Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, June 24, 1921, Page 7

MAY MORNING By MOLLIE MATHER. + * (©. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) John Towne drove through the vil- lage ov his quickest route to the cily beyond. The ride was longer than he had anticipated, in his wish to avoid close trains, and the spring time vista of Geld and meadow, brought from him ho conscious admiration, Above all things, was Jubn practical, and this Journey but a ne y factor in a becessary arrangement of his life's fu- ture plun, Jeremy Dawn, the success- ful president of the gréat compuny in which John Towne himself had made his Way, was dead. Jeremy Dawn had died several months ago; but John, installed as succeeding president, bad been too busy to seek the carrying out of the plan which his superior uufolded to him on his sick bed. The capable junior member of the business concern was well aware of the need of an efficient his home, The pretentious bullding that John had fitted for a dwelling, was to Lim merely a well ordered in stitution, Upon several past occasions ere he bad been a guest at Mr. n’s summer home, John had ree- ognized the value of a woman's hos pitality and home management. The polse and intelligence of Mrs. Jeremy Dawn charmed him. John Towne ple- tured his future wife as just such a woman, and dispaired of finding thls paragon of choice. yw, the wife that Jeremy Dawn had named for him was no other than his own daughter, the mistress in daughter of this perfect woman. The girl had been at college, John re- membered, during this visits to the Dawn's home, but he had absolute con fidence In his shrewd old friend's judg. ment, As John Towne reached the last hill he decided, wearled of rough roads, to leave his car in town and continue the journey by rail. He drove up to @ girl seated on a stile and asked the way to the village station, “LT have,” John told her crossly, “Just ten minutes to make my train,” “That,” pleasantly remarked the girl in the red sweater, “is nothing In my young life.” John stared, then he glared; which appeared to the pretty creature in- teresting but not disturbing. She con- tinued the hum of her song as she started down hill, All at once, John realized amazingly the beauty of the morning, that pink flowers peeped be tween green that the girl's cheeks were rose pink too, that violets bordered the country road, that the girl's eyes were us deeply biue. She glanced back over her shoulder pres- ently, and smiled. John found himself giving an answering grin. It was very, very strange—it was undignified—but he wanted more than anything to hear her saucy speech again, “As I am going your way,” he con- descended, “I might as well take you with me.” The girl tilted her chin. “Nobody asked you too, sir,” she quoted. With an impulse inexplicable, he sought to detain her. “You are on lag The girl looked demurely her pail. “I was about to carry the milk into the farm house,” she said. As he lingered a shrill whistle sound ed, the girl turned to him. ‘Your train nounced, leaves: your to the vil- he persisted. way down at has gone,” she an- Join Towne’s impatience had ished. “There will be no other going out until tonight,” be stated calinly. “] wonder If I could persuade them to give me luncheon at your farm house? I am beastly “hungry.” The girl nodded in friendly fashion. “It’s a country appetite,” she ex plained, “I will fetch you sandwiches.” She sat beside him as he ate, “I would like,” said John Towne “to know your The girl laughed, turning her eyes upon hit, “1,” she replied, “am just May Morning.” “I thought you were,” John agreed, “when I first looked at you, all rose, and violet, and laughing sunshine.” She frowned. “When I suw you,” she retorted, “1 thought first of distressing humor.” “I was starting on a serious errand,” van- hame.”” your excused Juin Towne. “lL know,” ly, “you were goin to usk her to be your wife. 1 tell you semething; you m trouble. Mary Dawn is not in th for she ran away to avoid refusin. did not care to be handed over the girl said unexpected- to see Mary Dawn, puckuge, you see, wod neither would you care for her, She is most unlike hes mother, whom u admire, and she has old-fashioned ideas about love. So you'd better turn your dutomobile around, John Towue, and be on your way home.” “You know my name?" the man asked, wondering, “you know all this —how %' The girl smiled sauelly. “Your photos are ull over my father’s house,” she explained, “While I, my- self, am Mary Dawn: My friends changed that name to ‘May Morning’.” Suddenly leaned closer. “LT came to the farthouse to pur serious, posely wayluy you,” she confessed, “to show yeu in Ume, your mistake.” “And John Towne answered gravely, “adinit no mistake. In fact, my purpose—-K>0Ws. For I find, May Morning, that I, too, have a certain ald fashioncd idea— about lve.” _—— —— — — ——— —) will | save the | — Dealers in Hides, Pelts, are now being arranged. bath of oil. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO and all kinds of Poultry CRIMINALS USE THEIR BRAINS | ALL HAVE SOME PROTECTION “Profession” of Roguery Today Has Risen to Dignity Almost Ap- proaching a Fine Art. The big robberies of jewelry in the south of France recently minder of the ubiquity of the modern criminal. The thieves may have been local men, but the probability is that they were importations from England or Australia or the United tes. Criminals engaged in the “big push” are much-traveled men. The whole world is their hunting ground. A few thousand miles are of little moment with thousands of dolllars as the ulti mate goal, Expert jewel thieves, confidence tricksters, card sharpers, exponents of the “infallible” betting system—all at one time or another make of the world, if necessary, in order to pick up wealthy victims and by skillful nursing lull them into a belief that dishonesty Is a silly rumor ip- stead of an Irrefragable t. It does seem strange to the millions of people who carefully guard their pennies that men are to be found who will hand over thousands of dollars to are a re- comparative strangers only to find when too late that they have been swindled. tours | A fool and his money, we are told, | soon part; yet, as a matter of fact, it is the man who regards himself as shrewd and careful who Is most sought after by these ingenious intriguers. The fool is apt to be too suspiciou and, anyw he has not much money Every liner that leaves Great Brit- ain has among its first-class pussen- gers criminals who are making the voyage for the pleasure of “working.” —From Continental Edition of the London Mail. —- — Mother Nature Abandons None of Her Progeny, in a Helpless State, to Their Enemies, Nature has provided for everything down to frogs md little stickleback All the little animals that seem so helpless have their own ways of pro- | teeti themselves, says Londen An swers, If he suspects that some larger and stronger animal is out to eat him, the toud is able to swell himself out until he locks very ferocious and is far too jarge to be swallowed The frog has longer legs than tond and therefore can jump be His eyes are at the top of his head to enable him to se all round, for having no neck, he cannot turn bh head. He can change the color of bhi coat If it should prove nece takes him about a quarter of to do this thoroughly accomplished it ry. i and after it is is extremely difficult to distinguish him from his surround: | ings. People sometimes try to catch the | lizard, but with no success, for the only part of its body one can get at Is its tall, and it can drop this at a moment's notice. The little stickle- back, of all small boys, has little spiky spines sticking out to pro. tect It from the other inhabitants of ponds and streams. But these lit- tle spines are of no avail when the stickleback ends its days in the jam meet beloved | Jar of some little fisherman. Decorative Church Windows. 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Wholesale and Retail BUTCHERS But it’s the Tractor with experience built Decorative Win of nent scenes. came a favorite fo dows soon be church ornamentation, Asnaes Sylvi- us, Who subsequently a Pope Pius the ond and incidentally was a very close student of contemporary affairs of Bohemia, records that the churches of the Czechs possessed many “high and wide windows which were brightly &nd artistically decor. ated, and such style of decorating was hot the churches in the lar cities and towns, but even the distant hamlets prided themselves on | containing windows orna- | fashion.” ‘The confined to churches mented in a siinitar | curriculum of the division of teehnl- cal arts of the University of Prague included courses in painting, w 1- carving, and glass ornamentation 0} degree was ever conferred on & student | unless he could exhibit sufficient apth | tude 2 “glass man” or qualify in| “gla a practical demonstration | of the high esteem in which this | branch cf the arts was held. a | America’s Meat-Eaters. | Take it the world over and the an- nual consumption of meat amounts to 39 pounds per capita. Here in these United States, however, the figure rises to ISO pounds a head, declares the | Los Angeles Times, The American | is the world’s champion meat eater. The averd citizen of the United States will every year eat more than ght The English- upposed to be a terror In he meat line, but he only takes on | in average of 120 pounds a year, Of the vegetarian will insist that | his we in red beef. | | } man is | urse the Americans are the lowest type of ivilization and are a feeble, pulse- | less pe » tottering to the grave. But if they can do what they have done under the incubus of 180 pounds of | beef every year, what could they not | accomplish if they would only leave | | meat me? The people who have booze from the land should » in their might and absolve the curse of filet now | America from | mignon. —_—_—_—_— | Romance Language. “What ore all these withered blos- | soms?” “Byidence in the case, Your Honor.” | “He wrote po letters during the Merely sald it with flow- courtship. ers.” ind out for Hardware _— — — | Ce) a | | stream as | run We are The Power of Which They Had No Comprehension. When Fulton's steamboat, the Cler the frightened mont Hudson ade her maiden trip op river in 1807, It more persons than It interested. Fish ermen and stall boatmen to belleved it to, be some horrible mon ster, and headed for shore as fast as they could go, and once on land rap fields Crews of larger sailing ships were no better, and many a schooner at top to hide. speed into woods and was deserted and left to drift do the snorting, tossing Clermont appeared. Li at or arose a great wave would drive the fish to sea, face of God.” was made by the Clermont down. making it a criminal offense to tempt to Injure the boat. WAR’S DEMAND ON LUMBER. The consumption of lumber dur ing the war has been approximated at 6,500,000,000 feet, board meas ure, by the United States forestry Of this amount of lumber service. purchased directly by the variou government departments, the army consumption was nearly 5,500,000,- | | | | | | | | | | | | | O) fo) SAW STEAMBOAT AS ENEMY Sailors and Fishermen Alike Dreaded a map clanking, ter It was made known along the river what the thing was, and there of hate instigated by boatmen who saw their | business ruined, and by fishermen who were sure the noise of the steamboat Added to them were hundreds of religious fa- natics who declared the boat was the work of the devil and a “flying tn the So acute did this dis- like grow that attempt after attempt large satling ships to The state legisiature had to pass a special law at- PAGKERS PUT UNDER * _ NATIONAL CONTROL Bill Gives Power of Regulation to Secretary of Agri- culture. Washington —After radical members failed in further efforts to substitute a more drastic measure the senate passed the meat packers’ control bill substantially as it came over from the house. Some amendments were added, however, including the adoption of the publicity section of the senate com- mittee bill. The final vote on the passage of the bill was 45 to 21. The bill as passed givea the secre- tary of agriculture jurisdiction over packers, stockyards, commission men, traders, buyers and sellers in the yards. The secretary is given the power to prevent them from engaging in unfair, unjustly discriminatory or deceptive practices. He is given the power to regulate and prescribe the practices in the stockyards and to prescribe all rates, fees and charges for service, including the fees for com- mission men. It is expected that the differences between the house and senate bills will not prevent a speedy agreement and that the bill will reach the presi- dent within a short time. One amendment adopted by the sen- ate to the house bill over the protest of the radical group exempted the manufacture of by-products which are not edible from governmental super- vision. This amendment was adopted by @ vote of 33 to 30, Another amend- ment adopted struck out horses, mules and goats from the section concern- ing livestock. ALLIED WAR LOANS TO BE SOLD AS BONDS hington—President Harding and his cabinet have decided to launch their plan for the refunding of the nation’s $10,000,000,000 war loans to the allies into definite obligations and for the sale of such securities to the American people. The first step on the part of the administration will be to ask congress for specific authority to carry out this plan when it is worked out in detall by the treagury. Under the Harding refunding plan these loans to the allies, which are now in the form of five per cent ack- nowledgements of indebtedness, would be refunded into bonds maturing 20 or 40 or more years hence at a higher rate of Interest, The tucrease in the interest rate above 6 per cent would be sufficient to yield the additional amount due to the United States im defaulted interest, These allied government bonds then would be placed on the market by the U. S. government from time to time and sold to investors. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds to individ- ual investors would be employed by the government to retire liberty bonds. -|TO GIVE PICRIC ACID AWAY Government Will Distribute 12,000,000 Pounds of High Explosive. Washington.—-More than 12,000,000 pounds of pieric acid, one of the high- est known explosives, accumulated for war purposes and made useless to the war department by the armistice, will be distributed to farmers for agricul- tural purposes. Picric acid is 18 per cent stronger than 40 per cent straight nitro-gly- cerine dynamite, according to the bu- reau of mines, It should never be used in bulk, officials say, and its use should be restricted to redipped parat- fined paper cartridges. ‘The 12,000,000 surplus stock will be distributed to farmers through the bureau of public’ roads of the depart- ment of agriculture. The only cost to the farmer, it is announced, will be | freight charges end a charge of six cents a pound for placing the powder in the necessary cartridges. It will be ready for distribution about July 1. Canada After Bergdoll. Ottawa.—The extradition from Ger- many of Grover C. Bergdoll, United States draft evader, is under consider- s| ation by the Canadian government, ©. J. Doherty, minister of justice an- nounced. Bergdoll was reported to have reached Germany on « torged 000 feet, the navy consumed | ™ more than 120,000,000. During | ©®#d!#” Dessport. 1918 the Emergency Fleet cor- poration consumed for ship con- Refined Super ‘Grenere: struction approximately 800,000,-’ San Francisco.—Refined cane suger 000 feet. Lumber needed for | * the reftavrias, dpopped 15 oanie ® boxes and crates alone required ap- hundredweight to $6. the lowest price 4 aince December, 1915. Beet sugar was proximately —2,000,000,000 feet. | quoted ut $5.80. Structures for cantonments, hos- pitals, warehouses, etc., used approx- | american Polo Team Defeats British. imately 3,000,000,000 feet. London.—America won the first of the polo matches for the international Bring your films to Schaecher | wopay played bere, deteating Grea developing and printing. tf] gritsia, ii to «.