The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-09-18

# VIII Lisenbee in Ainslee's
Gossip is where people put two AM
two together and get five.
Our notion of a mighty hunte" il
. one who Kills game enough to give
: his friends few.
Mexico is need of money, which
is the only thing that country and The
Index have in common.
An economical man will use some
pretty fierce tobacco if it is handed
out in sample packages.
A man doesn't mind lodging tour
ing car, but it makes him sore to have
to hurry out of the way of motor
cycle.
About as soon as a delegate gets
there he finds out that he isn't the
convention, as he imagined in the be-
ginning.
People are constantly praying the
Lord to smile upon them. We mag
inc that when he looks at some of us
He must be tempted to laugh out loud. |
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"You remember me, don't you, my
boy?" preacher asked of a little
chap. 81 don't remember your
name,' the lad replied, "but you're
he gentleman mother makes me stay
awake and listen to in church."
A man bought three cigars and
lighted one. "Lord, this is a rotten
{igar," he yelled. "Say, man, what
Ire you kicking about?" exclaimed
he dealer. "You have only three of
hose cigars, but | have a thousand.
Be reasonable"
The other day an Emmett man saw
pin and remembered that OIL adayc,
See a pin and pick it up and all the
' ay you'll have good luck" He
topped to get the pin, his hat fell off {
! nd rolled in the dust, his eyeglasses :
|ell on the sidewalk and broke, his {
gave way behind and he I
burst the buttonhole on the back of q
|is shirt But he got the pin.
There's no music like little rivers. v
t plays the same tune land that's ?
he favorite) over and over again /
md yet it does not weary of it like Il
men fiddlers. 1t takes the mind out b
# doors; and though we should be L
rrateful for good houses, there is, II
fter all, no house like Gods out-of- n
oors. And lastly, sir, it quiets a Ia
nan down like saying his prayers e
'obert Louis Stevenson. s.
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An old negro woman came into a "
real estate office the Il
Their day and was recognized as a tC
snant of small house that had be- HI
ome much enhanced in value by rea- o.
on of new union station in that tC
'Look here, auntic, la
e are going to raise your rent this as
Ionth," the agent remarked briskly. ia
Deed, an Abs glad to hear dat, sah," &c
lie old woman replied, duckiag her hi
cad politely. mighty clad, fo' fe
TO- case All DIES come in nyah terday to
r tell yo' all dat All couldn't raise ar
t dis month" it
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1T makes me sort of weary" re- on
arked Old Bill Misgivens, as he DIR
opped his head with his red bandan- DIR
!, "when hear people complaining ia
'out the drouth and the heat. 1t is mt
mply nothing to what we used to ed
we every summer when was locat- in,
down in southwest Arizona.
Now there was heat and drouth
at was worth mentioning. Ere
emily there wouldn't be drop of
in fall for two years at a clip. rs,
ard man expressing his doubt of n
e truth of that story about there -
ing frogs years old in that coun- on
Y who had never learned to swim H.
: said that in his judgment it was a ,.a+
ggoned lie. l want to say to him
at it was not only the truth, but
| the man who raised the frogs. !
hen there finally did come a rain /