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Show THE KNOCKER (Hy L. A. Hollenbeck.) "Stop, look, listen" is the railroad notice of danger. The danger from the knocker is as great as the danger from the cars, and yet we have no notice to put us on guard from the knocker. The former Is a danger from a physical force, while the latter Is a danger from a hidden mental force. ' The former for-mer we can see, but we have no notice no-tice of the latter until we are enmeshed en-meshed in its pessimistic folds. When the knocker knocks, you are in dan ger, and the real danger la the state of the knocker's mind, and not the country that be is knocking. He Is usually sincere, and that la what makes him dangerous. He Impresses his perverted view upon the other fellow, and the victim that doesn't know how to analyze facts, looks at the country that the knocker Is knocking, and thinks that be sees grave and grievous faults In the land snd soli, when. In fact, be Is not looking at the land and soil and Its Ingredients at all, but Is simply looking look-ing at the condition of the knocker's mind, and doesn't realize It. Strange, that a man will thluk he Is looking at the soil and comprehending It. when. In reality, he sees only the impression im-pression produced by the narrow and biased view of the disappointed knocker. knock-er. He is looking at a mental Impression, Impres-sion, Instead of looking at the soil. The hypnotist differs from the knocker, for, while the former is In perfect eelf comprehension while he controls his subject, the knocker fools both himself and his victim. The knocker habit grows like the tobacco or whisky habit. But those habits can be cured by a drug; not ao the knocker. knock-er. This habit is a strong symptom o( paranoia which Is Incurable. The knocker Is the great negative force that seeks to paralyze business, trtop progress, and to pinch out the ordinary ordin-ary ambitions of men, and to blast thlr prospect in life; all of which the knocker Is unconscious, because he refuses to see anything except his own disordered state of mind. It la a puzzle to know what to do with the knocker. Astronomers have found a huge round space In the depths of the sky, like a cylinder, lined wlht brilliant bril-liant suns, but Itself a dark bottomless bottom-less pit of pitchy blackness. They call It the "Hole in the Sky." It would seem to be a Attlng thing to take the aggregate of knockers, roll them up Into a huge bundle, tie them onto the tall of a comet and switch them Into the "Hole in the Sky." The knocker appeared in Delta last week. Two outfits came to the country coun-try In a car from California, and they were told that they could not pay their dues on the land from raising wheat, that it took too long to start alfalfa and that nothing but ruin and lissster awaited them In their new home. The newcomers looked through the blue mental glasses of the knockers, and their countenances changed from bright, happy, hopeful, imbltlous smiles to the dejected and iowncast looks of the disappointed, rbe "Defore taking" and "After tak-ng," tak-ng," were reversed. Like the Arabs, 'they folded their tents and silently itole away," and all because they had nlstaken the condition of the knock-sr's knock-sr's mind for the condition of the toll and of the country. Why didn't he knockers tell them that two miles ait of Keliey's hotel, James It. Jones alsed two and a half acres of sugar eets that produced twelve tons to he acre, with little care, and that hose beets brought $4.50 per ton on he car, and were shipped to the lugar mill at Payson. After paying veil for all expense the land netted I2.1 per acre, besides a lot of cow md hog feed. It Is easy to raise ten r fifteen tons of beets per acre In his soil, and beets make Arst class tock feed. Experts will tell you that i bog can easily be made to weigh :oo pounds at six months old. In a ittle time any ranchman In the val-ey val-ey can easily raise and fatten 2no logs each year, and pork sells higher m foot than does beef. He can do his with prsctlcally no expense ex-ept ex-ept the products that he can get out f his ranch. This Is figuring, but it i figuring right. Instead of wrong, nd any ranchman In the valley, after little preparation, can easily make hree or four thousand dollars pe. ear from his labor and hit land in , onnection with his thoughts. If be links right Why didn't the people ho Ulked to the Californlane tell icra this aide of the story Instead of le other aide. If the country won't reduce one thing profitably. It will nother. Sugar cane will not pro-ace pro-ace here, but sugar beets will. Let rery one know the fact 'that this untry is rich In natural fertility, ad that the onea who grasp the facts id make a study of the country and lapt themselves to It will surely be-ime be-ime wealthy. A new crop of walnuts just arrived , the Delta Bakery. j |
