The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-03-17

How the cobwebs cob in the old ms
ehinery!
But on the mountain top,
Far from the eyes Of cop,
How the moon shines on the moon
shine so stillily"
/ An Illinois mother has been arrest
ed for applying red hot poker t
her 9-year-old daughters tongue TO
telling . story. Horriblel Had tina
been the custom universally observed
humanity would now BE- using the sigl
language.
The fellows with money have actu
ally stopped drinking since the prizes
Of booze went to $2b . quart, SO We
are told. The only fellows buying the
$25 goods are the ones who have just
about $25 balance in the bank.
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1t is a strange fact that no matter
how large the family Of children a
mother manages some way to look af-
ter them. Whereas, many times when
she becomes old and incapacitated for
looking after herself, not all that fam
lily seems able to look after one moth
er.
Pat was very dissipated Irishman
and as he reeled home on morning
at o'clock he met friend who said:
"Pat, you ought to be ashamed of
yourself coming home at o'clock, and
your good wife has just this minute
presented you with twins" "Thank
the Lord" said Pat, 81 didn't come
home at IL o'clock"
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Three thousand American dough-
boys in Coblenz have married German
girls, and being doughless they are
wondering how they are going to get
their brides home when they return.
1t seems to US that German girls who
marry American doughboys ought to
be able to come to America in trans
ports of bliss.
TwoHebrew merchants had been at
ending Billy Sundays revival meet
ngs, and when the two men were dis
ussing one Of Sundays sermons, Sol
aid he could not believe in so much
ell as set forth by the noted evan
,elist. But Isaac took another view
4 the matter and asked: "Vell, if
here is no hell, we're is gone all de
izness?"
An elderly man was persuaded by
ne of his SONS to go to football
anne. The son, intent upon giving
is father good time, had bought
wo seats in the grandstand. Now
nd tho son, joyfully, you'll see
lore excitement for your 50 than
ou've ever seen before" The old
AN grunted. II don't know SO much
bout that he said dismally. "Two I
,llnrs was all paid for my mar 7
age license!"
Prohibition is bound to cause more I
less trouble till we get used to it. .
he Volstsad act prevented an old '
uthern darby minister from obtain b
( communion wine. So he got one d
the sisters to make some She did. n
le made It out Of pcrsimmons and Il >
u hne. The ceremony went off all u
rht, but the congregations mouth =
n 20 puckered that they had to 81
listle the doxology. B
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Brown was = teaty fellow and il &C
,re was one thing more than an "
Ter that he hated It was to bs d.
lght. As . consequence he was It
" suspicious Of any deed or word, ch
, meaning of which he could not un- w
-stand. Once when he visited . mo tn
yerie he had an interesting chat to
ii one Of the keepers and as he was Il,
tut to leave the man asked, 'By N
way, sir, have you seen our black
ed antelope - "Ah," thought
,wn, he's trying to make a fool
me. No. he replied, s.iffly. -
ny ] ask with whom your black -
ed aunt eloped!" =
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I see.' remarked Old Bill Misgiv- ii,
while reading the old home paper, no
at Bill Spivins, an old neighbor Of an
lie in western Kansas, has moved M
Missouri. He had lived there =,
&c the country was first settled. in
had seen the country where he Re
d so long filled up and emptied at cu
IT four times. When | tried TO y
suade him to come to Idaho with to