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Ttn IMMI^T IN DIX 'istesö», 6 rrr:———t-!——-i Ona year •fat months Three moat -» —4J-0# 1.00 .60 OataUe ef Mahn. Om year Six monthe .. Three months *8.60 1.26 entered in the Emmett postofflc* afosoad clasa asail matter. 1 puÆiS^ssoctatÎosi I putî? THo dTsU thlSl^!,* 0 ." Æ the subscription expiree. Forward yuur money in ample time for renewal Notice date on label carefully, and if not correct, pleas* notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed pleaee state in their communication both the OLD and NEW address. F,: N. -, - CURRENT COMMENT ^ READER asks why H is not pos sible to settle the bonus question our ut once by "collecting some of money from Europe to pay our sol This seems a simple matter, but it is diors." cannot pay us in money because only medium of international change is gold and we already have the bulk of the world's supply. They could send us goods instead of gold, but this would throw our workmen out of employment and disarrange all of our commercial structure. should be remembered that when this debt was incurred we did not send money to Europe. We sold wheat and corn and pork and munitions of teking pay in the notes of the buy« instead of cash. % ... Î war, ira Practically speak ing. there is no way to settle the debt now except to send sponding value in merchandise. This w# do not want. uh a corre In fact, we cannot afford to take it. Therefore the set tlement of the foreign debt is ter of so long a time in the future that it was impossible to consider it in connection with the bonus bill. TkOGS wer# mentioned in two stories „„ , . __ „ . in one day. new, recently. One story was from Washington, the na Uonal capital, the other from a min ing city In northern Michigan. The ox origin. In Washington a group of men, whose hearts were wrong, whose thoughts were faulty, sought to in due* congress to pass s law decreeing death to all dog* in the nation. It was an illustration of abnormal thinking, of humanity goneVrong. The Mich I » , , -'""a- me mien igan etory had more appeal to the heart and th# mind. It told of two little boys, lost in a snowstorm dur ing a blissard, being piloted through , mile» of wood* safely home by a faith. ful collie, their playmate and friend. It was a long and dangerous journey, familiar object* were lost in the driv ing storm, th* boya were helpless, but the dog Anew the way kerne, knew it beeaue* nature gave him inatinct for a mat tka teak. The lads held to hie tell aa they toiled and stumbled through tee storm, oeer the brash and drift*, bwt th* deg did not fail team. tie with the storm. It waa dag wis to for** the m a m * ri** *f the dog playmate* af their ha y hss d days. Th* a* pa dig res ar attain of thorough bred bleed, bat to the mind of th* bay he waa all that a thoroughbred aught to be, for h* never failed hie hoy ouater. There ara bad dogs, and tear* ar* bad man. Soma dags, as earn* bays, hav* a poor chance, but tea dag la man's faithful friend and and friendship and TWE other day a 6-yeor-oid child aakad: "Daddy, where does wheat com# from?" "Well." replied daddy, "a man in tha country sows seed wheat in th* spring snd th* saad grow* into sulks upon which th* grow*. summer the man harvests the grain and takas it to a grist mill, where another man grind* it into flour. Than tha ether men taka it on a freight train and carry it to a city, where It ia placed la tee etorae." And her* the 6-yeat^oid said Si "Aren't people goad to ua. daddy!" Th# father never thought ef It that way Every man's Job to om of serv ing not so mach himself aa it is assis ting others. Every werkar ia performing n service to hundred* thousands of persona, and th* batter b* does his Job the better he is to the multitude. The world I* a great so tisty af co-operation in which all serving each other. Selfishness and other evils prevent the highest degree of service. The most of us seldom think of the extraordinary amount of benefits an individual receives from tite hug* aggregation of workers. Only when a part of th* machine thrantons to break down is it partly n p p r s rl a tsri how everyone depends up m eve ry body else. or *re ft'-sX gy EEYBOD T flavors a soldier bonus m flag as heard nobody is M Mfo tee addition to hi* -■Nfttamr to pay it km j I Se e Th at— Britein ha*'freed Egypt, with creations. Diplomat* would not tar thip golden gatea if a reservation elans* waa not tacked onto the tract. en con An American relief commissioner' was shot in Moscow. The Russians hav# a peculiar way of showing their gratitude The miners snd railroad men have formed an "offensive and dafensive" » *• miners refus* to min. co *' or *• «"road «•" »*»• to ,t * ** I 0 «! 1 » ■* Jf w# might be up it. Secretary Hoover proposes to put stop to listening in on wirqless, but we bet he hasn't the nerve to tackle listening in on the rural telephone. Two hundred and twpnty-flve mem bers of one New. York family had a reunion the other day. Wonder where the rest of the family was? Sport writers are now wanting to match Zbyasko and Deinpaey for a rough and tumble. Sound* like ting a mule and a bear in the pen. Jimmy Cox reports that the Demo cratic party is just where it was when the votes were counted. Gracious! Hasn't it regained consciousness yet? Two ships, one near Buenos Aire» and the other near Honolulu, more ^than 7000 miles apart, exchanged dio messages the other day. This is the record for messages between ships although longer distances have been covered by shore station*. same ra c TOWN ] TALES OF THE VANISHED O'SHEA. Where are ye now wid yer careless laughter, Where are ye now that was oncet so gay, Wi<1 th , e J ** 8 . 1 untl the chuckle that fol lowed afther, You that was king av the gang, O'Shea? * Th *» •«n't you that is lyin' so cold-like; , ,i 8 , i8n 1 you wid the black coat on, "TS'Ä'sssif'Äis'*' th dawn! ti.- u , L . ™ h " d y® * h " P * " V yer f#ce y er This has the hair that machree; -* n ' Tn» drinkin' a glass of yer favor . > ,le An' am |, ere at wake as vc usked av me; . ' y * But this thing niver'at all is you, lad, —2 •n* thing dead as a hod av clay, Wher * '* th « y°" that we always WhereTre ye jokin' them O'Shea? av was red. now, I You that was full av tha joy av livin', You wid the heart an' the towl av mirth, could th «y offer y# up in hlvin Half so swate as y* found on earth? ye, eyaa av ye, blue aa' stop pin', Kisssn' the gurls la th* same ould way, Lightin' ta* plaça where yer sow! lyin' Wid the Joy an' tha cheer av Jawn O'Shea. Oeh! but th* Jest* y# were always Hingin', Oeh! but the bald. Aa* the songs an' the ehunao y* afther stagin', Wid the tender voice av y a—gold, pure gold. , Nlvsr agate will w* haar y# more, ted, You that waa glad aa the morn in May! Hiver sjtii—an' we mita y# tore, But here's to the health av ye, Jawn O'Shea. war* Barton Brelay. Th# farmer can eay anything he want* to without hurting his business, and he does it. • * # I cough, I SDH««, I snort, I whaast, 1 m in a perfect freasy; My head is dough, my aoae won't go— 1 »• get th* infliwns^. Pig-ond a hen chatting on th* rail road tracks. Toot-toot! Ham and • • * Whan a gtii begins calling you by year first same, watch aat, boy! 8h* like* your la* om. • * « Maa come* lata th* world with nothing on. but it dosant take long for th* neighbor« to got something ou him. * « * If Mathilde McCormick looks lik* the picture* ef har in the city papers published, w# do not blame har for being willing to marry any old man. • • • The flu has tha whole town and country in its grip. Evan tha Payette river is low—in fact, has been fined to its bed all winter. • 4 • There waa a young woman named Fradd Who didn't know wbther to wed, She asked the Oui ja It said, "Can ks flja?" "I wish I was certain," she said. « *. « It isn't a difficult job to think of a better way of spaoding tt a billion dollars of tha public's money than oateg it to put the "railroads con on th*ir feet" wh(U their feet ar« on •V necks. * * « Chicago mother*, syith , daughter» being courted, o/ten na* a dictagraph aa a chaperon. The machin* ià hidden in the living room and keep* ma post 8om* will aay, "Matters have come to a fine pass!" Old timer* will juat grin and recall the day* when a atern ma sat in the parlor while daughter showed the family album and the stereoscope view* of Niagara Fall* in winter time to her suitor. « « « One of the greatest drawbacks to the dignified man is eating sauer kraut. No mutter how much spears the blamed »tuff, there's al ways a bunch of it floating behind, like the tail of a kite, that finds a comfortable resting place on the eat er's chin. The only way to do is to take off your collar and throw #d. one your head 'way back when eating the stuff. * * « He wa» newly arrived in this try. and was none too familiar with the use of the telephone. So he took down the receiver and demanded : "Aye vant to talk to my vife. trai's voice came back sweetly, coun Cen 'Num per fectly willing to help out, "she bane my second vun." « « « The- story is told of a woman who had engaged the services of a Swede girl as a domestic. The girl asked her mistress what had become of her He has just returned to Yale," the mistress replied, "and I feel lone some without him. how you feel," said the Swede "My brother Haris has been in yail three times since the Fourth of July." 8011 . Ay know yust «er yant. * « « "You ought to have seen Mr. M shall when he called on Dolly the r other night," remarked Johnny to his sister's young man, who was taking tea with the family. "I tell you he looked fine a-setting there alongside of her with his arm Johnny!" gasped his sister, her face the color of a boiled lobster. "Well, so he did," persisted Johnny. "He had his arm—" "John!" screamed his mother, fran tically. "Why," whined the boy, "I wft8 —" "John," said his father stern ly, "leave the rtjpm." left, crying as he wont: going to say that he had his army clothes on." And Johnny "I was only « * * "Wheh was yo' yisterday, Sam?" asked the barber shop porter of his helper. die's fun'al," explained the other. Clean forgot dat fun'al!— bet dey had a big one. hoy—bigges' fun'al eveh was 'round heah. W"y ah .went to Mose Grin Huh! Yo' said it, All dem lodges an' societies what Mose belong to was out in dey full regalium, an' dey had fo' chor uses to sing de hymns an' dey had th'ee preachers to preach the mon. Den dey had a long perade all de wày to de graveyahd, an' flowers dan yo' eveh seen piled up *n' sum more grave. Dey put dat coffin on dem »ticke crost de grave—an' den dat Mose Grindle did de blamedest t'ing yo' eveh seen at a fun'al. Yaa, suhl" "What did he do?" "He das kicked d* lid offen flat coffin an' aat right atralght up an' looked eroun' at all d* crowd!" "My lawd! Did day! bury him?" "Gawd knows! A-a-h don't!" • « « Old Bill Misgiven* was in town thla weak kicking about the weather. "But," ha said, "I've assn longer and colder winters than the one we have had during the prêtant year. I remem ber the one we had back in Missouri teat waa a corker for coldness. I had a favorite dog that I raised until It waa 4 years old. H* was a good dog and generally sensible, but had a fool habit of barking at the moon when ever it was moonlight The coldest night the moon was full It ly as light as day. The dog xioua to gat oat and do his regular stunt of barking at the queen of tha night, but 1 waa afraid he would frees* if he got out, so I kept him in was near was an the house. He was all broke up about it and whined and cried to get out. never saw a dog really shad tears be fore. Finally he worked on my fe*l-j lags till I ted to lot him out and tek* Juat an* bark. I thought that whan fo got out and found how everlasting cold it was he would ba satisfied to com* hack into the house and stay. 8o I opened the door sad th* fool dog jumped out. He lit bark ing and got the full force of thal norther right in hi* mouth. It juat solidified him right there. He never] got Me mouth shut I reached out and pulled him Inside the door, but he frose so stiff that he broke in two when I dropped him on the floor The next morning when I went out to investigate I found two of the dog's barks froxe out ther in the yard I laid them on a shelf in the woodshed and never thought anything more ■Kn.,« „«»j, * r . * . mor ® soring when" »M .T """T u** ? ^ spring when all at once 1 heard two quick barks and I thought that dog of mine had come back to life, Byit don't you know, it was only those two barks, which had frozen up that cold night, thawing out." Visiting cards printed right ■ _ % 0 Hm ft 1922 / 1922 unm SAT The Fordson at Work The Age of Machine Power on the Farm is no longer a matter of speculation; it is here—an established fact. It: is the latest advanced step civilization has taken. It comes to the farmer with the full promise to lift the great burden of drudgery and wearisome toil from the muscles of man and carrying them with much more profit by power of machinery, with the result that larger production, more comfort and greater wealth will the farm homes wherever the Fordson is employed. Remember also that the Fordson Tractor, like the Ford car, is simplicity itself in design and construction; easy to understand and easy to operate. Come in and let us tell you more about it. It is more important to the fanner today than anything else. COme to We have a number of Farm Mechanic Magazines which we are distributing to those interested in Power Farming. They are yours for the asking, see us. - Come in and M. & M. GARAGE J I 1- I Eliminate the Drudgery of Cleaning «d "?!-!* th ? duat-raiains b™>m ana replace it with a tune and labor-saving electric suction sweeper. '' c /Ae ßmous HOOVER * üüik SuctionSiueeper "*i sun ^Special Offer jpk for the month of MWflTlarcfi ^ Only H Beats as Jt Sweeps ~~ Tc/eaas an With this small cash payment of $1.00 down and th« ___ fr mon , KI payments, every woman may know the joy of clean ""»tWy every day in the year. Call for a demonstrativ " d * *"**••» house gets ALL the dirt—the Hoover ' ° f the only Suction Sweeper that Electric Shop—Idaho Power Co. 7 dig used to a little celebration on thou« eTent * ln ,h * far,, "- v *"* thought this °"! "° H,ln * r buf 8 hlr,h<U ? cake marked the day. The following ** Mld: <f'<1n't you for gat to send oat hlrthdnv carde?" Something Wrong. Frederick had his fifth birthday. Re Th* National «port. Golf, we read, has not been taken «ip seriously by the people In Switzer land. The fact la they are too busy chasing cnckoos Into cuckoo clocks — From Punch. London. Megaphones In Oil. We recently read of rich paying 1260,000 for and were reminded of by Robert Henri, the liar case. one of our newly an old master • remark made artist, oo o slin ■To a millionaire of that typo, you know." .«id Heurl ,., n old master ;» merely a megaphone for his money to talk through."—Boston Tran •crlpt Cleaning Baskets. Reed snd willow baskets k„. SlTwLT'!!,'" b "" h - I Island Has Disappeared. One of the moat famous of disap pearing islands Is Hxpedltloa Island, situated off the northwest corner of Australia., and which was visited as lately a* 1883. Today .It bas dtaap P** rp< l- and la now fifty feet below water. The Island waa thirteen miles long, and famous for tta beauty. Tiny Infante B ee erne Rekust Parents whoso children are abnor mally small at birth can take heart, ter recent figures «bow that tiny In tente frequently grow up quite robust aadLot normal nrooortlosia. . \