Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 5

| i € oe i ie RESERVE TUESDAY EVENING THE 23RD FOR THE MINSTREL DON’T TAKE CHANCES On broken bones or impaired health when the walks Be fitted with comfortable foot wear keeping your step sure and your feet dry. * Se TERITUUETUOGUOUGEEUPEOUEUAEOGGAOEAGEEAEEUGEUAEOTES SHOES AGUAS EEA ANSEHEN are in this slushy, slippery condition. Our stock is complete in sizes and styles to suit your needs. Heavy foot wear for the outside work is a matter of importance at this time and whether all rubber for shoes or sox we have the famous Goodrich, a standard in quality, new stock compiete, runs of sizes, priced at $3.79 for the sox and only $4.49 for the four buck over. There are none better and those who have bought the Goodrich insist on no other. We have the buck sox at only a lined at only $1.69. Why not have your feet warm and comfortable this quarter and the heavy sheep disagreeable weather. We are in the midst of our annual inventory and find many short ends of stock that is being marked down. This means economy for you and an oppor- tunity for us to turn into cash every remnant of every nature in the store. To cur scores of users of HOMESTEAD COF- FEE we wish to state that a delayed shipment is expected daily. The scores of calls for this splendid coffee is simply the proof that our statement re- It is the best coffee on any market for the price and in the future we garding this brand is all true. shall try not to disappoint our customers. One hundred cords of wood for sale. See us or phone us now. Leggett Mercantile Co. “FACE THE S' FSROEESUUEYPTOEOATOOEGUEUAEEGGEOEEOEUTGOAAOUAEEASEPOEEOY STEEN AEA AOU SEUOGEOAOEEEEPOUAETOETAOEONEPUAEOOOEUGEEGCSEONONEUOEEUOOOEOOEUGEEESOEOSEAOOOOOEH 2 " | SHINE AND THE SHADOW WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.” IUESSSUNEAIEEUESE HiT CEScHINULLEU 1220000 OUHEUTOTESEOASEUEGEEUEEUAHUONEU eH TRUALUEELEE2 SSRN UREA EK | MIGHT BE co | Officials of Spanish Royal Palaces 1:Ggnds E WISH to express to you our appre- 4 ciation of the many considerations shown us during the past year, and we ex- tend to you our sincere wishes for a ‘ Happy and Prosperous 4 | its discretion. | session of | ways sclentists declare insects are bet | ter fitted than men for survival Careful. in Their investigation ef Sounds at Night. One day, so the story goes, a mem- | ber of the royal household of Madrid heard noises below, went downstuirs, “It must be the cat,” he thought, though as a rule the cat was not per mitted to wander about the place at They must have for- lock it up. Suppose it He rose and gotten to | should wake the king! Fearful thought! Conceive the royal anger! The official hurried through the dark passages, und at last tracked the sound to the pentry. “Ahu--now I've got you!” he whis- pered, as he opened the door—and be- heid the king rummaging around for food! If the above story is not true, it is at least founded on fact, for the king of Spain sometimes feels hungry in the middle of the night, and when the pangs become poignant, he seeks royal Joints, as you or I would seek the hum bler biscuit. Going into the royal pantry, he will tear off the leg of a cold fowl, or quietly carve himself a slice of meat. “We never know,” sald an official who figures in the stor, hether It Is the cat or the king ondon An sewers, Man, calling himself the master of nature, may yet be involved In a life and-death struggle with insects for pos the globe—and in some on earth, Baked beans at a dollar u por tion! Is the plebelan bean to be driven from its present democratic company juto the ranks of the aristoc- racy? This possibility Is suggested by the recent invasion of the southern portion of the United States by the Mexican bean beetle, a bandit pest of the first magnitude that now has gained a firm foothold and is already at work in a limited territory, under- mining natural resources with telling effect that the final outcome ts @ matter of grave concern, Beans of all kinds are belng attacked by this Dbandit—a kind of ladybug—and entire crops are being wiped out. That Word “Hysteria.” There !s a lot of scientific truth per. taining to the physical nature of worn ap, concealed in the word hysteria The classic origin of the word ts the ancient Greek “bysteria,” the womb. The sexual or mother nature of wom an is indicated in the word as the Origin of the laughter, the tears and the contradictory conduct Implied by the word hysteria. When a man is called “hysterica!,” therefore, the Implication is plainly conveyed that he is acting under the fImpulses understandable and excus- able (though sometimes extremely an noying) in a woman, but not permis sible in u person of the male per tuasion—Milwaukee Sentinel. R CAT | ‘Pttie- Northside ‘the’ 4on of the “hdnse such | eA HIT Lm om Wite » ote Ap- Preclate Whatever. There Was in Hubby’s Story. —_. ems to a At a-certain fimily-dinner party on |proVided -éome godddiaturéd” ‘raillery | at his young wife’svexpense. While attending a -recent~ clut luncheon, -Ke hid heard what he con sidered a “prize” story, aud that same evening jocularly repeated it at his ewn dinner table. The story runs something like this: Two old darkies stopped to look at a cireus billboard, one of thew | reading alond that this circus war “the biggest and best on earth,” while the other declared that its claim wa: | “the biggest and best on earth ‘cep | } one,” and clinched his urgument by } | pointing to the words “Sept. 1," print | ed at the bottom of the posier, (How | ever, In telling the story all mention ef the date is purposely omitted, as the Hstener’s own Ingenuity is sup posed to fathom the meaning of thi | phrase, “’cept one.”) But the litle story seemed to have fallen quite flat, as the wife sat and regurded him in stony silence. “Don't quite get ft, do queried the young husband, “Sure I get it, but I can see noth | ing very funny in nanghty stories, my self,” was the exceedingly dignified answer. “Naughty stories,” exclaimed the as tonished husband. “Just how do you make that out?” ‘ “Why, “eept one’ means Septembe: | Morn, of course,” was the triumphant | If somewhat Indignant, reply.—Indian apolis News. your SEEKING SECRETS OF PLANTS Experiments Going On to Determine How Nitrogen Is Assimilated From the Atmosphere. to hope that the greatly enriched through the results of observations and experiments to determine jus how certain plants manage to assim) late nitrogen from the atmosphere It has been discovered that such plants as peas, beans and clovers have their roots invaded by myriads of minute organisms which may be either bacteria or parasitic fungi. These organisms in some unknowr way Incite the plants to increased ac tivity so that they are able to assim! late free nitrogen from the atmus phere and thereby to supply, throug! their own subsequent decay, an abun There is reason world may be dance of nitrates, nitrites, ammoni and other nitrogenous substances t the soll. Efforts have been made to deter mine whether some other stimulus be sides that furnished by the organisms referred to may not be supplied to plants which will enable them still | more effectually to assimilate nitro | gen from the air for the ultimate | enrichment of the soll.—Washington Star. Could Stay on Second Call. tuth and Marjorie were spending the afternoon with their little friend. | June. At five o'clock they Informed thelr hostess that they must be going “My dear: said Jane's mother, | “can't you stay and have supper with us?” “No, thank you,” they both replied. “Mother told us to come home at 5.” Hats and wraps were brought. As they were being put on, Jane's mother asked again: “Are you quite sure you must go before supper?” “Yes, thank you; we must go,” re- plled Ruth. Marjorie seemed to have a different opinion, and sald setto voce to her sister: “We don't have te go, Mother enld we could stay te supper if she asked us twice.”’—Judge. Quick. Balfour said i AT, the Aqul tania: “I go back home impressed with your American quickness. You are | | certainly the quickest people on earth, | | “An English farmer was showing an American over his sheep farm one | on | day. | “‘How many sheep do you think | there are in that fleld? the farmer , | asked. tean. r—600,’ sald the Am “Right! Exactly right!’ said the | farmer. ‘How the deuce did you | know? | “‘Why,’ drawled the American, ‘T just counted the legs and divided by four.’” | icuumiamenes Warm Lad | ‘The Inte Lillian Russell on her re- | cent diplomatic mission to London, was a great success tn Londe ciety. At «a Park lane luncheon a iolllion- aire sald to Miss Russell: “How is it that women don't seem to feel the cold? If a man turned out i an ounce or two of lace and a yard of georgette he'd freeze to death.” “Well, you see,” Miss Russell ex- | piained, “women who dress that way | are so ashamed of themselves that | | they blush continually, and that keeps | | them warm.” } | Farm According to Military Rule. } Every major engagement of the American expeditionary forces in the World war is represented by 46 for- mer fighters, who, disabled and re- | ceiving government training, are en- gaged in reclaiming a tract of 3,500 acres of land near McGrath, Minn. title to which has been placed in the| veterans’ names, Life on the tract Is/| similar to army life. There are bunk | | and chow halls, and the squad ar- Indians Mark Desert i With Small. Rock Heaps” In traveling over the plains of west- ern Texas one now and then comes upon little isolated heaps of rocks, in twos, that at first glance seem. not at all remarkable, . After a time, however, one notices that one heap is generally about three’ feet high and the other about a foot lower. The two are always within a few feet of each other and usually on an elevation or a plateau com. manding a view of the country for five miles or more. The rocks are roughly heaped together, as if left by children at play. In time one learns the significance of these rock heaps, as he talks with some of the Indians, who know by heart all the legends and customs and deeds of their people. According to these Indians, when the Great Spirit lapped up the mighty rivers of the plains, he left springs and water basins here and there for the antelope and the Indians, These the antelope easily found by scent, but the Indian had to search long and anxiously for them, Once found, they were seldom lost, thanks to these rude rock heaps, You may see an Indian crouch down behind the taller heap, sight over the fow one and mark the farthest object in a straight line, which is Ikeiy to be a clump of bushes on the horizon, Then he rides toward these bushes and finds—not water, as he expected, but two other heaps of rocks, Sighting as before, and taking a rock-faced cliff, perhaps toward the southwest, as a goal, he rides a couple of miles farther, and there, trickling out from beneath the cliffs rocky brow, is a spring of fresh, clear water, It 1s said that whenever a band of Indians come upon a new spring they built the rock heaps along the trail. | At any rate, it appears that these | rude signposts lead either to water or to places that show traces of a for- mer watercourse.-Christian Science Monitor, WATCH. FOR DANGER SIGNAL Why One Should Pause for Reflection When Daily Tack Becomes Easy of Accomplishmert. es ta | Has your work become very easy? Do you find you could do it with littl effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitulity after a long spell of it? Can you now do it “as easy as water rolls off a duck's back?" If so, look out, Do some stock-taking. Exayine your output, Anulyze your attitude towards your | work, Ask yourself whether you are putting your whole self, your whole | heart and soul into your job. Ponder whether you are exerting yourself to the utmost to produce the maximum | results, No work should be easy with all one’s might and main, Bv- ery job should “take ic out of a wan” if he expends every ounce of his en ergy in doing it the very within his power. Work done with little effort is Mable to yield little re- | sult. Every job can be done excellent ly or indifferently, Excellence neces: situates effort—hard, sustained, concen trated effort, . | So, if. you are sleeping over your | Job, instead of sweating over it, over- | haul yourself. bes Maguzine. Why Helicopter Is of Little Value, While the Brennan helicopter is ex- pected to revolutionize civil flying, a British artillery colonel opines it will not be of much benefit to armies in the event of war, According to the London Graphic, this officer says such a machine would prove an easy mark for a mod- ern “archie” or alreraft gun, its very stability proving its downfall, “It was difficult,” he declared, “to hit an ordinary uirplane flying 10,000 feet high at the rate of 100 miles an hour, but we did it. What about a station- ary one?” When it was pointed ont to him that the new machine claimed to be practically invisible at 5,000 feet, the officer replied: “With modern detel- opments in anti-aircraft artillery we could plaster the whole area high-explosive shells, from the explo slon of which nothing could escape.” Why Iceburgs Can’t Be Measured. It is practically impossible to obtain the measurements of an leeberg below and above water op account of Its size; and, probably for that reason, the statistics given by different author- ities vary considerably, The Eneyelo- paedia Britannica says, when deserib- ing Icebergs, that, “Only one-ninth of | the mass of ice is seen above water,” —while in other works statements are made that icebergs float with about one-eighth of their volume above the surface of the water and seven-eighths below it, and that they float with only one-seventh or one-sixth of the ice above the surface of the sea, Why He Enjoyed it. “How can you wear a dreamy look when “It carries me back to my happy childhood,” said the cabaret patron. “I was brought up in the shadow of a boiler factory."—Birmingham Age- Herald. Why He Was Good Match, “She's making a fine match.” if done | best way | with | that jazz orchestra is making | | such an Infernal racket?’ “That so? I understand the young man Is very wild in his ways.” “Wild. He is, Drinks a lot and does all manner of things he shouldn't, but it’s a good match. His folks have @ lot of money.” ments from him, bu body blazed. F peeeeeescees on meen nenecencnnsnsenastt MOTHER HEN TOO MUCH FOR CROW Black Marauder Put to Flight When He Attempts to Carry Off One of Brood. Lewes, Del—A mother hen belong ing to George Walls, a farmer living along the Georgetown-Rehoboth Beach, has proved that the chicken Is a bet- ter fighter than old Jim Crow. A day or two ago a hen of the common barn- yard variety, while piloting thirteen fluffy youngsters through a wheat stubble, saw a big black crow pounce on one of her little ones and attempt to fly off with it for supper. The mother then saw the peril of her progeny and leaped in the alr, reaching the black kidnaper and be- laboring him so severely that he was obliged to drop the chick and fly into a high altitude for safety. Several automobilists who witnessed the bat- tle declare the hen never showed the white feather for a moment nor hesi- tated In attacking the greatest foe of | the chicken family. They were, however, amazed at the ferocity with which she countered on the black marauder, and the crow himself was evidently taken by sur- prise at the violence of his assailant, for he winged away at top flight to the nearest woods, leaving two or three peck feathers behind as testi- mony of the prowess of the mother hen. In such encounters the crow ts con- sidered almost equal to two barnyard The Crow Was Taken by Surprise. fowls under ordinary conditions, but a mother hen evidently is the better fighter of the two when the lives of her brood are at stake and need her defense. IS WARNED BY MOONSHINERS Georgia Pastor, Who Discovered 38 Stills, Given One Week to Get Away, WIM Stay. Atlanta, Ga—The Rev. Robert Stewart, Methodist preacher of Floyd county, Georgla, has been threatened with death because of his activities against “moonshiners” In the North Georgia mountains, A note of warning, found tacked to the parsonage, read: “We have bad enough reporting of stills in this settlement. We will give you one week to get away. If you don't, some one will have to take care of your wife and children.” Stewart turned the note over to pro- hibition officers and announced his in- tention of continuing his crusade, “I know how to handle a gun and will not hesitate to use one if occasion demands,” he said. He uncovered 30 atilis in that region within the last three months. Twins Look Alike to Mother. Baltimore, Md.—Edwin and Milton Gosiorowski are twin sons of Mrs. Philipina Gosiorowski, Edwin got lost. His mother left him on a street car. Mrs. Gosiorowsk! rushed to the /pelice station, but could not remember which of the twins was lost, so she ja,