The Dacoma Mascot (Dacoma, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1920 Page: 3 of 4
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DO THE HARD THINGS FIRST.
•f you have something hard to do.
Just go to work and do It.
If you conclude to put It off
You're pretty iiure to rue it
The task that's hard to do's the on#
That needs your Ural attention.
And, doing It, you may escape
A lot of reprehension,
Or st.
4’llch In, and do the hard thlncs
Ia>t easy ones come after.
Make this your rule, and life will meau
A lot of Joy and laughter.
But If you let the hard things go.
Your enemies will taunt you
With serious duties unperformed.
And all your life they’ll haunt you.
mm* to defend you, have you got any
money ?
ltiatus—Vo; but I'm not it mule,
some chickens, alt* a hog or two.
Lawyer—Those will do very nicely.
Now. let’s see—what do they license
you Of stealing?
Hast us till, a mule, some chicken#
an’ a lion or two.- Providence Journal.
votes or nnneommlsslone.l officers, and
in fact no one below the rank of cor
porul, ami only one of tlint grade sits
on the Judges' bench at present.
Qualify.
be a not eminent
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TRAGEDY WITH FEW WORDS
Parlor brama in Which the Seen#
Might Be Set in Almost
Any Home.
She cutne Into the room, where he
•at alone. Her clenched hand could
not totally con-
c oil i the cold,
w le nlfttef^*l’ a
knife.
Her face was
pale and drawn,
her eyes wild and
bloodshot
He, the man—
the man whose
name she bore,
the man whom
she had sworn to
love, to honor, and to obey—sat deep
In thounht by the warm tire grate. So
deep In thought that he did not hear
the slippered footfall of the beautiful
woman who now stood behind him,
with a strange, bitter smile upon her
lips.
Suddenly, with a gasp, she cast the
knife aside, and It fell flatteringly
upon the fender.
“I cannot!” she moaned wearily, “I
cannot!”
A pitying expression swept across
the Gothic granite of his cheek.
“What is It, darling?” he murmured.
But she spake no word. Only, she
raised a pointless black lend pencil.
She had been trying to sharpen It.
But (n vain!
Ready to
"You want' to
initchmati V"
“Yes."
“You must hike a civil service ex-
amination." '
“All right. Glume something to
watch. —Louisvill* Courier-Journal.
MO MAGNANIMITY ABOUT 17
American Had Distinct Object In View
When He Fired His Pistol In Up-
ward Direction.
A man came into the office to tell us
of an Incident lie had Just heard fiTmi
a correspondent
with the A. K. F.
In France. It re-
lated to nn Amer-
ican officer who
had the mlsfor-
tune to offend a
civilian, and who
was challenged to
tight u duel. As
the c h a 11 e nged
party, the Ameri-
can had the choice
oof weapons, and he chose Gelt auto-
matics.
“The parties met at the appointed
time," related our friend, “and the sec-°
onds placed their principals in position.
But when the word was given, the
American fired in the air.”
“Ah,” we exclaimed, enthusiastical-
ly, “That was magnanimous! Was It
not?”
"It was not,” disagreed our inform-
ant. “You see, his opponent was climb-
ing up a high tree at the time.”—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Army of Big Men.
The men In the present "American
army are larger than those serving In
previous wars. Larger sizes of shoes
and clothing are emit hum I ly being
called for. Heeords in the qonrteniins-
ter’s corps show that a also larger than
ever before is being ilemni?<le<l In blmi<-
es, shirts and breeches. “The stal-
wart Americans ” Is the universal com-
ment Europe makes in regard to our
soldiers. ,
Talking Through Hi# Hat.
“There, sir, you have absolutely the
last®word In straw huts," said the smil-o
ing salesman, as ho Anally succeeded
In putting one over on Mr. Ilennpeck
“Thunk goodness, I got it at lust, if
It did cost me $4,” remarked the meek
one, as the started home to let IiIs
wife disapprove his purchase.
Siid It to Other#.
"Life without you would he a hollow
mockery."
“Pooh, pooh. I’ve heard that before.”
“But you've never heard me say It
before.”
“NoS That’s because I’m above
eavesdropping.7
DUMB HERO ON CASUALTY LIST
Old Red Cross Army Mule th« Only
Animal That Wat Accorded the
Distinction.
Dressed Be«f.
It,1s reported that Sir Francis Web-
ster Is a wealthy manufacturer of
hemp goods In Scotland and the own-
er of a stock range In Texas on whleh
thousands of cattle range, clad, during
the winter at least, In garments other
than their own hide and hair.
Sir Francis’ cows, it appears, wear
Suits of hemp cloth made in his own
■ factory which protect them from cold
and snow, make them less susceptible
to tuberculosis and Increase their daily
yield of milk.
Each cow, it is said, has two suits a
week. They are not elaborate affairs,
by any means—simply overall blank-
ets that fit loosely. There are 1,000
cows in his dairy farm and they use
2,000 hemp blankets a week.
That, of course, means added ex-
pense, but the yield of milk during the
cold weather is about 27 per cent
larger than from cows not thus pro-
tected.
Drake’s Medals.
Sir Francis Drake, one of England’s
naval heroes of the time of Queen
Elizabeth, after his voyage round the
world, was presented by the queen
with a handsome medal, now In pos-
session of the descendants of the fa-
mous commander at Nutwell court,
Devonshire, England. It has been pro-
nounced by experts to be a character-
istic example of the Jeweler’s art of
the days of Elizabeth. The frame Is
set with diamonds and rubies, and en-
ameled in various colors, forming a
handsome setting for the tine cameo
cut in onyx. Two heads are carved
thereon, one representing Europe, cut
In the lower strata, while on the upper
of black the head of a negro has been
fashioned. Set in the reverse is a
beautiful miniature of Queen Eliza-
beth by the famous painter, Nicholas
Hilliard, with the date—“Anno Dorn:
1575 liegni 20.”
From tlie badge hangs a cluster of
baroque pearls connecting a pear-
shaped drop with the main body of
the badge.
Old American Church.
Commemoration of the one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the organi-
zation of the parish of Christ's Episco-
pal church, Newton, N. J., the second
-oldest church in northern New Jersey,
took place in the presence of Bishop
Edwin S. Lines of Newark, with many
persons attending.
The church was established under a
•charter signed by King George III. The
parish was organized December 28,
1769. The first church was erected ia
1823 and was consecrated in that year
by Bishop Cross. The corner stone of
the present church building was laid
In 1868.
The oldest church in northern New
Jersey is the Dutch Reformed of Wal-
pack Center, built.in 1737.
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a tree
China’s Coal.
The best Chinese coal Is quite
as good as*the best coal of the United
States; and the various fields of mer-
chantable coal are probably as great®
in extent as all the rest of the coal
coal fields in the world, so far as they
are known. Anthracite of excellent
quality is mined in four provinces.
The largest field now worked is
Shansi, and the famous mines of Ping
Ting produce an abundance of it. In
this district coal and iron are almost
within a stone’s throw of each other.
Bird With Hands.
In the forests of British Guiana lives
the hoaetzin, a singular bird, whose
young possess a free claw at the end
, of each wing, which they use almost as
the monkey uses his hands in tree
climbing.
The nest of the hoaetzin is in
overhanging the water, and the young,
unlike most birds, are active from the
first.
The outermost quill feathers of the
wing, which might hamper the free use
of the claws, do not grow much until
the rest of the wing ts strong enough
tg make climbing less necessary. Then
they grow out, and the claws are ab-
sorbed. The adult bird does not need
them. Should a young hoaetzin fall
into the water it makes for the shore
and seizes a branch, up which it quick-
ly climbs.
HE HAD BEEN
THERE.
What is the
quickest way to
the police sta-
tion, young man.
Insult an of-
ficer. is the
quickest, I
guess.
Ractua* Property.
Lawyer—Well, RasUis. as you want
Make Sport of Bombardment.
A new sport has made Its appear-
ance in Paris as a result of the long-
range cannon bombardment. One may
drop in at any cafe cr restaurant any
doay and find the game in progress.
After the dinner ^>r between sips of
in1 ° coffee a paper is passed around with
the question: Q“At what hour will the
big cannon fire its next shot?” Each
person fills in the time he thinks the
strafing will begin and pays a franc.
The firing of the cannon causes more
excitement than fear. The waiter
rushes at the list, while the others
crowd around, shouting and gesticu-
lating, to find out whose guess has
been the nearest and who gets the
money.
‘I
Private# to Judge Privates.
The French senate is being urged
to resurrect from its “grave?’ “on the
table” a bill passed some two years
ago by the chamber which provides
that every defendant before a court-
martial must have at least two Judges
of his own rank. The so-called Bona-
parte code of 1857, now In use, pro-
vides. this fot officers, but not for prl-
Dumb animals fought, bled and died
for the United States, writes J. W.
Rixey Smith in the Home Sector, and
only one lonely army mule, attached
to the Twenty-seventh division for
duty, was honored with a place on the
casualty list.
The ex-soldier's magazine says;
“Many men of the Twenty-seventh di-
vision will never forget the old Red
Cross mule who, so far as is known,
accounted for the only casualty accred-
ited to our animals in the war. Many
a time the old woruout beast faithful-
ly plied his way right up to the front
lines with chewing gum and chocolate
and cigarettes. Once, In some manner,
he went too far, found himself in the
thick of the fighting, got himself prop-
erly excited and—there are wfinesses
to attest it—kicked # Boche into
oblivion. And the luck that had been
with him stuck, for he came safely
back to the American lines.
The faithful messenger dogs at-
tached to liaison service to the Seven-
ty-seventh division will always be re-
membered kindly by their Yankee
friends. Will members of Battery B,
One Hundred Thirteenth field artillery,
ever forget Billy, the little pony pris-
oner taken from the enemy, which,
though cleverly smuggled aboard ship,
they were forced just before landing
to relinquish and see put en route for
France again? Certainly no one who
was ever at St. Pierre des Corps has
forgotten Miss Jenny Hohenzollern,
the fastidious pet monkey who, among
other things, ate a box of C. C. pills
and chewed to pulp a whole fodder of
important papers. Nearly half of tjie
6,000 pigeons remaining in the A. E.
F. at tiie time of the armistice, when
put tip at auction were hid in by their
khakied attendants, and in one way
or another got back to their native
land.”
WONDER DF PLANT KINGDOM
Mandrake, for Various Reasons, Al-
ways Associated Witl? Ideas of
Madness and Evil.
There are many wonders in the plant
kingdom. There are plants that catch
and eat insects. There is a creeper,
similar to the well known Virginia
creeper, that spreads a mantle of dis-
ease over the walls of the houses to
which It clings so that the Inmates suf-
fer from a strange illness that baf-
fles medical science.
_ But undoubtedly the most mvsterl-
“Sweets to
the Sweet”
Nothing makes a more attractive <>r acceptable Valentine
gift than a pretty box of cho’ee candy. We have arranged
xme very pretty assortments from which you may choose.
= Valentine Gandies
(Jet a box for wife, sweetheart and mother. Some of the
toxes aie hand-painted in pretty Valentine designs.
We carry a nice line of Valentine Candy Novelties which
will please the children.
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Dacoma Drug Company
• George Erickson," Pharmacist
otis, as well as the most sTh Is tei^of all
plants is the mnndriike.°n low-growing
plant with large leaves, and hearing a
fruit something like an apple.
The mandrake lias always been asso-
ciated with madness and evil. To pull
a mandrake out of the ground was at
one time held to he certain death, and
to all who heard its shrieks as it was
torn from the earth came madness.
The root of this plant Is In shnpo
something like ii human form, and
makes a strange kind of screeching
sound when pulled out of the ground.
Tn Italy the society ladles paid high
prices for mandrake roots, because
the possession of such was thought to
insure offspring to childless women.
This superstition probably arose from
Hie references to the mandrake In
Genesis 30:14: "And Reuben went
in the day of wheat harvest, and found
mandrakes in the field, and brought
them unto his mother, Leah. !£ben
Rachel said to Lenli, ‘Give me, I pray
thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.’ ’*
It is quite a simple matter, after
all, to discover the north pole. Just
Plant a gallon jug there and the
thirsty will do the rest.
And still, before scoring your neigh-
bor, it might be well to stand up be-
fore a glass and note the wrinkles in
your own hide.
Corn Record Broken?
What is believed to he the greatest
acreage yield of corn ever reported in
Pennsylvania was produced on the
farm of Samuel H. TeSsler, in East
Donegal township, 5,500 bushels being
raised on a plot of 27 acres.
Wyoming’s Source of Wealth.
The state of Wyoming is receiving
in oil royalties more than $1,000,000 a
year, and this is increasing to such an
extent that it is said the state will be
able to do without taxes in three years.
Attention!
Junk
Junk
Wanted
I am in the market for scrap
iron or bones. Will pay top
price delivered to Carmen.
M. A. GRANT
Carmen, Okla.
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