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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
DUMAS A PROLIFIC AUTHOR
But His Output Of. Books and Plays
AvalIed Him Nothing When He
Sought Election.

One of the most original election adj
dresses on record was that issued by
Dumas pere in 1S4S. when he stood for
division OF Paris. Although Dumas
had been an ardent republican long be-
fore the downfall of Louis Philippe, II
was mainly as an employer Of labor
that he sought the SURFACES Of democ-s
racy. During the past 20 years The
wrote. It is recalled) ! have composed
400 volumes and S5 plays. Each vol.
ume averaged a sale Of 1000 copies.
and each play averaged 100 perform
ances. have thus helped to give EN-
ployment to printers. papermakers.
bookbinders, booksellers, ETC.. also to
actors, actresses, stage hands, scene
painters. theatrical costumers, ETC.
The sale of my works produced about
1858, 900 francs, ana the money paid
to see my plays totaled about $4,000
francs. Taking the average daily wage
Of all concerned at three francs. and.
reckoning 300 working days to the
year, my books have kept 892 persons
for 20 years and my plays have kept
l,041 persons for the same period.
This address, of which huge qunntl-
ties were distributed, failed In It's pur-
pose. Two years later Dumas sought
election for Guadeloupe and was
again defeated. This so disguised him
that he never tried for election again
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21

Statistics proving that the states Of
the West and middle West are yerIta-
Bile hotbeds of burglary, as compared
with eastern states, may be found in
the widespread reports Of robberles
committed, through interchange Of
crime fluctuations for the past year.
Illinois stands far and above all other
states In the reports OF 1.156 bur-
glaries, selected at random from more
than ten times that number OF rob-
berries committed which were covered
or partly covered by insurance. Mis-
souri, Is second on the list with 70;
Pennsylvania third with 70; Ohio
fourth. with Sc. Judging from western
methods employed. by burglars who
have made big hauls In and around
New York in the last few weeks, bur-
glary insurance underwriters believe
there has been a strong influx of west
ern crooks to that part Of the country.
and that New York city Is developing
the biggest crime wave In Its history.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
NOT ARDENT WORDS OF LOVE
At First, Though, II Would Seem
That Salesman Was Addressing
His Adored One.

mo one ever loved you half as
well as do" he said to her.
She made no answer.
"How did you come to love me?"
4le pleaded. Still the girl refused to
speak, although she smiled encour-
agingly at this.
"Your name Is written on my heart.
The world is dark without you. I've
built bungalow for you and me. Let
us fly to an isle In the tropic sea. The
kiss you gave me set my heart on
fire."
The girl was not offended. She
scowled little. but not at him. She
seemed In deep thought. Suddenly
she looked into his pleading orbs.
mo" she said. Nothing like that"
my Oola-loola girl. When"
The girl shook her head and left
the counter.
The young salesman had been nam
ing the latest popular songs Doesn'i
sound like q national anthem cpl
demic, does It'll
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
III. TAYLOR
Lawyer

Bank of Camas Prairie Bldg,
Grangeville, Idaho.
Practice in all the courts.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
RAsELAs PROVED 4 PROPHET
Events He Recorded, In Tale for tNs
Nursery. Have Now Become
Assured Facts.

When Pantagruel took leave Of the
good Gargantua. his royal father. and
took shipping at the port Of Thalassa
for Catay, in upper India. he completed
In four months the voyage which II
took the Portuguese three years to
complete, says the Christian Science
Monitor. Many leagues then lay be-
tween father and son. but they com
inundated. That is the polntsIn turn
ing over the leaves of the cures hook
at this hour, when the dream OF the
dominion Of the air, which has haunted
the imaginations Of men for centuries.
has come true. Pantagruel, busiIy
making purchases at the fair some
where in Asia, hears a joyful cheer
and sees that one of his fathers adj
vice boats has arrived-"that Ship. was
light as Lark, so that It seem,d rather
to fly on the Sea than to SAIL"
Pantagruel asked Malicorn, the bear
er Of dispatches, whether he had Con-
zal, the heavenly messenger. EYES.
Sir, here It Is swadled up In this Bias
ket.' 1t was q grey Pigeon which PAN
tagruel caus'd to be addressed and
ewhite Ribbon ty'd to its Feet. The
Pigeon presently flew away and in
two hours II compass'd the air, and
Gargantua, hearing II had white rib
bon on, was joyful and secure In his
sons welfare" That Is Rabelals' III.
tie story, tale for the nursery. but
with all the potentialities which. in the
fullness of time, have been realized.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
War Makes Deer Migrate.

War has driven the deer of Massa-
chusetts from one of their favorite
stands. When the six days open sea-
son started hunters who have been ac-
customed to stalk the animals In the
Nashua River valley In the central part
Of the state had to find a new Objec-
tive, for what was once great area
of scrub growth is now the canton
ment city Camp Devens.
Reports from towns a short distance
away indicate that large numbers OF
deer have found refuge in woods not
many miles away.
SpOrtsmen anticipated leaner sea-
son than for many years, compare
tive scarcity Of deer being reported by
residents Of rural districts.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
TREASURES IN The CELLAR
Cleaner Finds Many Things Stored
There, With More or Less IN.
terestino History.

Health drive Is on this week, and
every good Brooklynlte will go down
In his cellar and clean out all the rub
hiSh and useless stuff except possibly
the furnace. When one Is engaged In
this sort of work he runs across lots OF
old forgotten stuff.
He unearths crayon portraits of On.
Gle Hiram and Aunt Maria, made with
an air brush in exchange for 400 cou.
pons and So. They were intended for
the parlor. but reached the cellar after
throwing the old family canary into
commissions; and there Is the wreck Of
the old whatnot that grandma gave
you II used to stand In the corner of
the parlor. filed with old family pic
lures. sharks eyes. Indian bead work
and other terrible monstrositles that
children gazed upon with awe. And as
you come across 1t you remember that
the first thing you did after dear
grandma passed away was to hustle
the whatnot down below. back of a
pair of moth-eaten portleres,
And you find your pair of white tlan-
nel trousers that you wore to picnic
and sat down In on a blackberry pie.
And you recall the trouble and embar.
rassment you had getting home. and OF
how, when you had the trousers
cleaned, the big stain turned green and
the trousers went into the discard. And
YOU run across the first silk hat you
ever wore, which made you look like
an undertaken, and the vase which you
smashed and blamed on the cat, cnus,
ing an Innocent feline to lose good
home; and the tie your wife bought
you, on which you deliberately spilled
Ink, for which no one could blame you
And so you go along roofing out one
old article after another, plllng them
In heaps to walt for the ashman and
the junkman, hummlng that old hymn
"Slc Transit Gloria MundI. Brook
Ign Standard Union.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21

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II AL NEWS .
, . . . 9 . 90 Q . . . . . . . .
Z. F. Schaecher was confined
to his home this week with a
severe cold.
Will take Liberty Loans on all
deals. Geo. M. Reed, Grange
vile, Idaho. LIP
FOR SALE Ten foot single
disc drill in good shape. Inquire
of Toney E. Baune. 1873
Soldiers boys returning this
week are as follows: Ed Funke,
oversee; Anthony ]. Surbeck and
Andrew Durby, Camp Lewis.
Eventually you will buy Tip
Top, why not order some today?
Call on your grocer or on us, we
both deliver free of charge. Cot
tonwood Milling & Elevator Co.
Ltd. 5-tf
Jim Eller and wife, of the
Greencreek section were passen-
gers for Grangeville Thursday
morning. Mr.. Eller recently sold
his ranch and has not decided on
any future plans.
Fred Hunt of the Winona sec
ton sold 125 head of feeders to
Ross Howard Of the Stanfield
Sheep Co. The cattle were ship
ped out Of Ferdinand Thursday
for their range on the Snake river.
Miss Lucille Sasse departed
Sunday for Spokane, where she
begins a three years, course Of
training to become a professional
nurse. This is the work Miss
Sasse has craved all her life, and
everything comes to her, as well
as he, who waits long enough. :
Ferdinand Enterprise.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
Salmon River Ripplings
Especial Correspondence

AJINSieSA
Mrs. Dan Hill of Joseph is visit
ing at the home Of Mrs. Lula
Lancaster.
A most enjoyable house warm
ing was enjoyed at the home of
E. A. Lancaster of Rice Creek
last Friday night. Had plenty Of
good music and refreshments. 1t
was also Mr.. Lancaster's birth
day. Mr.. Lancaster expects to
have the house and ferry boat in
readiness to serve the public in a
few days.
We are enjoying beautiful
weather on the river.
Spring crops are being put in
with great speed the last few
days.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
The Coal SHORTAGE.

"Coal," said government official.
will be scarce this winter, but mo-
body is going to freeze to death.
"You hear everywhere the most ex-
aggerated stories about the scarcity
of coal. In my Office the other day /
warned an office boy that II he didn't
do better I'd have to haul him over
the Goals. The boy grinned.
But he said. there ami nOAs -
Aaul us ORsE, q there. ssrT"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
InvaIId,s RemarkabIe Work.

Miss IngebOrg Brun, the maker OF
the nine-inch globe representing Mars
that was lately presented to NJ. Flam-
marion, Is a Danish woman who has
been confined to her bed 20 years. The
planet IL shown In correct colors. and
all canals and other features noted by
the latest observers of Mars are
mapped. The work modernlzed the
two globes long ago made by the
French astronomer himself.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to the kind friends and
neighbors who assisted us in our
recent bereavement. Their kind
deeds will never be forgotten.
Mrs. ]. E. Gentry and family.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21

FOR SALE Rhode Island Red
eggs for setting from good layers.
Inquire of Mrs. Charles Staal.
IN O
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID

For any amount of poultry.
Will receive always on Saturday
and Monday of each week. Also
any amount of rabbits. T. Clark,
the Junk man. 4-8
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21

Anyone wanting a complete
tractor outfit see w. R Rogers,
Cottonwood, Idaho. 8-tf
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-03-21

Choice alfalfa hay for sale. Cot
tonwood Milling & Elevator Co. 48h
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
By Harriette Underhill

few weeks ago we had luncheon
with Smiling Bill" Parsons at the
Astor MI Parsons chose the Astor be-
cause he says they have the best ice
cream in the world. We ordered grape
fruit first, and Bill-Smiling Bill Par
sons-said, Bring me a raspberry ice
at the same time Next we ordered
baked sausage and sweet potatoes, and
our host said Bring me some tutti-
/ fruitti ice cream" And when we or
dered endive salad he said, 81 think I'll
have some vanilla ice cream with choc-
olate sauce" This is quite true, al
though it doesn't sound so.
We went to the luncheon in the first
place because Ralph Block asked US TO-,
but we remained to praise" and we
have Mr.. Block to thank for having
added to our list such an infectiously
smiling person.
Said we to Bill--Smiling Bill Par
sons: "If we tell the truth about you
no one will believe it. It sounds too
good to be true"
"rell it this way and 1t WON'T" re-
torted Smiling Bill
Parsons used to be an insurance
agent. He was the kind Of insurance
agent they write up in the magazines
under the heading, What This Poor
Simp Accomplished Why Can't You? p
He travelled pretty nearly everywhere
over the globe, selling insurance pol
icies wherever he could find anybody
with enough iron men to buy them. In
this way he amassed good sized roll
enough, at least, to set him up as e
producer. His first fame in the films
came as producer of 'Tarzan of the
Apes which added to the wad, and
managed to persuade him he'd be pretty
good on the screen himself. This
wasn't long after John Bunny fetired
from this sorry scheme of things, and
somebody suggested to Parsons he
would be whale of success as e pict-
ure player. despite my natural
prejudices, honesty compels me to say
that l got away with it,
"1n his travels he used TO pene-
trate pretty nearly everywhere, and got
to see lot of strange people, Orien-
tai potentates, English dukes, South
American revolutionists, etc After
while he had a feeling that he was
seeing life, but he had no way of
making his experiences permanent.
Talking to these strange fry, he saw
many extraordinary things, and he be-
gan to feel that the world would be
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
Pictures Made of
Smith and Golden Piovs?

Marc Klaw and Louis Selznick will
entertain 200 motion picture men at
"Lightnin'" Monday evening and at
NThree Wise Fools" on Wednesday
night. These theatre parties may re-
suit in Winchell Smith and John L.
Golden being persuaded to part with
the picture rights of their three Broad
way successes, for ever since Turn to
the Right" scored q hit at the Gaiety
Theatre motion picture producers have
been trying to secure it for the screen.
Only few months ago Mr.. Golden re-
fused certified check representing a
fortune for the cinema rights of "Turn
to the Right" loath to part with a play
which was bringing in large royalties
from the road every week.
There is q scarcity at present of
scenario material of sufficient value to
furnish the programmes for the picture
theatres de luxe like the Rivoli, Rialto,
Strand and the new Capital Theatre,
which will shortly open at Fifty first
Street and Broadway. A syndicate
will soon operate q chain of theatres
from Maine to California which will
run only the big programmes from
these New York houses and willy pict-
ure men are preparing to lay in a
stock of scenarios which will be "sure
fire.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

Henry, at least, during office hours; we
come to a full belief In an underlying
esponsibleness In him. There returns
to US the plaint of one married lady
to another in the days of their early
middle age: "When l was a girl, OF
course, liked to see the heroes young
and terribly good looking and all
dressed up, with exciting things hap
pening to them. But now l feel so left
out of things like that, ] feel as if
they would just snub everything I was
interested in and anyhow ! want to say
to them, well, you don't interest me,
cither! Don't you think it's silly of
them" (appealing to her friend) "never
to have men that are really interesting,
like our husbands?" Henry Minor is
the triumphant response to that appeal.
There is sense in which he is Every
woman's Husband, or, at any rate, every
American husband, however much nicer
he may be than that one of Cara's, in
whom we cannot imagine what she
ever saw, or however much less DAZZLING
than that one Of Mary's, so terribly
good looking and all dressed up, like a
young hero to whom exciting things
might happen, that we cannot imagine
how she ever caught him; yet there will
be something Of Henry Minor in him if
he is really husband ct all.
We are told that when Sidney Drew
died nearly fifty unreleased pictures
were completed, and not only these,
but all in existence, can, of course, be
long reissued. But even when Polly's
pretty dresses have become old-fash
Toned and the Ford and hivver man
ners of our day are left FAR behind
the interest Of days when everybody
bitches his aeroplane to his front
steps, even if fire should explode
every scrap Of celluloid that holds the
record of our Minors, the most i'm
portant thing about them will persist
the fact that they called upon some
thing honorable in public taste and
that the public shonorably responded.
That is what has put faith into the
effort all about US. We shall never
have on the screen q human and
simple comedy which is not In this
sense stamped with the legend, "Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Drew present.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
The 77th Season of the
Philharmonic Orchestra

Beginning in October with an ad-
vance performance for the benefit of
the fourth Liberty Loan and ending
last Sunday with request" pro-
gramme, the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra concluded ita seventy sew
enth season Of interrupted music max
ing in New York. During this period
eighty-two concerts were presented in
the society's various Manhattan and
out-of- town series, and three perform
ances were donated TO charity and war
organizations. or the former regular
concerts, forty-fve were presented at
Carnegie Hall, five at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music and five under the
auspices Of "The Evening Mail" for its
Save Home Fund. There were two
evenings of light music at the Waldorf
Astoria for Philharmonic members.
and q series of four popular concerts
given at the Commercial High School
in Brooklyn. In its series of twenty
performances presented on tour the So
ciety this year added Vassar to it's list
of university concerts, where four
more appearances have already been
arranged for next year by Edgar Mars
ton, who presents the series to the col
lege.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

q handy revolver. Let something go
wrong and a hand is slipped in q
drawer or under something and out
comes pistol. Even when couple
are going on a wedding tour, they
seldom fail to take a weapon with
them.
Clever burglaries are shown in the
fullest detail, all teaching our young
how easy it is to do these things,
and they also show the method of
covering a crime after having COM
mitted it, thus putting into the young
mind things that otherwise would
never be thought Of One picture much
advertised on Broadway q few years
ago, think it was the Lone Wolf" or
some such name, showing three mur-
ders, one placing the corpse in bed
and setting fire to it, thereby cover
ing the deed. Some Of the dreadful
pie throwing slap stick" comedies are
vulgar, disgusting and an insult TO
the American people, to say the least.
Let US all join hands now that the
hour has struck for this reform. and
help to save our coming generation
from some of the "thrillers" and di-
rect them along the line OF the clean.
wholesome picture.
Very truly yours,
ALICE sNITJER BURKE.
2489 Broadway
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20
A Man May Smile and Smile
And Be Bill Parsons

the loser if he didn't make some kind
Of record Of his gathered knowledge.
'Tarzan, which went over Big was
one result of it. When he went in as
player himself, an abnormal sense of
humor and i forty-inch waist line led
him into screen comedy. But his old
life still haunts him. He produces his
own pictures, and in many Of them
you find evidences of his old contsct
with revolutionaries and other pas
sionate wild people. There is some
thing Freudian about it---he is always
upsetting things, having wild, mad
dreams and shooting the top OF the
universe. At least, that is the way ]
feel about it," said Smiling Bill" and
paused for breath before he ordered
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

another ice cream. He talked fast, and
we only hope that we have not mis-
quoted him.
And as Parsons had another inter
view at the same hostlery at o'clock
We left him and wandered out on to
Broadway alone.
And there we met Percy Marmont,
and he said, "Where have you been ?"
And we said, launching with 'Smil-
ing Bill' Parsons"
And last week you lunched with
Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle, didn't you?
I an going TO adopt descriptive cog
nomen! It's quite the thing, isn't it =?
shall be Lanky Percy Marmont.'
And we thought this was so funny
that we had TO put it in.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-20

regularly. The moving pictures to-day
are the cleanest form of amusement
known to the American people. Thou
sands of men throughout the United
States take their wives and children
to the moving picture theatres because
they know they are going to have clean,
wholesome amusement.
The moving pictures are the eyes
Of the world. The moving pictures
have saved thousands of young women
and thousands of young men from 60
ing on the wrong path. The United
States Government has realized this,
and has already issued for men two
films, Cit to Fight and Cit to Win"
These films teach the young men of
the United States q great lesson. Mrs
O'Grady ought to remember that ia
nous saying, seeing is believing" and
another equally famous. Hoping that
you will defend the moving pictures.
l remain
CHARLES COHAN.
Bridgeport, Conn.
To the Editor of The Tribune:
I, like Mrs. O'Grady, regardless of
the fact that the picture industry was
"long ago established in the hearts
Of such men as Woodrow Wilson and
VIM. X. Taft, and every high-minded
man in public" say that the pictures
shown our children arc disgrace, and
are immoral and licentious ! have
talked against them for the past five
years, not only on the streets Of New
York City and State, but around the
entire United States.
You can hardly find a picture un-
less it shows some woman is running
off or seeking the husband of another
woman, or q husband infatuated with
another's wife, etc. Most pictures have
murder, suicide and nearly always