Show T L Live Ive W Wires ares I It every public ImbUe official who could prove that his reputation is worth And An some ju lic officials might have trouble in trying to prove proe their reputations reputations reputations are worth one part of Or 01 in fact any amount whatever Among others who view with sorrow the changes time brings are the Kearns appointees To paraphrase tim the death deathless deathless less lines of that beloved poet of the heart UIt It is no time lime for and laughter in the days of four years after Emperor Franz Joseph need not im ins imagine Imagine agine he is Js the pal only man who is con confronted confronted confronted fronted with an Austrian situation There are tire others notably the flue Salt Lake county officials And now It is iii rumored Venezuela is s strying trying to pick a quarrel with Colombia It would be a great change for Colom Colombia bia bin to be Jumped on by some nation near noor its itc own on size after the roughing Uncle Sam gave it a short time since The Spaniards having havin demonstrated that those gruns guns in Cuba would not shoot straight it Is IB not thought the Cuban government will object to sur surrendering surrendering rendering them But just think of the nerve nerv of or a few paltry J thousands of or dOzens citizens in presuming presumIng presumIng ing to protest against the plans of tf the directors of a big light and power cor coy corporation I Russian troops In the field if if thoy they dared to express an opinion would no doubt favor faor changes In the war office at home on n the ground that no change chane could couf fall to be an improvement nent i Could Shoot SO Soie l lS Say S talking about ab t shE h k ka a case c at wt a je where I was in Minneapolis a year ear or t two o ago said the tall taU man with the large mustache as he lie reached for another slice of bread The cuss I J ever saw in my life came caine there to work Said he lie had been a cowboy in Wyoming had worked for Buffalo Bills show had been in rough lough riders during the war and in fact had taken part in iii about every even piece of roughness ss you could mention He got to be an awful nuisance If you ou talked about riding a horse he was there with a lot he had tad ridden It was the same way with shooting He took a long spell sp ll to tell about his h f great shooting At last the boss rigged up a thing to show this fel felly felly felly ly up A lot of us got together and fixed a job in iii a H shooting gallery The boss challenged this loud fellow to shoot a revolver match for lor 50 a side and was taken up on the spot None of us thought the fellow could shoot because he talked so much but hut the boss admit admitted admitted admitted ted he lie shoot at all aU to o we had to job the thing AVe We dug a trench under the floor of the gallery and put puta a n fellow in there with a wire running to the target AVe Ve e arranged arrange a system of kicks on the tho floor so the follow fellow down dawn there would ring a bullseye hul see every time the boss JOM shot The boss was to miss atlas the whole target so gO he tip Up him himself 1 self off Well ell on the tossup the rosy cow cowboy o oboy boy won choice and mind told the boss to shoot first The rhe boss fired and amid the bell belt rang rite The cowboy cut loose and amI he got a u bell only his was on the square yell VeIl sir it was a crime the way that fool could shoot At the end of ten shots the score was a tie with for each man and the stakes were pulled down The cowboy then wanted to double the th purse pu e and amIgo go to it again but the boss do it Even with a deadfall fixed up he lie was afraid to take a chance He thought the man under the floor might forget to pull the wire or pull it a little bit too late lale and if that crazy eraz cowboy ever got next and turned that thiat gun of or his on the crowd crow he lie just about have killed the bunch of ot us Yes he lie certainly shoot some |