Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-09

the local newspaper and the only thing
that disturbs him Is n call three times
Il day 10 banquet OF fnince pies and
other uNuries. Il IL q mistake. The
Industrious farmer begins work long
before the sun thinks OF getting up
With his soul shrouded In gloom he pro-
ceeds to build = fire and soften his
boots with sledge hammer. lie then
takes q lantern and shovels his way to
the barn and feeds the hogs, 1t is
then time to feed the newly arrived calf
which seems To delight IN butting
pail Of milk over the tiller of the soil
until he only needs TO be stamped to
pass for u package of oleomargarlne.
He crawls through barbwire fence
and digs the hay out Of the snow, feeds
the sows, cleans the stable, gathers up
the frozen chicks. chases a stray pig
worth Is cents for four miles and does
not catch IT, doctors siclt horse, freeZ-
es his fingers, gets kicked by one
eyed mule ana when the cleaning
comes and quietpess broods over ali
the earth he has single half-hour to
mediate and wonder how he will pay
his taxes. -Robinson, Kansas Index.
limiting Hague Friends Of peace and
Conference international arbitra-
Program. ton OF the United
States have been petit
tloninS legislatures to pass resolutions
In favor OF partial disarmament and the
establishment of a permanent court of
conciliation at The Hague. They want
the American government to champion
these proposals ut the coming confer
ence in the Dutch capital. 1t Will be
recalled that the question OF partial
disarmament was discussed In the
British parliament last summer and
that the government said 1t would be
glad to discuss the subject at The
Hague. 1t earnestly desired rcduc-
ton of armaments, II was explained,
but. of course, nothing could be done to
weaken the national and Imperial de-
lenses while the other great powers
were adheriug to their present military
and naval program. Professor De Mar
tens, who Is visiting the capitals of Eu-
rope to make preliminary arrange
ments for the conference. is publishing
statements that are plainly intended
to discourage the scheme of bringing
up the topic of armament reduction.
He says that IN the opinion of Russia
no good would be accomplished by dis
cussing 1t at all. The same, in his judg
ment, Is true of the Drago doctrine,
which is SO vital TO Central and South
America, and which opposes the use of
force by governments to enforce collec-
ton of private debts. The Russian pro-
gram, he frankly says. does not include
either of these matters, and he doubts
the expediency of any effort to revise
that program in their favor. Germany
is opposed to the suggestion of arma-
ment reduction, and France Is probably
of the same oplnlon.-Chicago Record
Herald.
Simple Life The body is wonder
And Laws full machine, and 1t
OF Health. adapts itself as no 9TH
er machine can to
new environment. But there must be
a strain occasionally when the machine
which was built for the open air, for
unlimited exercise and few kinds of
food-nuts, wheat and water-is con-
fined in small space for hundreds and
hundreds of days at time, seldom 1lls
its lungs with pure air and is fed. not
on nuts, but on pastry, not on water.
but on coffee. The body hastens to
adapt itself, but does not always COM
ply as quickly as we command IL to.
And when we are eating wrong food
taking little exercise, drawing In i'm
pure air, we must expect the body to
fail we must expect to be I'M
health. The laws OF health are
simple. What to do to keep
healthy Is far easier TO say than to tell
what not to do, for every day life is
growing more complex, duties are null
tlplying. But the whole world does not
and can not agree that to revert to
primal conditions Is necessary. The
average boy of fifteen today has as
many needs and as broad an outlook as
his grandfather had at twenty. If he
does not know as thoroughly about
many things, he certainly knows about
more things. To tell this boy Of fifteen
that he should go back and live as his
grandfather did, because life was sim