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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

There is a lawyer of Baltimore who
tells story of how he secured a yer.
dict in favor of an Irishman charged
with assault with intent to kill The
lawyer secured his clients acqulttal
ON the ground of temporary insanity
Counsel and client did not meet fol-
several months after the release OF
the accused. When they did meet, the
following conversation ensued:
We'll, Mike, isn't it about time you
handed me that $50O?"
what $50O?"
"Why. the fee of $500 that you prom.
ised me | should have if l saved you
from the penitentlaryw
"shure an did l promise We that:
l don't raymimber."
Don't remember, Why. YOU were
so grateful that you promised me over
and over again that should have il
within a week.
Mike gave sickly smile. "Shure
| think the claim is not good wan,'
said he; 'ye know, was crazy thlnn'
-Harper's Weekly.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
Dramatic Temperance Story.

Irving Grinnell, treasurer Of %
Church Temperance Society of Ne
York, told at temperance meella
dramatic story:
"A woman entered a barroOm,'
said, "and advanced quietly to her Au
band, who sat drinking with tli'
other men.
She placed a covered dish on U
table and said:
"Thinkin' ye'd be TOD busy to con
home to supper, Jack, I've fetched
to you here
And she departed. :
THE men laughed awkwardly'
invited his friends to share the ma
with him. Then he removed the COW
from the dish.
The dish was empty. 1t con'alD'
a slip of paper that said:
Il hope you will enjoy your sup7'
1t Is the same your wife and chlIa'
have at home."-Chlcago Chronlce
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
AN ACCOMMODATING wlrNr,'
How an Attorney Was Successful,
buffed in Court.

How an Attorney Was Succession.
buffed in Court.
"Do you know the prisoner
asked the attorney. "epl
Never knew him ILL.," repllos !.
witness. 'u \
mo levlty," said the lawyer v
sir. did you ever see the prlsor. w
the barr"
"Took many drink with him a. j..
bar"
Answer my question, siro ,o..
the lawyer. How long bavo Y
known the prisoner"
From two feet up to five fos, !.
inches"
"Will the Court make the
II have, yer Worship" said tho :,
ness, anticipating the lawyer. az ~
answered the question. | knowad \
prisoner when he was a boy NJ !.
feet long and man of five feet ia, !
"Your Honor"
Its fact. yer Worship; I'm IN,
OATH" persisted the witness.
The lawyer placed his hands on
table in front of him, spread his /,
apart, leaned his body over the Nm
and said:
Twill you tell the Court what
know about this case?"
"That amt his name" replied 4
witness.
what amt his name?"
Cease"
"Who said it was?"
you did. You wanted to IN,
what / knew about this case.
names Jones'"
Your Worship" howled the lawn
plucking his beard out by the ro
will you make this man answer
Witness" said the Magistrate q
must answer the questions put
you"
Great Scott! hain't I been dom
Let him fire away. I'm all ready
"Then," said the lawyer, don't b
about the bush any more. You /
the prisoner have been friends%
Never" promptly responded the v
ness.
what! Weren't you summoned b
as a friend?"
mo, sir. / was summoned here 1,
Presbyterian: Nary one of us v
ever Friends. He's an old-time B
fist. without a drop of Quaker in hi
stand down." yelled the lawyer
disgust.
"Hey?'
"Stand down.
Cant do it. I'll sit down or ST
up"
Constable, remove the man #
the box"
Witness retires muttering: "Wel
he amt the thick headest lawyer e
laid eyes onn'-Galveston Tribune.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
TOWERING BIRDS
After Being Shot in Flight They Ascend
and Die in the Air.


why is 1t that mallard. grouse a
quail, and, for the matter of that per-
haps. any bird when wounded in the
head during fight will frequently tow
er or mount upward at an acute angle
oftentimes to die in midair and drop
dead to the earth like plummet or
setting its wings. come to earth at a
long. sloplng angle?
| remember a curious case of this
kind in connection with a sharp-tail
grouse. We were walking through
prairie grass well above our knees
when a long distance ahead upon a
| knoll on the prairie we espied sharp
| tail grouse, an old cock bird. standing
erect in a sort of oasis of short vel
vety grass not more than a couple of
yards in diameter.
We walked quietly along, taking care
not to stamp our feet upon the ground
! any more than necessary. The bird
seemingly was engrossed with some
! thing. for with its back to us 1t paid
no attention to us whatsoever until we
had advanced within about eighty
! yards of it. Turning its head it sized
us up and then began to show symp-
toms of restlessness. first standing on
! one leg and then upon the other. The
early afternoon sun was shining bright
ly and the beautiful bird. with neck
and head erect and body distended
/ upon its restless feet, made an attract
i've and unique picture.
The wary bird evidently thought we
were close enough when, with spring
! and a coo coo he dGrted up in the air.
| My friend. slightly in advance of me,
! took the shot. The bird did not seem
! to change its course or alter its fight
in any way. Up, up, up almost in a
! straight line, the bird lowered, its
wings beating the ,.ir and propelling it
! skyward. We watched the towering
bird until we thought it would go out
of sight, when its wings ceased to beat
| and became set. as when alighting
upon the ground
| Down. down it came, slowly at first
and then more rapidly at an angle di-
rectly toward us. finally falling stone
| dead at our feet. Picking the bird up
and carefully examining it we found
a single shot had penetrated its head
Presumably the nerves of direction in
| the brain were paralyzed and the bird
| yet full of life and vigor. beat the air
and assembled upward. l have seen a
mallard do this same thing in the tow
ering line, likewise a quail What is
the eXplanation?-Ch Charles Cristadoro,
! in Forest and Stream
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
THE AUTUMN oE LOVE.

When the awakening haws we're green
When May-time's drift on the apple.
Hung white and sweet, and the pearly
Rksen
OF the morning mist made drunk the
bees,
We learned the whisper and the kiss
What deadlier whisper briDgeth-thisg
Thy hand on mine was heaven won.
Thy voice and mine chimed into song,
Thy lips and mine were flower and sun
The spring-time road was green and
long;
And no answering iervent fire
Lights in thy heart my hearts desire
Yet thou art perious fair 1t seems,
And "A singer at the shrine;
The minstrels still must dream their
dreams,
Still love and lose. atill kiss and pine;
Thy soul hath learned to follow far
Another and more warlike star.
For those dear days of bloom and spring
Have wlthered in the ripening heat,
And 10! the autumns burgeoning
Bringeth sound of heavier feet
And in the eyes that mirrored mine
Are pennon's flash and lance's shine.
So cometh autumn of the year.
So cometh twilight to the day,
And unto me the tune and tear,
And mailed hands my hope to slay:
False autumn with her shower of gold
Is still unsought and groweth old.
Thomas Wood Stevens. in Harper's
Magazine.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
TOAD WAY KenaIrinr

In letter to the selectmen of the
/ towns throughout the State of Connec-
ucut James III. Macdonald, State
Highway Commissioner. gives some
practical points on repairing roadways
as follows:
All culyerts and cutters should be
/ cleaned out and all shoulders on the
roaus should be pared down so that
they snail be below the Travelled nor
ton of the highway. This will permit
oil the water running off into the gut.
Ter. Gravel roads should have a lit
tie gravel placed on the marks in
the centre of the road and in the ruts
II this is not done at this season no
good will result. All loose stones
should be removed from macodom
roads with the back of rake, not the
teeth Loose stones injure a road as
huch as any one thing, because they
are driven into the surface and break
the bond.
Where the stone is beginning 10
snow though little splinters or chins
Oh stone should be applied to form n
cushion. This cushion should not he
more than three-fourths of an inch
'nlck' No sprinkiing or rolling is nee.
essary. A ton of Spllnters will suffice
Tor from go to 800 square feet An
ordinary farm roller. weighted down
ana run afer tie road after loose stones
are removed, will improve it, is NOT
necessary to use screenings on a stone
ROAD, as they only furnish dust in dry
weather, If the road is watched a
new surface will not be necessary, as
1t WIZ not have the chance to get in
bad condition"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
The Modern Dragon.

To-day we need sigh for drasvS
no more,' fervently remarks Arm,
n. Jervis in his article on aUtomOuns
Car Coming" in EveryboGy's. ).
Geathrisking combat bet Heen ~.,
and fiery destroyer is real. we w.,
watch whole herd of mechapn'
dragons, snOrting, barking, whlll.i
leaping, sliding, splitting smoke ~
flame, for three hours around a tins
mile circuit. The men who ride 'ps y.
face dangers which are not mace ~ y,
of poetic nightmares. dangers n,
greater than those imagined ny "a
ancient liar and reprobate VINO w ",
out of town for a three days jampO'',l
and came back shaky and dishe's~,l
and explaining that state of his ne d,
by lovely tale of horrid comDa' "" w.,
a scaly monster in cave someWpsr
OF on the other side Of the moun''D
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
WORDS OF WISDOM.

What makes life dreary is want
mOtive.-Eliot.
A laugh is worth hundred eros
in any market.-Lamb.
Blessed are they who know enOu
to mind their own business.
Honest good j,umor is the oil a
wine of merry meeting.-Irvlng
To expect defeat is nine-tenths Of
defeat itself.-F. Marion Crawfor
If you will be cherished when :
are old be courteous when you 1
young.-Lyly.
He is wise man who wastes no
ergy on pursuits for which he is !
fitted.-Gladstone.
We are always complaining our ia
are few, and acting as if there We
no end of them.-Addison.
Foresight is very wise, but fore;t
row is very foolish, and castles are,
any rate, better than dungeons in Y
air.-Lubbock.
Every person is responsible for
the good within the scope of his ab
tiles, and for no more, and none q
tell whose sphere is the largest,-Gi
Hamilton.
So long as men are animated by sou
more responsive to the calls of self
terest and sentiment than to the cal
of justice and reason, so long will the
be wars and rumors of wars, and
civilization fundamentally based up
force.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
a Mexican Farm.

Don Luis Terrazas, a great friend
OF President Diaz. has a farm in Chi.
huahua of about 100000 acres. Don
Luis is thought to own more than
100000 cattle. His stable consists
Of some 100000 horses his sheepfo.d
of 100000 sheep. From 2O0.O OO to 300.
600 calves are branded with his brand
every spring. More than 1000 COW,
boys keep his cattle. At his slaughter
and packing houses near chihuahua
City 25OOOO cattle. as many sheep. and
hogs innumerable are killed, and away
they 20 in his own refrigerator cars.
Some 10000 persons dwell on his es.
tate.-kansas City Journal.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

OF the arrivals last year 230SS2 over
IA years of age were illlterate, and
one-third of them brought less thon $50
in cash with them. 1t does not take
very lively imagination TO see that
country even of the great wealth
and resources of this, thinks the Nor
witch Bulletin The statistics show
that these immigrants produce more
and three times the number of depend
ents and lunatics in proportion to their
number than those to the manor born.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

According TO dispatches from Berlin.
Chancellor Won Bulow has reported to
the Reichstag that duels are 'neces-
sary." The Emperor, however. has
forbidden them in the army; so that
there is a clash between necessity"
and imperial authority. The Emperor
has right and reason on his side, de-
clares the New York Tribune. and it is
TO be hoped that he will lay at las in
Germany superstition that should no
longer be tolerated in the civilized
world
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

The tap-root of all our political
evils. avows Leslie's Weekly, is the
apathy, the indifferentism. the ignor-
ance of the people themselves with
respect to their political duties and
obligations, together with the DISPOSE
ton of many otherwise intelligent
and respectable citizens to accept and
practice code of morals in political
affairs which they would be quick
to disown and repudiate in any other
sphere of life. 1t is the general ac-
ceptance of this double standard of
morals that has wrought more evil
in every circle of American govern
ment, from the lowest to the highest,
than all other causes put together.
We mean by this the acceptance of
the shallow and vicious fallacy that
a man may himself practice, or con-
nive at, the conduct of q ruftian, a
thief, a falsifier, a cunning trickster,
or criminal of almost any sort to
gain his political ends and yet be
accounted a gentleman, and perhaps
a great public leader. if not states
man, in other walks of life.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

Courtship is dead, AYERS the London
World. Young men no longer make
passionate avowas, they never start
when she approaches, they do not
grow pallid with jealousy if another
seems to be in favor, they certainly
do not write sonnets to their mis-
tress' eyebrow-in fact. they scarcely
even go so far as TO write her let
ter, and if they do go to this length
the result is never worth republishing
in book form. Lovers do not talk
about their hearts. and so on. and
If engagements are terminated the
severed twain have no scruples about
subsequently meeting each other. In
novels something must be done
to make up for the unromantic spirit
of the age, so awful situations have
to be invented for hapless heroines,
who either have to kill themselves
or be killed or die in lunatic asylums
or converts.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
Russian Riddles.

What walks upside down overhead?
A fly.
There are four brothers under one
hat. Legs of table.
L have four legs and feathers, but
am neither beast nor hrd. Feather
bed.
-Four brothers run side by side, but
never catch up with one another. Cart
wheels.
A pack of wolves ran by; one was
shot, how many remained? The dead
one.
1 am blind, but show others the way.
dear and dumb, but know how to
count. Milestone.
People pray for me and long for nv
company, but directly l appear they
hide themselves. Rain.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
Fixing the Date.

An old minister in Weston. Mass,
tells how implicitly the people of a
generation ago trusted the weather pre-.
dictions of the Farmers almanac. one
of his flock had died, and the pastor
was consoling the widow The sub
ject OF the funeral came up. and he
asked when it was TO be. wait. doc
tor" said she, 1--WE must have it on a
pleasant day" She hurriedly searched
the almanac, and the day was set.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

If the Northwest Passage has really
been discovered, why not let up or
that Panama expense? There are no
yellow fever mosquitoes lowering
around the Northwest Passage.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

In cold weather blanket your horses
while stopping.
Warm the bits before using.
To get horses from a burning barn
or stable, when panic.stricken. put the
harness on them and they can then be
easily and safely removed. If no har-
ness is at hand, ones coat or blanket
thrown over their heads makes them
tractable. Our Dumb Animals.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

A report by the Department of Ag-
riculture shows no business in which
there is a greater range of profit than
dairying
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

In tall men, rs n rule, the body is
out OF proportion TO the lower limbs.
with the natural result that such men
are unable to bear fatigue or to com.
pete in the struggles of life with their
lesser fellows more tremendously pro-
poruoned' Army experience bears out
these observations. In a long and ia.
tguing march the tall men usually fal,
out first. A soldier between five feet
five inches and five feet eight inches or
nine inches is usually the one best
adapted for bearing extra exertlon.
There are about 10000 200 of migrs.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

Swedish school children, under the
guidance of their teachers, annually
plant about 100000 trees.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01
BEYOND
THE GREEN
BAIZE DOOR
BY ANSON Is. ARDWELL.

Observation-Disclosures:
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

There are about 10000 900 of migrs.
tory sheep in Spain.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

HERE was mystery behind
the green baize door; tan
gible, OF intangible, nobody
knew, since no one but Mr..
pIokaIy ov-ay covy tho in
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-01

Canadian hoads'
NITED STATES Consul
Seyfert, at Stratford, On
tario, has refused an inter-
esting report regarding the
methods being adopted in
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-03

The three greatest conversationalists
with whom it has been my good for
tune to come into touch were Mazzini,
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Bis
marck.
OF these DR.. Holmes was the most
spirited in the bel esprit sense. Bis
marck the most imposing and at the
same time the most entertaining in
point of wit. sarcasm, anecdote and
narratives of historical interest,
brought out with rushing vivacity and
with lightninglike illumination of con-
dtions, facts and men, but in MAJ
zini's words there breathed such Il
warmth and depth of conviction, such
enthusiasm of faith in the sacredness
of the principles professed and of the
aims pursued by him, that it was diff
cult to resist such a power of fascina-
tion.-From "Reminiscences Of a Long
Life" by Carl Schurz in McClures.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-03
SOME FIRST OCCASIONS.

Alexander del Spina made the first
pair of spectacles in 1895.
The first books were bound by Alta
lus. king of Pergamus, in 1913 B. C.
The first glass window in England
was put up in an abbey about $50.
The first typewriter ever made ap.
peared in 1714, the work of Henry
Mills.
The first bread was made by the
Greeks; the first windmills by the Sar-
acens.
The first Playful was issued from
Drury Lane theater, London, on April
8, 1868
1t is asserted that the drum was the
first musical instrument used by hui
man beings.
Trousers, in their present shape,
were introduced into the British army
in 1913 and tolerated as a legitimate
portion of evening dress in 1916.
According to historians, the first
striking clock was imported into Eu-
rope by the Persians about 800 A. D.
1t was brought as a present to Charlie
magne from Abdella, king of Persia,
by two monks of Jerusalem.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-03
Wool Market.

The wool market at the seaboard
still fails to give evidence of decided
animation. 1t was expected by many
that when the new woods would begin
to arrive they would be readily taken
by consumers. as the latter had re-
Trained from purchasing for so long q
period Of time that they would be In
need of stock, which would compel
them to lay in supplies of the raw ma
terial But they are as indisposed to
lay in large lines of wool as ever, and
although stocks of wool in the Boston
market are now increasing and from
now on larger and more desirable Sc
lections will be available it is difficult
to get consumers interested in wool to
any noteworthy extent. The fact must
not be lost sight of that large pur-
chases of foreign wool have helped to
enable the consumer to get along with
out buying domestic wools.-American
Wool Reporter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-03
The MilkinR Machine

The milking machine means larger
investments in dairying. 1t means
more and better milk and butter and
cheese. We thought that we produced
pretty decent sort of milk. The cows
were clean and the men were clean,
and we have been complmented on
the sanitary condition of the stable
and milk. but just as soon as we be-
gan milking with the machine there
was a decided difference. The man
stated that he noticed the difference
the first time he washed the separator
after separating the milk. There was
a great deal less filth in the separator
bowl. An expert dairyman the other
day sampled the milk and pronounced
it perfect milk. There is absolutely no
chance for any dirt, dust or anything
of the sort to get into the milk, and If
the teat cups and rubber tubes are
kept clean-and they can be with very
little trouble-you have product that
is perfectly Mathematician C. Lii
lie in Michigan Farmer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-03
Dairy and Stock Notes.

Nervous horses do better kept in box
stalls, where they can move about.
Ups and downs in the amount OF food
given the cows should be avoided
Keep them happy and full
1t pays to run cows for the city man.
They should be gentle. halter broken,
in good condition and look pretty.
Every time you go TO the sheep field
take bit of something for the sheep
to nibble on. That's the way TO teach
them to follow.
Have your own mark on your sheep.
They will stray sometimes, and If not
marked how can you prove your prop
erty?
For the average farmer the profit In
growing pigs is made in using up ma
terial on the farm that otherwise would
necessitate frequent trips to the rail-
road station to dispose of. Pigs are
more easily marketed than are milk
and grains that they devour-Farm
Journal. e.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-08-03
Cure For InsOmnia .

A widely known clubman whose fam
lily is known TO take earnest exception
to his late hours recently encountered
his physician on the street
''EIow are you feeling these days"
asked the medco.
Very well, indeed. thank you" re-
piled the clubman, but I'm bit wor-
ried about my wife, doctor. She suf-
fers dreadfully from insomnia. have
been on the point for some time of
consulting you about her case. What
would you suggest?"
you might try getting home earlier"
observed the physician.-New York
Times.