - jundance of BILLY EVANS cause. Constitutional amendment for state- o wide prohibition. Constitutional amendment for taxing mines at a multiple on a the Twelfth session the senate passed 78 measures and the house 68. The governor signed 34 hills that came from the senate and 19 that originated in tbe house, while he has 34 senate and 19 house bills before him, which he will either approve or veto. Governor Bamberger won his fight against an Income tax and for a law taxing the mines of the state on a valuation of three times their net proceeds. The governors battle was FUceesaful when the legislature, on, the eve of Its sine die adlournment, passed the occupation tax on mines and mining claims. S. R. Thurman, former Democratic state chairman, and Valentine Gideon, one of tbe foremost attorneys at the Weber county bar, were appointed Judges of the supreme court on Marclx 10th by Governor Bamberger. i 1 |