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The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21
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The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

black coffee was
brought to keep him awake. He drank
it and resumed his work. About /
O'clock, the coffee having exhilarated
him, forgetting that he was in the
presence of death, he commenced sing
ing a lively tune, keeping time with
his hammer.
Suddenly the corpse arose and ex-
claimed in hollow voice:
when a man is in the presence Of
death he should not singy'
The shoemaker started, then sudden
ly dealt the corpse healthy blow on
the head with his hammer, exclaiming
as he did so:
"When man is dead he should not
speak!
1t was the last time they tried to
scare the shoemaker
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21
Is It Like This?

"The honorable player is out" said
the japanese umpire.
''But the honorable ball was too
low."
''It was right over the honorable
plate and strike. With profound ad-
miration for your ancestors and your
self, insist that you be seated on the
honorable PLAYERS bench"
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21
The RoIIina Pin Followed.

"William," said Mrs. Peckem stern
ly, ''did you ever stop to think that
some one might steal me when you are
away?'
"Wel," responded the poor husband
with a faraway look, 81 was a little
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

We have just what you are
looking for to give papa, mama,
brother, sister, auntie, uncle,
grandma or grandpa, cousin,
sweetheart or friend, or for the
children. Don't stop till you get
to the Bushman Big Busy Store
headquarters for Santa Claus
goods.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

One Of them pre-
tended to be dead,
and the other, go
ing to the shoe
maker, i n d u C e d
him to sit up with
t b e s ppo s e d
corpse.
The shoemaker
was in a hurry
with some work
he had promised
to have complet-
ed the next morn
ing, so he took his
tools and leather
and began work
ing b e side the
corpse.
About II o'clock
at night a cup of
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

News was received in Snow
flake Thursday morning that
Maude, the eleven year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bushman of ST. Joseph, died
Wednesday night. The little girl
had been sick for some time.
Only few weeks ago the same
family lost another of their little
ones. H. F. Bushman, a brother,
went up to St. Joe Thursday to
attend the funeral.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21
From St. Joe City.
st. Joseph, Dec. Is

Spend some of your holidays in
st. Joe. Something doing every
night from the 21st of Dec. to
Jan. 1st. Dances. theaters,
amusements of all sorts for a
week or more. Good clean en-
tertainments given by the district
school, Amusement committee,
and the supertendences Of the
various associations.
Last Friday night we enjoyed
a nice hop in the Social hall.
Among the visitors were Alvirus
and Leroy Rogers. Come again
boys, the Ladies were glad to
see you.
The Relief Society were busy
last week filling Xmas boxes for
the soldiers boys of this county.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Peterson
from Mt. Pleasant, Utah, are
here for the holidays visiting
their daughter, Mrs. Jas. A.
Hanson.
The Bowler family are here for
the winter so the children can go
to school.
Mrs. Ruth Bushman and child
ren left Friday for Louisville,
KY, to join Elder Bushman for
the winter.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21
Mind and Body.

The mind is master Of the body; let
it be still and tranquil The body is
servant of the mind; let it work and
labor. If the mind be still 1t contains
abundant pleasure. and if the body
tolls it need fear no sickness.-Ekken
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

We have been asked several
times during the week if we
were going to issue another
Merry Christmas" number of
the Herald Christmas week? Not
if the Court knows herself. I"
Thanks.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

The district school will give
the usual holiday vacation so that
the kiddies may enjoy Santa
Claus.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

For One Dollar Wetzler's will
parcel post Four Pounds of Xmas
Candy to any post office in Nava-
jo or Apache counties.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Go right to headquarters when
you want Christmas goods either
for children or grown-ups-Bush-
mans Big Busy Store.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Wetzler, Holbrook, announces
that in order to accommodate
those who want Christmas goods
that his store will keep open Sun
day, Dec. %.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

The Navajo county highway
commission has eceived it's ten
ton road roller machine.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21
A WISH.

I'd fain have a centipede's stockings
To hang by the fireplace tonight
And then have an octupus Sanity
With eight arms to fill them up tight.
New York Sun.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Everything to be had in the
Toy Line for Boys and Girls at
Wetzler's.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Complete Line of Standard
Watches, priced right, at Wetzler
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Milo Webb continues to i'm
prove, which is good news to his
many friends.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Complete Line of Silverware
at Wetzler's.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

When you start for Santa Claus
don't stop till you get to the
Bushman store-headquarters for
everybody's Santa Claus.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

New style Dolls, Toys and
Erectors at Wetzler's.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Buy a nice piece of Furniture
for your mother at Wetzler's.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Your Dad will appreciate a
Rocker for Xmas, at WetzIer's.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

The Snowflake academy will
give two weeks holiday vacation.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

Toys, playhouse sets, trinkets,
and every thing for the little boys
and girls Christmas at the
Bushman Big Busy store.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21
- The -
Scrap Book
The
He Didn't Scare,

An old French shoemaker, whom 1t
was reported nothing could frighten,
was put to the test by two young men.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

In order that no one may be
disappointed in selecting Christ
mas goods, Wetzler, Holbrook,
will keep open Sunday, Dec. %.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-21

See the New Davenports at
Wetzler's.
The Washington times., 1917-09-29
AKRON-BOSTON LIMITED

Paragraph Of tie pionee, fOe-ton trans
port operated BY Goodyear 6etDeen the
factory end its eastern branches. -Four
trucks are nOaD in tits 5erUfce, maintain
ing a regular schedule. III ar :ad
e7Lh H*I0 auch Goodyear Co,l lues.
The Washington times., 1917-09-29

NOR FIVE months now, over round-trip route meas
uring $40 miles, fully laden hve-ton motor truck
has been plying between its distant terminals with the
regularity and gertrude of a steamship
At one extreme of its far reaching journey is Akron at
the other, Boston, and between lie good road and bad
mountain and pain city and farm.
Over this circuit by night and by day. at pace never
sustained by motor truck BEFORE this carrier has kept
its schedule in sunshine and storm
Between it and the road saving from shock jar and
vbraon speeding its progress and making its continued
possible, are Goodyear Cord Tires.
These tires pneumatic tres-made especially for heavy
truck Seiceand of size character and capacity such
the average man has never seen.
They large of gh the base of trunk line ele-
phone pole the rear wheel equipment measuring A 10
inches; and they have carrying power greater than that
of the truck ITSELF
Up grades steep eighteen per cent over mountain
pulls long five miles, these tires bearing burdens
with ceety and unparaeedin hauling experience.
The Washington times., 1917-09-29
IA GOODYEAR CORDS

distribution of weight the road that their inre
the highways could not stand such travel !; :,.:
As it is the trucks make speeds high thirty miles
hour without damage to the roads or themselves.
Goodyear Cord Tires for motor truck service arc in no
way an experiment-they are development Of fifteen
years time = - = > =. "a -
They are the practical expression Of an old Goodyear
idea, brought final or through tie pNschon Of
the Goodyear PRINCIPLE Of cord h,s construction.
Right they being used heavy-duty transport.
in more than 200 cities in this country to the profit and
satisfaction of the whoemploy them. -
Right now they are delivering in such service measure
of utility endurance and economy previously unequaled
in any such carrier ~: -.
From the truck makers standpoint the performance of
Goodyear'S Akron-to-BoSton transports is meaning
demonstration of the motor trucks future.
From the truck user standpoint ii is an even more mean
ing demonstration of the tires that have made it achey
able. ....... -. ...1.,
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio
The Washington times., 1917-09-29

And through mud slough and sand drift over asphalt
and turnpike, they afordng driver and cargo the
comfort and protection of limousine
The ongdistance truck shod with these tires the
pioneer of of four operated by Goodyear
between its factory and its branches in the east.
On their outgoing journey these trucks loaded with
Goodyear Tires; they carry fabric from the Com
pany mills Goodyear, Connecticut their return.
They operate continuously a schedule for the round
trip which is full day faster than the regular oneway
express service.
Through the reduction of fuel fabrication and mante-
nance due the cuShonipg power of their pneu-
mates, their use is consistently profitable.
The success of GoodyearS first experience in commercial
transportation by truck entirely due the
of Goodyear Cord Tires,
Without their residence and strength underwheel salts
factory speeds could be mantained the trucks would
rattle themselves apa-
Without their ability absorb vibration, without the fair
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-21
The Spanish Santa Claus.

In Spain, however, it Is not Santa
Claus, but one of the three kings, no
less q person, indeed, than Balthasar.
who is the purveyor of gifts. He is
always represented as asnegro, even
in the pictures Of the oldmasters, and
as such he survives in Spanish legend.
On the eve of the Epiphany the chill
dren leave their shoes andshoots out in
some convenient spot near the CHM
ney, to find them laden: with gifts in
the morning. Boots, III fact, preceded
the stocking everywhere, the superior
advantages Of the latter as a"recep-
tacle having been a recent discovery.
In Belgium to this day the children
give their shoes an extra fine polish on
Christmas eve, fill them with hay. oats
6F carrots for Santa Clqus' white horse
and put them on the table or set them
In the fireplace. The room is then
Carefully closed and the door locked.
In the morning q strange thing is
found to have occurred. The furniture
is all turned topsy turvy, the fodder
has been removed from the shoes, and
ii fty> place the good little children find
all sorfs> of nice things and the bad
ones only f0ds made Of birch. In 9th
'er localities baskets, dishes and wood
en- ware are made the receptacles. But
the elasticity o. the stocking, its
adaptability and tie fact that, while
it preserves the Individuality Of the
owner like shoe, it may yet be clea4-
ed and made ready for the reception
Of edible presents-these cf1afacteris-
tics have caused it to grow. into general
favor among the juvenile <votarieS OF
Santa Claus.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-21
With the Unusual.

1t Is the unusual event that gives
the unusual person a chance. To
meet the unexpected with decision and
effectiveness is the sign of the leader.
If you can take responsibility when re-
sponsibility is suddenly thrust upon
you, and do your very best with
clear head, you are the sort of person
who will achieve a permanently re-
sponsible position. And it is the re-
sponsibfe positions that are we'll paid
and MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-21

few turns around the pond, knowing;
all the time that he was disobeying his
mother and feeling very unhappy all
the while.
BY and by he took off his skates and
went to the woods to cut some laurel
branchSs. 1t was showing very hard
now. and he had to work fast. because
by: this time 1t was growing dark in,
the woods.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-21

fond parents, but
he seemed to love
his own way
above everything
else.
So when final
~ Ned, sulkily
enough, took q
Ratchet and went
tow ard tn e
woods his moth
er did not see
that. he had his
skates hidden un-
d e,r hi s: t htck
OvercOat.
When he reach
ed the pond he
found all the
skaters had gone
home, for who
wants to skate
on Christmas eve
when there are
so many other
delightful things;
to do?
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-21

:, staggered along
through the snow
trying to find the
) path, but the
SNOW had cover
ed it up COM
netely.
Ned was lost in
the woods on
Christmas eve!
He began to cry,
and the tears
frOze on hi s
cheeks. Right be-
side him was a
great oak tree.
With q NhOlEOW.
trunk. There was
u narrow open
ing in the trunk,
and poor, cold.
tired, lost Ned
squeezed his way
through the open
ing and found it
snug and: warm
inside, with q
thick bed Of dry
feaves. He stop
ped up the open
ing with branches
Ut evergreen, and
and snow out.
1t was very lone
tree. Somewhere ,
and again he hear
animal (perhaps a
oyer the snow. f
frightened, but it s.
some.
Sometimes he 81,
warm hOr
Ind
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-24
BELGIANS REFUTE
HUN WAR charge
Deny Accusation That They Are Re-
sponsible for Conflict.

Paris, Dec. 3.-The Belgian gov
eminent today made emphatic re-
futation of Germany's latest effort
to shift responsibility for the war.
In a statement prepared for gen.
eral circulation the government cat
egorically denied the German
charge. lately reiterated, that the
Belgians began hostilities on the
Congo. by attacking a German post
August s. 1914. The German prom
uganda had said that Belgium at
that time also turned over the
neutral Congo Basin to the Freinch.
The government asserted in d.
rect contradiction to the German
reports that Belgians in the Congo
were ordered to keep strictly on
the defensive until August 20, 1914.
The frontier into the neutral Congo
zone was not crossed until Septem-
ber-after the Germans themselves
had begun hostilities in the Congo.
1t was pointed out that the neutral
basins violation by the Germans was
another instance, on a smaller scale
OF the Teutonic disregard for all neu-
trality laws evidenced in the invasion
Of Belgium itself.
Allegations that the Belgians in
terfered with the liberty Of German
subjects 1.-The Congo at the outbreak
OF the war, are untrue" the govern
ment said. German steamships were
allowed to leave the Congo unmo-
Tested up to the end Of September,
1914" :
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-24
FOR THE SAKE OF A DEAD LOVE.

am not easily knocked out" as
Dick would say. little book. but con-
fess that the sight OF Pat in such an
place was very dis
concerning. I could feel myself get
ting red and white in turn. After
had recovered a little found that Pat
was almost as much perturbed as
was.
What are you doing around here,
Margie?" he asked. Are you looking
for old furniture or old brasses?"
Then noticed for the first time
that all about US were antique shops.
and l thought for a moment that
would use them as an excuse, and
then I made up my mind that truth
was the best after all, and so said.
II have been visiting a young man
acquaintance who has gotten into a
little trouble and who I want to give
another chance at going straight"
He looked at me quietly and then
he said: "Margie. think 1 am a
decent man and I try to be a broad
man, but will not allow Alice to give
the pitiful little sum she has saved
from the income that is hers to that
wastrel who lies sick and perhaps
dying in that house"
Then you know gasped.
Everything. 1t would be much
better to let him die. His life is
worth nothing to himself or to man.
kind. Why, his own father has dis
owned him. After almost running the
whole existence of Alice in an effort
to nullify the only decent thing Har-
vey ever tried to do, the father has
at last cast him of.
why should Alice or you, who, i
know, do it for Alice, try to make this
mans end happy or painless? He de-
serves all he is getting and more
too"
Pat spoke bitterly. but could not
blame him. Get into my car. Pat"
I said. land we will talk this thing
out"
II don't think there Is anything
more to be said," murmured Pat stub
bornly.
Eyes, there is" said. mot for the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-24

young mans sake, but for yours and
Alice's."
Pat turned a white face to me sud-
denly and said, why is it, MargIC.
that woman will go on loving a
man who treats her as this man has
treated Alice? Oh, know" he con-
| tinued, holding up a trembling hand
( 10 stop my interruption. what you
would say, but actions speak louder
/ than words. Poor Alice has been in
the torments OF the damned since
she knew this cur was in town. Mar
| gle, cannot bear to see her I'M
happy"
"Why don't you go and tell her that.
Pat?" 1 asked quietly.
For moment he was so surprised
he could not speak, snd then he said.
Il cannot talk with my wife about
the man she still adores."
! "She does not love him any more,
Pat"
Pats mouth settled in contradic-
| ton. 1T is true, Pat. Alice told me
this very morning that she loved you
only"
Then why is she helping this d.
scoundrel?"
/ Pat, wonder IL I can make you
eiNSl TIE VI
woman. When a woman loves a man
as Alice loved Harvey-loves him so
much that she is ready to do any
thing he asks, go anywhere he
chooses, who has been wholly his
she can never feel otherwise than
tender, not OF him, perhaps, but of
the great love that has been part of
her soul. Even If she has had to tear
1t out at the cost OF almost more
than life. she will still look upon it
as beautiful thing that is dead. 1
do not believe that any woman who
has given absolute devotion to a
man can ever be unheeding of his
cries for succor.
She may not love him any more.
Alice does not love Harvey the least
little bit, but for the sake of the love,
the Joy. and yes. the agony that has
been between them she must try and
Pat?"
(To Be Contfnued)
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-24

his love and lay bits Of his heart nm
the affairs OF different divfnities b.
fore whom he worships instead Of
concentrating his devotion on one
seems horrible to US Yet that IL ex-
actly what we do among our friends.
We love one friend for one quality,
and another for another quality that
Is perhaps entirely opposite, and we
seek these different friends when we
desire to crafty our different moods.
Moreover, we are sincerely attached
to these different friends and neither
one could take the others place.
I am not trying TO Justify men in
having many loves. / am only at
tempting to explain why they do, and
the answer seems, to be that Il takes
, a composite lady-love, made up Of all
feminine charms and virtues to sat
isfy a mans ideal; this being tie case.
one poor. lone, faulty female can
hardly expect TO be 1T. II all women
were born domestic and devoted, bril-
liant and beautiful, one might suffice
to hold a tickle nasculine fancy.
Otherwise it's a job for q bunch.
Women ind II hard to realize that a
mans heart is built on the double and
triple expansion plan so that he can
love several women at the same time
because they, themselves, are con-
centrationalists.
When a woman loves q man he Is
the whole universe to her. Other men
do not exist for her. She does not,
like a man, seek in other men the
charms and qualities he may not pos
sess. She endows him with them out
OF her imagination
Therefore. the woman 70 torn with
Jealousy when the man she loves Is
attracted in even the smallest degree
to some other woman. She can't un-
derstand how he can love her and yet
admire other women, how he can love
her and like TO be seen with Ethel be-
cause she is beautiful, or enjoy talk
ing TO Cynthia because she is enter
tanning.
Still less can the woman understand
how man may still love her with the
deepest affection OF which he IN ca
pable and yet now and then, in re-
Spouse to some vagrant impulse, wan
der into a Irritation or become the VIC
tim to some passing attraction of the
vampire who lures him through the
senses.
Nevertheless. such things are, and
that is why no one can tell how many
women man can love at the same
time.
Copyright, 1917, by The Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc)
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-12-24
DECLARES GERMAN
RACE IS STARVING
Food Controller Says Masses Are
Practically Without Food.

London. Dec. 23.-According to a
Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam.
vorwaerts. of Berlin, in a plain-spoken
attack on the system of Herr Won
waldow, the German Food Controller,
declares that great masses Of German
people not only are hungry, but are
literally starving. The paper adds
that agricultural producers and rich
residents in towns are living In plenty,
as boarding is no longer prohibited.
Every war profiteer and million
aire," says the paper, has his kitchen
and cellar full Of ham and bacon; the
middle class ekes q precarious exis-
tence, spending all it possesses on
food, but 100000 of the masses are
starving and are unlikely to sit 81
lent. We might have within a month
an absolute catastrophe in Germany
and a collapse even worse than Rus
STA resulting in German defeat and
loss OF the war"