The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-03-30
Tales of the Town

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"Why do they call us 'Gringoes,' Par
at is our way, you know;
r Just watch our soldiers go to war,
A-grinning as they 60"
Cast your bread upon the waters
And you may live TO say:
ooh, how wish had the crust
That once | threw away"
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The recent death of Cole Younger,
reformed member of the James gang,
recalls to mind that Jesse James was
the first man to be killed by a Ford.
If the price of gasoline continues
to soar, they'll be giving a motor car
as a premium with every can of gas
one buys.
Someone asked Old Bill Misgivens
why he didn't call old Crouch liar.
"Wel, did intend to-" explained Old
Bill, "but when got home | found the
telephone was out of order"
A sad accident befell a good man
in a nearby town the other day. He
was carrying home package of laun-
dry from the express Office when he
let it fall on the sidewalk and broke
all four bottles.
The most useless thing in existence
is the third verse of a hymn. There
are many persons who nave grown old
in church work who have never heard
the third verse of hymn sung. The
preacher always says, 1--WE will sing
the first, second and last verses"
"When the snow and ice have been
melted by the balmy breezes," said
the teacher, beaming on the class,
"and Nature awakes from her sleep, |
the birds begin to sing, and then what
have WEI" Mosquitoes" replied the
matter-of-fact pupil.
:
Sometime ago a medical expert de-
nounced the use of whisky as a rem
edy for snake bite; and now comes an
other who says that raw meat is not
a cure for a black eye. Must all our
fond traditions and time honored be-
liefs go by the board just because of
objections from the men of medicine?
Their next declaration may be that a
black cat crossing the road at mid
night has no significance.
The principal of high school tells
the following: zone day at school
| gave a bright boy a sum in algebra
and although the problem was COM
paratively easy he couldn't do it.
remarked: "'You ought to be asham-
ed of yourself At your age George
was surveyor The boy
looked me straight in the face and re-
Piled: AT your age he was president
Of the United States. "
The community has no bride that
will tempt a wise man. You may
'aise money enough to tunnel noun
ain, but you cannot raise money
,nough to hire a man who is minding
his own business. An efficient and
,aluable man does what he can,
whether the community pays him for
t or not. The inefficient offer their
nefliciency to the highest bidder and
ire forever expecting TO be put into
flee. One would suppose they were
arely disappointed.-Th
Backward, turn backward, o, Time,
n your flight, and give me the house !
hat | slept in last night, my bed in
he corner, so coy and snug, the
tove and the chair and the beautiful ;
ug. They are vanished and gone like /;
tale that is told and the floor of the
DOM looks so cherries and cold. For
edding | have but a thin gunny sack
nd | shudder to move lest | step on !,
tack My dinner was cold and my :
upper was raw, but | know it don't !,
clip me to grumble and jaw, for house !
leaning season has come once again !
o wear out the patience of poor, help :
ess men. | think every year I'll flee
o some cline and miss all the hor-
ors of house cleaning time. | long
o go off for dash to the pole or be c
ent to the pen and allowed to dig I
oal; | fain would abide in some can {
ibal's camp or sleep in the jungles ),
o darksome and damp; to mountain d
us heights with delight would C
limb and stay there contented thro e
ouse cleaning time q
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at is really wonderful" remarked e
I'D Bill Misgivens, what these scien-