Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 19, 1922, Page 4

Agent for LEWISTON LAUNDRY Laundry must be in by Monday evening. Will be ; ceturned Friday evening of each week. KEITH’S Confectionery oetestpteetecetecteteetetestedondoeetectetedintostosestetend SSEPE PTE LEE IES DR. J. E. REILLY Dentist Office, Nuxoll Block Both Phones soafestectenteetesestesterionetorts cose cee? ? PPP Peder reod: os DR. J. D. SHINNICK Physician and Surgeon Office over Cottonwood St. Bk. | DR. WESLEY F. ORR Physician and Surgeon Office in Simon Bldg. Both Phones DR. C. SOMMER Graduate License VETERINARIAN Deputy State Veterinarian Residence North end of town Both Phones KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS } Cottonwood Council, 1389 Meets the first and third Jednesday of each month. Visiting knights welcomed John F. Knopp, G. K. Barney Seubert, F. S. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS McKinley Lodge No. 38 Meets every Tuesday evening. Hayward Shields, Cc. C. John Homar, K. R. and S. THE AMERICAN LEGION Cottonwood Post No. 40 Meets 1st Monday of each month at I. 0. O. F. Bert Schroeder, Com. Frank Albers, Adjutant FELIX MARTZEN Real Estate, Uoans, Fire and Life Insurance Insure in the Northwestern Mutual and save 25 to 45 per cent on your insurance. JOHN REILAND CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Estimates furnished ow au. class of Work. Repairing promptly done. Rooke Hotel Has neat clean rooms at 50c and 75c per night or $3.00 to $3.50 per week. When you are in Cottonwood give us a trial. “Dad” Rooke, Prop. ooo Correct English And How To Use It A MONTHLY MAGAZINE $2.50 the Year SEND 10c FOR SAMPLE COPY! to Publishing Co, EV IN, ILLINOIS a Subscribed for the Chronicle. “INTELLIGENCE TESTS” It is refreshing to see a professor of psychology courageous enough to go on record as doubting the complete reliability of the so-called “intelligence tests,” which, in pecially during the war, were exalted | so far beyond their pos But | it Is not very all, to anyone who has seen these tests in their It was, how- | ever, a truly sweeping arraignment of | them that Doctor Elinor McC, Gamble of Wellesley college the | Zoston branch of the American Asso: Women in Rad it had of the the | fall and some quarters, e€s- vle value, surprising, after roper perspective. made before ton of University college, when she said thut receive found who n such tests at Wel ) examinations, hand marks 30 per cent a mark on mid r that on the of those » in the “intelligence tests” ott per cent whose ire below the | re ceive marks ubove the avewage on the Perhaps, it is a more than the it practically mid-y rade. arraignment for sweeping pro- realized amounts to a statement their unreliability ness, says the Christian Science Mon- itor. It one more example of a material mode or method in £ to be to absolutely fessor confessing entire and useless is, however, just being advertised as all-embracing its line of procedure and then be! proved on all intents accurate study, and purposes, valueless. | of painters | value? | quired it should be forbidden by law. | opinion, are lost than are saved by re- | It is an interesting point of view. | health and wellbeing of | years ago, when he remarked that “a | lain under lay | twentles when he did them. peculiar fact that there is a vast dif- | nothing to his fame. Why is this never | temporal map of Arabia, raising the A dispatch states that twenty can- vases by Jean Francois Millet have re- cently been discovered in the garret of Cherbourg Town hall, where they have rs of dust entirely for Millet was In his It Is a | gotten for years. ference between the early work of writers and painters being discovered. In the case of the writer there is al- ways a faction that will loudly pro- test against the publication of prentice work, affirming that {t gives an unfair presentation of the writer and adds the case with painters? Is it an ac- cepted theory that the prentice work is always of definite Prof. Yandell who has Henderson of Yale, invented a remarkable in- | haletor, for the resuscitation of persons | overcome by gas, is opposed to the | use of such appliances in mines and factories, and even goes so far as to suggest that instead of being re- Their effect, he says, is to prevent workers in mines and elsewhere from learning how to revive asphyxiated | persons without the use of apparatus, | and since the apparatus is not always | instantly at hand, more lives, in his | llance upon such devices as his own. Advertising signs in the 17 national | forests of California must come down, following an order issued by the dis- trict forester at San Francisco, Ad- vertisements printed on rocks and trees are also to be effaced. Accord- | ing to the regulations of the forest service of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, such advertising | is prohibited in all national forests without special permits, which are sel- dom issued, The object of this regu- lation is to prevent defacing the mountain landscapes of the national forests with billboards and other un- sightly signs, A French veterinarian sagely an- nounces that fleas are necessary to the dogs and gives elaborate reasons for the theory, but David Harum said it much better reasonable amoutn of fleas is good for a dog. They keep him from broodin’ about bein’ a dog.” One of our fair correspondents comes out in defense of the modern girls, explaining most convincingly that the young men are to blame be- cause they have lost the old-time sweetness and charm, and we are al- most certain now, remarks the Colum- bus Dispatch, that if the facts were known, Adam took the apple away from Eve by sheer brute force, The report that rubber is being used as fuel in Java is interesting. We'd think it would combine excel- lently with sulphur and glue and pos- | sibly Mmburger cheese. At any rate, we are glad the experiment is being made In Java. | ————— | Twenty thousand Russian rubles can be bought with an American cent, but | even this disparity doesn't represent the size of the discount soviet institu- | | tions suffer when placed tn contrast | with American institutions. | = | “Tt is Islam, the official religion, which Let it not be forgotten, however, | that those 4,276 centenarians who have | been checked up by the census bureau | got their start in a long life before | the adoration of the saxophone begun. | The old warning against taking | wooden money is passe. Any chip would be worth more than a Russian ruble, | it did not alter the place in the world | | That mystic city under Arab control | 100,000, but to the more than 200.000 | | pilgrims who visit it each year from | | estimates, in 1907 there were no less | such a desert city. | Colony and Russia, as wellas from the | most inaccessible provinces of China, | disappointed in the actual condition | you the center of the nations that you | | their houses (in fulfillment of an im- | | could be viewed from another planet, | Hurgronje | took their lives in their hands, herd- | conducive to morals or good govern- No one who has read the aec-; | count of social life at Mecca, as given | Pilgrims Encamped Outside Mecca. (Prepared by the National Geographic So clety, Washington, D. C.) Though the World war changed the narrow strip of the Hejaz, formerly | a Turkish province, into a kingdom, of Mecca, chief of the Hejaz cities. still is the center of all Mohammedan thought and action as it was under the Turks, The importance of Mecca is not due to Its resident population of perhaps every nation of Islam. Statistics are hopelessly contradictory and confus- ing regarding the number of annua! visitors. According to Turkish official than 280,000 pilgrims. It is a marvel) how so many thousands can find food, shelter, and, most oY all, drink, in The religious capital of Islam, and now the temporal capital of the new kingdom of the Hejaz, affords an in- dex to the growth and strength of Mohammedanism in various parts of the world, for one can rightly gauge the strength of religious fervor in this great non-Christian faith by the num- ber of those who go on pilgrimage. From Java, Bengal, West Africa, Cape they come every year and return to their native land—if they escape the | hardships of travel—to tell of the| greatness and glory of their faith however much they may have been of the city and its sacred buildings. When we consider Mecca, Moham- | med’s words of prophecy in the second chapter of his book seem to have been literally fulfilled: “So we have made should bear witness to men.” The} old pagan pantheon has become the | religious sanctuary and the goal of | universal pilgrimage for one-seventh of the human race. | From Sierra Leone to Canton, and from Tobolsk to Cape Town, the faith- ful spread their prayer carpets, build portant tradition, even their out- houses!), and bury their dead orient- ed toward Mecca, If the old world its details disclosed, the observer would see concentric circles of living worshipers covering an ever-widening | area, and one would also see vast areas of Moslem cemeteries with ev- ery grave dug with its main axis to- ward the sacred city. Its Mysteries Laid Bare. Mecca 1s no longer a veiled city. A score of intrepid travelers have un- veiled it. From Bartema, Wild and Joseph Pitts to Burton, Burckhardt, and Courtellemont, they ed with strange companions, under- went untold hardships, and by luck or pluck came scatheless out of this lion's den of Islam. According to Doughty, scarcely a pilgrimage takes place with- out some persons being put to death as intruding Christians. An educated and pious Moslem tn Cairo admitted recently that when he went on piigrim- age and took pictures of the city his life was endangered more than once by the fanaticism of the inhabitants. However, there are many who believe that the establishment of the new kingdom will mean the removal of re- strictions against non-Moslems. The mixture of races brought about {on Hejas province for so many cen- turies by the pilgrimages has not been ment. by Hurgronje and other travelers, in- cluding Moslem pilgrims can doubt the need for social reform in that city. Mecca is the microcosm of Islam in Its religious life and as- | | three pillars, called the Great Devil, pirations. According to Hurgronje: brings together and amalgamates all the heterogeneous constituents of Mec- ean life. On the other hand, this so- ciety itself welds into a chaotic whole the prejudices and superstitions of all countries.” In other words, Mecca is themselves, | the sink-hole of Islam. All witnesses agree as to the flagrant immorality which pervades the streets, and even the mosque, of the sacred city, the fleecing of pilgrims, and the corrup- tion of the late Turkish government. The post office at Mecca, under Turkish regime, was certainly unique. Sacks of letters were thrown out into the narrow street leading to the post office, and there sorted by the pil- grims themselves, who opened them and thelr friends also. prevailed at Medina, Yenbo and Jid- dah, King Husein of Hejaz, how- took their letters and those of | A similar system | our Wheat Yield CLOSE. inspection of your winter wheat fields just after the snow has left the ground will reveal to you many cracks that break the soil away from the roots of the young wheat plants and which permit moisture to escape. And if you could look below the surface and examine a cross- section of the seed bed you'd find also that in many places the frost has lifted the surface soil from the sub- soil, leaving air spaces between the subsoil and seed bed. These air pockets prevent moisture from rising from the subsoil reservoir and starve the plants. A Dunham Culti-Packer will close up the cracks, press down frost humps, firm the soil around the roots, practically resetting each dislocated plant—and will fill up the air pockets, re-establishing | contact between the subsoil and see! bed. dads Bis “es tae And because it repairs in this way the damage done by the frost, a Dunham Culti-Packer will prevent a considerable amount of winter killing, thereby increasing the yield of winter wheat. This is not theory but a proved fact. The Dunham Culti-Packer is also of exceptional value in prepar- ing a seed bed for spring crops. It crushes the hard lumps, fills air pockets, and packs loose soil, preventing soil-blowing. Also valuable asan alfalfa renovator. Come in and examine the Culti-Packer that we have set up for your inspection. It will interest you. ever, has taken steps to join the Inter- | national Postal Union, and inscription “Hejaz Post.” Foreigners Handle Its Commerce. has had | stamps printed in Egypt bearing the | Our shipment of Certified Grimm Alfalfa seed arriv- ed which we are selling for $46.00 per cwt. The commerce of Mecca is entirely | in the hands of foreigners, mostly In- | diuns, who sell rosaries, carpets and | silk stuffs. One of the main occupa- | tions of the silversmiths is the manu- facture of rings, which are supposed to be constructed from was once part of the sacred temple doors, and are reputed to be an effec- tive remedy for certain Ills. Most of the natives, however, earn their liv- ing as guides to the pilgrims and grow wealthy during the season. Sacred Mosque and Ka’aba. The sacred mosque, Mesjid el Ha- ram with the Ka'aba as its center, is located in the middle of the city. Mecca Hes in a hot, sandy valley, ab- solutely without verdure and surround- ed by rocky, barren hills, destitute of trees or even shrubs. The valley is abeut 800 feet wide, and 4,000 feet long, and slopes toward the south, The Ka'aba, or House of God (Belt Allah), is located in the bed of the valley. All the streets slope toward It and it stands, as it were, in the pit of a theater. The Ka’aba proper stands in an ob- long space 250 paces long and 200 broad, surrvunded by colonnades, which are used as schools and as a general meeting place for pilgrims. The outer tnclosure has 19 gates and six minarets; within the inclosure is the well of Zem Zem, the great pulpit, the stalrease used to enter the Ka’aba door, which is high above the ground, and two small mosques called El Ku- battain, The remainder of the space is occupied by pavements and grav- el, where prayers are said by the four silver that | We can make you very attractive prices on the car- load of 26 inch, 39 inch and 48 inch field fence just re- | ceived. Also on galvanized and painted barb wire. Wants to see HOENE “259° HARDWARE 2 —|—) —) 2 SS) 6) 2) [| pramonp TIRES MONOGRAM OILS It’s a Dirty Job Draining the old oil out of your car and washing it out with coal oil. We do all this undesirable work free of charge one only one condition—that you buy your re-fill- ing oils from us. The next time you need fresh oils in your car give us the opportunity to do this work free for you. Sure! Men have ruined good clothes to do this very same job so why take chances when you can have it done without cost. Cottonwood Garage WE AIM TO PLEASE YOU Electrical Work We Repair All Makes of Batteries = —— Cs] fe || lI orthodox sects, each having its own | allotted space. In the southeast corner of the Ka’‘aba, about five feet from the ground, is the famous Black Stone, the oldest treasure of Mecca. The stone is a fragment resembling black volcanic rock, sprinkled with reddish crystals, Arriving within a short distance of | Mecca, orthodox pligrims, male and | fetuale, put off their ordinary clothing and assume the ihram, which consists of two pleces of white cloth, tied around the loins and the other thrown over the back. Sandals may be worn, but not shoes, and the head must be uncovered, After certain ablutions the pilgrim enters the mosque, kisses the Black Stone, and runs around the Ka‘aba seven times. After special prayers he proceeds to the place of Abraham, then drinks from the holy well, and once more kisses the Black Stone. After this follows the race between the two hills, Safa and Mirwa, Little books of ritual prayers to be | used by the pilgrims are sold to ev- eryone, and there is great punctilious- ness in observing every detail correct- ly. On the seventh day of the pil- grimage there Is a sermon from the grand pulpit. On the eighth day the pligrim goes to Mina, three miles dis- tant from Mecca, and spends the night. The next morning he leaves for Ara- fat, another hill a short distance from Mecca, and the following day is the great day of sacrifice, simultapeously observed throughout the whole Mos- lem world. Early in the morning the pilgrims go to Mina, where they are the Middle Pillar, and the First One. Here each pilgrim flings seven peb- bles to show his hatred of Satan and his love of God, He then performs the sacrifice of a sheep, goat or camei, LR AL OLED AEE, | LUMBER AT MILLPRICES Sounds like ye gude auld days, doesn’t it. Last fall after we had first moved up to the mill we were often greeted by people passing through the mill yard with “Hello there, back on the joy are you.” Well we sure are and glad of it too. It is hard for a man to forget his first love. The mill is running fine and with a crew raren to go half our troubles are over. One hundred twenty- five thousand feet per week is not such a big pile of lum- ber for some mills. yet it is enough lumber to build ten average sized homes. Not all of it of course will go into homes, as there is a great deal used for barns. and gran- aries. It would be interesting could we follow every board to its ultimate resting place, or those of only one log. One six inch clear board may find its place as siding on some home on Camas Prairie while its mate may be used to case a door in Boston. One of the shop boards may go to Cleveland and another to Oshnosh and there made into a fine door that will find its hole in the wall of some mil- lionaire while another door perhaps will swing in the kit- chen of some humble family. A small piece from this same board will go into a dozen different windows some of which will perhaps be used in some factory in the east, perhaps will be sent back west again to some place in Colorado or California. Interesting, yes, marvelous are the ways of com- merce and trade. But no board, door or window will hold your interest as long as those placed in your own “Home.” You will want them to be the best that you can get, cut from good timber, well milled and suitable for the place that you want them. We are cutting our lumber this year from the finest yellow pine timber that ever grew on the moun- tain. You will be pleased with the quality and our ser- vice assures you of getting just what you want for the place and purpose you want to use it. according to his means, the victim be-— ing placed toward the Ka’aba and the knife plunged into the animal's throat with the cry “Allahu Akbar.” This ceremony concludes the pilgrimage proper and the pligrim then begins his journey back home. HUSSMAN LUMBER COMPANY Home Builders and Building Doctors ee