Show ' —r Q i i w w ) THE SAUNA CALL SALINA UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS The potato yield this year has been about 200000 bushels less than 1912 but the corn crop was Increased four bushels to the acre Kid George of San Francisco knocked out Joe Clark of Salt Lake In the seccnd round of a scheduled bout at Bingham Plans have been completed for the erection of a $30000 pea canning It will have an factory at Ephraim initial capacity of 40000 cans Two lots have been purchased In Ogden by the Seventh Day Adventists It being their purpose to build a church on the site next spring The ITtah battery of the state militia will be called to the front early in MexIn the event of intervention ico by the United States government The apple crop decreased eighteen per cent in Utah this year and about the same throughout the country The four per cent quality also decreased It is announced that a representative from the bureau of fisheries had for Utah to select left Washington a site for the proposed government fish hatchery Mrs Sarah J Polley aged 61 a former resident of Nephl was found dead in bed at the home of her siBter Mrs Thomas Grove of Morgan Death was due to apoplexy A commercial club for Magna East Garfield Alter and Pleasant Green is being planned by prominent citizens of the four places the Idea being tu unite the four towns The Bamberger line now has a complete double track between Salt Lake and Kaysville with the exception of two short stretches which will not be double tracked until spring Between 1000 and 1200 delegates are expected to attend the annual convention of the National association which will be held in Salt Lake January 1911 Poultry raisers of Utah declare that at the big state show to be held In 26 31 1914 to Logan January they will have the biggest premium list in the existence of their organization The Citizens Heat & Power comto a half million spend pany proposes dollars in the erection and perfecting of a plant In Salt Lake If the commission see fit to grant the company a i " ' ' franchise 'Robert M Clark one of the most experienced and oareful men in the employ of the Utah Light & Power made a miscalculation at company Ogden on Tuesday and was electrocuted by a current of 1600 volts The annual charity ball the first of which was given a year ago by the ' Civic Brigham Improvement viuv will be repeated th’ year and Wed 3 Is th need ay evening December UUd' e sec&Sfi Shtraal bat Id' court of Utah will be T near future to decide aske whether it Is within the law for a whose property adjoins a landowner stream to arreBt a fisherman who is standing In the creekbed and angling for trout The government report on crop 1 as furnished November oonditlons of agriculture oy the department through the Salt Lake weather bureau show that prices of meats have decreased iu Utah and gone up In the country at large The board ot education of Salt Lake has rescinded Its former action ex all but Utah coal from its cluding consideration This leaves the board with an open market end free to purchase Utah Wyoming or any other coal R may see fit In keeping with a custom of several years’ standing the children and descendants of Joseph F Smith president of the Mormon church assembled In Salt Lake on the 13th to celebrate the seventy-fiftanniversary of the birth of the president Organization of the Boys’ Welfare members of association of Utah hlch will direct the work of the Associated ’Boys’ clubs ot the state close of conference the marked the held by workers of the latter organization In Ogden last week John R Murdock one of the band of pioneers who entered Salt Lake valley In the fall of 1847 died NovemMurber 12 at bis home In Milford dock was 87 years of age Death was caused by paralysis and followed an Illness of only two weeks The inheritance tax which will be paid to Utah out of the state of David Eccles will amount to approxiThis has beqn demately $300000 termined by the final estimate of the board of appraisers named by the court to approximate the valuation of the property subjected to tax Bad management of irrigation enterprises and an extravagant use of the water are the greatest evils that have attended the development of trlrgatlon in the west according to F II Newell director of the United States reclamation service at the annual conference In Salt Lake last week of the western irrigation managers W II Johnson charged with forgery escaped from the county Jail at Nephl Investigation showed that he had drawn the heads off the bolts of the door letting himself into the main corridor With the aid of a hevy piece of iron he then dug through the west brick wall of the jail The state road under construction between Hot Springs and Brigham during the past year has now been completed to the city limits of Brigwhich ig thirham The highway teen miles long is regarded as one of the finest roadg In the state SOME & Training a WONDERFUL ESCAPES acrobat who performs on a attached to a balloon recently An fell of carried Ofteq being death A the catch GREAT STRENGTH OF BEETLES If you were as strong proportionbeetle and were a man ately as weighing 200 poundB you would be able to lift with ease 40000 pounds A beetle can lift 200 times Its own weight Or If you could Jump about with the same ease as the grasshopper you could spring oyer the tallest building without much effort Or again if you wanted to be merely as strong as the bee you would have to drag after you a load weighing 4000 poundB It seems from such obapparently servations made by naturalists that the greater In size the animal the greater is the muscular energy needed to move there It about and Is not much left for outside force the tht BEARD FEET SEVEN LONG ls does not represent some Ingenious AietttoH of &ectfri'g photograph a dogIt shows a canine friend of man having his powers of memory tested The dog learns that when he puts his head through that hole In the dlso which has a red rim to It he la given some of his favorite food Then his In this matter having been completed education ha Is brought to the dlso at various times to see how often he remembers through which hole to put his head and how often he makes a mistake Each time he puts his head a a he hole shock warning him receives electrical wrong very through slight of hla mistake and also re g etc ring the mistake The disc Is of course turned from time to time so that the position of the hole with the red rim Thus Is the dog’s memory cultivated round It Is altered TOMB FOR SALE COPPER PENNIES PURE ARE copper cent Is a product of electricity Almost pure copper is used to make this the duly copper coin Issued In the country This pure copper Is secured by an electric process In the old days it was a very expensive process to refine copper ore and the resultant copper was far from being pure Now this refining Is done by electricity much the same ty as Tbe electroplating la accomplished copper ore is placed in a tank near tbe of a positive plate battery and the electric current turned on Tke copper la rapidly broken up into minute which are carried througb particles the water by the passage of electricity and depoelted on the negative plate of the tank The result is known as The The view shows a monumental tomb built at great coat by M Schillzsl on the bill of PausillppuB in Italy The refused' to has have it municipality pulled down and today it la for Bale Who will be the buyer and for what uses it la destined as yet are matters It la a magnificent for speculation monument ornamented with statues by the late sculptor Amendola “electrolytic copper’ which Is the purest known in the metal Industry MUCH SUNSHINE IN SPAIN Spain has more sunshine than any The yearly avercountry In Europe In England It Is age la 3000 hours 1400 R D Carr of Cleburne Tex boasts of having longest beard in the world It is seven feet In length and when he stands on a footstool it Mr Carr is very touches the floor proud of hla beard and has refused offers to travel with shows that would He prehave made him a fortune fers to remain with his children on his farm Mr Carr la years old a He hates Methodist and a Democrat all sham and does not like to be joked heard which startregarding his eleven ago ed years growing when Mr Carr waa ill He carries It tucked Into his vest and wrapped and exhibits It only around hls body on state occasions the I'M i ' $ own i' death '2 :ti germs in a mud pie recently found his little making mud pies in a sand pile In a park reserved for children Curiosity led him to make an examination ot one of the pics and in it he found the following dangerous germs: measrss Diphtheria 1800000 A bacteriologist son of the late emperor of Japan was recently completed at This mausoleum It is at Momoyama cost of $500000 near Kioto and people from all of the empire make pilgrimages to ths spot The top of the mausoleumparts Is covered with 300000 white pebbles 'specially collected from the shores of the Pacific nfn THANKSGIVING Has 1600 unbroken merest accidents prevents Cardiff laborer some time about fifty ago fell from a scaffolding feet high hut as he fell his foot caught In the scaffolding and he hung Simihead downwards until rescued larly a woman who fell out of a win dow backwards at Holborn lately was saved from Instant death by her clothIn the window ing having caught MONUMENTAL PAST feet into the lake Festivities o( Zurich Just missing death by a few yards is generally believed for if he had not Jumped from Thanksgiving bis seat when be did he would have to have commenced with the advent of been dashed to pieces on the rocky the Pilgrim fathers and therefore a shore of the lake He escaped un- legacy to us from New England But hurt when the true facts In the case come Several Instances of people falling to light we find that Thanksgiving day from Incredible heights s and surviving was first celebrated by Popham to tell the tale can be quoted At at Monhegan who Joined In ''GivBrighton England an actor known as ing God thanks” for their safe arrival Lieutenant Daring who was playing and many blessings In the ritual laid the part of a naval officer who Is attdown in the Thanksgiving service of acked by brigands In a moving the Church of England prayer book It the play and who was supposed to is known with what antipathy however slip over the cliff— In reality early Puritans regarded any and all of to stand on plank which had been the holy dayB of the English church placed below the edge to make the and the celebration of such was sternillusion completfe— missed his footing ly forbidden In New England and fell How many of ub know that days for ninety feet into the sea escaping with a sprained wrist giving thanks were set apart In Europe An even more miraculous escape long before the reformation and were after a fall over t cliff waa that of a observed by the Church of England child who had been many years before the Pilgrims landgathering flowers on Culver cliff near ed? Sandown Isle of Wight who slipped The first Thanksgiving In this counand fell 200 feet She was only try was not set apart as a day of relightly Injured a bottle which she ligious observance but for recreation s Dog’s Memory distance DAYS OF History Proves that There Always Been a Time Set Apart for smallpox 900000 900000 pneumonia losis 620000 605000 dysentery tubercu- BEST SPIRIT FOR THE TIME Good Idea Is That Thanksgiving Is Work That Noblest Man Can Do ths The act of rendering Thanksgiving: thanks expressing gratitude for favors a public celebration of mercies vine goodness day: A day set apart Thanksgiving for religious services In acknowledgment of the divine goodness and By nature man is religious day is an annual reThanksgiving The minder of this innate tendency manthe and first Thanksgiving very ner of its observance are not very well defined In history Perhaps the following paragraph will give as an epitome as is possible at this remote distance: to “The fishermen were ordered ‘scour the seas for spoil the hunterB ‘to shoulder their matchlocks and allow as In would such game bring the Mayflower colony in a more special manner to rejoice together The re suit was a supply of wild turkey deer bear and game of every eort In Buch abundance as amply to feed the colony for a week They had as guests the On December 11 1621 Edward Wins- friendly chief Massasolt and 90 of hls low wrote home to England the followIndians The Indians contributed to ing very quaint account of the week’s the feast five deer and a great basket program: of oysters This was the introduction “Our harvest being gotten in our of the young colony to Its afterward women governor sent four men out fowling so favorite shellfish and the we might In a special manner rejoice cooked them as they best knew how together after we had gathered the The menu of that Immortal dinner has fruits of our labors The four killed not alas been preserved but It is so much fowl that with a little help known that the two dishes most fully served the company about a week appreciated by the Indians as well as s the Americans Among other recreations were were the ’brown roast with our arms The Many of the In- turkey’ and the 'pumpkin dians came amongst us and among great feast of the week waspie outdoors them their greatest king Massasolt for the air was balmy and the sun with some ninety men whom we for bright Massasolt was there in all the three days feasted and entertained bravery of a scarlet coat trimmed with They went out and killed five deer lace and a copper chain given him which they brought in and bestowed some time previous by Edward Winson our governor upon the captains and low In a strange medley of Indian others” garb and a borrowing ot European coSo we get a good Idea of the hosstume cementing there the bond of with the white settlers pitality offered in those days We friendship learn too from Governor Bradford which held good 41 years” that wild turkeys were plentiful so we In 1621 Governor Bradford after the feel a reasonable assurance that the first harvest made provision for the turkey has a long and ancient lineage coloniste’ with rejoicing together and prestige not to be usurped by any pralde and prayer In 1623 a day of other bird on our Thanksgiving day fasting and prayer In the midst of platter was into turned drought thanksgiving Only English speaking peoby the coming of rain during the prayple sat down to the first Thanksday ers gradually the custom prevailed of feast but the addition of the Indians appointing a thanksgiving annually made a goodly company for whom the day after harvest These appointpoor lonely and homesick women pre- ments were made by the governor’a There were only proclamations pared the dinner During the Revolutionfour of them with one servant “and ary war a day of national thanksgivThere is no ing was annually recommended a few young maldeklns’ conrecord to be found of any religious gress For many decades thebypresiworship during this week of feasting dent has annually appointed such a In 1628 the second Thanksgiving day day and the governors of the various was ordered and observed by the Pil- states have supplemented the same grim fathers Early Thanksgivings are “Words are but empty things” Since not always celebrated in November actions louder words nor upon Thursday and It Is not until thanksgivingspeakle the noblestthan thanksgiv 1677 that we find the first printed ing' To abound in 'thanksgiving 11 a now owned Thanksgiving proclamation "See that? ye Scriptural injunction Historical so- do this” said Paul by the Massachusetts to note that ciety It is Interesting Bince 1862 the president of the United Bridegroom’s Thanksgiving' States has set the last Thursday in November to be observed as a day of A hundred years from now sweetheart We will not grieve o’er chances lost thanksgiving And harking back to Nor over meat or art worry Pilgrim days what a vast difference Nor care what coal or clothes may cost Compare the harvest then and the harvest now Whether our forefathers A hundred years from now nor you Nor I will care a picayune were ever actually reduced to the tracold persistent landlords who ditional five graine of corn each Is a For Browbeat bulldoze and Importune fact not decided by history but It is true that they returned thanks for the Then let us In this holy time Of cheer give thanks for every Joy most meager fare and endured the most of all for this that I’m most grinding hardships without a And No girl and you are not a boy murmur Like our forbears we make S E KISER a of the day great time for feasting and games and not so much of church Have Cause to Give Thanks going It is a day for family reunions If we what were the conand a day of abundant opportunity for ditions remember circumstances events and inmaking a cause of Thanksgiving In tbe cidents of the first Thanksgiving day “other fellow’s" heart and allow thought to traverse even rapidly and superficially the path of Custom Happy Thanksgiving blessing until this Thanksgiving day A woman who has an almost of 1913 we shall have a faint vision at faith in Providence keeps least of that for which the land should what she calls her “thank offering offer praise If we dwell only upon box” Into this goes through the year the great benefits that affect the genfrom one Thanksgiving to the middle eral welfare abundant reason appears of the following November a sum of why we should set a season apart asmoney for every accident escaped semble in our places of worship and calamity averted or special joy lay upon the altar our united offering These offerings are not confined to of praise And this is not alone for her own escapee but each time some abundant harvests for commercial member of her family bobs up from prosperity for continued peace and insome threatened woe Into the box goes creasing power not alone for good betbe money offering of thanks stowed but thanks for evil spared for Not the same amount is given each fires of trouble from which we passed time and rarely large sums for the unharmed for the floods that threatwoman Is not rich but a nice little sum ened but did not overwhelm for the Is realized casting down that yet did not destroy This Is devoted to giving some one for all calamities endured and overa happy Thanksgiving day It does not past always go into regular channels Ab Surely If ever land should In humilthe woman says— the poor and hos- ity bring tribute from multitudes of pitals are usually well cared for in grateful hearts ours should make this a true Thanksgiving day lollday seasons WITH GOOD) THINGS or FOR “THE” DAY ' |