The Bingham County news. [volume], April 15, 1921, Page 5, Image 5

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,'AARY GRAHAM. BONNER.
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THE SPECIAL TOAD.
"One time when the boy and girl
were adventuring," commented Daddy,
"the boy gave a kick to a little toad
he saw by the way.
"Then, to his surprise, he saw the
tbad half fall over and then continue
hopping, but In a moment more he
saw him stop still and stretch and
stretch.
"The toad's eyes grew larger and
larger until they fairly bulged out of
his head. His mouth looked enor
mous, and as though he could swallow
at least three or four children. That
is what the boy and girl thought, at
any rate, as they stood still, too
frightened to move.
"And suddenly one of the toad's
funny little feet grew very large and
like a hand with many long fingers.
He took the boy by the ear and
pulled him around and around. The
toad still kept growing larger and
larger ; now he was twice the size of
the boy.
"In a moment or two more he was
three times the size of the boy, and
so he grew until he was four times
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"Leave Him Alone."
the size of the boy and the girl added
together.
"The toad kicked the boy and kept
pilling him about by the ear.
" 'You great big creature,' said the
boy, 'stop it, stop it! Let me go. You
Will kill me, you will surely kill me !'
" 'Leave him alone,' said the girl.
Tim not afraid of you. Toad ! Leave
that boy alone. He didn't mean to
hurt you, and it isn't right to get so
aogry und so mean over a little thing
lice that, Tond !'
" 'Oh, Isn't it. Indeed !' said the
Toad, swallowing hard and making the
boy and girl think one of his good
swallows could take in a great deal.
"Suddenly, as suddenly as lie began,
the toad let go of the boy's ear and
stopped kicking him.
" 'Listen, 4 he said, as he began to
grow smaller and smaller, and finally
opce more looked like n real toad, a
tiny thing hopping about, T was given
the power to grow big when creatures
hurt me. I was given that power by
tie Giant who rules over us.
" 'He Is enormous, but he newer steps
oi us or hurts us. It's a fine thing
to be able to grow small or big us
one wants to. I am especially honored.
If you'd like to hear about It I'd be
glad to tell you.'
"He shook his head when the boy
aid girl offered him food from their
knapsack.
" 'I've eaten, I thank you,' he replied.
'You see the girl was very brave In
defending you.' The girl felt much
pleased at this, for she had cried one
time on a hard adventure.
" 'Our Giant Is a splendid soul. He
Is big and powerful and strong and
magnificent, but he never takes ad
vantage of any one. He walks with
great care to avoid stepping on the
smallest of creatures. He never kills
anything except a fly and a mosquito,
ncd he kills with great swats. He
doesn't torture them or pull off their
wings or anything horrible like that.
'One day he came to me and he
said : "Toad, you're an ugly little piece,
but we all like yon. You help garden
ers and farmers in destroying bad in
sects and yet people don't think half
enough of you.
j""So I'm going to give you a spé
cial power. If any one hurts you or
kicks you or throws stones at you, I'm
going to see that, after rubbing your
back three times against the ground
which will act as magic for you, then
you can grow and grow until you're
larger than the person who has hurt
you."
" "The Giant went all over the coun
tryside then, throwing his magic dust
ov«r the ground so that I could rub
some of It on when I was In danger,
and could make myself large.
' T can make myself small once
more In the same way.'
"'But suppose It should rain and
there would be no dust, but only mud,'
paid the boy, *what would you do
then?.'
* 'Gracious,' said the toad, 'the
magic lasts through rain and storm. It
would be pretty poor magic if the
lepst little rain could wash it away.
'So I can grow big when I want
and I can show a creature or so
Ju^t what it feels like to be in the
power of some one bigger and strong
er who is using his strength to hurt
you. For I hate a bully !' "
to
That*» the End.
Full —What's the matter with that
big fish playing guard?
Back—Why— er Just got mixed op
with ' the tackle.
HX)Y J
SCOUTS
(Conducted by Notional Council of th«
Boy Scouts of America.)
SCOUTS, OFFICIAL FIREMEN
In Stamford, Conn., boy scouts are
drilled to assist the police in bolding
back crowds at fires. They also make
inspections of the schools and report
to the fire department the condition
of fire escapes, fire extinguishers, tire
doors, hose and alarms, and how long
it takes to get the children out of the
school building in fire drills. They ac
tively assist In fighting forest fires un
der the direction of the fire depart
ments. After having attained second
class rank, a Stamford boy scout
may take an examination, which, if
satisfactorily met, entitles him to re
ceive a certificate signed by the chief
of the fire department, the fire marshal
and the scout executive. This cer
tificate makes him formally a member
of the fire department, which may call
upon him for service in time of emer
gency.
All Blackstone Valley, K. I., is also
to have boy scouts as regular fire de
partment aids. Scouts are to be in
structed in lire fighting and preven
tion, and will be so mobilized as to
be ready for action at a given signal
when their assistance is required.
From the other side of the map, too,
comes the report that in Cordova,
Alaska, a boy scout troop is to co-op
erate with the local fire department
and will use a fire station for meet
ing place and gymnasium.
A SCOUT IS PREPARED.
During an ice hockey game last
winter at Stottville, N. Y., one of the
players, Kenneth MacPhail, skated off
into thin ice over the channel, fol
lowed closely, in the excitehient of
the game by three other lads. The
three had just time to draw back as
the ice gave way under the other,boy,
letting him down into the deep, frigid
water. The frightened boy clutched
at the ice which, of course, broke
with ids touch. The two older boys,
Kenneth Gardner and Ralph Schmer
horn, were all for Jumping instantly
to the aid of their friend, but the
third nnd youngest boy, Emil Tegt
meir, urged different procedure, know
ing that rashness would only succeed
in endangering the lives of all with
out helping the victim. According to
Emil's orders, the rescuers laid them
selves flat on the ice, at safe distance
from the hole, one holding onto the
next, forming a human chain. Thus
distributing their weight, they wrig
gled toward the danger spot and ex
tended a hockey stick to MacPhail,
which he grasped and pulled himself
out to safety. The whole incident
serves as an excellent illustration of
the fact that a scout really is "pre
pared," resourceful, clenrheaded.
brave—quick to see what his job is,
and to do it, no matter at what risk to
liiinself. A false movement, n waste
of a moment in argument would have
undoubtedly spelled disaster.
SCOUTS FOR FORESTRY.
Boy scouts of Comnnehe county,
Oklahoma, are going in extensively
for forestry work. At the suggestion
of the forest supervisor of the Wach
ita national forest, Frank Rush, the
local chamber of commerce of Law
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free nur-cy site and pro
vided enough
ioney to siock it with
seed. Boy scouts did the planting un
der the superv
siou of Mr. Kush, and
have several thousand seedlings which
are to be distr
boys and girls
hundred trees
spring in ( >klnl
and Wichita F
ling's supplied
Supervisor Uu
about the plan
boy scouts car
starting a movi
Hutted free among the
if the county. Several
will he planted this
onm City. Atlus, Okla.,
tils, Texas, from seed
hy the Lawton scouts,
h is very enthusiastic
nnd believes that the
be a great factor in
■nient for foresting the
barren plains of the southwest.
RESCUES WOMAN FROM DEATH.
Senior Patr,
Leader, John Hol
lings of Pleasnntville, N. J., a thir
teen-yenr-old youngster, saved the life
not long ago by his
prompt and courageous action. The
woman was on the railroad track and
saw one train coming, hut did not
see the other until it was almost up
on her. She was paralyzed with
fright as the thundering express bore
down upon her. This was the mo
ment for action, and luckily a scout
was on the spot
train was. He
, an instant before the
leaped onto the track
regardless of his own danger and lit
erally dragged the bewildered woman
from the path of the engine, holding
her with one arm nnd the fence with
the other, while the monster flew past,
only a few inches away from the two.
SOME SCOUT NOTES.
Erie (Pa.) scouts are financing a
scout troop in
India.
Troop No. 1 of Livermore Falls, Me.,
"cleaned streets of nails."
Troop No. 1 of Lowville, N. Y., re
ports among other civic activities that
it "kept snow away from hydrants."
Troop No. C of Terre Haute, lud., re
ports having visited eight needy sick
boys and giving eaeli a new overcoat
candy, nuts ai d oranges. Also col
lected waste pi per and rags for wel
fare hoard.
"Tell It to the Marines."
Tell It to the marines is an expres
sion frequently heard In England, nl
though it is not so common in Can
ada. The marines were soldier»
placed on battleships In the old days
when boarding and hand-to-hand fight
ing were common. As these men did
not know anything about seamanship
it was a common practice to teil them
the most outrageous sea-stories, all of
which they would believe. Conse
quently whenever any one told a par
ticularly tall story he was adjured to
tell it to the marines.
And Hang It in the Trophy Room.
A pike weighing twenty-six pounds,
upon being hooked by a Cheshire fish
erman, pulled him in the canal. Ills
escape was much regretted by the fish,
who Lad decided to have him stuffed.
—London Punch.
TOO MANY WASTERS.
War Time Extravagance Hit Idaho
Hard, Says Sir Knight Mitchell.
Hon. Perry
Perce, grand
W. Mitchell, of Nez
chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias, who visited
Blackfoot this Week, has this to say
of business conditions in Idaho:
"I find that so iliktle money has
been spent—in downs or on the
farms—in making permanent, profit
able improvements during the fat
years when prices were big and ev
erything was rolling high. So many
who were getting prices douible any
'they had ever before received. ' ran
in! ,:u nr v of spending both time
; an,1 money away from home. Far
! mors and business men and hostlers
\vou,'d gather up their year's plitn
I der and sc off for California, or
I wherever it was, to sow their i oin
as long as it lasted. Then when the
slump came, they had acquired a
can vas-back-a ltd-terrapin appetite
and had only a wormy-apple supply
in the pantry. If we'd spent our ex
cess profits in permanent improve
ments, in store, in office, in factory,
on the farm, we'd be prosperous to
day; the word 'panic' would have
been torn out of our dictionary.
"For those of us who haven't al
ready gotten our appetites and our
larder to doing teamwork, tlie times
are going to he even worse before
we come out of the war cloud. Maybe
we'll never get to the superman
sanity we ca,n now see the other fel
low ought to have; but we're all go
ing to live like Mulvaney who lived
on the memory that he 'was a
corp'rii! wanst' no matter what evils
might come after, for we're all go
ing to have this one lucid spell or
self-study and retrenchment. You
can't make a man he 'good' by law,
perhaps, but you can beat some sense
into t.he thickest, skull—and though
some of us have been ipretty thick,
we're learning that the time to save
is when we have something to save
as we had a few years ago. If ever
you saw a whole state with a dispo
sition towards financial wisdom, i*'s
Idaho in these days after our paper
riches have sailed away with our real
profits on the balloons of extrava
gn nee."
INDEMNITY INSURANCE?
It is suggested that whatever in
demnity bonds may be put up by the
paving company, Le invoked to the
bitter end for ruined, shoe-shlines
mud-spotted 'garments, lining Hatton
and frazzled tempers and deprivation
of munieiipal pleasures by evorv one
in Blackfoot who has suffered thru
the loondition of the crossings that
have been manhandled in the new
paving district. If a Ibond is good
for anything, it ought to be good for
salving alj these petty annoyances,
which are as vital as life itself- in
deed, it is because of such trilles (that
strong men take their own lives, ner
vous women become wrecks, and lit
tle children grow callous and wind
up on the gallows as haunted, hunt
ed, wretched fugitives.
It is suggested that a few hoards
well placed across some of the of
fending streets might help some; fir
boards, pine boards, boards of aider
men or bored I-give-a-darns who
might help agitate.
Ferryimen, or tatll strong men
wearing rubber boots Who could tote
ithe suffering populace across some
of these unspeakable places, if the
insurance and bonding policies do
not operate, would make Blackfoot a
ioit safer and cleaner-footed place to
five while this Spring weather is on.
■KISMET!"
Magnificent Oriental Story Shown cn
Silver Screen This Week.
Kisimet—It is Ordered, it is Fate!
The Arabian Nigltos, with all their
glamour that has enthralled man
kind for a thousand years, have no
other such wonderful tale of semi
barbaric magnificence as that of
Hajj, tihe beggar, who rose from the
rags and dust ito the pinnacle of
oriental imaginings—and then went
back down to -the dust and the rags
and forgetfulness. Suph a picture
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portrayal of splendor, rising from
nothing and finally fading away into
a similar ghostly nothing, challenges
the imagination to its limit.
Otis Skinner will' make anyone be
lieve the impossible. In this story
of barbaric opulence, this king of
the American* stage looks like the
king of all the world—Ibeggar though
he was! The settings of this stu
pendous production rival t lie most
fantastic royalty of history; it has
lhad only two stage presentations in
America, comparable to it—"1492,"
and "Ben-Hur."
Only thirty cents! THIRTY
CENTS! Regular rates, and no
raise for the production that, brings
a dollar, or up to two dollars a seat,
in most other places.
It's at the Rialto, Friday, Satur
day and Sunday.
FARM MONEY TO LOAN.
Blackfoot Branch of National Asso
ciation Will Soon Have the Cash
Maney may soon be available for
far mloans from itilie National Farm
Loan Association, according to E. M.
Gragg, secretary-treasurer of the
Blackfoot organization, who makes
the following statement as to condi
tions both nationally and locally:
"The Blackfoot National Farm
Loan Association expects to resume
loaning money about May 1. with
some changes. In the present finan
cial condition of the country, t.he
rate on farm loan bonds, to make
them salable, lias tfl lie advanced to
5 per cent, and the farm mortgage
fate advanced to (> per cent. Since
the last offering of Federal Farm
Loan Bonds, the financial situation
of this country, and the entire world,
has undergone a serious change, and
rates of interest have very greatly
advanced, and there is at this time
a serious scarcity of investment
funds and the demands far in excess
of (he supply.
"In renewing loaning operations
diese facts will be fully taken Into
consideration. It. is realized that in
all probability the association will
have a demand entirely beyond its
ability to supply. Anticipating this
condition as almost a certainty, the
land banks have asked all farm loan
associations to discourage all appli
cants which contemplate investments
that can he dispensed with for the
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present; also, to discourage all ap
plications which involve solely the
payment of indebtedness not yet due.
"The system will get started grad
ually. and will', we hope, in the very
near future, ge* back to the basis of
its former activities.
"There will be a new form of ap
plication. and as soon as the Federal
Land Bank sends them to me I will
send the old applications that have
been filed with me, and a new form,
back to the applicant who will be
asked to make their application on
the new form.
"If there are any who have had
their applications filed with me and
do not wish a loan at this time, they
should notify me; and if our ap
praisers have not appraised their
land I will return their filing fee.
"Our directors are; W. C. Soilen
berger, C. E. Harris, J. H. Felt, I. J.
Spraker, Ivan L. Tanner and E. M.
Gregg. Regular appraisers: W. 0.
Sollenlberger, J. H. Felt, and Ivan L.
Tanner. Alternate appraisers are;
Orson Manwaring, W. H. Davis and
Peter Hoff. Any of these men can
explain about the Farm Loan Organ
ization."
NEW LAW OFFICE.
(Continued from pago one)
change in the old-time hospitality
and cordiality; the smiles that won't
come off are still there to warm the
heart—and they have more room to
Expand and grow. The office is as
attractive a place to visit as there is
in Blackfoot.
Senator Thomas secured and lias
had framed the original drawing in
which he and 'Lieutenant Governor
Moore and throe or four other sena
tors appeared in the Capital News
during the Legislative session. Mr.
Moore wanted it, and they had a
Mara! thon rare and a battle of Wa
terloo finish to get possession of the
prize. Senator Thomas won out, and
thero it is. He has another iprize,
too; his ancient commission as reg
ister of tiie land office, and pasted
on it is a news clipping from a Salt
Lake daily, saying that he is "a full
ldood Indian." lie says that as he
sees himself, he doesn't look like
moRt. of I lie Indians lie knows—but
that you never can tell, and a feller
may be something lie doesn't know.