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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH LORD DOLLAR DTCE LONG KNOWN TO WORLD But Some People Will Dotitt Whetbib Such a Man Will Ever Get Close Enough. Amusement !e Probably tbe Most Aik dent Came, According Records - of Old Writers. , WOULD DEVICE FOR TREATING SAND of Engineers of California Bureau Public Roads Use Blower to HAND A young man In Missouri was collecting funds for a benevolent institution. He tried hard to get a dollar from an old gentleman who was noted . for his closeness. 'When the young man had stated his mission and asked for the dollar, the - elderly person asked; Obtain Material. your I am twenty-fire,- " old how man, young Well, (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) A new method of treating a local sand to make It conform to the specifications for a concrete road has been adopted by the engineers of the bureau of public works to charge federal-ai- d of California project are said the youth. "Well," continued the old gentleyears old, and man, I am seventy-fiv- e as you are only twenty-fiv- e years, I think that I will get to see the Lord sooner than you. I will hand him the dollar myself." Pittsburgh Dispatch. Near the south rad of the project bo local saad eould MOTHER, QUICK! GIVE be found which would conform to the requirements of the specifications apCALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP proved by the bureau of roads of the of AgriculStates United Department FOR CHILDS BOWELS ture. These prescribed that the Band should contain do more than fi per cent ef material which would pass Even a stek child loves the "fruity" a BXKmafib sieve. The laeal sand' analtaste of California Fig Syrup. If the which 20 15 to cent, about per yzed was entirely too high to permit its' little tongue Is coated, or If your child Is listless, cross, feverish, full of cold, use. or has colic, a teaspoenful win never Trmtoftd of falling bock upoa the imfall to open the bowels. In a few anfrom sand of suitable portation other locality, the engineers devised boors you can see for yourself bow thoroughly It works all the constipaa plant tor blowing the fine periMas from the sand. This district la ex- tion poison, sour bile and waste from the tender, little bowels and gives you tremely arid, and in summer the temefalld again. perature sometimes mounts to 130 de- a well, playful Millions of mothers keep California Is so the saad that the la shads, grees knew a very dry when worked. Tfee deetes Fig Byrup" handy. They today saves a sick child toused consists of an ordinary conveyer, which lifts the sand to a j reiving morrow. Ask your druggist for genuine California Fig Syrup" which has discreen. Material which will pass a mesh Is cUscbasgad rections for babies and children of all Into a hopper under the screen and ages printed on bottle. Mother! Yon then through a narrow opening tote must say California" or you may get a storage bln below. In falUag from an Imitation fig syrup. Advertisement. the hopper to the bin, the sheet of Peetlc ForeweHe. sand passes directly in front of a a writer as Henry Vhn So smooth nozzle, which directs against It a cura soft spot In Ids heart has found Dyke rent of air from a centrifugal air Also long," used tn parting. for a means blower. By of, pressure regthough believing that It came to this country fresh and hot from the cockney dialect of London, be avers that the next time he parts from a person not too dignified to be loved, be Is going to use it. He deplores the fact that we have no phrase similar to the German an wtederselien," the Italian a rlvederd," and the French nu revolr." (He might hare added the Spanish Hasta la vista," prettiest of all) each until I see you again." So meaning he dresses up "so long wKh the signification, "So long os we are parted may no harm befall you, or "Till we meet again It will seem so long." Apparently be would make It express as much as "Mlepah, which says; May the! Lord watch between thee and me while we are abeeot one from tbe other." No. 41. ' ul - v Lot mt entreat one thing of thee and i rtfl adventure to promiee thee a good 'ear. The request le in Itself reasonable hod may to thee be eternally profitable. Is only this: duly to prise and dihgent- time for the blessed end Hfraato Improve conA good American can help Just new Let us hope that the reasonable given for and Is yet graciously toned unto thee by eternal GkxLREY. request" that this early Puritan put by putting bis respect for tbs law OHN SHERMAN to himself was to him eternally prof- strongly in evidence. For the law U itable." In any event, he stands forth the law. If It Is a poor law, It should By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN as a fine sample of a sturdy American be (banged. Bnt until It Is changed. that checks HAT of the pioneer family that has given four It should be obeyed whether It reto you and I are going Immortals to the nation Roger Sher- lates to the shooting of galas birds or draw on th& Bank of man, (me of the framers of the Dec- to the nee of liquor or to the speed we 1923 If In Time laration of General W. of automobiles or to murder or to keep on drawing checks T. Sherman;Independence;of State John anarchy. Many people who would Secretary through the year? Vice President James S. hotly resent the charge that they are Theres nothing new Sherman; Sherman. , anarchists take delight In evading the a to very Under the sun, according and in making sport of the laws. laws his Is one Certainly that request !old saying. true, too, In a sense. Every thinking man must realize iBot In another sense It most certainly Is always reasonable. And It Is one t Its (Isnt true. For there is something Inew every time New Years day comes . around. There are several things that are new at New Years beside the New (Year. Theres a new chance. Theres .a new responsibility. Theres a new balance In the Bank of Time. Theres & mw bank book. So, what will the check stubs show at the end of the lyeart to I Bev. John Sherman bad a right make his reasonable request," if prao-jtldn-g what one preaches gives that right His "three score and ten" were (busy years. He was born at Dedham, Essex, England, and before be was twenty-on- e he was an A. B. and A. M. of Trinity college, Cambridge, a minister of the Church of England and a Puritan on his way across the Atlantic to the Massachusetts Bay colony. There was no church for him, since the only three In existence Boston, Salem and Watertown had efficient ministers. So be was one of the original planters of Wethersfield, Conn, Then be and a watcher, 1634-4twas one of the founders of Milford, New Haven plantation. Next he was a magistrate representing Milford In jthd New Haven colony and also charged with the (Juty of dividing land. Meanwhile be preached wherever opportunity offered. In 1647 he became the minister of the Watertown (bureau There he 'preached till his death tn 1689. Church and state were pretty much the same thing In those days, so the village kept him a busy man. He found timet however, to publish for many years an almanac, for which he made eU the astronomical calculations and wrote the text He was also the first iffellow and overseer of Harvard Incidentally he also found time to many twice. Gotten Mather tn his Magnalla Chrlstl Americana," says he had 26 children; this Is a misstatement. but he did have 16. His epitaph In Latin on the tombstone In East Waltham, Mass., thus sums up his life: , Sacred to the memory of John Sherman, a man distinguished for piety, character and truth; a profound tbeotoglan; as a preacher a veritable (Chrysostom ; unsurpassed In his knowledge of the liberal arts, particularly mathematics; a faithful pastor of the Church of Watertown in New England; on overseer and fellow of Harvard college. After a life of faith-Ifservice to Christ In the church for upwards of 45 years In the fullness of time he passed avay and .received from Christ the palm of vicyear of his tory, In the seventy-seconage, August 8, A D. 1685. - re oni-rerett- ni d that was never more reasonable than that this Twentieth century oew. The year 1922 Is a year when every good American should endeavor duly to prize and diligently to Improve time." It Is a year with a challenge. It Is a year with a promise. Though in folly and In N Indore. And In sorrow still ws (Tops, Tet in man's increasing kindness lies the world's stupendous hope And it Is a reasonable request to every thinking, patriotic American. Such a man knows that nobody can stand still; that bo bos either to progress or fall back. The progressive man accepts responsibilities as the measure of his capabilities. Be never shirks them, for be recognizes in them the price he must pay for advancement Competition Is going to be keen this year. The dollar Is going to bo hard to get Men who have been getting twice what they were before and have had lots of money to spend are going to feel the pinch. It looks as If everybody who works for a living will have to work a tittle harder. It may be that life will seem hard. Bnt what of It? Life has always been hard perhaps It was meant to be. Anyway, it Is something that has got to be lived and mastered. It's the business of men to greet the unseen with a cheer" and to advance on chaos and the dark. Of course all of us cannot have a hand tn the big things that must be done tn meeting the challenge of 1922. But if all of us do the little things we may, 1923 will indeed be the Happy New Year cf our greetings. To save a little money. To praise a tittle more; To smile when days are sunny And when the tempests pourt To pay kiss heed to sinning And mors to kindly thought; To see beyond the winning Just bow the fight was fought) To be a lHOe kinder, A little braver, too. To be a tittle blinder To trivial things men do, To give my hand to labor. Nor whimper that 1 must; To be a better neighbor And worthier of a trust. To play the man, whatever The prise at stake; God grant that I shall never These New Tear pledges break. -- Anyone looking for something to do In the way of helping along can help bolster up the morals of his community. The war has done what all wars do. And the leeches on society are always active at such times. Just now we are facing all sorts of loose liv- ing and the public at large apparently feels little concern. Any man or woman can at least help by setting a good example. abuse and a nuisance. The kings and feudal nobility of the Middle Ages practically levied on their dependents accord, As to the New Years gift custom. It for gifts. The presents varied ds supposed to have been derived from ing to sex and rank. ithe Romans, but Is probably much FEAST DAY FOR RUSSIAN Suetonius and Tacitus menolder. forCHILDREN a decree Issued Claudius tion It bidding the demanding of presents In the country towns of Russia New on New Years day. The Roman the colonists in Britain found that the Years Is the great feast day for flll fhelr pockets with same children. In the Boys Year's New Saxons kept in hands Starting as a pleasant dried peas and wheat and go (fashion. People they Jfrierely custom, It rapidly became an from house to house. New Year Gifts fex-ce-pt dvlllza-atlo- n Is too complex to bq sane, tsafe and sober. Medical philosophers ara unanimous In declaring that we Amer- icans live too hard aod too fast our rapid ways are harmful bv the Individual 'and to the race; tlLs we should slow up. We ara, to usqAne homely old phrase; burning the candle at both ends. Men try to succeed In business, to rule In politics, to be social leaders all at the same time; To crowd dissimilar things together has become a national characteristic. Our avocations are often as wearing as our vocations; we day even harder than we work. Thus to crowd two or more lives into one is to borrow of nature. She Is a bard creditor , and she always exacts payment One cannot, of course, indict a whole There are still millions of people. sane; safe and sober people In America. But a society that demands or even countenances such recklessness Is In need of reformation. It would be Interesting and startling to know hew many men and women put them-- , selves in an early grave by going the pace that kills. Of all sounds of all bells, most solemn and touching Is the peal which rings out the old year. I never bear It without a gathering np of my mind to a concentration of all the Images that hare been diffused over the post twelve-month- ; all I have done or suffered, performed or neglected, tn that regretted time. I begin to know Its worth as when a person dies. It takes a personal color; nor was It a poetical flight la a contemporary poet when ha exclaimed: T saw the skirts of the departing yea. Every first of January that we at-- ' rive at Is an Imaginary milestone on the turnpaji track of hsmaa llie; at once a resting place for thought and meditation, and a starting place for' fresh exertion in the performance of our Journey. The man who does not at least propose to himself to be better this year than be was last, muri be either very good or very bad Indeed And only to propose to be better lg something; If nothing else. It Is an acknowledgment of our need to be so, which Is the first step towards amendment. But, In fact, to propose to oneself to do well Is In some sort to do well, positively; for there Is no such thing as a stationary point In human endeavors; he who is not worse today than he was yesterday, Is better; and he who Is not better. Is worse. So wrote Charles Lamb. Therefore let us make New Year resolutions duly to prize and diligently to Improve time for tlie blessed end it was given for" even If we break them. ' have any grudge against are doused with the peas, while they shower the wheat upon their friends. A curious custom also Is festooning the handsomest horse and leading him to the house of a nobleman. The pea and whe-.shooters follow In droves. Both guests and horse are admitted to the parlor of the lord and the guests receive presents t Berlin Is to erect Earopes first skyscraper along American lines, a building 22 stories high. -- t An Improved Highway In f California. ulator at the blower, the velocity of the air at the nozzle can be so controlled as to blow from the falling sand any desired percentage of the finer material. The blower is operated by a belt from the same gas engine which opand revolving erates the conveyor screen. The whole device Is compact and Inexpensive. The result Is a satisfactory sand obtained at lees cost than by any other method. The success of the plan depends, of course, on their dryness of the sand. If It were necessary to dry It, the Increased cost of treatment might make the importation of suitable material preferable. TRAFFIC TOURIST PAYS BIG Increase of Americans Into Canada Expected to Pay for Ontarios Highway System. anticipated that American tourist traffic will pay for the Installation and upkeep of Ontarios highways system. Tills traffic has Increased- - remarkably since the Toronto-Hamilto- n highway w as built, and already annual revenue from this source runs Into millions of dollars. During 1920 approximately 37,500 American motorcars crossed the border Into Ontario, remaining from one hour to six months. It Is BETTER To Teaoti Correot English. Children should be encouraged te talk, to observe and to describe the things that Interest them In tbe course of the day. In this way they will form the habit of tbe Intelligent reporter who, on tbe way to his desk from an assignment, plans his article, eager to find tbe best wily of telling bis story. Instead of making a hateful mystery of English speech, K should be mode tbe most natural thing In the world, worthy of tbe effort neeessary to give It accuracy, east and charm. The scrape of conversation I orertienr every day In cl ere tore. eerosB counters on tbe street and In trolley cars are of a nature to dletnrb those who view with Intense satisfaction the great treasure we pour Into education, believing that where the Investment ie so generous the dividends must be proportionately large- - Meredith Nicholson in Scribner's Magazine. Crosses Ooean 780 Times. W. P. Willis, a business man of New York, has crossed the Atlantic 180 times. Man Is a miniature universe; all tilings exist tn him tinged with tire manners of his soul. Living by one's wits lias been as an antifat remedy. rec- ommended tj The oldest amusement In the world - Is In some form or another, dice have existed In every period of history. They are shown on early ' Egyptian monuments, and some dug np' at Thebes recently ore exactly similar to those in use today. Tfcey are mentioned In laws regulating, games played In ancient Greece and Rome and most oilier countries In Europe. The Invention of dice Is attributed to Palamedes, one of the heroes who sailed against Troy, about the year 1244 B. C., but the use of cubes with numbered sides for gambling purposes Is probably much earlier. Frequent passages In the works of ancient writers and numerous representations in marble and paintings g show bow popular was among them. dice-playin- EXPLAINING. LACK OF DETAIL Youthful Artiet Had Excellent Reason for Leaving Out Characters In ' Her Illustration. A primary class In one of tbe grade 6cl tods wes asked to Illustrate a story tiwt had been reed to the little ones by the teacher. Hie story told of three children going to a Wood In a goat wagon, and staying until the sun went down. Most of tbe pictures shewed tbe goat with Mg horns palling the wugoe containing tbe children, and a sun going down behind a hill. One of the small girls tn the class handed in a picture showing merely ' k hill and some grass. "Why, what does your picture mean? Inquired the teacher. "Where are the goat and the children? "They have all gone home," replied ' Opal. TAKE ASPIRIN ONLY AS TOLD BY "Bayer" . BAYER Introduced Aspirin to the Physicians Over 21 Years Age. MW I To get quick relief follow carefully the safe and proper directions in each unbroken package of "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin." This package la plainly stamped with the safety Bayer Cross." The Bayer Cross" amass the genuine, world-famoAapiriB prescribed by physicians tor ever twenty-on- e years. Advertisement History as 9he la Quoted. Tbe Woman was shopping In a State street department store. She wanted a bat. There were two others at the counter, shopping, without wanting anything. The tall, thin one lifted a brown velvet tricorn shape te tbe light. "Pretty, aint It?" she asked her portly friend, who carried a book under her arm. Yes, very," answered the friend; "reminds me of Napoleon. Napoleon?" queried the tall 'one, whose fluffy hair covered a vacuum. "How pad when Napdepn?" Oh, answered she of the book, with superior disdain. "Dont you know? Napoleon crossing the Delaware K Chicago Journal. Shaw and the Tourist George Bernard Shaw recently convulsed an audience by relating a story of a tourist who asked a rustic whether he was on the right track for Strntfoftl-on-AvoThe yokel reCome come, said the mained. silent. n. tourist encouragingly, "Stratford Shakespeares town Shakespeare, the famous poet, you know. Surely you know Nwkeepeare?" Yus, replied the rostlo, brightening, Be you he? Women in Sculpture Society. .Ten American women sculptors hare been honored with membership In the National Sculpture society. Speed of Glaciers. Studying Alaskan glaciers, Prof. W. S. Cooper finds that Muir glacier has receded 60 miles in the last 127 years. l HIGHWAYS IN SOUTH Over $278 000,000 Voted for Improved Roads in Dixie Texas Leads With $97,772,000. Bad roads must go! This Is the ultimatum of peope living In Dixie. That they are alert to their urgent need of good roads is attested by the tremendous sums voted In recent state and county bond Issues. Over Is now available for good roads expenditure In the South. Texas leadi with $97,772,000 and Virginia Is sec ond with $50,000,000. $278,-000.00- 0 Hour of Least Traffic. As,, the result of a survey made by the bureau of public roads. United States department of agriculture, on the most traveled roads in the country, the hour when there Is least traffic Is between 2 and 3 oclock In the morning. Tuesday Is the day In the week when traffic reaches the lowest ebb. Boom in feouth Caro'ina. A state bond Issue of S50JHK),000 for Improved hiways is the object just sought by a good roads organized In South Carolina. Never say - without sayk "Biyw." WARNING! Unless you seenaroe Bayer 'yi tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 21 years and proved safe by millions for - Aspirin Colds Toothache Earache . Acoept only "Byer - Handy tia Ixkms of Jfplrla to ft trad mrk . Headache Neuralgia Lumbago packag-vbi- frihlrto -- d Rheumatism Neuritis Pais, Ptin eemtaine proper direct! onf. BotHm M m B mrtt llitfuffeitaii 4 art 100 All draggkts. Keeaacettoartdwtor cf lUUcyticacli -- |