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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH Boyd Park and COLONEL HOUSE, WILSONS FRIEND NOT A MYSTERY Sterling ssrissssssi: Unofficial Counsellor of the President Is a Modest But Well investment. Used every day Our prices lasts generations. od honestly reasonable. BOYD PARK Posted Man. makers of jewelry lake STUDENT OF WORLD AFFAIRS Is modesty not mystery which has been the basic difficulty. Colonel House will not tell you that he is a modest man, as I know from personal contact with him. To claim modesty for one's self is to be Immodest. He does go from' his present abode In New York city to Washington occasionally or frequently as the requests may come, to give what he can of the counsel of his views to the president of the United States. Why should he any more than any other man send a trumpeting herald ahead or a band of cymbal dashers? He goes to the White House, stays his while and leaves, and because no great noises fill the streets at approach or departure, exclusiveness, seel usiveness and secrecy have been the order of the days words concerning each visit. Gives No Word of Work. It perhaps is not too much to say that If the full record of the results of the conferences which House of Texas has had with Wilson of the 1662 kso main salt street bargains in used city Now Gathering Data on Economic and Other Problems Which Must Be Solved at the Peace Table Has Qualifications That Go to Make a Sound Diplomat. cars Oldsmoblles, Guaranteed first class terms If wanted by condition-ea- sy for de,ailed 11,1 and desc,il' rilht par'l8- - Write lion, Used Car Dept.. Auto Co, Salt Lake City gandall-Dod- d ke. splendid used to $800. L AUTHORS NOTE Men have made a mystery ot the life and the doings of Col, Edward H House, the friend and adviser of Woodrow Wilson. If there has been mystery, It is none of the Colonels making. I venture the hope that whatever may have seemed to be hidden Is disclosed In this article, the material for which was obtained In the only way In which such material can be obtained, by direct personal v contact, Inquiry and study. MEN AND WOMEN. 'Now la the Bar-ber- s time to learn the barber trade. In greatdemand. Special rate urnmn I time required. while or write Moler Baber School. 13 Utah. St., Salt Lake City. open for 30 days. Only short Jnnta furnished and commission paid Com-Sfrcl- centipede new pet house Friendly With the Declared to Be Death on Bugs. I, Quiet, Docile and Children and Is By EDWARD B. CLARK. 1917, Western Newspaper Union.) Washington. Who Is Col. Edward (Copyright, family thinks It has mobilized its home protective forces to the full when a cat, a It has set up a watchdog, canary, a rubber plant, a war garden A These are all and a fly swatter. well as far as they go, says the very New York Tribune, but the world has been, moving swiftly, and the most progressive and efficient households now have added the house ceptipede vulgarly thousand-legge- d worm called the We learn from a reto their forces. cent monograph on Insects that: An examination of the head of the centipede will reveal a pair of strong jaws that are used against enemies and for the purpose of capturing small insects for food. It considers the fly a great delicacy, and, besides this, it eats fleas, mosquitoes, moths, roaches and other small household pests. It hunts Its food mostly at night. The house centipede has seldom been known to bite a person, and if, In it should pinch the babys finger or toe, the swelling produced. If any, could quickly be alleviated by an application of ammonia. In the light of these recommendations who can afford to be without one of these admirable beasts? It Is noiseless, of excellent though nocturnal habits a night watchman, as it were and its upkeep cost is practically nothing. In the event that It rids the house completely of all the pests enumerated particularly the and others the grateful householder should, be willing to pension it on small bits of meat or whatever Its system craves. It should be taken into the family and given a pet name. self-defens- e, . WRITTEN Custom MUSIC IS NOT NEW of Tangible Preserving Melodies Form Was First Observed by the Greeks. In Mandell House who is to gather war data for the United States government for service on a future day of peace? This Is a question that is being asked by a very large proportion of the people of the United States and In fact of all the allied nations.. Colonel House does not wear the record of his deeds on his sleeve. It is probable that If this unofficial counsellor to the president of the United States were to be elected to congress the autobiography which he would prepare for the congressional directory would read like this: Edward Mandell House, Democrat of Austin, Texas; born 1858; elected to the congress, November. In this brief, if you will, way would this Texan be prompted to write an autobiography, justified doubtless from the viewpoint of other men in being extended Into many chapters. Who Is Col. Edward Mandell House who, until the day when the final order Cense Firing comes, is to study In behalf of the government of the United States the economic, the geographic, the democratic and the humanitarian problems which the American counsellors at the peace table must seek to solve after a manner which the people of a great democracy can approve? Consulted by President. In the Washington dispatches something like this is read several times a year: Colonel House has been In the hours as the guest city for twenty-fou- r He will leave for of the president. New York tomorrow morning. Beyond this the reader gets nothing from the dispatches except the word that the president and his visitor discussed Mexican matters, or European matters, or It may be, but In this latter case rarely, political matters. The public has known little more about Colonel House than that he Is a man frequently consulted by Wood-roWilson and a man In whose judgment on political, economic and legislative jmatters the president puts confidence. There is a sort of a glamour about men and things which are mysterious. It would seem that because of the attraction which mystery has for the people, as shown if you will In their gluttonous reading of detective stories and thei like, that writers of the news of the day in part have chosen to treat the goings and comings of the colonel and his conferences with men of affairs as If they were a deliberate attempt to hedge them In and hide them from public knowledge. It Is Just as possible to get at the truth in the case of Colonel House as It Is In the case of any other man whose doings are of public Interest. It ultra-modes- t, ( great many steps In the development of the present form of writing music. The custom bf writing melodies rather than trusting to the uncertain help of memory for their preservation was first observed by the Greeks. Indeed, at one time, the preserving of music in a tangible, visible form was deemed so necessary as to be the subject of a special papal bull. The writing out of music was accomplished by the use of many different sets of signs and symbols, In the various countries. Nothing really definite and lasting, though, was done In this direction until the fifteenth century, when the first real printing of tnelodles and harmonies was accomplished In Germany. This was made possible by the invention of the movable metal types. The prints thus produced were remarkably clear and neat at first, but they later became gradually more and more Imperfect, which degeneration finally led to the invention of copperplate printing in 1532, by Simon an Italian. New York Globe. Ve-rvI- An Animal An animal That Imitates Fruit. which the Filipinos call aguan Is one of the most curious mammals that exist, offering at the 8ame time the characteristics of mop-he- y and bat. It hangs from a branch downward, its four feet together and head between Its paws. In this portion It is never disturbed by birds or epsts of prey, for It resembles some unpalatable fruit of great size, of J'mch there are many examples In the woods. The caguan harmo-Ume- s so well with the bark of the tree which It seeksits roost that it feels Practically certain that It will not be Molested. 6 on tit Out Useless Complaints. tlme wastel in complaining use the job is hard would often ore than sufficient to put that Job e list of has beens.V Thomas Price, a legless boot- twenty-seveblack here, wants the job of Per-shining shoes for General over there. Sammies shings His crippled condition prevents him from entering the army, so he has written President WUson, a requesting that he be given his bit. to do chance I am told that soldiers have to keep ftelr boots polished, wrote Price, who conducts a parlor here, and that they have to do It them-- 3 selves. If you can make a place for me to. do the shining for them I dont think youll find me loafing on the Job." jg o, $ $5 , : $ 3 Cl 2 W 3 $ 3 M 3 M M M 3 $ . Pueblo, Colo. Shoe-shinin- g ; . Dry-as-Dus- ts - United States Is to be read it must be sought in some of the accomplished deeds of the present administration. That Woodrow Wilson has been moved to certain courses or strengthened In his purpose to pursue them, by the counsel of Edward M. House Is not to be doubted. The Impossible task would be to get from the latter a definite word concerning the public work In which his counsel has played a part. Those who have built up a wall of mystery 'about the man who is studying matters against the day of peace apparently have not wished to pull down their handiwork. The wall can be demolished by anyone who tries to get at the foundation of the fiction. Edward M. House lives as open a life as that of any American whose profession or business does not call him daily into the places where men throng. If one wants to know about him through motives other than those of the Idleness of curiosity he can see him and talk with him, and the chances are that he will be told everything concerning the subject of his Inquiring curiosity that any man oi modest mien and Inclination naturally would be willing to tell. Colonel House Is a genial man who seemingly never has sought to define for personal use the meaning of either of the words, coldness or austerity. He has a sense of humor well developed, and a temperamental warmth. FROM SHARKS FLIES JOHN PAUL JONES FLAG GET WANTS TO SHINE SHOES FOR PERSHINGS ARMY - - when seeking concerning events In ihe past which have relation to eveni in the present or events expected in t.ie future. Therefore, there is here a man who has held what he has studied, who has collated and correlated the happenings of history, who has drawn lessons from them, who takes an Interest as deep in the living present as he does In the dead past, and who men believe Is able to make his knowledge serviceable, for old as It Is let us say it, history repeats itself. Woodrow Wilson did not meet his friend Colonel House until the days when he was holding office as governor of New Jersey. It is said by friends of Mr. Wilson that almost Instantly he came to understand why the Texan had been of service along constructive lines to some of the governors of the state in which he has lived most of his life. For six or seven years Mr. House has been the confidant and the counsellor of the president of the United States, and seemingly time enough has gone by and things enough have been proved or disproved to give certainty tq the word that Woodrow Wilson has r md Edward M. House an advisory as. .. There hardly can be much of real mystery about a man who twice since this great war began has been sent abroad as a special commissioner for the president of the United States. Colonel House has been twice In Berlin, five times in Paris, and frequently in other of the great European capitals. Some day It may be that Woodrow Wilson will write what may be called an autobiographical review of his administration. If he does it is entirely likely that the part taken by Colonel House In the shaping of some of the policies of the president may be given Col. w There were a the page place which many men beSecret of His Power. In Houston, Texas, in the year 1858, lieve that it deserves. Edward M. House was born. He was No Myatery There. educated at the Hopkins grammar While living In New York Colonel school, New Haven, Conn., and at House resides in an apartment not Cornell university. lie has been active far uptown. It is a homelike all his adult life In Democratic politics, very where good books are found and. but never ha been a candidate for of- place where good friends may come. It la a fice. genial place and no curtain of mystery It Add to these admittedly meager dehangs over the door of any one of tails one fact and unquestionably you rooms. Men go there and are welwill have the secret of this mans pow- come. They go and they talk. Man er to attract other men to him for the learns as much from man as he learn purpose of consultation on really high from books and more perhaps if w public matters. From the day that he believe the ancient saying about the was old enough to undertake serious proper study of mankind. tfudy, Edward M. House has been deep I asked Colonel House what his recIn the books of politics, economics and reations are. He said, Friends, read legislation, ne has marshaled In his His library shelve and walking. mind all the greater events which have lug that he ha books of kind show the happened In these three words. More- read, still is reading and will continue over, he has the men, the things and to for those in .the book case the motives connected with each case are read, made the companion day by day constantly In procession before him. of the others as they come from the He Is quick to trace a cause to an efhands of writers worth while. fect, or to go,the reverse route. He No man probably can read politics, has been a- student of human nature and history conas It has shown Itself In many of the legislation, economics without getting some of Dr, great problems of human life. This stantly characteristics. So it 1 means that he has in him, or at any not read the rate men believe that he has In him, that Colonel House does He turn formldables constantly. four tho qualifications which go to make ne finds something and here to fiction up a sound diplomat. of possibly more than passing human Through successive administrations interest. In Texas the governors of the state, George Frlsble Hoar of Massachusone after anoi jl consulted Colonel in politics. House on public matters. 'How deep etts was one of the scholars he had read of was that him said It an Impression he has made on Texas from Aristophanes Frogs" legislative history mever may be known everything to Lockes "Human Understanding" salient Is but there enough definitely, "dismala-ties- " to make Texans know that they are and from this latter book of minded to reader, the lighter right in attributing to him many of down to everything heavy and semitheir public welfare acts. heavy which was published to the Though not accounted wealthy In week of his death. Senator Hoar kept these days of huge ffrtunes, Colonel his mental condition balanced by turnHouse is quite well fixed financially not merely from the heavy to the ing and is not engaged in business of any on occasion, but to the actual light kiud. of fiction. He read featherweights Has Studied Hard. Nick Carter. I have talked to Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson, it Is said, turns have learned things which make me away from the studies of states, past fed that I shall not go wrong when I and present and in prospective to the try to put an Interpretation upon some r ling of what the English call penny of his methods of doing things. He Is dreadfuls, and what the Americans In fiee enough to say that he has studied the old days called yellow backs. It hard at economic, political and legis- Is said that the speaker of the house lative subjects. He probably even of representatives, Champ Clark, stops would be willing to admit that he frequently his mental digging into all thinks the results of these studies con- kinds of history to take up for relief tinued and their results retained, have purposes books of the kind which enabled him to be of some servlqe make a boy happy. information men were Edward LEATHER M. House. Series of Tests by Government Shows That Product Is Durable and Satisfactory. New London,, Conn. A contract for 1,000 shark hooks, 300 to be completed In ten days and 700 In twenty days af- ter the first consignment, has been awarded by the government to J. W. a blacksmith, of thi vi; cinity. There are to be three varieties of eleven, ten and nine inches In hook, 3 ? length. A chain and swivel are to be attached to each hook. It is reported from a Washington that the government Is p correspondent about to prospect in a new leather m field, that of shark skins. In a seA ries of tests a durable and satisfac, tory leather has been evolved from of these fish. It Is believed $3 the skins there Is no reason why an industry may not be profitably started. 3 Fordham, , Vanity. Remembered Hie Dogs. Vanity dies hard, wrote Robert once left 60,000 florin A Venetian Louis Stevenson; la some obstinate of his three dogs. maintenance the for man. cases it outlives the ... Reads Good Fiction. In the library of Colonel House there Is plenty of good fiction. He does not turn to Nick Carter, nor to .The Hidden Hand of Mrs. E. D. EL; N. Southworth, nor yet tb Owl Face of Beadle dime novel The Pawnee fame, but he manages to keep the mefi tal balance even by an evening lamtf hour or two with the writers of fiction who can lay claim to what the! book reviewers call literary merit. Today Colonel House Is entering up on the work of preparing material which one day, perhaps far in the future, will be serviceable to the American commissioners at the great peace conference. Another has written this, concerning the choice by the president of Colonel House for this work: He Is peculiarly qualified for It by his diplomatic experience of recent years, byj his study of political problems which) the war has raised and by his Integrity; of mind and character. Sherlock, will you take on the House Mystery Case? Mystery? my dear Watson, there Isnt any. Pipe Line of Wood. Seattle A wooden water pipe 0 feet long and 12 feet In diameter, 10,-40- supplied by a local company, will be in a power development project iu New York state. Douglas fir staves equivalent to 1,800,000 board feet of lumber will be used in the construction of the pipe line. Eagle Pecks Elk to Death. Clayton, N. M. One of the largest eagles ever seen In this section of the country was reported this week. The eagle perched on the back of a young elk and pecked it to death, according to word brought here from Glenoro. To Sell Greek Kings Stables. Athens. One of the signs that Ancient Banner of Sea Hero Carried democracy has taken the place of royalty is the public notice that the kings on Frigate Ranger, Raised at stables will be sold at auction. The JSentervllle, Md. stables are in the very heart of Athens, occupying a whole block on the two Mu. The carried Centerville, flag main streets. Now that Premier by the frigate ranger of the continentrestored a democratic adcommand of al navy, under John Paul Jones, recently was hoisted on the ministration one of the first moves has been to dispose of this royal eyesore flagstaff of the Observer. This cher- in the center of the city. ished banner Is owned by William Anthony of Queenstown. Draft Leaves Only Allens. Tattered and torn at its end from W. Va. The selective Welrtown, ocean gates, the flag draft will leave whipping in the only foreigners in this is still In a good state of preservation. Its blue field has faded Into drab, Its steel mill town. Of the 950 registrants white stripes and stars are tinged with here it has been found that 700 are cream of age and its red is dingy with aliens who are exempt from military service. Practically every physlcnliy years. fit American will be taken In the first Mr. Anthony received the flag from its grandfather, who served under National army. John Paul Jones on the Ranger. 8ettled Out of Court. Muriel So Judge Merryman proBible study Is the most popular of posed to Alice lost night 1" Ethel the many activities of the Missionary "Yes, and he made an awful break. club for Boys at Sfax, Tunis, com- When she asked him for time to conposed of street waifs among the Mo- sider his proposal, he gave her )) hammedan population. days. Ju ge. Veni-zelosh- as |
