Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 4

TURNED INTO A SPEED DEMOW Things Happened When Dad O’Shea’s Neighbor Tried to Pass Him pre ‘ai Wear” Motto of Russian Boys o Face Death from Lack of Clothes Black Sheep Sometimes Appear Among White Flocks The appearance of black lambs in HOW ULTRA-MICROBES MAY BE USED TO FIGHT DISEASE. —In the great realm of Nature on the Road, "i "s) i le ® flock made up entirely of white a ; re reys upon its Dad O'Shea owns an extensive app! : b ode ghee ‘s sh bt the |] | orchard, and he and his five stalwart sheep has been for ages and Is still tiniest "living things that the | sons run it “to suit ourselves,” though ® Cause for wonder and the basis of ” most powerful mncroscope en- | not always with the best results. Across Superstitions. But the study of the 7 ables us to see, are, for their the bay, Raymond Barlow, an eastern !#ws of breeding and heredity bas ex- ga sollege man and “book farmer,” owns Plalned the reasons for the sporadic 4 size, as voracious ag the most coleg , : appearance of these off-color speci- mens, according to a bulletin of the United States Department of Agri- culture, Feeding and management of sheep have nothing to de with the appear- ance of black lambs. The black color is hereditary even though it may be transmitted by white an equally extensive orchard and some how, much to Dad’s chagrin, succeeds in making money out of it. Dad seems to take it as a personal affront that Barlow actually makes a financial suc- cess of orcharding. But in spite of limited returns from crops Dad bought a showy, six-cylinder savage lions. And now comes an amazing discovery made at the famous Pasteur institute in Paris, Mi- crobes themselves are attacked, weakened, and finally killed by creatures so vastly smaller than their own minute bodies that we ® 7S ERE ONO aaa if if i & ew r can never hope to see them, | touring car, “Now, I’m warnin’ ye,” “ ordinary however much the microscope ts |} | he said to his sons, “she ain't fer you rahe The tes bs ign den gh cone } developed young fellers to bat around the coun- res f ie if SPENT Sharset er f These creatures — ultri-mi |! | try! Recollect she cost nigh as much : 2 ae ait whiel sehen his: char E crobes: van he isolated, pred. |! asa house, Tin mile an hours-enough @¢ter at all transmit black in 58 per e and strengthened until they are over these roads, and I’m ridin’ wid ye rent of their reproductive cells and 4 ready to full like ay avenzing | | to see that it’s kept.” rahe pata lls saat. 50 De a a * hest apon the germs of disense | One day, when they were driving Nea nian a sat: Mic te ae Ouce research has enn! us homeward a little horn squawked be- hicck— produce “20 per vaealt Mable ie to enlist as allies the teeming hind them on the narrow road, lambs and 60.per cent white Ailof a ed saat teh eg rity ons her, Peaiet”: urged “Ah these white lambs can transmit black. " o wage re | “Speed her up!” fe : ry : 4 Teh whic ine nena, | eee xe an bat Talay only “white damien nt ait of tudes) | _ i rea dees nite wae’ At vic is whit nd avieliy eebaey te lambs can transmit black. When both 4 d. water supplies one of |} bacK arin date: / pus ane ee ep as but both % sur worst scourges will become “Ray Barlow!” eried Dad. “Step on the Tech ppg titi Pe sete i |” HRS Ae ld al ‘er, Frank. Speed 'er up! Shake every white which transmit black, while the e = bolt and nut av 'er, by crickets! Let’S emaining 25 per cent are true breed- pa ates om see what she'll do fer wanst!"— S PROTECTED BY NATURE | fe Bi “MARK OF ANIMAL AFFECTION t Bug of Britis! 2 d to Oefy its The bubble bug a native of Brit Guluna, is quite as interesting as is bume suggests. When the insect Is immature, we learn from Mr. William RBeehe in the Atluntie Monthly, it wraps itself for safety In a kind of roth of sinmall bubbles. When the bug bus formed a large drop of a clear liquid it forces it into the air as a bnbble and then forces out an imponderable amount of oil or dissolved wax and mixes it with the clear liquid; that toughens the bub- bles, which continue to pile up until the insect is buried deep. ‘To penetrate the mass {s an unpleas- ant achievement for small marauders. I have draped a big pile of bubbles, says Mrs Beebe, round the beak of an insect-eating bird and watched it shake its head and wipe its beak in evident disgust. The bug does three wonderful things with the clear liquid that It exudes— it distills sweet water, it draws nour- ishment, and it adds to Its blood and its tissues a pungent flavor that will safeguard it against the attacks of birds and lizards. Little by lUttle its wings swell to full spread and strength; muscles grow in its hind legs, which in time will shoot It through great distances; and pigment of the most brilliant yel- Jow and black forms on the coverings of its wings. When at last it creeps forth through the filmy veil of bubbles it is immature no longer, but a bril- Nant froghopper. How Grasshoppers Are Destroyed. Almost as big as a sparrow and en- dowed with the appetite of an ostrich, the western grasshopper, moving In great clouds, can soon devastate a farm upon which they alight. Their numbers have been kept down in a measure by scattering through the fields a polsoned bran mash, flavored with fruit. A half dozen different preparations were set in the path of these pests to ascertain which they preferred, and vanilla was a warm favorite, though the first place had to be awarded to a dish of amyl acetate. This had. no fewer than 879 patrons out of 2,074, while the vanilla, second choice, had 242, This discovery will lead to the manufacture of a balt which will certainly reduce the size of these visiting aggregations. How Boers Use Tobacco. We regard ammonia as the best thing to alleviate pain from mosquito bites, but In South Africa the Boers always use tobaceo, whether the at- tacking insect be a mosquito or wasp. This tobacco is of granular character, very light in weight, and so dry that It must be smoked In a large pipe, with a metal cover; otherwise the little whirlwinds usually found on the veldt will speedily bear it away. The Boer usually carries his tobacco In a coat pocket, and if a rider meets. him on the road with a request for some tobaceo he presents his temporary ac quaintance with a handful. How Auto Industry Hae Grown, In 1899 the investment In the auto- Youth’s Companion, Dogs and Others of the Lower Crea- tures Lick Man’s Hand as a Signal of Surrenaer, When Mr. Garner spent so many months living in his tron cage in the jungles of Africa, studying apes, monkeys and gorillus, he discovered that if a monkey licked the body of another monkey or of man, it was a signal of surrender. A traveler in South American woods along the Amazon shot a monkey, The puor little beast was badly wounded, but not dead, when approached, In its last agony it licked the hand of the man who did the mortal injury. The look and the act gave the traveler a feeling of sorrow and regret for his deed, With other animals the act of lick- ing indicates something akin to “I am your friend.” So when a dog licks the hand of his master, or attempts to lick his master’s face, it is his expresston of fidelity, af- fection and devotion, The act doubtless harks back through the ages of time when the dog- wolf made the choice between mun or other dog-wolves and selected man as his companion. Out of the dim past there remains with the dog this in- stinct, which is often not understood, and which is best and noblest in dog nature. Use for Mummified Cats. Some years ago a considerable trade was carried on between Great Britain and Egypt in mummified cats! The cat was a semi-sacred creature among the ancient Hgyptians and because they symbolized wakefulness, stealth- iness and craft they were held to be special favorites of the gods of sleep and of the land of the dead. When they died they were carefully treated by the undertakers of that day, and after careful embalming were burled In great vaults. The degenerates, or more enlightened descendants of the ancient Egyptians—howeyer one cares to consider them in thelr attitude to- ward their forefathers’ beliefs—made merchandise of the mummies of the eats, and sold them in shiploads to be ground up and converted into fertiliz- ers for the soll. There was found to be no truth in a story that human remains were occasionally found among the embalmed pussies, Apostrophe to Water. All hail the drink of drinks—to wa- ter, the dally need of every living thing! It ascends from the earth in obedience to the summons of the sun, and descends in showers of blessings. It gives forth of its sparkling beauty to the fragrant flower, its alehemy transmutes base clay Into golden grain; it is the radiant canvas upon which the fingers of the infinite trace the rainbow of promise, It is the bey erage that refreshes and brings no sor- row with it. Jehovah looked upon it at creation’s dawn and sald, “It is good."—W. J. Bryan, Kitchener Cornered. Lord Kitchener was once motoring with Colonel Sir T—— when the mobile Industry was $5,768,000 and | chauffeur was incapacitated by getting this amount of capital was utilized | |@ motor?” | Colonel Sir T——, in producing 3,700 cars; 20 years later the capital was estimated at $1,800,- 000,000 and the car production was 1,- 974,000—a 300-fold increase in capl- tulization and a 500-fold increase in production. In 1904 there were 13,- 833 employees in the industry with annual wages of $8,316,000; five years an insect In his eye. “Can you drive Kitchener demanded of “No,” Kitchener's host replied, and was told, “Every officer should know how to drive a car.” When the chauffeur recovered they continued their drive, while Sir T—— ruminated on the field marshal’s rebuke. Finally he turned to his chief ing whites. WORLD ON ITS LAST LEGS? Why It Is Said Mankind Won’t Be Able to Walk After the Next 10,000 Years. There {Is comfort for those cheer- less people who believe that the world. is on its last legs. Scientists are backing them up. Doctor Vaughn, the health commissioner of Detroit. asserts that In 10,000 years there will be no human legs at all. It Is a startling prediction, coming as it does at a time when the visible supply of legs Is larger and more beautiful than ever. It seems Incredi- ble that legs should fade out of the picture. With what shall generations of that far future walk? Ah, says | Doctor Vaughn, that’s just it; the | race Is going to lose its legs because | it doesn’t use them any more. We must remember, observes the New York World, that Doctor Vaughn is in a position to be pessimistic. He is in Detroit, where almost everybody | lives on and tn motorcars. Infants, | Instead ef being taught to toddle, are | shown how to throw out the clutch, shift the gears and slip into first | speed; that is, all except the Ford babies, who don’t have to bother with | gear shifting. Arms, too, will disappear about the | same time that legs depart, unless, | says Doctor Vaughn, people use their | arms more for real exertion. Is the | doctor suggesting that modern folk are not working hard enough? It sounds that way. The world needs to be reminded that unless it keeps its biceps in order there will be no ten- ; Mis tournaments in a hundred cen- | turies or so, Wthout legs, no danc- |ing. Without arms, no baseball. All ‘the sports of the distant future will be telepathic. The Babe Ruths of the perlod will swat’the ball with the bat |of thought. The Joie Rays will run | miles on the track of their minds. The Jack Dempseys will assault their op- ponents with the punch of pure rea- son, Why Britain Values the Bahamas, The Bahamas are a chain of coral islands generally grouped with the West Indies. ‘hey belong to Great | Britain. The group includes 20 islands and 660 islets. but only about 20 are Inhabited. The coral rock is porous, retaining moisture, hence the soll that has accumulated is very fer- | tile. The islands produce maize, cot- ton, sisal hemp, pineapples, oranges, lemons, olives, tamarinds, and other sub-tropical fruits.. Large quantities of sponges are taken from the sur- rounding seas, The principal exports are sponges, fruits and sisal fiber. To- | matoes are being extensively culti- | vated and shipped to the United States. Mahogany, lignum-vitae, mastic, lron- wood, ebony, boxwood and satinwood are found throughout the islands. The fiber exported In 1920 had a value of about half a million dollars, Why Obituarist Resigned. The late Archie L, Williams, for many years general attorney for the Union Pacific, was a chief obituarist |of the Middle West whenever a not- ‘able died, Capper’s Weekly states. On one occasion he wrote a column or more about an old friend who had died and concluded it: “Let us pause and on his bier drop a tear.” A drunken printer thought he could Im- prove it.so he set it up: “Let us pause and on his bler drop a tear or two.” The proofreader, also soused, decided it was up to him to add something so he made it read: “Let us pause and on his bier drop a tear or two, or per- haps three.” When the “obit” came out In the paper that way Archie re signed as obituartst. F “anything to wear” will be the motto of these three Russian boys during the coming winter months. Their condition is typical of that of millions of little Russian children, most of whom have come through the summer without shoes and sel- @om with more than two garments, and they face the prospect,—ac- oording to reports which field work- ers of the American Relief Admin- istration have made to Herbert Hoover, ‘head of the organization— of being unable to go out doors to the A. R. A, kitchens which have ted them warm meals for a year er more. As fuel is almost impos- ‘atble ‘to get, most of the homes will be heatless, adding to the peril the children face, say the reports, for if they try to go out in this scanty clothing they will be exposed to ill- Bess and death from the elements. The Russian winter is as severe as that of the northernmost United States and Canada, and this has underwear for made the problem doubly pressing, two children. for the Russian markets have little | 4 2-3 yards of clothing available, and the supply that is for sale is held at prices far flannel; above the reach of the average | = -inch workingman, Overcoats cost more | bleached muslin; than a year’s salary. Some of the | thread to When the money organizations. allied with the Amer- ican Relief Administration have sent clothing for distribution in Russia, but these contributions, big as they are, have been “only a drop in the bucket’. To overcome these cctditions, the American Relief Administration has initiated a Clothing Remittance system operating in every way like the now famous Hoover Food Re- mittance. The Clothing Remittance costs $20, and each clothing pack- New York, purchased signees will be the most needy which are Delivery of Russia. ect receipt gets the clothing. Mr. Business Man! Are you making an intelligent use of the passing hours? To save time is to save money— money saved is profit—profit is the object of business. There is no greater factor in the economy of time than the use of the long distance telephone. The serv- ice is prompt, efficient, convenient and satisfactory, Consult the telephone directory as to rates and classes of service avail- able. Every Bell telephone is a Long Distance station. The Pacific Telephone e age contains sufficient material for’ a suit or dress and four suits of man The dark blue wool cloth; 4 yards of 36~ inch black cotton lining; 8 yards of 16 yards of un- and buttons and make up the received at A. R. A. headquarters, 42 Broadway, delivery without designated con- beyond des clothing package is undertaken to any given address in The sender receives a dir- from the Russian satis Baers -ns4upie snus ae star eR ses San cose JURE Lam Gr And Telegraph Company and asked him if he could drive. “No,” later there were 651,450 employees | itohenee replied austerely. and the wage roll was $813,713,000, Why She Wouldn’t Buy. “Did you sell a vacuum cleaner to | that woman across the hall?” asked the sour-looking matron. NOTICE OF ESTRAY SALE. Notice is hereby given that on or about December 12, 1922, the} brands visible. | Diligent search by inquiry and} Sometimes There. “They kissed when the judge grant- ed their divorce decree!” | j i i's How Epilepsy Is Fought. j Professor Trocello, surgeon comman- o’clock in the afternoon of said day, to pay for the keep of said der in the Italian navy and lecturer on | | thelr “No, ma‘am, I didn’t," reptied the 0 : advertising has failed to find the| animal and for the expen: f , nervous diseases in the University of | ph het : ‘salesman, “She didn't seem to think | following described animal came | Owner. | advertising and sale as a vided ) Rome, reports great success In treat- “an nothing lke parting much of my argument when I said this | to the Joseph Uhlenkott ranch} Notice is hereby given that) by law. sles ing epilepsy with tetratartrate of bo- j rop and potassium. In eight cases In | “But is It proper for a man and a ‘ ‘an asylum four patients ceased to have | Woman to kiss tn such a public way . attacks, while the other four were so | When tucy are no longer married?” far improved that they behaved better | “I see no objection to it, provided and were less violent. _{ thelr future mates are not ig court.” ere Se device would make her housework a pleasure.” “Umph! No wonder. You were | wasting your time talking housework ts a bridge expert."—-Birmingham Age four miles southeast of Cotton- unless the said animal is sooner) Dated wood, , id at Cottonwood, Idah redeemed, I will sell the same to! this 2nd de r of Janucwe sig One coming 2 year old steer, | the highest bidder, for cash, at ry i. Nee Cony, _ 3 ¥ brown and white spotted, white|the farm of Joseph Uhlenkott, 4 e TT face, under crop on left ear, no| Monday, January 22, 1923 at 2! Is your subscription due?