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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH Utilize Johnson Grass for Haying OUR COMIC SECTION Its Aggressive Underground Stems Make It Difficult to Eradicate. Events in the Lives of Little Men A Profiteering Prophetess By H. IRVING KING i and unprofitable day. The other sideshows at the county fair seemed to be doing well ; but there was a deplorable lack of curiosity with regard to The Secrets of the Past, Present and Future Madame Zenobia's stock In trade. Suddenly Into her deserted tent rushed a girl of about eighteen, who cried out: Oh, please hide me! Heres ten dollars. The veiled prophetess clutched the bill with a firm grip. Kleptomania," was her mental diagnosis. There's no place," said she, but my dressing room, and they would be sure to bjr search that." Oh, do something," pleaded the Pll give you ten dollars young lady. more If you dont let them find me. Zenobla was a woman of resource and a woman of action. Come here," said she. The seeress had been a lightning change artist on the stage in her day and. In a surprisingly short time, the two women emergld from the little dressing room, Zenobla clad In the girls clothes and the girl arrayed as the veiled prophetess. Sit there and gaze at that crystal," commanded Zenobla. A minute later and a middle-ageprosperous-lookinman entered the tent. Ah, here you are," cried he; they told me you had been seen coming In here. Now, Ellen, you come right straight home. Robert is half distracted, and If I catch that Ill wring his rascal, Murchison, And he neck. Elope would you? placed his hand on the shoulder of the woman who sat with her back toward him. The woman turned and he face and the gazed into the hard-linesharp, crafty eyes of Zenobla. I beg parGreat cats ! he cried. don ; but I thought you were somebody else." I am not," responded Zenobla sharply. Across the table the girl behind the veil of sliver trembled ; but uttered no sound. Now," said the prophetess as the man departed, what does all this mean? Whats your name besides Ellen?" I Bancroft, faltered the girl. I was going to run away with George Murchison, but I'm afraid. In love with George? queried Zenobla. I thought I was, sobbed Ellen ; but now I dont know. We were going to New York. I am awfully sorry Robert takes it so hard "Here, commanded Zenobla, give me your hand ; let me read your palm. Ah Here It Isj I see a young man named George Murchison good looking wears Jewelry flashy sort of fellow blew into town from the city talks big and tells everybody what a devil of a fellow he Is. Theres another fellow named Robert som- d THE FEATHERHEADS ething" well-to-d- Ten-nese- she-mad- Undesirable Apples Undesirable varieties of apples may be to better varieties. Growers have found that by planting Hibernal trees which are on Siberian crab stock (roots) and d these after three or four years to more desirable varieties they have the Wfstem Newppr Union everyone I see who has trouble like mine, and you can use these facts as a testimonial. I am willing to answer about any letters from women asking Mbs. Ed. the Vegetable Compound. Daughebty, 1308 Orchard Ave., Muscatine, Iowa. A V rt Oimlil T7nod f (HAFINGand RASHES promptly relieved and healed by a few applications of Plague of Jellyfish All Is not roses and sweet-scentescenery in the neighborhood of the The little fishing French Riviera. village of just outside Nice, soon will be uninhabitable unless some means is found of destroying the millions of jellyfish which have appeared in the bay. Huge piles of dead fish are nightly thrown up ou the beach and the authorities recently were unable to clean them away before they began to rot. Attempts to burn the fish had been unsuccessful. d s, Your shoes feel easy ALLEHS i if you uso FOOT-EA- SE Stops the pain of Corns and Bunions and you can walk all day In ease and comfort. Nothing gives such relief to hot, tired, aching, Inflamed or swollen feet, blisters or A little ALLEN'S E sprinkled In each shoe in the morning will makeyou forgetabout tight shoes. It takes the friction from the shoe. Always nse it for Dancing s. FOOT-EAS- and to Break In New Shoes. For Free e Walking Doll, addreoa ample and a Le Roy. N. Y. AiXENS FOOT-EASFoot-Faa- E, murmured Ellen. Yes, thats It ; Robert Johnson, went on the seeress. "Everyday sort of chap dead in love with you sober, Known each other steady, ever since you were kids. That was your pa who came In here. Your pas Thats what George Is got money. after. Robert Is after you. See that line there? That means that you are not going to marry George. You are going to marry Robert and be happy ever after. Oh, how do you know? How do you know? Do you see all that In my palm? cried the amazed girl. Every word of It, replied Zenobla. Thats my business. Didnt you read my sign outside Past, Present and Future told satisfaction given or no That will be fifty cents charge? extra, please. And I am Certainly," said Ellen. so so glad. But I dont dare go home. Father will Just skin me alive, and Robert will never forgive me. Let me look at your palm again, said Zenobla. Yes here It Is. Your father will hardly scold you at all; and as for Robert let me see yes, Robert will be so glad to have you safe back again that he'll be just as good as pie. Fifty cents more, please. Now you stay right here until I come back dont move. Silver-veile- d and mystically attired, distributing her business cards as she went, Zenobla wandered forth Into the fair grounds until she located Ellens father, still searching for tidings of his lost one. To him a He was to proposition as follows: give her fifty dollars in hand, and his word not to scold the truant daughter unduly, on condition that Ellen be restored to him safe and repentant The proposition being accepted, she led him to the waiting girl In the mystic tent. Oh father, cried Ellen tearfully, I suppose you found the letter?" he replied, sooner Yes, Ellen, than you expected, I fancy. The neighbors saw you going this way. I was afraid youd get lost and came to find you. Reckon Murchison saw me before he could find you and decamped. "I saw you both, confessed Ellen, "and got scared, and came here. And, oh father! this lady has told my fortune so wonderfully wout you give her five dollars?" Hum, said Bancroft but the ever-read- y palm of the prophetess was crossed with another bill. For a dull day thats not so bad, said Zenobla as father and daughter In earnest conversation. departed And every word said was gospel truth, too. When It comes to profiteering your little Zenny Is a prophete from Profitvllle." Johnson, The most satisfactory method for combating cutworms, according to S. e Marcovltch, entomologist for the experiment station, University of Tennessee, Is by the use of poisoned bran mash. This Is a mixture composed of one pound of parts green or sodium fluoslllcate, twenty-fiv- e pounds of bran, one quart of blackstrap molasses and two gallons of water. Mix the poison thoroughly with the bran or middlings In a dry state. Then prepare some sweetened water by mixing one quart Of molasses or two pounds of sugar with the two gallons of water. Moisten the poison bran with the sweetened water, using Just enough to wet the bran without making it sloppy. The mixture may be applied by placing it in a pall and scattering over the surface of the ground during the afternoon. The correct distribution Is to have small chunks half as big as a walnut every foot or two. The cutworms tire attracted to the bran and will be killed before they do much damage. Poultry should be kept out of the garden for a few days. best possible combination for this section of the country. The crab give vigor and hardiness in the root, the Hibernal hardiness and strength In the trunk and main limbs, and the third variety gives quality of fruit. friendly chat with her neighbors, life seemed dark Indeed to Mrs. Daugherty. Then one day, a was left at J booklet her front door. Idly she turned the pages. Soon she was reading with quickened interest. The little booklet was filled with letters from women In conditions similar to hers who had found better health by taking Lydia E2. Plnkhams Vegetable Compound. I began taking the Vegetable Compound," Mrs. Daugherty writes, and after I took the third bottle, I found relief. I am on my eleventh bottle and I dont have that trouble any more, and feel like a different woman. I recommend the Vegetable Compound to 1 Control of Cutworms Is Outlined by an Expert ! own shoes. Unable to do her work, unable to go out of doors or enjoy a d D. C. I in such poor health that she could not stoop to put on her g John-son-gra- MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL The Bugaboos Will Have to Step Mrs. Daugherty Was so Weak In a little town of the middle West, was a discouraged woman. For four MADAME ZENOBIA, the Yelled monthsshehad been was having a dull lina Introduced a grass Into the United States which Is native to the Mediterranean coast countries of Europe and Africa. Ten years later Col. William Johnson, the owner of a large plantation near Selma, Ala., on returning from a visit to South Carolina, brought with him some seed of the grass and sowed It on the rich bottom lands of the Alabama river. It thrived wonderfully In this new locality, and soon became widely known as Johnson grass. Johnson grass, which has since proved to be a very great nuisance In the South, became widely established In the pastures, meadows and fields of the southern portion of the Unlled States. Its aggressive underground stems make It difficult to eradicate when once It has gained a foothold. It Is primarily a rich-lancrop and Is always found on the better soils. It makes Indifferent growth on the hillsides or on poor soils anywhere. Profitable as Hay Crop. Where It already occupies the land, Johnson grass may be profitably utilized as a hay crop, but It does not make a good permanent pasture. On the river bottoms and rich black soils where the grass thrives and Is already established, It Is expensive to grow cotton or other crops on account of the labor required to keep the land free of the grass. Under such conditions, says the department, it Is often more profitable to devote the land to the production of Johnson hay. With the Idea In ndnd that It Is sometimes better to make use of the grass when it Is once established than to expend time and effort to eradicate It, the United States Department of Agriculture hns Issued Farmers Bulletin N'o. 147G-F- , which discusses the best method of utilizing the crop. To encourage in any way the further spread of the grass is not Intended. Probably no other grass with an Inherent forage value possessed by Johnson grass has been so universally condemned largely because of Its aggressiveness and the accompanying difficulty of eradication and also because It Is abundant In a part of the United States where the system of farming invites defeat of effort to subdue It. Has High Feed Value. f Stockmen in the cotton belt are practically agreed that Johnson hay has a higher feed value than timothy hay of the same grade. If a uniformly high grade of hay co tld be obtained, there would be very little dissatisfaction with its feeding value. Most of the complaints arise from the fact that there is so much poor hay on the markets. Better methods of curing and storing the hay would result In Increased profits. of a The productiveness meadow depends primarily On upon the character of the soil. the richest and most suitable soils, however, the meadows will not maln-- I tain their original yields unless they are cultivated at Intervals. They will be more productive If plowed up every third or fourth year In the fall or early spring and worked down with This kind of harrow. a spike-toot- h cultivation, which would be ruinous to most grasses, merely serves to stimulate the growth of Johnson grass. A copy of the bulletin may be obtained, as long as the supply lasts, by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, That Shopping Instinct ON HER SHUES (Copyright.) the United States Department of Agriculture.) Nearly a century ago. In 1S30, to be exact. Governor Means of South Caro(Prepared COULD NOT PUT Record Check Preserved The largest check ever written, the $14(3,000,000 draft issued by Dillon, Read & Co., for the Dodge Bros, business, is now included in a valuable collection of money owned by Farran Zerbe, which recently was on display at the Chase National bank in New York. Mr. Zerbe began collecting money he could not spend when he was ten years old, and today what started as a hobby has developed Into a successful business. WANT ORCHARD from owner. Joae, Calif. OR ALFALFA RANCH 8end details. Cox 772, San Adv. Stretching It Dick But why are you going to that poky old place for your vaca- tion? Jack Well, I have only a week, and I want It to seem like a month. Cutlcura Comforts Babys Skin When red, rough and itching, by hot baths of Cutlcura Soap and touches of Cutlcura Ointment. Also make use now and then of that exquisitely scented dusting powdw, Cuticura Talcum, one of the Indispensable Cuticura Toilet Trio. 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