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Encourage the Tourist to See This County Daisy, Feb. 27. Mr. Editor. We see by the daily papers that the trans- continental railways are making a tourist rate of one fare plus $2 for the round trip to western points for this spring and summer, and that the coast cities, especially, are doing a large amount of advertising in east ern magazines and papers. The Seattle chamber of commerce is spending $60,000 in this work. Ta coma, Portland and many smaller towns on the coast are spending large sums to encourage tourists and settlers to go to the coast. Now, where is there a greater farming, dairying, lumbering and mining country than the Upper Columbia river valley, the Colville valley, and in fact, all of Stevens county? We are building good roads. Have some of the most beautiful scenery in the west; fine streams and lakes for fishing and some of the finest ranches and stock farms to be seen anywhere. Everything to attract the tourist and settler. The traveler, if he has a car of his own, can come north from Spokane on the state highway through the prosperous towns of Clayton and Deer Park, camp at either Loon Lake or Deer lake, then on north through the towns of Springdale, Valley, Che welah, Addy to our prosperous coun ty seat of Colville in the great Col ville valley, then to Meyers Falls and Marcus. Fi-om Marcus the trav eler can turn south along the Colum bia river, view the famous Kettle falls which ■ will in the course of a few years be developed to the extent of several hundred horse power and furnish electricity to the towns and railway companies in the Inland Em pire. From the falls the traveler will pass through the town of Kettle Falls then on down the river by way of Rice to Daisy, which is the oldest place on the river, for in 1862 a store was established here and run several years by Marcus Oppenheimer from whom the town of Marcus gets its name. Across the Columbia river Gifford, the next town south of Daisy, is Inchelium on the south half of the Colville Indian reservation, then on south to Cedonia, Hunters, Fruitland, Miles and Davenport, where the traveler would strike the Sunset highway and continue on his way west to the coast, if he has not decided to locate in some of the places he has seen in the meantime in his travels through the county. There is no other county in the state that has the resources we have. So it is to the interest of every citi zen to push the advantages of his home county. From all indications there will be a large amount of travel to the Northwest this spring and summer as many easterners are taking up the slogan "See America First!" and many people are looking for new homes. We have room for thousands of settlers so it is up to you to try and get every one to come this way and become a citizen of the greatest county in the great state of Washington.—A Pioneer. Diary of Slats A CAREFUL RECORD OF THE DAILY HAPPENINGS IN THE LIFE OF ONE YOUNGSTER Friday—Blisterses pa sent him up 2 our house 2 stay a wile & we are haveing a lots of fun. & sum fltes once in a wile 2. The teecher was a telling us all about the Civil War to day & Jake sed 2 her My grashus you got a awfull good memry 2 recolleck all that stuff. She blushed & give him a angry luk. Saturday—ma kep insisting that I should ought 2 wash my face this af ternoon & I kep delaying it as it was 2 cold. Then they was a lady which is ma's cistern law cum in & we was not expecting her & she kist ma & then me. Then ma sed 2me Now you go wash yure face. The lady looked kinda funny. But sed nuthing. Sunday—This morning wile we was a eating brekfast pa & ma & me & Blisters the telefone rung & sum buddy wanted Blisters. It was his pa & be told him that the Stork or sum thing had brung him a nice little baby .sister. Blisters was so tickled. He sed Dont tell ma I want 2 supprize her. Then he hung up. Monday. The teecher was explane- ing the word Assault & she sed to Pug Stevens Now if you was 2 be a walking along the street & Slats wood walk up 2 you & strike you what wood that be. Pug replyed & sed That wood be a funral. Pug is a mean guy 2. Tuesday—Pa red me the story about Jonah which was et up by a whale but which cuddent keep him on his st«ramick. That fellow was a lucky guy 2 tell his wife such a story & get away with it. Even if it was a fack Wednesday—My dog is lerning a lot of trix now. I tell him 2 speak £ he growls & I throw a stick & he gets it & cums up 2 me with it in his jaws & I say Gimmy it &he does. Ma got mad today. She cum in & sed 2 pa That dog has ate 1 of my pies. Pa sed Well thats 2 bad but I think he will be all rite he is a tuff dog. Thursday—Ma sed I am pritty de cent here of lately. I am 2 & that issent all. I intend to keep on con tinueing. REAL HEAT IN PHILIPPINES Traveler's Description of Weathar During Some Month* la Not by Any Means Alluring. Tin- rainy season la behind time, mill iln- (li-ur garden burns yellow brown, it Is so hot that even the ri-icketn are sllll. The long, bluck raftarad rooms are unendurably warm, Caroline 8. Shunk 'writes in Asia Magazine. Smoke from ttie servants' tire in tlie yard drifts In over us. Tha yellow earth at our back doer stretches, a glaring plain, to meet th* Jungle, which rolls up a rich green carpet to the "Secret Place Mountain," where, so runs the legend, a Negrito chieftain hid his favorite wife. Th«r« ■he died, and, at her request, the deli cately curved comb that held her long hair was hurled with her. From this grave, the natives say, grew a tree with leaves like the fine, soft hair of a woman—the useful and heautliM bamboo tree. Out In the yard the women have ceastd their chanting to the beat «f their washing paddles, to sit around a chow pot of rice and smoke long, klack cigars. Their sphlnx-Jlke face* have no illuminating expression, save when a baby toddles too near the opea flre. Tlien the look of fear and low with which the child Is hastUy snatched away Into the arms of the little brown mother Includes us for an Instant and Is gone. We are shut out In an alien world again. I hear the plaint of the Chinese cook: "China not same. Allee samee China boys go. Too inuchee Melican man." Thea, a harsh, clattering word like a tin paa falling from a table—perhaps a Chi nese swearword! Hair a Nuisance, Anyway. Baldness is unnecessary. We have tt on the authority of a sharp who cum raise hair as easily as a farmer raises wheat. Men become bald because they keep their hair cut short and the follicle system becomes lazy, and with not enough to do It loses Interest la Its work and the hair falls out. Womaa do not become baldlieaded because they allow their hair to grow long. This gives the halr-produclng system plenty of exercise and keeps It strong and healthy. In order to escape baW ness man has only to allow his hair to grow long, either braiding It to hang down his back or coiling it around hie dome with hairpins and Imposing the Joint use of mother's dresser every morning. However, considering the alternative calmly, most men will prefer to be bald, writes Glenn M. Farley In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. How could a man quarrel with his wife with hla hair braided down his back? SOME LOGIC; LITTLE REASON Examination Papers Turned In by Youngster* Proved They Gave Thought to Question*. "Tell me all you know about cen taurs." The response of one boy to this demand In a recent examination was at follows: "A centaur was ancient cavalry and archery all in one piece. He could not be knocked out of Ills saddle because he didn't liave any, being the same person as his horse. If he needed • stable he did not need a tent, I do not know wliicb, and if he needed for age he did uot need rations, or if be needed rations be did not need for age." Evidently the youngster who gave i ii.i i reply was of • military inclination, and bad thought out for himself the advantages of centaurs on the flghtlnf line. It was funny, but not unin telligent. Less original, with only one little slip Indeed to mar Its accuracy, is the version of the schoolboy of the story of the Qorgons. "The Gorgons," he began confident ly, "were three sisters that lived in the islands of the Hesperldes, soine wlitrt In the Indian ocean. They bad long snake* for hair, tusks for teeth and claws for nalla, and they looked like women, only more horrible." It was a little Boston girl whose definition of the nilnotaur has long been remembered by the elder puplla In the school that she attended: "The mlnutaur was a large bull which lived oo tribute* In a laby rinth. He was mythical, carnivorous and fond of young people." * * • Examiner Want Ads Bring Retulta. The Colville Examiner, Saturday, March 4, 1922 HELPED BY SENSE OF HUMOR PoMlbly Man Who Would Incorporate It In the Marrlag* Ceremony la Right. A man got up the other day • ■ml "all It was his opinion that a •ense of humor was so liui>ortaiit In life Hi.ll It ought to be put right Into the murrluge ceremony. It Is needless to add that the man who got up and said It was a bachelor. If he had been a married man he wouldn't have been allowed to get up In the Hist place, and even If he had managed that he couldn't Imve dared suy anything so radical. This gentleman's suggestion was that, .since the "obey" had been am putated from the service, the lovlug couple should be required to "love, honor, and have a seuse of humor" un til denth do them part. Undoubtedly a sense of humor has Its place In the home, but we don't •cc the advantage of thrusting It Into the wedding service. If you really had a sense of humor In working order you wouldn't be do ing anything so ridiculous ns promis ing anything. A man getting married Is In no condition to enjoy a Joke — even If he Is one. When a man can hardly keep a wife, the way prices ore. how can he be ex pected to keep a sense of humor? Even If he did manage to scrape up the remnants of one after the wedding It would be knocked out by tho first of the month, when the bills begin to come In. Generally speaking, a sense of hu mor In matrimony is about as much use as a map of Kilrope, published In 1913. —Chicago Hei-ald und Examiner. SIMPLE DIET ALWAYS BEST A» True Now as When Addison Ad vised It, More Than Two Centuries Ago. Two hundred years ago Addlson wrote: "Nature delights In (he most plain and simple diet. Every anlmnl. but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that and flesh of a third. Man falls upon the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or mushroom can escape him. "It Is Impossible to lay down any determinate rule for temperance. Were I to consider my readers as my patients, and to prescribe such a kind of temperance as Is accommodated to all persons, I would copy the follow ing rules of a very eminent physician: 'Make your whole repast out of one dish; If you Indulge In a second, avoid drinking anything strong till you have finished your meal; at the same time abstain from all sauces, or at least such as are not the most plain and simple.'" Persia's Sales Methods. In Teheran are aristocratic shoe shops where the styles of Europe and America are copied from Illustrations In catalogues that have somehow or other found their way out there. Thest; shops have glass windows and real doors, and they display their goods In a way thought to be truly Parisian. The glass windows, though the panes are small, must have coat a deal of money, for glass Is almost unknown In Persia. The master shoemaker stands proudly at his door and welcomes a customer with the greeting, "All that I have Is yours—my shop and all the goods." But once the prospective cus tomer is Inside the shopkeeper forgets to be the Frenchman of the Orient and the bargaining methods of the Bast begin. The customer is assured that the price asked Is half the actual cost, while all the time a quarter of the sum named would buy the goods. If no business results, politeness Is still the order of the day, for a Persian does not consign a man to Hades, but Just insinuates, by referring to him as the "son of a burnt father," that his honored parent Is already there.—Roland Garbold In Asia. Columbus' Landing Place. For four centuries there have been dispute and disagreement aa to the first landing place of Columbus In the new world. It Is known that he land ed on one of the Bahama Islands, but In that widely-scattered group there are 36 pieces of land, large enough to be classified as Islands, and about 700 "cays" or "keys," like those which He along the Florida coast, and In some cases pretty well out to gea. The early narratives have It that Oolum bns landed at or on a place which the native Indians called Guanahanl, and which the Spaniards named Sun Sal vador, or Holy Saviour. Gat Island has been (riven as the landing place of Columbus and so has Watllng Is land. Attwoods Key or Samana has been chosen by some as the place which Columbus called San Salvador, and other Investigators who may be termed authorities liave picked Turku Island, and others have chosen the Island of Marlguana.—Washington Star. Adams' "Midnight Judge*." The "Midnight Appointments 1 was a term applied to executive appoint ments or nominations made by Presi dent John Adams the last night of iii •dmlnlstratlon. Congress had passed a bill authorizing the appointment of eighteen new United States Judges, and Adams, with the consent of the senate, appointed Judge* to fill these newly created vacancies. They were sometimes known as "Adams' Mid night Judges." The new law waa re pealed early In Jefferson* administra tion and the Judges lost tbelr officer CLEARANCE SALE Campbell Previous Cuts with Prevailing Capers Prices MAKE YOUR DOLLARS GO AS FAR AS POSSIBLE AND BUY WHERE YOU CAN GET THE MOST VALUES FOR THE DOLLAR. MARKET CONDITIONS ARE FAR FROM SETTLED AND WHILE MANY ARTICLES HAVE BEEN LOWERED, THERE HAS BEEN A SHARP RAISE IN MANY OTHERS. WE FIND WE HAVE A SURPLUS IN SOME LINES AND IN ORDER TO CLOSE THESE OUT OR REDUCE THEM WE ARE GOING TO OFFER EVERYTHING WE HAVE IN THE VARIOUS LINES AT A SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE, AT PRICES THAT WE THINK HAVE NOT BEEN OFFERED IN THE CITY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. THESE BARGAIN PRICES APPLY ONLY TO THE GOODS NOW ON HAND, AS THESE GOODS CAN NOT BE REPLACED AND SOLD FOR THE SAME MONEY. BELOW IS A PARTIAL LIST. STUDY IT WELL AS EVERYTHING OFFERED IS FOR EVERYDAY USE. ONE WEEK ONLY BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1922 ONE WEEK ONLY "PEOPLE READ THESE BARGAINS, YOU ARE DOING IT NOW." (No Goods Sold to Dealers at These Prices.) $3 Aluminum Percolators d*l 70 $1-25 Wood Baskets HAr* CLEARANCE SALE PRICE «•> L• ' * CLEARANCE SALE PRICE O**C $3 Aluminum Double Boilers d» 1 "7O $1.25 5-tie Brooms and choice CLEARANCE SALE PRICE *•' ** of Dust Pan or Fire Shovel QQ~ $2.50 Aluminum Stew Kettles *! Cl CLEARANCE SALE PRICE CLEARANCE SALE PRICEvl^* 75c Ladies' Scissors AK~ $5.20 Aluminum Tea Kettles *O AC CLEARANCE SALE PRICE CLEARANCE SALE PRICE «"J'UJ $2.50 Granite 10 qt Kettles Q 7r 500 YARDS FLOOR COVERING CLEARANCE SALE PRICE •* ' c LINOLEUMS 50c Galvanized 10 qt. Pails Ofir SHfJKvS? I?™™ 81 C CLEARANCE SALE PRICE DC CLEARANCE PRICE OA <- 65c Galvanized 14-at. Pails 65c Pei" Yard r CLEARANCE SALE PRICE «*<> C CLEARANCE PRICE OIC $1.75 No. 3 Galvanized Tubs $1 OQ 55c per Yard J1 CLEARANCE SALE PRICE * l •£tO CLEARANCE PRICE ** l c 85c Glass Wash Boards *>^r CLEARANCE SALE PRICE «*«*** 75c Jardiniere $1.20 Glass Lamps Complete 7ftr CLEARANCE SALE PRICE CLEARANCE SALE PRICE •vu $9 42-piece dinner set gold $2.80 Willow Clothes Baskets £1 7Q rT^RA^PF F PRirF $6.15 CLEARANCE SALE PRICE Vl• #** CLEARANCE SALE PRICE vw. * w _ $9.50 42-piece Decorated Dinner Set d**7 OQ EXTRA SPECIALS CLEARANCE SALE PRICE V # .*& Maple Peavy Sticks, 2 for 7f* r $3.50 Wool and Fiber CLEARANCE PRICE f Rugs 30x60 d»1 O€\ CLEARANCE SALE PR^CEV l.O^ PtVarANCE PRICE «vC $26 Oak Dresser and Glass d» I Q Q(\ CLEARANCE FKl^ CLEARANCE PRICE &ISJ.W $29 Metal Top $1.50 Chip Clothes Baskets 79C Kitchen Cabinet (1Q Qfi CLEARANCE SALE PRICE f CLEARANCE PRICE Vl"'^ 65c Chip Lunch Baskets *^ftr ~ ~~ CLEARANCE SALE PRICE *>v^ Roll of « Sun f ast » Matting r. r>}*tu aa Pine " Carpet 90c per Yard AClr» Common Clothes Pins, CLEARANCE PRICE 4&C 3 dozen in sack 1 Or* CLEARANCE SALE PRICE xvv* Campbell Mercantile Co. 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