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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SP4NII ITMI FORK. MIOHOHOOmOOW News Notes It's Fnvtlff to Lw in m Utah Ccr.sitlrr Ihrmsny in Sslccthn of omn 5wwwwwwostriven to,llyaod tn maintain I'TAH-l't- of fin colors f a requite rnnft4 alitili study .f a'lrriiiiml'ni.'. stand out iriiiniiiftiity re n4 ll nioai simple troiiinwiii, Nui r.l r gruja r drub, with IL liter g"a .iilsfuir for whit give trim, Ivory ( all woik titmiinridnl kind limild he kept In harmony whh the ImmIv rotor. When a house hide among the tree and shrubs, light col nr roue Into I heir own, I'.rlii'd col lme ors on nn exposed house g! .f 1 M look. When house are gro'lN"l closelv to gel her llte color of those nearby Mi'll ib r l Is If tlie bouse to-I be shouldn't yellow, your . laut'l Iry to Make you. differ- lit. If up you l do your to rili.ke Imth hulls- - appear 10 f If you p.ilpid your a advantage. creamy pray body color with Rorv gn-eti- yb-ii- la-s- rd ' A t'hrlHnum Dickon fu nrlr hna Imi'I) Itila Him t'nr.l Churls ami the I 'lirllinn lnry. rnl Idle trim an I cris-yn won! I he doing well by yourself and year neighbor. Two wrong in mlor selection novel make a right. A house betvvci n Ivvo other pala'i'd In slrong rotor should adopt a neutral hut. Try in m. ke your color blend Into or bridge over the other two colors. Titer are tnaliv ways It which cob it iptesfons can be selvtd. bill II I h.-to look carefully An ulroeloii y colored you ch.ooKo, bouse In more tlc.n an lmhvldu.il ads take It In a crime agiilnt the taste of a neighborhood. t'lcvehmil Plain Dealer. a Il ami ul your imiii n, SiTiHia mii4 Tiny Tim are cherished friend Mini l lit mi thir till If In mi closely null with Christum Din s splril i.f flint we quire sympathize with tin m. U nii t, asked when li.tit of hi lit Imjr Who, dnath. "If Sir. Dirkena la 4n4. Ilien la .Smitn Claua going to die tool place aa a IlhTHry artlxt la seldom Ilui on t'hurlca Dickon the niun the dlaputeO. Biodcro delmnker hna recently turned hla inuii of light with astonishing result. 'Iwo traf Ins new hooka on the life of the fninoiia author; "Charlea Dirkena. a Biography from S,-frHircea." hy Ralph Siraua, published ly the Hook roriHiratlon. nik "This side ol try a Novel Rased on the Life of rhurlc Dhk ena," by C. K Rochhofor llolHrta. published hy the Paddt Merrill comptiny. ret on I iixonrcrtlnu Dlt-ken- a smudge on the whitewashed the Dfiken legend hna riven ua. The "Christ tuna fund," It for all It Sermon against selfish greed and Tiny Tim im tnortnl "(Jol Idee ua every one. wus written primarily been use the nuthor needed money. Im liuM-lucdlulely mill Imdly. "Martin Chiizxh-wll.- " on hlN find trip to America, hnd enjoyed no a im n le. compared to earlier book, on to hrlna to head tons iendln! dlfllrullic with I'hppmun & Hull. lniMrtant among the many (utilsra"K Iioi.ncn w'lili whom I 'liken had flri dealimrH mo' then dlltieiililea. fnder thin cloud Hie author Journeyed to Mnnchoxtor to usslst at a dedication lie returned III Improved apirilN. loud nub lie applause at III ringing In hla ear ami Ida head full of a new story It Inspiration, he told hla wife. Kale, wua the crippled aon of hla sister. Fanny, whom he l.a-- i Just visited. It waa to he sort of a fairy tale, eontntlng the aelllsh. canting, hypocritical rich who don't understand the spirit of Christum with fhe hunilde. happy ssir ulm do. It was to rontnln all hla jdilloaophy mid he such a 'smack In the eye for can! and tiiiiiduig"! lie aef to with that remarkuhle energv that churaeterlzed all hla efforts. At the end of ten day lie read the half finished atory to Kate and Georgina Hogarth, her sister, and a mem-he- r of the Pickens household. "It 'a thrilling! the adoring Georgina exclaimed, reports Mr. Reehlmfer Roberts. Il will do more good to the world than all the sermons ever preached." Aud fhnrlea modestly answered. "That's Just what I think. Whats more. It'll do the "Inimitable" more good than all the sermons preached. It'll sell like hot rakes!" Sell like hot cakes It did. The first edition appeared a few days before Christians, lSI.'I. and fi.noo copies were sold at five shilling each w ithin a few Imurs of publication. ''Charles.'' Mr. Strati fells us, "w ns overjoyed kept Christmas uproariously " latter editions sold over lu.ono copies, giving Dickens, In his own words, a most prodigious success, the greatest I think I have ever achieved. The little book." Straus continues, endeared him to thousands of new readers and put hint on a new sort of pedestal. The affectionate regard In which he had been held changed to something even warmer. Thackeray was expressing the general opinion when lie wrote; Who nn listen to objections regarding such a bock as this? It seems to me a national benefit mid. ro every man r unman who rends It a personal kindness. The last two persons I heard Sieak of it were women, neither knew the other or the author, and both said, hy way of criticism. Hon bless him! Its success was natural. Like the good show-Vatie was, Hlckptig had quite outdone himself In wiving Ids public what it wanted: an extra good smack in the eye for cant and humbug." With what satisfaction lie must have set its kaleidoscopic scenes, that vivacious procession of guests arriving at the Fezxlwigs hall, tile tableau of tlie Spirit of Christinas Present, the brief dm mil of tile Cratchlt's Christmas dinner! Here was the successful author in his greatest role, giving ids readers gorgeous entertainment, playand hoping for large ing upon their heartstrings profits ! There Is prolmbly more of Dickens own child hood than of Fanny's sick son In Tiny Tint Cratchit. He hnd been a bright, sensitive li'tle chap, subject to frequent spasms of sickness that confined him to hooks and dreams for amusement. His father, afterwards so accurately portrayed in Mr Macau her. seems to have been a charming scoundrel, so utterly unable to cope with the practical business of Ihitig that he often when hills were overdue, leaving disappeared Mrs. Dickens, as futile as Mrs. Nichelliy. and her When all numerous children to face the music. went well there was proper schooling, endless fascinating theatricals in the Dickens nouse and petty triumphs when his father lifted;. Mm unto for admiring the dining room fable to guests. When all did not go well the sclmo ing s topped there was constant terror of poverty ami ; the shame of seeing Ids fathet In debtors pri-oand there wits a deva-- r tiing. though brief experience w hen he cor" 'Imfed to the f.vui'j in hufhuuil. pot-for- Mr. Visdom in Spending l!oh Jiid.iiient f him; "I am weary When Building House Charles, of hearing you prutt of rant and hum , Tl.e ren.soimble ecouoiob iu home I liyMM-rlyhug and there a meaner caul Hiaii your eliip'v eat hwords? You're the tiypoe Ite. building should start at the very beIn boast your cont-mp- t you, for money am' ginning. First, commission a roii-pTo bfak faltti with rvery uhllsber! YoJ, win. lent uichitci't it pliin your lioii-eprem-ami u( n common expression, lay the en ds charity and pillory your parent ftlendN In vmir book! You, who rani duly an I nil tlie ti.hle, tell Inin exactly w hat yen fiiilhfulm and desert me for a painted adro!' want to pay and what you want lit of lids painted actress" Mr. Straus lias "luth your bouse. Let Idm nil you ulmi:t lie phitis to Use nml lle-(lie to say." beyond that her name was Ifileti Tert'im I hat site was "somewhat well known" Htid the have him "4I.ipttoe" the case. The average art Idled really Likes as milch first Ha tiled beneficiary In I'lckeim will, whirl pride In producing a pood Ionise a left her l.nun pounds. She Is umloiibtedly- tin lie does iu the money received, mol ".voting lady for whom I nave great regard; Dick tin rest assured that lie would you m mentions In the Impr'iions ami ridiculous derut her lose some money In commission fense of the separation which he later wrot- - t and turn out a pood ctructure than appease hi wondering public. Mr Rerhlmfer a writer I! louts h.i much to say of her. Dickens bad tiie other way about, ill tlie Philadelphia Ledger. first seen her In "Atiilanta. a "dismal Hole per He really lias the Interest of your soli" whose voice did not carry to the hove house at heart, and vvlo ti lie uiaki Tluu-had luen a trip behind seeman laev It tide encounter, a tearful confession that It was suggestions II Is tod because lie wuiil you to do something you don't want the shame of appearing In tight that was spoil lug her debut performance, appropriate word ol to do; It Is only because lie think it Is for your best Interests. consolation and an Immediate Infatuation. ITo You can't make u silk purse out of a had Kate had talked, pie complained ami the sow's ear. as the saying goes, and long routcuipinted separation was thereby prrcip ho-se you ean't get a vvell-cItated. Spend wisely Kale, however, vtis nparentl.v alone In her out of poor material.. and well, and you will find that when it hers accepted "A doubt of Dickon' sincerity. Christians Carol" as he Intended they should, and the house Is completed it will It sales mounted. Rut Dickens neeilid money; up to every expectation and then nml in that respect the "Carol" disappointed him. seine. Much had been spent on binding and printing, on color plates and woodcut; and five shillings Horn Alwayi Big Aet. was a notably low price. Ills profits, all told, The satisfaction ol life and con fell short of $ 1 ,S(K). "What 8 wonderful tiling It tentniciit with government in any civIs," he wrote Forster, that such a success should ilized country ure measured largely occasion one such Intolerable anxiety and d!s- - hy the extent of home ownership. appointment ! Anything that endangers tlie welfare In his chagrin Dickens made now his first and of the home endangers tlie welfare of last attempt to protect himself against the com- the government; contrarily, any tiling mon piracies of his hooks. No sooner had the that aids in (lie development of the "Carol" appeared than a children's weekly called home, makes for stability of governFarleys Illuminated Library, carried almost the ment. entire hook reprinted with a short introduction. Frequently the only asset of much In January, 1844, Dickens npplled for an injuncvalue in a mans estate, which lie tion to restrain its stiles. "The pirates," lie was leaves to liis family, is a home, and able to write soon after, are beaten fiat. They lids Is often suificient to carry tlie are bruised, bloody, battered, smashed, squelched family through. A home is tlie Host and utterly undone." Rut tiis triumph wus slnrt-lived- . security against poverty in old age. The pirates were let off with a mere re- Tlie desire to own a place of your buke; they Immediately pleaded bankruptcy so own is tlie most common desire of that Dickens had to pay court costs and they man. thereafter calmly resumed their practices, flick ens did not interfere again. "It is better. he Profitable City Planning. wrote, "to suffer a great wrong than to have What sane, farsighted aad economic recourse to the greater wrong of the law. development can do for a community Rut "A Christmas Cntol" was yet to rmike is no better exemplified than in t money for Its author. It served as headliner for residential area of tlie Border cities. liis public readings, of which he gave 4'' dmSouth Windsor. ing tlie last lo years of bis life Dickens first There one will see tlie acme of corexperienced what Straus culls tlie rather tan rect city planning carried out to the delight of appearing iihme on a publit ultimate benefit of all. Aside from when tie read tlie tlie platform" at Christmas. wide, paved boulevards and "Carol at two benefit performances When. In streets which abound in tlie South sr.s, he commenced ids public readings, he add- - Windsor district, the siz.e of individed to his program selections from "The Cricket ual lots is at once inviting and attrac"Pickwick." "Dombey and Son." Martin Chuzzletive to the prospective home owner. wit" and Inter Nickleby" and "David Copper Nowhere in tlie district is a lot whlth field. His success was unprecedented. Here j less than 40 feet, many hundreds of at last he seemed to have found himself Here tlie building plots exceeding this he was the author living for In's public tlie 'ives width Detroit by generous he had created; lie was tlie actor alone on the New s. own creation. Kvery stage, acting parts of his town In Kngland clamored for him. He made True of Most Communities. He triumphant tours of Ireland and Scotland. If we have a good administration Amerh-ntraveled once more to giving ois readof affairs by public officials we never ings before "perfectly astounding audiences" and take the troulde to tell them. If we often making over $1,000 a week! have nn unusually large number of It Is probable that the strain of constant trav- d men who ure working with re- - i for the betterment of our local condi ding, of emotional delivery, togt-thecurrem-eof his old malady, caused his death. lions, we seldom ever give them even There is no doubt that he was a very sick man faint praise. Canii.v (Ore.) Herald. tour; that that five throughout his Ameih-amonths cost Him his health even while It earned j Brass Piping. There was some imhim nearly Jtl.OOO pounds The between the cost of difference to ret un. liis on Kngland. hut when provement pipe and galvanized Iron or steel tie fut. readings recommenced Dickens hern me brass with paralysis and was pipes is so little ns to be almost nog seriously ligible. In the lors run tlie former a dn tor's veidict of compute furred to accept will prohili'y cost less. rest !v7ft. lie gave his last rending, at On Proper Color Harmony. hull. Loud' n. The occasinn was SI. .lame Wire Icnces r either the lie read the "fa ml is ci "V. iiing triumph." chain link type may now lie eivvu a ml the rial from "I iekwick" amid repeated i d slmde He da d a few later He was permanent cobn In any "! f:fl o:g! t a' the tune, tiumgii an old man of green or brown to haiiimriie wdth tLe home entourage. ot fiiiMM mods ib. i. I. .' i r; n I . niut-Miul- s a n Ileie. according to ciiH, In her fin;, e - rlo liulllmy. b'lathulra tor ruit tb ear 1!;7 iliuw that IShml take cf all aiaiu tt4 ' ni t r education. tglli,ri'4 JihTiKR CITY Total production ft ttnritatfi la flail la 1!2 by crop expert at .UffJ.wo bushel, of !4.o0 bushel over tb i tn 1m crop of tr:7. Thi Increase auJ partly to partly to belief yl.-lto Increase In rreis. I than M per CA8TI.K DAf.K-M- ore cent of the coal mined In 1tah h from Carbon county and fb , come j northern part of Krnery county. Vb high graded coal from title nr. a I bituminous, carrying from over 13.00c to nearly If.ouo IP!tib thermal unit on an atr dried bust. of l'tah' chief fruit ri:oVO-- B! In 1!27 about 12, worth were crop Doo.OuO; tiny were apples, pearho. and trawber pours, rhorr'c. yr.-.rlo. Many eab anJ cherry tree re heitiB planted and the production of tree in yare to come la expected to he much larrer than at present. RKTIFIKLD - Forty live carload of pr.ng lamb wi re shipped out of the Kev vr.lby recently, destined for Colorado ami inMdl w stern feed lot. The Limb were purchased by flawed! for the Unger Livestock ar.l wore loaded at of Ogden Marytvalo, Fldruce, Sigurd. Salina and Gunnison. More than 10.000 Were entrained. rniPK Dislrh t Agricultural Agent J n. Jewke repor;a favcrable anal j e of the ment sampli be took from variou meat market In Carbon coun to the state chemist. Her ty and ir.an Harms, at Salt fjtke City for analyses. The nit at were found to be In an tmllciit state of preservation and fresh, conforming with the lave In every respect. MILFORD - Beacon ILhts that can arc being placed be "cn forty mll on fifty-onfoot towers, tt Intervale of three n.iles, under the direction of cf C. K. Krause of the department border light comm -- ce. Tven'y-surrourd the Milford airfield. The will be located fim of the cae-halmile from the high schod biiTling. on the nphirds west of .Mi- ! p- 0cr s b'-a- t e f lford. I.LHI- - In pr.ynitn: for beets delivered to the factories of the Vtah-Idahcompany In November, mor than fl.2on.ono will be distributed to farmers on December 15, It wab announced recently by ragar company offida! here. With previous payments of f.ff.SGO.Oi'h, this will nak a total of $4, $00,000 received by sugar beet raisers this year, compared with o tistr-.tete- e ye-tr- sister-in-law- r lu-- s 1 j - . public-spirite- I fhre-rone- M-'- 1 J de-d- moi-Th- ev-i- s ' v ' y com-pap- - come hy glueing labels on blacking bottle In a cousin's factory, a period so painful to him that Joint Forster, his faithful friend, udvisor and biographer was the only person, not excepting hla wife, to whom he ever mentioned it. Later there waa a dull period a clerk Id a law office, a more lively period as newspapet re porter, when the young mail chased news by coach from one end of Kiiglnnd to the other anu took dowu parliamentary speeches, writing on his knee; then the famous sketches hy "Uuz; tlien "Pickwick" and fame when he wus not yet twenty-live ambitious years old! From young muhhood, Dickens slipped easily Into the role of public idol, lie set up an extravagant household, entertained lavishly, always with that Joy In rollicking, middle-clasgood cheer so marked In the "Carol.' lie directed and acted In the most tulked-o- f amateur theatricals of the day, and edited papers, made speeches, traveled and produced hooks with unbelievable energy. The role of public idol Is always a trying one. However much money Dickens' hooks brought, he always needed more. I!is improvident fattier and brothers constantly Imposed on Ids generosity. Ilis own children lie spoke of as the largest family known, with the least disposition to do anything for themselves." He was seldom free from the malady of his childhood and success brought It tin only increasing restlessness and dissatisfaction. At length there wus a much talked of separation from Kate. She had lived wit ti him twenty-threyears, had borne him ten children. Inf she was now dismissed, left only her eldest son, 000 pounds Income and the gracious privilege of seeing her children "when and wnere she wished. The household passed into the more welcome care of Oeorglna. It was Ditens plea that they hivd "lived unhappily together for ninny that their differences were temperamental. Kate was. Mr Straus tells ns. a complacently good natured woman whom constant motherhood had rendered ill and unlovely Certainly she vva no Ideal mate for the energetic and clever Dickens Rut she hnd put up with Ids ravings over the death of her sister. Mary, who died in Ids arms and whose loss lie mourned publicly and privately ail out of proportion to the relationship of . She had even home with him when already approuehing middle age. he had tried to revive a youthful romanee with Maria Readnell. herself married, fat. forty and not so f.nr Though he laid not seen Maria sinee ids early itifnttia flon. he wrote her indiscreet letters, arranged a meeting In his own home, found what damage time hnd done her hioI retreated with no Kate had endured the trip to grace. Ameren at his wish; had watched him inonopo lie conversation at dinner parties: knew hi ir responsibility in business dealings; Imvv publie made approval went to his head and critiei-.n- i him a restless tyrant, apt to caricature its aiphor in Ids hooks. ineriiles-.lMoreover, and perhaps herein lay Kate's fault, she made no idol of t lr lncre dn-l.m- i build gm.d Color" fr ! b nh 4.100,01.0 In 1027. LAKK-I- n an effort to the overproduction oi potatoes, a reduction In tho country's potato acreage next year of between 10 end 20 per cent will be urged by a national potato committee appointed at th national potato conference, held recently in Chicago, according to W. J. Martin, eesixtant supervisor of agriculture for the I'nion Pacific system, who has returned from attending the conference. ol PROVO The Provo chamber commerce committee which is acting as a sort of commission to determine a basis for outlining policy and action with reference to the proposed utility milk products plant for dtali and Wasatch counties, heard the other side o t the question recently. Representatives of various creameries, aad similar manufacturing plants at present operating in the county were present a hearing at the chamber. PRICE Price city's history over the years from the time when there was only one cabin here, until the present P'me, will bp assembled and preserved, according to a decision of the Price city council at its regular meeting recently. Ernest S. Horsley, deputy county clerk, has been chosen to bring the history of Price from l.v?$ until the present time, and the students of the Carbon county high school will, through a special class, continue With it annually. SALT LAKE Carrying 1148 pounda Cf mail, 22 pounds of express and three passengers, the tri motored Fokker monoplane of the Western Air Express landed at Airport recently lroin Los Angeles to set a new load record for that line. Fred Kelly and Jack Laas piloted the big ship. Other lines all handled .arge loads. The Boeing eastbound mail weighted io56 pounds and required two ot the smaller, planes to carry it out. Henry G. Boonstra and Norman W. Potter piloted the ships. SALT fact-findin- single-motore- PROVO Bids were opened recently by the county commissioners for the furnishiog end installation of erpiit ment at the new Ptah county jail on West Center street. Representatives of five c rapet ng concerns were P'.sent. Southern piis.m ' Tii-- com- pany ot Son Autonio, T?.., submitted the lowest Lid, which was $1!, 128, With tlie ns that if lesiet.ng is to l.e nod instead of hard! !i s ami-ier w,i! d ?','.;'7. be itTlie c 'in1'.. ny t n d pup E'.in.ri " .n j v i...; s. 'l ! ..: . , - cot.-ttu- |
