Semi-weekly herald., 1911-01-26
disease has broken out in their own
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THE cHRoNIc kNockER.

THE CHRONIC kNOckER.
The chronic knocker is the mule OF
the human race but, as the Master
said OF the poor. he 'is with ye al
ways"
One reason why the knockers ex-
ceed In numbers the energetic boost
ers Is because 1t requires neither wis
dom nor courage to knock, and 1t
might also be said that 1t requires
little or no effort, while boosting. TO
be effective, requires sometimes all
three.
| The knocker Is OF most ancient, IL
not honorable. origin and the first
recorded knock we read of was made
by the devil. in the Garden of Eden,
when he made his knock argument to
Eve. and since that day the children
OF the original knocker, elated by the
success OF their parent, have continu-
ously knocked on any and d-eyery knock
able proposition
| The knocker is, as rule, without
discrimination and whatever condi-
tion exists Is subject to attacks from
his hammer. Some knockers are more
particular and must have some real
or imaginary reason for knocking, but
this only shows that there are knock.
ers of different degree, 1t does not
excuse the act at all. Some knockers
knock for conditions today and against
them TOMORROW for you cannot please
a knocker, you can only give him a
different subject to knock on.
| Knockers are not gregarious but
knock usually single handed and alone
while boosters flock together and
boost unitedly. Knockers are so con-
stituted that If two knockers get to-
gether they will, instead of uniting in
one glad and joyous knock. immediate
| ly begin knocking on each other, for
no knocker ever admits that any other
knocker has right to exist.
The leading characteristic of a
knocker is to retard in every possible
manner all contemplated progress, he
knocks alike on present conditions and
on every plan to better them. because
| 1t Is in his soul to knock.
| Knockers have always got the worst
of 1t in every way but that fact never
deters knocker because he is sure,
down in his heart, that he Is the first
and original knocker who knocked
as jealous of his fellow Knockers '"as al
he is of the booster on whose plan
he knocks.
Just why the good Lord. in his In
scrutable wisdom, ever made the
knocker has not been given us to know
but it was undoubtedly for the same
reason that he made the rattlesnake
and the mosquito and ii is not for us
to question His motives, but to take
up conditions as they are and make
the best of them.
In one way at least the knocker sets
a good example to the booster and
that is in the way OF indefatigability
for he knocks in and out OF season
and without ceasing and while boost.
ers are not unfrequently somewhat in
termittent in their boosting the knock.
er knows no closed season and no
forbidden subject.
II may be in time to come that
science will discover that knocking is
not voluntary but Is caused by some
parasite. just as 1t Is now said that
laziness is caused by the hookworm,
and. If this be the case, it will ex.
plain the mystery of Why is a
knocker.
When that day comes 1t may be that
the signboards in the druggists win.
dows will tell of the wonderful pow
ers of knockicide or OF Anti-Knock,
and then, when city like Durango
contemplates paving her streets or
making other needed improvement,
these great remedies may have SO rev.
olutionized human nature that the
chronic knoeker will no longer exist.
oh Happy Day. Oh Happy Day
When knocking shall have passed
| away
And, instead OF knocking like they
| us'ter
Each knocker will have become a