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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
TOWN ENTIRELY TOO HEALTHY
Nothing Doing in Sober Mans Line
In PilneyVille,

"Pilneyville, or" asks the man with
the sober clothes. 81 should say
have heard of that place. was in
business-or tried to be in business
there for year. That town is the
healthiest place | ever knew"
as that so?" we ask, with interest.
Eyes. Pm an undertaken, you see.
| went there and opened an establish
ment on learning that there was no
undertaken in the town. | didn't get
bit Of business, and along in the
summer | started out to pick black
berries for living. They made me
quit. They wouldn't even permit any
blackberrying."
We smile wanly.
"And that wasn't the strangest part.
/ didn't move out until after a man
who had tried to operate a cleaning
and coloring shop closed his doors and
failed"
what had that to do with"
"Was there any chance for an un.
dertaker in a town where there could
be no dyeing of any kind?"
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
CHOICE ROSES BAIT FOR RATS.
FraeraI of the Flower Lures AMI
mails to Their Doom,

The use of choice roses as rat bait
is to be experimental upon by the
biological bureau of the department
of agriculture. The bureau has been
informed of a number of cases where
rodents that spurned tempting cheese
and crackers, were easily enticed by
a rose, and it is believed that the re-
suit of the experiments proposed by
the bureau will be to show conclusive
ly that these flowers surpass cheese,
crackers, rinds of bacon and other
bats that are commonly used to en-
tice the rats into traps.
The use of choice flowers as bait
for rats will, no doubt, be looked
upon as unworthy and degrading by
the hortlculturists and others inter-
ested in plant industry, but when the
great value and Importance of roses
used in this manner is demonstrated
it is believed they will take another
view of the case.
1t is explained that it is not so
much the taste of roses that attracts
the rat as it is their fragrance, and
for this reason roses are expected to
be the popular bait for the future.
Cases have been known where ro-
dents, attracted by the sweet perfume
of a rose in house, have gnawed
through doors to get at the flower.
Rats have been known to become sus.
picious of traps with the familiar bait
OF cheese and bacon rinds and easily
evade trap for long time. From
experience it has been found that
white roses, such as the dainty bride
rose or the snowy Nephitos, have
proved preferable in rat-catching.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
Waudevrne.v

The nrme vaudeville" is under
stood to be corruption of Vaux &c
Wire, the name of two picturesque val
leys in the Bocage of Normandy, and
was originally applied to a song with
words relating to some story of the
day. These songs were first com,
posed by one Oliver Basselin, puler
In Wire; they were very popular and
spread all over France, and were
called by the name of their native
place Ues Vaux de Vire).
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
CITY OF MEXICO AND RETURN
$69.80.

April 25th to May 9Th the Colorado
Midland will sell round trip tickets
Salt Lake to City of Mexico and re-
turn for $69.S0 Good for stop-overs up
to sixty days. Your choice of three
excellent routes. Illustrated books on
Mexico free. Other dates later on
Write L. H. Harding, general agent,
Salt Lake, for further information.
The Midland Route is the line that has
that through observation car.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
statesmen wanted for our protec

statesmen wanted for our protec-
ton for men and women, as we have
just entered Utah and Registered with
the State Department of Insurance.
$1,000 policy pays $3.50 weekly with
500 emergency benefit, costs So a
year. Handsome black seal wallet
given free with each policy. Excel.
lent line. Write today for exclusive
and renewal contract, liberal commits.
sion.
THE GUARANTEE REGISTRY CO.,
Cleveland, o.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21

where the assay was obtained and
within a month opened up one of the
greatest bodies of high grade ore that
has ever been revealed in mine.
Montgomery later purchased the tenth
interest that he had given to James
for $4,000, and he purchased the nine
twentieths interest of his partner, Ed
wards, for 100000 on a bond. Thea
he sold to Malcolm Macdonald, a min
ing engineer from Butte, who was on
the ground quarter interest for
100000. Later he incorporated com
pany, known as the Montgomery
Shoshone Mines company, sold stock
at So per share, and with the first pro
ceeds paid off "Bilr' Jones AMI tom
Edwards Within the past four months
he sold to Charles H. Schwab his re-
naming three-fourths interest in the
property for nearly $5,000,000
Prosaic, indeed, is the story of DR..
Lyman's fortune-making, compared
with Montgomery's; but the character
and antecedents of the two men are
so different, yet the results of their
efforts so similar, that the narrative
must prove interesting. DR.. Lyman is
an automobilist, gentleman of leisure,
athlete, and horseman. He spends his
summers at Saratoga, and the tandems
he drives are a fixture in the annual
Saratoga show. He owns a racing
stable, and his colors are well known
on the eastern and coast rlce tracks
He spends his winters in Florida and
Los Angeles, and has always an entry
in the automobile races that take place
at these winter resorts annually.
About year ago Lyman spent a
month in Los Angeles, and there met
at the races Professor Bailey. minnie
engineer and state mineralogist of Ne
braska. Lyman had been reading in
the east of the Goldfield discoveries
and he questioned Professor Bailey as
to whether there was anything in it.
Bailey told him that Goldfield was Q
great country, but that the great
chances for fortune-making were in
Bullfrog, country then comparatively
unknown, and he advised Lyman to G
out and take a chance there. Ly
man drove his automobile all the way
from Los Angeles to the Bullfroe
country, a distance of 500 miles, and
he spent two weeks there with Pro
fessor Bailey inspecting the variou
properties. The Rush group, on Do
nanza mountain, was heralded then
the biggest mining proposition on tn l.
mountain, and the biggest price was
asked for it of any property in al
Bullfrog, except the Montgomery Sho
shone itself. A bargain was struck
DR.. Lyman bonded the property foi
$150,000 The first payment was 500,
900 in cash, and this it was agreed
should be spent on the property i'm
mediately to open it up. and to apply
on the purchase price. This was done
Eight tunnels were driven into the
property. An ore body 154 feet wide
was exposed. and on Lymans thirt
trip into the district, last week. he
easily sold his interest for $5OO,OO(
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
Investigate SmeIter City.

We invite the closest investigation
of Smelter City real estate. A $50 lot
in the new town at the smelters may
start your fortune. The lots are To-
Gated within a twenty-minute walk of
the big concentrator. Call or write for
plat.
SMEITE CITY TOWNSHIP Co,
No. POI ID. f. Walker Blk.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
Buy Where the Crowd is Buying.

Residents of Pocatello, Mercur, Man
ii, Richfield, Goldfield, Ogden and Lo-
gan are buying the $50 bargain lots in
Smelter City. For plat and terms ad-
dress,
SHELTER CITY TOWNSHIP CO.,
No. POI D. f. Walker Blk.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
B Winning Early.

~ little phew rec, ly asked his
mother to let him have her fashion
book Whist do you want it for?"
was his mothers amused query. 81
want to see the winter styles in over.
coats for young men of four" he re-
piled gravcly.-New York World.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21

Wanted-Ten men in each state to
travel, post signs, advertise and leave
samples of our goods Salary, SIS per
month; SO per day for expenses
Royal Supply Co., dept. S, Atlas Block,
Chicago.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-21
Did it Ever Occur to You

That Smelter City lots at $50 are the
best investment in Utah today? In
vestigate this opportunity to safely in
vest for a future title perfect and war
ranty deed.
SHELTER CITY TOWNSHIP CO.,
No. 201 d. F. Walker Blk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
A Progressive Tribe.

The annual school report of the
Cherokee Nation records the establish
ment Of seventy-ive new schools dur
ing the past year, a fact which does
not encourage the belief that the In
dian is Indifferent to advancement.
Each native contributes to the support
Of these public schools, which are in
no sense missions, but are maintained
wholly by the community. The teach
ers are usually of Indian descent.
The Cherokee tribe commands re-
spect for it's heroic waging of a con-
test which for two hundred years in
volved it's very existence.
Driven from it's ancestral domain in
Georgia to the far West, it has built up
a nation which is intelligent and which
possesses many Of the noblest quail
ties. The constitutional government
has it's headquarters at Tahlequah in
a substantial Capitol building.
From the first the tribe gave evil
dence Of superiority. In the early part
of the eighteenth century an embassy
was sent from the Cherokees to En-
gland The chiefs, kneeling at the feet
of George H., laid their Offering, as an
old chronicler states it, of five eagles
tayles and four scalps of enemies, all
of which his majesty was graciously
pleased to accept Of"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
1T is THE PRIZE BEARD.
Farmer Has One that Is the Longest
in the World.

Farmer Has One that Is the Longest
in the World.
Pike County boasts q citizen with
the longest whiskers in the world
His name is Valentine Tapley, says
the Kansas City Times. He is nearly
80 years old and his beard is eleven
feet long. Mr.. Tapley is one of the
Oldest residents Of the county and one
OF the wealthiest. He is a farmer.
He is the father of Joseph Tapley,
who represented the county in the
State Legislature for two terms.
Mr.. Tapley is very proud Of his
whiskers and dislikes any one who
questions whether they are the longest
in the world. He is hale and hearty
and lives an active life on the farm.
His activity is not curtailed by fears
for his health or for any other con-
sideration except the welfare Of his
beard. He does the hardest of farm
work which, does not endanger the
remarkable hirsute adornment. but be
will not burn brush or work around a
fire.
The belief that shaving quickens the
growth Of a beard is not sustained in
the case Of Mr.. Tapley, for he says
he never did shave. The beard ap-
peared when he was 10 years old. Be
fore he was 20 Mr.. Tapley had TO
plait his beard and wear the tip Of it
inside his vest. In the next five years
it grew too long for that, and he
began to wear it on the inside Of his
shirt. The next provision was to
wrap it around his body beneath his
clothes.
When the beard was eight feet long
it was claimed to be the longest in the
world, and Mr.. Tapley had hand
some offer from the manager of a
dime museum in London TO exhibit
himself. But he likes life on the farm
too we'll and declined the offer. He
values his beard above price If lie
were offered $1,000 to cut it off those
who know him best say he surely
would spurn the money. He says that
when he dies he does not want it cot
off, but wants to be buried with 1t as
it is. 1t is still growing slowly. He
still wears the beard plated AS the
end is inserted within his shirt and is
then wrapped a couple of times about
his body, a person who meets him
casually notices nothing remarkable
in his appearance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
have gone down to death in the deep

have gone down to death in the deep
the skipper faced them angrily:
why didn't you fellows hold on to
your anchorY he demanded, irateIy.
Expect me to pick you approving
and drifting all round the Ship"
1--WE were hanging on to our moor
ing, skipper" answered the boat skip
per. "But the rope parted, and be-
fore Gordon could get his oars out she
nearly filed on us. I had to throw
everything overheard. and bale.
"Well, you're mighty lucky he OBJ
served. IF it had kept on showing
half an hour longer, we'd never have
got you. It's going to be a
wild night I'm thinkin', an we'll have
a job to beat her in. Turn to now.
and close reef her fore and aft. It'll
come down again in a few minutes
blowing hard enough to lift us ont of
the water, and cold enough to freeze
icicles. So we'd better get her reefad
down before everything is froze hard ;,
AS the night wore on, the gale deveI-
oped into a blizzard. The schooner.
held up to it by the shred Of try sail
wallowed wildly in the Infatuated sea
The tops Of tho seas, torn off by the
wind, swept over her in icy showers
and now and then bodies of broken
water tumbled aboard and suroed
around the decks. She made ice ev-
erywhere, fast and hard, and the
weary, half frozen crew had to nound
continuously to keep her clear-to
keep her from sinking under the
weight of it. At times, despite tbn;r
efforts, three inch ropes grew as stout
as man, the bOwsprit became as bio
as a church steeple, the bows, as far
as the foremost, filed up level with
the rails, and her sides above the wa
ter line sheathed over with ice three
feet thick.
At dawn the blizzard blew itself ont
suddenly, the sky cleared off, and the
wind dropped dead. In the clearing
light, the Narka's men saw. half \
mile to windward, barquetine, under
close-reefed mainsail and main stav-
sail. She was in a sorry plight, her
masts, yards and rigging being coated
with CONCEALED spray, and sleet. and
her hull from jib-boom to taffrail. an
parently mere mass Of white ice
That's the fellow who passed rs
yesterday" observed the skinner.
He's been making bad weather of If
The poor beggars aboard of her SUI
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

The skipper grasps the snood with his
left hand, thrusts the gob-stick down
the ugly throat, and with a dexterous
twist or two removes the hook, and
throws the writing squalus overheard.
Then, for an hour the bowman,
grunting disgustedly, hauls in dog
fish after dog-fsh, and now and then
the head of a cod, whose body had
provided banquet for the marauders
of the deep. The shippers exaspera-
ton steadily increases.
The Narha comes along, and the
captain halls: "How are they comm,
boysW The boat skipper straightens
up, and abjures the luck, in language,
lurid and emphatic. The captains
face darkens; then he calls out, quiet
ly: "Take up your travis; We'll try
somewhere else."
When at last they got her boats and
travis aboard for the night, the short
December day had long since drawn
to a close. The weather continued
moderate and clear, but the sky, which
had been Of deep blue color, had
taken on a pale, sickly hue A change
was imminent, but it wouldn't be i'm
mediate.
The Narha remained outside all
night, hOve-to, with two men, relieved
at intervals, on watch on deck. At 3
o'clock all hands were called, and after
coffee, went to work, batting up the
gear. And before daylight the dories
were hoisted out, and sent off to make
a set.
After daybreak the sky began to look
gloomy. and was soon overcast with
grayish vapor The nor'west wind
freshened in gusts, and lifted up a
short, swift running lop Of a sea-
When the dories went out to the I'M
der running, they found the travis
fairly loaded with fine cod and had
dock. They returned to the schooner
dangerously deep before they had I'M
derrun half their lines, forked the
catch aboard, and went Immediately
to look the rest of their lines.
The day wore on, growing gusty
and cold. The other vessels of the
feet, distrusting the look of the wealth
er, began to take up their gear and
start for home. A big barkentine,
bound in to Halifax, passed under
press Of sail, burying her deep-laden
hull in the short-plunging seas.
At noon the Narha was alone under
the lowering sky, on the gray waste Of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
PAINTING THE LILY.


In a small town in New York State
there is but one negro family. The
only child, "'Rastus," a little lad Of
5, having no companions of his own
race, plays, with the white boys in
town, with whom he is very popular.
The New York Tribune tells of one in
stance when the drawing Of the color
line made trouble.
,Rastus is a favorite with the small
summer folk at the big hotel. Last
July, when some of the young people
got up an entertainment for the benefit
of the new and struggling church So
ciety, he was invited with all the other
little boys in town to black up and
serve as an usher
The night of the entertainment. when
Tom Babcock and his big brother. the
manager of the affair, arrived, some
body Immediately reported that the
dreSSing-rOOm was in an uproar be-
cause 'Rastus was crying as if his
heart would break
Whats the trouble?'' demanded the
manager, on going into the room where
'Rastus, with his head in his hands,
was sobbing sorrowfully in the center
of a circle of boys, some pitiful, some
derisive, some stern, and all much per-
turbed
''They w-won't let NINE put b-black
on my f-face! spluttered 'Rastus.
Hes as black as a stove, anyway
shouted four or five voices in unison
It was true. 'Rastus was as ''bIack
as stove" But he had never thought
Of it before, and as he hid his face in
his hands again his heart seemed
breaking with this new and bitter
thought. The manager scowIed, then
resolutely swallowed a lump in his
throat
Boys" he began. But his broth
er Tom, 10 years old, squarely built in
side and out, interrupted him.
'Huh!' scoffed Tom. whats the
matter with you? The orders are to
black up to usher, and of course that
takes in 'Rastus just the same's the
rest Of u.s.
That's about what / was going to
say" adroitly declared the manager.
Rub on all the black you want to,
kid"
'Rastus' tears turned to smiles. and
no boy had any better time than he.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

sea. She kept her boats out and short
ened her travis. At any moment a
snow squall was liable to sweep down
upon them, but the fishing was good.
and the men toiled on cheerfully. The
little dories bounded and bucked madIv
in the seas. When laden with fish the
scumming surges dashed in spray over
them, and sheathed them outside and
in with shell ice. The men. despite
their oil-skins, were wet to the skin.
and very cold; and over them, like the
shadow Of death, hung the leaden sky.
But they worked on, careless Of cold
and danger, wrestling hard harvest
from the misery and treacherous sea.
Christmas was coming-was only two,
days off-and they would make it q
merry one for their folks ashore.
In the northwest, the heavens crowd
ed up with dense, blue-black. hard
edged masses of cloud, which. twist
ing and turning, spread zenithward.
rapidly. The air grew colder-the
wind blew harder-and a thin FROST
fog rose from the sea. A snow storm
was sweeping down out of the north.
The Narha signaled her boats to pick
up their travis without delay.
She had taken three boats aboard.
and filled away to pick UP the fourth
and last. She fairly flew, but it soon
became evident that the snow SQUALLS
would be upon her before she could
reach the boat
IF they'd hung on to their anchor,
we'd surely have run across them. /
had their bearings and steered a
straight course. They must have let
go, and drifted to leeward. Anyway,
we're past where they ought to be.
Haul down your jib. Then I'll let her
come about"
The schooner cruised about for half
an hour, showing fare-up, and sound
ing the fog horn. Suddenly the suuall
slackened it's force; the snow thinned
and the horizon widened around. And
as the men on the schooner looked
about them, they saw down to lee
ward hardly a hundred yards away,
the dory rising and sinking bravely to
the swing of the smoking seas. The
schooner ran down, rounded to, and
the dory rowed under here lee. The
little craft was badly iced-up, and the
men, to tighten her, had jettisoned
fish and trawl gear. AS she was hoist
ed aboard, the captain came forward
and fronted the men who a moment
before had been fighting for their very
lives, and who but for within Of the
wind that made the snow to lift, would
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

man will coil up or pay out mile after
mile Of travis without pricking a
finger or entangling a snood. AS the
line goes over the stern, the boat skip
per, at intervals of forty fathoms at
taches a small weight, usually a small
stone of about ten pounds, prepared
for the purpose, and when he comes
to the end he throws over another an
Choir and buoy. Each dory sets about
two miles of trawl in one string; and
by that time it is sun-up. The schoon-
er picks up her boats in the same or
der she dropped them; and the men
have breakfast. Then, almost imme-
diately she drops her dories again to
"under-run," or look, the travis.
The nor west wind is raw and cold,
and the water is not warm, but the
bowman, though his hands be numb,
is soon sweating with his eXertiOns,
because hauling a trawl in fifty faith
oms Of water, in a sea way, is hard
work.
Comes the head Of q cod. "Dog-f1sh
about" grunts the bowman. The skip
per, in silence, unhooks it, throws it
overheard, and renews the bait. The
bowman jerks timber, but villainous-
looking fish into the boat. This glut-
tonous rascal, a member Of the shark
tribe, generally swallows the bait,
and, owing to the peculiar formation
and position of its mouth, it requires
considerable skill to extract the hook
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03

stood back to where she had left the
first boat
So, while the East grew gray with
the dawn, the men in the dories, toss
ing erratically over confused tumble
of ragged seas, went TO work to set
their travis The boat skipper, the
after oarsman, throws out a little
anchor, to which is attached the main
trawl line, and a conical buoy with a
staff through it, bearing a flag. Then
the bowman rows, the skipper pays
out the trawl, dexterously throwing
the hook clear Of the main line.
A man, unaccustomed to the work,
would soon have half a dozen hooks
eaught in his hands and the trawI in
e hopeless tangle, but an expert fisher
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
One Enough.

Eyes, we stopped at a big hotel when
in New York." said Uncle Reuben's
wife, land the charges for food there
were suthin' just awful. Why, when
we dined, the first course came to al
most $3.50"
"And what did the second cost?"
was asked
ooh, we didn't get as far as that
One course was enough for u.s.