in hi ~i' 1 1 V' iNTB&NATIO&AL lALLfi PUBS TWO- 1». BLESS TOOT pARMER3 |NC|)ME DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON Expression of Solicitude That Can SUBJECT TO TAX AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND Be Traced Back to the Decline of Athens. E S O A N (h WHEN YOU WANT TO—\ FIX THAT FENCE Successor t« G. Hslaqulxt The Greeks and Romans had their Cabinet Maker, Furniture "Long life to you!" Gesundheit! is LAY THAT FLOOR Gains for 1919 Must Be Figured SEE now verboten. But we still say HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, 'S 'Sante" and "God bless you!" after Under U. S. Law—Returns General Carpenter, Contract* BUILD THAT SMALL a sneeze. BUILDING OR COTTAGE1 tor and Builder. Due March 15. This expression of solicitude can be 502 THIRD STREET or any Big Carpenter job—J traced back to the decline of Athens. One of the terrible devastating .. TAYARI DDFTC TC lAAADLu. plagues which darken the pages of LAND SALt rnUrllo European history was raging in the famous city. The flower of Greece, Necessary Farm Expenses May Be Automobile Tourists her foremost writers and artists, the Deducted—Special Form for Farm founders of much of our modern culture. Income—Cash or Accrual were ruthlessly cut down. The When In Minneapolis Stop at dead piled high, and daily Athenian Basis for Computing. courage was taxed to the fullest. But to every home where lay a victim, the elixir of hope, the rainbow of prom- A farmer, shopkeeper, or tradesman Hotel Lincoln lse, was the sneeze, for it indicated must figure up his net income for 1919 to the watchers that the danger was and if the farm or business Income passed, that the patient would recover, plus his other income was sufficient to ship this bundle to*SHUBERT too A few centuries later another epi- require an income tax return a comdemic NICOLLET AVE. AT NINTH ST assailed Europe, but this time piete return must be filed with the colthe The Highest Prices Ever Known sneeze, being a symptom of the jecjor 0f internal revenue by March 15. 1 malady, was a bad omen. farmer should ascertain the gross OPENED SEPT. 1st. 1918 A In this age of witches, goblms. med- ln,ome computlng all That's What You'll Get from "SHUBERT" farm icine men and leeches superstition 1VE WANT 'EM NOW—AND WILL PAY THE PRICE TO GET 'EM Especially convenient for auto parties as Nicollet Avenue flourished. Some of the most Intel- gains de"ved from the f*or ex" lectual minds of the time accredited c,ianSe Products, whether pro- N?l MEDIUM N?l SMALL N? 2 of his N?lEXTRA LARGE 1 N°lLARGE 1 1 is the leading road from all point, and has no car tracks. AS TO SIZE QUALITY charms and soothsayers. It was there- dueed on the farm or purchased and 1 EXTRA TO AVERAGE EXTRA TO AVCRA6C EXTRA TO AVCRA6C EXTRA TO AVERAGE| MUSKRAT Within two squares of 5 large garages. Adjoining the cities' fore nothing extraordinary for the resold. Farm Expenses. pope to decree the exclamation "God largest stores. 5.00 to 3.75 3.50 to 2.75 3.00 to 2.00 bless you!" by anyone who heard a From his gross income a farmer is 8.00 to 7.00 6.50 to 5J0 Spring 5.00 to 4.00 3.50 to 2.75 230 to 1.75 2.50 to 1.50 sneeze. This was supposed to com- allowed to charge off all of his necesbat 6.50 to 5.50 Rooms at $1.00 per day. With private toilet 25 cents Winter Its evil powers and prevent the sary expenses in the conduct of the MINK. extra with private bath 50 cents extra. In addfaum tisere spread of the disease. And "God farm during the year. These include are suities of rooms with separate toilet, each room having bless you!" with its kindly human in- costs of planting, cultivating, harvestterest 40.00 to 32.00 20.00 to 16.00 15.00 to 13.00 15.00 to 8.00 28.00 to 22.00 has come down through the marketing. In addition to connecting bath—a* ideal arrangement and only found here. Fine, Dark ing and 12.00 to 9.00 12.00 to 6.00 ages. 28.00 to 24.00 20.00 to 16.00 15.00 to 13.00 these costs he may deduct money spent Usual Color 20.00 to 154)0 for ordinary farm tools of short life ROO to 12.00 11.00 to 9.00 8.00 to 7.00 8.00 to 5.00 Pale Cafe in connection—Hotel Lincoln guarantees an atmosphere S KU N 1C bought during the year, such as shovels, NEW IN THE ANIMAL WORLD rakes, etc. Also, the cost of feed of home refinement-!- purchased for his live stock may be, N?l SMALL GOOD UNPRIME EXTRA UffGf imflRGE' N?1 MEDIUM "Okapi" Astonished Explorers, and treated as an expense in so far as this Only a Few Specimens Have AS TO Sl/E QUALITY -Proprietors- EXTRA TO AVERAGE IXTRA TO AVERAGE EXTRA TO AVCRAOC EXTRA TO AVERAGE WM. B. CAMFIELD- -F. S. GREGORY cost represents actual outlay, but the 15.00 to 12.00 10.00 to 8.50 7.00 to 4.00 20.00 to 16.00 8.00 to 7.00 Black Ever Been Obtained. value of his own products fed to animals 14.00 to 12.00 10.00 to 8.50 8.00 to 7.00 6-50 to 6.00 6.00 to 3.00 Short For past ten years with Minneapolis leading hotels. is not a deductible item. 10.50 to 8.50 8.00 to 8.50 6.00 to 525 5.00 to 4i0 4.50 to 2.00 Some time before 1890, Stanley, the Narrow Other farm expenses allowable are 550 to 4.50 4.00 to 3.25 3.00 to 250 225 to 2.00 2.00 to 1.00 explorer, had word from the pigmy Broad the cost of minor repairs on buildings negroes of a new beast in the impenetrable (but not the dwelling house), on fences, These extremely high prices for Minnesota Furs are based on the wellknown depths of the virgin forest wagons and farm machinery also bills "SHUBERT" liberal grading and are quoted for immediate shipment. which borders the Semliki river in the paid for horseshoeing, stock powders, No. 3, No. 4 and otherwise inferior skins at highest market value. She joined Belgian Congo. The Wambatti natives Ship your Furs now—when we wan*- 'em. You'll get "more money" rock salt, services of veterinary, insurance described it as a species of donkey and get it "quicker" too. (except on dwelling house), gasoline "SHUBERT" RETURNS WILL MAKE HAPPY and called it "Attl." From their further for operating power and sundry our SHIP TODAY-AND KEEP 'EM COMING FAST description, it seemed, to be a other expenses which were paid for in hoofed animal of considerable size, ma cash. which lived upon leaves. In 1899 Sir As to hired help, all the productive Harry Johnston himself saw the pigmies, labor is a deductible expense but the who fully confirmed what Stanley wages of household servants, or help Banking had already told him, but added hired to improve the farm, as in tree that the strange beast was striped like planting, ditching, etc., cannot be claimed against earnings. A farmer is a zebra. KCLUB not allowed to claim a salary for himself In 1901 a Swedish officer, M. Karl or members of his family who with Erik-son. obtained a complete skin and work on the farm. xnlls, which he sent to Sir Harry Wear and Tear. oh /on, who then believed the beast •to be of the giraffe tribe, previously Purchase of farm machinery, wagons, COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS found in a fossil state in Greece. It work animals, etc., also the cost •M was, however, proved conclusively that of construction or extension of buildings, /Vlext f'lkfi (Aigh of the giraffe family it was silos, fencing, etc., should be considered SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA VJ\ the animal of ancient Greece, but additional investments in the Xmas a new beast altogether. It was subsequently farm and are not proper deductions given the name of "okapi." against income. she will Under the Direction and Control of the Most Reverend A reasonable allowance may be No more than a dozen specimens of Austin Dowling, Archbishop of St. Paul claimed for wear and tear on farm HAVEL this wonderful beast have been secured. buildings (except the farmhouse), fences, machinery, work animals, wagons, A CATHOLIC MILITARY COLLEGE tanks, windmills and other farm "The People of the Pelup Peninsula." equipment which is used in the conduct We were floating down the beautiful of the farm. Plongdong when, descrying a glorious Collegiate, Ili^h School, and Commercial Courses As to autos and tractors, the cost of whangdoop hid amongst the igfans these is not an expense, although the along the swamgit (shore), I instantly cost of their upkeep is an allowable ordered the mogpong to row the goopang deduction, if the machines are used exclusively Over One Thousand Students from Twonty-eijJht toward it. Obeying my command If you haven't joined our Christmas banking club, come^ for farm purposes and not States Registered Last Year with an alacrity that proved his devotion for pleasure. Also, in such cases, a deduction in and do so today. to me, the little fellow pulled lustily for wear and tear is allowed. THE REGISTRAR For Catalogue Address on the right tingwop (oar or paddle) Farm Losses. Men, Women, Boys and Girls all should join and we ur-?e until, by virtue of his efforts, we The loss of a growing crop is not a you to join for you own good. were headed in the direction whence proper deduction from income, inasmuch had come the vision of the multi-colored as" the value of the crop had not There are clubs to ft every purse—I cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, whangdoop. My readers will been taken into gross income. The readily appreciate the tremendous excitement 10 cents, where you increase your deposits each week with loss of a building or of machinery that seized me when I say the amount you started with. through stprm, lightning, flood, etc., is If You Have Anthing to Sell that the whangdoop was of unusual an allowable deduction, but care should size and of a conformation that would be used to ascertain the correct loss We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $500 clubs where you pay preclude the possibility of anyone for sustained, as restricted by income tax =ADVERTISE IT= a moment mistaking it for the ogplup, in the same amount each week. regulations. which, as everyone knows, it so much No deduction is allowed in the case resembles.—(After the Manner of Most But join—join today. of loss of animals raised on the farm, Travel Articles.)—From Life. but a loss is deductible from gross income FIRST NATIONAL BANK if the animals had been purchased for draft or breeding purposes. Woman "Spilled the Beans." Shrinkage in weight or value of farm Less than a century ago a German International Falls, Minnesota- products held for favorable market professor of chemistry succeeded repeatedly prices cannot be deducted as a loss, for in producing small quantities the reason that when such products of gold, which he exhibited to fellow are sold the shrinkage will be reflected scientists whose keen interest may in the selling price. well be imagined. It was later ascertained of Farms and Land. Sale BACHFURCO Yoir Raw Furs that a devoted servant, anxious It Pays to Advertise The value of agricultural lands has to give his master pleasure, had been jumping during the past few bought gold leaf and surreptitiously years, and during 1919 many owners contributed it to the contents of the —it means sold out part or all of their lands at crucible. One one occasion, however, big profits. All such gains constitute the servant was sent on a distant errand, income and must be taken into the net and left money with his wife Highest ruling Market Prices. income for the year. for the purchase of the requisite gold Honest Grading of the Sizes. Any person who sold part of a farm jgcTH- itfv leaf. She spent the money for drink, or ranch, or part of a parcel of land, THE STUBEE The Most liberal Assortment Made/ buying instead some "Dutch metal," must also show any gains realized by which she put into the pot. This led Courteaus treatment—square and the sale. to a discovery of the fraud, prompt The method of figuring gains and straight. revelation of which by the professor losses on such transactions Is prescribed gave rise to immense amusement. Prompt Returns and sound advice. Sash and Dow Factory Tax in the Income regulations, copies of which may be secured from As to the Market's fall or rise. Old Chinese Burial Places. Internal Revenue Collectors. will Shanghai's old buildings on the Bund Ask for our prioelist—it open Forms for Return*. IS NOW OREN EOR BUSINESS are rapidly disappearing, and with Raw Furs are your eyies as to what The Internal Revenue Bureau has their destruction many discoveries in issued an improved Form 1040F for worth these days. Do not dispose of the way of old burial places are being This the use of farmers. form, together made. While excavating for a had our We Are Weil Equipped to do All Kinds of a single skin before you hare with Form 1040A or 1040, will new building two Chinese graves were valuation. IflLLWORK gether with Form 1040A or 1040, will discovered. Upon being opened, the give the farmer explicit information coffins were found to be in a good degree his as to how to properly figure net and you will make no mistake by getting BACH FDR COMPANY of preservation, considering the income for 1919. length of time they must have been their prices before ordering elsewhere of figuring There are two methods a lying in the swamp. The inscriptions Rnyrrt Mnrrhants ifiw farmer's this income tax return year. upon the stone tablets marking the on the Efe may make his return basis of graves are llligible, so any conecture of the the difference between money Building and Contending ai Specialty as to their age is almost impossible. RAW American Furs his and goods received for products An urn containing a quantity of bones Ml Work Guaranteed and the cash paid out for actual allowable was also unearthed. 108-110 West Austin Avenue the farm expenses within year. Chicago, 111. Or he may make his return on the accrual LARS STUBEE, Prop. Something to Be Thankful For. basis, which means computing Beck—So your wife always insists irect representation: New York, London, the receipts and expenses that pertain on having her own way. to the taxable year, excluding income 2nd Ave. and 6h Phone 80 Paris, Leipzig St. Peck—Yes but she changes her earned and expenses incurred in previous mind so often it's not a bit monotonous.—London or succeeding years. Answers. 1 .A