PRESS SQUIBS.
A little oil improves the working of
SMMt scales, but you can’t say that
auuui uiit scales o; justice.—Pub
lishers’ Syndicate.
“Publisher is sent to the work
hous,” says a headline. He’ll feel right
at home in a workhouse.—Albany
Knickerbocker Press.
Mother writes to know what to do
'for a growing boy who is straining
his eyes through overstudy. Our ad
vice would be to send him to college.
—Arkansas Gazette.
Still.the-Democrats have available
numerous candidates who haven’t any
religion at all.—Lincoln Star.
Most- politicians who pretend to
-cultivate-the farmers really only har
row them .—Wall Street Journal.
Polfasft, it Is'predicted, will do won
ders for Palestine. Nothing is said
about Perlmutter.—Punch.
Prosperit yis something the busi
ness men create for the politicians to
take credit for.—Brunswick (Ga.)
Pilot.
Our system of criminal justice is'
not so in need of repair that it can be
improved by fixing juries.—Virginian
Pilot.
Cal says he can find plenty to do in
private life. Us Democrats wish he’d
a thought of that sooner.—Dallas
News.
A publisher it> reported as saying
that people in every walk of life
think they can write novels. The de
lusion seems to be especially preva
lent among novelists—Punch.
"Big Bill" Thompson's new 100 per
cent American club doesn’t seem to I
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be getting anywhere, and fprohably
won’t until he permits its members to
wear red-white-and-blue nightshirts
when tbhey march.—New York Even
ing Post.
Whoever heads the Democratic
party is very apt to swing it from
the neck up.—Weston (Ore.) Leader.
All your sins may be forgiven and
never trouble you again unless you
run for office.—Nelson (B. CL) News.
A sufficient commentary on human
nature is the fact that a mob never
rushes madly across town to do a
needed kindness-—Boston Transcript.
The wise Republican candidate next j
year will make suree that his running
pants are supported by the farm belt.
—Virginian-Pilot.
An Eastern college student recently
held eight baseballs in one hand. An-!
other triumph for modern education.
—Florence (Ala.) Herald.
An architect thinks the House of
Commons should have more exits. We
agree; and they might also do away
with some of the entrances.—Punch.
We can t imagine wnai otner na
tions mean by speaking of “lawless
Americans.” Haven’t we got more
laws than all of them combined?—
Cincinnati Times-Star.
A defaulting New York banker i
jumped his bond and was rearrested;
in Panama, a dispatch says. The j
newspaper style-lfbok editor would de
scribe this as a dash, followed by a
Colon, followed by a sentence.—De
troit News.
“Developing” the Tropics consists
in making the natives work to earn
money to buy the white man's goods.
—Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
The United States will build the
world’s greatest navy when somebody
invents a gun that will shoot from
the Coast to Kansas.—Portland Ex
press.
There are only 20,000,000 automo
biles in the United States, but why in
thunder do theey all get on the same
street at the same .time?—Shoe and
Lcatheer Reporter.
Jacob Herbert’s police dog, Fellow,
recently examined at Columbia, knows i
three hundred words and does exactly'
as he is told. If unemployed, Fellow;
could probably get a job as admiral j
under Secretary Wilbur.-—The New
Yorker.
The reformer .who recently re-1
marked that he could scarcely imag- j
ine a bobbed-hained .angel would have j
to stretch his imagination still fur- j
ther to conjure up a bald-headed onev
—Detroit News.
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It! the PTobate Court for Mount Mc
Kinley Precinct, Fourth Division.
Territory of Alaska, before Hon- ;
orable W. T. Vanderpool, com
missioner and ex-officio probate
judge.
In the matter of the Estate of j Oar
McLean, deceased.
Notice of Final Hearing.
Notice is hereby given that the
hearing of objections to the final re
port and account of J. H. McLean, as
administrator of the estate of AJear
McLean, deceased, w ill be. held in'thc
probate court rnrrn at McGrath,
Alaska, at 10 .a. r - on'Tuesday. -Janu
ary 10,1928
W. T. VAKDERPOOL
^Commissioner and ex-offi< ir
Probate Judge
First publication, Dec. 10.
Last publication, Jan. 7.
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