The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-08
RENTING TO THE KAISER.

RENTING TO THE KAISER.
The cable dispatches bring the
thrilling announcement that the ex
kaiser is hunting for house in Hol
land
The prospect of having Mister Ho.
henzollern for tenant presents GER
tain acute problems. For one thing
what would a poor landlord do if he
wouldn't pay the rent? And he prob
ably wouldn't pay the rent. He would
tell you the lease was scrap of pa
per and put poison in your soup.
On the other hand, it might give
him chance to work off some OF
his passion for theatricals and to
wear out some of his old uniforms.
No doubt he would come to demand
dressed in the silver breastpiate und
pIumes of the Guard du Corps; in the
finery of hussar he would come to
complain about a leak in, the roof, i'll
the impressive costume of German
sea admiral he would respectfully ask
for new garden hose.-Los Angeles
Times.
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All European countries are said to
be short of horses and in some cOun-
tries a horse has become curiosity
This is due largely to the fact that
horses were used for food during. the
war. The manufacturers of automo-
biies, trucks and tractors, who have
been predicting that the horse is DOOM
ed because these machines will take
his place, and declare that these gas
aline machines are better in every way
than horses, will have to get busy !
and prepare a list of recipes for the
proper cooking of automobiles, trucks
and tractors in time of war or pestil-
ence when other food supplies fall. I
Let us have dissertation on how to
prepare an automobile roast, truck
steak or tractor stew so they will |,
be appetizing to a starving human be-
ing
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Much is said and written about the
high wages paid to harvest hands,
but the writer remembers when he
got $3.50 per day for working in har- :
rest and wheat sold for Is to 80 cents
4 bushel and sacks cost 10 cents each. .
Now harvest laborers get "a to So per 1
lay and sacks cost IA cents, but the
Armer gets 50 per bushel for his
most 100 per cent and the price of 1
sacks has advanced 40 per cent from !
he prices prevailing in 1898 and 1894
he price of wheat has advanced from
90 to 1000 per cent. 4
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When carload of hogs brings more !.
han four thousand dollars; carload :
Z wheat brings $500 to $4,000 and I
arload of hay, potatoes, fruit or 9TH !
r farm products brings snug for
lne, the lot of the Palouse farmer :
no has these commodities to sell, :
pes not seem to be such hard one, +
yen if he does have to pay high
rices for everything bought at the :.
ores Many citizens Of Latah county +
IN remember when a carload OF hogs =
Fought less than $500. carload Of =
heat less than $500 and a carload of .
he'd hay was worth less than $3.50 =
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When congress and the democratic +
yielded to the demands :
the four railroad brotherhoods for
eight-hour day with increased pay, =
companied by threat to strike and =
up transportation at the busiest .
asOn of the year, it set bad ex- ~
lple. Having succeeded in that hold .
game the brotherhoods, backed by :
other railroad unions, is trying an =
ser game Of the same kind and if it
rs this one will want to control the ~ +
vernment in every detail. There :
i never bea better time to stop this = E
ng than right now. -
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" course President Wilson, the cab .
members and the members of con- r
ss will "wrestle with the question =
high living COSTS but will they
n a fall" in this wrestling match. .
will be much harder for the con- j.
5smen, who draw $500 per year, +
,age and travelling expenses: the +
net members on salaries of $12,-