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Show ) UTAH, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1907. THE SUNDAY STANDARD: OGDEN By Alice THE BAY of DECISION Louise Lee An Entertaining Account of a Young Womans Attempt to Make Up Her Mind I1 Copyright 1M. by Alice Louise HKS Lem proptieed the fifth time 1 derided to the tke a day off intown lit lie country not born where I and think it all out among the birda and flowers, lieie 1 should come to a Anal derision. Lem grimaced when 1 toid Win I did not mexi the iiame of my destination for ohvioua renaoiie and retorted. 'All riirht. Jane, think it over as much as you like, but remember If your decision doesn't suit me 1 shall not accept It not i:" That's the wsy with Lem. He ought to have been on his knees begging nte to make it favorable, but he Isn't that kind. He always stands so straight he fairly bends bark ward and laughs when he should appear distressed. Lem Is not sn ideal lover, as I once bluntly told him. He merely remarked grimly It was on the occasion of hie third proposal "If you have a lover more Ideal, name him and I'll bo out and punch hia head!" Then he lauahed. Lem doesn't appear to take me except my name. I want to be railed Jennet te, but be forgets; eaya Jane wae always his favorite name. I adpiit that when he eaya It It doesn't seem half bad. but only think of the anund of 1, Jane, take thee, Lemuel. By Jove." exclaimed Lem when I called tua attention to this, "there isn't another aentsiu in the English language that would suit me half so well!" and he looked almost handsome when he aaid it. Ha isnt had looking, anyway, and every one praises him until I get tired of hearing It "A rattling good fellow" (that from my brothers). Plenty of sand (that's father's verdict), Such a dear hoy around the bouse (of course thst's mother), and so on, until I was really afraid I should get to taking others opinions and not thoughtfully formulate one of my own. This was the reaeon I decided to spend Sunday at Skinner's Lake alone. I came near being born at Skinners Lake, as near aa two months, and wa left before I was six. so I have not a lively recollection of the place. Father often says it's too dead to be remembered, therefore I decided tt would he lust the place to set one's thoughts In array. Certainly there's no such opportunity at home. It's Jane, aew on this button In a hurry, and Oh, say, Jane, make a fourth at tennis, won't you? or Jane, where did I put my aUhmetlc?,, and Jane, Jane, Jane, from morning until night. I did not know the name of a person at Sklnner'a Lake, and, not wanting any one In the family to learn of my destination, I wrote to the postmaster asking If there waa a hotel In the place, or, If not, would some nice lady board FACTS I should be If some one woull perform me over Sunday. He at oru-- replied. along that path and wai.de red what The flier and a would happen j.ext There la no hottel but a vriry i.i-h.i piened together, lie laddy will take you next Kuiinday." haif grown Judging by the way he spelled, he came along the path whistling and must have been boru double jolt.led paying no attention to horns just In I wrote to the verry nice laddy, time to get the innil bag which the flier threw out, and to him 1 addressed Mrs Sweet, and made arrangement for tny sojourn with her from Saturday an fnnuiry. He shouldered the lean mall lag and evening to Monday morning. A luck would have it Saturday was rainy, aril tilted his hat on the tiuck of his head, la site Lem dropped in at noon to beg me rot gweet:" said he meditatitely. to imperil my health by traveling; eaid ihe lean one or the fat one 1 didn't know, but 1 hoped she was a similar strvwe for Niue o'clock hi. Ha Sweet came together. She.wua the (at one and felt so turrit) fy snriy that she'd made a "mess of my ruinin " that I forgave her and ale heartily of the sunper she set lorth pli kies end pie. cheese and doughnuts, cake and milk. While I ale and until 1 went upstairs she rocked and asked me questions, pa snoring in h:s chair, until 1 was nearly wild. You see. so fir 1 had cot dune a bit of thinking which would lead to a deciaion ly IS SHE THE LEAN ON'E OR TUB FAT ONE?" If I'd only do my thinking at home he'd alay and help me. Hut I was determined and managed the matter well, getting him off without an Inkling aa to my destination. Then I got myself off. At I oclock the train left me at Skinmoved on. Some way when I looked around I wanted to move on with It. The depot la a platform In the midst of a field, beside a water tank. A path led from It thrdiigh a lot where some cows were graalng. and every cow, I observed, possessed two short horns which pointed atralght at me when she looked in my direction! The sun waa shining, but every tree that hung over the platform contributed Ita quota of recent rain to the undoing of my new brillluntlne suit, so I raised my umbrella and sat down on the edge of the platform to think but not of Lem! No; I counted the horns ners Lake and AND fat. The boy grinned and instructed me to fuller him. I foilered gladly, seeing in what contempt he held the cows, al'houah the path, wide enough to fnrm a ocy thoroughfare fur trousers. was loo narrow for skirts, and I was conscious that every s'ep waa laying the foundation for a shrinkage in brilliun-tine- . We walked half a mile before coining to the town, if a dozen houses, a church and a atboolhouea can be dignified by that name, and the boy pointed to a house on the outskirts aa the home of the fat Sweet. It wus a square white house, with green blinds all closed. The front door was also closed and locked: ditto the back door. I stood on the back steps and locked around. Truth to tell. I wished I were at home. The country was indeed beautiful to look at. but not to walk in with low shoee and a new suit. The grasa waa knee deep everywhere even In the front yard. Besides, I waa getting very hungry. Presently back of the house, beside an orchard. I r aught sight of a man plowing between rows of green things. I waded through the grass to the wall and, balancing myself on It. called to hint. He paid no more attention to me than If I had been a June bug. Finally I followed after him and touched hia arm. "la Mrs Kweet at homer1 1 asked. lie turned and looked at me hard, without saying a word. Then he dropped the reins and stalked solemnly toward the house, I following, asking questions to which no ausaer waa voucluatfed. Finally I decided that he was insane and aa wa neared the house vowed 1 should never trust myself inside with him, but when he produced Ihe key front under the doorniHt and ojiened the front door the action reem-e- d to unseal his III. He cast one comprehensive glance Into the dark Interior and then burst out In a loud, hearty voice, "Darn her, she's luken down the siltin' room stove! After that I felt at ease, except with my wet feet. While my host was building a fire In the kitchen stove he Informed me In the rising voice common to the very deaf thnt "nu had gone to sewin' society, thinking I would not come In the rain, and also added that I muat make myself "to home" while he done the chores. Therefore I set supperlesa for two hours and fed the fire, alj the time thinking how much more comfortable 1 concerning I,eu. When I started upstairs I asked her to rail me early, as 1 wished to walk out a little around the country alone. 1 empliasised sionc, for she had just told me that pa intended to get a surherself rey and take hia sister-in-laand me around the lake after breakfast. Defers breakfast 1 decided I ONE ails the critter. But Instead of stopping pa cracked his whip and cried, G'lang here! He had not heard a word. Then Ihe lean Mrs. Sweet raised her voice: Say, Watts, atop a moment! Stop!" The anapplng had Increased In volume, but pa heard it not, nor did the thin voice of hid slater-in-lapenetrate hia inner consciousness. Then 1 took a hand In the matter. I half arose to bring my lips near paa ear and screamed, "M r. Sweet, you better" I got no further. The right front wheel crumpled up and folded together like the remains of the one hnn shay, nd I shot headforemost, froglike, over pa'a knees lino the lake, my arms extended and my loose sleeves scooping up quantities of yellow sand. Pa pulled me out by my feet. They remained high and dry, which cannot be said of any other portion of my anatomy. My none was scratched and scraped by pebbles. My hair wus soaked and filled with sand. Oh, 1 knew without looking at myself that I was a ludicrous Bight! Pa strangled every would walk through the cemetery and Not that there la anyconaider la-thing funereal about him, but a cemetery Is conducive to thought more conducive, I soon discovered, than Is tbe comblnathis of pickles, pie and cheese laid to rest on a deep feather bed. 1 hud never slept on feu the re before and, come to think or It, I can't truthfully say that. I slept on them that night, although loward morning I did full Into a doze deep enough so Hint I dreamed that Leui had turned into a them. They grew to respect hia knowlHia epecimena of plants were a matter of great Interest to the unsoNo doulit, too. phisticated colonials. ths housemaid would grumble ' about tho litter whenever he brought In a lot of new ones. AU thla time he waa writing to the scientific societies of Europe In regard to hia Invest igiitlotia. The Royal society of London, one of d the must eelebrated of its kind, an essay on the natural history Williamsburg, the colonial capital, there were no opportunities. Doubtless ho would console himself with tho thought of tho convenience of having a doctor son to soothe the pangs of gout In his declining years. But the son made little progress in medicine.-Hiheart was not in ths work, and when he cams home he again took to ths woods, spending day a exploring the region In a canoe or on foot. Hia father bud Utile sympathy with these edge. . puli-lishe- These treatises were issued in the series printed by the famous Royal society of London and known as PhilOne of his osophical Transactions. most intimate friends abroad was the celebrated Swedish naturalist and friend of Linnaeus, the father of botany, Through this friend Clayton published his Aral book. "Flora Ylrginlea. in 1731 and 174S. Thla is the first hook on American botany. wrlLten by an American, for such Clayton was by adoption. In this quaint volume are described many plants then unknown to European botanist a It is In Latin, as were most scientific hooks at that time, and ao, you aee, John Clayton waa no mean scholar. The "Flora Vlrglnlca was Intended to be a mere foretaste of the great work for which he Industriously collected specimens and made drawings. Hia hope was to live to publish It, but he died In 1773, three years before the Declaration of Independence, and left his manuscript to his relative, William Clayton, clerk of New Kent 'county. Fate whs unkind, however, for Wllllsm Clayton kept the manuscript for three ginia. Gro-novlu-s, FLOWER THERE WAS LEM STANDING FRONT OF ME. IN the next house. They essured me that no one traveled the road on Sunday, and, anyway, I could not be seen. So there I sat behind a clump of buahea on a rock, my bare arms bound g font Inside the raincoat, my hair sand and water over my face and down my neck, my eyelids red and the tears chasing down my cheeks or meandering over my poor nisrred nose, looking at my ruined brilliantine suit spread out to dry. I waa just wondering how I'd ever get buck to town that night I was bound to go that night when,' without any warning, there waa Lem standing in front of me, looking me over with tbe grovest expression I had ever seen on his face. Oh, It was a mean flank movement, but It was all my brothers fault Brother had seen the postmark on the letter sent by the Skinners Lake postmaster, and he had given Lem a hint, dris-slin- years in hia desk, and at the beginning of the war of the Revolution the New Kent county courthouse was burned, and with it went John Claytons book and his lost chance of fame, or at least so it would seem. Over In Europe the son of the great Grnnnvlua, now a botanist himself, one day came across a copy of the "Flora Vlrglnlca. He remembered with what delight he aa a boy had rend the letters from the wonderful new world. He learned that- John Clayton waa now (lend and the hook on which he had based hia hope of fame had gone up In amoke, one of the sacrlflces to liberty. Accordingly he revised the flora, and, taking a family of plants discovered by the dead botanist, he affixed hia name to IL ur GIRLS BILLY. Thera was a small bird, and hia name It was "Billy. Tbs things that he did were amusingly silly. Ua rhewed all the rind off a tree In the park. And then he insisted he knew how to "bark I" MASQUERADERS. Don, who lived in the city, went with his mother Tor a visit in the country, where ho aaw some geese. lie ran into the house, exclaiming: Oh, mamma, come here! I saw some chickens with false faces on. Utile ON THE EXPRESS. . "This shall be a better monument Ihnn marble or hronse, said he. And that Is how little spring beauty waa named, and every spring It should recall to mind the hoy who so loved the flowers of the Old Dominion and the man who first wrote of them and named them for the scientific world. CLOCK. BEAl'TY. PEOPLE BEGAN TO CONSULT CLAYTON. woodland rxp-d- i! ion and looked about for a place lo put t li bolDins buy of bis. He found it wi'h TVler Beverly, the ()f (Pou- - cater county, who i'urcc I pi vibe him into his ntfl. e. The iiM.inKMiieiu prove! an rx client one. The rl.Ki'-- were llaht. the pay was fair, whb-mi l tbire ,i p'.rr.ty of biti'-wus best of all for a young limn !:h :t Inste for hotsny. 1iiti.le i,irncil that when they found a strut gi- plant or wanted some Information nNiut a new one young I iay'on whs the person most likely to enlighten of Virginia. art l:ige building Is in inukr tbe ordinary two wheeled cart with s mechen-is- ! device unde' mat li so tlmt the isuiy rests on a fiimiewerk of on rw rl. tho (art tin axle; I till- - com-tli- . an becvinly l.niniu ei m,d xc ill neither en the b"re nor drag the bear anomil nlT Its fret, Jt does init mutter how 011 !i ,.ui IIP- whirled nut. toe t trill t call be Mowed .iu..y ,n ;i beg without taking up intir ii rpnee i an American invention. Ir is comprised of a rot! of Mr cl (itteii (n a drum and v nh :l giHppiina li""k h n.ribrid l 1 idii idling the of Ike descent. s - Ft iREST. OF MECHANICS. t Foffeeberry chewing is a new form of vice which is taking strong hold of many persona In the coffee roasting establishment. It Is a stimulant, and when once the habit has taken possession It la hard to break. Medical men say that it ia far worse than tobacco. A combined alarm clock and lamp deserves mention on account of it When the alarm goes off a spring Is released, this drives a UNDER THE SEA. Some of the moat beautiful sights are found in the sea the coni reefs and the sunken gardens, filled with strange marine plants. Some marine animal live ouly in the purest waters, others only in the foulest; for every condition there ia a life to tit it. In all ocean baaina, hills and ridges, aa well aa troughs and deep holes, occur, and the bottom la covered with the skeletons of marine animals, changed by time Into slime and stone. Bums of the animals of the ocean have no eyes, having no need of them; others have a hundred eyes. The largest animal and the ttnieat animal are found in the sea. In places the sea la 0,000 feet deep. Its average depth Is over 13,000 feet. hours the Twice every twenty-fowater rises and falls. At the entrance of the Bay of Kundy the rise at spring tide Is no less than seventy feet. The natural power that controls the tide Is a tremendous one. And the plant life in the oceata la almost as remarkable as the animal lire. Learned men have been studying it for centuries and are only beginning to understand it. If you want to be Interested aa no novel can lnterrit you procure a book telling in a simple manner of Ihe Ufa in the seaa There are plenty of such bonks written for tlia people rather than for scientists. Cries Dolly, traveling on the train And staring out with might and main: Oh, mother, look. I beg! Just see those wonderful telegraph poles! How enn they run by In such hurrying shoals, When they only have one leg? He came to America from England when a boy only twelve years of age. Little John Clayton's father was attorney general of the Virginia colony under King Cenrge. and no doubt be would have liked to have his son be a lawyer, but he winihljr concluded that the hoy's tastes did not run In that direction. John was very fond of the outdoor life and loved to wander alone or with a companion through the lovely tangled forests of the Old Dominion. Not only its birds and animals attracted his attention, but he was delighted With Its si range flowers and plants. (Sometimes from a friendly Indian MARVELS t AND niet. SOME and consequently I.cm had follow vi. There be stood looking me over 4 time when I could least bear im. . lion. he exi lain . Jimmlny Crichtons! This is w hut comes of going awi, ;0 think. I never believed in thought u r. self. I begged him to turn his ha, k look over the lake such a pretty I.,,,, j but. oh. ao wet! I waa almost h leal myself, bat Lent never situ ini if he had Well, when 1 remember ti.i convulsions into which pa bad gn. over my appearance I considered it rl. irately thoughtful of Lem not to Ian a superhumanly thoughtful. Instead of smiling he came a tl nearer, and I begau to free iny arc s and then remembered I couldn't. it strikes me, he said soberly, that , mermaid act aint conducive to hc.iph thla early In the morning. .Aren't yea pretty wet ? Then I broke down. Oh. Lem. f began, I'm awfully wet and not pn-t-at all! Boo-hoThen he put his arms around me Jut as though I had announced a favorable decision and aald with such conUotti: g heartiness. Jane, I never saw yin when you werent pretty enough to suit me aU right! Well, I made my decision then and there, and when pa came back with a whole wagon and ma and the lean Mrs. Sweet with coffee they all looked at a wet sandy spot on the front of Lems black coal. Neither of us had noticed It until they came. o! BOYS A li PI 11 NO time he tried to speak, and ma sat down flat in the middle of the road, shaking like a mold of jelly. But the leuu Mrs. Sweet came to the rescue. She was properly alarmed. She sent pa off on the whits horse for another vehicle. She led me up on o sunny hank, took off my dress, wiped off my face and draped me in ma'a raincoat, which folded twice around me Then she and. ma went on to see if they could not get some hot coffee at beans! I ate lightly, both ma and pa commenting on my pallor and lack of appetite, and soon after breakfast pa'a sister-in-lathe lean Mrs Sweet, joined ua, and we set out behind a big rawboned, long legged horse that took the old surrey over the ground In jerks. I sat ob the front seat with pa, while the fat and the lean Mrs. Sweet occupied the back seat. It waa a glorious morning, and my aidrits arose despite the fact that I had yet arrived at no decision. Wa were bound for Skinner's Lake, which pa Informed me loudly waa aa "prutty a water spot as could be found in three counties, and I believed him when we came In sight of it. It is set In a saucer shaped valley, with the road running ao near the edge bf the water that, swollen by the recent rains, the little lakelet had encroached on one wheel track. As the old Surrey creaked merrily along Ma Sweet began peeking over the bark seat to assure herself and us that something wda wrong with the vehicle. "It never snapped like thla before," she began anxiously and raised her voice. "Pa, pa, atop and aee what FOR INTELLIGENT FICTION speaking broken English he would glean strange fads In regard to tho habits and uses of the new vegetation. In the evening when he returned to tho quaint colonial mansion in which the attorney general lived he would tell hit father of his many discoveries. ' Ah, my lad. the father would say, "tie a physician we must make of thee!" And probably he would sigh, for physicians, except the very great ones, were poorly paid and not overly esteemed. Medlral men were then much more Intereeled in herbo and plants thsn they are nnw, and naturally his father supposed that medicine was the profession for John. He sent him to study, probably In England, for even in great, sour cucumber pickle wearing aa inverted mince pie for a hat, and then Mias Drew! Say, Miss Drew, get up!" came outside my door, and I opened my eyes to the early dawa and half past 4! "We have breakfast at i. continued Ms Sweet's voice, "but I didn't think' youd like to git up any earlier. Breakfast at (! 1 crawled out and looked into the glaae. One glancg at my pale yellow skin waa enough. I decided that there would be no communion wltb myself in the cemetery ibat morning and beat an ignominious retreat back to bed until breakfast was served pickles, doughnuts and, climatic horror of Indigestion, pork and w s of the most planting wild of the season is the beauty. At this time, when the Jamestown exposition Is so much in ths public mind, it should be especially interesting. It Is tbe only memorial of a great Virginian now almost forgotten. The srientlflc name of the little spring beauty is Claytonln, and It la tbe namesake of John Clayton, the first American bo ta n,e. & 4f- desires to gel up at a certain hour Is awakened at that time and finds a lamp already lighted. The airbox for grates consists of a metal box which hns three sides and h top ( oil-- Hired of bars, tin- foul 111 sine Is open, and the bottom is movable like a dami-er- . It is placed in the arate. and the on round and over it. This box Insures proper cotnhiietlon by regulating the current of air passing through match against a striking" surface and the stove. It saves fuel and minimize It then pushes close enough to the lamp the genets ion of mnke. wick to ignite IL Thus the man who One of the ucncxl arrungciip-iiiin - 1 I f in-i-- ht.-nil- i pni-vid- n- -d n-ct- rd People began to say (hat John had his elm re of the Clayton brain after all. In time he succeeded ns clerk of Gloucester Ieter (ounty. His wotk had won him the of iimny European 'naturalists. who adrieel him to prepare book about the i bints of the new world. This lie d"B jdt'd to do. It wuruld make the fiiirtnu linn- greater than evrn his divtingii:hiil father had made it. He hud wfitwn nlmut the new plant, tobacco, and hnil u!so described many new medicinul plants found In Vir 1 The npptianu can also he lowering other persons In tases where tlm descent is to be nude by one who cantn-- t work the apparatus The picture shows you tjie celebrated flower clot k at Interlaken, Switzerland. The face of the clock Is a flower bed, in which the plants are arranged in a siirt of mosaic. The date 1I0C and also the hour and the second figures are made of colored cactus plants. Ths worka of the cluck, hidden beneath the toots of the plants, move the hands oveV the face as the minutes and hours go by. and this novel timepiece does Its duty as accurately aa any old grand father. of a line Is practically all that is wanted. The players stand at a given distant e :tnd knock this hall In accordance with icrtaln rules, one catching it as it lasses beyond the reach of tho other. The game takes up very little room and will serve as an indoor game quite s iniercvting as pingpong. To prevent the chance of accidents arising from one car crossing a point w hen auoi her Is coming along the cross road h German engineer has devised an rl.'ctrlc signal. When one rur has ping any car which may be approaching the same point. The lights are arranged so that they show up in the daytime as well as at night. himself. Damascus is undoubtedly the oldest The Chinese government has taken existing city in the world. Benares the first Mips toward 'the organization and Constantinople, exclusive of Chis Tseng f a patent system. Lieu ten, nese towns, come next in point of age. nd Kang of Ihe imperial at tny nmir Pineapple wine Is likely to become a lo tills country to make an oxhiiustivr very useful table accessory. It has the investigation of (he methoda pursued flavor of Rhine wine, but it is unat Washington. equaled as a digestive agent when Lawn odd is a game Hint will probtaken in moderation, and that property ably become very popular A kind of re.irhoi n certain spot near the crossmakes It valuable. in Ihe ernier to ing it niiikes a contact which iifliv. Mitol sHi ;i r a A reiolving fan for ladies la the latlights wliiili i ui. adieu a la:ge ball by iinuna ir-.- l lump on the other line, thus stop est novelty in that line. Cy pressing a lived 11 1 EASILY ANSWERED. The small boy of the household was not notably proficient In sacred lore, but when hia sister naked him "Where was Solomons temple? he indignantly resented the supposed impeachment of his stock' of Information and retorted: "Don't you think I know anything? She assured him that she did not doubt that he knew, hut urged him to stale for her benefit. Though not crediting her sincerity, he finally exclaimed curtly: "On the side of his head, of course, where other folks' are! D'you s'poss I'm a fool? spring In the handle the fan revolves in one direction till the force of tho spring ia exhausted. Releasing the pressure of the thumb causes the fan go revolve or unwind Itself In the reverse direction. Thus a lady can fan herself without the tiling movement of tho wrist or arm. Ferrets have recently been employed for taking telephone wires through a conduit. The creatures were liurness-eand a light line attached (o the gear; then a piece of meat was placed at an opening at another point In the conduit to make the ferrets run through the tuba, dragging tho line with theiia d. |