The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-28
And walk with joy their dreary mile,
And face grim death, nor quail.

How about you? Would a man
kiss his wife if she chewed tobacco?
When a youth proposed to a girl
the other day she replied: 81 going to
wait till the war is over and the real
men come home"
Esther Cleveland married captain
in the British army the other day.
How the Republicans would have
roared about it 30 years ago.
And what am | offered for this
peacemaker? inquired Col. Barnard
as he held up a rolling pin from the
household goods offered for sale.
Every once in while we find
young fellow who impresses US that
he would be willing to work if he
could get job as lineman for wire
less telegraph company.
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Hank Goudy is one ball player, at
least, who wasn't content to ride thro
life on the glory he gained in worlds
series few years ago. Hank is driv-
ing the boches back to the fence in
the biggest series of all this year.
A girl received letter from her
soldier in France the other day and
about nine-tenths of it had been de-
leted by the censor She sat down :
Immediately and wrote her soldier, de-
to know what it was the CEN :
sor had cut out.
Here's new formula for computing
your income tax: Take your net in
come and deduct therefrom 5000 for :
each minor child; then add your house
number, subtract the number of your :
motor license and divide the remainder :
~ the age of your wife's sister.
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How to look like an assessor and :
rot like a book agent is a nice little :
problem in camoufage for George q
church. Old Bill Misgivens says his
leighbors seeing the assessor APP o
'roaching with book under his arm +,
mistake him for book agent and are n
not at home" I,
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| little sun, little rain, !,
A soft wind blowing from the west, -
md woods and fields are sweet again, "
And warmth within the mountains HI
breast. d,
little love, little trust,
A soft impulse, a sudden dream q
md life as dry as desert dust lie
Is fresher than a mountain stream. 81
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The Daylight Saving Bill is expect III
4 to go into effect Sunday morning, II
Iarch 81. That also happens to be ot
aster. There is little possibility that u
nyone will forget to push up the VII
ock, for it would be an awful trag- eo
ly to walk into church in new Vi
BRING outfit just as everybody else III
as starting out. nf
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"People back east had a hard win
r, and there was much complaining" =
marked Old Bill Misgivens as he =
lished reading his old home paper
They should have spent winter with
e in the interior of Alaska in 1898.
e 'holed up along about the middle
October, but before we did we laid
a few hundred cords of wood and
Iough provisions to last us till the
'xt spring. There was some toler- Il
lie weather in October and Novem-
r when the thermometer didn't in
cate more than 20 or 30 degrees be-
W zero. but along about the middle
December the real cold weather
t in. We had good thermometer,
t after it got down to So below zero
e blamed thing froze up and we had
guess it off after that. We slept
tn masks on to keep our faces from
eezing, but of course there had to be
vent for the breath. My partner
Is large man and had a lot of
cath. Every morning when he wax
up there would be an icicle stand
: up over his face at least 3 feet
~ and inches thick at the bottom.
Iidn't have quite so much breath and
got more or less chesty about it
d swelled around and offered to bet
ere wasn't another man in Alaska
10 could breathe so much in given
mber of hours as he could or raise
big an icicle. l finally got tired of
Dragging and called his attention
the fact that cur mule, which we
d shut up in dugout to keep it
I'M freezing to death, had an icicle
nging to its nose every morning
It was at least six feet long. That
t of held him for while. We had
ot of trouble about boiling water
ring January on account of the fact
It the steam froze as fast as it