Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 20, 1919, Page 5

FACTS ABOUT LEGAL TENDER |© sivatasarateranoracssnanaatdl i! = Points “in ‘Uaw “Which sot Show | That “Money. Can mes i Not Be ‘Money. Tha Philadelphia Police court a,num- ber of Yeats ago there: came up an in- teresting question that ‘related to a nickel, ‘Fhe coin in question had been offer- ed to .astveet car conductor by a tough citizen, who, inspired by an al- coholic sense of humor; inserted it in the toe df his boot and proffered it thus. _ A row ‘ehsted, which Wound up in court, Where ‘the conduetor was vindi- cated, the judge declaring thit he was under no-obligation to ‘accept money offdred in such fashion. _ What, constitutes '@ lawful “fender” of tmoney is a question that occupies mahy pages in the law books, an ex- ch@hge remarks, A man has been known to.offer a buéketful of pennies in payment of a debt to a creditor with whom he had a quatrel; and in most instances the - has felt obliged to ‘accept the coli, But there was nosuch obligation, for pemhies under the law of the United Stdtes are not legal tender in amounts abéve 25 cents. If you owe mea dol- | lar-and offer me 100 pennies it is no payiment unless I choose to accept them. How about hickels? Exactly the | same. “They ‘are not legal tender in | anrounts over 25 cents. ; Sliver diiies, Quarters ahd half dol- Jars*are legal tender up to $10. Above that sum they may be refused and the creditor may justly claim that no law- mt proffer of money has been made to mM. NO MACHINERY FOR ANCHORS , Indispensable Shipping Adjincts Are | | Still Constructed by Manual Labor Exctusively. i Strange thougif it may seem, anchors are made by men atid hot by machines. At ohe fiitie ‘Gertiiany séémed anxious § to capture our anchor industry. High wages were offered to tempt our smiths to go to Hamburg and Lubeck to shape the anchors for the great Hafmburg-American liners then on the stocks. Fortunately for Britain the attempt faffed ‘and the business re- mffined this side of the North sea. The ancient anchor shape was, and 1s, ‘good enough for light shipping, but thé mud-hooks of the present day mam- méths must have a more extensive grip onthe séa floor. They are vast pieces of ‘metiil work, in weight running up to many hondredweights. Anchor smithing ig about the only shipbuilding trade in which machinery hak failed to displace men. The black- est of black squads are the anchor smiths; their work ts continually among white hot metal, among fumes, snioke, glare, and dust. The hammers regularly wielded by thém are the heaviest known in any industry.—London Tit-Bits, Couldn’t Go Without Pipe. “Force of habit is a wonderful thing,” said a Lewiston girl. “Now, my father smokes a ‘pipe. Smokes a great deal, and then when he fs gothg ‘away or! anything his pipe is his first con- sideration. Some time ago there was re in the neighborhood in the mid- aié of the night. : “Father was out of bed with the first stroke of the alarm and rushed downstairs, Mother and I were a little lohger getting there. When we got downstairs we found father with a raincoat on over his night shirt, lean- ing as far out of the back door as he could, gazing wildeyed at the blaze down 'the Street. “When he heard us enter he brought his head in long enough to exclaim, ‘Great Gosh, Alice, the Jones’ house ts all affre and I can't find my pipe!’”— Kénnebee Journal. H Wetting the Block. In many villages ‘in Berkshire and Himpshire, England, the ancient cus- tom of “Wetting the Block” is still kept up. The Crispins of these two counttes used to meet together on the evening of the first Monday in March, arid celebrate the fact that they had ceased working by candle-light. There was sometimes a supper, pro- vitied by the employer, on these occa- sibns; there was always a little to dtink. After the meal wa’ ehded, the block candiéstiek was placed’ in the middle of the room, the shop candle whs lighted, and when all glasses were filled, the oldest hand poured the con- tents of his glass over the candle to eftinguish it. Handy Emloyee. The lady manager of the business edncern put an ad in the paper for ah experienced fireman to work in the office. “Why do you need an experienced fifeman for the officé work?” asked tile efficiency expert, who was on the job. ; “Well, you see,” she réspondéd sweetly, “I just haven’t the heart to discharge anybody, and I thought we céuld employ an éxpérlencéd man to ad it.” Thoughtless Dealers. “You didn’t park within four inches ef the carb,” thu@ered the police of- ficial. “It's a new car,” explained Mr. Chuggins, humbly; “and the dealers ‘didn’t put a tape measure in the out- ar t ; OS ee, » ee “, | 24 Having sold my faith I will éffer at public auétion én my ranch ten miles northeast of Cottonwood or 16 north of Grangeville Wed., June 2 The Following Described propefty 10 1 spotted cow with calf by 1 red dry cow 3 red cows with calves; giving milk weight 2800 Weight 2800 Head of Cattle side; a good one Sheep One $14-inch Mitchell wagon and rack One Harvey-Regan Hack One 14-inch Moline gang plow One 14-ixch Moline walking One Monitor drill One 4-section steel harrow plow One 7-foot double disc harrow One 7-foot McCormick Binder ‘ Household Goods One dining room table One library table One sewing machine One Enpite Créam separator One sattitary couch One w: One dresser Four rocking And other articles too numerous to mention TERMS: | All sums of twenty dollars or under cash; on. sums over that amount time will be given until Nov. 1, 1919 at_ 10% interest. Every- thing must be settled for before removed from the premises. ardrobe . chairs One bathtiib BERT TEFFT, Owner H. C. MATTHIESEN, Clerk 10 head of hogs, 2 sows 8 pigs, 23 head of sheep, 13 head of sheep and ten lambs, about 3 dozen chickens One Gray team Of indrés, 7 yedrs Wid; I Bay team, mare and gelding, 3 ‘yéars old, | a. Brown horse, 7 years old, -weight ‘1400 1 Sorel inare, Wélt by side, 7 Years old, 10 1 spotted ‘ary cow These cows are all ood milk cows 12 Head of Horses Weight 1356 4 Bay mare, Wh years Vid, Weight 1200 1 Gray mare, weight 1200 1 Bay saddle mare, 4 yrs. old, weight 1100 Two Gray geldings, 2 years old 1 Bay yearling filly Chickens | Farm Implements and Miscellaneous One 1), horse gas engineand power washer Ohne blacksmith outfit One set heavy breeching harivéss Three sets plow harness ‘Ohe set buggy harness ‘Ohe man saddle - Ohe and one-half tens feed barley Some wheat 1. &. ZUVER, Auct. | FOOK HIS WORK SERIOUSLY One by One They Go, Another of New York’s famous res- tatrants will put up its shutters and go out of business the end of this month. It is Mouquin’s restaurant, for two decades one of the best known eating places in the old Tenderloin district. “Mon dieu,” sadly remarked the proprietor yesterday; “life is just one d——d funeral announcement ‘after another.” The picturesque old wooden structure on Sixth avenue, near Twenty-eighth street, which is one of New York’s oldest landmarks, will be razed for a skyscraper. It was built more than one hundred years ago by Isaac Varian and stood in the cen- ter of Varian farm, whose rambling fields “ARG pastures stretched west to the river and to the east as far as Lex- ington avenue. Through this pastoral landscape wound a couple of cow- paths. These paths are there yet. One is Knéwn as Broadway and the other as Sixth avenue. When Isaac Varian died the farm was sold. A public road was cut through the place and it passed directly in front of the old housé. A line of stage coaches operat- ed over this road, and what ts now Motquin's rest#urant used to be the Grst_stop after leavigg Bowling Green. New Golf Clube, Of special-iaterest to-golf. players is a club made witha #i dnstead of a hickory shaft, shown in Popular Me- chanics magazine, which, it is claimed, possesses all the flexibility of the Wooden-shaft and has additional desir- able features. The Stee) shaft is tiol- low, tapers toward SS laar end, and is-much smaller In diameter thin obé of hickory. Thig is sald to give the player additional, driving power, be- cause of reduced frietion When the club is swung through the alr. One day a little gldwoiman appeared at the parsonage 46 be married té an old man. The woman was bent over so much one had to stoop to ldok {nto her face. The bridegrodin was deaf as a post, ae All the time the pastor was making out the necessary. tie ‘w6man talked and wuttesea ® Hewett, say: ing: “I dof’t “Riow Why that stihgr old hah wait’ to. get tirrer He doesn't wilt to Pay’ & COOK, thiats an. Make hifi ‘well, parson. He's worth it. ‘ota firth’ ard tows of money. HS a’ tiedn, ‘stifigy, vid man and Bes Wee? Gul Gist hear what l COTTONWOOD DRAY AND TRANSFER LINE Light and Heavy Hauling Done on Short Notice LUMBER! O. D. HAMLEN, Prop. LUMBER! LUMBER If you plan on building anything it will pat you to see me abbut lumber prices béfore’placing your order. Rough and Dressed Lumber A full stock of on’ hand and guarantee prices as low as the lowest and quality equal to the best. Give mea chance to quote prices on lumber. J.'B. KRIEGER KEUTERVILLE, IDAHO The Chronicle Only $2.00 ‘ hat His Stu Should Give __ Best suas Stud-es. an she thosea ld ee inagper , ontead Eira ace and ‘Harvard, whiose geauine love of Greek left him “no patience with indi t students and sometimes led. to the’ charge that he dealt unjustly with the young men in his classes. This anec- dote of him appears in Mr. John Spen- cer Clark’s per Fiske, One day aba student called to explain his remissness and to assure the profegsbr “that he did love his eR stu ec) aa “Then name two of your favorite passages,” said the professor. _. The Student ‘hemed one in the Tina and ,ofe in the Oedipus. Professor Sophoctes handed him the books, say- ing “Find those passages and read them to me.” The student, in his reading, made of '63 it th were incorrect, and particularly in the tudents led to ks. they ni 0 whit'y rt." Among Fishes the Important Fact of Life Seems t Be, “Eat or Be Eatén.” In the Dubiin museum a stuffed angler fish, commonly known as a fishy ing frog, may be seen, its stomach still swolleh by an en od which it ‘nad “swhllowed. In fhe stomach of © the cod were found two large herrings, In each herring were several sprats, while ‘edvh @prat, ‘fa ‘turn, contained a number of tiny crustaceans, or shell fish. > In the salt seas, it is eat or be eaten, The Yishtng frog; "a Th shapelt Ike a gigantic legless frog, and provided with a lumfnous balt Which it dangles from a long feeler over its wide mouth, has the most prodigious appetite, As many as 20 flounders have been found inside one fishing frog; another contained 60 herrings. Each fish has its special prey. Pol- lack assétbble fo ‘slioals and pursue the close formations of young coil, They surround the cod, drive them to the surface and devour them. Whit ing, in simffar fashion, pursue and de- vour the herring shoals, while haké feed upon sardinés, Mackerel will eat any small fis! They devour enormous qtantities fry, being especially fond of youn mackerels, The Dory's favorit food is sprats, while rays are pot par titular; they will Gevour any ‘fish come their way. Self-Reliance. _ j Now la the time Yor every oie Whd wants work to think up something f ‘himsélf. Don’t depefid upon somebod: else, The integrity of life consists 1 self-rellance, Be your own propriet if it is of nothing else but an acre ant a little stiop. We know the difficult; and do not discard ‘the sympathy. B regard rather ‘hat independence ani high purpose’ thét make op the r manhood. Men will have to work fot dthets While time lasts, but there ts nothing so noble in the hearts as th ‘aspiration’ to be one’s own man ani direct one’s own destiny. Society is divided in classes thesé days, each one striving to outwit the other, but the grandest class bf 41 is the ‘man*him- self, with his own destiny in his fists. With allyour organized Industry, there never was a time when individual en- terpristfiad @ better chéne’ than now. If you are articulated in some great in- dustry, keep'in thie heart tlie hope th: you will be your own master some day. —Ohio State Journal. Few Fine Pearis Found. New fine pearls are rarely foun newadays because the demand h been #o igheat and ‘the fisheries ha been worked so continuously that the pearls are not glyen time to grow. It @ fine pearl is bought, it is rarely one that has not been in the market f many years and passed from one deal- er to anétiier. . DATE ‘today depent to a large extent upon purchases ot peafts from collections of rajahs and princes in India and of old families fn Burepe. They déeidre that every time a large and really fine pearl appears in the market a hundred wealthy sons bid for it. Consequently the best peare re Beyond te reach of any but the wealthiest people. Quips Which Tickle Travelers. Nattré seems occasibnally to have been in Anyimplah, nidod of jocularity when . Was “about her work of shiaping ‘and “toolding things. For ih- stance, why did she make the Dalma- tian side of the Adriatic one mass of islands and creeks, which are just $0 many hiding holes for any power that has designs on Italy, and at the same time lay the Adriatic seaboard of Italy as bare and flat and plain as she could plan it? Was !t to make the Italian people wide-aWake and Watchful arid resourceful? Besides, the modern world fo its pride must never forget that the peninsula produced the Roman. ——oall,