HAVE A SMILE MARBLES AN ANCIENT GAME LONDON MOURNS FOR ITS KIWI FEW IDEAS OF REAL VALUE iiiioila ROLTD I HIS ARMLESS MOTHER »F BROTHER WARREN TAKES CARE OF BABE Has Been Popular, in One Form or Only Apteryx in England la No More Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Something Worth While. Another, for Many Hundreda —Wingless Bird Is Believed Are Still Comparatively in the "This machine will save labor.** of Years. Nearly Extinct. Stages of Infancy. "Aw, why don't some of you smart guys Invent a substitute for work?" Certainly played by the Roman Emperor The total extinction in England of "As every one knows, It is a comparatively Augustus, the game of garbles the kiwi (or apteryx) has become a simple thing to get a patent True to Form. is of great antiquity. reality. Tlie London Daily Mail announces on anything, so long as you have a Folly—"The doctor says he has In the early days nuts were used the death of the Regent's good patent attorney and are able to saved her life nine times." Dolly— instead of the marbles. park zoo's only specimen. The species is Incorporate a few new knickknacks in "I always did think she was a cat."— In some seventeenth-century verses nearly extinct in New .Zealand now, your device. But such a thing as a Judge. a law student is described as a "dab but the British Zoological society has really new Idea, not to speak of a at taw." The phrase "knuckle down written to the New Zealand government basic one. Is scarcer than the proverbial Apprehensive. at taw" is almost classical, and the asking if just one more kiwi can 'hen's teeth.'" "Why do you speak so kindly of rule doubtless explains the fact that be spared from the island sanctuary. Thus B. Gernsback, In the Radio pajania drama?" Mie game is almost confined to boys, Zoologists will mourn the loss of the Amateur News, comments on the "Anything to dodge bathrobes." for girls naturally dislike the disciplinary dwarf wingless ostrich more than the rarity of anything4 new in wireless process of pressing tfie knuckle zoo visitors, for not one in ten thousand telegraphy or telephony. Inventors, he Injuring the Profession. ever saw it while it lived there says, content themselves with making of their forefinger u$on the stone "Here's a man says the freak business more than nine years. The keeper improvements in existing devices. or gravel. The word taw means (1) is falling off." "He's right. Too These are good, but Inventors should rlie marble itself, especially the alleytaw would turn out this queerest of birds many outside of sideshows." every now and then, but the longbilled not get the idea that the last word (2) the ring into which marbles bundle of apathy and sleepiness has been said in basic principles. He are shot the line behind which (3) Modern Maxima scrambled back into its box as soon says some one will probably discover the player must keep his foot when "Hitch your wagon to a star." as released. a more sensitive detector than the he shoots. "What advice have you for motorists?"—Louisville A curious point about the kiwi is vacuum tube some one will devise a The origin of the term Is uncertain, Courier-Journal. better transmitter some one will invent the fact that its nostrils are at the tip and it is sometimes less correctly written a receiver that makes use of the of its long worm-hunting beak, and in tor, to which Dickens has given Certainly Not. the ardour of the chase it emits an eyes instead of the ears. "Get off the the sanction of his authority when Jones—Do as you want to be done beaten path," be says. unpleasant snuffling noise. Its mating he represents Mr. Pickwick making by. call is a pig-like squeal. Inquiries as to young Berdell's alleytors. Bones—But I don't want to be done. England is responsible for the virtual To Give China a Bible. The alley-taw—of doubly uncertain —Chicago Journal. extinction of this rare bird. British derivation—is the best kind of Americans have spent $132,000 so ships brought rats to New Zealand, far to give China a Bible in its own marble, which the player always uses so weasels were sent to exterminate Seems So. language, the Mandarin. And just now for his shot, if he is lucky enough the rats. When they had nearly "Well, the saloon ls out of politics. to possess such a one while the they are agreeing to spend $31,000 wiped out the kiwi, the New Zealand "Sure is. The golf links have commoner sorts are used butts more to put the Bible into type and government found a ratiess island and the call now." to be aimed at, or counters to be won. plates and to print and bind an edition. consecrated it to the poor bird. But Mrs. J. C. Teagarden, wife of a However, it is expected that or lost. street car motorman In Denver, the problem of saving an idiot bird Presidentelect Harding Wh Naturally. The alley-taw was, and still commonly copies will be sold to sufficient value lias proved again that motherhood Waihligton for his last I that puts all its eggs into one shell. "What do you think ought to be is, made of real marble (originally, to pay the printing bill, and it Is further knows no handicap. Although appearance In the Senate, one of so to speak, was a difficult one. The the typical summer flower?" it is said, of alabaster), and explained that these sums for expenditures •rmless, she makes all the clothes the first to greet him was his slater, kiwi laid one egg a season, nearly as "The ice plant." is most prized if it contains red veins, are Mexican, which money Carolyn. She Is Mrs. Votaw. nd cares for her baby, Delpliia big as itself. Exceptional mothers being then called a blood-alley. It is the standard of China at this time. lay, besides keeping house, cook*. head of the 8oelal 8errice Department would lay two eggs and then find It Waste. It has been found by American scholars might be worth fifty of the baser sort, ig, making beds and combing her In the U. 8. Health Department. 1 almost impossible to hatch both, as twn hair. She was born armless or even be outside the possibility of Samson pulled down the temple. tha& the Chinese Mandarin is a This picture was taken the ends would project out beyond •—and until kept at home with "Heavens, man," we cried, "don't as she called at the McLean residence, wonderrally flexible language, capable barter. Next in value came atonies, their feathers as they sat on them. fcer baby, was with a circus. The where the Hardin gs atayed you know how scarce buildings are?" of expressing almost every shade of made of hard grey stone and glazed. normaJ fn every »ay. dnr)*vr the three days spent there. meaning. More than twenty-five years Potteys were also glazed and were has been the period of preparation, made of clay, appearing in many different Mexican Women STTil "Fighters. The Meaning, There are at the present time between, "Why does a bride carry a shower and foremost 4mer'can an^ Chinese colors. Commoneys or maradiddles two and tfiree hundred women bouquet?" "That's easy to show she scholars have had part. The aim has were of unbaked clay. GJass Why He Bought it. In Mexico engaged in bull fighting, Intends to reign." been not only to give the Chinese marbles were seldom used, being relegated Airdrome of the Jungles. Yeast—Did you buy that bonnet for people a Bible but to give them one either as slayers of the wounded bulls to girls or to the curious game The recent navigation of the transAfrican vour wife? that Is pure in language and will set of solitaire. or as mounted attendants in the ring, Wise Woman. air route was made possible Crimson beak—I did. the standard for the republic that and they are immensely popular with "He tells his wife everything." only by the heroic work of the three Yeast—Well, believe me, it makes English translations set for the English-speaking the people. Their earnings vary, but "So?" "Yes, but she only believes advance parties-who laid out the forty-three her look fierce. world. This new Bible, on fete days, when hundreds of thousands a part of It" airdromes, says Popular Mechanics intereat In Road Building. Crimsonbeak—Well, take It from Is for people who number more than of people attend a bull fight, a Magazine In an article with ^e, she would have looked a good The increasing interest in road construction a fourth of the world population. woman may he paid as much as $3,000 So Saya Tradition. a full-page illustration. When the deal fiercer if I hadn't.—Yonkers in Cuba is an indirect result for entering the ring. "I want to say It with flowers." site for a typical airdrome had been Statesman. of the world's demand for sugar In the "Here are some daisies." selected tentatively, four boundaries Peanut Production. war period. Must Have a Porch. "But daisies won't tell." 800 yards long, and two diagonal traverses, Jabama is the leading state in Uncomplimentary "No front porch. This house won't were cleared of grass, usually peanut production, with 6,840.000 bushels Motor Truck 1a Best. A man who possesses a corpulent do af all." The Likeness. seven to ten feet high, and of smaller the to her credit in 1919, while Ave figure takes a Sunday-school class. For all the general haulage on "Why not? Front porches are no "These labor troubles are proceeding obstacles. This work revealed with other states produced from 3,400.000 farm a motor truck is the bfest vehicle Recently he gave a lesson upon hovraP longer In fashion." like clockwork." "Yes, they do least labor the configuration and suitability bushels to 5,500,000 bushels each. If the roads in the neighborhood are sin affected the future life. "Tliat may be. But we have a seem to have the strike habit." of the ground. Each native The total production of peanuts in good. "Well, boys," he asked, in conclusion. young son who may some day be running was then assigned for clearance a the United States last year was 33,363.000 "what would happen to me when for the presidency of the United No Use. "skonkewan," or area 10 yards square. bushels, having a cash value I die if I had led a bad life?" Campaign Moving Rapidly. States and how could he conduct a "What's the professor working on?" When this patch had been cleared of of $80,000,000. Last winter the average The good roads campaign is moving "The fat would be in the fire," re campaign in a house without a front "A microbe." grass, the anthills were carted away. price paid for peanuts was $2.40 more rapidly than ever before. plied one lad. after some reflect m. porch "What's the use of inventing more?^ per bushel. A Nighty Eruption in the World of Merchandise A Mastodonic Outpouring of the Market's Best Values at Prices Amazingly Low at this GREAT XMAS SALE MONROE, With His Mighty Force of Sale People, Will Open the Xmas Sale for JAKE On the Corner Eve Friday, December 17 th—Continues to Xmas OUR PLATFORM AND POLICY HAS NEVER BEEN TO DESCRIBE OUR MERCHANDISE OR PRICES IN LURID LANGUAGE. WE HAVE HAD MORE RESPECT FOR THE COMMON SENSE OF OUR PATRONS AND NEIGHBORS. THE SUCCESS WHICH WE HAVE ENJOYED IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD HONEST POLICY WHICH HAS GOVERNED THIS STORE. STATEMENTS WHICH WILL NOT BEAR THE SEARCHLIGHT OF INSPECTION HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLERATED, NOR WILL THEY DURING THIS GREAT AND MIGHTY" ALL IMPORTANT XMAS SALE. EVERY STATEMENT IN THIS AD IS TRUTH—EACH BARGAIN IS A REAL BARGAIN AND OUR STORE ^LITERALLY PACKED WITH SEASONABLE GOODS. A TREMENDOUS,.PHENOMENAL, MOST PERSISTENT XMAS SALE COST, less than cost and in many cases a mere fraction of today's wholesale prices will take much of this stock. Nothing reserved—Everything on sale. Never before, have we planned a sale of such vital importance to the public. Everyone an eye With to economy will come. Never fore, Has a store shown such otter disregard for profits and original costs or such price cntting abandon. Gfeat savings are in store for yon. Never before, have yon been privileged to effect such timely economies. Merchandise of the first quality at prices actually an insnlt to the quality given. "Jalfe On the International Corner" Falls, Winn. \s^l v_