The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1914-12-03

. ABOUT AEs out somehow OF 0fner she
j manages not to let the same clerk
! wait on her.
| That If any silly youngsteE inn
AGNES he would like 10 60 to war.
just lei him start out before break
fast some cold. wet morning and dig
> trench In swamp, then stand ia
III up to his waist in water all day
and night without anything TO ear.
while the boys in the neighborhood
throw stones at him. That's modern
var.
| There il a reason to believs that
human beings can be affected by the
foot and mouth disease which is
paralyzing the livestock business,
but an eminent authority declares
that If you keep your feet toddling
about attending TO your own business
and your mouth shut except when
you really have something worth |
while to say. you viii be immune.
That someone told as that the
other day seven quarts of good stuff |
was shipped out of town from the
sheriff's Office. Well, that beats US.
Wen bet a pint of peanuts that that
exceeds the number Of quarts of good
stuff shipped in here. hence we must
have a mandatory in our midst of
which We know naught. But we
opine our informant must simply /
have read the label.
That a nearby exchange says "a
drayload of junk on its way to the
depot Saturday attracted great
deal of attention II consisted OF
about 500 discarded automobile tires
that cost originally $4,000 and ar
ter few months usuage went to the
scrap pile. Verify we Americans
spend our money in a way to make a
drunken sailor appear like a cheap
skate.
That the coming winter is to be
mild one, say the goose bone prog
nosticators. The bone. this year
shows but one cold snap. and that
will come the latter part Of the vim
ter. Furthermore, il has been OBJ.
served that the slime on the fish is
not so heavy and the ears of corn
are not SO thickly wrapped. The
foregoing IS Minnesota prophecy
and should not be taken too serious ,
ly in Idaho, and We recommend that
you lay in the usual supply Of fuel
for the winter just the same.
That it is reported to US that VIM.
Harbke, Jr., student and all-around
athlete at the Moscow University,
who came home for the purpose of
Thanksgiving with bis
folks vas so absorbed eith the
scenery around Mohler and vicinity
hat members of the family merely
got a glimpse of him on one or two
occasions, and that, when he was
sleeping with his mouth open and
'noring vigorously, hardly giving
ne homefolk chance to see how
he young man actually looked In
cal life.
That the following jingle was not
vritten by Walt Mason, but never
heless it sounds like him. sin
Iays gone by used to vie in divers =
polling matches, and tackled words y
q droves and herds in parcels and y
q patches. Some spelling, kid, you y
aid 1t, Sgd: twas hard to get my y
lumber; photography seemed pie to .
lie, awakened or 10 slumber. The h
nermostat or bureaucrat seemed
nipple words and easy, while obelisk .
nd tamerisk passed lightly by and
reezy. The spelling book the B
.acher took to tax my spelling ca
ers, seemed week and frail and wan b
nd pale and futile as waste papers.
hat time Is past, and now at last n
y goat is neatly tethered, such
ordy storms this war cloud forms
) no man has yet weathered. When 3
uss and Hun cognomens run across Il
Ie printed pages, what use are rules
i'd down Ia schools to heirs Of all
e ages. So, in distress, I merely
TESS, at where the foe is bleeding b
hat one can't spell sure makes var
well, what Sherman used to call
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