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Show How terrible it is to consider the internal revenue reve-nue receipts during the last three months. They have decreased a total of $7,262,238 .since the. saloons sa-loons have been closed up in different parts of the country. The figures are pointed out by the liquor men as an evidence of the national calamity that would follow prohibition. But what do the children chil-dren have to say about it that is, the children who have shoes to wear ami food to eat, where before be-fore the internal revenue was seven million dollars greater i Xotwithstanding the stringency of the times, the hatters report an unprecedented business the past week. The president's Thanksgiving proclamation didn't say anything about the football games that will take place on that day,' but there are a few j whose interest in the result of those games is gr?at. Since the election is over, it may be truthfully said the melancholy days have come for some. And .they are still going dry in Ohio. It is pretty hard to get the local option business started, but it flourishes like an infant industry after it gets in good working order. There is no discounting the Indian summer of the Salt Lake valley. October and Xovember days are perfect days some of them, at least. Down in Philadelphia the doctors have discovered discov-ered a new disease, caused by a series ot shocks to the nerves of a man wrho was running an automobile. automo-bile. The doctors called it autointoxication. Something Some-thing like that must get the matter with the Salt Lake chauffeur when he turns loose. Self-made men are great braggarts. Otherwise nobody would suspect that they had ever been mada at all. Discontented people may be so because they never learned to discipline themselves to the changes which each day in the world produce. , , It's funny how some Women who can't cook, sweep or take care of the baby, and who are afraid of a gas stove, and wouldn't go near a gasoline ve for fear it would blow tip, learn so readily wiu.h lever to pull to start an automobile. Still, we never knew a man who got blisters on his hands from steady knocking with his hammer. The publicity provided for in the Des Moines law concerning the finances of the city ought to appeal with great force to the people who pay the bills. If the people knew just where their money went, perhaps the face of the man on his way to the tax counter would be more cheerful. There's just one thing about a gossiping neighbor, neigh-bor, it makes a fellow cautious of what he does and says. |