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Show Some Items Interest We would have many more subscribers if the school teachers teach-ers had taught people how to read and to read something worthwhile. If we could read some of our editorials over the air there would be such a demand de-mand that people would tear the house down to get them. "And life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new and near the end The milestones into headstones change Neath every one a friend." Sunday we again visited our friend M. C. A. Nicholaysen and found him bedfast and weak and suffering. It seems that he has about counted his life's allotted milestones but he feels hopeful and somewhat optimistic. Here's a word of ( collation brother: Though you are bereft of all earthly possessions and your body is wasted and worn, you sti 1 have ' your immortal soul which is worth as much as the souls of kings and will be equal with them in the grave and eternity Peter Spraynozzle and Joe Bush are names to conjure with in these parts. Peter uses many words and much eloquence, mucn scripture and some prayer, pray-er, and is a decided influence for good. Sometimes he talks ' more and better religion than preachers. At times he seems to have personal comradeship with the Master himslf. Joe Bush is of a retiring nature and uses few words. One day his wife, being hungry for conversation, con-versation, asked, "What was Peter's wubject last night?" He replied with one word, "Sin." Then the wife asked, "Well, what did he say about sin?" Joe summed it up in 3 words, "He's agin it." He was asked to recite a poem at a bauquet and he gave the shortest one in the language: Adam Had 'em. Here is a good word from an appreciative subscriber in another an-other state: "I surely enjoyed the paper this week. Exceptionally Excep-tionally good and something to be proud of and I MEANTHAT Others prophesying, warning and seeing, serve various interests, inter-ests, but you are the only one writing to and for the common man the great masses. Keep it up " We overlooked t' e fact that some time ago N hbor Carl B. Petersen of Ogden, made two full subscription payments vithin a period of two months |