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Show THE PAYSONIAN. $ir WASTED Traveler Found His Glass Eye a Meal Ticket. Mountain Mexicans Could Only Reason That Possession of Crystal De- noted a Holy Man. I was sitting In the pretty little plaza at Oaxaca, Mexico, enjoying the refreshing breeze that blew In from the plains of Mltla and listening to the music of the military band. My nearest companion on the long bench wus an old mining man by the name of Foster Scurlock.' He had tramped the bure, brown hills of Mexico from gulf to ocean and In the course of his wanderings he had seen much of the rougher side of life. As we sat near a bright electric light I could see the gleam reflected in his right eye which was of glass. Were you ever over along the Pacific?" he asked of me. I answered that I had been down at Manzanillo, near Colima. I mean further up the coast, above San Bias, up through Sinaloa and In most Sonora. Its parts of the state of Colima, but take it further up and pretty well inluud und you can Just about ride for days without seeing a living soul. I was through there three years ago, on the lookout for something te turn up. Nothing but long strips of sand and endless ridges of mountains, with here and there a little mesqultc brush thrown In for decoration. Im not much for luxuries, but I can stand a good tree to rest under at noon and a cool, fresh spring to water from. The natives were as wild as deer. Whenever I would come to one of their villages, nine-tentof them would hide in the bushes or scoot off like rabbits to the mountains. Ive stayed all night in one of their rickety huts without seeing or hearing one of them. In such a state of affairs It was a serious matter to get anything to . eat. One day In August I remember especially. I came In sight of a little adobe hut with a clump of scrubby trees around it, after riding all day with nothing to eat or drink. I woke up my pony with a dig in the ribs and in less than five minutes I swung out of the saddle and In at the front door. My sudden appearance scared the woman of the house, for she dropped therolling pin with which she was preparing some com for tortillas and ran back to the other door. Then she turned and stared evilly at me. I certainly didnt want to pick a fuss with her I was too hungry so, hat in hnnd, I asked her politely If she would sell me something to eat. At first she pretended that she didnt understand me, then after she wouldnt talk, I sat around so long that to git rid of me she finally grunted a little. Then I up and asked her again for something to eat She swore up and down that she didnt have a t'hlng in the house. I turned and walked toward the door as if to leave, she following at my heels. Suddenly I turned and, grabbing my right eye this glass one I crammed It into her hand, yelling like mad, Keep that tlU I get something to eatl Well, sir, she dropped plumb down on her knees as if she had been shot, and then, carefully laying my eye on the floor she crossed herself repeatedly, saying in a penitent voice Santo miol Santo moll (My Saint! My Saint!) I knew then that her saint would be fed. A few minutes later a couple of gamelike roosters had been killed and picked and were well on their way to the kettle. This supper was a grand success. The Mexican woman and her children stood with saucer eyes and watched the holy one eat. The guest of honor did not need to be urged to help himself, nor did he have any complaints to register. After the meal was over the remains of the repast were carefully packed In my yawning saddle bags and a live rooster tied on behind for good measure. If you ever travel in those parts, my friend, looking for cement deposits containing coarse gold, be sure to take plenty of food and a good, reliable glass eye." He rose and shook himself like a Adios, bear, then with a hearty senor he ambled away across the pJaza. George F. Paul In the New York Evening Post half-civiliz- His Little Pile. Mr. Rust, the owner of the sawmill bad his eye on every stick of timber in the country, and the owner of every poor little clump and grove had his eye on Mr. Rust and the rising prices of lumber. Bill Moore cut his thin squad of pines, trimmed the logs, and piled I hem In his front lot by the road. Then he waited for the time when he should accidentally be visible on the place and Mr. Rust should drive by. The encounter took place In due time. Mr. Rust rattled past In his car, took a sidelong look at the pile of logs, and called, Say, Bill, dont you know it aint polite to throw your toothpicks round the front yard? Pittsburgh Dispatch. Prompt Discouragement. Any crime wave In Crimson Gulch? Not that you could notice, replied Tlints the advantage Cactus Joe. of bein a tough settlement. Anybody who comes around tryia to be a lawbreaker is 1. : . to lie made to feel like an am. tie before he gets hulf-wa- y Utb .I" PATST JANUARY 27, 1922. UTATT, con fAN.OUS STORIES OF VEMI2ELCS Somewhat Rough on the Cat, but Five Dollars Is Something Theso Hard Times. Two Legends Told, One of Them Narrated by the Great Greek Statesman Himself. Most of the King Pins of Crookedness Are Dead, and Others Living in Poverty. Expert testimony may be valuable from a scientific point of view, but there arc often cheaper ways of establishing a certainty, as the following shows. An Irish laborer entered a drug store, and drawing a paper bug from his pocket, poured on the counter a number of very sticky and unattsac-tlv- e looking pieces of candy. Can you examine this candy? he asked. It looks queer. Wlmts the mutter with It? asked the druggist. Plzen, Olm tlduklu. Did ye iver see such stuff? Dinnls McGuire give thlm to me by, an Diunis is no fnud of rnoine. Well, I can make an anulysis. All right. Olll come in tomorrow on me way from worrk. The Irishman had reached the door but he suddenly stopped with his hand on the latch. And how much will that analysis cost me? he Inquired. Five dollars, was the answer. The man walked over to the counter and swept the candy Into the bag, which he replaced In Ills pocket. Niver molnd," he said. Olll feed wan to the eat. Philadelphia Ledger. There ate many legends surroundAccording the birth of Venizelos. ing to one, his mother went to the Monastery of the irgin ncur Cuuca to pray for a son, promising the child should be born in a cuttle shed alter New Testament tradition. Another tells the same story with fids addiWhen the abbot christened tion: Venizelos lie uttered, follow ing the mothers wish, these prophetic words: I baptize thee Uleutheiios, for thou shalt deliver our island from tlie tyranny of the Tuiks. In the Life of Venizelos, by S. B. Chester, still another story is told, bused on incidents nurruted by the Greek statesman himself at a dinner party in London, llis parents, having already lost three children, decided to follow the local custom und adopt lilm us a foundling. There was a superstition that the child would survive only if treated in this fashion. Eleutherios was duly ' taken away from Ids mother and deposited on a heap of dry leaves outside the house, lassing by soon afterward, some friends, who, of course, played their role in the secret, discovered" the child, brought him to his parents und urged that they udopt him us a foundling. They did, and Eleutheiios survived and Hungry Joe was a fipnous confidence man 25 years ago. I saw hiui in Broadway the otaer afternoon, broken and bent, but with the same sinew d look in ids cold, steely eyes, lie Is now engaged at selling barbers' . tools. Lo iking at Joe's white hairs, it was laud lo iculize that he was the same poison who, with the notorious Tom u'Brien, stole u $1,000 bill from Oscar Wilde, who, in America ou a visit, was at the zeiiiili of his fame as a w riier. In the old days "Hungry Joe was known fur ids singing voice, Ills rendition of the ballad, Sally in Our Alley, being un Impromptu afternoon treat of (lie Umpire garden. , Bed Austin, who came from a western city, the son uf a shoemaker, was one who trained with Hungry Joe. lie used to act the part of the d.vlng engineer or the sick Indian, who would tell where the mine" was loomed. Ihcn the victim would put up the money supposedly needed to develop tlie property. He 1ms passed on; likewise have Doc Truman, the imposing looking card sharp, who in appeuutnoe resembled a famous of that time mimed De Los McCurdy; Larry O'B.ileu, known us tlie mint who broke the bank of Monte Carlo and who was tlie inspiration for the popular song, As lie Walks Along the Bois vie Bologue With an Air," and Spanish Iete, Baimolee Jones, Bill Hawley, Frank Ta rhea u and others famous on both sides of tlie Atlantic. The Gilsey house, in Broadway, Avas tlie center of high grade crook activity from Bill Tracey's place across Broadway or Buck Taylor's place close at hand. Only a few days ago there died at one of the ieiGing hotels in New Yoik a man who was known as tlie best ready-up-gu- y in the profesHe was a swell dresser and sion. came from Canada. His scheme was to appioueh a mar of known means and say, I am go'ug to play a horse A few hours lti'er he would for you. appear and toss $100 or $500 in (lie mans hands, remarking, Your winThat would establish the nings. friendly relationship, after vlilch lie would trim tlie victim for thousands. He was given a fine funeral and not n a who attended it knew his astounding past history. From a New Yo'k Letter in tlie Philadelphia Public Ledger.' BIRTH TWAIN g pro'-pere- WILD LEMONS IN PROFUSION LAW HAD According to Traveler, They Are a Generous Gift of Nature to Island of Norfolk. BI3LICAL SANCTION hide-Iieodc- West Virginia Mayor Couldnt See Where Autoist Had Any Reason for Complaint. . Lemons grow wild all over the Island of Norfolk, a British possession in the South Pacific, according to Thomas J. MagaMcMahon, In the Trans-Pacifi- c zine. He writes that in every garden and paddock are clumps of trees ever bearing fruit in wonderful abundance, and of a variety full of rich juice and with a rind most suitable for lemon peel. Little factories, family concerns, are dotted all over the islands. They are usually roughly constructed wooden buildings divided Into three rooms. There, with rather primitive Instruments, the women cut and squeeze the lemons In huge frames, and the skins are soaked In brine preparatory to making lemon peel. During the lemon season, which is most of the year, the boys and girls are engaged dally In picking the fruit. While there are only 800 people on the island, it could comfortably and prosperously house 5,000 persons, according to Mr. McMahon. The island is five miles long, three miles broad and contains 8, GOO acres. Law founded on the Bible Is good enough for Mayor Gilmore of Morgantown, W. Vu. A local man eluuged with not having the tail light burning on his automobile was arraigned before the mayor, who assessed a fine of 53. The accused protested, said that it was a poor law under which he was fined und that lie did not think it would hold water in court." The mayor declared any law founded on the Bible was good enough for him. The defendant said he couldnt see where a tail light liad anything The mayor to do with the Bible. looked pityingly at the accused und said; Do you remember the tale about five of whom bad lights and five of whom didnt? Well, if you do, you will remember thut the Lord wouldnt have anything to do with the five without lights, and Louisville neither will this court. the ten virgins, Courier-Journa- l. Miniature Libraries. of Insects. A curious idea in book making Is Experts of the United States De- offered by a firm of F relic'll publishers. partment of Agriculture have Just been Their plan consists of substituting for carrying out some tests to discover the the large pages of the average books speed-rate- s of different species of flies. of microphotogrnphic reproductions In a district of northern Texas 234,-00- them to be read through a magnifying flies of various species were were dusted with finely glass.Is caught, It proposed that the size of the powdered red chalk, and were then plates representing pages should be Inbaited with food liberated. ternationally standardized, so that any especially relished by flics, were placed one possessing the magnifying apparaat measured distances from the point tus would be able to read any book of release. It was found that most produced In this way. No technical files would travel distances up to difficulties are said to lie in the way. The 1,000 feet in a few minutes. It Is claimed that the cost of prohouse-flcovered over six miles in less duction would lie enormously reduced. than 24 hours. The maximum dis- Also it would greatly reduce the work tance traveled by it in these exjieri-ment- s of libraries now cumbered by books was 13.14 miles. of every shape and size. The plates Whether it made this stopping place would be, moreover, of a f Its permanent home or returned to- and durable material, while the system is not recorded ward the starting-poin- t admits of an edition being enlarged to In the accounts that have npienrcd. any dimension desired in accordance with demund. The Insecurity of Office. A public career has its compensaMaking Library Helpful. tions. Presuming that a public library is "What are they? asked Senator so well conducted that its custodians Snortsw'orthy suspiciously. are able to direct applicants promptly Well, you enjoy a certain honorable to the volume asked for, the next distinction, you are much in the pub- step for nu ideal Institution would Le lic eye and your fellow citizens pay to advertise the treasures which It It you the respect due a statesman. holds in trust for all citizens. Maybe so, but Im never the center would appear that the Newark (N. J.) of an admiring crowd of my constitulibrary inis reached the second singe, ents that I dont wonder which one of for it has been distributing circulars them cherishes a secret amblilon to how the ambitious woiker may telling stand in my shoes and is figuring out educate himself by reading, and how a little combination that msy In a the can help Mm to find ju-- t few years have me back in the home the library to read. Taking a things right town practicing law. Birmingham cue from the methods of writers of the advertisements, in circular the entitled largo library Poisoned by Matches. Christian type: Get Wise Quick. Cases of poisoning from safety Science Monitor. matches seem to be common In Denmark. Dr. C. Rasch reports to the Proud South American Cities. Ugeskrift for Lueger (Copenhagen) Caracas claims the title of The If own In on thirteen recent cases his' and so they of the New World Paris practice. The trouble took the form of called the Venezuelan capital in the a severe Inflammation of the skin on past we ought to remember fingers, neck and face, with badly century that Colombias, capital, was Bogota, swollen eyelids. In men it appears beSixteenth in the century famed early in which the matches low the pocket America. South of The Athens as are carried ; in women on the fingers founded in 153S, was a cenThis city, their with which they light cignrettes. before Harvard uniDr. Rasch ascribes it to the use of ter of culture, been had thought of. Cartaphosphorus sesquisulphide when amor- versityColombia, is fondly known as gena phous phosphorus was not to be had. The Heroig City, or The Cradle of New York South American Liberty. Take Views From Airplane. Post. Evening For the first time an American archaeologist has used aerial photogEngine Wrongly Blamed. views of raphy to obtain bird's-ey- e A very nervous man bought a moe the oldest topographical features of America, the Indian tor car and a friend asked him to give mounds. Daid I. Bushnell, Jr., is him a lift. They found themselves in ded street. using such photographs of the mounds a crow The friend said : "Jim, your engine near East St. Louis to illustrate a report ef the bureau of ethnology of Is knocking badly." Dont ho a fool," was the reply. the Smithsonian institution at WashThats my knee. ington. Finding MEN Ukn Ottws auto. PASSING SAME RESULT, AND CHEAPER Speed-Rats- s 0 Fly-trap- y fire-proo- Age-Heral- g man-mad- Giraffe Disappearing. The giraffe seems to be disappearing from Its natural haunts In Africa. A few years ago it was quite common to encounter them In herds of 80 or 100, but now herda at 20 seem to bo the average Just Ahead. trie developments totaling 13,500,000 horse power, and a doubling of the present ratings of as centrnl station plants, are reard four next the within v.,irs probable by some American autlioi ,tles Looking Hydro-ele- i lialf-doze- Women Police a Success. Tlie work of women police Is no longer an experiment, Lord Astor asserted at the conference called by the Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, writes a London correspondent of tl'.e Now York World, .but Is a proved success. Tlie lwme office committee was unanimous in Its report as to tlie value of women police and tlie need for them. lie was replying to Dame Helen (Iwjnne Vaughan, who urged the importance of making women police a success, adding that tlie first thing to do Is to create public sentiment in their favor. D. M. Cowan, member of parliament for Scottish univer-itsaid that only harm could result from the appointment of any but (lie very best class of women to this service. He raised a point, which was much discussed later, when he said that women selected should bejiiehly educated women with many qualities of sympathy and This idea was emunderstanding. bodied in tlie second resolution, which slated that it was of the utmost importance tliat women of ability, experience and education should be encouraged to enter tlie police service, and after some discussion it was decided to delete the .words "und education. Tlie general feeling seemed to be that some eminently suitable women might not come up to a high educational standard. y, Drydocking Ships by Telephone. An ocean liner must lie held precisely over tlie center line of tlie dry dock until tlie supporting blocks are put in place under tlie keel. Guiding the ship into position is the duty of ihe do km,aster, who stands at one end with a sighting vane which he alines on tlie ship's musts. With large ships and modem doeks, however, lie is too far away from the men who carry out ids orders to reach them by shouting, even through a megaphone. A portable telephone is used by which the dockmaster communicates witli tlie power house operating the dock pumps, and from that point his instructions are relayed to the proper gangs, who may lie eight hundred feet or more away from the dockmaster. Bopular Science Monthly. Nothing in It. Cortland! Bieecker, at a Newport garden party, nodded rnllier derisively towards a young girl in a crinoline frock trimmed witli white monkey fur. Yet the frock was very quaint with its tight-fittin- g bodice mid billowing, exaggerated hips. 1 dont like (ills irinoline fashion," said Mr. Bieecker. I think its charming, said a young matron. Why don't you like it? he answered, its a holBecause, low mockery." Alcohol ar.d the Arts. Don't you get tired of using custard pie in your comedies? Yes, replied tlie eminent film star. 1 should much prefer mince, but where ere you going to get the ingredient?" OF FOND BILLIARDS Biographer Has Told How Great Humorist Would Wear Out Hia Companions at the Game. November 80 is Mark Twains birthday. The beloved humorist would on that day in have been eighty-si1921, If lie had lived. Ills biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, In writing of Mark Twain's passion for playing billiards, a hobby which endured to the last, comments upon his great physical endurance and perpetual youth. I was comparatively a young man, and by no means an Invalid, Mr. Balne writes, "but many a time far In the night, when I was ready to drop with exhaustion, he was still as fresh and buoyant and eager for the game as at the moment of beginning. He smoked and smoked continually, and followed the endless track around the billiard table with the light step of youth. At three or four o'clock In the morning he would urge just one more game, and would taunt me for my weariness. I can truthfully testify that never until the last year of lil.s life did he willingly lay down the billiard cue, or show the least suggestion of fatigue. He played always at high pressure. Now and then, hi periods of adversity, he would fly into a perfect passion with tilings in general. But, in tlie end, It was a sham battle, and we went on playing as If nothing had happened, only he was very gentle and sweet, like, the sun on the meadows after the storm had passed by." x WIHY EVEN IN DREAMLAND , Don't you think,' Mary, too old to play with the are that you Mother boyal Mary No, mother; the older, the belter 1 like them, Wit Y lit AX I got BACK? LAMM ' 'Hint morning lameness limnu blimp pains wnuu Pending -or lining, uiano A oik. a Ouuluu and- reel rmpubsiOiC. Don't bo handicapped by a uuU buea look to your Mdueje. tou wri make no mistake by ioiioaing tins resident's example. . A Bay sou your neighbor. Mrs. Harold Tanner, Second iaid, lor many years x Buy sou, says; nnd attacks of krduey UOuuiu. Vtiicn these spoils conn) ou, I suUeiod wna dread! ui lameness through the small of my back and my back- - would bo stiff and soie, too. My luducys annoyed me in different ways and X was sometimes dizzy and loit ured. 1 used many remedies tor this Double out Doans ixiduey Brils, wiuen 1 bought at the fechrumm-JohnsoDrug oompuny. did me more good liiuu Doan's have never anything else. failed to quickly cure me of an at- tack." Brice 60e, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Brils We same tnat Mrs. Tanner had. iostei Milburu Co., Mira, Buffalo, N. . . DELINQUENT .. NOTICE. PAYSON COPPER MINING CO. At a meeting of the board of directors of the iayson Copper Mining company on the third day of Decern, ber, 1921: an assessment of two dol-lnper thousaud, on all outstanding stock, was levied. Notice is hereby given, that unless said assessment js paid ou or before the first day of February 1922, enough stock will be offered for sale on that date at public auction, to the highest biidor, to pay the assessment and cost of advor; tmng. Balo will be held at 2 oclock i.M. at the Modern Pharmacy, is Rev. Washington Gladden Was Able to Recall Humorous Response He Made During Sleep. Muny of us have dreamed of writa poetn, delivering a speech or making a witty remark, that seemed at the tune wonderfully brilliant, but that, recalled on waking, proved to lie either commonplace or wholly meaningless. Thut is not always the case, however, as a story once told by the Rev. Washington Gladden proves. He dreamed that tlie old house that formerly stood near Ids church was still there, nnd that old Mr. Deshler, who had been deud many years, still lived in it. Doctor Gladden also knew Hint his old dog, George, who never failed to bark at tlie minister when lie passed the house, still lived. In tlie dream Doctor Gladden was pussing tlie house when the door opened and tlie BET BULL, Secretary. old gentleman came out, followed by George, who, as usual, rushed barking up to Doctor Gladden. PROBATE AND GUARDIANSHIP said the old "Now, now, George, NOTICES man, you ought not to do that. You Consult County Clerk or respective know thats a friend of ours; that's signers for further information. Doctor Gladden. "Oh I I have met George before, In the District Court of the Fourth responded Doctor Gladden In his Judicial District of the State of Utah, In fact George and I huve dream. in and for Utah County. g acfor some time lmd a PROBATE DIVISION. Milwaukee Sentinel. quaintance. In the matter of the estate of JOHN R. BUTLER, Deceased. Farms Supply Wild Life Loss. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. V According to figures supplied by will present claims with Creditors the Dominion bureau of statistics, the undersigned at Pay-sovouchers to losses to the fur Industry of Canada on or before the 16th day Utah, caused by the spread of civilization In the North are more than made up of March, A. D. 1682. ELLEN M. BUTLER, Administratrix. by rapid development of the fur farmFirst Publication January 13, 1822. ing Industry. In 1920 there were 587 fur farms Last Publication February 10, 1922. In Canada, 578 of them foxes, six In the District Court of the Fourth mink, two raccoon and one karakule sheep. The animals on tltese furnis Judicial District of the State of Utah, hre valued at a little less tlinn in and for Utah County. PROBATE DIVISION. silver foxes leading. The Industry commenced on Irlnce In the matter of the estate of Edward Island und has worked west CLARISSA J. TANNER, Deceased. Into British Columblu. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. By provinces tlie fnrnis are distributed as follows: Creditors will present claims with Prince Edward Island, 309; Nova vouchers to the undersigned at Pay-soScotia, 55; New Brunswick, 57; QueUtah, on or before the 15th day bec, 80; Ontario,' 42; Manitoba and of March, A. D. 1022. Saskatchewan, 4; Alberta, 15; Brit- EZRA L. TANNER, Administrator. ish Columbia, 11 nnd Yukon Terri- First Publication January 13, 1922. tory, 14. I.ast Publication February 10, 1922. ing n, n lBIBIIIIIIIUSBBIEi!3S39!B3ZRZ13333333S!lSZ!3BR3XlflDlSBI8 s s 5 S S 5 S 5 M 5 5 a m m Important to Strawberry Water Users. All Strawberry water users who are desirous of having a voice in taking over the Strawberry project, handling the grazing lands and pow- er plant and in levying assessments for the operation and maintenance of the upper end of the project should step into the office at an early date and sign the articles of incorporation and execute the dee$l of trust. LEE R. TAYLOR, Pres. Strawberry Water Users' Ass'n UBHIMMIIIIZaaK;BlliUKKSHKKaBXEK8BMIMk2r,kk g 5 f L j |