Bandon recorder., July 02, 1908, Image 6

Supplement to Bandon Recorder
JLITY
SUBINTELLIGENCE.
Bom*
Per«on» Imitate UnconaeiatMly
th* Actions of Others.
2,
19Og.
FOREST ETHICS.
Put Out Your Campfire Yourself and
Plant a New Tree.
THE COW AND THE GATE.
Animal Ability to Asiociata One Thing
With Another.
Be sure to put out your camp­
“Have you ever noticed,” asked fire before you abandon it in the
When I was a bucolic treasury
an observant physician the other morning to take up the trail. Do clerk in Washington the cow of an
day, “how persons who have some­ not leave the task for one of your old Irishwoman near by used to
thing on their minds imitate uncon­ camp servants, not even for your peep through the cracks in my gar­
sciously the actions of others?”
guide, whose interest in keeping the den fence at my growing corn and
A reply in the negative brought | woods free of devastatin^fires, being cabbage till her mouth watered.
forth a reiteration of the statement. 1 a matter of bread and butter, is Then she saw that a place in the
“A subintelligence seems to be at therefore the keenest of any of your fence yielded to me and let me in,
work,” continued the physician, “in camp followers, but who. none the so she tried it. She nudged the
all of us at all times that controls less, is apt to be careless. See to it gate with her nose until she hit the
our actions and causes us to do a yourself. Leave no smoldering back­ latch, and the gate swung <pen and
great many things unconsciously. A log of the night’s “friendly fire.”' let her in. There was an audible
nervous man or woman wiik twist ! Leave no smoking coals that have crunching of succulent leaves and
and tear a scrap of paper or toy > served to broil (so deliciously) the stalks that soon attracted my atten­
with some article for an hour at a breakfast trout, for such relics sol tion. 1 hustled her out and sent a
time. When spoken to such persons often are fanned into the tiny llame kick after her that fell short and
start and look at the article in their which, feeding upon nearby leaves nearly unjointed my leg. But she
hands as though wondering where or moss or bush twigs, grows within was soon back, and she came again
they had obtained it. In nine cases two days to a devouring blaze that • and again till 1 discovered her
out of ten this person saw some oth- , consumes acre- of forest before its secret and repaired the latch so that
er person doing the same thing, and withering touch is stayed. If you nudging or butting the gate would
unconsciously his or her hands, un- ;
are close to a I. rook use its water not open it.
der the direction of subintelligence, I nlentifuliy.
How surely such conduct as this
and if water is scarce
sought out the paper or article to Knock the live ends of the larger of the cow’s evinces reason to most
plav with.”
sticks until not a spark is left and persons! But shall we not rather
The conversation took place in scrape diit over all the coals—not call it the blind gropings of in­
the waiting room of a ferry house, a few handfuls of dust that the stinct stimulated into action by the
where a score of business men, all wind may scatter at its first breath, sight and odor of the tender vege­
preoccupied mentally with the com­ but dirt that will bury and tables? Many of the lowest organ­
ing business of the day and all anx­ smother.
isms show just as much i r.elligence
ious to get to their offices, were con­
No doubt mv average reader about their food as did t ie old co.v.
gregated, waiting for a boat. To thinks I am writing a lot to deliver
Evi a the Amer.i an - :n «lew, ac­
prove the truth of his remarks the one small mc--age, but let him con­ cording to Mis. Treat, v> il niffve its
physician suggested an experiment. sider that hundreds of acres of for­ leaves go that it < an • <ze a flv pin­
He began a march up and down the est land, worth thousands, measured ned half an inch from it. The
waiting room. In two seconds a by dollars, and of inestimable re­ method of the oid cow was that of
worried looking man who appeared sources of the country, are annual­ h:t and i. i-s or trial and error. She
to be a prosperous merchant or bro­ ly destroy« <1 from just such insig-1 wanted the corn, and she butted
ker began to march also. Two nificant beginnings as the campfire the gate, and, as luck would have it,
clerks and a stout person followed which was not put out beyond the when she hit the latch the gate
his example. In five minutes two power of the passing breeze to re­ swung open. But shall we conclude
men who were reading newspapers suscitate. Therefore the warning that the beast had any idea at all
were the only persons out of the appeal cannot be too important but the sense impression made upon
twenty odd in the room who were since we as a nation are using up her hunger by the growing vegeta­
not walking about. The physician from three to four times as much bles ?
ceased suddenly. Peculiar as it may wood every year as the country is
seem, his action appeared to give producing.
Judge Topping was in Coquille last
the whole assemblage a shock. They
Two worthy exhibits of genuine
woke up, as it were, but not suffi­ Americanism are, first, not to add week where he had a case in the
ciently to know that they had been to forest destruction by carelessly equity court.
experimented upon. Before the leaving fire around, and, second, al­
Ray Bixby and R. G. Nevinger
boat arrived they had assumed the ways to plant a new tree—young
positions in which the physician tree—for every one you destroy. of Me Pherson, Kas., arrived in
found them.
And plant it where it will do the Band >n Tuesday and w>ll open up
“Another thing I have noticed,” most good.—Outing Magazine.
<t pantorium in the Gallier hard­
added the physician, “is that the
ware building These young men
higher the intelligence of a man is
the more liable he is to be con­
are both experienced in this line and
Bring your
trolled by subconsciousness. An un­
will no doubt give entire satisfaction
.Job Worli in their work. See their ad in this
intelligent man seems to have none
of it.”—New York Globe.
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