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WE’RE STUMPED
A letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times from
one of hi* readers expresses disapproval of the language
used by the reporter in his story of the troubles of a poul
i ryman. and asks why the writer did not say simply: “The
people around were jeered because the hens squawked,”
instead of saying: “The residents of the neighborhood
were annoyed by the disturbances incident to the proxi
mity of the fowls.”
W e confess w e can't say, any more than we could
answer those famous queries, “Who hit Billy Patterson,”
or "How old is Ann:” but knowing reporters we’ll venture
to euess the writer used his words mechanically and with
out thought that they might offend.
A Greeley or a Dana would not have used so stilted a
phrase even in the haste and hurry of newspaper composi
tion, neither would they have used the sentence offered
as an imjmwement.
Criticism, in any of the relations of life, is a singular
weaj>on and a dangerous one: one being so apt to exjjose
is ow n ie lorance by its use. Persons of cultivated taste,
ml persons of wide exjjerience, use it sparingly, w'hile it
seems to be substantially the soie stock in trade with per
rons of low, ignorant and debased minds.
The rest of us would better avoid waters which ex
perienced a dors hesitate to navigate.
THE VALUE OF COHN MEAL
The cost of living, already so high as to have caused
some suffering and much alarm, will doubtless continue
to rise until many familar articles of food will reach pro
jhitive prices for those persons whose incomes are small,
ncertain. or precarious. This is almost inevitable in
\ jew of th* existing shortage in the visible supply of food
stuffs, with mt considering the inflation of prices which in
variably accompanies a war.
This beinjr true it is incumbent upon those who are
.lost injurior >v affected to bee:in the study ot nutritive
\altie in the less expensive foods.
P>\ wav of illustration corn meal may be cited as both
healthful and susceptible of preparation in many pala
table v ays. and winch, while costing but from one-half
i<> one-eighteenth as much as the articles following, has
food values which the highest scientific authority eom
] utes in this way:
One pound of corn meal equals in food value 1 pound
of wheat flour, 1 pound of rice, l1 - pounds of cheese, 2%
pounds of round steak, 21 eggs, 1 - peck of potatoes, or 6
I ints of cow’s milk.
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.Aim now nit it'fiuii vjui i cr11l uuit njnuiaa, uit uc*
nosed Russian emperor, was really leading his subjects in
*o traps to be butchered while pretending to be fighting
me Germans. This report, like many others that fly about
w;11 times, might be aptly described as the apotheosis
df segnitude, to borrow words from the late Grover Cleve*
land: or was this particular gem coined by Senator J.
Hamilton Lewis. Nicholas doubtless has plenty of truth
ful charges to answer, mainly based on incompetency, we
imagine, without being accured of things so superlatively
stupid tha: an idiot gone mad would not have attempted
• ven had he been in a position to do so. Among intelli
gent people such yarns merely indicate the credulity of
the persons who believe and repeat them.
Everv man whose heart is true to the sentiment that
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all men are created free and equal before the law; and
that among men’s inalienable rights are life, liberty, and
ne pursuit of happiness; every such man earnestly de*
sires that the Russian people may successfully found their
new government upon the firm foundation of popular
liberty. A victory for German arms would re-establish
the dethroned or another autocracy in Russia, while a
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SPEAKING OF BUMPER CROPS.
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tYE OPENER
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—Hodge in Spokane Spokesman-Review.
I Russian victory would in all human probability make sure
! the triumph of democracy.
i In telling a friend of our purpose to plant a lot of
j potatoes this season, he answered that he himself had in
i tended doing so, but as everyobody else had taken up the
J idea he would abandon it; believing that so many potatoes
would be produced hereabouts that the market would be
swamped and they could be purchased at less than the cost
of production. We will risk a judgment distinctly bum on
j business matters as a rule, that we have the right dope on
this potato subject.
Spuds were invented to eat, not to sell, anyway.
■ Furthermore, a lot of the present potato-growing en
i thusiasm will follow the example of the snow as the sun
gets hotter. Underproduction is a better bet than over
production.
Imbued with those lofty ideals which a residence in
Seward invariably confers, and moved by a sense of duty
due, we rise to disclaim any sympathy with the alleged
movement to bestow upon the highly esteemed and pro
gressive Cook Inlet metropolis a duality of names, to lx*
: used alternately—Anchorage in- summer and Lonesome-:
hurst in winter. •' ' .
" We have labored long and diligently toward a solu
tion of the mystery but up to the time of going to press
have been unable to figure out just what useful purpose j
the Great Architect had in mind when he created the por-!
cupine. • ' , • ‘ .
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I Cheer Up Folks
THEK1TV KOBE Pi THE KITCHEN
Careful Hubby
“Does your husband subscribe to
the theory that kissing transmits
germs?”
“No; he thinks that germs are
mostly transmitted by money and is
very careful not to hand me any.”—
(Kansas City Journal.)
—
An exchange has thefollowing:
“The skunk trap of a trapper near
Auburn, N. Y., was robbed of a fresh -
| ly caught skunk. A local Sherlock
| Holmes caught Roy Walters on strong
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circumstantial evidence and he was
fined $50 and some scents.”
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Taken Phonetically ‘
Lady—I’m worried about my com
plexion, doctor. Look at my face!
Doctor—Y’ou'll huve to diet.
Lady—I never thought of that.
: What color would suit me best, do you
; think ?
The clerk was up to his ears in par
j asols. He was a good salesman, had
! a rare command of language, and
| knew how to expatiate on the best
j points of the goods he sold. As he
j picked up a parasol from a lot on the
counter and opened it he struck an at
titude of admiration and said:
“Now there! Look at that silk!
| Isn’t it lovely ? Particularly observe
: the quality, the finish, the general ef
I feet. Feel it. Pass your hand over
it. No nonesense about this parasol,
i is there ?
“No." said the lady, “it has worn
i
' well. That is my old one. I just laid
j it down here."
Waterfiil & Frailer whiskey at
The Branch.
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Butterkist popcorn for sale at the1
KEY. tf j
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Fresh Butterkist popcorn at the
KEY. tf; •
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.00—
I Seward Drug Co.
Fresh Crab and Herring
ljust received from West
; ward—SEWARD FISH CO.
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