Beads on
A String
RONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
There was an emergency at
the Rocking W last week.
Spooks, the nice brown cow, was
ill, and at midnight, when the
Big Boss went to the barn to
check on her condition, he found
she had milk-fever and had
dropped into the deep sleep
which precedes death unless a
shot of dextrose and calcium is
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given very
Within five
minutes we had a veterinarian on
the way out here.
While the Big Boss wrapped
Spooks in blankets, I rebuilt the
fire in the living room and start
ed the coffee-maker working.
Waiting, we drank hot coffee
and counted the racing minute«
As I wandered restlessly about
the room—for Spooks and I are
good friends—I thought how-
very dependent we human being3
are upon others. Only the un
thinking can really believe that
anyone is sufficient unto him
self, even in the common every
day details of living. I used the
phone. One operator answered
my ring and passed me on to an
other where the doctor lives.
Men invented the telephone, oth
ers had strung the wires and
kept them in order. The doc
tor used a car and gas and oil
and rvbber to come out here so
quickly—all these things were the
work of other men’s hands and
brains,
He, in his turn, had
studied what other men had
learned about animal, diseases
and their cure.
Some man—
perhaps many—had experimented
until was found the life-return
ing magic of dextrose and cal
cium injected into the veins. Do
you see what I mean? We had
all this labor and thought '.f
others to call upon in our little
need.
The doctbr came, The injec-
tion was given. In just a few
moments Spooks was on her feet
again and reaching over to
Emmy’s manger for a mouth-
ful of clover hay. She would
live because of the work an-1
women whom I shall never see.
Just a small incident in a busy
world,
yet what resources we
drew upon.
Or take even the coffee we
drank. It was hot and strong
and very stimulating at that
weary hour of the night. Some-
one planted, tended and gath
ered those coffee berries. Other
folks sorted and roasted and
ground them.
Through many
hands and by man-made trans
portation the result f i n a 11 y
reached my kitchen shelf. And
who worked to make and put in
by hands the shining glass cof
fee-maker
Men and women
whose names I shall never hear.
As in the little things of life,
so in the greater. No man lives
to himself alone. Perhaps only
in a past so remote that man
used nothing but his bare hands
and a branch torn from a tree,
could he be said to really be to
tally independent of others, and
I think not even then, for if one
man killed a saber-toothed tiger,
for instance, that made one les3
beast to menace the others, so
they profited by his labor even
if they never knew.
In our selfish egotism we take
so much for granted. We ac
cept the work of other men with
out one thought of gratitude,
and we foolishly think of those
in other lands, or even those just
beyond the narrow borders of
our own experience, as being sep
arate from us.
It has been said that if or.e
drops into the sea a single grai l
of sand, there will be a corres-
ponding displacement of everv
drop of water over all the world.
We human beings are as drons
of water in the ocean of life,
That which affects one single
drop affects the whole, and the
more quickly we realize this, the
more quickly will come the peace
which we have dared to
dream.
My word, what a long way I
have wandered from my sick cow.
I am pleased to report that she
is fully recovered, and that her
young son is doing very nicely,
thank you. But you should see
my new grandson. Now he is
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
really—oh, all right, I’ll shut up
if you feel that way. Just a dot
ing old granny, that’s me.
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