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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1923)
MK. ROOSTER AS KIXG lTF I AM cock of the walk," said Mr. Itooster one morning to himself, as he strutted around the burnyard, "tliat moans that I am king. And If I am king, why shouldn't I have a castle and why shouldn't my subjects pay me for being their king?" The more Mr. Itooster thought about It the more he was certain he was right, and so he strutted over to the poultry house where all the hens and chickens slept at night and looked about. "Tills shall be my castle and I won't let one hen In unless she pays me a grain of corn. Why should a king pick up a living? It should be brought to him, I Bay, and I am king and what I say must be right." Mr. Itooster fastened a long string to the lutch of the door of the poul try house and when night time came "Mr. Rooster Found Himself Alone." be sat on a roost and held the door fast All the hens and chickens came run ning to get In when It was time to go to bed, but Mr. Itooster called to them, saying that he was a king and any one that wanted to get In must pay him a grain of corn for the privilege of sleeping in the king's castle. As there were few grains of corn to be found at that time, most of the hens and chickens slept outside that night. "It will do them good and they will be all the more anxious tomorrow to save a grain for me," he said. "I shall JSS3 "What sin a Name?" By MILDRED MARSHALL Facto about year nam; itt Aifory; mtanlnf: ahtnc H aat derived; V V V V V tlfnlficance; your lucky V and lucky Jeicei SUSANNA SUSANNA is another of the "holy names" with which the Scriptures abound. Though It has been contract ed rather generally to Susan, the prop er form, and the one which possesses an interesting history, Is Susanna. It signifies "Illy," and comes from the ancient Hebrew name Schuschannah, which, In sound, more nearly resem bles the French Suzanne. The story of Susanna, related In the additional chapters of the Book of Daniel, and repudiated by St. Jerome, has been commemorated In ballad, tapestry and painting. The name also belonged to one of the holy women of the sepulcher, and it was In the church calendar for two virgin martyrs who suffered death In the times of persecution. The most famous Susanna of his tory was the "Lily of TIflis," the Queen Susanna who was put to death by the Mohammedans for her religious faith. All the picturesque romance of the early ages centers In her history. The English call this name Su sannah, and by a curious coincidence almost without equal in etymology, the French, German, Swiss and Bavarians agree upon Susanne as a favorite na tional name. The garnet Is Susanna's talismanlc stone. It promises her true friendships aud a pleasing personal magnetism. Thursday is her lucky day and 4 her lucky number. ( by Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) A LIME 0' CHEER By John Kendrick Bangs. THE HEAVIEST LOAD THE heaviest burden man can bear Is truly not a load of care, But that back-breaking weight of rue On days when he has naught to do, With Time so full ol rare com mands, Hanging like lead upon hU hands. ( by McClure Newipaper Syndicate.) si Explicit Instructions. "Do you see this road as far as ye can seer' said the native in answer to an inquiry. "No," replied the pedes trian, "I'm a little shortsighted." "Well," returned the other, "when ye go as far as I can see, ye'll be getting on to the place ye want to get to." be pretty hungry In the morning and may have to do a little picking, but af ter that I am sure I will be able tc live as a king should und have my sub jects wait on me." , Mr. Booster was right. All the hens and chickens saved a grain 61 corn and the next night his castle wan full of IiIb subjects, as also was hi crop full of corn. Mr. Itooster slept with the strlnn that worked the lock fastened to one foot, for sometimes when he was doz ing a subject came to the castle door, and one night he was awakened by a soft voice outside saying: "0 mighty King of the Barnyard, pray let me In. I have a bag full of golden corn. "I nra a stray goose that has wan dered away from her home and can not find a place to sleep, and I urn willing to pay a high price for the privilege of sleeping in your castle." Now, It wasn't a goose at all, but Mr. Fox, who in some way had heard about the way Mr. Rooster was mak ing his hens and chickens pay for sleeping lu the poultry house. Mr. Fox saw right off a chance to get In and carry off one or two fat hens. Mr, Rooster was so flattered that he did not stop to ask any questions or look out to see who It was. He pulled the string, the latch flew up and Mr. Fox Jumped Into the midst of the liens and chickens. Such a crying and squawking as they set up scared even Mr. Fox, and be fore he could get out of the poultry house with one, Mr. Dog came bound ing at hlra, and Mr. Fox, without his breakfast, made tracks for home. "You are a nice king, you are," said Mr. Dog. A king looks out for his subjects and does not let an enemy In his castle, and if I were the hens and chickens I would roost In the barn at night where Mr. ;lIorse and Madam Cow could protect me if Mr. Fox came along." The hens and chickens took his ad vice and the next night poor Mr. Rooster found himself alone and very hungry, too. So he decided that being a king was very hard work, and be sides that, he did not like to be alone, for if Mr. Fox should take a notion to call again he knew that he would need the help of all the hens to call to Mr. Dog for help. (, 1923, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME By" MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE FOR MEN WHO DANCE When an occasion Is plied high with difficulty, we must rise to the occasion. Abraham Lincoln. DON'T ruin the gowns of the girls with whom you dance by the mark of your hand. In the good old days men , used to wear white gloves at dances and this solved the problem. If your hands are moist be careful enough to place a handkerchief In your hand to prevent its touching the fab ric of the gown, though this should be done without ostentation and with out permitting the handkerchief to be too apparent. Don't forget that It is your duty to see that the girl whom you are escort ing at a dance has her dances taken. You can do this by Introducing her to any men you know or by seeking in troductions yourself to other men In order that you can present them to her. Don't forget to remember your duty as guest if it Is a dance given in a private house. To do this you should make sure to ask your hostess or mem bers of her family for dances, and If there are house guests for the occa sion to pay especial attention, particu larly when they are not so vivacious or animated as to win Instant popu larity. Don't, under any circumstances, fall to claim a dance that has been prom ised to you by any of the young women present. If you find that yon must leave earlier than you had expected, be sure and seek out the young wom en whom you must disappoint and make your excuse. If you are posi tively unable to find them before leav ing, go to your hostess or one of the chaperones and request her to make the explanation to the young women In question. Don't under any circumstances crit icise the dancing of your partner or in any way attract attention to her nwkwardness. even though she is a most inexpert dancer. If her failure to keep step Is so potent as to re quire comment assume the blame yOUr Self. Don't suggest discontinuing the dance, but leave that to the young woman with whom you are dancing, if von. nerchance. have a strained ankle and find yourself really unable to dance, explain this to the young with whom you have engaged the dance, and offer to release her fmm the enzagement If she wishes, nasnrlne her at the same time that vmi would be charmed to chat with her during the dance If she will be an kind to YOU. (, 1923, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) yj Few Can Stand Alone. The ereatest man living may stand In need of the meanest, as much ai the meanest does of him. Fuller. IS 1 Flowers Were for Jim By JANE OSBORN (tS) by McClure Newepaper Syndicate.) Ever since Jlin had arrived at the hospital, weather-beaten, tanned and much In need of a shave, and Inci dentally with a wrenched knee that had to go In plaster cast and a dis located shoulder, he bad been the fav orite of the men's ward. If he had been a little boy Instead of six foot of rugged, honest manhood he would have gone In the children's ward and been known as "nurse's pet." No one knew much about "Jim." Obviously a man who earned his' liv ing with his muscle, he had been brought in one night In forlorn con dition by Dr. Robinson, who had snld that the man had no friends In town and might not he able to pay his bills for several weeks. He showed no more than a professional Interest In the case. . He had been duly scrubbed and brushed and shaved and was quite a different looking Individual as he lay there In his plaster casts, but much of the tan lingered and a sort of hardy roughness that made him look de cidedly out of place In a hospital bed. Right from the first "Jim" had be come a favorite, and the men's ward seemed to be a brighter place because of his presence. "It will seem queer when he's all better and up and dressed," said a nurse to one of her companions sit ting at the desk where she had been making up charts. "We've all treated him like a nice big boy and that's Just what he seems5 to be. perhaps we've petted him a bit too much, bring ing him funny papers and puzzles just as If he was a child" "One often does get a Jolt when a pntlent recovers, and stands up all dressed," snld the second nurse. "It's funny about Jim. It Isn't that he makes an effort to be Jolly. It Just seems to be his personality." "Everybody likes him," said the other. "Even Dr. Martha Yates, who is usually so dreadfully professional In the men's ward, stops and Jollies him. She treats him as if he was one of the youngsters in the children's ward brings him little games and things, pats him on the shoulder when she passes and calls him 'Jim' Just the way we all do." It was true that Dr. Martha Yates' usual attitude when she made her rounds save In the children's ward was exaggeratedly professional. Per haps this formnllty was necessary to offset a little too much youth and a little too much prettlness. Martha had taken her career as a sort of legacy from her father. At his death his work seemed so far from completion that Martha felt it was her duty to turn from dances and country club activities, from thought of an early marriage perhaps any marriage at all to take her medical training. Every day In her work, however, she had little reminders of her father's skill and large-heartedness that made It all seem worth while. His old pntlents were forever telling her of Incidents In his career showing a gen erosity and fortitude that she had per haps never fully appreciated during his lifetime. And today it was the florist. She had stopped at his shop to buy a half dozen Jonquils for her office desk, nnd the proprietor of the florist shop had stopped his work In his greenhouse to tell of the devotion her father had shown during the Illness of his chil dren, many years ago, when he was struggling along hardly making both ends meet In his nursery business. And Dr. Yates had refused to send any bill, and even when the florist had prospered, the doctor had never ac cepted any back payment for the years of service that he had done. "Perhaps I ought to have Insisted more," said the florist. "But now I am going to Insist on this one thing: Whenever you want any flowers you come In here and pick out Just what you want and they will be yours. Get them as often as you like. You Just know people who want them. Now, for Instance, we are having an extra big yield of roses don't know why, but they seem to be coming to flower a little sooner than we expected. Sup pose you let me send you five or six dozen. I could sell them cheap, but I'd rather you'd take them. If you don't want them yourself perhaps you know some one that does." Dr. Martha Yates thought for a moment. She an Id she would take them wfth her to the hospital. She'd leave two dozen in the children's and two dozen In the women's ward and another dozen she would give to Jim She remembered that Jim had been especially delighted with a single rose that she had left at his bedside the day before and had been fondling It that very morning faded and dried as It was. Surely, he must he very fond of roses, and probably In all his life he had never been able to buy a doz en of them out of season. "I've brought some roses for Jim," Dr. Martha Yates told the nurse in charge of the ward when she returned. "Is he awake?" "Yes," said the nurse, "and I'm go glad you have, ne's been very un comfortable, though you couldn't get him to admit it You know Dr. Rob inson had to change the cast today and well, any one but Sunny Jim would have made a fuss about It. And the poor thing having no friends or anything. I'm so glad you brought the roses today." So Dr. Martha Yates went to Jim's narrow cot and no one In the ward seemed to fvul the least bit jealous or slighted when she put the whole glori ous dozen on his table. For Jim was as popular with the other patients as with the nurses and doctors. Jim looked up quickly straight Into the eyes of Martha Yates and for just one moment she felt a little uncom fortable wondered If after all she ought to have brought him the (lowers. Ills eyes had never looked thut way before they seemed so bright and clear, from beneath lids that betrayed the recent suffering that he would have been loath to admit. He stretched out one large hand, still strong and show ing a peculiar pallor overlying the sun burn that had not yet disappeared, and with this hand he took Dr. Martha's small hand In his. "Thank you, doctor," he said. "You don't know how I shall treasure them." Dr. Martha Yates had gone away In confusion that she had with difficulty concealed. Suddenly It seemed as If Jim, who had seemed only a fine over grown boy, had been transformed Into a man, strong and virile In spite of his present prostration.- She was hnlf sorry that she had taken him the flowers perhaps It had been very un professional. But the nurses had not seemed to think It Inappropriate. To them Jim was still plain Jim. Per haps they had not seen the look, so strong and clear, beneath those tired eyelids. Jim was quick to recover and within the week he was allowed to get up and sit In a chair for a few hours. And the next day Dr. Robinson whisked him off, stopping with him at the office Just long enough to pay In new banknotes the fee for board In the ward. The nurses were vexed with Dr. Robinson for he had not told them of his intention of taking Jim away, and only the little nurse who happened to be In the ward at the time hart an opportunity to say good-by to him, and she had been so surprised at his sudden departure, in a boggy, ill-fitting suit and ulster that the doc tor brought for him, that she had not asked him where he was going or in vited him to revisit the hospital and his many friends there. 'Jim's gone," the nurses told Dr. Martha Yates when she came that day. For a moment Martha started. She, too, seemed to regret not having had an opportunity to sny good-by or to have found out' a little more about this mysterious optimist who had so brightened the atmosphere of the hos pital during his brief stay. But when she reached her office that night she found a man waiting for her In the waiting room, though It was an hour before office hours. It was, In fact, her customary dinner hour. The man was Indeed Jim, though he now wore clothes that fitted perfectly, and It was not until Martha had stood looking at him for a full minute that she was quite sure of his Identity. And in that minute Jim stood holding the hand she had offered to him. "Who In the world are you?" she asked when they had sat down in the dim light of the waiting room. "You're not the simple worklngman we all took you to be. You" 'I'm James Bradley, Jr.," said Jim simply, "You know my father. I be lieve he's president of the board of trustees of the hospital." Of course Martha knew him. It was James Brad ley who had contributed more than half of the funds thnt had supported the hospital for many years past. "I've been away from home a good many years. No one remembers me. This summer, you know, there was some criticism of the hospital. It was said that a poor man didn't get a show that the ward patients were neg lected. You know, of course. My father was annoyed and grieved. He felt sure It wasn't true. Still he want ed to prove the falseness of It all. I was off roughing It with him In the mountains. Father and I always spend a month together every summer. And one day I lost my footing In the mountains up there and took n Jolly header. I wasn't so very badly hurt. Father suggested that since I had to come down to cIvlllznMnn to get mend ed I should come to this hospital nnd that I should do a little spying nn the side. So we got In touch with Dr. Robinson, who let It be understood that I was just any one. And you know what I learned I learned thnt the men In thnt ward are as decently and as well treated as they would be In private rooms, and I learned to ad mire the nurses and It's ail coming out In a report my father will have ready for the next meeting of the board of trustees. "In the meantime," James Brad ley drew his stiff office chair eloRe to that of Dr. Martha. "In the mean time I learned to love you. I know your heart Is In your work but It's such a big heart I Can't you let me share little of It, too?" Dr. Martha Yates looked Into Jim's eyes and she knew she was not desert ing the ideals of her father when she told Jim she would put her whole heart Into his keeping. Ten Great Books. The ten most Important books In the world, according to H. O. 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The Quebec government plans the establishment of a number of cold storage and distributing plants as a step toward the more active develop ment of the provincial sea fisheries. Origin of Goldfish. Goldfish aro the result of the elim ination of the somber colors In a vari ety of carp by selective breeding be gun by the Chinese and Japaneso In the Sixteenth century. The Piatonlo Philosophy. Of all the ancient systems the Pla tonic was the most popular. Pluto, born in 409 B. C, died In 347. He was distinguished by the comprehen siveness of his teachings. He was a disciple of Socrates. Happy Time of Life. Perhaps the best definition of mid dle age is the period at which one Is most anxious to be assured that one Is not yet old. Westminster Gazette. The Little Tyrant, Let every sound be dead; baby sleeps. The emperor's soft tread; Baby sleeps. Let Mozart's music stop! Let Phidias' chisel drop! Baby sleeps. Demosthenes be dumb! Our tyrant's hour has come! Baby sleeps. 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In climbing a hill 1,000 feot high, the total work done by a pedestrian would be equal to raising 205,000 pounds one foot in one minute. What the figures would be in calculating a climb of a high mountain would be amazing. The Old Stage Coach. The first stage coach was run in England in the latter part of the Six teenth century. In this country the first coach was run between New York and Boston In 1732. In 17.10 one be tween New York and Philadelphia. Speaking of Fruit. Sometimes a fellow makes a date with a poach ho believes will turn out to bo tho apple of his eye, but even tually she proves a lemon that no sensible chap could care a fig for. Farm Life. Often He Wouldn't Want To. Dreams go by contraries, but this is something a fellow never seems to remember when he's asleep. Boston Transcript. Courts of Justice. Courts of Justice were established In Athens In 1507 B. C. and by Moses in 1491 B. C. The courts were common In Europe. 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