Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, October 10, 1919, Page 7

a RECOGNIZE GOSPEL OF LABOR Law of Nature Demands Certain Quan- tity of Work From All Kinds of People, “The law of nature is that a certain | quantity of.work is necessary to pro- duce a certain quantity of good, of any | kind whatever. If you want knowl- edge, you must toil for it; and if pleas- ure, you must toil for it.” These words of John Ruskin are especially appro- priate now, 4rthur Hunt Chute writes in Leslie’s. This admonition is needed not mere- ly by the manual laborers, but also by ell classes, and especially by the “poodle fakers” of so-called high so- ciety. An afternoon trip to the most expensive hotels discloses the fact that the war has not completely purged us from the idle rich. One may encoun- ter there a new = species, known as a “lounge lizard,” now called a “sofa cootie.” A soldier pointed me out one of these specimens, exclaim- ing: “Think of our brave who have fallen, and a thing like that survives!” We won this war—why? Because we heeded the law of sweat. crucial hour our society spewed out of Its mouth the idle rich and the idle poor. We tolerated only one class, the workers, Vincent Astor and Kingdon Gould had to step up and do their duty ; just the same as the Fricasinni twins | from “Little Italy.” Now that the war is won, this law of sweat should re- main imperative for all classes, Ey- ery man and every woman owes a duty of svork to his age, and society of the future should be so organized as to in- sist that that debt ts paid. Referring to the law of sweat, we | must realize that there are two ways {In which a man may fulfill his obl- | gations, either by brain sweat or by vrawn sweat. Rightly speaking, the mental workers belong just as truly among the laboring classes as the man- ual workers. In the truest sense both are producers, BIRD KNOWN IN EVERY STATE Writer Suggests That the Flicker Might Well Be Adopted as Amer- ica’s National Bird. The alert and industrious flicker 1s suggested by Frank M. Chapman, writ- ing in “Our Winter Birds,” as the na- tional bird, because it is a native of every state in the Union. He says it is also adaptive and intelligent, peace- ful though brave, useful and beautt- ful, but he cannot sing. The bird makes up for his failure to contribute vocal solos by drumming exhibitions that any trick snare drummer would envy. When the bird gets on a tin roof or gutter, and is feeling facetious, its work with its beak is marvelous. “It wins its way peaceably if it can, but if it is aroused it fights for all it is worth,” Mr. Chapman writes. “It is a beautiful bird, known by many oth- er names, such as crescent bird, be cause of the black crescent on its breast; golden-winged woodpecker, be- cause of the yellow revealed in its wings when it flies; the cotton rump, because of the white on its back, and the yarrup and yellowhammer. Its home is anywhere between Central America and Canada and in character, habits and appearance it is clearly a credit to the country.” One or the Other Imperative. George had not been overkind tu his wife when he left for camp. And | the prospects for his wife when he returned were not any brighter when | she got this note from him: “Them white folks here put some sirup fu my arms from the blood of a mad bull and a game chicken that will make a nigger fight a cannon and I ts already feeling like fighting. When I comes home wid that fighting blood in me, and I finds out you ain’t been doing right, watch out for George; and I knows how big you are.” The wife took the note to the judge of the county in which she lived. “Well, Eliza,” said the judge to the colored wife, after he read the let- | ter, “What can I do for you about this?” “Judge,” replied Eliza. “I’s wan’ a divorce er sum of dat sirup.” No Ide Chatter, When a young girl I was timid and shy, and having attention directed to me always caused me much embar- rassment. One evening I was invited to a rather formal dinner party. All the girls present were considerably older than I, so I said nothing until about the middle of the meal, although the others were chatting in a desul- tory manner. Suddenly a young woman sitting at my right turned to me with the ques- tlon: “Don’t you ever say anything?” It seemed to me that the attention of every one at the table was focused on me, and blushing furiously, I stam- mered: “Oh, yes, sometimes, when there’s something interesting to talk about.” A stony silence greeted my remark.—Chicago Tribune. eae Bit the Bones, Charley, the cook, has a mania for “shooting craps.” One day he missed his -dice, and having always worn @ smile, it was at once noted that there was something wrong, because he was all gloom and had a solemn look like one who had come to great grief. We had hash for supper. The bugler, hav- ing a heaping mess kit full of hash, was making great progress when all of a sudden he bit into something hard- formerly | In the | of i F is fl Y { | i | | } | | Shs { | | | | Sa Ras a? | | | | | Ratnacins ate Pei Pactra? (ea hs Ga Ae le “ALL FEARED MOON Soldiers Regarded Orb of Night as Their Enemy. Lighted Roads on Which They Were Moving, and Thus Gave Enemy Gunners a Chance to Deal Out Death. “The war is ended; the battlefields are being cleared of their debris; the rusty wire Is being rolled up. The nights can be spent in beds, yet the men of the One Hundred and Nine- teenth field artillery even now look at the sky with dread,” says L. L. Ste- venson in the Detroit News. “The battlefields are not distant. Nor are the days distant when the moonlight was a menace to the One Hundred and Nineteenth. “We were riding back from Toul, a ttle company of Detroit men, who had celebrated a birthday anniversary in that old, walled city. We had been discussing many things, principal of which was the homecoming, plans for the future and those whom we wished were with us. Then the moon swung over those forts on the hill, concealed no longer, and fell a silence over the veterans, “They seemed to draw into them- selves. Came a loud report and the artilleryinen half rose in their seats. er to eat than hash. Charley is once more wearing his smile of content- ment, being satisfied now with him- self acd tye world. ee. eee It was only a rear tire, yet the effect on keyed-up nerves was the same as though the blowout bad been the de- tonation of that which had dropped Sa ee > 4 Ku Why be a slave to an extravagant heating plant when Cole’s Hot Blast will give you perfect satisfaction for practically 1-2 your present fuel bill. Rid You of This Burden _ SS SS SS rr rarae el Saving Guaranteed winter. No 10 AVE at least 1-3 to 1-2 your coal bill this At the high price of fuel this saving should more than pay for this won- derfully efficient Cole's Original Hot Blast Heater For Hard Coal, Soft Coal, Slack, Lignite, Woed and Lighter Fuele 1-3 Fuel Saving Guaranteed Burns the cheapest grade coal clean and bright. Remember that soft coal is half gas, This valuabie half of your fuel money escapes up the chimney and is wasted in other stoves. SO SU PHT EN ee WH, oo *. Cue TN, er a ap Ota = Cole’s Hot i Blast Fuel Saving combustion (see open | _Cut) stops this needless waste and saves and i} utilizes the gas half of the coal wasted by other id) stoves and turns it into warmth and cheer for i Come to Gur Store—We Gan = your hore. HOENE HARDWARE; (SSS SSSR a EEE ESS EES Sa) | aa 2 | | “And simultaneously all damned the moon, as though that inoffensive orb had been the cause, “Then they told me of those nights —marching along the highways help- less; Jerry sweeping low and spray- ing lead at them from the machine guns, of bombs that were silent until they spoke in accents of death. They spoke also of the night when Buck was killed, when Chaplain William A. Atkinson, now quite recovered, lay in a pool of blood; when others with @ Whom I had eaten and slept and camp- ed up at Grayling, had fathomed the great mystery, “It seemed to be a relief to them, a lifting of the wdight, and I said noth- ing though all the beauty of the night had departed. Strange scenes danced about my eyes; the gaunt, unfinished military hospital on the left was a gray ghost; those winking lights— gleaming now, but not long ago had& they shone they would have been an invitation to death—were far away flares, the deserted ammunition dump was animated with sweating figures. “It was as though a weight had been lifted when We entered Mauvages. Clear and distinct in the bright Nght stood a sentry, a stalwart fellow, his naturally large bufld magnified in the silver beams until he was a giant. The way he carried himself, the fit of his uniform, told that he was a veteran. “And he was shaking his fist at the moon !” Reims Cathedral. Reims cathedral is to be rebullt, or | rather restored, for France has taken { second thought amd decided that such | restoration is fag more desirable for the future ‘than -a splendid structure, wrecked by swer:eng left to stand in | meimucauuly cemoution as a perpetual reminder of {ts own destruction. It is even said that “the cold gray of its masonry has turned under fire and flame to delicate rose and ocher tints that will only add to the beauty of the rebuilded church.” The plans for the restoration are belng made under the direction of Mr. Deneux, architect of the French historical monuments, and the first practical steps have been tak- en toward erecting temporary roofs over the nave, aisles, crossing, and chancel. Fortunately, more than three- quarters of the wonderful stained glass of the cathedral was preserved intact, and can now be put back. A few years hence, when the high-pitch- ed slate roof has been added, it is predicted that the cathedral will have recovered not a little of its old-time beauty. The High Cost of Economy. Economy is something practiced by people who don’t have to economize. Mrs. Wealthy buys eggs by the doz- ens and puts them down in water glass. Mrs. Poor never could afford more than one dozen eggs at one time regardless of price. Mrs. Wealthy buys flour and sugar by the barrel—at a great saving. Mrs. Poor buys hers by the pound—and It is expensive. Mrs. Wealthy takes advantage of the sales and gets real bargains in fur- niture, shoes and clothes. Mrs. Poor ean only look in the display windows longingly. In short, Mrs. Wealthy uses her head where Mrs. Poor must use her hus- band’s salary. It is a pathetic fact that it takes money to economize.—G. W. Gabriel 4a the New York Sua. Bird Builds Several Neste. Some birds get very nervous and Ye come much excited it you approach their nests and among them fs the black-throated green warbler, says the American Forestry association of Washington, which is conducting the national bird-house building contest for school children. Another thing about this bird is that it frequently builds several nests, Whether this Is because it changed its mind after building the first one and decided to select a better location or with the deliberate purpose of deceiving any intruders who might come along ts not known. The bird is very beau- tifully colored, the top of its head and the region nearly down to the shoul- ders being a yellow green, the back olive green, the throat and breast jet black and the under parts white with some yel'ow in them at times, Early Progress of Industry. Prior to 1895 the progress made in the development of the automobile can be summed up as follows: In gen- eral style the body was a park phaeton, a ponderous complicated contrivance, which would crash the pavements as It passed over them. The gasoline was stored in a large tank in front. The motor and controlling apparatus were placed beneath the bed of the vehicle. Excessive weight and complicated machinery belped in a great measure to make {it an utter failure. One weak spot after arother developed. The axles became heated, then the gears got out of order. The holse of the explosion of the gasollne was suggestive of a railroad locomo tive—Chevrolet Bulletin. ip Top” the flower of oan el 28-t£! wave that rolla—Garteld, WEEDS USEFUL IN MEDICINE Grandmother Used to Concoct Some Wonderful Curealls From All Sorts of. Growing, Things. With the exception of some of the daintier spring blossoms, our wild flowers are passed by without com- ment. Violets, hepaticas, bluebells, trilllums are still sought after and picked, the fall asters are gathered by some and the goldenrod is admired, but passing Into disrepute on account of its hay-fever aggravations. There was a time, however, when grand- mother was young, when most of our common field and wayside flowers were of prime tmportance in the house- hold, in the shape of family bitters, physics and curealls. Yarrow, a pest to the farmer, and © doubtful beauty even to the wild flow lover, was at one time a most usef: herb, from which a tea was made th’ cured all sorts of ailments, from tooth ache to typhoid fever, From the hon set plant, so common along «. streams now, a tea was also mi which was a prime favorite in curin that common malady, “breakbone fever"—do not laugh—probably wh: we knew today as grippe. Comchile we call it dog fennel, was brewed [nto a tea as well, and was used as a touic and blood purifier, Jimson weed, a corruption of James town weed, was valued by the settlers of that early village as a narcotic, and {s still so used, for that matter. Self heal the little, close-growing purple: flowered pest of our lawns, was used to relieve sufferers with quinsy and other throat afflictions. This plant be- longs to the mint family, and most of the mints were of use medicinally. Pennyroyal, spearmint, Oswego tea, bergamot, catnip and = motherwort were all of value to the simpler folk of a century or more ago. FIRST EMBLEM OF BABYLONIA Writer Points Out Hew Eagle Be- came National Symbol. Many Thousands of Years Ago. The useful schoolboy, whose knowl- edge is casually referred to whenever it 1s desired to {mply general histori- cal information, doubtless knows about the eagles of Rome, and more or less connects them with the her aldic eagle of the United States, but Prof. James H. Breasted of Chicago carried the lineage of the symbol much farther back when he recently pointed out that the American eagle reasonably enough originated some 6,000 years ago in Babylonia. Then first appeared the eagle with outstretched wingssymbolizingthestate. Romecame later, and the succession of European nations that have adopted the eagle: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and others, But this first eagle was a bird of autocracy, and nothing could have been more opposite to the govern- mental idea of ancient Babylon than the American Declaration of Inde- pendence. Free and powerful, the eagle stands logically for Uberty and strength, but when it first became a national symbol, liberty, as the word is now understood, did not exist. Fun in Trees for Children, What a delight an old apple, cherry or plum tree is to children, boys or girls. Particularly a tree that has been trained to a low, open head, that the youngsters can scramble up in without much effort. My heart stands still sometimes when I see the children swinging in the plum tree, like the siimfans some scientists tell us we have descended from, and it is the only resemblance of an ape I have observed in man- kind. Surely there must be some re- lation or there would be broken limbs and broken heads among the flocks of children that swarm in that glorious old tree. Frequent cautioning and pleadings excite no fear, but if there are no accidents the old plum is fulfilling a splendid mission, though there are no other. plum trees. sufficiently near for the bees and insects to fertilize the flowers, resulting in the tree produc- ing only one kind of fruit, pleasure for the children. Chance Discoveries, Some of the finest friendships have grown out of the chance circumstances that have thrown men together for the moment. Some of the greatest discov- erles have been due to the fortunate disclosures of life's incidentals. Much of self-discovery is the direct product of the unlooked for. Science has been made rich by the fortynate combina- tions of accidentals whose meanings have been caught by observant men. And the great fact remains that most of them have been paraded before men through the ages, to be discovered only now. And the ages to come will won- der at the lost opportunities of the present age when they have harnessed the powers we see not—the mysteries we wonder at. Equality of Opportunity. It 1s the pride of every American that many cherished names, at whose mention our hearts bound, were worn by the sons of poverty who conquered obscurity and became fixed stars in our firmament, There {s no horizontal stratification In this country like the rocks of the earth, that holds one class. below forevermore, and lets an- other come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the deep any drop may come ap to glitter on the highest