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THE ALTO HERALD. ALTO, TEXAS.
HERE'S A CHANCE TO
BE INDIAN FIGHTER
"Pay - as - You - Enter,'
Requirement.
First
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
S WE rend the sixth
clmpter of the Gospel
according to St. Mat-
thew, we find these two
verses:
"And why take ye
thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of
the field, how they
gi;ow; they toil not,
neiiher do they spin:
"And yet I say unto
you, that even Solomon In all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these."
And It Is these flowers which, more
than anything else, have become the
symbols of Easter which we celebrate
this year on April 20. As such a sym-
bol the Illy has a double significance.
It Is one of the earliest spring flow-
ers. It typifies the rebirth of nature
after the long winter sleep. In its
dry, brown bulb life lies dormant dur-
ing the winter and then when spring
comes, this life begins to stir. First
It pushes out the tender green leaves,
and then the buds appear. Finally the
white blossom comes forth In all its
glory as the perfect emblem of resur-
rected life.
' Its other significance Is a religious
one, Its snow-white purity being emble-
matic of the 'flawless life of Christ
whose resurrection from the tomb we
commemorate on Easter day. In fact,
no other flower has a place In the re-
ligious life and literature of the Chris-
tian world to compare to the lily. Tet
Its glory Is not so new ns Christianity,
ancient though the beginnings of that
religion may seem to us.
The Greeks and the Romans prized
it above all flowers and in their ear-
lier civilizations it had already come
to symbolize purity and virtue. It was
because of the place lilies had won In
the popular esteem that they found
place in the early paintings of the
Virgin. The angel Gabriel was de-
picted carrying them In annunciation
pictures and it Is because of this that
the most beautiful of these flowers,
Lillum condidam, most used at Easter,
Is called the madonna lily.
Although this trumpet-like blossom
is the best known of all the members
of the lily family, there are others
which are very Interesting even though
they do not have such significance for
us as the madonna Illy. In the high
Himalayas In Asia grows a great lily
ten feet tall. Agents of the United
States government found a magnificent
specimen of lily in China a generation
ago—a lily of the madonna type, but
hardier—and brought It to America
and they have been offering It to citi-
zens to plant from coast to coast.
Most of the lilies that are native to
America are radiant with color. There
Is the turk's cap, for Instance, that
flaunts the deep yellow of its many
blooms through the waste stretches of
parts of New Knglnnd. Great, stal-
wart stalks, sometimes nine feet tall,
has the turk's cap. It may have half
a dozen orange blooms at its top, hut
those who have tamed this plant and
given It care have Induced It to pro-
vide as many as 40 blossoms.
A quite different American flower is
the little trout lily which likes to
grow along the streams or In the deep
woods. With the nourishment it hns
saved up In Its bulb It sturts growing
In the early spring and Is likely to
have bloomed before the leaves of the
trees have grown to the stage of mak-
ing shade to Interfere with It. A ra-
diant yellow, the trout Illy stands out
vividly against Its background of
green.
The blue flag running to purple is
another American Illy that has found
Itself a home In many gardens. The
mottled tiger Illy has been a favorite
for many generations. In California
the "leopard Illy lights the heather
dun," and the late shorn mendow Is
often red with their bloom.
The red lilies of New England, how-
ever, outshine them all and have In-
spired many a poet of that region.
Lucy I.ii I'eorn spoke of them as "red
lilies blazing out of the thicket." I'aul
Hamilton Hayne thought that the red
lily "stands from oil her sister flow-
ers anart."
An Eatter Flower
"To make one petal, myriad* of atom*
(each In Itnelf a plunttury ■vatem of
electron*) must climb and whew to thrir
exact station-, in the design."—State-
ment of a scientist.
Up-whispered by what Power,
Deeper than moon or sun
Must each of the myriad atoms of this
flower
To its own point of the colored pattern
run;
Each atom, from earth's gloom,
A clean sun-cluster driven
To make, at Its bright goal, one grain of
bloom,
Or fleck with rose one petal's edge in
Heaven ?
What blind roots lifted up
This sacramrntal sign,
Transmuting their dark food, in this wild
cup
Of glory, to what Heavenly bread and
wine?
What Music was concealed,
What Logos in this loam,
That the Celestial Beauty here revealed
Should thus be struggling to its lost
home?
Whence was the radiant storm,
The still up-rushing song.
That built of formless earth this heavenly
form,
Redeeming with art, the world's blind
wrong.
Unlocking everywhere
The spirit's Wintry prison.
And whispering from the grave, "Not
herel Not here I
He is not dead. The Light you seek is
risen!"?
—Alfred Noyes in the Washington Star.
Probably the most remarkable lily
in the world Is the yucca, or spanlsh
bayonet, of the arid plains of the
Southwest. There the lily becomes a
plant that is quite treelike and lives
for years. The lily leaves become
harsh, dagger-tipped Implements to
serve the purpose of repelling attack.
These may sit close to the ground or,
again, they may stand as high as a
man on horseback.
From the cluster of leaf armor
there springs now and again a tall
stalk that may reach like a flagpole
into the desert sunshine. At the top
of this staff there forms and finally
breaks Into bloom sueh an assem-
blage of pure white, bell-like, richly-
perfumed, and in every way perfect
lilies as nature produces nowhere else
in n single cluster. It Is given to the
desert to grow the greatest of all the
Illy-bearing plants despite the fact
that the chief habitat of the breed
seems to he the marsh.
Miles all grow from bulbs. This
bulb-malting capacity of the Illy fam-
ily Is one of Its dominant traits. It
and the six petals to all lily blooms
are marks of the tribe. Tulips, daf-
fodils, hyacinths, crocuses, all are ac-
tually, because they spring from bulbs,
members of the Illy fantlly.
But beautiful as are these members
of the Illy family, there are others
which are utilitarian rather than pure-
ly ornamental and which, although
like the "lilies of the field which toll
not," do furnish mankind with edible
crops. Surprising though It may be,
botuulsts will tell you that some of
our common vegetables are In realll
"lilies."
There is asparagus, for ini
that is bought In the market tied u|
In bundles of many stalks, tach
exactly like the other. Then is
nothing about this asparagus in this
form that would Indicate that it Is a
Illy. Asparagus tips are but 70ung
plants just coming through the g-ound.
If they were allowed to grov they
would throw out tall, lily-like stalks
and crown them with six-tipped flow-
ers that any observer would be able
to Identify as lilies.
The presence of this commonplace
asparagus In an Idling family is rather
a let down to Its pretensions. This,
however, Is not the worst. If the
truth must be told, the onion Is a illy.
The onion Is a lily that has been
bred through centuries for the devel-
opment of its bulb and the suppres-
sion of Its top. So It has come about
that the bulb may be three Inches
across and the top so Insignificant
that, when It has dried up, it hardly
appears at all. Vet when this top U
growing and flowering It Is like those
delicate plants of the window sills
which sometimes are called tube roses,
hut which actually are a delicate, re-
fined and fragrant lily that comes out
of the Orient.
Onions came from the Near East
and In ancient days furnished u sta-
ple food for the rural Inhabitants of
Greece and Italy. Not only was gar-
lic a food, but It was reputed to have
medicinal value and to be helpful to
the stomach In Its functions.
These two bulb vegetables, the Cin-
derellas of the plant food world, ride
about the earth In trnlnlonds and ship-
loads. The material service they ren-
der Is greater than that of all the oth-
er lilies put together. One would have
to look far In all the relationships of
nature to find a contrast more strik-
ing than that of the Easter lily and
the garlic of the Mediterranean.
Even though the lily Is the one per-
fect symbol of Easter, there are two
others which through the centuries
have become ho closely associated
with this red-letter day In our calen-
dars that we think of them almost as
quickly, In thinking of Easter, as we
do of the lily. They are the rabbit
and the egg.
The association of the rabbit or hare
with Easter has Its foundations in the
ancient belief in European and Asiatic
countries that the bare is the symbol
for the moon. In fact, the Chinese
represent the moon ns n rabbit pound
Ing rice In a mortar, while Hindu and
Japanese arllsis paint the hare across
tlie face of the moon. As tin- time ol
the Easter festival Is governed by tlu
phases of the moon this may lie an ex
planatlon of their connection.
Since the Resurrection of Christ oc
eurred in the spring. It Is easy to see
bow the symbols of the egg and al
revived life In the springtime came t<
be associated with this event In thi
history of Christianity. The egg ai
a symbol was taken over by the He
brews as an emblem of their deliver;
from bondage and next the enrl;
Christians took It over as their sym
bol of the resurrection.
San Francisco.—The first pay-as-
you-enter Indian fight in the West's
history Is ticketed to leave Douglas,
Ariz., May 7.
It's not a private fight, this Flmbres
expedition against the Apaches of Old
Mexico. According to promotional ma-
terial, any genuine Injun tighter, am-
ateur or professional, may sign up and
go to the war If he Is possessed of
good moral character and approximate-
ly $210 American gold.
The announced purpose of the ex-
pedition Is to rescue from the Apaches
the seven-year-old son of Francisco
Fitnbres, asserted to have been kid-
naped at the time his mother was mur-
dered October 20, 1020.
Regarded With Amusement.
The Apaches are camped at the
Canyon of the Caves In the Sierra
Madre mountains, 105 miles south of
the International line. The expedition
Is to make a surprise march ngalnst
them, confident that no Indian chief-
tain has read tiie newspapers and com-
plicated the situation by going away
from there In the Interim.
The international aspect of 125
Americans marching Into Mexico in
pursuit of Indians* who are strictly
the property of the southern republic
has been neatly taken care of by en-
listing the entire company as n volun-
teer militia unit of the Mexlcnn army.
The expedition is regarded along
llio border both with amusement and
interest. The amusement is due prin-
cipally to the Yankee promotional
basis upon which the expedition Is
being organized and financed, nnd the
Interest attaches because of the num-
ber of prominent Douglas citizens who
bead the enterprise.
A Good Vacation.
Mayor A. C. Karger of Douglas Is
president of the Fimbres Apache ex-
pedition, nnd Chief of Police Leslie
Gntllff is in charge of personnel.
Chief Gntllff, asked for details, said :
"We have a rather unusual under-
taking, but the way enlistments are
coming we ought to have between 75
and 100 from the outside and there
will be about 20 local men In the or-
ganization, It now seems certain."
With the true cameraderie of the
West, the chief added:
"Why not Join us and get the best
vacation you ever had,'a delightful ex-
perience, a fine comradeship, and see
some of the most wonderful country
God ever made?"
Ibis officially estimated that the ex-
ion will be active for 80 days
the start, May 7. Best accom-
modations are offered visiting Indian
fighters for about $7 a day—to be paid
by the said Indian fighters, not the
expedition nor the Mexican army—and
much of the food will be obtained by
killing wild game.
More than 140 Douglas business men
are listed as sponsors of the expedi-
tion, of which number at least 20 will
go along, according to Chief Gntllff.
Indians' Unfed Horses
Filch Hay From Cars
Yakima, Wash. — Indian horses—
shaggy, scrubby, unkempt nnd often
lame—which ronm the highways and
sagebrush country of the Yakima In-
dian reservation, often show remark-
able ingenuity In foraging for a living.
Although the Indians themselves know
which horses are their#, they make no
pretense to providing for them, nnd
lenve the nnimals to shift for them-
selves. If the horse dies there Is al-
ways another to be had from the wild
bands which pasture around Mount
Adams and on the Horse Haven rnnge.
As a result of the owners' neglect
large herds congregate around the
shipping points on the reservation, es-
pecially when snow covers the ground
and the mercury sings low. At Par-
ker, Bench, Asbue nnd White Swan,
the nnimals gather where they can ap-
prooch the freight cars being loaded
with baled alfalfa, potatoes, or wheat.
The horses are shrewd. They watch
the ranchers loading the cars, and
when the men nre near keep at a dis-
tance. However, after the farm wag-
ons or trucks lenve the car doors, the
horses approach. Stretching their
j necks Inside the enrs, the animals
' snnke out n bnle of hay, a sack of po-
tatoes or a sack of wheat. Once the
fornge Is out of the enr the horses
make a rush for It, the older nnd
stronger ones using their teeth and
heels to clear their approach to the
feed.
Hammer-headed Sharks
Washed Ashore in N. C.
Ocracoke, N. C.—While It Is not un-
common to see various species of
sharks nnd porpoises strewn along the
surf here lifter heavy seas have caused
high tides, It Is rather unusual to see
hnmmer-headed sharks. Two of the
hammer-head species were washed
ashore near Ocracoke Inlet during the
Inst week, nnd becuuse of their odd
shape, attracted much attention. ,
Senate Allows $62,000
to Banish Cockroaches
Washington. — To banish "cock-
roaches" and help keep the building
clean, 'the sennte appropriations com-
mittee has recommended an addition-
al $02,000 to run the sennte office
building. Senator Keyes of New
Hampshire protested that the cock-
roaches had eaten the bindings of his
•ooks.
By GRANT
DIXON
LIGHTS
of NEW TORK
kai
The True Artist
Happy is the man who lias found
tils work—but one doesn't run across
many such, In New York or anywhere
flse. A -young soda hustler, who
waited on me the other day, seemed
to exemplify the proverb. Business
laid been brisk and he was kept on
the hop. Then came a lull and he
paused a moment to talk with a
friend who occupied the stool next to
mine.
"I'm surprised to see you back ill
the game, Charley," said the friend
"1 thought you bad quit It for good."
"No," said Charley, who may have
been putting over big business merg-
ers or something like that during Ills
absence from the fountain. "I Just
couldn't be liappy at anything else.
This game certainly has a fascination
111 Its own. Yes, sir, pineapple soda
and no whipped cream."
* *
Incongruity
He was six feet six Inches, tall, If he
was a foot, lie was broad In propor-
tion. When he wnlked from the shut-
tle train to the west side subway pint1
form everybody turned to look at liini.
The little womnn who was walking
with him drew* the big fellow into a
quiet corner, Just at the edge of the
tides of travel.
"Now, honey," I heard her say to
the giant as I passed the couple, "don't
forget to bring home a pound of cof- |
fee."
* * *
Bootblack Dc Luxe
A bootblack of character Is Tony,
who has Ills stand on Canal street.
Tony looks as If he had just alighted
from Ills limousine nnd was on his wny
Into a Wall street olfiee for a day's
session with the stock ticker. He
wears a top hat and a cutaway coat
with a rosebud boutonniere, and as
lie slaps the polish on one's shoes he
smokes a big cigar. He t^lopted the
formal costume only recently, and de-
clares that It 1ms Increased Ills busi-
ness 25 per cent. He uses no push
and go to drum up trade. Never does
he yell. "Shine 'em up I" as all the
other bootblacks do. He inquires
quietly, "Will you have a shine, sir?"
...
One Way to Put It
A hotel guest recently made up a
bundle of linen and sent it to the ho-
tel's laundry. Accompanying ltTtoas a
list of the articles. The next morn-
ing a card was delivered to the guest.
It read: "Your list calls for one pair
of pajamas. We received one-half pa-
jamas." i
• • •
The Sleeper
It happened the other night at an
uproarious comedy. Someone, some-
where, was sleeping through It all. His
snores were far from gentle, and a
whole section of the orchestra was
first amused, then annoyed. The
buzzing of the slumberer caused waves
of titters to sweep over the house, and
the players on the stage, thinking the
applause was for them, redoubled
their efforts. Finally, when the house
lights went up at the end of an act,
the sleeper was located. He was a
large, bald, tough-looking man. By
common Impulse a dozen members of
the audience threw their programs at
the shining bald pnte. The dreamer
awoke with a start, looked about him,
nnd exclaimed, "No manners 1"
* * •
Those English!
It is no doubt provincial to me to
say so, but the British Who's Who
provides amusing reading. Here are
two oX England's big men whose bi-
ographies nre listed: Itear Admiral
Reginald A^lmer Ranfurly Plunkett-
Em-le-Erle-Drax, and Sir Rustonjee
Cownsjoe Cursetjee Jnnsetjee Jeheeb-
hoy.
((E) by the Iiell Syodtcnte. Inc.)
Don't
neglcc* a COLD
Distressing cold in chest cr
throat—that so often leads to
something serious—generally responds
to good old Musterole with the first ap-
plication. Should be more effective if
used oncc every hour for five hours.
•Working like the trained hands of a
'masseur, this famous blend of oil of
mustard, camphor, menthol and other
helpful ingredients brings relief natur-
ally. It penetrates and stimulates blood
circulation, helps to draw out infection
and pain. Used by millions for 20 years.
Recommended by doctors and nurses.
Keep Musterole handy—jars and tubes.
To Mothers—Musterole is also
made in milder form for babies
and small children. Ask for Chil-
dren's Musterole.
You Can't Catch Up
on Sleep, Tests Show
Hamilton, N. Y.—Sleep tests, ijow
being conducted at Colgate university
under the direction of Dr. Donald A.
Laird, have revealed there Is no such,
thing as "catching up" completely by
sleeping nn abnormal length of time
ufter n sleepless night.
"Snake Bite" Healthy
Windsor, N. C.—One out of every
133 persons in Snake Bite township,
Bertie county, is over eighty years old.
The population is 2,000.
■I"M"I"1"H"M"I"1"I I I I I 1-H 'l. I | H-frf
Average Man Worth
$1.25 in Chemicals
London.—The average man Is
worth approximately $1.25 In
chemicals, according to an anal-
ysis made by the medical staff
of the national health Insurance
committee.
The analysis slitnvs that the
average man has In his body:
Fat enough for seven bars of>
soap.
Iron enough for one medium-
sized nail.
Sugar enough to fill n shaker.
Lime enough to whitewash u
chicken coop.
Phosphorus eqpugh to make
2,200 mntches.
Magnesium enough for a dose
■ •" salts.
"fash enough to explode a
,..,v cannon, and sulphur enough
to rid one dog of fleas.
I
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Don't Overdo It
Mr. Van Nn::g- June, I think you
fib n little occasionally.
Mrs. Van Nagg—Well, I think It Is
a wife's duty, John.
Mr. Van Nagg—A wife's duty?
Mi's. Van Nagg—\*es, to speak well
of her husband occasionally.
Jtoj Gen JlClinkscale?
Tells What Keeps
Him So Active
It Is doubtful if you could find
a man who has more friends than
Major General J. F. CUnkscales,
Commander of Forrest's Cavalry.
Western Division, and commander
of the second division of Confed-
erate Veterans In Texas. In telling
how he keeps so active at ills age.
Gen. Cllnlcscales quickly launched
Into his fnvorlte subject when
seen at Ills home In Sun Antonio
nt 3000 So. New Braunfels Ave.
"Nature's Remedy .does It. When
we disobey the laws of nature we
must suffer. Nobody Is immune.
J am no different than anyone
else, except that I know the min-
ute anything goes wrong In my
stomneli or bowels, I take Nature's
Remedy (NR1 Tablets)."
Any druggist will tell you that
the little 25c box of Nature's
Remedy (NR Tablets) Is what you
need when your stomach becomes
sour, bowels tight nnd you suffer
from Indigestion, biliousness, sick
headaches. More than 3 million
are used a day.
One's Real Worth
You are worth just as much ns the
things yo\i are living for are worth.
—Baptist Record.
Fruit Used by Tanners
The rind of the pomegranate Is
used In tnnnlng certain tine grades
of morocco leather.
"Brought Back
My Strength"
"My little daughter was born on a
homestead in northern Alberta. I had
four other children and I worked so
hard that I suffered a nervous break-
down. The doctor's tonic did not
seem to help me and when a friend
told me about Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, I began to
take that instead. I kept on until I felt
well again. It brought back my
strength. Today I can do anything,
thankstothe Vegetable Compound."
—Mrj. William Parent, 1413 W, 62nd
Street, Seattle, Washington
Lydia E, Pintail's
Vegetable Compound
I E Pinkham MuL Co; I.tun, M.
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