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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH I News Notes jj It ! a a Privilage to Livo in Utah Nor Is groundhog more than half cor It's true, also, that he lives for tlie most part In the ground hut he is not a hog, nor remotely related to the hog. Like those other porcinely rect misnamed animals, the porcupine and the guinea pig, he Is a rodent and Is ' related to the squirrels and the rab- bits. It Is highly unlikely that whether the sky be bright or cloudy on Can- dlentas day tlie groundhog bothers to come up to look for Ills highly lmpor- - i tant shadow, at least nortli of the Mason-Dixoline. He Is a very sound i sleeper, and snoozes the winter away in his burrow, rolled up in a compact ball with his nose tucked into liis turnniy. If you find Ids home and dig him out he will not awaken, for the sleep of hibernation Is much more deathlike than ordinary slumber, and a hibernating animal will stand the roughest kind of treatment without showing any signs of life. Even when he does come out, with the real return of spring and plenty of green stuff to eat, the groundhog He has no othis still a sleepy-head,- , er waking occupation except eating, fighting occasionally, and taking care of his family during the breeding period, so that he has plenty of leisure time on his hands In summer. He spends that In sleep, too. The groundhog is not a beauty. He Is from 15 to 18 Inches tull and his coat Is blackish or grizzled above and chestnut-rebelow. His form Is thick and his head broad and flat He has a bushy tail and his legs are too short to make him handsome. The groundhog digs burrows deep Into the ground when on the plains, or when he can find a hill he will burrow into the side of It He also views as a favorable site for his home a large rock under which he may dig. His burrow slants upward to keep out water. The groundhog is a vegetarian with a strong preference for alfalfa and That does much to damage clover. Ills reputation with farmers, who anbenually lose thousands of dollars taste. his cause of In the southern mountains, where he Is he Is known as the whistle-pig- , all the more resented when on February 2 sleet finds the unstopped cracks In a log cabin and unseasonable chill penetrates the cornhusk bed But the viowith its scant covers. lence that overtakes him there Is due to his liking for the bark of tender young apple trees and garden stuff. However, despite all that the may say about Mr. Arctomys Monax that he is not really the animal that his common names indicate and that he has nothing whatever to do with deciding the question of Can In spring he far behind? the belief tlie Groundhog day trnditioti Is pretty on or likely to persist indefinitely and about February 2 we can expect to see such newspaper stories as the following: Kan. 1 give up. City. Dodge There must te eomething to It. So declared J. L. Hayes Dodge City ae he wonderinglv watched hia groundin the hog playing about hia yard The e bright sunlight this morning hl animal ad dug hia way from Noden, where he had remained since vember 27 last, and was roaming about. 1 never believed In that gag." he said, bui what In thunder Is a man to think now? I hid all my calendars. and that groundhog hadn't seen one, I swear - How did he know this was the second of February? This th first day he has been out since I ! j n ARcrorm itoirAX By ELMO SCOTT WATSON TS almost time now for a little anmlal to decide for us If we are to have six til weeks more of winter or If spring Is near at hand. For February 2 is Groundhog day and, according to a belief held by many persons, what Mr. Arctomys Monux (that's what the scientists call the groundhog) does on that .lay will oe propltetic of weather conditions for the next six weeks. If Mr. Monax conns out of his hole on that day and sees his shadow, then he wil! return I .s f hole and six weeks more ol winter must be endured. If, however, the sun doesn't shine that day. we 9011 expect an early spring. Now. the Joker in all this business Is his: regardless of what the groundhog does on February 2 and whether the sun is shining or not when he conies out of his hole, we shall have six more weeks of winter, cujway. For ofliclaUy winter does not end un-- ' til the spring equinox on March 21 and from Fehruniy 2 to March 21. its alt of six weeks and then some. More than that, scientists tell us that there's no dependence to he placed upon the groundhog as a weather prophet. Government weather records for the last 50 years show that he has missed It much more frequently than tie has hit It. Rut regardless of what the scientists sa there are many people who more Ilian half believe the truth of tlie Groundhog day superstition. The reason is that this superstition is rooted In traditions almost as old as the human race. Gertninly it goes back before the beginning of the Christian era and the modern tradition is another of those queer combinations of heathen and Christian hi diets One inspiration for it. prob nll was the spring festival in honor of Vres. tlie Roman earth goddess of abundant orofs. who was known as fiemeter by the Greeks. tine day. so runs the myth, her daughier Persephone, was plucking t'nwers when she saty a narcissus of great beauty. As she reached out her hand to touch it it sprang into life as Hades, King of the Head, in a g I i ha riot The hated monarch bore her away, screaming, to tds dark palace underThe abduction was noted by ground. Helios, the Sun. and hy llekate. who mother when told tlie she ala intoned her duties and the society of the gods to look for Per gephone She refused to let tlie earth until her daughter returned prodtn-P.arrenness and mildew unharmed. wasted tlie fields. At last Zeus. who had arranged for the wedding of Persephone to the powerful hut unpopular Lord of the Head, sent his messenger to return her to her mother, Because she had eaten a pomegranate seed given her by Hades she was doomed to spend tlie dark months of winter with him. hut in planting and harvest time she belonged to the sunn): tields and fruitladen groves of her mother. Somewhat the essential Idea of this myth Is found in the beliefs associated with Candlemas day. the name giv grief-stricke- Wasted It was near the end of a long story The linvdfaoed tuan was giving them gems of wisdom (diked from the ample experiences of his own liccth life. 'Free yourselves, he said, "from vile clutches of the tobacco hah Well I remem It Is easily done. I the da.v I gave up smoking standing st a street corner, lust shout to light a Perfect o, when I Hie It her axis d en to February 2 In the early Chris tian era. Candlemas day commemorated the presentation of the Chrtst-ehilin the temple and the purification of the mother. Tlie blessing ot candles, to be carried in honor of the Virgin, became a rite of the early church. In ancient England the combination of tlie Christian and heathen belief was most strikingly shown by the fact that it meant the disappear-ance of every Christmas green. Foi every leaf of holly left by a carelesi maid, so (t was believed, she woul be sure to see some terrible goblin, j Just when weather prophecy became a part of the Candlemas day tradition is unknown, but ail over Christendom there persisted a belief in February 2 as a time for weather forecast. Especially was it true that a fair day on that date portended much wintet One Scotch couplet yet to come. d says: If Candlemas Day be dry and fair. There'll be twa winters In the year Another assures us: If Candlemas Day be dry and fair, The half o' Winters to come and mair If Candlemas Day be wet and foul. The half o Winters pane at Yule. A more opitimistic version had it thus : Candlemas Day Is Come and gone. The snow 'lea on a hot stone. German legend also chrouicles that : Far as the sun shines on Candlemas Day, So far will the snow swirl until the May. As for tlie association of tlie ground hog with the weather superstition, the origin of that, too, is wrapped in con siderahle mystery. So fur as is known tlie Germans originated ttiut idea, only they made use of the badger as their weather prophet In France and Switzerland It was the marmot and in England the hedgehog. Among Hie Scandinavians there Is a legend oi the bear waking up in his den after the When winter hibernation, seeing the sun shine into it and turning over to sleep for six weeks more, knowing that winter is only half over. Just why the early English settlers in America should have picked upon an animal similar to the French and Swiss marmot (for the groundhog is a species of Hie marmot family, one of his scientific mimes being Mar mntu Monax) for their February 2 weather prophet Is not clear. They found badgers on this continent, go why didn't they follow the German tradition and select the badger? Or since they were English, why didn't they use Hie American counterpart ot the European hedgehog, the porcupine, and have Iorky" do their neathei predicting for them? Rut the fact re mains that they didnt, and to the ani mal they did choose they gave two most inappropriate names woodchuck Part of tlie former and groundhog. title Is correct. He does live mainly in tlie woods, hut where does the chuck part come in? Of course there's the old riddle about How much wood could a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood?' to indicate a belief that this animal can iminipulate hypothetical qnatitl ties of timber." but that doesn't solve the question of this name for him said to myself, 'Johnston, you're a fmd to smoke; throw away that cl And I did. and I've never gar! smoked since. interrupted a man Say. mister. who had Just come In. you havent a mind to tell a fellow where you threw hat cigar, have you? London Tit-Bit- Early Currency Law The circulation of foreign money was so general throughout i tie I'nited States for 25 years approximately after llt-,i- November 7. when he holed up You cant blame It on me; that Initiagroundhog Jog out on hisis own six weeks It tive. Ijook st him That ground-nomore of winter, sure. has onvinced me there Is something tn the old soperstition. Or It may be a "believe It or not g -- item such as the following. Mr Hayes brought the groundhog to Dodge City from Saguache Park, old Colo., two yeais ago, to test the anisuperstition. Last Februaryat2 4the o'clock mal emerged from hia hole In the afternoon, remained tn the sunand then light about twenty minutes re entered his den, piling dirt in the closed opening until II was completely Frank N'ollier tells this one- A man back tn Iowa says he is a firm believer in the groundhog theory The man was out cutting wood on groundhog day ind took off his coat and pot It When he came to get his on a log He looked everyoat it was gone where, hut could not find it. Six weeks was later he cutting wood In the same He happened to look around place. and saw a groundhog come out of his hole and put his roat on the log where he hud found it six weeks previous. Now you tell me. Glen Elder (Kan.) Sentinel. That invitation Is repeated hy the writer of this article, and if you can tell a better one, he will Incorporate it in his Groundhog day article next year! of Fewer hairpins and combs were manufactured In the United Ltatep In 1927 than Id 1925. nMXDDMD b e I I the dollar as our umi that it was a vital elecirculation. Congress reca great need hy emo-tlnnumber of laws regulating foreign? coins and making them legal lender Finally congress on February 21. 1S.10. enacted a law repealing former ads which had made foreign money a eur reney nr legal tender. tlie adoption of exchange ment In the ognized this SALT LAKE Utah has over 13,000 square miles of coal lands, the largest producing silver mine In the United States, the largest open cut copper mine in the world. GARFIELD The Garfield Associate team of the A league in the Utah Copper club bowling tournament is well out in front with thirteen wins and five losses for a percentage ot 722. The Magna Carpenters and Polyglots are tied for second with eleven wins and ten defeats. CEDAR CITY Forest rangers returning from the east side of the Kai-baforest last week report the slaughter of approximately 600 deer. Walter G. Mann, supervisor of the Kaibab forest; Elbert L. Cox and Carl Haycock, rangers, were assigned to the east side to hunt in South canyon on the Lee's Ferry side. cold SALT LAKE Continuous weather has brought no damage to agricultural crops as the state has practically a continuous snow protection. However there is reported shrinkage In livestock. During the week the temperature went down to 12 degrees below zero at Logan and 6 below at Milford, while St. George experienced a little real winter temperature falling as low as 20 degrees above zero. UTAH California depends upon Utah and the intermountain territory for halt the meat served at its tables, stock buyers from that state declare at a dinner given in their honor at the Newhouse hotel Sunday. The chamber of commerce livestock committee and Salt Lake business men were hosts. II. E. Godwin, general freight agent of the Union Pacific system, was toastmaster. LOGAN The December report of Ward Dairy the Wellsville-CollegHerd Improvement association wrs filed with County Agent Robert L. Wrigley recently by Reuben Hansen, tester. There were 451 cows milking and 84 dry during the month. The average milk production per cow was 651 pounds, as compared with 580 pounds for the preceding period. The average butterfat production per cow was 25.52 pounds, compared with 22.71 pounds for November. CITY BRIGHAM Sportsmen of Boxelder county slaughtered approximately 3000 Jackrabbits recently in the Promontoy district in a drive staged by the Brigham City post of the American Legion. They left this city at 9'oclock in the morning In automobiles and were met at Promontory by a delegation of farmers headed by Lew Whitaker. The hunters were taken in bobsleds and on horseback into the Rozelle flat, where the rabbits are plentiful. DUCHESNE The state road commission recently announced plans for the expenditure in Duchesne county during 1929 of 1310,000, following a conference with the Duchesne county The program cal's commissioners. for the expenditure of $260,000 on federal aid projects, $1.75,000 of which will be spent on a 5.4 mile stretch of raad due east of Fruitland, and the remainder to be expended on two section projects near Duchesne and Antelope. Two bridges are to be constructed over the Duchesne river and $50 0C0 Is to be used for connections on federal aid roads. PROVO Providing the necessary funds to pay for the trucking of the enimals into the county, can be raised among the sportsmen, two truckloads, elk, will totaling possibly twenty-fivbo brought into Utah county from the Mt, Nebo reservation, according to L. L. Bunnell of the Provo Conservation association and placed in the mountains east of this city end on the western slope of Timpanogos, just east of Pleasant Grove. The animals aro b;:ng caught hy the government and will be given to the local association. A campaign to raise the necessary $200 will be conduced by Bunnell. UTAH Scores of persons Interested in the work of d!gglng trenches to lr.y natural pas line pipe, were out on the cast bench recently to see the huge ditching machine in action. The machine is expected to dig a trench to Corlville in forty-fivdays and crews of pipe layers will fellow in its wake. Tin ditcher has aF'cady dug a trench the length of a Fait Lake C tv block, more than three feet deep ard eoproximately two feet wide. Officials of the Uintah Hpollne company, which is laying (lie mains to bring natural gas into Utah, reported that a mlie of ditch a day can he dug. SALT LAKE An increase of more tlisn $250,000 during 1928 in tlie f es and taxes collected hy the secretary o' state is shown in the final report and remittance of H. E. Crockett, retiring secretary of state, to John V.'ni-- ! l:er. retiring state treasurer. The Elsinore ELSINORE sugar factory, according to official announce-- I ment of the Utah Idaho Sugar company, will not solicit beets in the Revier valley, or attempt to operate the factory by the Gunnison Valley Sugar company. The announcement cf the Utah-IdahSugar company says: For some years past the Sugar company has found it impossible, owing to adverse wppther cnndqons nod cthrr cruses to sneu-- e sufHripit re fac-- j beets in and around the tory to economically and profitably run the factoiy. -j I Utah-Idah- Eb-no- "I know that man- - that is exactly the way he talks a demonstration of an Atwater Kent. Turning the Dial from one station to another, suddenly she heard the voice of a friend she had not seen for years. 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So many men and women who ultimately at Believed to be the oldest ship afloat, d Success Is to sail to the Australia, where site will be converted talned distinction began tlelr educe lion under these modest conditions and later delighted to pay honor to the little red schoolboose that now the phrase has become a figure of speech. Getting la Wreag Mr. Mtiddcll (after the Introduction) Nobody would suspect you were mother and daughter. Daughter Are you knocking me, or boosting ma? A life insurance statistician says we eat 30 per cent more food than our grandfathers and 374 per that cent more sugar. three-maste- Into a floating museum, a reminder of the daya when she carried emigrants. The Success was built of teak wood In Burma In 1700, and baa been on exhibition in Ontario. Knows His Mother Visitor if 1 took ono of those apples and you took two, wbat would bo left? Jimmy (eyeing the diab) Three apples and a spanking. Passing Show. 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