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Show THE PRO VO IIE3ALD trmn m i t. M BEG 3-:BE- PRODUGTILSH AT THE ELLEfl JAII. EL HERALD EDITOR.! ALS , , LIBRARY, THROUGH . MAIL. SERVICE connection wiib Many of the states-,i- n s, are making it their "state-librarie- dwellerrin outlying PUBLIC BUSINESS PUBLIC EXPENSE ' The story goes that in one of the f in- est of the cities of southern California on Christmas dayowners of automobiles . -- rural; practical good will vehicles with their .. .drivers at the services ofjipstment deliv- - periodicals by circulation of small collections of reading matter. These find their raring .their into remote hamlets villages, and then and. work, inforniing. uplifting are sent on to other social centers. Where this form oFlibrary extension work is done at taxpayers' expense it has proved an admirable agency for- widening and broadeningthe educational serviee of states. : There is yet another system of dispersion and democratization which jnow for fullest service blocked finds '! I d3y:""putting-.epeedy istobulmgxteiy do and ai - ' i f , f i - - ns: ill 1 librar ieSrand-th- e I - -y 1; 4 lled -- . .,:.-.- . mentary . Tomorrow r : Men's $2.50, $3.00rind $3.50 Hats for 1.4' - y x. ' ... 9 5c Any Boy s Hat in the House for m c 1 7i il - A. 1 mMmmm particular to take the name of no one had not long since ; beea ushered, from : this Valeof tears. With these jifty names before him" he" sought but the record of their lives in after years and found that-- ' all of them all of them, mind you, without an- - exception to prove the rule--hattained the highest success in, whatever : I "vocation: they' pursued. .;-.- . ...... Get It now whUt k . What . People Remark: a MAY CONTAIN SOMETHING INTEREST TO YOU. you can. We hav plenty. .Telephone OF Let's Make 1912 17 1 A - close," asserted W. McCoard of McCoard the sentiment in this Brps.So firnj.-wthe' that merchants at a; recent regard meeting appointed a committee to take to the Chief of Police. There are merchants who make a practice of "accommodating", the Sunday buyers at the expense of others who are forced to ; remain closed. This is where the weak--- ness comes inand where the law should be enforced. A shoe store should have right to remain open as a just as much clothing store.-- T am possitively in favor ; of closing' up all the business houses on " Sundays and I think that the law should be enforced so that every one is closed. In Salt . Lakej Chief .Grant. rsJustsora- plying with the law. ll the things he-is loing are wrong, it is the law which is at fault and hot Chief Grant. I believe that the law should be enforced here as ' well as in Salt Lake." , enough stories" to keep Qs laughing for a year-TIer- as the-matte- 1 . just onet e's -- Where ' . sandrT : "'What ' the ' made yott mother-;"T'"V;r- think that? Sslced ;' 'My cowboccacktfo'th naLrinch the next day and said he didn't think it would be conge Aial over at the M other place." y e origi-- y ' . ' r; yv f THE OPERA HOUSE ; any- - thing that ever happened here . t)getjlep who you are homelese and see -" we cant r figure butTway" for . you to start breaking; ground ' bright Production Extraordinary at that will outdo" :before. 3 "I had a man and his yife cooking for my boys on tne of my rfnehes. Ohe"":i day I sent a man from'another ranch to ; work on this particular ranch and when -he got there he asked the "cookwoman, ; half-. 'Is that your child?' pointing to a naked little girl playing-innh'Yes, that's my littte"girl?' . y . 'How old is she ?' asked the cowboy. 'Just twoT years old.' :1T "WhyQhouprhe3ffl 'Jotdv ; older than that 1', exclaimed the cowboy. e dot YoulLiveZH , y "" 7- campaign -- Wilson, one of Texas' oldest residents and largest landholders, was with us for several hours," and he told ..CqiqneJj.Lwkt - Booster Yoar For our town, and let Jt mark .the new era of a home building Inthe4LighierSMood S 'It isunfair for . THE CLASSIFIED COLUMN S P AF F O R D Dclivcned Winter Rale &p SM O O T ad far-nor- one business concern to be allowed to stay open and do ness on Sunday while another is forced to - He-w- as rs::TrHre-than-fifty-years-ago. te- of Missouri he believed that the English walnut could be grown there, as it can be grown in most of the States south of the - Ohio river. The - Department of " Agriculture has devoted a good deal of attention to nut growing, and reports . successful efforts to grow different va- -. rieties of th walnuts as as Maryland. ; and -- . d ed " -- : , temporary3id-ta'".lsbrie- supple- - who attained "success in college and university life never amounted to very much -- wBcn incy goi out to rustic ior a nvigT unless, indeed, they secured positions oti. the teaching staff and rdse to distinction in - the educational field.- There was, of cou rse, - more .or . 1 ess truth in the ol d joke, or it would - not have become so However, as we have had widespread occasion to remark before, the failures in life among college and university x graduates are not numbered among tho: who learned to think while they wer e ac- quiring an education. - Now an eastern college president has set out to disprove' the ojiToke, evidently being himself too senous minded to With the usual temperament . z ets about. iga1thmgnip-3tatisticyTciL! lL. piuvc inc jukc iu ue noining more nor less than sumalignancy by those who in early life were compelled or chose to fore, .go Jhe.refinmg influences of a eollege or university training. The college presi-- . dent chose irom the ancient registers a. list of fifty men who graduated with hon- - : -- - - rtial xs. ANNUAL - OUT OF SCHOOL It used to be an old joke that the man CalifornianSrDr.1. Allen Osmtm--an- d -- Frederick f A Hazzard, happened : to be soft-shell- 7BS& SUCCESS IN AND , tJrconwhat-hi4new-)-the--elirna- Reels at the Ellen Thursday and Friday, Jan. 25 arid 26. 3 ' .. growers of walnuts, the kind sold everywhere as English walnuts "and which are grown hardly at allinEnglandyThe Speakerrbecame attentive at once. "Do you- - think. we could grow those in Missouri?", he asked. Dr. Osmun-replie- . 'Vanity Fair," CoxTiplete in distributers of holiday mail. Cities and towns, very likely, would be justified in making provision at public expense for transportation to and from the polls of citizens otherwise unable to vote. "Pub public business at juhlic expense" Js a theory that'gathe rs to itsel f an increas- ing number of adherents. But arrayed it is an older ideal of voluntary action byHndividuah nd OyaTHesTTto ideals of service which are personal. Each social program has much to' be said for it. Harmonized and lurched up side by " side, riot tandem, they make an effective Speaker Champ OaTk isTarmefat ' heart, no matter what may be his voca-i tion: How he ever escaped the lue of the farm Is a mystery, for there is nothing ' which is so sure to arouse his interest as the mention of 60fne agricultural topic. But a few days ago the speaker was talk.; ing with two, gentlemen from Southern California about the land of. the orange, . the lemon and eternal harvest time. The -- !. gift-givin- oJ-pa- A FARMER : t exercise of civicT , - AT HEART. 1 ''' a. methods of g at the holiday sea- excessive labor on postal em-- . ,sqh impose ployees and that to a degree that was not necessary a generation ago, is there not be ..said for methods of trratmethingo solving the rproblems. involved that will slo aavay with dependence upon th rTiari ty of a few? Uncle Sam is able, to " c . ' duties the temptation '.to j.'get .somethingfor nothing'1 is "as" strong as it is in the ordinary economic stress of making .". both ends" meet. 7"T But-- ; that admitting contemporary stedians now invoU ir--eu I.n. 1 " ves an expense in transportation that nei- " " ther" party cafes to assume. But with . on books, loaned special postal-rat- es where care has been taken to justify a concession on the grounds of promoting increased knowledge, sound fcanrirrg-and the libraries woukl be able to carry eut more fully and satisfactorily the commendable extension of a service in which many of ihem already are engaged To promote this end Congressman Lawrence already has - introduced a bill which, if it becomes law, will furnish a special book-rat- e for librar- social ies with a and . at the same purpose, excludes schemes of publishers ; time-- it whcr rfiightTtake - ad vantage. "libraries" promoted by them. Suitably " guarded so that reasonable'rcvenue from " the book parcel trade may not be cut off, this scheme is likely to win support. The library, like the - modern school and cKurch, is no'wcbntemhg'its mission in tems of outgo and seryke, and the mod. ' ern jtateJj3,inclined'"tcLbe" favorable to all plans that have as their goal a con-- " ' ' quest in the name of knowledge. 4 may be demoralizing. ' of-th- -i 1- . The great collections of the country are most generous in ' the service , they put at the command of scholars who" are able to visit the libraries and work in them. e But many most learned and most deserving - of applicants - for aid - of this kind, for pecuniary or other reasons, are unable to go to the libraries that contain the books they wish to consult. To bring together these investigators and generous i I : pjyents. Consequently, toef4eto'ere.3Qn4ime . . , i holiday -- ; hard worked rhorden Mercuries had desirable aid and relief; and pwnersof inotors ate their : dinners, with, better conscience.- - A some-- -' what similar service, prompted either bx loyalty to an abstract ideal of fullest use of the franchise or to a .political . party j of"to"a"special, candidate, often is rendered by owners of vehicles to electors who on election day are given free transporta- tion to and from the polls. In com muni- ties 'where this becomes habitual W:mr - its-pla- r demonjited-""tTiei- -- wayronr-aeeTrtr- l - AT pos--sible'f- or and t 25-- 28 away.-Co- me larvnt well talk over the plans and show V you some lumber amT figures that will clear away a whole lot , of this talk about prices being ,to6 iigh to build ow.'-FaIs nver again will lumber of the quality we tolindTel aa every year our, Virglq " forests "are growing smaller and . the demands are growing larger. We ay to all sincerity, "Lucky will be the maa who builds in Wit" If Interested, come in. ct Saturday NigKiJ January 27th t cheap-becaus- JoeJWeber's production of Alma, --Where T3arou Live?" a into Eriglish by George V Hobart,- with original music by th' ebrilliant com. Gsrman-Frenc- h Jarceywith - music, ; - a rposef John Briquet- -, ' ; - -- y -- f ?- 'fif.y -y attractions" announced here -- this season f Sales 'date;7ahuary. 27, at 10 a. ni. ' y ; ; v SPrices KDIny?::111- - "There's No Piace Like Home." Dalier lumber Co. 185 yvest Third So. 13 ' ' |