The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-17
Tales of the Town

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King George has awarded Lord
Kitchener the Garter, although when
his lordship is attired in the uniform
of the Scotch Highlanders garters are
superfuous.
AS an important part of every girls
education, she should have enough
Of mathematical training to qualify
her to reduce a round steak to
square meal.
1t is noticed that the best Amer
can motor car racers seem 10 have
Italian names, and draws the MT raj
inference that they are the fellows
who put the ego" in Dago.
& & &
An Irishman helped pick up a
wounded man after a battle. "Poor
fellow! one of his wounds is fatal, l
believe" remarked the surgeon. $50
it is" said Pat, "but the other wan
amt, so he has an aiven chanel"
& & &
A woman writes to complain that
her chickens have blisters on their
feet, and wants to know what she
should do about it. In the absence
of the poultry editor she may be adj
vised to forbid the chickens indulging
in the tango more than five nights
week
Young Billy, who is baseball fan,
read the dispatch about the Aston
baby's inability to live on less than
$4,000 year. "Geep he comment
ed. Chow can the kid spend that
much. Why, he couldn't spend $780,
900 a year if he went to ball game
every day!"
at was a quiet wedding, of
course" remarked Old Bill Misgivens.
"When the preacher asked, who CIV
eth this woman away?' four of US
gents jumped right onto the Teller
that had been threatening to do so
and choked him SOS he couldn't make
a sound"
A business man attended his daugh-
ter's commencement exercises at a
college in a distant city. He had been
greatly pleased with the beauty and
dignity of the ceremonies and was
discoursing to his wife upon the re-
fining influences of college life. Sud-
denly, however, his impressive mon
ologue was cut short. A girl, in cap
and gown, came dashing down the
steps of the main hall, waving her
diploma and shouting: Educated, by
gosh"
az never have been able to under
stand" says Old Bill Misgivens, "why
wants to kill one of these or
binary snakes. Take the ordinary,
non-poisonous snake and there isn't
a more harmless, good natured animal
OF reptile in the world. If you only
the snake you can train ;
it to do almost anything. If you
show it kindness it will remember it
as long as it lives. One summer | had
a flock of six bull snakes, four black
snakes, eight milk snakes and four
garter snakes that 1 had educated.
They would all follow me around the
place like so many dogs. l would
20 into a field that was troubled with
noles and field mice and divide the !
lock of snakes and give my orders
% each group to clean up certain .
part of the field. 1t was beautiful
sight, the way those snakes would
spread out and clean up the mice and
noles. l had one old black snake of .
great intelligence who led one group.
When he would come to a mole hole
lie would make sort of whistling
loise to call the others together and ,
hen he would pick out snake that u
wasn't too big to get into the mole
lole and send it in. The snake he :
ent in never failed to come out with =
he mole in its teeth. The black u
make leader kept correct tally of :. !,
he number of moles and mice caught u
y each snake under his command, by II
making a mark in the dirt after the =
initials of each snakes name. All of y
ny snakes were named and would y
ONE when l called them like so many a
Intelligent dogs. These snakes were N
Il on perfectly friendly terms and 81 ,,
yould play together Tor hours at u
me. They were affectionate as we'll "
s intelligent. They saved my life at
east three times. Once when l was
ttacked by vicious bull. 1t was
ut in the middle of big pasture
nd half a mile from the nearest u