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Show TIIE lAYSONIAX. PAYSOX. FIRST LOVE STILL is as yet no positive proof of tills. Benurd also obtained a number of LINGERS John Burroughs Has Vivid Recollections of the Little Maid Who Won His Heart primitive scientifie instruments used by tiie northern tribes. These will he sold to various museums and universities for wliieh the explorer lias been colleet'iig ethnological specimens and data since l'.ilo. 11c also brought a collection of furs worth approximate- j John Burroughs' recollections of ills first sweetheart are as fresh ami rose tinted as the cheeks of the little lady ns she ran down the hill to fday with r her sirdent young admirer of tie. Unde Malm tells about her in ".h tin Yumni.dis, Boy and Man, the semi- autobiography which is written by his friend, Ir. Clara Barrus. I can see her now, as she came running down the hill from the scliool-lioiisthe cape of her little pink fluttering in the breeze, said Mr. Burroughs as he pointed out the course she took down the road to her home. I must linve been between five and six years old. I had gone over to neighbor Bart rams in the West settlement with father on a stonehoat drawn Father pmbahly went by the oxen. there to help him draw stones for a new piece of wait they used to ex- tli5u work in way. change I can hear her father's voice os he sent it over the hills to the school- house1 hp had a prodigious voice Eleanor, come home. And soon she came flying down the road to play with nte. We played by the barn on a little mound of hay. I remenilier we made a nest there I can see Iter now as she took a wisp of hay and pinched it together, making believe it was an egg, and that she was a lien I can see the sharp angles of the shining hay as she tried to shape it like an egg before she covered it in ttie nest. ly ?25,( j e, m I. Sir John Franklin, with 154 companions, sailed into the Arctic in 1S4.) to tmd the northwest passage, aud was never hptird of again. After many relief expedit ous tiad failed, his fate was ascertained in 185,), when bleached skeletons were found on the trail to Hudson bay. sun-himn- FATE RECALL OF FRANKLIN Intercst'ng Relics Recently Brought to Vancouver From the Land Where He Perished. j The Middle Initial. With the exception of William II. Taft, Senator Harding is the first President since Kulherford B. Ilaycs, to use mine limn one Christian name, tlrover Cleveland. William McKinley, Theodore Koosexelt and Woodrow Wilson (who dropped his first name Thomas, early in tiie career) got along without middle names or initials. The middle initial, incidentally, is almost exclusively an American characteristic. An Englishman may call himself Joint James Smith, but practically never John J. Smith. A Ereiicliman may lie baptised Auguste Charles Jesws Marie denrges Dupont, lint he will lie know n to t lit world as Oeorges Dupont, and probably will sign himself G. Dupont. The use of more1 than one given name is puzzling to a Frenchman. When Senator Lodge is mentioned in the French press, he is never M. Lodge. hut M. (allot Lodge, or as one prominent Paris daily writes it, 51. Cabot Lodge. Tiie President-Elec- t may look forward to lie known on the continent as President Gamaliel HardEditorial I 'igest. ing. Old Fort Still Useful. Less titan half a century ago almost every American community west i of tiie was protected Indian raids by a fort c stockagainst Most of these structures have ade. now fallen into dint, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. In southern Utah, is a stone however, structure, known us Cove Port, which was built in 1S07, at tin time of the Blaekhavvk-Mormowar, yet is today in a state of perfect preservation. It is now used, in fact, as a ranch house and hotel. Miss,-.sipp- After being in the possession of the thrifty natives of King Williams land of a century, a for three-quarter- s large number of interesting relics of tiie Sir John Franklin polar expedition have been brought from tiie frozen north by Joe Benard, who is here after a four years stay along the northernmost coast of the North American continent, says a Vancouver (B. C.) dispatch. Though priceless from a collectors point of view, the utilitarian value of the relics is negligible, and they were obtained by Benard for a piece of lumber worth possibly 20 cents on the coast. A few brass buttons among the relics are believed to have belonged to tiie distinguished lender, though there n Chinese City Up to Date. Trucks of the Shanghai (Chinn) fire department are soon to he equipped with wireless telephones. The improvement is expected to enable the department at nil times to keep in touch with its men while fighting fireo. DO MOST WORK ON THURSDAY Statistics Show That British Factory Employees Are at Their Best About Midweek. What is tiie best workday In America? In England it is Thursday. That Is the finding of industrial research hoard investigators of that country. Tiie lndon Chronicle reports that over a period of twenfy weeks was registered tiie and output graphs were made. The workers gave their best on Wednesdays and Thursdays, hut the output on Saturday was invariably low. When doubled (to equalize time) It is often less than 75 per cent of that on oilier days. Another important conclusion was that tin skilled workman is much more regular in his output than tiie worker not so well qualified. He does not get tiie tired Saturday feeling so soon. In some factories the output arises until Friday, but among the less skilled workmen it was found that Thursday wtis tiie best working (lay. An important consideration which the investigators kept in mind was that of the atmospheric condition In which work is done. Ilecords of the air conditions have been taken with the output records. In various plants tiie Saturday output was so low that employers found it unprofitable to operate, so they closed down. From this it would appear that on a half day the worker does not give the average of a half day of production. Richard Spillane in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. BOMBAY A CITY OF BEGGARS Government Is Planning Severe Measures to Repress Nuisance That Is Becoming Intolerable. Some time ago the government of Rombny appointed a committee to con- sider and formulate proposals for the purpose of suggesting practical measnuisures whereby the ance of professional beggary might he abolished. The committee lias now completed its investigation and lias Issued a report. The report shows that there are In Bombay city alone 5,000 professional beggars, and the beggars in other parts bring the total for the presidency to over 00,000. Tiie general conclusions of the committee are that there must he introduced at tiie earliest opportunity an act for the prevention of professional beggary, which will lie applicable to the whole of tiie presidency. Sadhus and fakirs, it is suggested, should tie exempt from tiie operations ever-growin- UTAH, MAY 6, 1921. proposed should cognizable offense. Thop who tun i v Kited India will doubtless recall with fivlines of horror the terrible sights they linve witnessed f them physical of ln'ars wrecks nod su'Terlng from loathsome diseases, -- ea'ed about tin- roads soliciting ahus f:.nm passershy. From the Times of India of Iho act which it make hegg'ng 1 CHESS COMES EASY TO HIM a Youthful Prodigy Declares There la Nothing Wonderful About Hia Mastership of Game. Chess is the easiest game In the world to nte. During the long dull days of the war my father used to play all the time with his friends. At first I did not understand what tiie chessmen were for, and wondered War ip3 for Enve'cpes. From tin Rod Cross Bulletin of the why father would sit for hours and gaze at tiie board with its Baltic states, published at Riga: "Tin shortage of paper lias resulted pieces. One day when I did not in many novel makeshifts. One of want to go out and play I watched these is (lie use of German and Rus- him play his game. I became intersian official war maps as material for ested. I bothered my father so with questions that he chased me out of the envelopes, Large quantities of war maps of the game as soon as lie was through Russian, the German Imperial army with his friend. I waited eagerly for and Rermont's western volunteer urmv him to get through. He played a were captured by the Letts since their practice game with me, and I underimlcpcmli m e in November, IBIS. They stood every move after that. The were sold to private interests, who next game we played, I beat my father, make many varieties of envelopes from who is a very good chess player. There is nothing wonderful about my them. The paper is of excel lent qualway of playing the gnnie. My secreity. No attempt was made to remove tary, Mr. Azenberg, says that It A baby the map proper. '1 lie maps were sim- conics from reincarnation. is horn with good bruins, and they exply folded ami cut to size and glued. It is very coiivcnicnl to open a letter plain it that way. They say that his and (ind that the inside of tiie envelope ancestors or some spirits have given is a map of tiie district of which (lie this power to him because so much ability in one person must linve taken letter treats." a long time to develop. When I play chess I can plan my moves six or sevHouses Few Less Divorce. Francs N finding one comfort In tiie en moves ahead, and most players Divorces are de- can only go three moves ahead of tiie housing shortage. creasing in Paris and other French game. 1 cant help it at all. I was cities because of tiie lack of houses horn that way. I like to play with poor players. At West Point, where and apartments. Unable u find suitable places In I bent 19 games and drew one, there were only nine good players; the othwhich to live apart, disgruntled couples in many places are composing ers lmd no business trying to play their differences and continuing to me at all. I have played lots of fine players in live tinder tiie same roof. During tiie first three months of this year, 8.005 chess. During the war I beut the decrees wen pronounced in Paris German governor at Warsaw, and he alone, but since April tin shortage of was an old man and a fine player. houses lias lneii making itself felt, Then I drew a game with Rubenstein, with tin result that tin number of the Russlun champion, and also drew divorce actions lias been falling stead- with Gridin in a blindfolded game In I have not played Lasker ily. Last month the number of plications fell below one thousand, and yet, but one of the 21 I beat in Paris this month it is believed tin number says he drew a game with Lasker, and will not reach tin seven hundred mark. another said he beat Capahlanca. In America, ray hardest game so far has It Is an ill w Ind, etc. been with Colonel Fiebeger, sixty-tw- o years old, at West Point. Samuel Prehistoric Graveyard Unearthed. A prehistoric gravevard believed to Rzeszewskl in Leslies. lie at least 2,000 years old lias been unearthed near Stargard West Prus- SEE SUICIDE NATIONAL PERIL sia, by German investigators under the direction of Professor Zakrowski. Influential Japanese Newspapera Exalt In one of tiie graves tiie excavators Christian Idea aarto the Sacredfound six black urns and one red urn ness of Life. with white stripes filled with clay and ashes. Among tiie remains were some Suicide, which has always been glittering substances which the invesprevalent in Japan, is, according to tigators believe once had been adorn- tiie Japanese press, even more rife ments of prehistoric men and women. than ever since the financial crisis in the Land of tiie Rising Sun. savs the - funny-lookin- ' g Literary Digest In u recent issue. The Osaka Malniehi, which sees peril to the nation in tiie prevalence of acknowledges tiie excellences of the Christian view that suicide, instead of being merely an apology for failure, is a crime. Many suicides In Japan are due to the fact that the Japanese have less attachment to life thun foreigners, ami also to the traditions of feudal times when they belittled life. The Osaka Malniehi says further: Death much more suicide means evasion of responsildlty . . . and tiie notion that those who commit suicide have tiie keenest sense of responsibility is wrong. Suicide is the embodiment of egoism and Irresponsibility. One of the strong polnls of th Christian people Is their conviction that to kill ones self Is as criminal as to kill others. Remarkable Photographic Feat. Conspicuous among a number of remo- markable scenes in a three-ree- l film recently taken jf an Ohio steel mill in operation, is one fliat actually shows the boiling of furmolten metal In an nace heated to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The photographic feat of successfully registering tlds action In detail on tiie film is particularly inter- - j esting, because the subject Is one that a human eye can not gaze upon tin- - j protected, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Furthermore, the extreme heat of the furnace cast some doubt on the safety of the camera, with its charge of celluloid ribbon, and vvh'le the exposure was made, two men stood reudy to hurl tiie operator to a' cooler place If anything hnppened. ' tlon-pictur- e open-heart- Potato Flour Mixed With Wheat. fifty-fiftmixture of wheat flour from tiie United States and potato flour of domestic make has been ordered by the Netherlands government for Its ieople with the hope of keeping down the price of bread. Unless something Is done to keep down the price of imported wheat It will soon be out of tiie reach of the populace, says the Chicago Journal. Potato starch was used a great deni during the war for the purpose of piecing out the wheat flour supply, and it was not generally acceptable to tiie people, hut potato flour will not he opep to the same criticism, and it Is anticipated will prove more palatable. A y Electricity In White House. The White House Is probably more intricately equipped electrically tiiap any other residence In the world There are In the house more than 170 miles of wires, providing for 3,HXi Incandescent lights, a 1m11 system and a. !'.( presprivate telephone system x . ident and ids fnn'l, ex cl f- |