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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-10-26
CARE IN USE or RAW FOODS
Ideal Summer Diet Should Never Be
Partaken of Without the Proper
Precautions.

Fruit and vegetables should be
eaten freely in the warm weather,
says DR.. Samuel G.. Dixon, Pennsyl-
wanna state health commissioner, but
Il should be carefully prepared. Doc
Tor Dixon!s advice along this line is
summed up thus:
During the hot weather fruits
and vegetables are a necessary part
of the Diet. Many of these are more
appetning when eaten raw. Berries,
radishes, onions and salads appear
regularly on the menu at this season
and have their value as food.
"Care should be exercised in the
preparation and serving of green
foods, however, as they are subject to
much handling between the garden
and the table. Unless the hands
Through which they pass are abso-
lutely clean they are 0 or less
contaminated. In many market gar
dens the gathering of the produce is
entrusted to a class of labor which is
not any too clearly and care is sell
dom exercised to insure cleanliness.
GOOD exposed for sale in markets
is also often subject to indiscriminate
handling by prospective purchasers
and is seldom properly protected
from dust and dirt.
GAS a protection berries and food
stuffs eaten raw should be thorough
ly washed before being served. 1t is
far better to risk a slight impairment
of the flavor than to chance eating
unclean foods.
might soil should not be used for
f%ertilizing gardens from which the
produce may be eaten raw. Water
cress should not be gathered from
streams which are polluted by sew
age. Many cases are on record
where typhoid fever has resulted
from failure to observe this precau-
ton"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-10-26
WARS EFFECT ON WILD LIFE
Many Fled Before the Sound Of tho
Guns, While Others Were Apper-
emily undisturbed.

Some curioaa spd interesting OBJ
servations upon the psychological eff
feet produced on animals by the de-
donations of big guns have been re-
Gently made. The animals consid-
cred are the horses and dogs used
for military purposes, and the game
in the area of warfare. 1t was no.
ticed soon after the beginning Of the
wal that the latter began to migrate
into Luxembourg, Switzerland, and
the portions of France and Belgium
not the seat of hostilities.
The first to flee was the "black
game" "a term which includes the
wild boar, the badger and the bear),
whose sense are specially acute.
Then the roebuck and the red deer
followed; but, strange to say, the
hare, whose timidity is proverbial,
continued to occupy its usual terri
tory. The larger birds likewise, such
as the grouse, the pheasant, the sea-
eagle and the wild duck we're driven
away by the heavy firing.
Strange to say, the wolf, which
was expected to regain lost ground
In the present war, has shown itself
very gun.shy. Another curious-fact
is that the songbirds, such as the
lark, the thrush and the finch, have
not been driven away by the thunder
of the cannon, and continue to hold
their nests and sing their songs in
their accustomed haunts. Other
birds which remain unfrightened are
various kinds of owls, falcons, SPAR
row-hawks, crows, etc.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-10-26
PLEASING En-.

"Will you dance this dance with
me?"
"Mother has forbidden me to
dance with you"
"But she is out of the room"
$50 it wouldn't be any fun. When
she comes back I'll give you a
Dance"
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ENcoURAGEM EMIT.

81 wonder what you would do if I
were to take you forcibly in my arms
and kiss your"
"Mercyp exclaimed Miss Calder.
"The very thought of such a thing
makes me feel as weak as a kitten"
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CARRYING THE Hoo.

what role are you now enacting
in the drama of life? asked Storm
ington Barns.
CAT present." replied Walker Ties,
81 am understudy to a bricklayer!'
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ACCOUNTED FOR.

Flatbush-Does you wife make
her own bread?
Bensonhurst - Oh, it isn't that
gives me that haggard look. I've
just had the grippe, you knew.
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Rash PROMISE.

"Here's an attractive advertise
ment for summer boarders."
"What does it say?"
"sAct as if you owned the earth
at our place and we'll act as if we
were going to give it to you.'"-Bir-
~mingham Age-Herald.
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HASN'T ToPPLED YET.

'Is Italy much shaken by the
WARP"
81 don't see how that could be-"
"Nop"
''The leaning tower of Pisa is still
standing"
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SL-UM 3 ERING.

Professor-The boys were so en-
tranced this morning that they re-
manned in my lecture all through
the dinner hour.
His Daughter-Why didn't you
wake them up?--Tiger.
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IN THE LAUNDRY.

S"This convict, who has been sent
to run the prison engine, is very
rough. What shall we do with him?"
IL guess you had better iron
him."
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TWO OF THEM.

Flossie Flirt-Jack, that man in
the box hasn't taken his eyes off me
for an hour.
Her Escort-How do you know
Punch Bowl.
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A G

"Sir," said the beggar, will youse
give a pore old blind man er dime ?"
"Bnt," protected the citizen, 'you
can see out Of one eye"
ooh, well,"' rejoined the beggar,
make it a nickel, then. "-Indianap-
oils Star.
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HAD HIS

Jinks-He refused a commission
to make a portrait of the talkative
little lady?
Blinks-He paints still life only.
Town Topics.
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DECISION DEFERRED.

How are you going to like your
new neighbors?"
Cant tell. / happened to be out
when their furniture was moved in"
Judge.
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PRACTICAL INQUIRIES.

"Tell me, now. Are there any
dollars in this public piano play
ing?"
We'll, | should say there are
plenty of pounds"
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WOULD BE UNKIND.

He-I wish you'd drop the "Mis-
ter and call me plain George.
She-Oh, but it would be very un-
kind to twit you bout your looks
Boston Evening Transcript.
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HIS OPINION.

She-Do you think women would
make successful lawyers?
He-If their success depended
solely on the gift Of CAB they sure
would.
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ECONOMY OF AMMUNITION.

'The miser you know who was
killed at the front must have had a
death s~i4gularly to his liking"
"How so?"
II understand he was struck by a
spent ball."
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c ARE FACTS.

Mrs. Wages Cat theater)-Does
your husband always 60 out between
acts?
Mrs. Jaggs-No; but he always
comes in between drinks.
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A LONE FIGURE.

"Mrs. Twobble, Mrs. Gadders,
Mrs. Grabcoin and a dozen more.
Where are all these women going?"
81 see an abject-looking little man
in the crowd"
"Ah! / understand now. A party
of suffragettes and somebody's hus-
band"
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HIS FORTE.

@Your sexton looks a lot like a
man | know"
"That's nothing. He's a ringer
for the whole village"
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T.HE PROOF.

"Young man, we want brains in
this business"
You needn't tell me=Yonr man
agement shows it."
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NOT SPECIFIED.

"You told that sallow-faced girl
her skin was like peaches"
Perfectly true. / meant yellow
peaches"
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CORN CAN ONLY POP ONCE.

Ethel (munching and chattering)
How white corn gets when it pops.
Marie-Yes; just like some men
when they pop.-Boston Evening
Transcript.
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III THERE.

Mother Clearing a noise)-Nellie,
dear, is that you?
Nellie-Yes, mother! Here / am,
scattered all the way downstairs -
Judge.
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so IT WOULD SEEM.

The Peacemaker-And wot if e
did say you'd got a 'ead like a lump
of woods: 'Asn't wood gone up in
value since the war?
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NEEDED, TOO!

81 understand" said Mrs. Twick-
enbury, sthat Germany has invented
a new and very powerful expletive.'
Christian Register.
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NO DISTINCTION.

She-There goes Jones. Z heal
he married a very superior woman.
"Any woman would be superior to
Jones."-Life.
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sol II GOES.

"Some say life is like a baseball
game"
"Quite so. Some of us make hits.
Most Of us make errors"
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SHARING a SENTIMENT.

"Of course, we wish for peace"
"Of course. But sometimes it is
necessary to make the other fellow
wish for it, too"
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CRIMSON cuLcH CRITICISM.

"That actor has wonderful facial
expression"
eyes," commented Broncho Bob.
eff / could control my features the
way he kin, I wouldn't put in my
.evenin's actin. I'd play poker"
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QUITE M%uRDERous.

"What a killing style that new
writer has,"
eyes, Pve noticed how he MUIR
ders the kings English.
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MOVING VERSE.

''What is poetry of motion?"
"The kind that is always going
from one editor to another. "-Wom-
ans Home Companion.
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He-Are you spending your first
season up here?
She-No; my last. There isn't a
decent fellow up here.
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Johnny-Say, sis, can't yer inter-
duce me ter some nice young lady?
I'm about de only Teller what amt
got er Coil down here.
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He-You look as charming as
She-I always do.
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FOOLISH QUESTION.

Aunt-Were you named after your
father?
Little James-Of course. He was
born before / was.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-24

was a wealth such as no Scrooge could possibly
buy! That was the spirit which prompted Dickens
to say, Though it has never put a scrap of gold
silver in my pocket, believe it has done me
good, and say God bless itp 4"
IT HE SINGING of carols in English villages
L a good old custom and ought to be revived
as well as the lighting of the Yule log on Christ
mas eve, for the memory of the English Christmas
fingers ever in the British heart, wherever he may
be. In the early days at jamestown, Va, the
cradle of English civilization this western
tinent, John Smith says: "The extreme cold
frost rain and snow caused to keep Christmas
among the savages, where we were never more
merry nor had more good oysters, fish, flesh, wild
fowl and good bread, nor ever had better fires In
England" Kipling, too, refers to the memory Of
Yuletide IN his "BlacL Sheep" with the couplet,
AT home they making merry, twixt the white
and scarlet berry" And so we should garland the
house with trailing pine hang The wreaths of holly
in the window and the mistletoe meath the chan
delier. Ii helps others If it does not help you
Last Christmas IN Boston the mayor requested
everyone IN the city to leave their window shades
I'D on Christmas eve to help light the city. Down
IN the public gardens the city was enjoying its
municipal Christmas tree, stately hr, bedecked
with myriad cOlored electric bulbs, while the band
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-24

the season for the Christ Chd-Nvhen simplicity
and sincerity should dominate love of ostentation
and all pretense. 1t is hard in this day of luxury
to experience a sensation; for children
seated on the threshold of life with gifts that
would have astonished George Washington and
taken away the breath of little backv~oods Abra-
ham Lincoln. 1t Is no use telling your child to eat
his red apple and suck his stick of candy with a
thankful heart if little Bobbie next door owns a
motorcycle and real pigskin. Precious poor FUN
will your little Mary Jane find in her rag baby if
Inez Doris has bisque French doll that can talk
And so we are happy or miserable, poor or rich
by contrast; those comparisons that obvious
If odious.
The old-fashioned season of fun and frolic has
been replaced by meaningless, mirthless celebra-
ton. The Yule log has gone out, and there is no
fireplace for old Santa Claus to scramble down
and leave his gifts of simple joys for unsuspectng
childhood. The steam-heated home the sterilized
urchn, the pure-food laws, all forbid the painted
sugar cats and dogs whose green backs would
have put any parrot to shame.
Yet how beautiful in retrospect is the memory
of some Christmas of the long ago, when, ike
Tiny Tim, who gathered around the simple table
and looked forward with JOY to the homecoming
of all the family the wonderful dinner of goose
and the loving greeting. God bless US all!' That
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-24

played old familiar carols that veered into popular
street songs before the crowd scattered The
scene was significant of Christmas now being
cosmopolitan festival holding the heart of Puritan
New England, whose holy of holes has heretofore
been Thanksgiving This right, and as it should
be, since is land of religious liberty and
Christmas is the season of "peace and good will
to all mankind"
DER4APS the very oldest of all Christmas Gus
| toms is that of decorating our houses, church
es and streets with evergreens. At the very dawn
of history began the worship of the trees forest
worship, and the groves were mans first temples.
All our instincts, our passion about nature, are
forest memories, for forest worship was universal
In later times to each god some tree was dedi-
Gated: Apollo had the laurel, Jupiter the oak and
Greece for ages had its sacred groves.
The forest worshppers could not worship with
out giving, because to worship is to give, and
these boughs and garlands the Oldest gifts of
man. Before he had learned to shape offerings
of his own rude skill he could bring to the sacred
trees and hang upon them the first flowers and
greenery of spring and the perfect fruits of
tumn.
These gifts, remember, were never as with US,
decorations; they were sacrifices.
The Romans. with fine eye for Beauty, used
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@ at lie 10 o la
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/ / conventionalities? That is the rub. We do
things like mechanical toys without asking the
why and wherefore. We follow like sheep the
leadership of some foolish friend who either has
more cents and less sense than the average, be-
cause we are the slaves of custom. Christmas Is
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(WHICH Il the local, and public angle Of il /:
w now as TO ourselves. We shall greet you
again IN the morning, but repetition can do no
harm.
Merry Christmas to you all. Let yourself
surrender to the season. Don't be afraid, much
less ashamed, to be bit soft toward everybody.
Obey that impulse to kindness.
Throw off that inhibition on spontaneous
friendliness.
Note how it gets you more than you give.
Reflect how splendid it would be to carry the
feeling on beyond Christmas always.
Don't let the horror and misery OF the great
war Cypress you. In the conflict giving
all they have for ideals. They making and
shaping new world and better one, building it
with the supreme sacrifice of self.
This world is what make it. The love habit
will beautify and svveeten If.
Every little BIT helps to make a mighty FIRE of
love eventually to burn all hate away.
Merry Christmas.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22

MOUNTAIN KINGDOM CONQUERED FOR
FIRST TIME ITALY AWAKENS TO SITUA-
TION ''TOO LATE" GRAND DUKE NICHo-
LAS AGAIN IN ACTION FRENCH OC-
CUPY ISLAND OF CORFU
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
CAREER OF HUERTA ENDED

General Victoriano Huerta, former
provisional president of Mexico, died at
his home at El Paso, Texas, on January
13. He had made d long fight against
complication of diseases, which were
probably aggravated by his confinement
in prison, since last July until recently.
Huerta has been referred to as "Mex-
ico's man of mystery" He was identi-
fed for forty years with every military
activity of the republic. He boasted
that he was always on the side of the
constituted government, no matter who
was behind the government.
General Huerta fought Loyalty behind
President Diaz until his downfall. He
then supported Francisco de la Barra,
the provisional president. After Madero
gained the ascendancy, Huerta consider
ed it his duty to support man who had
long fought as rebel against the gov
ernment. During Madero's admins
tratiOn he was sent into MOrelos with a
force, to put down the Zapata rebellion,
but failing to please his chief he was re-
called.
In the second Felix Diaz revolution,
which resulted in the overthrow of the
Madero government, Huerta was i'm
mediately called to active command as
the senior ranking general in the capital.
He is believed to have been the moving
spirit in the consummation of the plot
that resulted in the seizure of Madero
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
THIRD OF BERGEN, NORWAY, DE-
STROYED BY FIRE

In the worst confagration ever record
ed in Norway, a third of the seaport
city of Bergen was destroyed by fire, on
January Is. Bergen is city of 10000
people, and it is claimed that something
like 10000 persons were rendered home
less. The property damage is estimated
at all the way from $15,000,000 to $40,-
100000. The business section, with it's
wholesale houses, several of the largest
hotels, number of schools, banks and
newspaper buildings, was wiped out.
The fire started in an ironmonger's
shop, and the flames, famed by hur-
ricane, spread with great rapidity. Eff
forts of the firemen to circumscribe the
burning area, proved hopeless, and
finally buildings in the path of the flames
were blown up by dynamite.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22

and his brother. The assassination of
Madero followed, and, in the meantime,
Huerta had become recognized as pro-
visional president.
He took office February 10, 1913, and
remained at the head of affairs until
July 7, when, with his armies thoroughly
beaten and finances exhausted, he sailed
for Spain. He left Spain in March,
1915, and came to New York, where, af-
ter remaining a short time, he started
West, and on June 27 was arrested by
United States secret service agents at
Newton, New Mexico, charged with con-
spring to form a revolution against a
friendly country.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE POL
ITICAL SITUATION

The Democrats of the country are
rallying to the support of President Will
son for the oncoming presidential cam
paign. 1t is interesting to note that
several London papers take it for grant
ed that Wilson will be renominated, but
they claim that he cannot be reelected.
The NeaO Republic, an American news
paper, the editorials of which are largely
quoted of late, has this week said:
''The Wilson method is to watch and
wait for things to happen, and then to
try to find way. The Roosevelt me-
thod is to act decisively when things are
going to happen. The difference is radi-
CAL"
Secretary of State Schmahl, of Min
nesota, this week received telegram
from Elihu Root, saying that he was not
a candidate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination, and requesting that
his name be kept off the Minnesota pri-
mary ballot.
Ex-president Taft has this week dis
closed some unwritten history in regard
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
ASKS SURVEYS FOR BIG RAILWAY
TERMINAL

The council committee, of Chicago, on
railway terminals, last week decided to
ask the city council that preliminary
survey of plans for gigantic lake shore
terminal station be made. The termin-
al as proposed would house not only the
Illinois Central, and the other roads u.s.
ing the Park Row station, but also most
if not all of the lines entering the city
through the south side.
While the proposal is still in the en-
bryonic stage, this is looked upon as be-
ing one step nearer to the realization of
the plans for a great railway station on
the lake front.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
BRITISH CABINET MEMBERS
WITHDRAW RESERVATIONS

AS a result of a concession to labor,
by Premier Asquith on the conscription
bill, Arthur Henderson, William Brace
and George H. Roberts withdrew their
designations from the British coalition
cabinet, on January IL.
Premier Asquith in parliament re-
ferred to the fears of labor that the bill
would lead to industrial compulsion, and
that employers through it's measures
would be enabled to dismiss obnoxious
employees, and compel them to join the
cOlors. He explained that the govern
ment would introduce an amendment to
safeguard this point The Premier's
concession to labor was greeted with
long cheers
Notwithstanding this, however, the
National Railwaymen's Union, one of the
strongest labor organizations in Great
Britain, two days later in a resolution,
defed the government to enact a con-
scription bill, limiting at an immediate
strike of all railroad workers if this was
done.
"Unless the government is prepared
to confscate the wealth of the privileged
classes for the more successful prose
cution of the war;" read the resolution,
the railroad workers will resist to the
uttermost the confscation of men, whose
only wealth is their labor power"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22

to Associate Justice Hughes, whom
many people prefer as the Republican
candidate. He claims that Mr.. Hughes
put behind him all thought of ever be-
coming president, when he assembled the
bench of the United States Supreme
Court.
Mr.. Taft said he offered the appoint
ment to Mr.. Hughes, then governor of
New York, in a letter in which he ex-
pressed the opinion that Mr.. Hughes
would be the nominee for president in
1912, if he declined the position on the
bench. The governor, according to the
ex-president, replied that he would
rather become member of the Supreme
court than president of the United
States.
The Progressive party has selected the
Auditorium Theater in Chicago, as the
largest available place in that city, in
which to hold the national convention.