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Show . SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH RUSSIA TO RECLAIM DESERT Pasture Lands Are Destroyed at the Rate of One Hundred Thousand Acres a Year. Good The shifting sands of Astrakhan and the measures taken by the Russian government to deal with this problem form the subject of a memoir by J. G. Flrstov, published in Petrograd, observes the Scientific American. Ten million acres of the province in question are covered with shifting sands formed during the nineteenth century and subsequently. These sands have been spreading at the rate of 100,000 acres a year, the result being the transformation of good pasture land into a barren waste. The principal cause is over grazing ; flocks and herds are kept so long in one place as to result in the complete destruction of the turf. Poor agricultural methods are also responsible. About the beginning of the present century the government took measures of control and reclamation, and between 1904 and 1909 an area of about 46,000 acres was brought under cultivation. In 1913 a special service was ordered to deal with the question. The province was put under the charge of a chief forestry officer and divided Into six districts, in each of which a subordinate official was appointed to superintend the work. At the time of writing good progress has been made in planting soil binders and growing herbaceous crops, but It was still problematical whether the province was adapted to the establishment of Gladstone a Hard Worker. Gladstone was a hard worker, with no dreads with regard to work, says the American Magazine. He turned from political responsibilities of the heaviest to Greek for e recreation, and lived his years and , more, just as Pope Leo XIII, turned to Latin poetry for his relaxation from world-wid- e burdens, and lived on beyond and ten, living so hopefully that when, at the little dinner given him on his ninetieth birthday, one of the cardinals said, in proposing a toast to him, Heres that you may live to be a hundred, holy father, the old pontiff But why limit me to a replied: four-scor- four-scor- e breakfast on tne table. Freddie had Doras Resolution "Wish you happy New Tear I called Dora from her pillow, to her sister Agnes, who stood before the dressing-table- , brushing her curls. What makes you get up so early? It Isnt breakfast .time yet. It Is so warm and cozy here In bed, Im going to He here and think up lots of good resolutions for the new year. Then I can write them out after breakfast. dont you make some resolutions, Why Agnes? I hadnt thought dont know. I about It, replied the little girl. I have been hurrying to get dressed, for I was afraid mamma would want me; Freddie has been crying all the morning. Fred Is such a returned Well, perhaps Id better get up, seeing you are all ready to go down. Tell mamma I am coming right away," and she crawled out of bed as Agnes closed the door. Dora reached the dining room just as her mamma and sister set the ! cry-bab- y Dora. New Year Song. New Tear, true year, What now are you bringing? May day skies and butterflies, And Frolic, merry birds play all the day, Not an hour of school? Dut the merry eclip, The laughing New Tear echo, Only answered, "School I New Tear, true year, What now are you bringing? Summer roses springing gay. Summer vines Jest and sport, the merriest sort, Never a thought of work? But the merry echo. The laughing New Tear echo, Only answered, Work!" New Tear, true year, What now are you bringing? Autumn fruits all flre-rlp- e, Autumn horns Keen delight o moonlight nights, When dull folks are abed? Kut the merry echo. The laughing New Tear echo, Only answered, Bed!" -- Laura E. Richards. been restored to good humor, and everybody seemed very happy as they gathered around the first morning meal of the new year. Bright faces, merry voices and good wishes made It a charming family group. Dora and Agnes cleared the table when the meal was finished, for there was no servant in the house, and the two sisters helped much with the work, that mamma might get more time to sew. Shall I wash or wipe the dishes? asked Dora. Oh, Ill wash them, and you can wipe them, said Agnes, for youd rather, and I dont care. Well, then Im going upstairs to write out my New Tears resolutions; Ill be down by the time you have the dishes ready to rinse, and Dora ran up to her room. Dora spoiled several sheets of paper before she had her resolutions written to suit her. Finally she read them over with a certain degree of pride: New Year's Resolutions of Dora Buckingham Prescott. I will get up early in the morning and help mamma with the breakfast. I will go to bed At night without making a fuss about it. I will dress Freddie every morning. I will take my turn at washing the dishes, even though I like better to wipe them. I will dust the parlor every day, and not leave it for Agnes. I will not forget to make the beds when it comes my week. I will take care of my bird every morning. I will amuse Freddie, and not be cross to him once this year. I will sew on my buttons without being told. I will not let Agnes do my share of the work, jvfst because she is obliging. I will ahvays be pleasant to everybody Dora, mamma wants you Oh, dont come bothering me now, Aggie Mamma wants you to see to Freddie. Oh, denr! AVhy cantyou? Ive got to go down to the post of! fice. Oh! Why, have you finished the dishes 7 All done, said Agnes, with A little smile that had not a mite of superiority in It. But I meant to come and wipe them, said Dora, with a guilty flush. Never mind, said Agnes, "I knew you were busy. Dora followed her sister downstairs, thinking she would put the rooms in order and feed the canary before Agnes returned. But to her surprise, the parlor and sitting room were dusted, Dick was eating fresh seed with great relish, and It was ten oclock. How long a time she had spent over those resolutions ! After making Baby Fred happy with a big block house, Dora slipped upstairs and brought down her paper of New Tears Resolutions and quietly laid it on the parlor fire. Ill keep my eyes and ears open, as Agnes does, and try to be as pleasant as she Is. That will be better than writing out a thousand resolutions I Touths Companion. - m Old Old Year Adieu., Father Time, with visage grim, Marks finis on another year; His harvest he has gathered in; The swath was wide both far and near. pre-hi-tor- ic seconds. Built for Giant. Gardner, Mass., has in one of Its parks what Is believed to be the largest chair in the world, made for actual use. It Is 5 feet square at the base, and 12 feet in height. The seat is six feet from the ground, so that those who wish to sit in it have to literally climb up into the chair, like children. The chair weighs 1,200 pounds. It was presented to the city, and is an object of considerable attraction to strangers. The "Perfect Beauty." It Is a familiar axiom that there are no duplicates In nature. The physiologists claim that this is one of the causes for differences in the features of the same person that nature never models two eyes or ears in an exactly identical way. But there are persons in whom the difference is so small that It practically does not exist. And nearly always this Is a woman. Then we get what is called a "perfect beauty. Exchange. Shale and Sand Lands areValuable Oil-Beari- ng Extracting oil from sand and shale by the dis- filiation process is now practical and highly 1 profitable. The earnings possible are tremendous. One barrel to the ton of shale or sand is being produced at a profit of $5 to $10 net per ton. Have you any land with oil sand or shale? It is certain to prove exceedingly valuable. Wm. H. Child & Co., Brokers, are making a specialty of handling such lands. We are prepared to handle yours most advantageously. Write or call on us at once. -- Mayhap there is a vacant chair At home, but recently resigned A loved one gone above to wear The crown of bliss by angels twined. 1 The path to glory may not lead With roses strewn about the feet, But hope and strive by word and deed 8ome soul to cheer. The New Year greet! T. J. Dehey In Pittsburgh Dispatch. .: The first houses were caves. Early' man was a fighting animal, and had td contend against the huge and ferocious beasts that infested the plains and rivers, observes a writer. His dwelling naturally had to be a place of security as well as a habitation. Caves were natural and artificial, the latter being hollowed out of solid rock by rude flint Instruments. Most of them were formed in the sides of cliffs and among high, rugged hills. To those early ancestors of ours, the primeval men and women who secured, as one would think, but scanty shelter and protection from these stone caves and holes in the rock, we apply the generic term of cliff dwellers. They were entirely ignorant of agriculture, and subsisted by hunting and fishing and on the natural products they found growing in a wild state. What is very remarkable, at our very doors can still be seen the typical houses and handiwork of those tribes in the caves of the Lances river in southern Colorado. These, in most instances, are as well preserved as when their ancient occupants deserted them perhaps 10,000 years ago. When inhabited they were reached quite frequently by notches cut in the rock, and at other times rope ladders must have been used. one-thir- The aged sire, with trembling hands And hoary lock of. silvfery white, Perceives the passing of the sands, The sunsets glow, the clouds of night. t Ancestors of Present People Were Called Upon to Face Beasts That lnhabltedPlains and Rivers. hundred? They were contemporaries of Ranke, the German historian, who at the age of ninety-on- e proposed to write a history of the world in 12 volumes, one volume to be completed each year, and actually lived, I believe, to com- -Some Grievance! plete nearly half of it. These men had no dreads ; but they The railroad official invited the stern allowed their energies to work on, citizen to communicate his troubles, without any fear of exhausting their I "want you to give orders, demand ed the visitor, that the engineer of vitaUty. the express which passes through Eln Phosphorus Light. Grove at about 11:55 be restrained To make a night light with phospho- from blowing his whistle on Sunday rus, place a piece of phosphorus about mornings." the size of a pea In a long glass bottle. Impossible!" exploded the official, Fill the bottle about d full .of What prompts you to make such a olive oil, heated to the boiling point, ridiculous request? and cork tightly. When light Is needWell, you see, explained the citied, take out the cork and allow the zen, in an undertone, "our pastqy air to enter then recork the bottle. preaches until he hears the whistle The empty space in the bottle will be- blow, and that confounded express come luminous. When the light be- was 20 minutes late last Sunday. comes dim, uncork the bottle for a few Lamb. The strife of battle rages round The ranks of fighters in the van, But clashing arms and shouts resound Of victor and of conquered man. ' EARLY MAN FIGHTING ANIMAL iggpnwhi.u.ci'iiLD ico. BROKERS STOCK EXCHANGE jm NE WAS. 4154 2 |