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Show A Good Watch STATE HEWS a boy-mhim pr0WB. Start him right; keep him rrVA. ake, Tuesday, Juno 15, Is to bo American Legion day In Salt Lake. A branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom bus been organized at Park City. Itobort Flteholl, 121 years of age, ol Pork City, was fatally Injured in an . automobile accident in Woodshle him a dependable watch-can- vT youreelf. We sett 'em, and enable pricee ease the way. 0ur r BOYD JEWELERS cun-yon- BOYD PARK BLDG. 166 MAIN Ytrjxj John J. Thomas, brother of former Governor Arthur L. Thomas, died suddenly at ills ranch near Ukiali, Cal., on III May 28. The Utah State as- Sportsmen's sociations sixth annual trapshooting tournament was held at last Saturday and Monday. of the Third judicial disdecided to take an active part in the nomination of judges on both tickets for the. district bench tills year. One hundred and forty delegates to , the Utah Kpworth League institute were. In Salt Lake last week to attend the three days session of the society; Confessing to have stolen several automobiles for the purpose of joyriding, William Cramer, aged 18, oi Suit Lake, was sentenced to serve 45 days in jail. Scabies was found to prevail with considerable frequency among sheep nt Snowville and the Curlew sinks according to the secretary of the state livestock board. A factory designed to manufacture butter, cheese and condensed milk products will be built in American Fork by the Mutual Creamery company at a cost of $150, (XX). The state bacteriologist has advised the health department that the dog killed upon the streets of Ogden after biting Eisaku Miyagishima, was affected with the rabies. r The committees of the association and the Commercial club at Ivaysville have made a splendid start toward establishing a civic center and playgrounds. There are 4200 automobiles in Weber county, including Ogden city, according to Die report of the county assessor.. The report shows an in-- . crease of 700 cars over 1919. ' Several Salt Lake citizens have been subpoenaed to serve as witnesses in the trial of Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight champion pugilist, which will be held at San Francisco June 7. TJoma OBrien Nagasawa, a Japanese resident 'of Garland, was arrested for having1 in his possession a quantity of white mule, a liquid decoction having a large percentage of alcohol. A tile drainage project is expected to reclaim a tract of 7250 acres of land five miles west of Salt Lake. The tract has an excessive amount of salt, which must be removed before crops can be grown. J. F. Lohman, convicted of forgery in the district court at Brigham City, on his plea of guilty, has been taken to the state prison to begin serving an indeterminate sentence of from one to twenty years. Diving into the swimming pool at Warm Springs at Salt Lake, Beren'd Jans, 19 years of age, of Ogden, was drowned. It is believed he was stricken with an attack. of heart disease and drowned while unconscious. Word comes from Vernal that the headgates in the big highline canal, which obtains its water from the Ashley river, had been swept out by a flood. The loss to the canal proper, it was said, would approximate $2500. Daggett, Utah's newest and smallest county, reports an increase in assessed valuation of about 6 per cent this year, as compared with the final valuation of 1919. The total is $764,-77as compared with $719,000 last year. Wilkie lierera, while trying to make powder out of old shells, threw some smokeless powder Into a fire at his home vat Salt Lake, and was painfully burned about the face and hands In the explosion which followed. Steve Maslich and Nick Obozalo, convicted at Salt Lake of the murder of Marko Laus, each made desperate efforts to establish his own innocence and fasten the crime upon the other in statements as to why sentence of death should not be passed. Donald C. Hathaway, 33 years of age, patrolman on the Salt Lake police department from March 13, 1913, to February 7, 1914, was shot and killed May 24 in Los Angeles in a pistol duel with Arthur Collins, a bandit, it has Just been learned. Damages in the sum ' of $50,000 against John M. Richie, county commissioner of Wasatch county, and Henry T. Coleman, road supervisor,! are asked by Johanne C. J. Anderson in a suit filed following condemnation of land owned by her for road registered Salt Lake Lawyers trict have Parent-Teache- . - ( , 8, Twelve-year-ol- d . , By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. My is a lady nicotine person- interesting As Is frequently the case with ladies with a past, she Is more interesting than those who have only a future. Her present certainly is a going concern. And her future has added fascination of sufficient considerable speculainduce mystery to age. JEWISH outrages In Kentucky. Urban VIII and Innocent XI fulminated against her. Sultan Amuret IV decreed death by torture to her devotees. James I of EngZIZ2ZR , land issued his Counterblaste to Tobacco," in which he denounced her as a creature of the pit that is bottomless. along the path of the centuries had Lucy Page Gaston of almost lost the cigarette, found it susis of America fame League again in England, and so it came back pected of a desire to shy her bonnet to us. into the presidential ring. Low on the For a time most cigarettes were horizon, no bigger than a womans made from the Turkish leaf. Then it tohand, is a cloud which rumbles was discovered that the bright Amerbacco next!" whose smoke they inhaled and puffed Possibly some of My Lady Nicotines out of their mcurijxs and noses. Later ican tobacco, now grown in Virginia, the Caroljnas and eastern Tennessee, famous devotees have gloved her for veretrThat the leaves of a made an agreeable cigarette. Eventhe enemies she has made. Anyway, they disco were rolled in the leaf of maize. plant tually cigarette making machinery was Spenser wrote of her as divine. By The first clear account of smoking invented, and today American cigaron said sublime. Lamb declared his was given In 1526 by Gonzalo Hernan- rettes, both straight and blended," affection thus : dez de Oviedo in his Historia General are smoked all over the world For thy sake, tobacco, I de las Indias. He said the practice In 1868 not enough cigarettes were Would do anything but die. was pernicious and used 'to produce consumed In the United States to be Bulwer-Lyttowrote this : The man Insensibility. He reported that in to the internal revenue tax. who smokes thinks like a sage and acts Cuba and most of the islands the na- subjected In recent years the increase has been J like a Samaritan. Kipling profoundly tives smoked rolls of herbs, which by billions. From 1S99 to 1914 it was reflects that a wojnan is only a wom- they called tobaccos, while on the 500 per cent. In the past two years an, but a good cigar is a smoke. mainland they inhaled through the the demand has advanced prodigiously, Mark Twain suspects that the man who forks of a hollow cane which becaiffce of the war. doesnt smoke loses an appalling ag- they inserted in both nostrils. This probably largely Iu 1910, for the first time, the man gregate of happiness. instrument the natives called tobago. This sort of worshiper clings to the The Spaniards thought the name was ufacture of cigarettes exceeded that of cigars, their relative numbers heresy that this is a pretty good old of the fuel instead of the pipe, 8.500.000.- 000 and 8,000,000,000. being Since world after all. He isnt worrying hence our word tobacco. Oviedo pointabout spirit manifestations and is not ed out the mistake, but tobacco had then, while cigarettes have multiplied,' concerned over the doctrine of the sub- worked itself into the white mans lan- cigars have just about stood still. In liminal soul. He suspects Lucy Page guage, and there it stayed. The herb the year ended June 30, 1919, the numGaston of being a spiritual descendant itself was variously known among the ber of cigarettes was 46,500,000,000, and of cigars approximately 8,000,000,-00of the Puritans who condemned natives. It was cohtba to the Carlbs, as In 1910. For the first time more not so much because it gave petun to the Brazilians, piecelt to tobacco went into cigarettes than leaf pain t'p the bear as because it gave the Mexicans and uppowoc to the into cigars, the two numbers being the spectators. Indians of Virginia. pleasure to 177.000.- 000 pounds and 162,000,000 ' When doctors disagree who shall Nicotine, the active chemical prin- pounds. decide? The doctors are as divided ciple of tobacco, is an intensely poisonThe derived from the in in their opinion, of My Lady Nicotine ous alkaloid, named from Nicot, who ternal government revenue tax on tobacco $206,003, as are the literUifw lights. Some' see introduced tobacco into France as a an increase of $49,814,431 over the in her a veritable pfague to humanity. medicinal plant. Hence, finally, My 091, preceding year. More than $95,500,000 Others maintain that siS is rather a Lady Nicotine. of the tobacco money came from cigabenefactor. Of course mot physicians . Not essentially new are any of the rettes. Recently the tobacco tax has hold that smoking is bad Xor yunS modern forms of tobacco using. The been heavily increased and growing specimens of thW human leaves wrapped about with corn husk we used 497,079,920 Altogether species. And probably most otf them roughly correspond to our civilized of tobacco last year. We got pounds are not prepared to advise that cigarette ; the leaves rolled without with 174,697,408 pounds of. plug, should smoke. And there are certlnly wrapping of another material to our away 17,499,465 pounds of twist, 9,809,225 some men who cannot smoke wltmfut cigar. Tobacco was powdered into pounds of finecut, 257,893.440 pounds 111 effects just as there are men w. snuff and taken into the nostrils, as of smoking tobacco arid 37,180,382 cannot eat strawberries ox; drink coffe now. Tobacco was also chewed by vapounds of snuff. without harm. A cold bath In the rious Indian peoples. The pipe was in The value of the tobncco crop to the morning is meat and drink to some Almost universal use ; among the Amer-- farmer was estimated last year at men ; It would put others under the Indians the stone pipe, calumet, $542,547,000. The average price he got sod In short order. Probably the maa necessary Implement In many for it was 39 cents a pound. He gets jority of medical men are monlal functions, more now. of the opinion that it has bacco arrived In Europe appar-byet to be More than $1,500,000,000 a year Is Td proved that smoking in moderation several different routes and the value of tobacco products manufac entljl hurts any normal man. undeil several different disguises. Prob tured in the United States. More than At one extreme of human Walter Raleigh deserves the a million and a half acres of land are judgment ably Is that of the man who wrote r blame of Introducing the devoted to the growing of the weed. a credlt-- l that nation which smokes tobacco g of It. Up to his time tobacco On he manufacturing side the governAt the other Is that of the perishes smoklil man who had mouflaged as a medicine, the ment estimate of the capital Invested predicted In 1918 that America would few sml pkers professing to be smoking in 1914 was $303,830,000, which was a win the war because it was heavthe thel' health. The Englishman his low figure even then and is greatly for iest smoker of all the nations. shown blew the exceeded now. The number of Hvage pipe Isi om his herewith My Lady Nicotine needs no nose defiantly and said earners In manufacture In that press smoke year fij agent and has no trouble about break-nwas 178.872, and their annual earnings he smokj ed because he liked it, Into print. Some enthusiastic The a litis cjsseventeenth century $77,856,000. of Nicotanla" have V. Piurtw jMoham h. ') It Is variously figured that 70 per had a libraries about her. There alike cent of our adult male population and is medan Arents, Jr., of New a third of our total population use toattend is the proud possessor bacco In one form or another. The baccd A than 2.500 books, booklets a5 consumption, counting each man, In Engn ph,et, devoted wholly woman and child, is seven pounds a tobaccf year. The average consumption among a favq the tobacco users Is twenty pounds. The There are, according to one of the ComImportant pilers of data, 25,000,000 smokers and lish The commonly accepted version of the tlon chewers whose average capacity is 22 story is that two sailors sent pounds per person, 8,000,000 cigarette by Ians, exPlre the island which he their smokers each lighting 4,500 cigarettes ov San Salvador returned a year and 5,500,000 cigar smokers with a this We of natives who carried Vswhere each destroying 1,500 cigars. firebrands officers te n tht 0, bear-baitin- g . - n te g rs Ynri-wh- IN AFRICA Are Known to Have Had Dspots for Commerce There in the Fif. teenth Century. tion. My Lady Nicotines influence is not always soothing. Like all great personages she has made enemies. Men began to fight ove. her a long, long while ago, and only the other day the newspapers told of the first of a possible recurrence of the night raiders Anti-Cigaret- TRADERS o per-capi-ta Jews of the fifteenth century had trading posts in northwest Africa and carried on a vast commerce with the natives from the Sahara to the Atlantic, and from Algeria to the Niger, according to letters recently discovered by Charles de la Ronclere, librarian of the national library in France, and published by the National Geographic society. Hitherto Africa has not figured at all in medieval history. It was called the Dark continent" when Stanley and Livingstone penetrated It about a century ago. The letters recently discovered were written in 1447 by Antonia Malfante, a Genoese citizen, believed to be the only Christian the Jews allowed t penetrate their trade were written from region. Timbuktu They and Touat. Timbuktu was the Chicago of the West African plains, and Touat the center of camel caravan traffic that exchanged the wheat and barley of Egypt for the powdered gold of Timbuktu and the precious salt from Teghazza. Touat was an oasis con taining from 150 to '200 villages, and each village hp a cnie The civilization of that date was advanced enough for the residents to take a census of their populations. This was done when the people of Timbuktu and a rival city, Gao, were numbered to decide a wager. Business was done on a large scale. - ANCIENT CITY I? CHAN-CHA- N Today Nothing but a Mass of RiM but Was Flourishing Before Pi zarro Ravished Peru. Chan-Cha- n Is not, as the name It would indicate, a place in China. or Is one of the oldest cities in Peru, In the world. The Cliimus, who built Chan-Chaare supposed to have an elderly race when the Incas were the Iyet barbarians. After a time at ncas became civilized and powerful n, Then Pizarr the cV wreck came to plunder and and massacre the Inhabitants. Is much of the Chlmus history a Chan-of ducted from the remains and old Spanish narratives. 0 The people who Inhabited the worshiper metropolis were . moon The moon, they said, was the s It worthy deity of nature, for the e in also $ot only at night but n whereas the sun could shine stippos was day only. The sea 0 be under the special protection con moon, because the latter the tides. Images of fish an 0 sea 'creatures and temples captured Clian-Cha- n. . n moon and sea were therefore the Chlmus and many have dpc covered in the ruins of their pj. has since the time , zarro been a heap of wreckage-are palaces, workshops, fct great battered pyramids bu' terraces and surmounted by These are the mounds in '' Chlmu dead once lay. Like w ' tlans, these people buried P dead many articles of their these , property. From one of $ a Spanish adventurer obtain p sme 000.000 worth of gold and yie e nffl8cl many years fabulous Spanish conquerors gold. Chan-Cha- n - Chan-Cha- n Healthy Place to Live. The air of Lower California and pure and the atmosphere, on the western coast. Is ,narve clear. The narrowness of the FV a sula, giving to the atmosphere an of the bracing air of the sea, dryness of the land combine k the air an Intense purity. . probably no more healthful In the world than that of Lo fornla. |