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Show THE CITIZEN 1862. That day marked a new era for me. Comstock, that storehouse of treas- gust the FOUR SCORE AND TEN RETROSPECTION By Fannie Hazlett SOME ONE asks the question: How does it feel to be forty-five- ? Edgar Guest is to give his conclusions in the American soon. Having come to twice that age, the same question has occurred to me. In good health, comfortably situated, not burdened with wealth, I enjoy the luxury and pleasure that planning and saving bring. I am not obliged to sit always alone, living, as it were, in my yesterdays, with only a kaleidoscopic view of joy and sadness, hope and disappointment, good and bad, the common lot of mankind. Aye, wasn't it worth while to live this marvelous age of invention and achievement, to see the beginning of photography, telegraphy, railroad travel, the settling of the middle western states! twenty-eight- There never was, there never will be another such mining camp as that was for many years until the railroad across the plains and from California reduced living and prices to normal status. Until then, it was in the height of its glory. A look back to that time seems like a look into another world. It was another kindliness world. The of those roistering men, let loose from the restraints of eastern, civilized society! Women, good and bad. Every form of gambling. Yet through it all a saving grace persisted, and Nevada community, emerged, a schools and churches, respect for law, a sovereign state of the Union! Radio, the last and greatest of all in electrical invention; flying machines, annihilating time and distance, and gases that prohibit future wars. , self-sacrifici- ng self-respecti- ng One could ride, as we did in Iowa, What next? anywhere, without roads, seeing towns rapidly appearing, schools, churches, and stores. Then it was that a preacher's parish covered a radius of a hundred miles. This distance he frequently traveled, to officiate at a funeral or a wedding, to keep a regular appointment, receiving as an offering sometimes no more than a slab of pork, a bag of flour; seldom money. Three hundred dollars a year was considered fair pay, along with a donation party. And the party! Adults and children would raid the parsonage, the parsons family thanking their stars that things were no worse, when they cleaned up the day after. But everybody had a good time, conscious of duty done in dividing scanty stores with the spiritual adviser. Forty below zero! Two cold winters, and enough of Iowa. Then a trek across the plains in the covered wagon. In the prime of our lives, we didnt consider it any hardship. A week in Salt Lake City gave us a glimpse of Mormonism. The foundations of the marvelous temple were about two feet above ground. Sunday we attended church, in the bowery, back of the tabernacle, and heard Brigham Young talk. I could not call it preaching. The veneration his people had for him was evident in every move and look. The last four weeks over the deserts of Nevada were the worst. At ork Churchill, eighteen miles below Layton, our long journey ended, Au How does it FISHING NOOKS h, ure! seem to be four score and ten? I do not belong here. Each generation has its own ideas of the right way of living. Happy are they who have finished their work and passed on. To be unable to look forward and plan for the future, the joys. of family life in the yesterdays, needed by no one, just waiting, is long life to be desired? SPICED GRAPE JELLY. Pick over, wash, drain and stem one peck of grapes. To the grapes add one quart of vinegar and cupful, each, of whole cloves and stick cinnamon. Heat gradually to the boiling-poin- t, and let simmer till the grapes are soft. Strain through a double thickness of cheesecloth or return to preserving kettle, jelly-baagain bring to boiling point and let simmer twenty minutes. Add six pounds of granulated sugar, which has been heated; let simmer five minutes, and pour into glasses. one-four- th g, MOULDED CEREAL WITH BANANA. breakfast cerTurn any left-oveal, while still hot, into cups rinsed in cold water, half filling the cups.-Whecold, scoop out the centers, and fill the open spaces with sliced bananas, turn from the cups on to a er 15 MUCH ROCK SMOOTHES IRON HORSES TRAIL ON ROADS By Edgar A. Guest Men grow weary, said the Lord, Steel, wood, rock and gravel are the raw materials of which railroads are "Of working for their bread and made, according to W. H. Kirkbride, board. engineer of .maintenance of way and Theyll weary of the merry chase, structures for Southern Pacific, who And want to find a resting place says that the total of these materials Where hum of wheel is never heard, composing the companys Pacific lines And no one speaks an angry word, And selfishness and greed and pride rights of way amount to more than 35.000.- 000 tons, exclusive of ties, And petty motives dont abide. and trestles. Theyll need a place where they can bridges The roadbed consists of approxigo 12 000,000 tons of rock ballast, To wash their souls as white as snow. mately 18.000.- 000 tons of gravel and 3,000,000 They will be better men and true, tons of slag, supporting 38,392,000 If they can play a day or two. wooden ties, to whcih 1,700.000 tons of steel rails are attached by approxiThe Lord then made the brooks to mately 433,845 tons of tie plates, flow bolts, nuts, angle bars and continuous And fashioned rivers here below, joints. And many lakes; for water seems These rails extend 782 miles from Best suited for a mortals dreams, San Francisco to Ogden, Utah, and He placed about them willow trees, 2,070 miles from Portland, Oregon, to To catch the murmur of the breeze, El Paso, Texas, from which point the And sent the birds that sing the best railroad continues on to New Orleans over the companys Texas and LouisAmong the foliage to nest. He filled each pond and stream and iana lines. So carefully do the 15,000 employes lake With fish for man to come and take; responsible for the safeguarding of Then stretched a velvet carpet deep, this long right of way perform their tasks in cooperation with other thouOn which a weary soul could sleep. It seemed to me the good Lord knew sands of trainmen and signalmen, That man would want something to do that in more than eight consecutive years no passenger has been killed When worn and wearied with the by any accident to any of the comstress panys steam trains. This in spite of Of battling hard for world success. the fact that 55,577 freight cars, 1,811 When sick at heart of all the strife passenger cars and 1,781 locomotives And pettiness of daily life. owned by the companys Pacific lines, He knew hed need, from time to time, together with thousands of cars beTo cleanse himself of city grime, longing to the companys Texas and And he would want some place to be Louisiana lines and to other railways, Where hate and greed hed never see, are in constant operation over the And so on lakes and streams and lines. brooks, The good Lord fashioned fishing You cant stop people from thinking nooks. but you can start them. , p MEET ME THE AJT buttered agate pan, fruit downward, and set into hot oven to become very hot. ' Remove with a broad bladed knife to cereal dishes. Serve at once with sugar and milk. BINGHAM & GARFIELD RAILWAY CO. 26 East 2nd South Ship your freight via Bingham and Garfield Railway. Fast daily merchandise cars from Salt Lake City in connection with the Union Pacific System. USE COPPER Brass piping for $4500 cottage only costs $48.87 more than galvanized iron piping and will Sportsmens Headquarters LAST FOREVER. T. H. PERLEYWITS, Asst. Gen. Freight & Pass. Agt. Salt Lake City, Utah. H. L. DAVIDSON, Agent. Bingham, Utah. Phone Was. 1946 . |