The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-27
BEANS UPHOLD
ANCIENT TRADITION
THEY HAVE ASSUMED AN DIPOR.
TANT ROLE IN THE PRES
ENT WAR.

Nations Business: Were such a per-
formance possible, the autobiography of
bean probably would start with the
vegetation that began to sprout from
sleeping seed in the earth Immediately
after Noah disembarked on the sterile
crown of Mount Ararat.
Humble, then, the bean is not. And
the cheapness has ceased for the pres.
ent. Beans for planting cost farmers
this season from $40 to $l2 a bushel.
The food price at retail was consider.
ably higher
II lies in no mans mouth therefore,
although it may be filled with porter.
house steak, irreyerently TO refer to the
beam red, white, mottled or black, or
whether il be baked, boiled or made in.
TO soup
On the unread surface Of the bean
are the records Of mighty events that
occurred before man learned to write
on barks, skins and obelisks Moses
ate beans; as did Abraham and doubt
less, Cleopatra.
Races have come. ruled and vanished,
but the bean, always here, is here yet.
Napoleon fought and Shakespeare
dIamatized and Hannibal marched
over the Alps, but they perished from
the face of the earth; yet the bean is
nourishing millions of soldiers along
the edges Of Belgium and France
Writer'S poets, among the rest. notably
in the neiShborhood Of Boston, are sus-
tanned and inspired within its depths.
The carob beans, Wilson, the British
writer on agriculture, has said, were
once supposed TO be the locusts eaten
by John the Baptist, and, consequently,
have been called st Johns bread"
But John was a modern character
when compared with Pythagoras, who
! lived about six centuries earlier.
"Shun the bean" exhorted that an
cient philosopher, addressing his Gre.
clan followers. Interpreted into mod.
ern terms "Shun the bean" meant
Leave politics alone" In those days,
| both among the Romans and the
Greeks, ballots We're beans and were
cast into helmets at the election Of
magistrates
A white bean was the symbol Of one
candidate, a black bean the symbol OF
another candidate, and so on There
must have been scandals. the stuffing
of helmets with more beans OF one
color or all colors than there were
/ citizens in the precinct and. possibly.
! the open purchase of virtuous and
enlightened electorate TO the shame and
anger OF high-minded reformers like
| Pythagoras.
Anyway, his "shun the bean" or his
robust words to that effect, seem TO
imply that the politicians Of $50 b. C..
were no better or smarter than were
the politicians Of a much later period.
II redeem myself and my family by
these beans" solemnly and hopefully
| chanted the ancient Roman, while. as
he stood at the tombs OF his fathers.
he threw black beans over his head
nine times. He has washed his hands
three times and had placed flowers.
food and gifts upon the graves. II IL
were night, he had a lighted torch or
lamp, that his ancestors might fall in.
TO no error as 20 his identity and ne.
deem the wrong persons.
Yet among the early races Of men a
white bean stood for, absolution and a
black one for condemnation. This evi.
IDENTIFY is the origin Of the practice in
clubs and secret societies Of voting out
Objectionable applicants FOR member
ship by the process known as black.
balling
III he gives me peas" runs an Old
! French proverb. 81 viii give him beans. "
Otherwise. II he hits me with a brick
J Will cudgel him ON the head with my
stick Not TO know beans" says the
most scholarly OF modern dictionaries.
means the same. in the measurement
lof ignorance. as mot 20 known b from
! "a bulls foot"
Beans a pioneer from the North
told Professor Leo Cleveland Corbett
the other day. conquered Alaska. We
would cook q batch for ourselves" he
said "aud batch Tor the dogs and
put them in long, shallow pans 10
freeze. After they We're frozen we
would break them into pieces. like pea.
nut candy. and carry them I'm bags on
the sleds.
The beans were thawed bv "a spirit
lamp and for three months al a time
were about the only food we ate. Ru,
Tor beans. Alaska would still be AN
unknown wilderness In the snow and
Ice. / am glad TO meet" he said The
| expert who is developing the bean I'M