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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH body knows since it has been sounded to a depth of 1,000 feet and no bottom found, there bubbles fortli abou 18,000,000 gallons of hoi The Wonders of America SUGGESTIONS I By T. T. MAXEY PRODUCTS FOR BEST EXHIBITION AT ANNUAL FAIRS e ' FOR PREPARING water, possessing untold medicinal value, every 24 hours. Tills health fount was discovered bj a wandering band of Indians. When the white man came he named it Big Horn Hot Spring," because the water was finally tumbled over a cliff in a beautiful waterfall to tlie river A city was built by the river below. They called it Therinopolis (Hot City), because of its nearness to the spring. Tlie government purchased the tract on which the spring is located in 1887. Washakie, chief of tlie Shoshone, agreed only on condition that n portion of tlie water be reserved forevei free for publio use. Later, when the government ceded the land to the state the snme clause was inserted in the potent. Tims this great nature-mad- e for' many ills which beset humanity lias been preserved for the use of everybody for all time. A natural admixture of sulphur, lime, magnesia, iron and silica, this water possesses exceptional restorative properties iu the treatment of blood and skin diseases and rheumatism. 40-fo- 4 ,i THE SEA-GOIN- RAILROAD. Is nearer the eastern of tlie canal, by almost 300 miles, than any other of our gulf ports. It is separated from the main land by the Florida keys ft more or less disconnected string of islands, composed largely pf coral and limestone. To reap the benefit of its strategic position, however, direct and quick transportation with the main land was A railroad was the annecessayy. swer, Its construction was considered But Impracticable and impossible. there are men who will undertake anyd thing. Tlie late Henry M. Flagler the funds and the work was begun In 1905. Men from many climes, material of many kinds and newy methods of bonstruction were called into service. The winds, waves, a torrid sun, many known and unknown factors laid to be grappled with anti solved. Even nature had to he overcome. Tlie construction must he stormproof. From Homestead, where the extension begins, to Key West, it is 128 miles. Jumping from island to island are 11 miles of concrete arch viaducts and six miles of steel bridges one of which contains 243 spans. The construction of the line on the islands proper was comparatively simple. Joining the island by raii was the ticklish job. Thanks to the genius, grit and untiring efforts of the engineers, one may now enjoy the heretofore unthinkable and unique experience of riding from Key West to Miami iu about. five hours on a train running, for the most part, over water instead of on land. KEY, WEST MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK THE mountain that was God, wrote 1 John D. Williams. Mount Big Snow, said the Indian. At any rate, the most wonderful mount ain in the United States its hoary-leade- d peak, piercing the blue sky to a height of almost three miles, while its base covers hundred square miles of territory. Its isolation, standing alone as it does instead of in a range, makes its mightiness all the more impressive. Uncle Sam created a national park around It and thus preserved it as one of our greatest sights, so we can all go and see It and wonder for ourselves. I.ike all volcanoes. Rainier built up Its cone from the material Ihrowh out from its interior. But a terrific explosion destroyed its conelike top and greatly reduced its height. It has not been iu eruption for nearly 50 years, though steam jets sometimes melt tlie snow at its summit and hot springs flow from its base. Twenty-eigh- t glaciers, born from the snow which covers the mountain, radiate from its peak and form one of the largest known glacial systems. From these great ice fields there naturally lead, off numerous streams and rivers which find their way. through beautiful canyons, to the lower altitudes. Below the glaciers, in an open space which circles the mountain, grow millions of gorgeous wild flowers, presenting a beautiful spectacle ns well as a marvelous contrast to tlie snow above. Below ' the flowers are dense and immense forests of fir, spruce and cedar. THE AMERICAN DEAD SEA. a lake 100 miles with an average depth of 20 feet 00 feet is the greatest depth recorded almost 1,000 miles inland and 4,250 feet above sen level, you can form some conception of this world marvel Great Salt lake. Its waters are six times as salty as the ocean. Rut five bucketfuls in a tank, let it evaporate and one bucketful of pure salt will be left. A hath in its buoyant waters Is both delightYOU eafi Imagine IFlong, 25 miles wide, ful and exhilnrating. Saltair an imdomed and mense, crescent-shapetowered hit thing pavilion lias been built out into the lake 2,000 feet from shore. 'The lake contains eight islands. Four rivers empty fresii water into it. hut its surface neither rises nor falls. Having no outlet, it. gets rid of the excess water by evaporation. Scientists figure Hint tlie lake contains more than 8,000,000,000 tons of salt and almost 800,000,000 tons of sulphate of soda. Allowing 60 tons to a carload, that would lie 133,333,333 cars of salt and 13,333.333 cars of soda. Assuming 40 feet as tlie average length of a freight car and you have a train of salt 1.010,101 miles long and a train of soda 101,010 miles long. The average .speed of a freight train is about 20 miles an hour. Running at this speed, day and night, it would take tlie two trains over six years to pass a given point. Tlie value of these 'cargoes would lie probably $10,000,000,000. anti-toxi- n GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. GLACIER is one of the newer of our outdoor museums or national parks. Scattered throughout its 1,466 square miles is a jumble of mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes and waterfalls which looks like the Great Builder had left the odds and ends of his world making here in one disordered heap. A newspaper man toiled hard to reach the top of one of tlie skyla.-.- d trails. Restiug on a boulder and looking far oiit over the forests, across a valley to a superbly beautiful mountain lake, lie declared he had discovered Where God sat when lie made America. The dominating feature of Glacier Is its magnificently carved mountains. It contains some of the most tremendous panoramas in the world. Some of ire peaks remind one of cathedrals, others of forts and castles. The suns and winds of hundreds of years have tinted their -- summits with varying hues. Often their sides are covered g with great, glaciers ice fields, some of which travel fully five inches in a year. Between or below them are splendid forests of pine. The meadows between these wooded patches are a riot of wild flowers. But the supreme beauty of this park is its mountain-hemmemirrorlike lakes, fed by glacial streams which tumble down the mountain sides, often in tall, ribbonlike fails of great beauty. Add to this an occasional glimpse of a Swiss chalet (for the accommodation of visitors) and you have an unbeatable combination for the true lover of the wild and the beautiful. flower-carpete- d slow-movin- OUR NATIONAL CAPITOL. IS bi: fitting that America the ITgreatest nation In all the world should have the finest capitol building Tlie architectural beauty ot our national capitol building at Washington is most impressive and, for capitol purposes, it is said to surpass every, other building in the world. Tlie base of this immense, symmetrically shaped and imposing edifice lests on a level plateau, at an elevation of 97 feet above the historic Potomac river. The building faces tlie east and is about one mile distant from the White House. Tlie corner stone of the original structure, which comprises the central portion of the present building and is of Virginia sandstone, was laid by President Washington on September 18, 1793 125 years ago. Later, when it became necessary to enlarge the building, two giTnitions or wings, of Massachusetts marble, were added. President Fillmore laid the corner stone; Daniel Webster was the orator. These wings were burned by the British in 1814, bill were restored. The original building was completed in 1827. The present structure is 751 feet long and 350 wide.' It covers three f acres. Tlie central porand tion is surmounted by one of the most graceful, pleasingly siiaped and massive domes in tlie world. Tills dome is 287 feet high. It was completed in 1805. It weighs more than 8,060,000 pounds anil is topped by a statue oi Freedom almost 20 feet high. Tlie total value of the building and grounds is estimated at $25,400,000. on earth. one-hal- 1919, Western (Copyright, Newspaper Union) Livingstone Memorial. One of the most curious memorials of Livingstone is the Name Tree." near Victoria falls, on the Zambesi. On the trunk Livingstone cut his initial and the date 1855 on the day of his first visit to the fails. In his book, giving an account of this, Livingstone says: This was the only instance in which I indulged in this piece of vanity. Relief for the Nervous. Tlie treatment for nervous disorders is diversion. Attention transferred and directed into new channels, new friends, new faces, new scenes, new habits, changed sleeping rooms, new rations, everything radically altered and wholly different will in time" relieve almost all such conditions. OUR MIGHTIEST HOT SPRING. A "Gentleman. the scholar said: Originally the term gentleman (Latin : gentiiis), signified well born. A man of gentle birth usually was refined in mnnners and conduct, and so popular usage has extended the term to all men of chiv a rough-edgeopening approximately alrous character; a gentleman lives In 25 feet diameter, and which may right, rights wrongs, fears God and Exchange. dome through from China for all any honors the king. in the center of Wyoming, ALMOST bend in tlie Big Horn river arid 4,350 feet above sea level, nature brought to the surface, for the benefit of all humanity, her most notable g line. Here, from work In the d And -- UTAH BUDGET being made for one of the biggest fates ever conducted in Sanpete county.. C.. E.. Horsleys leg was Broken by his wagon colliding with au automobile- at Brigham City. Ogden will be assigned a troop of cavalry and a battery of artillery under tlie reorganized Utah national guard Tlie Lelii ladies concert baud, which lias won honors in musical circles throughout tlie state, has been; disbanded. Because no candidate for the office of postmaster could be obtained, tlie postoffice at Cache Junction will elo October 1. By a vote of 41 to 20 the delegates of the Utah State Federation of Labor rejected indorsement of tlie league of nations covenant. Cache county farmers are cutting their fourths crop of alfalfa. The extra crop is accounted for in the extra heat and fate supply ot irrigation water. August Pougler, 45 years of age, of Murray, was Instantly killed when lie was struck by au unidentified while returning home on his bicycle. An examination open to all Utali youths of eligible age desiring to enter tlie United States naval academy at Annapolis will be held at Salt Lake on October 25. According to the monthly report of tlie home service bureau at Ogden 303 applicants for assistance were given aid in one form or another during the month of August A small aluminum locket was found in the stomach of a large eastern brook trout, caught .by a boy named Peterson in the reservoir at tlie city dam in Logan canyon. A move is on foot to drain a large portion of Bear river precinct, and Brice McBride of Utah Agricultural college has been engaged to suggest plans and estimate costs. Scores of enemy aliens now in the Fort Douglas prison camp will be included upon the passenger list of the steamer Pocahontas, leaving New York for Germany, September 25. One hundred delegates, representing practically every labor union in Utah, attended the twelfth annual convention of the Utah State Federation of Labor at Salt Lake last week The state livestock inspector has been busy vaccinating cattle in the vicinity of Beaver against anthrax. It is said at least 1,000 domestic cattle have been exposed to the disease. Mrs. W. Mont Ferry, wife of tlie mayor of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Benner X. Smith were severely hurt when tlie automobile in which they were riding collided with another car. school law which The part-tim- e makes it compulsory lor all children between 14 and 18 years to attend school Is working admirably, say the school officials, who are enthusiastic over the results. Utahs vocational education has been indorsed by the United States railroad administration so far as apprentices are concerned, according to advices received by Francis W. Klrk-hflvocational director. Wayne county this year will collect in taxes for state, county, school and state road $35,G0S, which includes a county school levy of 11 mills or $14,-36- 1 on a total assessed valuation in the county of $1,390,480. Utah folks gathering at tlie Hall of States in New York City joined with tlie representatives of other states In chartering a boat to meet tlie Leviathan and to greet General Pershing and ids men on their return home. The demand for child labor at tlie canning factories this year, Superintendent W. Karl Hopkins of Ogden schools has announced, will not be as great as last year, as all tlie factories are enabled to secure adult labor. An election will be lield soon to decide whether Huntington Shull become a city of tlie third class. It lias tlie necessary population and progressiveness and indications are that tlie proposal will carry almost unanimouslPYepa-rafions- are- auto-mobili- A Thoroughly Typical American Boy Watching a Prize Winner Getting Its Growth. by the United States Department of Agriculture.) individual in the best' possible form, and to keep it so. The fair. Weeks or even months in advance of What does it mean to you? the fair the boy must start getting his Fair Is a very old noun. With va- calf or pig tame. At a particular time riations in spelling it exists In many it may be necessary to pare the pigs languages. toenails so that lie will stand up fes-tus to is akin the ancient Fair straight without too much bend at the and therefore cousin in some de- pasterns. But he must be careful not gree of the more modem feast and to pare them too close. A limping pig . festival and the like. is not likely to be a prize winner. SevAlways and everywhere it has car- eral weeks before the fair he should ried the idea. It has trim the hair out of the pigs ears, bealways been pretty much what we ing careful to do It In such a way that mean nowadays by holiday, though the ears will not be irregular In outnot what that word meant originally. line. He should provide a clean walHoliday was holy day, and sacred. low for the pig to keep the hair and Fair has always been secular a skin soft and pliable and he ought wholly human sort of thing. to know the trick of the trade that a Fair time Is playtime. That it al- little oil on the surface of the water ways was, that it always meant to helps a great deal ; also that a little most people, that it always will be. linseed meal, properly fed to the pig, But for every play there must be play- puts a peculiar gloss on the hair. ers, and two kinds of them, too play- He must remember to have the right ers who play playfully and playetLifcincl of crate ready in plenty of time, wh play laboriously, more or less, f off ;Many boys have failed to get their the entertainment of the others. pigs to the fair because, when the time And the fair has a very different came to ship, there wap no crate. The meaning for the tw classes. The big department has special sets of specifibunch goes to have a good time, to be cations for pig crates, calf crates and carefree, to drink red lemonade and others. A very important thing to rethrow confetti and toot tinsel horns; member in connection with the crate to get the glint of twinkling horse is that the pig grows at a pretty rapid heels on a saffron track; to see the clip. The crate must be built big broad-backecattle, the prettily packed enough for the pig, not when the crate jellies and jams, the big pumpkins, the is made but allowing for growth bed intricate needlework, the tween then and fair time. And It ears of corn and to mill around, going must not be big enough to permit the nowhere u particular and not caring pig to turn around. The boy must reespecially if they never get there. member that the pig should not be fed But with It all they are getting a just before shipping. No matter how sugar-coate- d education. The fair is a much the little rascal cries for com university in which the festive stu- he must not be indulged. If he is fed dents soak up science unawares. he is very likely to get sick on the Then there must be the other kiifd train and go through the Whole fair of players the ones who put on the in a droopy, drowsy, unprizelike-look-in- g show" the professors and instructors way. and tutors in this most accommodating Prizes Are Not All. of academies. And there has to be These are just a few of the things 'somewhere a sortAif teachers college that must be remembered in preparing for those people. There are, infact, a pig for the fair. And there are lots of normal schodis for fair profesmany with regard to the calf, equally sors, but the United States department tlie dairy cow, or the poultry, or pr Is of agriculture the graduate college. of the things, practically, that the And one of the queer things is that any or boy girl, man or woman wants to in still or the grammar any boy girl exhibit at (he fair. school he may grades of the public Even with all the care possible the doing postgraduate work in getting animal or other product may not be a things ready for the fair. prize winner. There cant be prizes Much in Getting Ready. for every exhibitor. The fair that tries Too many people, the department to Arrange things so that everybody experts say, do not know liow much can get a prize does not amohnt to depends on preparing exhibits in the much usually. It does not mean anyright way, on getting the pig or calf or thing to win a prize when you are the corn or canned stuff in just the right only exhibitor in your class. And, as shape to show to the best advantage. the experts in the- department of agriOne of the boys club workers tells a culture point out, the prize Is not the story in point. main thing after all. To be sure the One of our club boys in Mississip- boys and girls and men and women pi, he says, grew an acre of mighty who get things ready for the fair are good com and entered an exhibit in contributing to an education for the the county fair. There were four public but the main thing for them prizes, but he couldnt even get the is the education they get themselves. fourth one. The judge simply tied on Take part in the contest, say the the ribbons and made no explanations. experts, for your own sake. You will The boy was disappointed not rebel- have a better pig, a better calf, a betlious, but he wanted to know why his ter pound' of butter, a better can of good coin couldnt get a prize. I went peaches next year by reason of having over it with him, showed him that exhibited this year, whether you win some of his biggest ears had crooked or not. And, with proper attention to rows and how others had other de- preparation, the prizes are sure to fects. Picking out the best ear I said, come, too, sooner or later. If you had ten like this you could win a prize. Well, that boy went back home and carefully examined every ear of his corn. He found only nine that he thought were as good as tlie one I had pointed out. He went back through the whole pile again and finally found The silo is a good thing. the tenth ear. He sent those ten ears to the state fair and won first prize. Legumes and live stock mean soil Do you see? Knowing a little of how fertility. to prepare the exhibit made a state winner out of a corn crop that was an The honey bee does not have a very also ran at the county fair." long life, but he keeps busy while hes here. Manicuring the Pig. Now the boy who is preparing a pig Commercial cultures for inoculating or a calf for the fair has a more complicated task than the one who enters alfalfa may be bought at almost any some corn. With the corn boy the seed store. . , whole problem Is selecting the right More grass land Is needed on some ears. With the others it is hot only Those who have live stock selecting the right individual but do- farms. ing a great many things to put that need grazing. (Prepared away-from-wor- k d full-fille- - , ' y. Roy Brim, a rancher of Emery, after being bit by a train near Ogden received surgical attention from medical officers abonrd a soldiers special, which was stopped to care for the injured nu n It is believed he will recover. BASIS OF SlUC French Inventor, After Long Study, Has Evolved a Truly Wonderful Artificial Product. j According to Count Hilaire, inventor of artificial silk, which is- now produced by vast factories In Switzerland, Belgium, France, England and the United States, it has for its basis nothing less than gun cotton. One of the greatest problems he had to solve in perfecting it for everyday use was to render it nonexplosive. The gun cotton under the chardon-ne- t process Is first dissolved in a mixture of alcohol ahd ether and then spun through fine capillary tubes by means of hydraulic presses. Other chemical processes give It incombustible and nonexplosive qualities, together with the eivisistency and the transparency of the finest silk from I )pan or China. 't took just 30 years of the 80 which Count Hilaire has completed to perfect his discovery and render It of actual and practical commercial value. The illustrious chemist and scientist has just been elected to the supreme honor of membership in the French Academy of Sciences for his discovery of how to put one over on the silkworms. During the war he had been decorated by the French minister of war with the Cross of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for discoveries relative to the manufacture-ohigh explosives growing out of his researches made primarily to render artificial silk stockings nonexplosive. ... STYLES KEEP WOMEN . YOUNG Desire for Latest and Prettiest Things an Evidence of Wisdom, According to Authority. Woman has gained her political and intellectual freedom," said Emil W. Kolin in an address before the New York Retail Jewelers' convention at She has declared In public Saratoga. and In private that never again will she be the slave of men. But I venture that she will remain the willing slave of fashion. The woman who declares she would rather be dead than but of fashion expresses a thought in every womans mind. As it Is a mans privilege to pay the bills, he may at times express dis-pleasure. That man, however, who Is permanently and chronically displeased at or indifferent to miladys pretty hat, becoming gown and' beautiful Jewelry is a brute and should be caged with other wild animals. To be contented with the thoughts and tilings of yesterday is to stand still, and stagnation breeds decay. To be sensitive to new Ideas is 'to be youthful. Woman's desire to possess Jewelry that is new and fashionable and beautiful is an evidence of growth, and growth Is the law of life. ' Safe Light for Miners.' miner carNowadays the ries a package of electricity about with him while underground. It is a small storage battery attached to the back of his belt, and is connected by a cord with a lamp fastened to the front ot his cap. The lamp, provided with a reflector, throws quite a flood of light in front of the miner. But its chief advantage Is absolute safety. In olden days miners (who must, oL course, have light) carried about with e them lamps. - These caused Innumerable disastrous accidents through ignition of coal dust or gases. Sir Humphry Davys Invention of a safety lamp whose flame was protected by a wire gauze saved an Immense number of lives. It is in common use today, but the electric mine lamp Is better and more convenient. open-flam- To Photograph a Star. discovery may be made photographically by some astronomer this fall or winter in the constellation Gemini, according to Isabel M. Lewis of the United States naval observatory. It will be a star of the fifteenth magnitude in an elliptical orbit and has been difficult to find and identify because in the Milky Way there are countless others that are brighter. The orbits of ail the planets excepting Mercury, are nearly perfect circles, and discovery of a planet exterior to Neptune that' moves in a greatly elongated ellipse will strike one more blow at the nebular hypothesis, which assumes, says Miss Lewis, that the planets almost circular orbits ire due to the fact that originally they vere thrown off as rings from a solar nebula. Irregularities in the motion of Nep-un- e indicate that the unseen planet Is drawing near to Neptune and during this period of conjunction astronomers hope to determine the mass of the new A con-racti- Final approval of plans for the llar" City to 47 miles long and Iron-Beav- Ce- county line, part of. tlie Arrow- head trull, was made by the state road commission last week. Tlie road, to be of concrete, will cost $S29,237.20, or $17,043.34 per mile. acres of 100,000 Approximately choice land, lying v tliin the boundaries of tlie laria river and tlie Cottonwood arid Sentinel creeks in. Kane county, will lie' tlown open to entry' in tlie local United Slates land office at Salt Lake October 13. ' Application lias been filed with tlie State engineer by tlie Independent Canal & Reservoir company. of Rochester, Emery county, for 943.4 acre feet of water to be used for irrigation purposes. Tlie water will come from Muddy creek in Emery county. Medical and surgical men of the state who attended tlie twenty-fiftannual contention of the Utah State Medical association at Salt Lake last week made a study of the developments in surgical and medical science which have been brought about by the h war GUN COTTON body. Reclaiming Waete Places. Twenty years ago a news story from Washington says land in the Louisiana parish of Tangipahoa-- was worth. 50 cents an acre and human life' was worth scarcely anything at all. It was a case of cause and effect. Then the immigrants came. They ' were chiefly Italians and Hungarians. They had lived at home on land that was poorer than the Tangipahoa. They practiced intensive cultivation. Today their parish is one of the greatest strawberry farming districts in the United States. Land that sold for 50 cents isnow worth $100 an acre. And the school authorities have practiced Intensive Cultivation on the products of that land. Americanization has made life worth more there than it ever was before. Binghamton News. , |