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Show & iw ?,!, Sjppira.v VfilH mm m iH " &' a- iU a ' n r : r .i.i ,,. 'brlstmas agood d and M IMZKEEB ' v " to eng ou I Martin's 1,1 ., V i ' stjzazT i 4 are not hvohing very jolly iyi Christmas day, observed the girl iq brown. "Were your gifts chiefly hair receivers and silver thimbles, or were .no i in .couple of laj-ja tib h served as so expensive that you are wonder coqpi they . the choicest food lng how you can ever return them next gl b w- - into the haJ year?" - f bn sed coach 4 "N not exactly,' replied the girl in if 'bem daily. The gok green. "I " flue young tails :4 "h. you should see Alice," broke In impg'iutlon; but SIiboi th girl In brown, "She looks as happy philosophically as vtt asdhe girl who ha got rid of the coat tenteilly eating mot of tan she cultivated at the seashore share of food and 'ol last summer. She" bowing In the basin of "I don't know whether or not she received many presents, but she has Soon all bu' two of the turkeys wets one which seems to make her perfectcar i' il aw.n (ire of the two, a baud ly happy. It some Moing c ' e", Col. Roberts "I am sorry to hear it If that girl iml is Mar 'I 'a would call for o her she got deserts would spend the '1 tm. iU. Immllv and stiffly the holidays with the dentist. She-w- ell, t Ml II r Ml U"ll up and dovs you know 1 have seen a good deal of no unil gobbled hi Alice iw.nni i ;i lately. You know we just had p'oit M f'n'ii ti ii u ii till night at the to be Intimate, since Roll was dividing Simon lay a tm his attentions oirc tup of his pretty equallv between ease In the and blinked at hu us." a on if aa irate (.mi the air arouni "M'h'nt , otherwise people might him did not fauh leek with garlic. you were jealous of each other ' Wlnmoer the turki came too nest fancy "Jealous Of Alice, the idea' HowIn his swollen pi lilt It was only nets I had to ever, her You never sail for Simon lo open hla mouth and know what a watch girl with her saintly exex ml his tongue is saying of you behind your t last the Colonel came for b!i pression back You know that Rob is sort of tm k y and lime him away, still pro testing volubly Only Simon and aa undersized ben turkey remained. It ain't much of a turkey, that's I fact' acknowledged Farmer Martin u he and Mary Ann passed the pen Friday evening She ain't worth much. Wouldn't you riither I'd kill her than Simon te morrow''' tentatively queried Maty Ann, with her eyes on Simon, who ms to the bars to see If more food w forthcoming. ' (loose is good enough for me. and Simon ain't no money value. Mebbt that turkey will fatten up 'galtji! spring and make a right respectalt mother hen, replied Farmer Martji She's not likely t,o unless sbt makes a better fight for her victual,' Mary Ann returned. "Pears like Sinks gets most of 'em In spite of all I (fti do. He's slch a fool he don't knv when hes got enough. Most seem j t I pity to kill such a silly critter. That night Mary Ann had every thing In readiness for the morrefu planning to rise early and praysM Simon before breakfast, for even lari acknowledged that a goose la hanl ti ji 1 i -- VV1 j 11 . In . i h- i ', ha-d- Simple Simons Part in a Christmas Dinner V ANY of old Speckle' queerly assorted brood were atepchtl-dreor only adopted abe never o much betrayed It by even aa an upward roll of her eye. Truth to tell, old 8peckle knew aa well aa any one that her Inclination to set had come at a alack egg aeaaon but the maternal inatlncta thrilled her. and with a touching trust In human providence ahe submissively turned every egg In her neat each day, and aat a week longer than any other hen would have thought compatible with her dignity. Most of Speckle's offspring came In twins. There were two fluffy white chickens, two pert black ones, two J 41 a The Thief Threw Himseif Over. tree atrlped bantams, two long legged peevish turkeys, and two perpetually hungry ducks Hut when It came to the twin goslings there was only one of thun Of course, the different twins associated together and told each other tbelr trials and joys, their fears and hopes; but the gosling was the yellow sheep of the family He knew so trouble but hla own, he wanted little, and when he found a happy hunting ground of bugs he had It all to He bad also a little habit himself of wabbling in while two chlckena fought over a bug, quietly gobbling up the Insect and calmly turning hla back without even so much aa a reminder that there no longer existed a cause for quarrelling. . Others might have aharp bllla to dig and fight, but he had a broad one to grasp and retain, la hla Independent, way he waddled through the world, making strange friends, and having feather-breadtescapes known only to himself and the Martin family. 'May Pay dawned warm and sunny. Worms had fairly wriggled themselves lato the goslings mouth that morning, and he felt morahan content aa he squatted In the ann on the back kltch-step Suddenly, In turning hla head to the left, he aplei a tempting red Object peeping np front a great, round, whitish looking snrface. The gosling ... made dash, and splash! be went under the shining whit surface--. He had that red bit, however, and as ha swallowed it be Instinctively struck at with bis legs. What a dUghfui happy-go-luck- h , a sensation the gosling had then. He seemed born for paddling, and as he paddled be kept bobbing hla head down Into the white substance and fetching up the moat appetising things. Evidently the world had been made for nothing except gobbling and paddling. By and by he began to feel tired. He determined to Jump out on the steps again, but strange to say all his jumps turned to paddles He couldn't seem to get over a hard, brown object next to the steps. He decided to try no more but just to sit still, so be doubled his short logs up under hint and floated. After a while he felt himself sinking, but he paddlod twice or thrice and got up again. Still It was pleasanter to drift, so he rested once more Lower and lower he sank. Strange Odora floated up around him. Drowsiness besieged him. Not much except his head was now above surface, but aomehow, as he rested bis bill on that cool substance the gosling didn't care. Just then Mary Ann came out with a pan of peelings and dashed them In. Peep! peep! murmured the gosling, bobbing up and down. "La!" ejaculated Mary Ann, and ran for the shovel. When she had shoveled him out on the grass she finished her exclamation. La! alnt that fool goose got no more tense that to go swlmmin' In the sloo bucket' "' "Peep' replied the gosling, placidly turning over on the grass In the warm sun with a deliciously filled feeling. Lazily the summer months drifted One day and another "that fool by goose, as every one came to designate him. figured continually before the public eve So entirely devoid of sense did his escapades seem that the hired man named him "Simple Simon." for short. Wtih the coming of the snappy De ceniber days people began to think of Christmas feasts, and the farmers to look over their poultry with an eye to the markets. One frosty day when Mrs Martin's kitchen breathed spicy odors her husband slouched In ' I've Just been looking over the Turkeys are poultry," he drawled. I About four o'clock In the morning she was aroused by an unearthly quacking and hissing. Hastily throw lng a quilt around her shoulders and plunging Into her shoes, she rushed to the chicken yard. A man fled toward the fence with a bloody turkey In on hand. Drop that, drop that! yelled Mary Ann, hurling the cloths stick at bint and bearing down upon him at full speed as he neared the barbed wire ' fence. The thief threw himself over, but his trousers and a turkey wing caught on a barb. Gaunt Mary Ann. In her motley quilt, loomed up before him, armed with a chicken trough With a desperate wrench he freed himself, but he lost his prize. Mary Ann grabbed up the turkey. Its head had been strung off She ran frantically to the coop. It had We a overturned lie's stole Simon, he's stole gj. mon walled Mary Anu as Fanner Martin appeared, hitching up hi trot sor. a familiar sound soot Glancing up. she caught a glimpse ol Simon quacking merrily and waddling rapidly through th rusty weeds in the direction ot th Suddenly her ear. P- - r bav "Well, I reckon wed Christmas for all. after Ain't turkey no use of losin two fowls." said Fanner Martin, after relieving bis feelings. "l.a!" muttered Maty nn. as $hs watched Simon blissfully quacking and gobbling In the mobile of th corn icn "I do believe Simon aint such a fool after all " N V HerslA be-te- When to Moralize f We will not expatiate ujion the svll in Chrlst-ma- a and folly of glftmaklng until after Christmas. the "dark Such moralizing follow brown taste of the morning after." Atlanta Constitution. A PERTINENT QUERY literary, and he talks about books most of the time. Well, Alice Is so deceitful that she pretends she, too. Is literary. I hate deceit." "But how do you manage to keep up th conversation when he " Rob prefers a conversation In which the other party Is a listener, dear. Of course I told hfm when we first met that I dearly love to read Oh, weTl, I dont know a girl anywhere who reads as many fashion magazines as you." M'h'm. Well, I knew that Bob meant to make me a handsome Christmas gift this year, and-e- r perhaps add himself to ft. But how" Have you never heard of femlDlne Intuition, dear? Consequently I Just mentioned to him the fact that I am I knew by the collecting turquoises. way he changed the subject that he bad taken the hint and thought It ac- cidental.' Ob b; do show me " 1 she" e Mabels trousseau." WT br w1fFht K CopyrixhL ST. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH lb'll. on enrth. TI.ANTs. Mil Itakei C'ltv and Iavette have oigan I 'et iiitta Intern'l Norerl, TREES AkniIn Ifutei too se lzod an oil company. They have cuied land near the well of the Ote For the Cosy Corner. gon company at Fayette, Idaho, and An elderly man fcom the country, propose to hi gin dulling w.th as little Intent Oi. purchasing some furniture, delay aa possthlt November's copper exports were proceeded to the city to put his skill for Inrgaining to the test. On entera new record, :i:t,i87 tons, ing an old curiosity" shop he found and bringing t.c total ot H'u7 to date hack to a tigiue only 1,418 tons below himself confronted by the proprietor. last years exinirts The increase over After turning over the stock the old man purchased a chair. A few days October was I.ikj! tons, over Novemlater the purchtfcr returned to ths ber last year 15,:!,i0. with the chair In about The cleanup of the Sunny side mill shop aagain dozen pieces half The proprietor for the month of November was nearlooked at them very gravely and exly $20,000, says the Round Mountain, amined them all over, then suddenly This was gathered Nevada. Nugget exclaimed: Ah, my friend, 1 see in three retorts which bad a tempowhat Is the matter; somebody has rary kipgjdaee in the company safe been sitting on it!" Tit Bits. until Its removaTTast week. The old Ketohum smelter, between Entertains and Instructs the Boys. Ketchum and the Guyer hot sptings, Is and On the Rob the Ranger" being demolished. Most of the timTrail of the Arabs," two books by bers and other wood work has been Herbert Sti mg, the celebrated Enshipped, much of It to Nampa, where glish writer, recently published by It will be used to build Bheds and a the Bobbs-Merril- l company, of Indianwarehouse for the vugur factory. apolis, Ind., are two stories of adOne of the largest Independent venture that are bound to prove fassmelters in the west will probably be cinating and Instructive to the averbuilt at Leadville, Colorado, within age boy, the kind of clean, whole the next year by the owners of the some youth wrho has a longing for famous Greenback mine at Bingham, adventures of all kinds. Mr. Strang owns the Is a writer whose stories have atThis syndicate Utah. smelter at Bingham, which has been tracted the attentionin of thousands of providing boys persons interested closed down by injunction proceed with reading that Is at once wholeInga. and whose Insome and Before action was taken to close formation entertaining, h is accurate and whose down the Washoe smelter and Butte Is above reproach- - While both was carefully stories are entertaining enough to tie mines, the situation canvassed by the officials of the vari- the most fidgety little fellow to the hearth-sidcomous Amalgamated during Its perusal, each subsidiary an InstrucUve and educational has were at There t.ie present panies. conference, which lasted three days, turn that Is truly delightful and comH. H. Rogers, James Stillman and mendable. William Rockefeller. Flower as a Cult. F. C. Cooley, representing the Mine of One the most practical plans for & Smelter Supply company In Salt among the masses a taste Inculcating an been has InvestigaLake, making for and flowers has been hit plants tion of the southern Utah oil fields, fathers of the little and has returned so Impressed with upon by the city Hessian town of Alzey, where each ue and needs future that their present In the elementary schools girl public to his house that a has recommended full line of oil drilling rigs, tools, ma- receives every spring two plants to chinery, casing and supplies, be put in care for. Inspectors at the end of the season make their report, which la at once. A letter, from the superintendent of Invariably good. the Yerington Copper Mountain comThe Pepper FmTS'y. panys properties to a prominent Salt "Five Little Peppers In the Little Laker advises that the shaft on the Brown House, by Margaret Sidney claim has attained company's Lydia a depth of flfty-on- e feet, and that author of the famous Pepper books,' there has been eighteen Inches of fine which have gladdened the hearts-o- f copper ore In- - evidence for every foot many thousands of Juvenile readers, from the surface down, with the best has recently been Issued from th showing In the bottom. presses of the Lothrop, Lee & ShepThe mine owners of Falrview, Won- ard Co., Boston. By the art of ths der, Yerington and considerable other author, Margaret Sidney, In private mineral-producinterritory In that re- life Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, who Uvea to have get relief from some in Concord, Mass , in The Wayside, gion got sources one of these days, and the made famous as the residence of NaHawthorne, the irrepressible impression Is that some of the big thaniel children with their many huPepper companies will get together during the man and lovable qualities have bewinter and decide to put In mills and smelters and Invade the metal mar- come familiar acquaintances, and the kets on their own accounts during the presentation of situations Is so genuinely humorous that all ages are encoming year. tertained. The recent addition to the A general improvement In sentiPepper family is equaIy as good as ment Is notlceablejn the iron worl Its predecessors. Every one seems fe be awaiting the To Hav No Trouble. time .when increased activity will be One way to avoid trouble Is to Justified. It seems to be the general make It Impossible before It appears. managers impression of the furnac from all the different districts that On the day of the Sunday school piclong" depression need not" he looked nic the trolley car stopped to take a for, and that In the early part of next bright-eyed- , middle-age- d woman with year considerable Inquiry for pig Iron six hstless boys. "Yes. were going may be expected. to the she chirped, lo response One mining section of Idaho that U to the picnic, conductors query, "but you not feeling the present slumpy tenwon t have to stop to pick np any lost Is the headgear. Im perfectly dency throughout tne country vftjllng to Spring Mountain district of Lemhi take care of six boys; but there Isnt are There county. eight producing money enough to tempt me to look mines In the district, the ores carryafter six boys and six hats. ing lead and copper. One mlfe alone has contracted to deliver fifty tons of How to Invest Your Savings. ore a day to the smelter, there being There Is perhaps no more universal 20,000 tons of ore In sight at .the presdesire than that to acquire money, ent time. Recently two men offered etghteen and for this reason peculiar Interest sacks of gold ore to the Tacoma attaches to How to Invest Your Savsmelter. Assays showed Its value to ings, by Isaac F. Marcos son. which by the Henry be $2&,000. The smelters refused to has jnst been published of Philadelphia. Altemos company, buy because the men could not defi- This book has many qualities which nitely account for themselves. Later make It distinct among books of Its a boy appeared at the smelter with a kind. Mr. Marcoesons book Is writsack containing similar ore. This also ten In the lntereet of the average man was refused. When questioned the boy or woman with or funds to Insavings hastily departed. The smelter officials vest, and Us sole purpose Is to furnish are Inclined to believe the ore ts a accurate facts sod knowledge essenportion o targe amounts recently tial to safe and conservative Invest. stolen at Ooldfield, Nevada. menL Mining men In the Boise basin are making loud complaints about people Perfectly Lovely. The most consoling pleasure of old taking timber claims upon mineral land and the state filing on the same age, looking out of th windows of claaa. In order to take such land an hope. Is the sweet sense of the heart affidavit must be made showing that and soul that you have spread ths the land does not contain valuable Sowers c- - life about the rugged road 'minerals. of humanity instead of the Betties of The past qeek marked the starting contention. Baltimore American. of or shipments fnim the big por- Rsviv Ammonia Victim. phyry deposit of the' Boston Consolidated for the treatment of which there When a person is overcome by ana has been expended no less then monla fumes a good , stiff drink ot But .a limited tonnage Is bewill help to counteract the acvinegar ing forwarded to the GarileJJ conce-- v tion of th ammonia, revive the untrator, however. conscious, and In many case sar Ufa I g "He asked If I was fond of Thacke-ray- . I said I doted on him, I'd have said I doted on white mice If he had confessed a fondness for them I was so happy. Well, yesterday' I dropped in at Alices. I found her In the library; she seemed nervous and stayed to find the reason " And did" She asked if I did not' consider a set of Thackeray the nicest Christmas gift a man could make' to a girl a girl he liked very much? I replied, 'Yes if th girl had saffron hair and eyes which were located at right angles'' " "And She replied. Oh. she was In earnest; she knew a man who meant to glv a lucky girl just such a set. Then she Intimated that he Intended to hint biq hope that the set would soma bt hotised under his own roof." But who " I said, yes, the girl was lucky If sh had a genius for martyrdom; that th man who would make a girl such a gift would be th man who would expect his wife to prefer a subscription to a magaslne to a new tailor-madfrock and an addition to th library to n trip to Palm Bosch!" Good! I'm glsd you said" Im not myself, dear. Rob was In the next room and heard every word. had helped him to select a AHc Christmas gift for me, and when I . a she told him to wait while ebe met me In the library, so he could hear my cries of delight when I heard ot the eelectlon! Did yon ever know each an unmitigated 'cat!" - Gracious never!" cried th girj In I didnt tell you, did 1, that brown. the gift which bo delighted Alice was a set of Thackeray? Rob was there and Alice's mother stopped me In the ball, as I went out, to ask the address of the dressmaker who mad -- 170 e dress oorn Has just arrited, the quality is the very finest the prices are about the same asked for inferior oods. Shopping hai;s and purses for ladies; wallets and bill hooks for m-- Is" ' Leather Goods w and while ral-ie- "You i vw A' New Li ne of The production of gold In Utah In 5,21U,!!bC, an. in-- i lboij amounted to reane of I'JT.Im: over that of 1 yuD ihtDvbplto bringency m the the money requited money nuukei for the evannb- - plant to be erected at Boise, Idaho, bai bet u There ate hx i of leasers workat ing on the Hum nne properties Stockton, and ore m being forwarded to the alley smelters each week. In the Yiigm river oil section there are sixteen ng-- i now set tip ready for action, many of which are hard at work drilling Sub as are idle are awaiting the uirtvul of broken paits. A suit is to he brought to test the ' validity of the cot iteration license' b the last session ot tax law paSe, the Utah legisla'ut e. Over 10U cor in the expense porarions have joint of conducting the fight. The production of zinc oxide, or zinc white, in this country in lUdf or 74,080 was 1.11 GTI.lhx iHiitnds. short tuns, an im l ease of 1,577 tons, or 8 7 per ct lit over the pioduction - May. hlm'f uhrlstntas giff week before ot up all the salapJt j; MINES ANI) MINING bog on the plica was Just mat .in 1. u on ' i " '"n '" on r Ti ; r T" skewed agreed ,lV',rs : ICS and prices big sell all our :,-- ? vp " fll I -- . Bmhi |