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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-12-19

riots.
The business directory of Lewis
ton is The Lewiston Mercantile, Pro-
pritor, Morris J. Swinyard, The store
is comprised of dry goods depart
ment, grocery. and butcher shop and
ia handling about $4,000 bus
mess.
The Citizens Trading Co., owned
by Mr.. John NJ. Anderson, General
Merchandise. The C. T. Co., does
a flourishng business estimated at
about $4,000.
Lewiston Furniture and Hardware
Co., Manager Mr.. L. Van Orden, bus
mess estimated at about $4,000.
Lewiston Drug Co.. Mr.. Bert Van
Orden druggist and manager bust
ness $4,000 a year.
Cash Grocery Store owned and
managed by Mr.. Fred Elwood. Up-to
date in every way and doing an ex-
cellent business.
Wurston Confectionery owned by
Mr. \ Wurston. Business in
thriving condition.
Rex Cafe owned and managed by
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coley.
Blacksmith and Garage. Mr.. Aus
tin Johnson of Richmond.
Blacksmith Mr.. w. A. Blair.
Lewiston State Bank, Cashier Mr..
George Barber. The Lewiston bank
is in a very prosperous condition
with business increasing every year.
Lewiston Supply Co., Manager Mr..
Charles Pond. The Lewiston Sup
ply Company is doing an enormous
business dealing in general merch-
andise, coal and lumber.
Lewiston Harness Shop prop. Mr..
E. Nelson.
Lewiston Paint Shop prop, Mr..
John Mcnight.
Lewiston Barber Shop, prop. Mr..
Bert Orchard
Rex Pool and Billiard, props, Mr..
Enos and Eber Davis.
Lewiston Shoe Shop. prop, Mr.
Heldbery.
Lewiston Livery and Transfer Co.,
owner Mr.. VIM. Bowden.
Royal Millinery, prop, Mrs. Flor
ence Elwood.
Lewiston can also boast of one of
the best dentists in the county. Dr..
John NJ. Bernhisel Jr also a first
class NJ. D.. DR.. w. B. Parkinson.
An excellent opera house. Two
Picture shows a week, and first
class orchestra within the last year.
Many new and beautiful homes
have been added. DR.. j. NJ. Bern
hisel and Mr.. Nephi Johnson are
building modern bungalows at a
, cost of about $4,000 which are a
, credit to any town.
Mr.. Horace Cutler bungalow at a
cost of about $4,000.
Mr.. Joseph Smith a coy little cot
tage cost about $4,000.
Mr.. Amasa Bybee bungalow esti-
t mated at $4,000.
4 Mr.. Vernal Cunningham cottage
\ at about $500.
$ Mr.. Dan Talbot, bungalow esti
y mated about $4,000.
t Mr.. Gideon Price, Cottage esti
e mated at about $1,000.
J., Mr. NJ. o. Bell, one cottage esti
= mated at $4,000 another ons a
d about $1,7OO.
r Mr.. David Egbert. cottage a
n $1,000.
# \ livery barn built by Mr.. Wn
g Bowden,
!. 4 concrete Silo by Mr.. Brigham
n Pond, also many homes have bee
y. re-modeled and additions built OF
N Lewiston is truly taking on Metre
10 politan airs, 1916 has been a pros
s. porous year for Lewiston despite tn
n opposition of frost and draught an
s. the sentiment of the people may b
Is expressed with verse of Rudyar
N Kipling.
H. Let the howlers howl,
And the GROWERS growl;
" And the providers prowl,
,h And the gossipers so 1t,
w Behind the night there is plent
be OF light.
other things are all right and
to know It,"
- - -
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
REGION FULL OF ROMANCE
khanikin, Kasr-i-Shirin and Other
Points on the Caravan Route
to Bagdad.

The Khanikin region. where the
Russians were reported to have been
checked some time ago in their ad-
vance upon Bagdad, is the subject of
the following war geography bulletin
issued by the National Geographic So
ciety:
1t is a 30 hours journey, along a
much-traveled caravan route, from
khanikin to Bagdad. The latter city
lies IS miles southwest of the Turkish
border town which is situated on both
sides of the Hulvan river, d tributary
of the data, whose waters empty into
the Tigris.
Nesting near the foothills of the
lagos mountains, with the fertile but
uncultivated Mesopotamian plain
stretching to the south, Khanikin is a
commercial gateway between Persia
and Asiatic Turkey. Through it pass
the which bear to Bugdad
the produce destined for transshIpment
to the port of Basra
Not only does the traveller Journey
ing from Bagdad to khanikin meet
trade caravans, but frequently he en-
counters curious funeral professions
of Shiite pilgrims making their solemn
way from various points in KurdIstan
to Kerbela, below Bagdad. The faith
full believe that there is special virtue
in being buried near the shrine of
Husein, who fell at Kerbela i'm $50
A. D., while battling with the enemies
OF his father, Ali, sOn-in-law of the
prophet and fourth caliph.
khanikin is charmingly situated in
the midst of gardens, whose fruits
and palms are famous. Six hours
journey from here, on the road to
kermanshah, is Kasr-i-S hirin, once the
headquarters of q notorious robber
chief and interesting on account of its
connection with the romantic legends
concerning Ferhad and Shirin. Here
are to be found the remains of a rock
hewn aqueduct, which in ancient DAYS
conveyed water for C distance of Is
miles In order that the gardens of
Shirin might be made worthy of the
beauty of their far-famed mistress.
The story of Ferhad and Shirin is one
OF the ~favorite romances of the East.
Ferhad was the greatest sculptor of
his day, and a great architect. While
making bas-reliefs of his sovereign.
Chosroes ii, and of the latter's bride.
the Christian Shirin (also called Slra).
the sculptor fell madly in love with
his beautiful model. Chosroes, so goes
the legend, promised TO bestow Shirin
upon his gifted subject provided the
latter would cut through the rock of
Behlstun and divert a stream to the
plain. Ferhad under
took the task, but when the work was
almost completed an emissary came
from the false king bearing a tragic
story of Shirin's death. The sculptor
despair leaped from the rocks and
was dashed to death upon The size of
his engineering triumph.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

It further along the line. and he win,
tool"
HE have no suit, no lawee work ~
exclaimed Yang and, apparently In
spired with some animating idea, to
the establishment of his young visitor,
sat bolt upright. mo lawee work, no
monee. He my flend, pretty missy my
tiend, you my flend, bling chop sticks.
You do errand for Yang quicker
Sure, l WILL" acceded the accom-
modating Ned.
Yang Tiang hastily scrawled some
h%ieroglyphics on a red strip of paper
which he handed to Ned.
you take to Hop Sing laundly. He
must come right away" Which Hop
Sing did and Ned listened to their jar
gon jabber wonderingly. Finally Yang
gave his business rival some money
and the latter grinned. Then Hop Sing
got up kicked over a chair, a table,
the sign outside, flung a brick through
the window and sauntered away. All
the time Yang chuckled with glee.
81 go to train, l go to city now" he
said to Ned. You help me to train"
Sure" agreed Ned. but amt you
going to have Hop Sing arrested?"
"Oh, no" craftily blinked Yang. 81
sue him-oh, l have the lawee on Hop
Sing!"
Yang Tiang, in ways that were dark
and tricks that were vain, was, indeed,
peculiar. He went to the city and Wis
tied his former champion. Yang dis
mally stated his grievance against the
man he had hired TO perform it, in
sisted on a big "lawee' suit and PUNK
ed down $500 in cash as a retaining
fee.
So Lionel Marsh after all came to
Midvale and delivered his great ora
ton. His rich uncle, having heard that
his nephew would not be there, at
tended. When the speech was over
and applauded to the last echo en-
Enthusiastically, the uncle came up and
shook hands with Lionel. He did more,
he invited him to his home. They were
reconciled and
What have you got there, Ned?" in
quired Isabel, as, three months later,
her brother lugged a great box into his
den.
"~Fffty-two boxes of Chinese fire.
crackers that Yang Tiang gave me-"
replied Ned, ITO fire off on our we'd
ding eve.'
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
DO YOU SPEAK REAL ENGLISH?
How Many Of Your Acquaintance Use
Speech That Can Be Understood
Without Repetition.

How many of the people that you
know use a speech that you can really
INSTRUMENTATION repetition? Yes,
we are taking it for granted that you
have perfectly good hearing and that
your friends are not mutes. Never
theless, isn't it true that, to a large
share of the remarks addressed to YOU
you are obliged to respond with a BEG
pardon "What?" or "Huh?" Some
times we wonder whether most of us
communicate in the English language
or by signs and guesswork. The diff
iculties of understanding seem so dis
prop%ortionately greater over the tele-
phone when the speakers do not have
the advantage Of seeing each others
gestures and expression. Are we real
ly using English, after all? A few
people do, and it is a joy TO meet them
and listen to their crisp, clean speech,
which never requires a request for
repetition. Others of us use it some
times. And many of as more often
lapse into the inarticulate mumbllng
which the Ohio girl abroad used, ac.
cording to a m~uch-quoted story. In
answer to the question of a traveller.
she replied, "Neh slive in Clumbus,
Uhiuh." 1t seems a pity that so many
people who are keen to adopt every
affectation of speech they can pick up
will not give the same amount of at
tention to distinctness of utterance.
The ability to sound all the ~syllabIes
in a word and to ~articulate your final
c%onsonants is of far greater impor-
lance than the adoption of the broad
"a" And how much time and trouble
and friction in the general business of
life would be saved by the mere pains
of clear speaking. The time will come,
surely, when the person who does not
enunciate well will be accused of not
understanding English words.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
The Joss
Sticks
By Frances Elizabeth Lanpon


"Yang Tiang sick-velly sick"
"Indeed?' murmured Isabel Lane,
sympathetically.
81 bling for him your dless. Yang
sit him up in bed to iron pretty dless.
But nc more, he say. Close shop. He
going to die"
"Oh, dearl" fluttered gentle-hearted
Isabel. "His friends must take care
of him."
mo flends," heartlessly announced
the Chinese messenger of Yank Tiang.
ME bling dless this once. Me busy
my own business. No more time to
splare, missy"
whats the matter, sis?" interrupt
ed Ned Lane, a younger brother, as
she sat with the dainty muslin dress
spread out on a chair before her and
her eyes full of tears. She had a gentle
soul and the incident of the moment
was infinitely pathetic to her. The
thought Of the old laundryman i'll,
alone, suffering, working under disad-
vantages of pain and helplessness to
have her dress ready for her as prom
ised, appealed to her greatly.
Gould you go over to Yang's place,
Ned, and see if we can do anything
for him?" she asked.
"Sure, 1 WILL" acceded the lad. Hes
a good scout with the boys. Sends us
on errands and is not stingy paying for
the service. Last Fourth he gave us
some fine frecrackers, direct from
China. Since Lionel Marsh broke up
the gang of hoodlums that used to an
noy him, he's been quite civilized"
Ned went away, but returned within
the hour. He was chewing some sug-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

Gibraltar has been the scene of ID
sieges and many battles. Its rocky
slopes have run red with blood. Early
armies rained their arrows against 1t
and their battering rams tried to pow
der its natural walls centuries before
the age of powder and iron balls. For
this is one of natures strongholds, this
western gate of the Mediterranean.
This cliff of solid limestone was n
of the Pillars of Hercules, beyond
which 1t was though anciently no man
might venture and live. Beyond was
Ultima Thule, the last island, the end
of all. Later the Phoenicinns, ventur-
ing out into the Atlantic to the tin
mines of Britain, had u way station
and fort on the rock. Centuries later
the Car%thagenians erected watch tow
ers upon it to observe the galleys of
their Roman enemies. The Romans
captured it, and the Goths took it from
the Romans. The Moors' got it next
and held it for 800 years. The Moslem
hosts landed there to overrun Europe.
Always the power hat held the rock
was n power dominating world com
merce, and never since the days of
Hercules has the rock been so forbid
ding as it is this minute.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

AS the first step in the formation If
a cooperative alliance of colored in
dustry n commerce 10 a group of
coiored men active in adyancing tho
interests of their people, Charles NJ,
Thomas of Miner Normal school. also
president of the colored association OF
teachers at Washington, has an
nounced an early organization of rem
utable n reliable colored chauffeurs
and automobile mechanics.
The purpose of this movement is to
raise the standard of efficiency and TO
set standards of conduct for the men
In this industry. Mr.. Thomas sees. in
he present Industrial condition in the
United States, an opportunity for col
ored men to play an active part in the
real preparedness for American con-
test with rehabilitated European ma
tons after the war, whether in con
fict or in competition.
Plans for the larger alliance TO in.
clude colored men and women engaged
In trades and occupations generally
throughout the United States are be-
ing perfected under the chairmanshin
of Charles Z. Lane, ST., of North Car
olina.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
Health and Wealth.

There is this difference between the
two temporal blessings-health and
money: money is the most envied, but
the least enjoyed; health is the most
enjoyed, but the least envied; and this
superiority of the latter is still more
obviods when we reflect that the poor.
est man would not part with health
for money. but that the richest would
gladly part with all his money for
health.-Colton.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
Not Easily Excited.

There was an explosion of a gas
tank in a local factory that caused
CONSERVATION among the employees
without injuring any or doing great
damage. In the wild rush to escape it
was not noticed that one of the old
clerks picked up his desk and car
ried it out through a passage and
set 1t down in the rear of the lot.
When quiet was restored and the
desk was discovered outside the Won
der grew as 1t took three men the bet
ter part of the afternoon to get the
desk back into the building. And the
mar who performed the feat had the
effrontery to declare that he had got
accustomed to those explosions and
they did not disturb him greatly any
more.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
Yang Looked Less Gloomy.

AIRED ginger sticks and full of news and
excitement. Yes, Yang was sick, grow
ing weak and discouraged. 1t was his
birthday, too, and he was homesick
and lonesome.
Tell you what, sis" said Ned, 'he
needs someone to stay around and give
him water and warm up his rice. He
wants me to do it and he says he will
give me Il dollar. The fellows expect
me at a ball game, but, outside of the
dollar, l really feel sorry for Yang"
You're a good boy, Ned" approved
Isabel warmly. "Wait till l put up a
few little dainties for Yang"
He says he wants some Joss
sticks" resumed Ned. wants to
smoke away the bad spirits, he says.
He's got the queerest little squat stone
image on a sort OF altar and some
little vases to put. the stick in. What
are Joss sticks, sis2'
81 think they are a sort of incense
taper" replied Isabel.
why, say" burst forth Ned ami
matedly, ~ wonder if the sticks we
SDA NA AhS BOANi " httD lllt LlOS-
quitos away aren't just the thing! Sis,
there is a whole bunch of them in the
house. Can l have them?"
"Of course, if you think you're
right" assented Isabel, and Ned, pro-
vided with the sticks and the delica-
cies, started off to earn his dollar and
the Chlnaman's gratitude.
YANG Tiopu MO Oro,tIr .t.-.a
with the gifts from pretty missy" He
lay askance as Ned, chattering glibly,
placed the sticks in the little vases
about the stone god. When they were
lighted, however, and the pungent odor
permeated the roOm with the aroma of
the familiar woods and heaths of his
native land, Yang looked less gloomy.
He got Ned to brew him a cup of tea,
ate some of Isabel's famous home
made cookies and cheerily and feeling
ly alluded to the pretty missy and
Linoel Marsh, too, her lover, who had
delivered him from the Philistines
when he first came to start his little
laundry shop In the town.
Ned was voluble and shook his head
NN'SAuiy Nhch ne Cdule 10 speak OF
young Marsh.
He is no doing so awful good in
the city, Yang" he volunteered In his
boyish way. "YOu see, he had a quar-
rel with his uncle and he's irving TO
study law on his own hook in the city
and | guess he finds it hard running"
"HOw-how" questioned the laun-
dryman in al intense tone and evident
ly fully Interested.
Isabel would have briskly boxed
Ned's ears had she been aware of his
careless ti~ttle-tattle.
why you see," went on the ingenu-
Gus Ned. "he's standing on his own
pins now and hasn't much money and
no cases as yet. It's too bad lust now.
You know that pretty dress you lust
fixed up for my sister. That was to
wear at the Preparedness Mass meet
ing X Saturday night. She's awful
ly disappointed, for Lionel wrote her
yesterday that although he is nm
nounced as one of the speakers at the
mass meeting, he can't afford to come.
He'd have to get a rig in the way of
clothes and he amt too proud to tell
h truth, because he knows he'll hit
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

We take the following from a CON.
nunication to the New York Evening
Post:
The songs of sorrow, of joy, of hui
NOR, and of sentiment were the nat
ural growth of a race unsteady in
clined in Africa, and whose melodious
outpourings were intensified by the
conditions of slavery.
Observation-Disclosures songs full of
character, but less lofty of sentiment,
and less true of real Negro aspiration
and inspiration. (See songs of Jim
Bland and others.)
1S70-Advent Of jubilee singers-an
artistic triumph.
1S75-1SSS-No further development
in Negro music. The Afro-American
had been so thoroughly taught by the
white man that his color, condition,
and accomplishment were inferior, that
the younger generation at once threw
aside all tradition. Any reference to
the past became a disgrace. Except
in a few schools of the South, to
sing jubilee melodies to an Afro
American audience would be an insult,
and would lead to the dismissal of
the teacher urging them. The Moody
and Sankey hymns were used cxclu-
siyely In u churches and schools.
About 1SSS-The starting and quick
growth of so-called 'rag-time." As far
back as 1875, Negroes in the question
able resorts along the Mississippi had
commenced to evolve this musical fig
ure; but at the Worlds Fair, Chicago,
"Itag-time" gotta running start, swept
the Americas, then Europe, and today
the craze has not diminished.
The pubic was tired of sing-song
monotonous, mother, sister, father sem
timental songs. Rag-time offered
unique rhythms, curious groupings of
words, and melodies which gave the
zest of unexpectedness. Many Ne
grOes-Irving Jones, viii Accooe, Bob
Cole, the Johnson brothers, Gussie l..
Davis, Sid Perrin, Ernest Hogan. Will
liams and Walker, and others wrote
some of the most celebrated rag songs
of the day. In other instances white
actors and song-writers would hear
in st. Louis such melodies as New
Bully" "Hot Time" ETC., would change
the words (often unp~rintable) and pub
fish them as their own creations.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
Many Ridiculous Beliefs.

IL is true, of course, that a great
many ~ridicuieps beliefs prevalent
among us are only half beliefs. The
ID superstition, for example, retains
its vitality because of the large num-
Der of people who find themselves at
various stages between the extremes
of positive belief anG positive disbe-
lief with respect to II. Indeed. there
is nothing more difficult than TO de-
termine the real attitude of the pub
lie mind toward prevalent popular de-
lusions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
All Alike

Justinian is a lawyer contrib Of ours
who doesn't send us very many stories,
but who makes up for it by sending US
good ones when he remembers US at
all. This latest concerns a case where
the attorney for the defense was well
known to the judge who was trying
the case. And the attorney for the de-
Tense wound up his plea thus:
MY client is nc more a crook than
/ am !"
THE attorney has told no more than
the simple truth" said the judge. 1.-THE
sentence of the court is that the pris-
oner at the bar serve ten years a.
hard labor."-St. Louis Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

dist missions, the building of the Meth
odist college at Monrovia. With Lii
IBERIA he was always identified.
Bishop F~erguson's death recalls, of
course, the great Colonization society
that made Liberia open to free Ne
groes. OF this class the South, espe-
cially the cities of the South, wished to
be freed. Henry Clay, Charles Carroll,
James Madison were as anxious Ior
he plans success as William Ellery
Charming or Gerrit Smith. But per-
haps on young Ferguson's life the in
luence of Bishop John Henry Hop
kins of Vermont had most effect. Bish-
op Hopkins of the Episcopal church
mad been a most earnest worker for
the Colonization society.
And, relatively small as were the re-
suits of that movement, the characters
developed in Liberia were well worth
studying. What the Negro could do
even after the blighting effect of slav-
cry on individuals and the race, Book
er L. Washington showed. What the
Negro could do never having been a
slave has been shown in a dozen of the
strong men of Liberia. OF these strong
men Bishop Ferguson was one Of the
most impressive. His conservation in
Grace church, New York city, in 1885,
was a landmark in the history of Epis-
c~opalianism in America.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
For Grease Spots,

Balls made of %fuller's earth and
vinegar are good to keep on hand for
removing grease spots from clothing
and household material. Make a
stiff paste of the fuller's earth and
vinegar. Roll it into balls, and dry
them. When a spot is to be removed
dampen it and CRATE one of the balls
over 1t. Leave this until it is dry,
brush of the powder, and wash the
mark with tepid water.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

THE trouble with the American PEG.
pie if they do everything IN a hurry"
said the E%nglishman.
"pve noticed that" said the New
Yorker. Il read only yesterday that
Robert Fl. Ramsey of Philadelphia has
speht sixteen years composing a chess
problem"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02
rhen he Blew the Coon.

To a news stand came a near-patron.
who seemed TO have but hazy ideas of
Just what he wanted. He looked at
stationery and he looked at pencils
and he looked at playing cards. He
asked the price of this magazine and
that n hooked over postcards and the
hooks, The young lady who was in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

Fatigued, a Pittsield (Mass.) man
returned home, and. undressing, knelt
beside his bed to say his prayers. He
was in that attitude when his mother
came 10 call him in the morning. He
was not halfway through the Lords
prayer when he fell asleep.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

charge of the counter became some
what wearied answering questions
without making a sale. At last the
prospective customer asked: slave
you any iypaperf" "Yes, sir" was the
prompt reply. We have the Aeroplane
Journal and the Aviator's Gazette."-
Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-02

When the flags of the Ohio regi-
ments which had been in the Civil war
were taken from storage and placed in
the rotunda of the statehouse in Co
lumbus, Gov. Frank B. Willis carried
the flag of the Forty-eighth Ohio Vol
unteer infantry, in which his father
had served through the war, and Mrs.
Willis carried the flag of the TWEEN
tieth o. V. l., which was her fathers
regiment.