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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH ius another fellow, one of the trustees at that school she taught, seemed to have a fine chance of consolin her. until she found out he ate onions on the sly while he courted her, Well. I 'will be jiggered ! from But no wonder with Jimmy. a peach. Besides, shes got taking ways. said Miss Prue; My sister wrote me she was real epidemic iip in the Bush Creek neighborhood; she taught there two terms, you know. The circuit rider cast sheeps eyes at her; and the doctor his name is Towser quarreled with his sweetheart because she acted up to Lena. No wonder Lena's so. jealous after all that experience ; but youre no babe and suckDidnt lin yourself, Jimmy boy! you come as neur as the license once to marryin? Shucks! Dont go rakin up that It was from Jimmie. foolishness, all a play with hard cider and eggnog on the side.. Folks do almost anything silly at Christmas; and the reSt dared me and Bessy Blaine to get married, and Squire Jackson up and made out a license, and we come In a squirrel's jump of being tied hard and fast without knowin it. Trot Thomas , stopped it just in time. Tell Lena after the weddin." An experiMiss Prue counseled. ence meetin beforehand would land you both high and dry. If you told the truth neitherd believe the other; if you lied youd get found out In lessn no time. No, you let things lie as they fell, except Harvey Clay you cant do much harm with a dead man. I hope you wont have to name him now. But, remember, he may some In handy after a while. Now, how about you and Mr. Tom? Jimmy demanded with a smile. Miss Prue shook her head again, He does . look but not decidedly. lone and lost and them two boys His are runnln wild, she said. land matches with mine, too, like the A Chronicle of Courtships AU'IUMN PUKECASlb VARIED STYLES IN SUITS her-suc- By MARTHA MACWILLIAMS. 1921, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Me? Why, dout you Marry? I was born odd? Miss Prudence Ray chuckled, letting her knitting fall gently Into her purple calico lap. Mighty lucky, too men persons are all right, handy to have In the house, and great when It comes to .doin' real hard work. But to my thinkin Its lots easier to hire em 'than to be always honeyin em up Tnaklu em believe Andrew Jackson 'wasnt so much biggern they are, or that old Father Noah had hardly Get on with em? their foresight. Sure ! Wouldnt have em about if I Wouldnt. Yes, I" have' had marryln chances, and I dont say they 'werent good ones some of em. But somehow If I liked a mans looks his disposition didnt suit if he had more moneyn I did, he wanted mine all the harder; if he had less, he was main sure to be tetchy about It think I ought to make him high cockalorum over everything. And thats what I han't ever do. Pap taught me too vell for that. I Jimmy Griggs giggled at the end He had, indeed, 01 the exordium. giggled Intermittently throughout It. ;But you know youre lonesome dead lonesome. Miss Prue, he said. Thats why you let me come and run on yards and yard about my girl, Next thing, you knw, to lovin' Is hearin about It. Mamies me think of the .. song : know , Shovel and tonga, to each other be- -; longs. And the kettle sings songs of family glee, While alone wld yer cup. like a hermit we sup , Och hone! Widow Machree! tracts were made to run together. 1 doubt If one of us can show a dollar the other cant match ; and though Ive got a heap more hair on my head then he has on his, he makes up for T know Mr. Tom Jamieson would it in teeth not one lost, while I fit would It to It to love you sing have to eat judgmatic; so honors do fine, Prudence Machree. look sorter easy. Ill think It over You right down raalely reckon after New Year. Then, If you and do? Miss Prue drawled, giggling in Lena find you can trot kindly In double with her turn, and threatening Jimmy harness maybe IT1 think about It some her ball of blue yarn. I wonder more. now how much youd bet on It! Ill go tell Mr. Tom, said Jimmy . .Silk stockings against the blue rising. Miss Prue said Scat ! to him, socks youre knittln, Jimmy said but wholly without rancor, and smiled gamely. Miss Prue shook her head. as he dashed away. Twouldnt do no touch, she said. VHowd we ever find out who won, WHEN THE SPIDER IS FLY and If twas me bowd you ever McLane? Lena square yourself with She has looked at me right down How the Insect Spins His Web and Prepares Trap for tho crosseyed ever since you told her my ' Victim. ever she was best the pound cake needn't even try to make as good." Have you ever seen a spider conLena couldnt be Jealous with you married to Mr. Tom, Jimmy returned. structing his web? It is one of the and most beautiful Thats all you know about women most Interesting In nature, declares a writer In folks, Miss Prue flung back at him. sights London Theyd be jealous even of a mosHaving found a suitable place, he if theye quito that buzzed round you born that way. Lord be praised I begins first to make the spokes." The wasnt born so. Or maybe its because spokes are made of a different kind of from the web proper they Ive got such a conceit of myself. Any- material are not sticky. body wants to think less of me or Now begins the real business of more of some other body do it and the trap itself. Starting at one making to mywelcome. Ill sit tight sayin of the the spider gums down spokes, self they lose as much as I do; maya thread and then moves in a spiral , be a little mite more. out the thread as he Cant you somehow make Lena directionIt paying is firmly dpwn to goes. gummed look at things that way? Jimmy each spoke and It Is provided with Shes the very best ever; asked. of tiny drops of gum In be. but my ! how she acts up if I dont thousands , tween the spokes. Sunwalk the chalk every day and This gum, secreted by a special gland too. day Miss Prue in the spider, holds captive any fly When didnt you last? that touches one of the spiral B.rands. queried, chuckling. She had known Round and round goes the spider all along Jimmy had come for some weaving the sticky net and spacing its reason. special meshes so that the fly can pass beWhy over at the Morrison play tween them. ; Madge party, Jimmy expounded. As soon as the trap ts perfect- the Gray snapped me out and, like the takes up his position at its censpider me shed before plague she Is, kissed each of his eight legs on ter, lying set down. Had the right, you know, one of the In this way he is whirled and cut me off in the run round. able to feelspokes. at once the arrival of a how seen It and there been IfLenad fly In any part of the net. If he capall was I dont believe shed really tures an Insect too large to be dealt minded, but told the way she was, she with he weaves a fine web summarily ' me saw tried she when over boiled round It and does not come to close to throw my ring In the fire and run quarters until It is so securely bound away when I put It back on her finger that it cannot move a limb. off. come i it let wouldnt and. . Then, dont you worry. Shell he I, Found His Affinity. like a May mornin next time,. Miss I had graduated in medicine, and she I consoled. isnt If. Prue ought about six months later I located, in not to tell iales but just you up an a new place to practice my profession ask her did she ever know Harvey and economy. I had made inort devo' ' Clay. tional than professional calls at the deGoodness!, What for? Jimmy time.. While making one of the forr -' manded. bedroom, hotel arid Them mer, "Miss Prue pursed her lips. were dll destroyed by fire, and stable, that ask no questions save chances there was no insurance! Then I reYou do of bearin lies, she said. quested the pleasure of calling upon ns I tell you but dont name names my love, telling her that I wanted to ' to. unless you have' be seen in my very best clothes, as You dont know anything to Lenas they were all that had escaped the fire, Jimhurt nobody does they can't. Her gracious and complimentary remy protested loyally. went to my heart, and I took courply Right ye are but lifes mighty age again, and a year later we were Turns and full of .curiousnesses. married in the same room. Chicago twists nobody can count on nor out," Journal. No Miss Prue returned oracularly. ' charge for advice, boy only you come Increase in Air Travel. and tell me how It works out and all Passenger-carryinrecords are beabout it. ing beaten week after week on the I cant go it blind this way, Jimcross channel air lines. The last week Why must I ask her In July put up another new record, my protested. about this Harvey Clay? for one Saturday, In spite of the gale If you will have it, because she on Friday, 106 passengers, exclusive was engaged to him come in a month tf pilots and mechanics, crossed the of marryin him when she was seven- channel, the first time more than 100 teen, and flew the coop." have crossed In a day. And It only Jimmy sprang up, his teeth clenched. took 15 machines to carry th?m. The Where is he? Ill kill him! he all total for the week was 461 passengers but shouted. almost, the record number. More r f Miss Prue caught his arm, saying than 400 a week have been carried for . Ye cant!. He's good and dead. Left some weeks past. London Opinion. Lena for a rich widow, who had a limousine and a roadster, and both of A Concentrated Linguist em broke their necks three months You say your wife Is a great lln. after the weddin. gulst? How many- languages does s.L I gee ! So Lenas sort of a widow. s - In a Cuban THE. new suits for fall and win- INter interest is centered In the coats which are considerably varied In Ityle.' Leaving out me box coat, which Is a law unto itself In the matter of length, coats are longer than for some seasons, and therefore more dignified. The Russian blouse Is welcomed by Its devotees In smartly designed models that are bloused at the back and belted at .the front with fullness on the There are some trim, seml-fittehips. severely tailored coats with a decided flare In their skirts and hotched collars that are distinguished by their lack of trimming, and there and embroidere many ered costume suits that will prove the mainstay of any ""winter wardrobe ? that takes them on. i, . , ' In coats as In gowns, sleeves wIlT hold the center of the stage, playing the leading role opposite collars. In a great many coats sleeves are wide at the bottom and fur Is Ingeniously used for trimming them. Very deep d, ' ; -- Tit-Bit- s. . ' ' per-acr- , V fr-o- I- ' g . . : Jimmy sighed. Call it Miss Prue half chuckled. l ve will but not to her. There tipt speak? Oh, Life. ; its ' - - all In one language. - Fro and pendants of colored wax, strung on silk cord or small metallic chains or .baby ribbon (in velvet or satin) are having a great vogue. They are easily made and the work is fascinating. Very Inexpensive metallic chains and gfrdles can be made handsomely decorative by applying flowers made cf sealing wax to them. They are fashionable with coats and frocks and replnee the belts or girdles made of fabrics. In the illustration above a necklace of beads, strung on a silk cord, a gun metal girdle with wax roses applied to Its metal medallions, slides and tassels, and a long pendant and slide on a strgnd of baby velvet ribbon, are good examples ' of fashionable ernaqients. To make, the beads and medallions, very simple and inexpensive materials are required. They include a largesized steel knitting needle, a steel knife, a small alcohol lamp, a little piece of cotton cloth and several sticks of colored sealing wax. A candle or algas flame may take the place of the water a cold of and cohol lamp, glass completes the workers outfit. Select the color wanted and, with a heated knife, cut off two pieces , of wax, each half the size of the bead to e made. Heat the steel knitting nee-il- e and fasten the pieces of wax to It, BEADS , the first of December to the first of October.'; The fields are so planted in the first place that each month of thIL grinding season produces its own crop of mature cane. Here Is a group of fields where the new crop has just sprouted; over yonder another group where the cane is half grown; and on farther is a group where harvest ing operations are in fall swing. . How the Crop Is Harvested. i. first" In harvesting, the strip the blades from the stalk; then they cut off the upper part of thd latter, which Is worthless except foi replanting, since what juice it com tains possesses very little sugar. On of the strange things about sugar-can- s Is that the sap ot the growing plant has little sugar, while In the mature stalk the juice Is rich in sucrose. Ths action of the suns rays seems ts transform glucose Into sucrose transformation that cannot be accomIf man plished by human means. knew how to do that, every cornfield would be a sugar field. The main body of the stalk is cut -down and loaded into the In these It Is hauled to the field station and placed In the waiting care Each car contains about twenty ton and each train Is made up of thirty cars. This makes 600 tons of cans to the trainload, and eight to ten trainloads a day are required to keep one of the bigger centrals In opera-- i tion for 24 hours. The big United Fruit central at Preston requires ths crop from 250 acres eatery day to three-fifth- s keep It busy. Imagine a field of a mile square being harvested between sunup and sundown to keep one central going I At the mills the cars of cane art dumped on an endless belt which cap ries it to the. crashing rolls." Each set of rolls the cane passes through presses It harder than the one before, The last set may exert a pressure of million popnds, and when ths igasse," as the crushed cane U called, Issues from them It Is almost as dry as tinder.- - It Is carried by conof the boilers, veyors to the where It is used as fuel in generating the steam that drives the big mills and bolls the cane "juice. The stream of crushed cane flows through tho last set of rolls at a speed of seven ffgar prices have fallen to low levels and Cuba Is finding her crop a drug on the market. Financial gloom has followed upon the heels of a most hectic prosperity, as the night, the day. Is grown by three classes Sugar-can- e of planters in Cuba. Perhaps the major part of the crop Is grown by hare farmers, or eolonos, as they ire called. The owners of the sugar mills furnish them with a given number of acres of land to plant and give them an agreed share of the sugar they produce. They Made Money Rapidly. The next class Is composed 6t the g farmers, who grow their own cane and have It ground on shares, after the fashion of the rural grist mill. The remainder of the cane Is grown by the owners of the mills At some centrals the themselves. administration cane, as that grown under central management Is known, amounts to only 4 per cent of the total ; at others It amounts to 90 per cent " i Even the share farcer, at pre-wAccording prices, made monsy. Before the World, the ofllclal handbook of the republic at the Panama-Pacific exposition, when sugar was selling at 2.62 cents a pound, his share of the sugar brought him, on the basis' of twelve sacks to the acre, a return of from $46 to $51 per acre. When one remembers that the selling price of sugar In 1920 was from four to six times as high as before the war, e Income at the the size of the high tide of prices is apparent Boom In 8ugar Lands. A great deal of the cane land produces much more sugar to the acre than the modest twelve bags that formed the basis of the calculations Cuba Before the World." cited According to figures furnished by the Cuban department of agriculture, much one on either side of the needle. Hold land produces 22 bags to the'acre. the wax above the flame, turning This, at 15 cents a pound, brings a slowly until the bead Is formed,, then gross return of more than $1,000 an dip It In water to cool. Remove .and acre. dry the bead with the cloth. Choose These conditions brought about an colors to add t(T the bead. Heat each unprecedented boom In sugar landa stick in turn and drop a little wax on One sugar estate, which was bought (he bead ; revolve over the flame again. about 1917 for $3,006,000, sold In Jan The colors will flow around the bead, uary 1920 for $9,500,000. Another blending In varying designs. Cool the which was valued at about $6,000,000 and pass over the a few years before, changed hands at bead . again,-drflame to give luster. Heat the needle $15,000,000. on each side of the bead until It is Numerous new centrals were built, loosened, slide back and forth on the all capitalized on the basis Of earnWhile the bead Is needle and remove. ings during the early months of 1920, warm it may be pressed by the fingers Thousands of American capitalists in or knife, or on, a piece of glass, into vested In these flourishing enterprises. different shapes. 'How Cubas receipts from sugar expanded Is shown by the fact that the 1915 crop brought a total return of less than $200,000,000, while remains of tlfe 1920 crop (one-thir-d $400,000,000. unsold) brought UWO OOPmOHT 1 VBTMN NWIMM Production Cheaper There. Cuba has the advantage of every Remove 8tain. counify In producing sugar cheaply. To remove Iodine or greasy stains Most countries have to plant every apply alcohol. When salts of lemon two years and some of them every fails to remove Iron rust dip In oxalic season, but the average in Cuba Is acid and rinse well In borax water. once In from 7 to 12 years. To remove peach or pear stain leave . in most parts of the Island the over night on snow. Dip In oxalic harvesting season Is six months long acid and rinse well In borax or amfrom December to June ; but in monia water. toms sections the harvest lasts from : ' , fur, and embroidery emphasizing low waistline. It has a narrow girdlfl of the cloth with narrow bands of .. fur on the ends. It is settled that skirts are not to be much lengthened. After rumors that they were going to the ankles It turns out that they have struck a happy medium and stop 8t the shoe tops. ' J land-ownin- . - one-cro- PRETTY THINGS WOMEN MAKE FOR THEMSELVES . - (Prepend bp the HeMoael Geoeraphts Society. Wee hinrton D. C.) Cuba, which immediately following the World war climbed to heights of seldom attained by any prosperity fether small country, has passed .now into the valley of hard times ; and the cuffs of fur matching collars of reason In both cases was the same coats on the longer of the suit Islands annual them to play a dual role and to serve sugar. For though the and as wraps to be worn with frocks as tobacco harvest is very valuable other has It potential, many though own skirts. well as their particular it is hardly Chin collars there are In great variety tf undeveloped, resources, ' the Importance of of shapes, wide and either straight ot Overemphasizing to say that Cuba Is flaring, but they divide honors with iugar p production When European a country. the tuxedo collar. Squirrel, Itollnsky, and Eastern sugar was unobtainable beaver, caracul, fox, broadtail and soared skyward and Cuba not beaver harmonize with the quiet prices In heavily on her usual cashed only seacolors and soft fabrics which the but feverishly Increased son approves. The handsome suit pic- production cane acreage and sugar mills. Now her its wide with Is tured here typical hemis- from the eastern sleeves banded with fur and richly that sugar markets world the Is reaching phere its eccentric collar of embroidered, Its While Europe has little buying power, Sugar Mill. two-thir- - - cane-cutte- - s. fire-box- miles a 1 day. Making tha 8ugar. sediment of Is freed After the Juice It Is pumped In the evaporators, where about half, of the water Is boiled out " of it. The next step in the making oi sugar Is to draw the thick Juice Into , the vacuum pans. Here It eomes Into contact with hot steam colls and bolls at a very low temperature because ot the absence of atmospheric pressure, As the boiling proceeds, the sugal f crystallizes Into small grains. The sugar and the adhering sirup are finally removed to a centrifugal machine that acts somawhat on the principle of, a cream separator. Placed Inside a perforated basket and whirled around at from 1,000 to 1,400 revolutions a minute, all of ths sirup Is forced out through the per foratlons, while the crystallized sugal remains behind. This sirup Is boiled again and the process is repeated until all the available sweetness has been extracted. The remaining liquor Is the blackstrap molasses of commerce. A ton of sugar-can- e yields four and one-hagallons - of blackstrap molasses, and one gets a good Impression of the immensity of the industry when, on a single days rail Journey, he meets a dozen solid trains Of some forty big tank' cars each, every cal full to the dome with blackstrap. After sugar has come from tba centrifugals It goes to the bagging room where It Is put iwo bags that These are hold 325 pounds each. hauled In trainloads to the docks and shipped to the United States, where the big refineries remove the Impur. Itles and transform the sugar from dirty 'yell v to Immaculate whit, , - lf |