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Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. 13. W. The laziest man knows that he's misunderstood ; that he never had a chance, and besides, when he did have one, somebody took it away from him. Carson (Nov.) News. Prosecuting sounds a little like price-cutting price-cutting if you say it fast. But it's doubtful if talk of the first had much to do with the second. Pocatello (Idaho) News. By paying $-10 a day for an apartment apart-ment in Chicago. Ethel Barrymore finds that she is saving $110 a day over the amount it would cost her to live in a Chicago lintel. Well, that is one way to save money. Another way would lie to stay away from Chicago. Goldfield (Nev.) Tribune. No need to worry there will he various important topics for discussion, discus-sion, even tifter the campaign is over. Butte (Mont.) Miner. Uncle Sam is employing beer testers test-ers to find law-breaking breweries. There tire 20 applicants for every job. Nampa (Idaho) Free Press. English Coal Miners Strike head line. And we suppose gasoline will go jp another cent. Caldwell (Idaho) Tribune. Maybe the reason Russia doesn't join the League of Nations is site's afraid she'd lirst have to take a bath I and get shaved. Ephraim (Utah) Enterprise. En-terprise. The sum of six-bits expended in labor and about .:! in leather becomes a S12 pair of shoes by the time it reaches the consumer. Ah. well, we never were very strong at figgerin'. Logan (Utah) Journal. The wind-bag orators on the soap joxes don't accomplish much to create unrest, but the profiteers taking in :heir millions and indifferent to the ivelfare of the people, are more successful suc-cessful along that line. Elko (Nev.) Free Press. After all, a Briton who has his win-:er win-:er coal in ahead of the strike seems ;o be mueh'better off than an American Ameri-can who, despite ihe fact that there s no strike here, cannot get coal. Tonopah (Nev.) Bonanza. Many hundreds of hogs have been shipped out of ibis district the pa-t year, but we still have the road hog ivith us. Rupert (Idaho) News. Under new prohibition regulations it is asserted that diplomats may no longer long-er ship alcoholic beverages over the lines of common carriers, but may nave litem transported by private truck. The job of chauffeur for" the minister of a foreign power is likely to attract numerous searchers for congenial con-genial employment. Tonopah (Nev.) Bonanza. The tide of emigration has surely set towards the United States, but up to a late hour it had not floated Emma Goldman. P.erkman. et al. back to these shores, nor is it ever likely to have a chance to do so. Butte (Mont.) Miner. At eighteen they're terribly wise in their own conceit, ami very foolish in -ur oh'er e-titnnlion, but don't you wish you were that way and eighteen? Carson City (Nov.) News. liver in Europe soldiers deem it a great honor to he decorated for bravery bra-very ami advanced from the ranks to some minor position. I'own in Mexico the man who is bravo enough advances himself to the highest position and selects se-lects bis own decorations. Enunett (Idaho) Examiner. Adam went to sh ep one night some thousands of years P. C. During Ihe night one of his ribs was removed. In the morning he woke, looked about him. and exclaimed: "Hello. September Septem-ber Morn ! How are you, old girl?" Eininetf (Idaho) Examiner. There was a senator elected from Montana some years ago. lie was elected by reason of his generosity in ' distributing "hooch." He was not well informed. When he reached Washing-! Washing-! Ion. where be ably misrepresented hisj const it ueue , he heard much discussion discus-sion about Ihe tariff bill. Iben before the house, lie ran into one of his 1 conferees and said to him : "Say. Pard, ; who in the hell is ibis Tariff Bill. Ibey : talk so much about; 1 know BulValo Bill and Texas Bill and Wild Bill, hut I hain't yet met this here Tariff Bill." Paul (Idaho) Press. The cost of operating the United States government is now more then eight times as great as il was six years ago. By dividing tin1 expense of I'no government by Ihe number of people peo-ple residing in the Untied States, It will be found that the average per capita tax Is more than !J."0 Salt Lake , Telegram. Tn Oregon has been found a cavtt which Is heated by nature. Many flats are heated that way In the fall. Salt Lake Telegram. |