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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH SOAP AND WATER HAILED AS MANS FIRMEST FRIEND . INFORMATION The first word in the new edition of Websters Unabridged dictionary is aa and the last word Is zyzzoge-ton-. Aa Is a kind of lava. The Public sanitation has great vic- zyzzogeton, in case you didnt know, tories to Its credit in the control and is a South American leaf hopper of prevention of disease, and strides the cicadellldae family having the along these lines have been made in tuberculato and the front tibiae rapid manner within the last few grooved. years. 'Beliefs in 'charms and magic have disappeared, and science is pro-during more wonderful gifts for the modern world. Cleanliness and sanitation is a health program sponsored in our public schools, and the most important tool used is the small, everyday piece of soap. It is just a little more than 100 years ago that a French chemist evolved the chemistry of soap and made it a practical object of manufacture. Today it Is one of the cheapest and most widely used necessities of dally life. Habits of cleanliness, as taught in Our schools, today, protect individual health and reduce the spread of disp ease. In the age skin diseases and other forms of sickness prevailed in much larger numbers than . today. . Even the most cleanly person must come in contact with his environment, and through this contact the skin gives lodging to extraneous microscopic living things. This may occur In taking hold of a street car strap or even in shaking hands with infections a friend. a full glass of fater. Repeat are responsible for the spread of a 2 Drink treatment in 2 hows. communicable large proportion of disease, especially of disease transmitted through the nose and throat But surrounded as is modern man with the means to cleanliness, it is a simple matter to play safe by washing with soap and water. , - I Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets are the orig inal little liver pills put up 00 years ago, They regulate liver and bowels. Adv. ; . . THOSE MEMENTOES! We all lack courage in throwinf away junk that we call souvenirs. Tax Gatherers Busy There are 22,000 different kinds taxes in this country. 0) Now Relieve Your Cold Quick as You Caught It ' For Amazingly Fast Results. Remember Directions tn These Simple Pictures , The simple method pictured here is the way many doctors now treat colds and the aches and pains colds pre-soa- . 3cfr$il Jiihinq Hand-to-mout- h : bring with them! It is recognized as a safe, sure. QUICK way. For it will relieve an ordinary cold almost as fast as you caught it. Ask your doctor about this. And when you buy, be sure that you get the real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. They dissolve (disintegrate) almost instantly. And thus work almost instantly when you take them. And for a gargle, Genuine Bayer Aspirin Tablets disintegrate with speed and completeness, leaving no irritating particles or grittiness. BAYER Aspirin prices have been decisively reduced on all sizes, so theres. no point now in accepting other than the real Bayer article you want. it If throat b sore, crush and stir 3 BAYER Aspirin Tablets in a third of a glass of water. Gargle twice. This eases throat soreness almost instantly. 3 An- Prepared by National It Is best to wait until the heat of the day to raise a ledge, for then the be must fishermen rays of sun, striking each layer bright by the pull of a live as is peeled off with wedge and hamit of the deep. Some, mer, often show up the faint tracing however, enjoy fishing for of a backbone, or perhaps the dim outfossil fish, millions of years old, using of a fin. line picks, shovels and chisels for tackle. When this outline is revealed, the One feature of fossil fishing is that the big ones cant get away, once they fossil fisherman takes the sharp blade are caught. This fact, and also the of a knife and gently scratches the prominor one that in this tecting shale away to make sure of his a on in be must the re- specimen. Then he hews out square carried country of rock around the fish, and the specimote, not to say obscure, portions of men is ready for cleaning. The cleanthe United States, will probably keep is done with the fine blade It from assuming the place which It ing process of a knife, great skill being exercised deserves as a major American outdoor to clear away all trace of rock in which sport the fish is Imbedded without destroyg The proper trip leads ing the delicate outline of the fish. you, for example, to Fossil, Wyoming, Hills Slip and Slide. where you may be the only person getI off there that year These fossil hills are contrary jealting Now the Priscacara pealel (poor fish ous as deep pools where bass lie hidto you !) may look tame enough as you den from the casters fly. They slip pass him by in a museum on your way and slide, they shift and fall, to conto the stuffed owls ; but that is because found the fisherman and make for him these ancient relics of prehistoric days unceasing labor. You must wait and have been carefully caught for you, im- hope, you must listen to stories of othprisoned in their stone frames, labeled, er fish, other days; you must eat your and hung where they can excite only noonday sandwich dry and brittle and the inflammable interest of the paleon- filled with some dust of shale; you must know the sadness of cleaving a tologist. Bnt truly fishing some time for those whole sheaf of rock at last good, firm rovers which, only a few million years fossil rock in which whole schools of ago, swam blithely through that in- prehistoric fishes should lie buried land ocean where are now the Rocky only to find It barren as a desert traU. mountains. No, these fish took one more dive beOne week-enfishing trip In Wyom- fore the cataclysm. They lie to windpalm leaf, ward or to leeward. And though you ing may net you a. three large pickerel, bass, or pike, a are some 25 or 30 feet below the top prodigious mosquito (just the way layer of protecting shale, still you have youd like to see a mosquito, trans- not fished deep enough. formed into solid rock,) sunfish, herIf you are a proper fisherman, you will, of course, spend many lingering gar pike. ring, the Then, you never know when you may moments which might otherwise be tecome upon an ancient crocodile 13 feet dious in contemplation of the ancient long. One was found near the fossil story of how your catch came to be bed, where you must look if you ex- cast up, in the very act of living, onto pect your weeks sport to be really ex- the dry and dusty mountain tops. citing. Perhaps the best definition of the fosWhere Roads Meet. sil fish for the amateur stone fisherman Fossil, Wyoming, Is formed by the is the simple one given by the late accidental meeting of two roads which Frederic A. Lucas, formerly a curator slipped down from opposite sides of a of the National museum, in his book, Animals of the Past. mountain. There is a pleasing legend Fossils," he says, are the remains, that the population of Fossil is 50 ; but, counting the people you can see and or even the indications, of animals and the ones you can imagine, you cannot plants that have, through natural agenarrive at a generous estimate of more cies, been buried in the earth and preserved for long periods of time. These than 30. eshave to the train will indications, which may be footprints, stop They pecially for you. They dont like to tramped leaves, the almost formless do it and, as you look out over the jellyfish, the very ripple on the sands, cold, purple dawn on the have been, in many instances, preRocky mountains at this particular served in stone, perfect patterns of the ephemeral life of millions of years ago. point, neither do you. But its worth it ! And how did fossil fish come to be A few minutes after you have arimprisoned in their strangely lifelike rived on a stony form In the Rocky mountains of trip, the sun will break over the farth- Wyoming? Your mind must go back est ridge In a long crescent of fossil to lost ages, when an ocean rolled over mountain which sleeps content in a the wheat fields of Kansas, the prairies past which even the most arduous fish- of Nebraska, and the site of the Empire erman will never know. State building alike. These abundant Around you is a shallow sweep of seas were ruled successively by varimountain red, gray, green, blue, and ous races of sea ceatures, which came, purple colored with time and embrac- ruled, were conquered by larger and ing earth and sky and air. The sky is more powerful species, and at last lay a curious translucent blue. Ton stand scattered at the bottom of the ancient as If on the basin of some huge broken ocean bed. piece of pottery. All about you at the Among the strange ocean rulers were broken brim are fossil beds which you the armor-cla- d fish; then, in turn, the d may fish to hearts content and whose fierce, sharks, the fish depth you may never plumb. lizards, the mysterious ichthyosaurus, ' Custodian of the fossil beds, amateur the plesiosaurus, whose names are only sportsman extraordinary, Robert Lee a little less terrifying than the havoc Craig will take you fishing if you have they spread among the fish lizards crawlan honest interest. He has been fish- ing in the mud of ocean bed. The ing in' these hills for 37 years, and he great marine reptiles called Mosasau-rus- , has no patience with people who will geologists believe, ruled the seas not climb with him the 275 feet from from New Zealand to North America " his camp to the fossil hill; who will at one time. not wait while he lays bare a stratum The Rocky mountains so placid and of fossil rock; who will not, with his gray now by daytime swarmed with own suppressed excitement, cleave heroic battle in the days when they those strata again and again, peeling, were still ocean bed. Huge turtles, stripping the layers down as though divers, the monstrous fish they were ears of corn. Often the fin- of legend, all fought for supremacy, est specimens of fossilized fish will be and over the waters flew the pterosurbidden just beneath the gray-likdactyls, dark, menacing shadows, with face and would pass notice of ail ex- their powerful wingspread of 20 feet or more cept the most observing. D. C. Washington, Geographic Society. WNU Service. . MOST fossil-fishin- g Made 'Em Woozy He Did the candidate electrify his audience? She No; he only gassed swers Magazine. These Fish Swam Over Wyoming Approximately 55,000,000 Years Ago. PRICES on Ganvlna Bayer Aiplrfn Radically Reduced on All Sizet fossil-fishin- WHAT... you HR AGAIN HAVEN'T I M CAN'T MARRY MY 0AU6HTER? UOVj 6ETOUT-yOUYOU- N6 WHIPPER-SNAPPE- 1 RIDDANCE 1 WHAT RIGHT HAVE V0UN6 PEOPLE TO ENJOY THEMSELVES, TOLD VOU THAT YOU k 6000 mi ANYWAY ? .. m R BEFORE 1 60, MR. HARMON, ID LIKE WHY. YOU INSOLENT LISTEN TO HIM... PUPPY... YOUNG IF YOU HAD MY CRITICIZING THING. YOUR HEADACHES DISPOSITION IS RUINING FRAN'S INDI6ESTI0N YOUD BE WORSE YOU! DON'T LET HM 4 GET AWAY LIFE AND YOUR IRAN TO TELL YOU ONE AND WITH I AM ! rr OWN d ot V-1-. $ MW!? W & thick-scale- d ivs V 1 N-- . V m MOTHER ' SUFFERED WITH HIM TO MIND THE DOCTOR SAID SHE HAD coffee-nerve- s. 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