Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, November 17, 1922, Page 4

Minutes and Hours Came to Be Computed at Sixty “Sixty seconds make a minute, 60 minutes make an hour.” You used to say that as often as you did “10 mills make a cent, 10 cents make a dime and 10 dimes make a dollar.” It Is believed, in fact, certain learned men have said it has been proved that the scheme of dividing the hour into 60 parts and the minute into 60 parts | was invented or devised by the ancient Babylonians long centuries before the Christian era, It is one of the ways of counting time which has gone un- | changed during the past 5,000 or 10,- 000 years. Along with the decimal system in an client Rabylon there was the sexagesi- mal system based upon the count by sixties and originating in the discovery that there is no number which has so many divisions as 60, for It can be divided without a remainder by 2, 3, | 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30. Babylonians divided the sun's path | into 24 parasangs, a parasang being | The as- | Babylon | about four and a haif-miles. tronomers of that time In compared the progress of the sun dur- ing one hour to the progress that would be made by a good walker in | the same length of time, each going about one parasang, or four and one- half miles, Thus the whole course of the sun, so the wise astronomers | of Babylon thought, was 24 parasangs or 360 degrees or 24 hours, and each parasang or hour was divided into 60 | parts, which we call minutes. The story is that Hipparchus, the | Greek philosopher, who lived a century and a half before Christ, Introduced the Babylonian hour into Europe and we have counted the time of day In seconds, minutes and hours ever since. MATTER OF SEL.F- PROTECTION | Why Signatures in the Form of. a Round “Robin” Were at One Time Advisable. The most generally accepted belief is that the practice of signing a pro- test or petition In a circle (now known as a “round robin") orlginated in France, where, as protests from sub- ordinates were regarded by govern- ment officials as little less than mu- tiny, there was a natural desire to keep the order of signing secret. The most noted “Round Robin" in the English language !s probably one that originated at a dinner in the house of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Among those attending were Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon and others famous tn the world of letters, all of whom were friends or acquaintances of Oliver Goldsmith. The epitaph written for the poet by Doctor Johnson became a topic of dis- cussion, and various changes were suggested. These, it was agreed, should be submitted for the doctor's consideration. When the question arose as to who should propose them to him It was suggested that a “round robin” was the best means of solving | the difficulty. Despite his fiery dispo- sition, Doctor Johnson, it is said, ac- cepted the “robin” In the spirit in which it was intended. Why Gloves Were important. In 1083, when the earl of Shrews- bury promised to build an abbey at Shrewsbury, he publicly laid his glove upon the altar of the monastery in token of his sincerity. In ing on a visit to Paris, but decided to go when the king of Frat sent her a pair of gloves. When she was swept away by the events leading up to the massacre of St. Bartholomew, it was considered an act of the blackest treachery, as gloves had been sent to | reassure her. As men became more enlightened and learned to read and write, signing one’s name to a promise | took the place of all this sort of thing. | But there is one curiouS survival even now. Not many annual fairs are held | nowadays, but when they are, {tt ts no anusual thing to see a great glove publicly exhibited, This is a token that | the king has granted a license for the | fair to be held and so long as it lasts the glove remains where everybody | can see It—Christian Science Monitor, Why Dough Is Kneaded. If bread should be baked out of un- kneaded dough, or without yeast or baking-powder, it would turn into a hard, indigestible mass. Kneading | makes bread or cake spongelike in structure—that is, full of holes; for the process entraps particles of air, which expand during baking and puff up the dough. In the case of baking powder, the addition of water causes the tartaric acid in the powder to act on the baking soda (sodium acid car bonate) to generate bubbles of carbon | dioxide inside the dough. These, too, expand upon baking, filling the cake | with numerous holes. The yeast, as it lives and grows in the dough, gives off carbon dioxide. The result on the dough is the same as before.—Popular Science Monthly. Why One Should Read Lamb. So you ask me again why you sbould | read Lamb, and I answer: first, be- cause he has always something to say and conveys his thought smothering It in blankets"; second, because in antique fancy, quip, oddity, whimsical! jest, humor, wit and trony, rare gifts all, he is a supreme master; third, because his limitations and tragedies were, like ours, many, but his courage in facing them, unlike rs, was cheerful and invincible... . 4, fourth, because he has taken the and familiar for hig subjects end beautiful light em.—S. F. B. Mais. geriz it hureh | 5T4 the | queen of Navarre hesitated about go- | “without | OPP PNL TEE PUIG TOES HODHOD DR. J, E. REILLY Dentist Office, Nuxoll Block Both Phones PPPS OLA POOP ODOFED | ee te i ss ee eet DR. J. D. SHINNICK Physician and Surgeon Office over Cottonwood St. Bk. ee es te te DR. WESLEY F. ORR Physician and Surgeon Office in Simon Bldg. Both Phones POD Pap derede ctor sce idostordrciontoatoete octocdoteraedod SSSSSSS Ge T. P. Brown CHIROPRACTOR Craigmont, Idaho SS See Se eee eed POSS O SOS a a he ee ee 9 DR. C. SOMMER Graduate License VETERINARIAN Deputy State Veterinarian ¢ Both Phones Residence North end of town i | eee eenenneets KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Cottonwood Council, 1389 : Meets the first and third $ % Vednesday of each month. + Visiting knights welcomed John F. Knopp, G. K. Barney Seubert, F. S. set aesdetecteteceeetetestt PR Ronh rte eredrerarSoeratrctrctoatoaioatnatoatoceatecteatoeteate | KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS McKinley Lodge No. 38 Meets every Tuesday evening. Hayward Shields, C. C. John Homar, K. R. and S. PPPPSSSSO SG OSS HOI S GOSS IG00 PLP OOO SHO OPIS THE AMERICAN LEGION Cottonwood Post No. 40 Meets Ist Monday of each month at I. O. O. F. Bert Schroeder, Com. Frank Albers, Adjutant FELIX MARTZEN | Real Estate, Loans, Fire and Life Insurance |g Insure im the Northwestern | Mutual and save 25 to 45 per cent on your insurance. | | aoe es REILAND CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Estimates class of Work. Beis: promptly done furnish: fh | | Has neat clean rooms at 50¢ and 75c per night or $3.00 to $3.50 per week. When you are in Cottonwood give us a trial, “Dad” Rooke, Prop. | | | Med sipadeairatoatocdostostoct Ess Rooke Hotel ‘Brighten Up Let me give | papering your you my price on home, painting | your house or outbuildings. Estimates gladly given with no obligations on your part. ALL WORK GUARANTEED William Kelsey TAKE TURNS KEEPING HOUSE _— New York Man and His Wife Have Arrangement They Say Is “All to the Good.” Jones and his wife are a modern couple. Each goes to business and each helps with the housework. It so happens that each works in an office where on alternate weeks their pres- ence Is required at an early hour and , their quitting time Is fixed correspond: | ingly early, says the New York Sun. “We've doped it out this way,” ex- | plained Jones. “The week the wife has to get to the office early I get up and get breakfast and after breakfast wash the dishes and make the bed. After that I just have time to make the of fice. When the wife gets home at night she gets the dinner, so that by the time I arrive everything is on the table steaming liot. The next week, when I have to get In early mornings, we Just shift schedules. She gets the breakfast and I the dinner. “Of course I had to have a little coaching on the cooking at first, but | I've got so now I can shake as mean en elbow around the kitchen as any one, whether it’s boiling an egg for breakfast or preparing a_ five-course dinner, “Some who have heard of the ar- rangement think we're crazy. But we're happy; so what's the dilffer- ence?” “COMMONS” ONLY IN NAME Delegates to Early English National Assembly Belonged Without Ex. ception to Proprietary Class. As early as 1254 [fn England, knights were called from the shires to the national assembly to testify to the taxable capacity of thelr districts. Two from each shire were chosen by the gentry and landowners. At first the custom had no purpose except the desire of the taxing body to keep in close financial touch with the towns and districts. But soon Simon de Montfort, in rebellion against Henry III, turned It into a gathering to express and discuss grievances against the king. In this way there grew up a representative assembly called the “Commons,” which sat and | debated apart from the gathering of great nobles and bishops, called the “House of Lords.” The difference, however, was no more than relative. For in this early house of commons there were no com mon men In the medern conception of the term. They were all men of prop erty, many as wealthy and influential as the great peers, and, indeed, fre quently they were the sons and young- er brothers of these peers. The really common man in those days had not even a vote, te say nothing of a seat in parllament. Why They Got Nowhere. A story that harks back to the Civil war concerns a troop of Confederate mountain volunteers and their colouel They had been sent for by a certain Confederate town, but before they could arrive the federal forces were in command of the city. The auxil- jaries arrived in the night and found the town deserted. Not caring to mix unnecessarily with the Union troops. they turned around and rode out of the town by the first gate and road they found. Before them stretched a fine smooth highway and they took to it for all they were worth. They rode all night without passing any viliuges or signs of civilization. The country side seemed not only deserted, but de- molished as well. When the sun peeped over the Blue Ridge mountains the col- onel drew up suddenly, “What's the matter, suh?” asked the lieutenant. “Dammit, suh,” roared the colonel, “we've been galloping around a race track all night."—-San Francisco Ar- gonaut, Lunenburg Gloucester of Nova Scotia. | In Lunenburg, the Gloucester of Nova Scotia, the smell of fish is in all and over all. Churches, fish flakes, curing plants, steep hills, bold head- lands, shipyards, skilled fishermen and a sightly fleet of fishing vessels, oxen and German-looking faces, figures and names, are the characteristics. The place was settled by Hessians back in George IV's time, and marked traces of the early settlers remain. The housewives are so neat that they even put lace curtains at the cellar and woodshed windows, A prodigious | clanging of church bells goes on in | Lunenburg every Sunday, for the place has’* many places of worship. From Lunenburg come some of the hardlest and most skillful and fishermen in the world, while the mariners fishing fleet and the vessels built here, | have a wide reputation. What the Mouth Denotes. Suspicion and secretiveness are de- noted by a mouth which slants to elther side and has lips tightly drawn, while intolerance, arrogance, and other traits similar in character have, asa result of long study, come to be | associated with a lower lip protrudes, be an infallible guide to character, but that Its shape, form, and expression ts influenced by thoughts, emotions. and actions is readily acknowledged by those who have made a study of this most sensitive feature. Transparent. Mrs. Borden-Lodge—You're prepar- mouth where the | A mouth may not | ing to leave without paying your bill. j Don't try to fool me. through you. Mr, Hungerford —During the year ve Hwed here you've kept me so thin yore cap see through ae eee I can see right | Gen. H. H. Bandholtz, who, it is re- ported, will succeed Gen. Weed as governor-general of the Philippines in January. AUTOS CAUSE DEATH GF 10,168 PERSONS Washington, D C.—There were 10, 168 deaths from accidents caused by automobiles and other motor vehicles, during 1921 in excluding motorcycles, the death reg ted States containing 82 comprising per cent of the population, the That was an incr e The death rate for compared try’s census bu has announced of 1065 over 1920. 100,000 population was 11.5 1920. California led all Jeath rate, 100,000 or more with 10.4 in states in the the cities of tion Los Ang popula eles led about 28 per cent in- death rate re was automobile 1921, deaths in 27 in the from 1917 to humber of while e available increased 41.2 tration which data ar per cent Deaths in the area by years were a 1 as fol: | lows: 1 , 1918, 5; 1919, 7968; 1926 103; 1921, 10,168 New York state est number of deaths, with 1632, an in 1920, while Dela- lest number, with registered the larg crease over ware had the s 17, a decrease of FREIGHT MEETING IS HELD! Portland | Car Shortage Discussed at Conference. Salem, Or.—Represeutatives public Washington bureau of and the Idaho public utilities commis sion held a conference in Portland November 9 to discuss the car short age. The conference was called at the request of Clyde H. Aitchison, mem ber of the commerce com Oregon service commission, public works interstate who recently allocation of cars in recommended this dis mission, that trict be left to the state commissions. ‘The present car shortage was said to have interfered materially with a number of the larger industries in Oregon, and the three commissions will make every effort to remedy the situation, it was said. Large Devil Fish Drowns Youth. Seattle.—Albert Go 19, of Sun- rise beach, ne acoma, was dragged from his fishing boat by a huge devil fish and drowned in the Narrows. ness, THE MARKETS Portland Wheat—Bluestem, $1.33; soft white, western white, $1.19; hard winter $1.15; northern spring, $1.18; western red, $1.14 Corn-—Whole, $36; cracked, $38 Hay—Alfalfa, $18@18.50 per ton; valley timothy, $20; eastern Oregon timothy, $21. Butter Fat---48@49e. Eggs—Ranch, 43@50c. Cheese—Tillamook triplets, 32%.@ 1g Americas, 32% @34c; block cream brick 33e; Yo Cattle--Choice steers, medium to good, $6.25@7.00. of mountain lambs, choice yalley lambs, — Prime light, $10.25@10.75; $9.00 @9.50. Hogs smooth heavy, Seattle. Wheat Hard white, $1.24; soft white, western white, $1. hard red winter, soft red winter, $1.21; north ern spring $1.22; western red, $1.20; Big Bend bluestem, $1.46, Hay—Alfalfa, $22; timothy, straw, $17 Butter Fat—49@50c. Eggs—Ratch, 48@50c. Cattle — Prime steers, $6.50@7.00; medium to choice, $5.50@6.00. Hogs — Prime light, $10.45@10.65; smooth heavy, $8.25¢9.25. Leonard | gistration area of the Uni- | 34 states and | coun | | | while among | the actual | states for | of the “OLD” HOMESTEAD COFFEE We have some interesting coffee news week. for you this We are the sole distributers of the Old Homestead Coffee for this district. This is a most delightful blend of high grade coffee a pleasing aroma resulting in a delicious cup. Our purpose is to have for ow customers a coffee that will satisfy at a price that will be within reach of ali. After much searching we have decided on the “Old Home- stead” Blend knowing that it embraces the qualities nec- essary to satisfy a discriminating patronage. We believe this coffee will compare favorably with varieties selling for a much higher price. We ask you to try this blend knowing it will please lovers of a real breakfast beverage. | | Price Only 35 Cents | | Yours for a steaming cup of real coffee. | eggett Mercantile Co. Where Your Dollar Buys More Radiant reflector type, suitable for heating small rooms offices, etce., and for drying the hair On sale at our office If you had a horse that you expect to use, you would feed him, don’t yon? If you have a piece of machinery that you expect to use, you would grease the principal working parts, and tighten the nuts occasionally, don’t you? Why do you do all these things? Because you know that if you don’t do these things the horse will die and the machinery will wear out and fall to pieces. You do these things because common horse sense tells you to do them. Did you ever stop to think that your farmers’ ware- pouse and elevator is just like your horse and machinery ? t is. Do you know that the important part of the feeding and greasing is done by working with, and boosting with the manager, and with the other farmers. That is the grade of oil that makes the machinery run smooth. Things always run smooth when we boost. Farm- ers can’t work together by knocking; they can work to- gether by boosting, and you know that FARMERS MUST RA TOGETHER THEREFORE BOOST FOR YOUR- cLF. Farmers’ Union Warehouse Co. L.td. C. H. GREVE, MANAGER COTTONWOOD AND TRANSFER LINE EDGAR WORTMAN, Prop. Light and Heavy Hauling Done on Short Notice DRAY ~