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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH gimminiiniuiiimiiiniminniiminiiig calls the Amalgamated HaMholders, to the trundle-betrash just out of their kissing games. Jts funny to watch - the little tads grow up and pair off and see how bravely they try to' keep In the swim. Ive seen ten grandchildren get out and Fve a greatgrandchild whose mother will be pushing her out before she la old When enough to know .anything. young people get married they all say theyre not going to be and they hang on to the dances and little hops nntil the first baby comes. Then they dont get out to the dances much, but they join a card club. In her dissertation on the social progress of young married people, Aunt Martha explained that after the second year the couple go only to the big dances where everyone Is invited, but they pay more attention to cards. The young mother begins going to afternoon parties, and has the other young married couples in for dinner. Then, before they know It, they are Invited out to receptions and parties, where little tads preside at the punchbowls and wait on table, and are seen and not beard. Aunt Martha continued : , By the time the second baby comes they take one of two shoots either go in for church socials or edge into a whist club. Aunt Marthas eyes danced with the mischief in her heart as she went on: Now, if after the second baby comes, the young parents begin to feel like saving money, and being someone at the bank, they join the church and go in for church socials, which dont take so much time or money as the whist clubs and receptions. The babies keep coming and the young people keep on Improving their home, moving from the little house to the big house; the young mans name begins to creep into lists of directors at the bank, and they are Invited out to the big parties, and she goes to all the stand-u- p and receptions. As they grow older, they are - asked with the preachars and widows for the first night of a series of parties at a house to get them out of the way and over with before the young folks come later In the week. When they get to a point where the young folks laugh and clap their hands at little pudgy daddy when he dances Old Dan Tucker at the big d Ji BUNDLE OF M1JRRH . . 1 WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE ciumitiuiiiiiiiitiiiiuiiiiuiuiiiiHHiiitnii Copyright, 1922, by th MoanilUn Co. - of tire first things that a reporter on our paper has ONE learn Is the klnology of the town. Until he knows who is kin to whom, and how, a reporter Is likely at any time to make a bad break. Now, the klnology of a country town Is no 'simple proposition. After a rled Judge ef the District court at r. She held the case In her hand and went on opening the others. She came to one showing a must ached and goateed youth in a captains uniform a 811. straight, soldierly figure. As she passed It to Miss Larrabee Aunt Martha looked sidewise at her, saying: Ton wouldnt know him now. Yet yon see him every day, I suppose. After the girl shook her head, the elder .woman Wpll, thats Jim Purdy, taken the day he left for the army. She sighed as she said : "Let me see, I guess. 1 havent happened to run across Jim for ten years or more, but he .didnt look much- like this then. Poor old Jim, they tell me hes not having the best time In the world. . Miss Larrabee came down the walk from the stately old brick house, carrying a great bouquet of sweet peas and nasturtiums and poppies and phlox, a fleeting memory of some association she had in her' mind, of Uncle Jimmy Purdy and Aunt Martha kept tantalizing her. She could not get It out of the background of her consciousness, and yet it refused to form itself Into a tanit was associated gible conception, vaguely with her own grandmother, as though, Infinite .ges ago, her grandmother had said something that bad lodged in the girls head. When the occasion ' made itself, Miss Larrabee asked her grandmother the question that puzzled her, and learned that Martha Perkins and Jim Purdy were, lovers before the war, and that she was wearing Ills ring when he went away thinking he would be back in a few weekB with the Civil war ended. In his first fight he was shot In the head and was in the hospital for a .year, demented ; when he was put back In the ranks he. was captured and his name given out" among the killed. In prison his dementia returned and he stayed there two years. Then for a year after his exchange he followed the Union army like a dumb creature, and not until two years after, the close of the war did the poor fellow drift home again, as one from the deadfall uncertain of the past ind unfitted for the future. And his sweetheart drank' her cup alone. The old settlers say that she never flinched nor shrank,' but for twenty-fou- $ f, T Bovins Tuberculosis The 12 causes of the spread of bovine tuberculosis reported generally are: I. Unrestricted range or common pasture. .. 2. Common drinking pool or ' trough. 3. Introduction of untested . cattle. 4. Nosing of fence lines, 5. Close, foul housing. " S. Milk of Infected animals fed to calves and hogs. . .. 7. Trading of - untested . an; . imals. 8. Dead' animals eaten by dogs and hogs. 8. Breachy stock... 10. Breeding to. a common untested bull. II. Serving cows outside th ' herd. 12. Conditions unfavorable to health, as drafty barns and underfeeding. y ' VI . 1 Waiting for Supper at a Steam Oven. (Prepared by the National Geographic u- s . Wln-throp- d ha-co- - war-time- s. dark--eue- So D. C.) etety, Washington, On the Alaskan peninsula, out of reach Just now but more accessible than was the Tellowstone national park when it was established, Ameri- cans possess a wonderful national monument . and potential . rival for Tellowstone about which many of them know little. It is the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, s wonderful area of- steaming fissures unlike anything else in the world- - This marvelous valley may be considered a byproduct of the great eruption of Kat-mvolcano in 1912, one of the most stupendous volcanic explosions In historic times. Tbe existence of the valley was not even suspected until an expedition sent out by the National Geographic society to study other phases of the devastated area suddenly came upon its myriads of fumaroles sending their faint wisps and roaring volumes of steam Into the atmos- - al phere. This Is one of tbe greatest wonders of the world, If not Indeed the very greatest of all the wonders on the face of the earth. The valley cannot be described ; only after one has spent many days within its confines does one begin to grasp tbe proportions. To one coming for the first time Into Self-Mad- . I. t t t t ' . good-enoug- h 0 d man has spent ten years writing up weddings, births and deaths, attending old settlers' picnics, family reunions and golden weddings, he may run Into a new line of kin that opens a whole avenue of hitherto unexplainable facts to him, showing why certain families line up In the ward primaries, and why certain others are fighting tooth and toenail. The only person In town who knows all of our klnology and most of that In the county, where It la a separate and Interminable study a "Aunt She has lived Martha Merryfleld. here since the early fifties, and was a Perkins, one of the eleven Perkins ' children that grew up in town ; and the PerkinseS were related by marriage to the Mortons, of whom there are over fifty living adult descendants on the town-sit-e now. So one begins to see why she Is called Aunt Martha Merryfleld. She Is literally aunt to over a hundred people here. She lives alone In the big brick house on the hill, though her children and grandchildren are in and out all day and most of the night, so that she Is not at all lonesome. She is the only person to whom we can look for accurate Information about local history, and when a man dies who has - been at all prominent In affairs of the , town or county or state, .we always call up Aunt Martha on the phone, or send a reporter to her, to learn the real printable and unprintable truth about him. Aunt Martha used to bring us flowers for the office table, and It was her delight to sit down and take out as she called It and her corn-knif-e go after the town shams. She 'has promised a dozen times to write an ' article for the paper, which she says e we are not to print, entitled Women' I Have Known. She says that men were always bragging about how they had clerked,' worked on farms, dug ditches and whacked mules across the plains before the railroads came; but that their wives Insisted that they were princesses of the royal blood. ! Her particular animosity In the town Is Mrs. Julia Neal Worthington. Aunt Martha told us that when. Tim Neal came to town he had. a brogue you could scrape with a knife and an O" before his name you could hoop a hogshead with. And that woman, exclaimed Aunt Martha, when she was under full sail, that woman, because she has two bookcases In the front room and reads the book reviews - In the Delineator, thinks that When her folks first . she is cultured. came to town they were as poor as Jobs turkey, which was not to their discredit everyone was poor In those days. The old man Neal was as honest an old Mick as youd meet In a days journey, or at a fair,' and he used to run a lemonade and peanut Tocstand down by the bank corner. But his girls, who were raised on it, until they began teaching school, used Lr N 7 r to refer to the peanut stand' as papas hobby, pretend that he only ran It for recreation, and say: Now why The Judge .Walked Over' and Gave the Band Leader Five Dollars. do you suppose papa enjoys it? We jusfrCant get him to give it up! And parties in the brick house, its all up years, even after her marriage, the now'.Tulia is president of the Wo;n-an- e with them they are old married jourig woman kept a little grave covfederation, has stomach trouble, folks, and the next step takes them to ered with flowers, that bore the the simple words: Martha, aged five has had two operations, and is suf- the old folks whist club, where wives and the insurance-widowbankers mouths and three days. cul with acute untold agonies fering run things. That is the inner The war brought her neighbors so turltis. And yet. Aunt Martha would the holy of holies in the many sorrows that Marthas trouble say through a. beatific smile, - shes sanctuary, was forgotten, the years passed and woman in many ways, society of this town." a only tiie old people of the community That reminds me of the and I. wouldn't say anything against t When they came here, back know about the little grave beside - her for the world. Once Miss Larrabee, the society In the sixties. It happened to be the Judge's and their little boys. reporter, brought back tills from a Fourth of July, and the band was out Jimmy Purdy grew into a smoothvisit to Aunt Martha: I know, .my playing In the grove by the depot. faced. unwrinkled, rather fclnnk-eyedear, that your paper, says there are Mrs. WInthrop got off thetrnln quite old man, clerking in the bookstore for no cliques and crowds in societytin grandly and bowed and waved her a time, serving as city clerk for th'is town, and that It Is so demo- hand to the band, and the Judge SO years, and later living at tiie Iaiace cratic. But you and I know she truth. walked over and gave the band leader hotel on his pension. He worshiped We know about society In this town. five dollars. They1 said afterward that Aunt Murtims- children, but lie neVer We know that if there ever was a they felt deeply touched to find a raw saw her except when they met In some western town so appreciative of the casual way. She was married when n town that looked like a side of streak of lean' and streak of fat coming of an old New England fam- he came back from the war, and if ' all the way dtwn It Is this blessed ily, that it greeted them with a band. he ever knew her agony he never place. Crowds? why. Ive lived here Before Mrs. WInthrop had been here spoke of it. over fifty years and It was always three weeks she called on me, us one Onei day they found him dead in crowds. Way back In the days when of 'the first ladies of the town, she his bed. And Miss Larrabee hurried the boys used to pick us up and carry said, to organize and see .if we out to Aunt Marthas to get the facts os across Elm Creek when, we went couldnt break up the habit of the about his life for the paper. It was to dances, there were crowds. The hired girls eating at the table with a bright October morning as she went . up tiie walk to the old brick house, girls who crossed on the boys backs the family. werent- considered quite property . The talk drifted back to the old and she heard someone playing on the the girls who were carried over in days, and Aunt Martha got out he piano, rolling the chords after the, the boys arms. And they didnt dance photograph-albuand showed Mis3 grandiose manner of pianists 50 In the same set." ; Larrabee the pictures of those whom jears ago. A voice seemed to be singMiss Larrabee says she looked Into she called the rude forefathers of ing an old ballad. As the girl mountthe elder woman's eyes to fiud which the village," in their quaint old cos- ed the steps the voice came more disIn the book were tinctly to her. It was crowd Aunt Martha belonged to, when tumes of quavering and flashed out : men and unsure, but with a moan of . she baby pictures of middle-age- d passion women, and youthful pictures of the the words came forth: Oh. child, you neednt look at me I As women men town. old and on who was of the But lay my heart on your dead I did both; It depended heart Douglas, But, as 1 was saying. If most Interesting of all to Miss Larralooking! Douglas, Douglas, tender and true anyone knows about society in this bee were the daguerrotypes--qua:n- t Suddenly the voice choked witli town, I do. I went to every dance old portraits In their little black years, boxes, framed in plush and gilt. Tiie groan. As she stood by the open door in town for the first twenty-liv- e and I have made potato salad to pay old woman brought out picture after Miss Larrabee could see In the room the figure of an old the salary of every Methodist preacher picture ber husbands among the woman, for the past thirty years, and I ought others. In a broad beaver bat with a racked with sobs on a great mahogto know , what Im talking about. high choker taken back In Brattleboro any sofa, and on the floor beside her She lay a daguerreotype., glinting Its There was, fire enough to twinkle In before he came to Kansas. gill looked at It for a long minute, and and glass through the gloom. Beginher old eyes as she spoke. The girt tiptoed across the Hie bottom, one may say that then said gayly to Miss Larrabee: ning porch; quite the down the steps, through the garden the base of society Is the little tads, He was a handsome boy marwe the state were when of beau and out of the gste. ranging down from wbat your paper : iiEdHraiCaiB the valley there seems but the thinnest of rinds between himself and molten material below. Several times when members of the exploring party accidentally put a foot through a thin place iu the crust, steam came spouting out of the hole, forming a new fumarole. But It was always one foot only and the owner did not take long to get it out. In many places the valley round about the vents Is covered with a peculiar blue mud, thinly coated with a chestnut brown! crust, which sometimes supports one and sometimes gives way suddenly, letting one down to' his shoetbps in the soft, scalding mud beneath. At such times one is apt to feel that his feet are taking hold on hell In very truth,' particularly If the place happens to look ticklish otherwise. Vents All Down the Valley. The area In which the vents occur is not a simple valley but includes a complicated system of, branches, the whole forming a tract, of very irregular shape.. ' Tbe main line of activity extends directly transverse to the axis of the Alaska'n peninsula from Katmai - pass northwestward toward the head of Naknek lake. In this direction vents occur-- all the way down the valley as far as the bend to the north. There Is :clear evidence that when the steam jets burst forth this line of activity also extended straight across the pass and down through the upper valley of Mageik creek to Observation mountain. Activity occurs in various branches of the main valley. The total length of all of these smoking valleys is 32 miles. Tbe .area Is 70 square miles, the average width being something oyer two. miles. : One of the questions most frequently asked by persons Interested In the region Is whether or not there are geysers. None was observed, and the conditions are such as to make their development unlikely for the present. Geysers belong to a declining stage of volcanic activity, while present region Is in a youthful stage. A geyser consists essentially of a column of hot water mixed with steam, which Is periodically projected Into the air by the sudden formation of the steam from water gradually-heatinup to ; the boiling point. A geyser can' exist, therefore, only In rock coot enough to permit the of the water. The vents of 'this steaming valley are: so hot that they would Instantly- vaporize jn.v ordinary quantity of water that its Way Into them. One might-fincan readily ree that If the valley cools off gradually there may come n time favorable for the. formation of gey' ' ' sers To attempt any catalogue of the Individual vents or any description of them would be utterly futile. They vary all the way from miseroscople lets of gas to mighty columns of smoke; which overtop the 'mountains. To. explore the valley thoroughly' and lecome. acquainted with the chn rarer of. the various vents would re g . - ' ' FLUSHING quire a residence .of several months. The smokes In general, however, may be classed as coming either from craters or fissures.' ' Craters Are Active. Tbe craters are much less numerous than the fissures, but include some of tbe largest and most active of tbe vents. All of them are located in the floor of the valley, not around the edges. .They average about 100 feet in diameter. The rims kre slightly raised above the general level, showing that they were produced by explosive action, but tbe amount of material, in these crater rings is, In general, very much less than enough to fill the cavity. Within they are perfectly conical pits, sloping down into the throat at the bottom. Tbe steep sides, standing at the critical angle, remind one, of the pits which ant lions dig in the sand. Indeed, little Imagination Is required to picture the old devil at the bottom waiting to devour whatever slips over the edge; for the sides are so nearly perpendicular . that - if . one made the first slip he could never get out again. The smoke from these crater, comp out in such volume that often the bole Is completely filled and Its outlines concealed, but by waiting a few moments at the windward side one can usually see tiie inside of tbe crater, and sometimes for an instant, catch a glimpse of the throat at the bottom usually a perpendicular, tube about ten feet In diameter leddlng down Into the bowels of tbe earth. On favorable occasions one may see as much as 50 feet below the surface of the plain. Much tbe greater part of the steam in the valley comes to the surface, not In these craters, but through the Innumerable fissures, There are readily seen to be two sets of these bands of marginal fissures, several together, running around tbe edge of the valley In parallel lines, and single central fissures, which crisscross the floor In all directions, The marginal ' fissures stand open, like great cracks In the surface, Into which one might fall unless careful. Sometimes the fissures were formed merely by the- - cracking open of the ground, but often they are lines of faulting, one ' side standing higher than the. other. They are often steaming hot for long distances without a break, and at intervals contain vents from which issue some of the biggest smokes in the valley. While the smoke, from the craters comes out quietly, in . vast, rolling clouds, that from .the fissures often Is emitted under considerable pressure If one tosses roaring and hissing. pebbles Into tbe moutlis of these vents they are so buoyed' up by the rising gases that they are either immediately spewed out again or they sink slowly down through the rising steam Hke feathers settling to earth. Such vents are the hottest places In the valley; the gases from them do not condense for several yards beyond the orifice. j Fantastic Mud Formations. All of the vents, even the smallest, whose fumes are too slight to be visible, incrust the mud In their vicinity with copious deposits, giving the adjacent ground a most fantastic apThese Incrustations take pearance. on all colors Imaginable and in many places give rise to very beautiful formations. The prevailing hues are perhaps those due to the gray, and green and yellow alums, which build out curious ' crystalline structures simulating lichens growing on thif ground.' Over large areas the ground has been burned to a bright red by the heat,- - The variations' In the Intensity of file color produced are extremely beautiful, including, as they do, all shades from orange and brick red to bright cherry' reds, purples, and on down to black, with occasional contrasting streaks Of blue. This type of coloration Is most pronounced in areas originally occupied by small ' fumaroles which have burned out. In places the ground has the appearance of having been burned With fire for' a ' mile at a stretch. .. 111 the size' of the vents and the quantity of smoke given off the valley 'Is so far beyond other volcanic districts that no other place can toe a moment he compared with It . INCREASES YIELD Extra Feeding at Breeding Time in Larger Number of Southdown Lambs. (Pnparad bjr Re-suit- e th United State Department - of Agriculture.) In six years work, the United States Department of Agriculture has found that by extra feeding (commonly called "flushing) at breeding time, Its Southdown ewes yielded 198 more lambs per 1,000 ewes than Southdown ewes otherwise given the same care, and kept under the same conditions. Good blue grass, mixed timothy and n Clover, or pasture if available furnish the most satisfactory and economical means of flushing; but it a drought has prevented good pasture a soy-bea- - C Southdown Ram. supplementary grain ration has been found to give approximately as good results in Increasing the number of lambs as the extra" good pasture. A ration of oats alone, or equal parts tty measure of corn, oats and bran in the amount of about one-hato three-fourtpound per ewe per day, is a ! lf good one to use. , - , - Flushing' Increases fhe size of the lamb crop In two ways It puts the ewes In better condition to make sure . of their getting in lamb and it In- -, creases the proportion of twin lambs.. Sheep breeders are constantly striving . to increase tbe proportion of lambs . born to the number of ewes In their flocks, but they have In most etises paid little attention to the condition of tbe ewes at breeding time. A little extra care and attention just as the breeding season opens will bring results next spring. -- RAISE HOGS FOR FAMILY USE Meats Would Save Con. slderable Cash to Buy Other Farm Necessities. Homs-Cure- d ; . -- . ' ' : Hog raising may not be profitable some farms.' But most farmers could afford to raise enough pigs to make their own meats. Home-curemeats would save considerable cash that might be used to buy wbat farm- ers. cannot produce,' Why not raise ; ' meat for the family on d . ' . . Important With Fall Pigs. The Important thing with fall pigs that cannot get much pasture Is to provide them with a grain ration.. ' d Separate Pen for Pigs. At three weeks of age little pigs will begin to eat, and when one month old they should have c separate place for feeding. ... Southdown le Hardy. Southdowna are hardy, blocky sheep, well adapted to the production of mut; ton. " , ; . Best Food for Pigs. Small pigs should be fed largely on shorts and oats, with a small amount ef cornmeal and tankage. , 8wint Multiply Rapidly. Swlge multiply more rapidly than other farm animals and make greater gains per hundred pounds of concentrated feed consumed ; . |