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Ye Smudge Pot
i i By Arthur 1'nrry
mkA U.w Vni nnitin nx overvhodv
HTnnctari It would, and wiin Krootod
WHh tame acclaim.
Candidates have started to oxiiress
love for the farmers, and It will hustle
the tillers or tho Roll, to do their
spring plowing without Betting klBsod
That Pay-as-You-Oo nlnn for Fords
ml;ht.be worse. What ir tho amtoieu
naa to pay wnun muy umu i ku.
A nnnnln of film nueens not drunk
,,h1 u iinrl minrlv murdered a
nnllHmnn friend. TheV Will fllCO tt
Jury on the lessor charge.
!' A cold wave ot out of tho Hates
Bovs chinwhnckitiK parlor Tuos. night
and spread out pretty much over the
entire valley.
NICEK THAN I'EHFKCT
(AkIiIiiikI TldliiKH)
,.:.;;whon Mrs. J. K. Williams
woke up In Monmouth yesterday
rnornlnk the skies looked gray
and cloudy and In fear that the
weather would ho worse than hot
ter, she harbored Mrs. 1'ermlo
Johnson and Donald McWilllams
' rt her machine, and started for
homo at 8:30, considered a lute
Starting hour for tourists.
! Jn.,t 4Un l.nnnj.fv .l!nma will be
erved with whiskey colored maple
yrup, without tho slightest resem
blance to eitner.
Eugene. Dee. 28. "Nig" Yenker.
Portland, boxor, was fined $15 for
annndimr 'in tho munlciiinl court here
.'Wednesday afternoon. (Portland
Journal). He nearly ran over me
judge. . .
' A nnnn TBAIt IV PIIOHPKCT
jOIdllne Haltitn. Capital Journal). Tho
, editor . hat) been looking at Jim
Orlevea, ;. )
A TjAPY TALKS
Thank Heavens! 1 start this year
with a'cloan sheet, hut enn't say tho
Hume 'for tho pillow slips. I should
rush right over to tho drugstore, and
get Into the carbolic ncld. Hhe had
on a white starched underskirt. Yes,
sir! a white underskirt, starched. The
last tlme.l saw a white, starched
underskirt. It was on the valedictorian
of Hie senior class of the Miles city
ileiritana' high school. Khe railed
ilroiilth't , her brat along. Ilragged
ana bragged and bragged and bragged
tbout hoyf' ehiart he was. My kid
threw his ball mid hit her on tho first
bounce.,, I slapped him for good man
taersi and gave him two-hits when he
rocked that rocker on tho Intellectual
giant's fingers. Mother didn't aeo tho
transaction. Tho 1-won't-say-whnt,
takes after his Paw. I can under
stand that. Ills I'nw took after me,
till I reminded him of his place. 1
know positively that ho caught up
with that peaked faced blonde, mat
I stays a shift, and eats In here. It's
disgusting to hear a Mother shoot off
her bazoo, nbouli-her own ortsprlng.
If my kid he's six matlo a non
flndable still, you'd never catch me
telling the cockeyed world about it.
I'd say, dive to Mother. Ills ratner
Wbb brainy, though. Could lake
ben. and make a bird, without taking
the pen off tho paper. Ilenutlflll
shading. Hut the hoy and mo couli't
tnako the riffle on them birds. Ho we
drifted apart. Maggie. All that man
Wiuited to. do was to try and shoot
the five ball In tho corner pocket.
Now, I won't let the youngster play
rlth':a broom handle. I'm so preju
diced against rues. Then they left
but not until she'd gave mo a dig or
two that hurt. So I said, "flood-bye.
Olad'vyou came, awfully." Khe's
aumhbell. but got my drift that time.
Ill V,: tNWlTHKIMNO AKI'KCTIOX
!.T . ......I.. ...I V....U
V . i-vssasssr-.....
i, j Borne men nro so tcmpcraiurn
!'' , tall On a slippery morning last
' '.week on Washington street I
i' heard a nioodlsh husband remark
i ;o hie wife as they trotted past:
. ' "Be) careful how you walk, dar
' I 'ling, or you'll break your damned
f, neck!" . V'a K.l'.K.)
1 He' reports a little more snow nt
Thuiifon than hero, and says It Is
old &here as well. (Kugeno Hegls
ter) . - How cold Is thnt?
;;' , 1924 SI-OOAN8
j Htlck With Your Club.
. Catch a Fish. Nothing Elso Matters..
REAL DANGER IN MEXICAN SITUATION.
TJIKKK is a xtirpriKinu; lacU ul inioresi in me .ic,nnn n-viiiim",,.
Surprisint' Ix'trausi; it is very (lit'firiilt for a revolution to eon-
liuiie for any li;n Hth tif time down
hceoniiiiK involved in it.
Recent developments inei-euse
people as a whole, dislike the United
Kuspieion and envy to absolute hatred.
The aetion of the G'oolidtfe admiiiistration in openly supportiujf
the Obrcnon (i''vernmeiit, while of great assistanee to Obre(;on from
a military standpoint, will be of tremendous assistanee to the De La
Ilnerta faetion from a political one.
Unless De La Hucrtii is less of
Mexican leaders, he will promptly
. . . . : ...
dvantaf?e. A tervid appeal win (,')
he revolutionary movement, and
coniierinK their beloved native land. And unless all signs fail unti
American demonstrations will be followed by attacks on
American citizens the other side of
Already there are reports of American oil ships being detained by
rebel forces in Vera Cruz, a United
Mexican waters, and American business men in Mexico City have pe
titioned Washington to provide a guard for U. S. slgpmcnts to the
Mexican capital.
So there is really every reason for Americans to be vitally inter
ested in the trouble across the border. Unless the De La lluerta up
rising is put down in the next few weeks, the United States will onc
more be forced to throw all its available forces along the Rio Grande
and again be faced by the danger of
QUILL
Education pays everybody but
11c isn't a typical American unless lie has a Good Samaritan com
plex.
Lowering the lax rate encourages morality, also, l'cople tell
much smuller lies.
The strange part is that Ma Jongg attained such popularity with
out being denounced by anybody.
Hell-shaped pants may be hideous, lint you can put on a spar
without taking off your shoes and using talcum powder.
Modesty is the quality that keeps a woman from giving any
thought to the subject of modesty.
It will take Kurope a generation
eminent won't change the fiddler's
One can't stir up much of a revolution in a land where the middle
class inivs aiili-iai nostrums.
In the old days, people blamed
was before America was discovered.
Involution has been going on a
a little opposition will stop it now.
About the only thing yon can put
it won't be unconstitutional is a tax
It must 'he wonderful to feel important enough to tell the reporter
that vmi arc not a candidate for the
There will be investigating committees so long as candidates spend
more to gel an office than the office
Every wife knows that man is
lion growls while feeding, and that's when a man stops growling.
This country will keep on developing excellent twirlers so long
as there are small boys, snow balls
If ho spends money on her before ninrringc, he calls that love; if
he spends money on her afterward,
About all a new venr signifies
urn the money to pay the tax on
Correct this sentence: "I see
aged the barber, "since I put the
RipplingRhumos
Vtelt
NEW
TODAY I readjust my life, and turn old habits down; I cut
out all the futile strife with Neighbors Greene ami lirowne;
I whisper to my toilworu wife that she's the best in town. And
when she says t me today, "Hring in nine hods of coal, tlo useful
chores and cease to play fool games of erokinole," on sprightly
feet I go iny way to please her is my goal. Anil when my use
ful tasks are sped, I say, "I've done my bit ; on other errands let
me tread; 1 simply hate to quit"; and if she doesn't full down
tlead. at least she has a fit. For she has always had to ask some
forty times or more, if she would have me do some task, sonic
simple little chore; on downy beds of ease I busk, ami think all
toil a bore. Today I to the woodshed went, to smoke my punk
cheroot, wherein cheap cabbage leaves are blent with horsehair,
hay and jute, and so my wife escaped the scent, the clinkers and
the soot. Today I've been so kind a wight, she has a dizzy air;
such thoughtt'ulness gives her affright, perhaps a mild despair;
she thinks the wheels don't function right beneath my mop of
hair. My New Year pledges must not skid, they must not slip or
slide; I'll keep them pasted in my lid, and follow them with pride;
I'll treat the old girl as I did when she was first my bride.
there, without the United States
this probability, llie Alexiean
States. The feeling ranges from
an opportunist than most of the
capitalize this action to his own
. . ,i i,..i,;,i
out to me masses to nunc uc......
prevent the hated firinfjoes from
the Rio Grande.
States gunboat has been sent to
war with Mexico.
POINTS
the educators.
to learn that changing the gov
bill.
God for all their troubles; but that
long time, and it. isn't likely that
over now with the certainty that
levy.
Presidency.
pays.
superior to other animals. The
and silk hats.
he calls that generosity.
is that yon must get busy and
what you earned last year.
considerable, new growth," encour
tonic on last week."
Mason
Wa
YEAR.
Personal Health Service
By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.
Noted Phyician and A at hot
sinnflH l.lt.r. n.rt.lnlnn to DBrional
treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady if a stamped, self addressed envelope Is enclosed.
Letters snould be brief and written in Ink. Owinrj to the large number of letters received, only
a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
Address Dr. William Brady, In care of this newspaper.
l'huntnms of
A little while ago, I hope my
younger friends will remeniun,
HUggested hero a practicable excuse
for remaining oui
of school a day or
po. to wit, coryza.
That this sugges
tion found a wide
welcome scemd
certain. One at
tendance clerk In
a largo s-hiol tells
me that there has
been a frightful
epidemic of cory
za since I ofiend
this simple hygi
enic advice. To-
:uv I take great pleasure in l'rtng-
Kcience to the supnort o: me
loi I hov or girl who do not deny
hut they h.'iud mother calling, yet
find tlx .) iiives ardy In arriving at
school
It is a plain phynlolog'.ca! rlicum-
itance. children. it Is u valid ex
use for being a little late in the
morning. The fact Is that in tn
normal process of awakening from
tleeii one first regains consciousness
to sound sensations and a little late;
Ihe capacity of voluntary movement.
So, you see, it is quite true that a
Iln- hears Ills mother , calling and
Celling him It Is time to get up, altho
he has not yet recovered the power
to get up. Of course, this excuse.
like coryza, won t do to use habitu
ally but for an occasional tardiness
It is absolutely tight and scold proof.
The twilight Htat,t, .If I may so call
between sleep and waking Is a
strange stale of half or fractional con-N-lousneHs
during which weird tilings
happen or seem to happen. If one
an carry the memory or tnese weuu
things over into tho fully conscious
state, likely enough one will have a
very good yarn, maybe a real idea'.
in invention, a plot for a story, or
omething else of practicable value.
With some persons the dream hap-
pinlngs of this twilight zone are so f.lir nlirnrh to the proper humidity
vivid, as recalled to the waking con-t to jn(,taii two or three accurate
sclousness, that the phantasms of'mcrcurv thermometers and keep the
the dream are assumed to have oc -
urred In reality, 'i nus many a man
has come to swear he has seen
KhoHtH, received visits from spirits
ir otherwise entertained phnntoms.
l'cople who sincerely believe they
have experienced these actual spirit
manlfstalioiiH are akin to the hys-
terlial. not in the common or vulgar
sense of the word hysterical, but In
tho true medical sense. Hysteria n house Is healed above Ii8. 1" to
means to Ihe physician n state in gallons of water must be evaporated
which an i.lea controls the body, daily. Still, it Is well to use the fur
About the nearest a normal Individ- nace pots, also take advantage of
lml ncs to hysteria is this twl- porous earthern flower pots full of
light zone between sleep nnu wiikiuk.
tine who has true hysteria is no more
1,1, ,nn. fur tho manifestations of Ills
disease than is the epileptic for his and other available means of supply
fils, for some part of his conscious- lug moisture to tho air. . To evnpo
ness is to nil purposes asleep or In rate the largest quantity of water
.i,..,.,.,,n ...,.i. n.luh as Johnny's
power of voluntary movement Is in
ibevance a though, he nears moiner
.ailing him, all l ight. We may Bay
'JUST TOWN TALK"
Copied Right ny Mike
HE'S AN officer
OF THE law
AND HE vows
e e
THE STORY'S true
AND IT hnpponod
SOME TIME back
WHEN 1113 was culled
ON THE telephone
AND WAS told
THAT A certain party
e
WAS GIVING a party
AND THEY called It
e
A MASQUERADE ball
i . e
AND THEY were boisterous
AND MAKING noise
AND IT was impossible
FOR ANYONE residing
IN THE neighborhood
TO GET any sleep
AND THEY wanted
AN OFFICER to come
AND lll'SH things up
AND HE took the number
e
AND STARTED out
AND RAPPED on the door
AND THE hostess
ANSWERED THE knock
AND LOOKED htm over
A LITTLE in doubt
THEN ASKED him In
AND INVITED him
TO SAMPLE tho punch
AND HE told me
health and hygiene, not to disease dlaonoils or
the Dawn
that Johnny is suffering for the mo
ment with total hysterical paralysis
a paralyslB which seldom fails to re
spond to vigorous suggestion, but
which is nevertheless real paralysis
until Johnny gets fully awake. On
the same ground we might properly
consider all who testify, to having
actually seen spirits or talked with
them as subjects ot hysteria minor.
These people nre all abnormally sus
ceptible to suggestion.
Ql'KSTIOXS AND AXSWKHS.
That Anxious Feeling.
Whenever I hear the ambulance
clanging past in the night or the po
lice patrol siren breaking the peace
I wonder and I think this is really
nullifying the effects of my food
iodln 1 wonder if some one has been
mixing himself one of my news
paper remedies. When I was younr.
and in my journalistic prime I print
ed recipes and formulas nearly all
the time, but now that I get little
benefit from my Iodln 1 think it safer
on the whole for readers to call a
doctor in.
lotllii, Iodine, Indium.
Please Inform mo which it was
that you recommended to be used in
ternally ns a sort or edd age procras
tination lodin, iodine or lodium, and
also If you will kindly reprint the
formula, dosage and directions for
Its use. K. O. ',
Answer Three ways ot spelling the
same thing. Iodine was the older
spelling; lodin is the newer style; in
dium Is the official Latin name. Read
the outburst preceding this; then
send a stamped envelope bearing
your address and I'll malLyou tho in
formation you desire.
How to lnerea.se Humidity.
Kindly give me Information con
cerning the best method of Increas
ing the humidity in a house with hot
air furnace. H. McN
Answer The best way to insure a
1 temperature always below (18, about
65 being Ideal. When tne tempera-
turtf permitted to rise above C8.
wi,tever tile method of heating, It is
i practically Impossible to maintain
anything approximating sufficient
luimnllty. The water
pots in furnaces seldom hold more
than a few gallons. They evaporate
only a gallon or two a day, whereas If
growing piaois, open "i
of water on back of stove or nt-
tached to hot air registers, auuauums
from a tank or reservoir a ntimnei
of absorbent wicks should he suspend-
eu over me -
the water.
TO THIS day
HE'D NEVER been ablo
TO SAY for sure
e
WHETHER IT was punch
MASQUERADING AS liquor
OR LIQUOR
MASQUERADING AS punch
AND AFTER that
SHE ASKED him to stay
AS THERE were
V
ENOUGH REFRESHMENTS to
TO GO around
"AND BESIDES" said the lady
"YOUR DISGUISE is so good
. .
"WITH THAT star
e
" EN EVERYTHING
"YOU'LL DE a scream"
"DISGUISE" SAID the officer
i
"YES" SAID the lady
"TO LOOK nt you
"A BODY'D almost think
"YOU WERE a policeman"
I THANK you.
1 .ffiTtf IT'OT; T J
There may be some controversy
about who stnpiotl th' war. hut
m, buddy won anything, r'olks
that hain't got time f stop ut
railroad eroin's ought t' realize
that .maybe Kimcnntv hain't got
liiiio f gather 'em up an' put 'em
t'getiicr.
THE OUIOATEST THING IS THE
WOULD
by Laurel Oraw
Krtr-!trsM'rthiK Girls
Men marry Htir-reHii't'ting girls.
AU'n are only little hoys rown tall,
you know, unci they nct?cpt a girl's
own appraisal of
her worth with
out question i)ro
vMlng always
that that self
nppralsal Is gen
uine. The girl
who bestows her
kisses on a casual
request classifies
herself as a free-
lover and an easy
kisser. The re
sult Is fad. A
clf - respecting
girl will not com
HIT) til lo herself In any particular und
tlw envl of fell.HV W hll IlllllkS sllC'S
"slnek-un" is iust the kind of a chap
a self-respecting girl lias no time to
waste on. self-respecting girls are in
tho same class with men who scorn
cheap things. No matter how fine
and clean a girl is. If she hasn't dis
covered the Code of self-respect she !
i,i fin- n bad time of it. A self-
respecting girl doesn't have to prove
respecting girl doesn t have to prove
by word or deed that she expects the
respect of men; she admits it,
Cannery IJnrns Down
VANCOUVER. II. C., Jan. 2. Fire
destroyed a cannery of the GosSe Mil
lard Hacking company limited at
Delia. Delia on Denny island, 3:0 miles
.tjorlh. of hero yesterday. Several
homes of employes were burned. The.
total loss was put at 200.000.
Petrngrad Is Flooded.
ininvv inn. V Iteoorts from
I'etrogiad say that part of the city is
submerged under the waters of the
Neva, which has flooded its banks
despite the severe winter weather.
The Nevn is full of Icebergs tloatlng
In from Lake Ladoga.
The Secret
of Tasty
Cooking
Meals prepared by
some one else, fre
quently taste better
than your own. You
can be sure people
will say how good
things tasted at your
house, when you use
KITCHEN BOUQUET.
It is the secret of tasty
cooking. Start the
meal with a real tasty
soup. .
Add a tablespoonful of
KITCHEN BOUQUET
just before, taking off
the stova
Your grocer sells lots of
KITCHEN BOUQUET
MORTON
HOSPITAL
Special Attention to Surgical Dlog
nosls. Radium for Cancer, and
Modern Treatment for Dlnbotes.
10IW Pino Street. San Frnncisco, Cnl.
For Wet Wash
Dry Wash Rough Dry
Phone 873
Wet Wash, pound So
Dry Wash, pound..
Rough Dry, pound..
7c
-So
American Laundry
B
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POLITICAL BUNK
RUINING U. U
LINCOLN'. Neb., Jan. Through
'constitutional amendments and fed
eral encroachment, the form of the
i-.,i,.i hi., tea eovernmcnt is being
changed from a republic into a polltl
tical and hysterical chaos, whose final
terms are expressed in the unspeak
SAYS BAR'S HEAD
able Itussia of today," Ii. E- Saner : i
rr , .resilient of the'- '
OI uanuiv i , i - ,
American Bar association, said In " "I;
address today before the NelirasKa ,
Bar association. -Mr. tiaacr mmi
ehnirmnn of the national committee
on American citizenship. ,
"It was not until this present gene- .
ration, descendants of sturdy pioneers.
had learned to live in , .
(Vmplacent case upon the wealth and
the security and the safety bought for
them by the blood and sacrifice ot
their forefathers that tho Idealists,
the doctrinaires and the demagogues
became an established institution in
our national life and evolved a new
theory of government for the Ameri
can people." he asserted. "Tho ago
through which we are going may well
be termed the age of constitutional
amendment and federal encroacn
ment,, encroaching upon tho rights
and powers of both the states of this
republic and ns inmviuuai c.....
"It IS time tO Cllll 11 mill uiiu -
back to the beginning or things, back '
to the real sources of our strength; '
back to the republic, that under tho
constitution the fathers so wisely con
ceived and so successfully Instituted;
back to a government of Ihe whole
people, by the whole people and for
the whole people, nay ny "..
ually anil, insidiously, through con
stitutional amendments and rederal
encroachment, the form 'of this gov
ernment of ours Is being changed from
that republic into a political aim ")
terical chaos, whoso final terms are
expressed in the unspeakable Itussia
of today.
"Today, Incipient blazes of bolslie
vism ami radicalism, fed by disrespect
nf long-established American institu
tions, are lighting the fires of revolu
tion, it Is a challenge to us to pledge
renewed allegiance to the faith of our
fathers that we may. in extinguish
ing the fires that destroy, proclaim
to the world that our government Is
the best government on earth, that
our ideals of national life are the
highest, and that we will as Individ
uals, strive in every way tn maintain
our constitution inviolate, and per
petuate Its traditions forever."
Saxon-Soviet Pact Disapproved
DltKHDKN. The Saxon diet has
refused to confirm a contract made
government with tho
he iv x B
xi........... ....,.n..,i,iit for Ihe delivery
of grain on the ground that the con
tract is unfavorable to Saxony and
the conditions nf delivery are unfair.
For Infant f.
invalids ae
Children
The Original Food-Drink for All Area.
tiuickLuncnatxiomevnicettroumains.
RichMilk.Mal tedGrainExtract In Pow
der & T ablet forms. Nourishing-No cooking.
Ik-Avoid Imitations and Substitutes
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SI I Kill FP
date for the nomination of Sheriff of
jituiisvjii uuiiLy uii iujuuiiluii
county at the primaries In May. If
self and the deputies whom. 1 shall
tttmnint tn enforce nil In wu .neliiriinff
the 18th Amendment with efficiency
und economy. If you do not want tha
laws enforced do not vote for me,
T A X VfVU int...l Tint..
tt
Coroner
I hereby announce hiVHelf as a
candidate on the republican ticket,
for nomination nt the coming primury
tor tne oiuce or coroner of Jackson
county.
ISy virtue or my nrofesainn tm an
undertaker, I feel that I have every
qualification and the necessary equip
ment io property mi mile any duties
which may arise. H. V. CONGER.
WATCH YOUR
BATTERY
PREST-O-LITE BATTERY
STATION
'Friendly Service"
Phone 903
iHoiolManx
Powell Si at OFdrrell,
SAN FRANCISCO
vroafe to neat res
end Shopping Pis tricl
A newly beautified Hltl Mam
ftwaitt ih viutoi io Smi Fin.
ciieol New fumrsiiinija of unutual
chnn nd comfort a lobby dfafnc d
o provide ike atmetphetc of a
httunout heme and a new Dimm
Room, conudtred one of the mo
intetestini in America all contribute
to rotn wsifi I. tL i . s
' " "niy noiei 1
with tunning Ice Water tn every roorn
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