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Show " " THR BINGHAM BITTXETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH NOT JCmt r. &t j W ' l;' IS rll 4 J'i i.wMly ?rfM k . " JK Girls of Iceland. the land. Reykjavik means "Smoking Harbor; Reykjnnes, "Smoking Point"; Rcykliolt, the home of the historian Snorre Sturlusson, means "Smoking Hill." On every side la found that Royk. meaning "smoke.", Why Living Room Is "Bathroom." There Is a curious custom through-out Iceland of calling the living room, which Is also the sleeping room for the whole family, the "bathroom." This Is said to have come about In the following way: According to the sagas, the Island was once full of forests, which fur-nished ample fuel for the comfort-lovin- g Vikings. They loved their hot baths, and In each home the favotke room was the one which contained the sunken tub. Stones were heated In bonfires and thrown Into the wuter to bring It to the right temperature. However, as the forests disappeared, and with them the fuel, the hot baths disappeared also; but the room kept Its name. Although changed to a gen-eral living room, It Is still called the "bathroom." ' A saving of fuel Is now being effect-ed to some extent by the use of the heat that nature furnishes so lavishly In the form of hot springs. Another possible remedy for Iceland s fuel scarcity Is hydroelectric power. Some of the towns already have municipal-ly owned power plants which utilize waterfalls, and some progressive farm-ers have small plants of their own. The advent of electricity, of course, paves the wav for manufacturers. To-day practically the only Industry of the Island, besides sheep-raisin- g and farming. Is fishing. The floating popu-lation swings back and forth to the farming regions in harvest time and to the se,1 during the fishing season. With a surplus of electric power, fac-- . torles of various sorts may be estab-lished. Prepared by the National Oeoitraphle , WiBhlimtim, D. C Is going in for better ICELAND Its prime minister, on a Europe, Is arranging for the Importation of fertilizer. To one who has never been on the Island or who has not read closely of Its climatic conditions, farming might seem out of the question. Ice-land's very name naturally suggests a frozen waste. And when a prospec-tive visitor consults a map and finds that this Itdnnd lies across the very threshold of the Arctic ocean, hard by the glacial coast of Greenland, and 300 miles farther north than bleak Labrador, he Is almost prepared to come upon a land of polar bears and of fur-cla- d folk living In snow Igloos. Iceland is libeled by both nomencla-ture and maps. On many charts the most Important physical fact does not apponr. Up from the south flows the warm Gulf stream to enfold the Islund and work the magic of whisking t. In effect, nearly a thousand miles to-ward the Equator; so that Its climate Is not that of the polar regions, but of southern Canada or northern United States. On Iceland's coasts are thriving towns wllh buildings of stone, gabled roofs and church steeples, busy streets and elect) Ic lights. In the streets are men and women garbed much as are the Inhabitants of Copenhagen and Glasgow, Ottawa and Minneapolis. One's eyes tell him that here Is the same civilization that Europe and America know. . And Immaterial factors proclaim the truth still more unmistakably than do material things. Here, In this fur northern land, a worthy national liter-ature and str.Ne national Institutions were developed when much of Europe was floundering In the Dark ages. Here the lamp of a Nordic Renais-sance burned and lighted Its own re-gion before the beacon of the Latin Renaissance was held aloft to light the way for the world. This northern light lias uevcr failed. Today the lit-eracy rate Is higher In Iceland than In ninny countries In Europe. It is true that physically Iceland's bes' foot Is forward. Its most pleas-ant aspect Is Its fringe of coast. In-land It Is In nowise a pretty country, though the distinction may be made that It possesses much scenery of beauty a wclrd. magnlflcunt beauty coupled with desolation; for, though Iceland is not the Icy waste that dis-tant popular funcy would make It, It fared less fortunately at the hands of another of nature's great forces, fire. The land Is actively volcanic, and In the Interior, on every hand, are the evidences of great fiery outbursts of the past. To tourists It presents none of these scenes which have mude other lands popular: No forests, no rich meadows, no prosperous-appearin- g farms with beautiful gardens. Volcanoes and Earthquakes. Ages ago Iceland was thrown up from the ocean by volcanic action. The most famous of the Island's hundred- - In the Westman Islands ( Vest ma jar), a few miles south of the Ice-landic mainland, the fisheries yield nearly $1,000,000 annually, and there Is proportionately more wealth among the 3,000 Inhabitants of this little archipelago than among the 100,000 In the whole of Iceland proper, biids a Source of Income. These rocky, sheer-walle- Westman islands have an adventurous Industry built on the taking of young birds and eggs from the cliffs at much risk to the collector, who often has to dangle from a rope to reach the nests. The native birds are a source of In-come to the Icelander. The down which the elder duck plucks from Its breast and uses to line Its nest Is col-lected, cleaned, and shipped to Europe for high prices. The puffin, a peculiar, parrotlike sea bird, has difficulty In flying and Is easily caught In long-handle- d nets. Its feathers are used for down and the flesh, which is quite palatable. Is eaten In all the coast towns. That the Icelanders are confronted with many hardships cunnot be denied, und It Is a source of surprise to many people that, faced by such a hard life, the natives do not emigrate In larger numbers. In spite of adverse condl tlons. In spite of earthquakes, and volcanoes, and the absence of luxuries, the Icelanders cling to their land with fierce pride. They feel strongly their one-tim- e glory and value highly the culture aad civilization that they built practically without outside help and In which the Iceland of today has Its roots. Not only have they long ranked among the most literate people In the world, but they possess a broad knowledge and excellent taste In literature. The people of Iceland have a great liternture of their own In the old sagas, and many of their modem poets are especially gifted. Their folk songs are popular throughout the country and rank with the best of any nation. Iceland was the first country to ac-cord women a vote In municipal af-fairs, and here they may also retain their maiden names after marriage. In 1874. two jenrs before the United States celebrated Its one hundredth anniversary of Its existence. Iceland observed the one thousandth amilver sary of Its birth ! In ISMS Iceland received n innstltu-tle-which made It an Independent nation.' free from Detmcirk retaining Dlv the same kun unit lci ir:2 n few Kjveiiienl an ::in.'( ii.'r t reai:d;Of i--y AiVt relations. odd volcanoes Is Hek I a perhaps be-cause It was so effectively used In the preachings of the medieval monks and missionaries to symbolize the descent Into hell. Its eruptions often-- have been accompanied by tremendous earthquakes and have wrought great destruction to life and property. Earthqunkes are Inescapable In a volcanic region, and Icelatd has had Its full share of these devastating tremors. The shocks of 18!)C, while destruc-tive In the main, had at least one that might be classed as constructive. They breathed new life Into the world-famou- s Great Geysir, which, if not entirely dead, had at least become a rather Indifferent per-former. It was suddenly rejuvenated and all the smaller geysers in the vi-cinity spouted simultaneously. Sev-eral new ones were also formed. Lord Dufferln describes the lana In the Immediate vicinity of Geysir as being Infested with many tumors and bolls, for In a hundred places are seen the bare spots and mouuds of wet day or siliceous rock, where the hot springs bubble up. either crystal clear or gray and heavy with mud. Mot sprlnjrs are not. however, con fined to the vicinity of Geysir; they are found throughout Iceland and l.i almost every valley are seen clou Is of white steam. These fnmlnc sprlii."-- - liave had a treihed fft'ecv n the nomer chit lire of i il Birds Kill Rattler . in Pitched BattU Miller, SD.-Af- ter battling 20 0 minutes with two pheasants, a , cock and a hen, a rattlesnake 1 t was killed near a highway, from , ; j which a farmer's wife In her car watched the fray. I Attracted by a repeated swoop-- 1 , J Ing of the birds, the woman stopped her car and saw the J J rattler strike many times at the J i pheasants, who had no difficulty 1 ; In keeping oat of bis reach. As ) ' he struck at one bird the other would dive down and give him a ', , vicious peck nntll at length ha o was dispatched. Over-Acidi- ty Gas, nansM, sick haadacha, banrt- -. bum, diatrnaa after atlng or drink-ing quickly and surely raliavad. . Safe, Pleasant Not a laxative. NormalU Digtion and SwMtmu thm Bnath ' pQSio BCLL-AN- S TCm Hot water lKTpt Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION Z5t AND 73i PACKAGES EVERYWHERE OUR i ADVERTISING COLUMNS j i n if are read by the people TT because it gives them news of absorbing fji- -; tereat People no longer go looking about for things they want they go to their newspaper , for information as to where such things may be found. This method j saves time and trouble. If you want to bring ; your wares to the attcn- - tion of this community, our advertising columns ' S!l6!l!d Contain Your Ad U q U ' W I - 19 GIRL KEPT LOSING WEIGHT Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Built Her Up Scobey, Mont. "I was working for two years clerking in a store r i and seemed to be wv ' steadily losing in tutS , weight so was A forced to give ' up my work. A J i'&FXsk neighbor recom- - k mended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-- JRXjj'V '" table Compound jf v Bn,i f j,av9 Jn now taken six hfiiaJLassfM bottles and can't j r?OP f tell you how I I havi appreciated it I am feeling better and stronger every day. I recommend it to all young girls and if any have the same trouble and will write to me I will gladly answer." Mas. Emil H. Gebthb, Box 476, Scobey, Montana. 9 1 If I 1 1 IHHfllPfHMilf.MflgjniaijHPitl'lirngjjl I I I I I I jl Ai You Have a j Printing Want ! 'WE WANT TO KNOW f WHAT IT IS j Putting out good printing i is our bualneaa, and when we say good printing wa 3 . don't mean fair, but the A t best obtainable. If you - ' are "from Missouri" glva j us a trial and we will j j A Show You Close Harmony "Don't you think the colors of tills dress and hat match fairly well?" "Yes, It is clothes harmony I" ; P(rintin)Gi It May Be W'f Children Ciy for It Bingham Stage Line - Bingham Depot ' Main and Carr Fork rhone 41 SCHEDULE Cars leave Bingham at : 8, 9 and 11 a.m. 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Salt Lake City Office Semloh Hotel 107 E. 2nd South Phone Was. 1069 SCHEDULE Cars leave Salt Lake City at . 7, 9 and 11 a.m. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 p.m. FARES . One wav $1.50 Round Trip $2.50 Castorla la a comfort when Babv is fretful. No sooner taken than the little one Is at ease. If restless, a few drops soon Uring contentment No harm done, for Castorla Is a baby remedy, meant for babies. Perfectly safe to give the youngest infant ; you have the doctors' word for that I It Is a vegetable pro-duct and you could use It every day. But it's in an emergency that Castorla means most. Some night when consti-pation must be relieved or colic pains or other suffering. Never be without it ; some mothers keep an extra bottle, unopened, to make sure there will al-ways be Castorla In the house. It ii effective for older children, too; read the book that comes with it O'DONNELL & CO. Funeral Directors Bingham Canyon Utah Phone 17 j Wasatch 6461 " - i i t Salt Lake Phone , il "j-- J : - ' t APPETITE jTS RIPRGVED y,. . QUICKLY Carter's Little Liver Pitts XllaiLU Far! Vesttab) Lauttra LctJi mm the bomb (tea from pain and unptemunt aftef affect. Tha? relieve the rvttem of coojtipa-Uo-a poUooa which dull the dsnra for food. Remember tbey are a doctor preecriptioai and cn be taken br the entire fa mile. All Druaairu 25c and 75c Red Package. CARTER'S ESIPILLS a. tor ml a!fMUoa, It&HUthoTOrit. IIKw'Kl, f Sroamli vj ntku rnar fete tentiM, lUt. Br. C rf. Carry U. 297 UKMfU An., tHlnl I! News Notes : ! It's a Priviltg to Liv in LAYTON Utah's potato crnn fa 1927 totaled 2,790,000 bushels with a market value of $2,228,000, an increaia of 605,000 bushels over 1926. ' BRIGHAM During the week thousands of pintail ducks have been feeding In the grainflelds west of this city, adjourning the marshes. The ducks have migrated here from Canada according to game officials, and are so numerous that an estimate of their numbers is almost impossible. OGDBN Weber county peaches are unusually free from insect Infestations and general blemishes this year, Le Roy Marsh, district agricultural in-spector reports. Estimates of this year's crop is set at 175 carloads. The orchards of North 0den are said to be in the best of condition and will un-doubtedly yield the most fruit. GUNNISON Cauliflower shipments from the fieMs at Westview and Clar-ion are increasing almost dally end two carloads were sent out Wednesday, bringing the total car shipments jt date up to sixteen. The peak of the harvest will be reached about Septem-ber 6, at which time extra forces will be added to handle tho big crop. VERNAL The 'crew of the deep test of the Ashley Valley OH company, on the Ashley valley structure, ton miles southeast of Vernal, Is drilling through the cobble rock dumped into the hole to plug ft back from the depth of 870 feet to 530 feet for the purpose of straightening the hole. 7 will . severnl days before drilling for In-creased depth Is resumed. MURRAY Plans for enterine a eoury Guernsey herd In the state fair this fall were made at a meeting of Guernsey breeders held recently at the lorn of Arthur B. Erekson, South Cot-tonwood. A committee including Mr Erekson, L. E. Madsen, James G. Burtt, J. B. Erekson and V. L. Martin-ta- u, county agricultural agent, was ap-pointed to arrange the matter and select the herd. BRIGHAM CITY Plans are giing forward for the community fair to be held at Corine September 7, under auspices of the Corine farm bureau. This is the first fair of the kind to be held In the valley. The executive com-mittee consists of Presdient Sterling Wright of the Corine farm bureau. C. G. Adney and Abraham Evans. Agri-cultural Agent R, H. Stewart Is LOGAN Farmers of Utah will pro-fit a great deal by revising an old mis-conception that seed from some other farm is better than from their own, Dr. George Stewart, agronomist with the experiment station of the Utah Agri-cultural college, stated In answer to inquiries on "home grown seeds." However, Dr. Stewart said, there come times when seed grown on a given farm should be replaced by sen! from another farm, but this is only when the seed formerly used is mixed, di-seased or otherwise of poor quality. OGDEN Use of granulated soap with arsenate of lad In spraying ap pies In Weber county this year .has been successful, saving one orr.hardlHt alone more than 40U0 bushels of ap-ples, it was stated recently by LeRoy Mareh, district agricultural inspe"tor. II. A. Thomas of 0?dcn suffered a loss of 50 per cent of his crop from worms last year despite his using arsenate of lead in water, as was regularly Mr. Marsh says: This year loss than 5 per cent of his crop is wormy. The smallest of the figura he attributes to his use of the soap CEDAR CITY With the aid of Mel-vl- n Cropper of Deseret, the American Legion bucking horse conwnitteeee wilt have at least twenty head of profes-sional bucking horses for the race meet and rodeo at Cedar City September 6, 7 and 8. Some of these horses are well known to rodeo fans. Cronper won the riding contest of the 1926 Cedar City rodeo against older and better known men of Pendleton and Cheyenne. He is to be a contender for the belt this year. Bob Vaughn, win ner of second place In 1926, will he here. Buster Vaughn of Pendloton Is expected and many professional riders have expressed their Intention of hen? here. SAT LAKE Total expenditure of the state road department from Janu-ary 1, 1928, to June 30, 1928, amounted to $1,275,369.40, it is shown by a finan-cial statement of the department for that period, which was made public recently. On January 1 of this year there was a balance of $10,955.49 of road funds In the state treasury, and receipts from various sources during the first six months of the year amounted to $1,986,501.30, bringing the total balance and receipts to for the period. On June 30, 1&28, the department had a cash sur-plus of $774,082.16 and a loaned sur-plus of $458,638.45, making a total surplus of $1,232,702.61. Lonns to highway and revolving funds during the six months amounted to $289,366,78. LOGAN The Cache county fair will be held here September 18 to 20, one week earlier than has been .he case in recent years, in an effort to avoid the bad weather that has accom panied local fairs In the pa?t, states President George Dunbar of tho Cache County Fair association. Three thou sand fair programs will be mailed in the near future to homes of Cache-count-and ten large twenty-four-she- c stands will be used for billboards a l vertising the county fair in Cache ley, , Boxclder , county and southern Idttho. " ' "' It Was Easy "How did she get so tanned?", "Oh, she sat on the beach with Burns and Browning." GENTLE YEGGMEN HAVE NICE TIME Fare Sumptuously and Are Kind to Watchman. Chicago. Kindly and considerate cracksmen blew two sufes In a large grocery establishment here and escaped with several thousand dollara loot. Before they departed the live yeggs, who had captured the watch-man and Joked wltli him while they worked, regaled themselves with a re-past of roast chicken and Iced milk mnl fed theli captive from the re-frigerators of the store. The burglars were In the place from ten o'clock Saturday night until 3:45 a. m. Sunday. They went boldly about their hours of work, smoking expen-sive cigars taken from the company's stock. Thirty minutes after they had de-parted, Charles Putnam, the sixty-year-o- ld watchman whom they had treated so considerately, loosed bis bonds. I'utnam told the police two of the men came op to him from behind as he was emptying a waste basket about 10 p. ra., Saturday. They pushed re-volvers Into his ribs. "Be quiet and you won't be hurt," they warned him and led him to a spot on a balcony where tbey told him to sit in a chair. Putnam took an upright chulr "Here, old man, take this rocker." one of the two .who guarded bltn said In a kindly voice. "You're going to be here a long time and you might as well be comfortable." From time to time his two captors went to the company's Ice box and got him ' chicken sandwiches and orangeade. At last the five had what they called a "corking" breakfast of chicken and milk, and before they left they tied him and propped some linen under his head for a pillow. He ald he never got a chance to get a square look at any one of the men. Child "Dead" Three Hours Revived by Heroic Means Alexandria Bay, N. V. After .teiug "i id" for three hours, according to all the rules of inedl al science, three-year-ol- d d;len i'oole of Grenadier Is-land is alive and well. The child fell fr-j- the plet at the summer home of Charles A. Luke of Duke Center, Fa., luto the St law-renc-e river near here. Her head struck when she fell and she floated on the river for th'ee hours ui til res-cued by her fathei. When the child did not a.tpear for dinner a search was started and she was found float-ing face upward a bulf mile from the inland. Artificial respiration was ap-plied and dhe soon recovered. A Canadian physician explained that the child's lungs were inflated when she fell and that the blow on her head bad temporarily suspended all bodily functions. The inflated lungs kept her floating and the cessa-tion of breathing prevented her from drawing water Into her lungs, which would have caused her to drown. He pointed out that the child had been, to all Intent and purpose, "dead" during the three hours she had been In the water. Opens Door, Finds Full-Grow- n Bear on the Stairs Winnipeg. Hearing the familiar "scratch, scratch," on the back of her cabin in a pretty glade near Usaquan, west of Fort William, Ont, Mrs. L. 11. Durfey, backwoods pioneer, went to the door to admit, as she thought, one of her busky sled dogs. When she opened the door, however, she met a cinnamon bear. Both seemed surprised. Mr. Bruin re-treated a few steps and surveyed the woman coolly. Mrs. Durfey returned bis gaze as frigidly. But not for long. The bear had a good pelt, she remem-b- e red. To think was to act. Seizing a 30.30 caliber carbine, Mrs. Durfey plugged the bear squarely between the eyes. One shot killed him. Mrs. Durfey Is an expert huntress- - Leaves Dog $5,000 New Orledfcs, La. Under the terms of the will of his mistress, Mrs. Mary L. McCay Schaffter, a New Orleans widow who died recently, her pet dog was bequeathed $5,000 $2,000 In cash and the Income from an addi-tional $3,(oo. The state of Louisiana upheld the vulidiry of the will. Is a Brave Boy South Hadley falls. M.ss-O- ne i my iiMiid a tiiousatid he. mi I, u yiilsl Ralph Rous, fifteen years uid son of a meiiilrer of the faculty. Is to study at tlouni lh lyoke coliej; nrX rear. |