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PAGE TWO The Parker Post AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Published Weekly By POST PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. J. B. FLANAGAN, Manager. subscription rates: One Year . $2.50 Six Months 1 50 Three Months .75 Entered as second-class matter Ma 28. 1910. at the postofDce at Parker, i Arizona, under the Act of March 3, ! 879. MONKEYING WITH NATURE. Far, far removed is the time when we thought in our ignorance that one couldn’t improve upon Nature. We are past the era when Luther Burbank’s feat ofr crossing a water melon with a hop vine to produce a tree bearing bottled beer seemed a j phantasy, the rarebit dream of, so to: speak, a hop fiend. Now they are proposing to turn the course of things that he upside down and cata-cornered. start a col ony of lobsters in the Pacific and , import a school of salmon to the j i mermaid-infested watery precincts of Atlantic City. It is about time for | some one to repeat, the experiment , of raising camels in Death Valley or 1 import giraffes to pluck the beans off j the topmost houghs of the luxuriant Rio Grande bean-tree. There is really no limit to what a man in his egergious self confidence i will attempt. It is proposed now to attempt nothing less than the diver sion of the Gulf-Stream, that mighty. 73-degrees-Fahrenheit. ocean river which makes habitable the city | of London with a latitude the same ; as VTadivostock, Siberia, and make possible the raising of oranges and pineapples on the rock-bound coast | of Maine while rank jungles of tropi- j cal plants will cover the ice-ribbed wastes of Labrador. And they act- j i nally claim, the wise scientists do. that the thing is possible. A cable will be anchored to tlie ocean's bed in the path of the Gulf-Stream; a tiny jetty of sand will form; the cable will gradually raised, gather- j ing more and more sand, until a great sandbar has been built flush with the sea level to drive the climate-making river to where it will undo the work done by the icy cur rents of the North. It does sound like a roseate vision, but the fact remains that Science seriously contemplates the plan and is making a thorough investigation of its possibilites; and to science and modern brains and inventive genius and persistance nothing is im possible. In the early days it would have sounded foolish to make the statement that men could cut the Western hemisphere in two from j east to west and make two con- j tinents where only one grew before; | yet we have practically completed I the job. There is no limiting man’s inter- j ference with the hitherto supposedly unchangeable ways of Nature. The younger generation may live to see Vesuvius turned into a steam heat ing plant to warm the chilly purlieus of Copenhagen, or the Maelstrom’s whirling energy utilized to turn the wheels Os .industry in Boston, or the heat of Yuma transferred to the poles to melt the eternal ice and start roses growing on Baffin’s hay. Nature is a hack number now adays. Her ways of doing things are out of date, even if there are .some old-fashioned folks among ns who prefer eating a plain ordinary straw berry under its proper name to one crossed with a tomato and design ated in the terminology of Super-Na ture as a toniberry.— Albuquerque Evening Herald. HIGH-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS. One of the most comfortable hotels ; in Los Angeles is the Hollenbeck, i which has been the favorite head quarters of Arizona people for many years. The management caters to the business men, mining men, stock men ami farmers. Ladies and children are made especially wel come and every care is taken to make their stay comfortable. The hotel is Conducted on the European plan and operates a case ihat is one of the best in California with particularly reasonable prices. The Hollenbeck is conveniently located near the theatres and shop ping center, and not far from the wholesale district and civic center.: Cars to and from all depots, to and from all beaches and mountain re sorts pass the Hollenbeck. J!r Mitchell who is known to very many Arizona people is president and Manager of the Hotel Company., As , President of the Ocean to Ocean Highway Association, Mr. Mitchell has done a great deal to turn the j tide ot travel in this direction. —adv. j mwwwwwwwwww^ HE GOT HIS CHANCE * Young Fireman Charged With Cowardice Makes Good When Test Came. The chief had sent for John Harri gan. John knew why he was sum moned. He left the fire station under the disapproving looks of his com panions. Nobody spoke to him; that was far harder than if they had reproached him. Reproaches are for gotten. but they had given him the silence. ; The old chief turned round at his desk. ‘‘Sit down. Harrigan.” he said, glar ing at him under his busy eyebrows. There was a tense silenee. Harrigan sat upon the edge of his chair, finger ing his cap. “What’S this I about your be ing a coward, John?” asked the chief, yet so mildly that Harrigan took courage to glance up at him. Chief Bethany had the reputation of being ; a martinet. The least infringement of discipline meant one of those never forgotten talks. For any seri ous offense the penalty was dismissal. Bethany would Jiave none but the best men under him. “They say.” said Bethany mildly, I “that at the fire in Winpole street last night you hung back instead of going up the ladder.” “Yes. sir.” said John and began stammering out his excuses. Tt was i i == =n, II p TTI r • —1 Ipiii B IJJ lj This I Hear About You Being a Coward?" his first big fire, and the sight of | that flaming hell had paralyzed his limbs, although his heart was brave enough. He had only wanted some one to lead him, some word of en couragement to do heroic deeds. But alone, he could not take the initiative. “John Harrigan.” said Bethany, “I’ve been on the force for seven and thirty years. When I was a young ster I was a coward. At my first fire ! I hung back. Because of that a wom jan died. I’ve never told anyone but I you, HArrigan, because I've never met | another cow r ard but you. John.” he j continued, “go back to your company and act like a man.” Harrigan found the tears running | down his cheeks when he got outside. Chief Bethany a coward? Why, i everyone knew that he was the brav ; est fireman in the country. Well, if i he had done that and yet redeemed ! himself, Harrigan could. The fire men received the news of | his reinstatement badly. Some voted for hazing him. others for blackjack ing. but finally they agreed to give film rope. “He’ll do worse for him self than that.” was the general ver dict. Harrigan could endure their silence. He knew that, if only his chance •ame, he could redeem himself. But Mary Connor, his sweetheart, w r as told of the affair by a rival. She j wrote him a curt little note of dis missal. “I don't want to marry a coward.” she said. When he met her on the street she cut him dead. Soon he heard that she w-as engaged to another. And his chance never came. That was the crown of his tragedy. He j was put on detail work, set to copy ing documents in the. sub-chief’s office. He w r as never allowed out again. I, There was the Fourth avenue fire, when three men were killed by a fall ing. beam. If he had had the chance —but it never came. For a whole vear he did not don fireman’s clothes. One day he walked into Bethany’s >ffice. “Chief,” he said. “T haven’t had my •hance. I have been doing a clerk’s job. Give me my chance to show I hat I’m a man.” Bethany looked at him. looked un ler his beetling eyebrows clear into uis heart. “I thought you’d resign. Harrigan.” le said. “We don’t like cowards on he force, but we hate more to put a iua/; off for cowardice. You’ll have your chance now. Report back for luty.” For a whole year he had seen noth ing of Mary. Somebody told him bat she was married. He knew that her family had moved away. He ilever expected to see her again. He ionged now for his chance, not that he mi thi regain the esteem and friendship of his comrades, but so i hat lie could die worthily Hie chance did come about threa THE PARKER POST. SATURDAY', JUNE 14, 1913 ! VARIED LENGTH OF INFANCY Period of Helplessness Seems to Coin cide with the Size of the Animal. It is often remarked that the infancy of human beings today is longer than it formerly was. This seems to be in evitable, owing to the higher state of society. In a general way tlie more highly developed an animal is the longer an apprenticeship it will have to serve before it is ready to cut loose from parental and other restraints and shift for itself Two interesting books have recently been brought out. which treat of this matter in infancy as applied to the va rious animals. The period of infancy varies very widely. Mice have prac tically no infancy, but at six weeks are parents of more mice. Human beings are helpless at birth and for - years after. Tlie horse is “grown up” at three years, while the elephant re quires seven or eight times that length of time to develop fully. Thus tlie elephant is just entering upon life when the horse is ready to die of old age. In a general way, says the Path finder, the length of infancy tends to run parallel with tlie relative hulk of the animal —the larger animals re quiring more time to grow and devel op their fill! vigor. In some cases low er animals attain maturity only bv a succession of curious stages. The shell of a crab when once hardened cannot grow and the crab is forced to molt or cast off his outgrown shell from time to time and grow a new one a little larger. A crab when growing this new shell is known as soft shell or “soft” crab, and at such times he is, of course, es pecially subject to attack from his enemies, as the shell, which is the nat ural armor, is wanting. In museums there are exhibits of as many as four teen castoff shells of a single crab, be ginning with a very tiny one and each one just a size larger than the last. Shellfish have their skeletons out : side them in the form of their shells instead of inside them. But what a waste of material is involved in a sys tem which requires them to manufac ture a new skeleton every new moo* or at other short, intervals, only to he thrown away as soon as it is finished. The state of development of ani mals when Lorn depends a great deal on the conditions that are to surround ;t.hem during infancy. Young rabbits, which are born in an underground burrow, are blind, naked and helpless at birth; the young hare, which is own ! cousin to the rabbit, is born with its eyes open and covered with fur and this because it is horn above ground, ; where it is exposed both to the irx ; clemency of the weather and predatory i foes. Thus in a measure each is suit |. ed to its surroundings. Latest. About David. A London teacher who has been examining the papers sent in by hoys of ten or eleven for a Scripture exam ination sends a few of tlie choicest efforts: One day David saw ten leopards, and they were calling out unclean One of them turned back and started to come towards him and he was clean. A Pharisee and a publiccon went up into a temple to pray. One liked it, the other did not, so one sloped and the other didn't. This teaches us to be kind and not unkind. A giant named Goliath, the man of the Phyistins, was going to fight Israinel. A young boy name divid herd him. He said to himself, “I’ll have a go at him." He went to the Israelite’ camp. He said, “I’ll have a go at him.” The Pharisees are frods and donot keep the law. The Publicans are the tax col lectors. They do not take v hat they haft too. They made there selves more, money. That learns us not to thief. Expensive Boat Race. A writer in Bailey’s Magazine of England has been figuring on the cost 1 of the annual boat race' between Ox ford and Cambridge, and says the ex pense to each crew may be approxi mately estimated at $3,000 for each. He then says that as the contest: rare ly takes more than twenty minutes, the cost works out at about S3OO per minute, or about $8 every time the pars dip into the water. The cost of the boats is placed at $250, and the aars at S7O, the rest of the money go ing for preparation from October un til the day of the race. The writer seems to think that $2,000 is a good deal of money to spend on a college ; crew (observes tiie New York Eve ning Post). It would be interesting to know what he would think of many times that amount spent upon the j American college crew* 2 for the an nual races. Literary Evening. The man was one of the sort that thinks it is a grand filing to educate his tinancee by reading poetry aloud : to her. Hie girl was one of the sort —wel 1 she was a girl. That is, having de cided that she was for the man. she pretended to tall in with his literary taste; nay. even tried to keep up an interest in it. So, well, the other eve ning he was reading Tennyson to her. He read this line: “Os love that never found his earth ly clos —” When the girl interrupted “Isn’t Tennyson just grand? You 'can always learn something from , him. Now, for the first time 1 under stand why Cupid is always repru»c>nt sd without anything on Bui please go on reading-• your voice nav so | much feeling in Mi” IT’S A WOMAN’S WAY They Are Sometimes Puzzling, but She Usually Knows How to Manage Man. i Bessie Thurston lutd two lovers, and therefore two rivals, practically ene mies. It had come about through a , rude disturbing influence in a clear j field for Rodney Thorne, lie had fond ly considered Bessie his own until Willis Gould appeared upon the scene. Given a bewitching young lady and a newcomer, the latter good-looking, with superior prospects, and feted and petted by all the other young la dies in the town, and naturally all that v.as vivacious in Bessie’s nature was aroused. Gould was “a jackanapes,” accord ing to Rodney’s prejudiced ideas. He was the scion of a wealthy family, had never worked a day in his life, and 1 was shortly to go abroad as secretary of a consulate. This gave Gould “high diplomatic ideas,” and the apparent right to wear a semi military coat with two gilt buttons on the neckbaud, which some of liis girl admirers desig* nated as “too cute for anything!” “It's got to come to an end,” said Rodney, definitely, one balmy eve ning. “And now’s my chance to end it.,’’ he added, as he reached the Thurs ton home to find Bessie alone in the i garden. If Rodney had appeared, as the pla cid, contented suitor of ante Gould r— Clinging to Either Side o* the Craft days lie might have won his way. He made the jealous lover’s mistake, how ever, of preluding his suit with his own peculiar ideas of his rival. Then lie ridiculed and censured Bessie’s in dulgence for “the spoiled society pet,” as he denominated Gould. “I won't hear a word against my friends!” declared the aroused Bessie “A fine friend for nobody to claim that jackanapes!” snapped out the ir ritated Rodney. ”1 think we had better meet later, when you are more rational,” suggest ed Bessie. “No, you shall bear me now,” de dared Rodney, determinedly, choosing ihe very worst moment to appeal to an offended deity, and putting his plea j more in the form of u complaint than i a true and tender confession of love. j He managed to get hold of her hand, I and she was more than interested. • A I proposal of marriage was a serious, j solemn thing to Bessie. Just then some | girl friends came into the garden. She ] feared ridicule and drew her hand j away. Rodney’s brow darkened. “I must have my answer —yea or 1 no?” lie persevered. “Later in the evening.” At that moment Gould came saun tering up the walk. “No —now!” “Then—no!” Rejected! Rodney was positively ; rude as he brushed by the newcomers. | He made no allowance for his own : faulty impetuosity. He had made an j , honorable offer of marriage to the \ woman he loved, and she had refused j him. After that he evaded Bessie, and her friends as well. One evening he made a wide detour to evade Gould and Bessie, who were idly drifting in a frail rowboat and, Rodney fancied, looking serene and happy. It was a rapid, torturing flight. Rod ney finally seated himself on the banks of the river three miles down the stream. The moon came out brightly, , the night was full of sweet sounds, the, soit drone of the rapids further alou# would have lured a sentimentalist to : sleep. Rodney, however, cherished only bitter, gloomy thoughts. Perhaps an hour went by when a cry caused him to look up. The river was broad and deep at this point, and its center held patches of little islands. The wider part of the stream lay be yond these. 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