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Show . ' THE GRANT8VILLE home-mad- by W. Q. Chapman.) " And the flag was still there 1' " Old, wizened, limping Jed Davis rfuade the welkin ring as he trudged along the dusty road. He was no singer; his voice was cracked und creaking, but there 'was patriotism In his eye, finely flashing hope In his heart, soul in the quivering strained tones. lie was not singing the (Copyright, 1917, UTAH. iosgow' as a e flagpole, overting up a heard the sad talk of the twain in front of the house below, and nearly lost his balance. He had little heart now to hoist the flag there, the material of which had taken nearly his last cent and upon whlefa Ivy had stitched diligently and steadily for nearly a week. The flag was hoisted. Just the same, but the spirits of the family were deeply subdued. The old man wandered about uneasily. lie was returning wearied and worried to the house one afternoon, when he sat down under the slyide of a tree to rest His eye caught the flag wavlhg brightly in the ' k NEWS, GRANT8VILLE, T i Diamonds You may be, sorry If you do not buy your diamond of us. Wo have as fine and as largo a stock as you can find anywhere, expertly selects od. Our modest prices make buying easy. BOYD PARK MAKERS OF JEWELRY breeze. Well, well have to put our shoulder to the wheel afresh and trust in This is a big God, he murmured. country, with lots of chances for the the flag is still willing man an-- BARGAINS IN USED CARS N MU and OUmobil, X Hm ki. la W00. deaab-12- 50 laaalac coadiiloa-a- ny iW taniai.Car Writa Uiad I The words Inspired him. The presence of the flog, a memory the stirring words of the g.'?at song he had sung with his bravti'comrades' going Banner as might have been sup- Intq battle, of the ope he had written song set to a for the company reunion awoke latent posed, but a familiar populur war melody, and each poetic instinct in his nature. It was. verse ended up with the words, And then that his theme took root. It was the flag was still there. It was not pleasant to muse over it and to ama paraphrase or a pnrody on the na- plify 1. After that for. several days tions great song. It told briefly, but Jed would stroll to some isolated place briskly, of historical circumstances of woodland, give out the stirring where the Bed, White and Blue had words of his crude but appealing combeen placed, and was still there 1" breeze and position to the flower-ladeNow Jed Davis had composed this the chorusing thirds. new song, fiull by himself." Once, after Then into that fertile mind of his the Civil war, at a, reunion of veterans, caifle a suggestion. The dally papers he hud written one that had been had told him that the big city, not far sung by his Indulgent comrades and away, was all aflame with patriotic printed in the newspapers, and gave fervor. cVatory, melody, sentiment him a great deal of Importance. After ruled the times. He recalled the marthat his poetic Instinct had slumbered velous popularity of the noble melountil the country called for volunteers dies of the Civil war. He was too to join in the great world battle across modest and sensible to get the' idea the ocean. into his head that he was a great comJed had been the first to present poser, and could write the national himself to the enlisting regulars at anthem, but why might not .his little the county seat effort become (me of the many catchy Its true Fm old an crjppled, but songs of tRe moment? I want to fight again, he quavered, to the city. Hence his present and with tender reverence he was told He had told Ivy he hadtrip business there, that they could' not accept him, and and she supposed it was something to old Jed went buck home, a disappoint do with the renewal of the mortgage. , ed man. to the city. He had little Jed .got Its better that I went, he told to spare, and he secured the his granddaughter Ivy, a poor orphan money sleeping quarters he could whose bright presence was the one cheapest and got his meals at a third-rat- e find, solace of his old age. Then you could restaurant For two days he went the marry Elmer; he could carry the old rounds of the local music publishers. t mortgaged place here and Td be doing They pitied or laughed at him. Jed my duty to my country. was getting discouraged, when one day (But, grandfather, Elmer will heed he ran across a young, active, but the callto the flag, too, as Sbon as somewhat disappointed journalist at they want him, reminded Ivy, ear the restaurant! . d Look here, said the newspaper man, after looking over the song, Ive an Idea. Have you, now? questioned Jed ' hopefully.. are no marverses I have. Those velous gems,- but they hit the occasion. Patriotism' is in the air. I can get credit to have a thousand slips printed with the song on them. Tomorrow night there's to, be great mass meeting to encourage enlistment at one of the armories. They say there will be fully 10,000 people present Well get there early and sell the slips at five cents each. The verses just hit the If you get the crowd enoccasion. thused and singing your song, youre a made man. The songs sold. Little knots of people began to hum the familiar melody they were fitted to. The entire thousand went like hot cakes. The chairman of the meeting suggested that they sing the song all voices. d reThe next day the porter enlarged on the scheme.. He had 25,000 of thi songs printed. He went to leading business houses and Induced them to buy big quantities for general distribution as a patriotic duty. Jed Davis went home with nearly $800 in his pocket A glorious moon was rising as he neared the old cottage. Inside a light showed Ivy bustling about. How happy she would be to hear the news of what was a small talk' nestly and with pride. We were fortune tfl them in their present hum-- 1 ing over alfulrs only last evening. He ble circumstances I wants to hurry the marriage, so as to The old man suddenly, reverentiahave me his own the little time ahead. lifted his ragged cap, for the rising lly He says it Will cheer and strengthen moon cast a rare silver glow over the him to know that be lias a loving wife and flagstaff, and the Stars cottage Is at home thinking of him while he and Stripes floating in the breeze. in the distant trenches or on the batAnd the flag was still there I' he tlefield.".' into Well arrange it as you like," sang with toa will, and hastened news. the house tell the happy ' sighed th$ old man. I aint much use. in th world any more. . Queer All , Around. . It was two weeks after that, . and Its a' queer world." within that brief space of time it was Whats the matter now?". arranged that a quiet wedding should man just paid me a $5 bill that A take places him two years ago and had loaned I Then came the devastating news like a thunderbolt There was a mortgage forgotten all about 'Thats very queer." , of $500 on the Davis homestead. It Isnt it?" with of matter a been had pride Yes, to think, of .you forgetting In Davis to pay this off when he martwo years tlut you had lent a man his the With clear, ried Ivy. property money. wages would enable them to get along very well, and Elmer felt that it would Prandial Readjustment le a duty as well os a pleasure to said the mine blaster's of rest man the August old provide for the wife, I shall try to have your dinner his days. He came to Ivy with a pale, troubled for you a little earlier each evening. Thanks, Marie, old girl, answered face, the day that he learned that a as he slipped a can of nitrohis loaned ''whom August had he friend to Into his pocket and prepared and a glycerin had bankrupt decamped, savings were speaking) to beat it I (figuratively windier. All their fond plans for some time that I should have felt roof on was the who Old Jed, upset f the little bops Just finishing set like' to dynamite earlier. foe Daft.. there!" ' Aolo Co. Sib ' HAS MESSAGE FOR ALL BOYS Young ' Ulan - .to His Lot I " - fertile-minde- . El-ip- er 1 one-ha- lf , 1,617,000. Railway communications thousands. In Moscows best department .store,, the largest in Russia, which was founded by Scotsmen in the forties of the last century, and is still conducted under British management, probably 60 per cent of the foreign goos on sale have beeq of German manufacture. .The range, of retail prices paid, and the quality which satisfies even the good class in Moscow, are distinctly lower than in ' the better-clastrade of Petrograd. Center of the Fur. Trade. Moscow is the chief fur center for Russia, and there is a tendency towards a gradual transfer of the business of subsidiary fur markets, like d the Irblt and the movement has A Moscow. to fairs, been Initiated by the fur section of the Moscow chamber of commerce and industry to render the Russian fur industry in future independent of the s are, for Russia, relatively well developed here and to the south. ' As a place of business Moscow occupies unique position. The Interests located tfre control and serve the enormous area of which the city forms literally the geographical center, in all matters of supply and demand for a Leipzig market N mainly agricultural country; and it is taken largely hitherto has Leipzig Moscow merchants and through the ; has treated and raw the furs Russian agency houses that foreign imports the finare brought most directly before the finished them, and hastoresold Moscow. In ished product .again consumers. With characteristic enterfuture tfoscow purposes to do more prise, the Moscow merchants have also of the finishing process herself, and organized and may be said to control is also to get into touch endeavoring most the Siberian trade. Many of the New York, St Louis and with London, successful of her citizens are Siberian and born, who find it desirable to live In other Important of for the purpose centers, Moscow to direct the financing and the Moscow can business" direct dealings.' purchasing end of their business opera- under normal conditions supply fintions. ished furs such as squirrel, squirrel Manufacturers Are Powerful. marten, stone and baum Finally, Industrial Russia may be tails, ermine, Persian .lamb, etc. Rusmarten, hares, said to center In this city, where the a Moscow Manufacturers' association sia, as is well known, is very large of fur goods. buyer alone forms almost a party in the state and exercises a potent Influence Historic Battlefield. on the tariff policy of the country. ride from the main A This association Is responsible for the lies of the historic batgate Pultavp cenVhlch Russian textile Industries, ter mainly here; the iron and steel in- tlefield.. The rolling plain . where and Russian fought, is covered dustry, and many other manufactures, Swedegolden-yellowheat It Is the which Tare financed with local capital. with peaceful-looklqmost spot Jn the It was Moscows initiative, also, that started cotton growing la the Cauca- world. Near the centyr of the plain sus and central Asia, which now sup- there is a mound' about 25 feet high, cross. On the cross is ply a considerable portion of the raw crowned by a Russian the simple, characteristically material of the country's cotton trade. Here are buried the The air of business which pervades Inscription: this strange but fascinating city Is at- Swedes who died at Pultava." It is tractive to a Westerner. Business grimly unsentimental, with no sweet men are more accessible than else- and fitting it is to die for the father-lanThe Swedes were about it where. They seem to have a grip on were killed buried here, and here, definite they methaffairs, apd they pursue ods In their dealings, which lead that is all there is to it The Russian to quick decision and execution. These records thq facts of the case, and inqualities, coupled with a strong local dulges in no surmise as to whether the form dead men found It sweet and fitting or patriotism and the driving power of Moscow's citizens, not But once a year a mass is said which cannot fall to secure for the city on the mound. Historians and. milian Influence In the po- tary men will tell you that this tattle litical and economic development ot of Pultava was the most important la many centuries, that It ranks with Russia. The dissimilarity of the Petrograd Waterloo. It was certainly a battle and Moscow markets Is .marked. with many of ther elements of romance. Broqdly, Petrograd disposes of a higher Two young kings were fighting for suclass of article at corresponding prices. premacy In half a continent Peter Moscow's "clients belong mainly to the ,pf Russia drove Charles of Sweden peasant class to the inhabitants of from the flelt Great things were settled on this little field, but the yellow the rural Yown, whose wants are primitive, and who are wheat whispers In the sun as though In the stage when new wants and it knew a secret more Important than habits are forming. This does dot any of them. necessarily lessen the range and vaApples Most Valuable Fruit riety of the articles desired rather The apple is the contrary. But the attractiveness la the of the articled, rather than the quality, household economy for no other fruit excels It in culinary usefulness. .It appeals, and cheapness is an factor. This attitude was clev- graces the table 'in a far greater vaerly grasped and exploited by the Ger- riety than any other fruit Of all fruits man trader, and In this connection, grown In North America, the apple nowhere else so much as In Moscow is leads in amount and intrinsic value the evidence of German adaptability, No fear of an overproduction, however. and of German trade penetration ot If the means of transportation and disMoscows tribution are perfected. What' if wo Russia- - more apparent stores were full of German goods. do raise 125,000 carloads of apples or Large numbers of these stores were 62,000,000 boxes a year? This is but half a box to a person not counting obviously German, while the representatives of German houses In the dis- what we export That isnt very many. Exchange. trict must have been numbered by NIzhnl-Novgoro- half-hou- ' rs -- . w g d ever-increanl- , pre-emine- nt From . . r I wish I could send a message to every boy in the world of a aad and strange coincidence that happened to me when I was a boy, exclaimed a , young man the other day. ' One hot sultry July afternoon the - Russia, with Mos- capital, as Its CENTRAL ancient is at once the and the jnost, thickly populated part of the country. This region contains 18 governments, covering an area of 480,000 square of the area miles less than of the Petrograd district, but with more than twice the population, viz., 45,000,000. As might be expected, says a writer in the magazine, Russia, the large towns pro both larger and more numerous than elsewhere in Russia, Moscow had in 1012 a population of Ldkaon Draws Strange Experience Which Fell n kden-witte- Lika C!tr HIM AMD WOM1N. , Mow b the time to lei rathe birbar trade. Bii-be- n in f re itdeman!.. Special rite bow open (or SO daye . Only ihort time required. Toole fu rule bed end comnlaelnn paid while learn-.laCall or write Holer Biter School, IS Commercial Bt., Balt Lake City, Utah. ' . Gaaiiataad dm' tafau if araaiad bf ll aad dneri-tlo- 4iuip MfBBTn MSSISS Star-Spangl- two-ver- se SAIT LAKE CITY HO MAM ITUZT hottest day we had that summer I had just turned our street corner when I met my father. ' I wish yon would deliver this package for me, Joe, he aald rather weakly, as I remembered afterward. Now I was only thirteen yean old and ' htfd bren out playing in the hot sun all mprnlng and was all In when I met toy father after playing a !game with oar. aide the losers. My first impulse was to refuse, but one fiance at )la klndgentle face stopped me. 8nrely I will go, father, I said pleasantly. Thank yon son, was the answer. 1 was going myself, but I dont .feel very well today and I thought yon would not refuse, as yon have always been a good boy to me, Joe. I walked away thinking father did not cars much about his only son, or he would not send me on this 'Jaunt ( about one mil? and a half), on such n hot day. Bnt somehow the words, 1 thought yon would not refuse, and , Ton have always been a gbod boy to me, Joe, seemed to ring in my ears qnd before I reached the end of my journey I was whistling a merry tone. Retaining hope, I saw our doctors auto and a crowd of people at our door. One of my aunts hurried to meet me with tears rolling down her cheeks. Your father fell dead jnat as he retched the stoop, she sold. I found out later the last words my father spoke were. Ton have always been goqd boy to me, Joe. . ten-inni- . New Talking Movies. Application has been made for a patent on a very elaborate device which would produce a combination of the cinematograph and the phonograph to give ns moving pictures wherein the characters not only .move bnt speak. The Idea of such pictures Is not new, bnt the difficulties of synchronizing have hitherto psoved Insurmountable. By synchronizing ,1s meant the exact coincidence of the motion picture,, projected by one machine, with the speech supposed to proceed from the characters, which Is produced by quite another. Unless the speech comes at the right Instant, the result is laughable rather than Impressive. In the proposed device the actual speech of the character is transmitted by wireless telephone to a phonograph whose complex receiving mechanism Is synchronized with the movements of the moving picture camera. . .Much in Little. Senator James A. McDougal was an orator who abided by Shakespeares maxim that ..brevity Is the soul ot He could compact more elowit quence Into a few sentences than other speakers diffused - through long harangues. When urged to participate In mortuary ceremonies he said:' I doubt whether or not we should mourn for any of the dead. I am confident that there should be no mourning for those who render themselves up as' sacrifice in any just and holy cause. It better becomes us- to' praise and dignify them. It Is true that cl tie and kingdoms die, but the eternal thought lives on. Great thought with great action, does not die, but lives a universal life, and its power is felt vibrating through all spirit and throughout nil ages. - Elephant In 'Biblical Hebrew. Is said by scholars hnt no word In Biblical Hebrew denotes nn elephant fret the Hebrews were famlUar with Ivory, and the skilled workmen of Hiram, king of Tyre, fashioned the grant Ivory throne of Solomon and overlaid It with pure gold. It - , |