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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-21
LETTERS AND ANSWERS.

Mrs. CT wrote to ask you how 10
enlarge the size of my bust. L am far
too thin to be pretty.
Do not despair. Bones are fashion
able. Still, you can increase the bust
| by rubbing cocoa butter into it.
! Heavy Reader weigh entirely too
much. Is there any way of reducing
without dieting?
! Yes. If you viii exercise enough.
Golf players are never fat. They run
on the golf links for hours at a time
and 1t takes the flesh off them rapidly
! Walk and run, if you get a chance, IN
! the open air. 1t will do you a world of
good.
Miss tt am unmarried and heavy
and you know it makes me look old.
Is there any way of looking younger
by getting thinner?
You can diet and you can exercise.
Exercise will reduce you quickly. But
you will have to do great deal of it.
Do not drink water while exercising,
but try to get into the country for a
month of outdoor life.
-
Faithful Reader-You do not tell me
just how to take the superfiuouS hair
off my upper lip.
Get an electric needle and try cleo
trolysis. 1t is not a difficult thing to
perform at home. If you puncture the
skin you will be all right as far as
killing the hair is concerned.
d. H.-How can / use the electric
needle on my own face?
Get needle, attach it properly to
the battery, take a hand glass in your
hand and gently puncture the skin I'M
til you touch the root of the hair.
Grace il pulled out the hairs on
my face with the tweezzers. Then I
applied weak ammonia. 1t seemed to
kill the roots of. the hair. l must thank
you again and again for your advice.
G. D. C. Mary TT would be pretty
girl if my hair would curl. But my
forehead is nigh and my hair hangs as
straight as a piece of thread.
You can make your hair curl by
washing it we'll TO get the oil out. Then
do it up in metal curriers' and let remain
up over night. In the morning press
with a hot iron.
H. G.-Please give me a curline.
A good curling fluid can be made by
boiling ounce seed and adding a little
of the syrup to warm water. Moisten
the hair with it, but do not. use too
much or there viii be a white, scaly
look to your hair, which is not pretty.
Miss VI like to wear stiff curl
in the middle of my forehead. How
can L keep it in shape?
You might wet it with glyoerin and
water This viii often keep a curl in
shape when nothing else in the world
will do ca
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-21
LARGEsT SALARIES.

~ HE biggest official salary" paid
! any one on earth, so far as records
show, is that collected by the
! grand vizier of Morocco. In a country
with a high standard of ethics and a
lofty plane of morals this salary might
find palmer name of graft" but in
eastern eyes it is the lawful stipend of
the office.
! In comparison with this officials rev.
enue, the president of the United States
and the president of France are paid
like messenger boys. Even j. Pierpont
Morgan does not rate much higher thar
ribbon counter clerk when his income
! is placed alongside that of the grand
vizier
| This official handles all the revenue
! of the country. In the handling he di
verts such portion as he thinks will re-
pay him for his expenditure of time and
energy He is without doubt the best
paid statesman in existence.
/ The salary is so big that no one knows
/ the exact amount which the grand
vizier places to his account every year.
1t may be indicated by the fact that
in few years the savings of the late
Grand Vizier Ben Hamed amounted to
5000. 000-not made in speculation or
business ventures, but saved out of his
salary And yet they say that a man
on salary can't get rich.
Ben Hamed kept his savings in gold
bullion staked away in the cellars of
his palace at Marakesh.
Two other high salaries paid for daily
services seem, on paper, to be ridicu
lousiy out of proportion to the work
but correct understanding shows that
they are we'll earned. Talk to the mail
carrier on your route. and ask him what
he would think Of receiving $3.50 a
year for his work. He probably would
laugh at you. Yet this is the actual fig
ure paid to the man VINO carries the
mail between Eagle and Valdery, in
Alaska The distance is Ala miles, and
the postman makes two journeys a
month, carrying 300 pounds of mail at
time He uses an immense number
of dogs. and good sledge dogs are cost
ly, to say nothing of their food.
Almost equally absurd does it sound
to say that the remuneration of labor
err is 21,000 a year That is the sum
paid to A. J. Day, employed as a roller
at the Pittsburg mills of the United
States Steel corporal ton. He was for
merly one of Mr.. Carnegie's men, He
is said to be the best man at his work
of rolling steel rails and is paid ac-
Ecordingly.
| PATHS salary for her approaching
American tour is worthy to be classed
among the high salaries of the world.
She will receive $1,000 a concert for six
ty concerts, in addition to her ex-
perses. Her record was $1,000 for
single concert, paid once in New Or
leans. But neither she nor any other
prima donna ever kept up that sort of
thing as steady income.
Possibly the best paid woman in the
world is Nine. Heglon of the Paris
Opera. She is paid $4,000 a year, and
the second star, Nine. Breval, gets s1S,
600. The amounts made by lecturers
frequently rival those made by great
singers. Ian Maclaren once made $500
in six weeks. Henry NJ. Stanley did
even better, and was paid at the rate
of $4,000 night
X II =
AS. speaker of the house of lords the
lord chancellor of England gets 100000
a year. AS judge he gets another $780,
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IANSHIP NOTICES.
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Signers for Further Information.


Consult County Clerk or Che Respective
Signers for Further Information.
IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT
court. in and for Salt Lake county. state
of Utah, Department No. 7. I'm the mat
ter of the estate OF George Good. de-
ceased NotiCe.-rhe petition of Celestiue
Good praying for the admission to pro-
bate OF a certain document purpOTtiug FOB
be the last will and testament OF GeorEe
Good. deceased. and for the granting ID.
letters testameutary to Ceiestiue Cool.
has been set Tor hearing ON Friday. tile
18th day of November A. u. 1903. nc 10
% clock a. III at the county court house,
in the court room of said court. I'm Salt
Lake City. Salt Lake county, Utah.
Witness the clerk of said court
tScal) with the seal thereon affixed. this
18th day of October. A. -. 1875.
JOHN JAMES. Clerk
DAVID Il. DAVIES. Deputy Clerk.
EDWARD MCGU RRIN Attorney for Pc
tiuOneT.
First publication Oct 81. 1905.
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Home-Made Picture Frames.

Various kinds may be manufactured
at home at very little expense. Cut
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-21

AS speaker of the house of lords the
lord chancellor of England gets $4,000
a wear. AS a judge he gets another $780,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-21

First publication Oct. IT, 1903
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-10
THE MAIN CHANCE
A THOROLY WESTERN STORY
OF REAL PEOPLE
BIZ MEREDITH" NICHOLSON
Copyright, 1908. by Bobbs-Merrill Co.

cured an immense acreage and built
a stone ranch house whose curious
architecture impaired to the Platte
valley a touch Of medievalism that
was little appreciated by the neigh
boring cattlemen. One Of the own
ers, q Philadelphia named Poindex-
ter, who had a weakness for archi-
lecture and had studied the subject
briefly at his university, contributed
the buildings and his two associates
bought the cattle. There were one
thousand. acres Of rolling pasture
here, much Of it lying along
the river, and practical man
could hardly have failed to succeed;
but theft, disease in the herd and in
experience in buying and selling had
wrought the ranchmen's destruction.
Before their money was exhausted,
Poindexter and his associates lived
in considerable state, and entertained
the friends who came to see them ac-
cording to the best usages of eastern
country life within, and their own
mild approximation Of western life
without. One Of their happy notions
was to use Poindexter's coat Of arms
as q brand, and this was only aban-
doned when their foreman declared
that no calf SO deliberately marked
could live. They finally devised an
insignium consisting of the Greek
Omega in a circle of stars.
There's remnant Of the Poin-
dexter herd out there somewhere"
Wheaton had said to Saxton. THE
fellow Snyder, that put in as a care
taker, ought to have gathered UP the
loose cattle by this time; that's what
I told him to do when I put him
there
Saxton turned and looked out over
the rolling plain. A few rods away
lay the river, and where it curved
nearest the house stood a group of
cottonwoods, like sentinels drawn to-
<gether for eolloquy. Scattered here
and there over the plain were stray
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-10
CHAPTER Nv.
At POindextel,'S,


John Saxton trotted his pony thru
a. broken gate into a great yard that
had once been sown in blue grass,
and at the center of which lay the
crumbled ruins of fountain. This
was clearly no ordinary establish
ment, as he had been warned, and
he was uncertain how to hail 1t.
However,, before he could make his
presence known, a frowsy man in
corduroy emerged from the great
front door and came toward him.
My names Saxton, and you must
be Snyder
Correct" said the man and they
shook hands.
''Going to stay awhile"
ga day or two" John threw down
the slicker in which he had wrapped
a few articles from his bag at Great
River, the nearest railway station.
Snyder. Walk in and help your
self" He led the pony toward the
outbuildings, while Saxton filled his
pipe and viewed the pile before him
with interest. He had been making
a careful inspection of all the prop
critics that had fallen to his care.
This had necessitated a good deal of
travelling. He had begun In Colorado
and worked eastward going slowly,
and getting the best advice obtain
able as to the value of his principals
holdings.
This certainly beats them ALL
Saxton muttered aloud.
He had reached in his itinerary
what his papers called the Poindex-
ter property. He had found that the
place was famous turnout this part
of the country for the idiosyncrasies
of it's sometime owners, three young
men who had come out Of the east
to show how the cattle business
should be managed. They had Sc
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Cling herds. On a far crest of the
rolling pastures a lonely horseman
paused, sharply outlined for a mo-
ment against the sky; in another di
rection, a blur drew his eyes to where
a group Of black Polled Angus cattle
graZed, giving the one blot Of deep
color to the plain.
Snyder reappeared, and Saxton fol-
lowed him into the house.
''It isn't haunted or anything like
that?" John asked, glancing over the
long hall. ..
NO. They have a joke about that
at Great River. They say the only
reason is that there. amt any idiot
ghosts
There was much in the place to APP
peal to Saxton's quiet humor. The
house was two stories high and there
was a great hall, with an immense
fireplace at one end. The sleeping
rooms opened ON a gallery above the
hall. An effort had been made to
give the house the appearance of
western wildness by, introducing a
great abundance Of skins of wild
beasts-a highly dishonest bit of dec
Grating, for they had. been bought in
Chicago. How else, indeed, would
skins of German boars and polar
bears be found in a ranch house on
the Platte river!
."Those fellows thought a good deal
Of their stomachs," said Snyder, as
Saxton opened and shut the empty
drawers Of the sideboard, which had
been built into one end Of the west
ern wall of the room, in such man
ner that a pane Of glass, instead of a
mirror, filled the center. The inten-
ton Of this was obviously to utilize
the sunset for decorative purposes,
and Saxton chuckled as he compre-
hended the idea.
II suppose our mortgage covers the
sunset. too" he said. Nearly every
portable thing Of value had been re-
| moved, and evidently In haste; but
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-10
TO reproduce.

A coat that can be trusted to pro-
tect it's wearer against all dampness
and that is smart and becoming at
the same time that it is useful is
certain to find favor in the eyes of
every woman. This one is adapted to
all the rainproof materials Of the sea-
son and fulfills all the requirements.
The model, however, is made of Ok
ford cravenette, stitched with COR
ticelli silk. The little capes over the
shoulders are in the height of style,
and give the breadth that must be
found in every up-to-date garment,
while the full sleeves allow of wear
ing over the fashionable waists with
out annoyance or discomfort.
The coat is made with fronts and
back, and is fitted by shoulder UNDER
arm and center back seams. The
double capes are arranged over the
shoulders and the neck, and front
edges are finished with shaped bands.
The sleeves are cut in one piece each,
gathered into f1aring cuffs. Crossing
the back is the belt, cut in two pieces,
that extends from the under-arm
seams, and is Tapped one end over
the other at the center back. ii.
The quantity of material required for the me.
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yards Sc inches wide.
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the heavy oak chairs and the table
remained. Snyder did his own modest
cooking in the kitchen, which was in
great disorder. The floor Of the office.
was Uttered with scraps of paper. The!
original tenants had evidently made a
fairs before leaving. Snyder slept
here; his blanket lay in a heap on the
long bench that was built into one
side of the room, and battered
valise otherwise marked 1t as his
lodging place. Saxton viewed the
room with disgust; it was more like
kennel than bedroom.
They spent the day in the saddle
riding over the range. The ridi-
culous character of the Poindexter UNI
dertaking could not spoil the real
value Of the land. There was. Sax
ton could see, the mixing here of
great farming property; he felt his
old interest in outdoor life quickening
as he rode back to the house in the
evening.
Snyder cooked supper for both of
them, while Saxton repaired a de-
crepit windmill which had been de-
signed to supply the house with water.
caretaker, who seemed to know moth
ing of the property and who had, as
far as he could see, no well defined
duties. The man struck him as an
odd person for the bank to have
chosen to be the custodian of a ranch
property. There was nothing for any
one to do unless the range were again
stocked and cattle raising undertaken
as serious business Saxton was
used to rough men and their ways. He
had a happy faculty Of adapting him
self to the conversational capacities
Of illiterate men, and enjoyed draw
ting them out and getting their point
of view; but Snyder's was not a visage
that inspired confidence. He had a
great shock of black hair and a
scraggy beard. He lacked an eye, and
he had a habit of drawing his head
| around in order to accommodate his
remaining orb to any necessity. He
did this with an insinuating kind Of
deliberation that became tiresome in
| a long interview.
This place is too fancy to be of
much use,'' the man vouchsafed, puff
| ing at his pipe. 'tYou may find some
dude that wants to plant money where
another dude has dug the first hole;
but I reckon you'll have a hard time
catching him. A real cattleman
wouldn't care for all this house. It
might be made into stable, but a
horse would look ridiculous here. You
/ might have a corn crib made out Of
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1908. by Joseph B. Bowles.

a sacred moment it is when that les
son is fully and finally learned.
Probably nine out Of ten men expect
to absorb a woman'S personality into
that other will to be submerged and
swallowed UP in ours. It is madness,
but it is human nature. And so,
when at last we see and feel the clear
right Of that other soul to it's indi-
viduality first great step has been
taken.
A second step is taken when we
finally determine to endure in silence
the incurable contradictions and op-
positions in the characters Of our hus-
band and wives, We have learned
that nothing but discord and strife
follows the attempt to bend their wills
or alter their temperaments to suit
our own, and we decide to take them
as they are. This involves self-repres-
sion. It is hardr way to be taught
sion. It is a hardr way to be taught
teaches self-repression at the right
time Is better thin the best which
teaches us everything else and not
ciled to the sacrifice Of everything but
itself. We are cyclists but each one
says: milne is not .egotism, but
conscious power" And when man
at last learns to hold his own self
down and keep it from aggressive as
|
the pathway to Paradise. 49,
Complete self-mastery in matrimon-
| ial conflicts is long and difficult ac-
QUESTION. Probably it is fully &C
quired in the fewest possible cases.
But in what multitudes of houses, it is
developed to such point that daily
| life becomes not only endurable but
blissful. Married people learn that
they can control themselves in the
presence of each other as we'll as in
the presence Of strangers or compan-
IONS Of I can control myself before
the meanest and most aggravating
boss In the world, why can't control
myself in the presence of my wife %
Brown asks his conscience. IF I can
govern my resentment over the cook s
Irregularities, why can't I over those
of my husband?" Mrs. Jones inquiries
of her soul.
! And so-the friction grows less and
Hess. Fewer sparks fly. The teeth of
the cog wheels play together more
smoothly and Quietly. The old energy
of conflict and contradiction has
! passed into self-control, and fine and
noble character is the resultant. 1t
may seem a harsh dispensat1On OF
Providence, but female termagants
have often made male heroes, and
l male gad-fies have often developed
female. saints. -.,
At any rate, however self-mastery is
acquired, it is the fundamental virtue,
and to-day, as in antiquity, He that
ruleth his spirit is greater than he
that taketh CITY,"
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SAYS BATHING IS
A DIRTY HABIT"

never intended for it when man
bathes,'' was the next. startling state
ment. eff an antibathing society was
started in Chicago there would be no
consumption. My father died OF con-.
sumption when I was 10 years of age
My people thought my fate would be
similar one. I bathed regularly
then and l had colds all the time. l
was becoming anxious and as time
passed I, too, became of the opinion
that 1 would die of consumption. Ten
years ago began to quit bathing and
since then I have bathed only about
five times. Whenever / went for a
long time without a bath was with
out cold. I haven't taken bath in
two years and I think that am fair
ly good specimen of what man
should be-
And DR.. Robertson is. His cheeks
are rosy. and there is nothing of the
consumptive about his appearance. /.
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it; or it would do for
to spend the summer here; but I
reckon it's a little hot, out..here for
summer boarders.'', T.
"The only real value is in the land"
said Saxton. Tn told there's no bet
ter on the river. The house is a han
dicap, or would be so regarded by, the
kind of men who make money out
of cattle. Have you ever tried round
ing up the cattle that strayed thru the
fences? The Poindexter crowd must
have branded their last calves about
two years ago. Assuming that only
a, part Of them was sold or run off,
there ought to be some two-year-olds
still loose in this country, and they'd
be worth finding
Snyder took his pipe from his mouth
and snorted. EYER jokin' I guess.
fellers, and all that; but guess they
don't give anything back. / guess we
amt got any cattle coming to u.s.
You think you'd rather not try it ?''
mot much!' was the expressive re-
ply. The fellow smoked slowly, bring
ing his eye into position to see how
Saxton had taken his answer. -
John was refilling his own pipe and
did not look up.
:" ~ w w OCS1i CE1oA IiilS ", Oily
der?'
'How's that?"
Who have you been considering
yourself responsible toy
well, Jim Wheaton at the Clark
son National hired me, and I reckon
I'd report to him if I reported to any
body. But if you're going to run this
shebang and want to be reported to,
guess can report to YOU He brought
his turret around again and Saxton
this time met his eye.
'I want you to report to me-" said
John quietly. I'm the first place, ]
want the house and the other build
ings cleaned out. After that the fences
must be put in shape. And then We'll
see if we can't find some of our cows.
You can't tell, we may open up a real
ranch here and go into business
Snyder was sprawling at his ease
in a Morris chair, and had placed his
feet on a barrel. He did not seem
interested in the activities limited at.
well, if you're the boss I'll do il
your way. 1 got along all right with
| Wheaton
He did not say whether he intended
| to submit to authority or not, and
Saxton dropped the discussion. John
| rose and found the candle with which
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he lighted himself to bed in one of
the rooms above. The whole place
was dirty and desolate. The house had
never been filled save once, and that
was on the occasion of a housewarm-
ing which Poindexter and his fellows
had given when they&ffrst took pos
session. One of their friends had
chartered a private car and had
brought out a party Of young men
and women, who had enlivened the
house for a few days; but since then
no woman had entered the place. In
the. Poindexter days it had been care
fully kept, but now it was in a sorry
plight. There had been whole year
Of neglect and vacancy, in which the
house had been used as a meeting
place for the wilder spirits of the
neighborhood, who had not hesitated
to carry off whatever pleased their
fancy and could be put on the back
Of a horse. Saxton chose for himself
the least disorderly of the rooms, in
which the furniture was whole, and
where there were even few books
lying about. He determined to leave
for Clarkson the following morn
ing; and formulated in his mind the
result of his journey and plans for
the future of the homogeneous combi-
nation Of properties that had been
~
looking out over the moon-lit valley.
He followed the long sweep of the
plain, thru which he could see for
miles the bright ribbon Of the river.
A train. of cars rumbled far away,
on the iron trail between the two
oceans, irtensifying the loneliness of
the strange house.
IS II seem to find only the lonely
places" he said aloud, setting his
teeth hard into his pipe.
In the morning he ate the break
fast of coffee, bareback and bacon
which Snyder prepared.
Il guess You want me to hustle
things up a little said Snyder. more
amiably than on the day before. He
turned his one eye and his grin on
Saxton, who merely said that matters
must take a new turn, and that if a
ranch could be made out of the place
there was no better time to begin
than the present. He had not formu-
lated plans for the future, and could
not do so without the consent and
approval of his principals; but he
meant to put the property in as good
condition as possible without waiting
for instructions. Snyder rode with
him to the railway station.
!, Give my regards to Mr.. Wheaton,"