The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-01-09


Mt. Popocatapetl and Villa are bid
ding for notice in Mexico. We're bet
ting our coin on the volcano.
The dodo is not the only bird to
suffer extinction. There is also the
"stand pat Republican" and the "yal-
Ter dog Democrat"
A Russian writer claims his peo-
pie are the most civilized on earth.
The manufacturers of safety razors
can disprove his claim.
A war comet" is coming this way
at the rate of 1,134,246 miles a day.
At that it can't equal the speed with
which autocracy is rushing to its
doom.
Ex-Czar Nicholas is said to have
escaped from Siberia. Interesting
developments are possible should he
decide to make an effort to regain
his lost crown.
A news item informs US that wo-
mems dress styles for 1918 will effect
a Is per cent saving in material.
Wonder, now, which end they'll econ
oroize at this time.
1t might be well to suggest to
other beautiful young heiresses that
the gun method is not always the
safest in disposing of an objection
able husband or ex-husband.
Scientific research has ruined the
lark's reputation for early rising, we
are told. Now if science will assure
us that the worm has no such objec-
tiorable habit, it will lay a DOGGY
that has pursued US all through life.
The Kaiser is quoted as saying that
all he wants is justice, and the AL
lied world is of one mind in the de-
termination to see that he gets tt
and in full measure. The probabili-
ties are, however, that his kaisership
won't recognize the article when he
sees it coming.
Senator Vardaman of Mississippi,
reached the Senate chamber in time
to somewhat redeem himself by vot-
ing for the resolution declaring a
state of war with Austria-H Hungary.
LaFollette, however, was "otherwise
engaged" He should be "otherwise
engaged" the remainder of his nat
ural life so far as the councils of
the nation are concerned.
Since the overthrow of the Roman
offs, things have happened so rapidly
in Russia that the average editorial
writer is forced to keep stock of
illusions on hand to insure getting
the right dope" and even then lot
of perfectly good editorial efforts
have been dumped into the discard.
If things over there ever stay "put"
for twenty-four hours on a stretch,
we may have something to say of
them.
Jerusalem is at last in Christian
hands, and the preaching of Peter
the Hermit has been indicated.
. During the twelve hundred years
in which it has been in the hands of
the Moslem it would be hard to es-
innate the lives sacrificed in the at
tempt to wrest it from him. It
should never again be desecrated by
his presence to say nothing of his
control. The Holy City should revert
to it's rightful owners, and the en-
tire territory of Palestine with it..
They should have a free hand in re-
building a Jewish nation if they so
will.
And what if Senator Calder of
New York did own some $50 shirts?
That's nothing to question a mans
patriotism for. The Senator is prob
ably we'll able to afford them. When
he bought them he enabled his mer-
chant or tailor to make payment on
liberty bond; the wholesale house
aleo gathered in a mite Of profit,
ard the manufacturers of the cloth,
likewise the makers, and even the
seamstress who sewed their seams
may have had an extra supper from
the proceeds. It is such men as SEN
ator Calder who keep the wheels Of
commerce rolling. If every man
wore the cheapest clothes he could
find, the higher priced ones would
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