Show I r YARNS The tad had come home from the dog and pony Ony show bearing in his arms a gorgeous red balloon It was a joy forever to the lad and he forthwith took It out on the lawn in front of the house to exhibit It to the less favored offspring of Ute tire neighbors Half the youngsters on the block wese vern enjoying the new toy when an d pup came along This pup pu had a Bowery cock to his ears that boded some gome kind of devilment He was a care carefree carefree free playful sort of an animal who was tough just because he help It The rn pup eyed the crowd of children for fora a while in a jocular sort of style Then when the balloon which was filled with air not gas fell to the ground he made madea a playful lunge at it For a minute he lie 1 had great sport pawing it around Then 1 it ft occurred o to him that tat the plaything lit I might be good to eat The next minute he stuck his tooth into the rubber There was an explosion that sounded like a I giant firecracker In action i There was wait wail from front the and ana anda a most astonished pup Up The Th animal jumped about three feet right straight UP ip In the air when the exploded e Then linen he tried to find It He was aa sure the tUe flabby piece piete e ot o robber on the th ground under his feet 1 be the handsome rod red globe he ba hI had lust just been playing with No the balloon had been hidden in some mysterious way vay Forthwith the pup I tried to dig up a square quare yard ot of lawn Then hen he ran around ar und the corner of the theto house to see if it had gone gono that I vY v Finally In despair he ho h sat on his I i choc and whined 1 at the thern tC 1 Idre rn n him ut t he didn t find fe e balloon and aud do otles less went home horne J that he Ire had been eon made the tho th vie vic victim yie tim of a piece of dog magic t They The were having a party at the second house from the corner and the red handed pirate of the tl southern sea hadn t been baen invited T The he irate Wh is known 1 In his family circe cir as plaint plain Johnny Johnson was sore BOre He lives in the row around in the alley Hey a off 0 ff the main maln street 1 and considered consi ed good except when whim a game me of Toot foot foot and a half or a cruise after atter U eons is being planned t Johnny sat on te e CUrb urb across the v vt street and kicked thoughtfully at t a weakly dandelion that was struggling up the stones He was meditating j revenge The wholE world seemed ar arrayed arrayed arrayed rayed against Johnny that bright May afternoon roon Even an afi afternoon in school i would have been a solace to his troubled spirit He saw the kids on the tho other i side called caned Into the th house for refresh t I ments meats and his hill lot grew more burdensome I In days da s to come Johnny may grow rich He Be may lose his wealth He may see family and friends turn against him but he will never spend a a bitterer half haK hour than he did on the curb that chewing the cud of ot envy Suddenly his face lighted up with Joy An AU A idea had occurred to him and fie he proceeded proc ed straightway to put it into intoe i l the e board the favored children I were ere themselves with ice cream and cake ke The woman who was honor honorIng lag Ing i her lier children with the joyous event J was in the act of cutting fresh slices from U lare mound of angels food when wIlen 4 something hurled through the opening Window and crashed sickeningly against t the e fide Phie of a 8 vase of flowers on the center of the ta taS table lOf I SOmething S else etee followed likewise crash except that the second missle spat i reer over the clean clen white dress of a I small g gici Then n up rose on the festal at atmosphere the screams of children and the shrieks of women The party was broken into maU pieces The fhe fell purpose of the prate pirate had been accomplished Johnny had denuded his mothers star hen ht n of her sole visible means of support but the whaling he got for the pel pet nei was offset in his judg judgment judgment ment meet by the fun it netted And the I strangest thing about the whole affair is i i that nobody except Johnnys mother and andi i the th hen and Johnny and one other knows if I who broke up the tIre party ty The others only have I Ve their suspicions and as long lone lon as sus 11 don dont t take the form of of leather traps straps Johnny care for them themI I J Jack Ja Reeves Reeve the th vell known kno chief clerk 0 O S L like Ilke i lof of the freight department ft 11 n great other residents on tho the west drive owns own a dog which Is deeply lee 4 ati at to his master He is a Pretty I Ittle water spaniel with a Marked propensity to follow Reeves Beeves even 11 unto death Every morning when th the chief clerk starts statU out to work on his trusty bike the neighbors line Une up on their respective porches to see the circus Get home yells yens the owner of the I tyke as the atmosphere becomes sur I 1 d with rocks and other foreign The dog more in sorrow than thant 1 in t jn anger beats a retreat behind tho thio coal and rt KeEVeS Ves up to the office j I io to be invariably greeted at the top of the thel stairs upon lWon arrival by the dog who com corn complacently l wags wag his hi tail tall like Uke the con conductor H 1 ductor of an orchestra beating time with hs h baton batonI i t I Recently Reeves decided to give the dog away awa and with that idea in m view took him UP UD to Pocatello in order to present him lum to a bosom friend up there Soon Utter after stepping off oft the care cars however Reeves R eves missed his trusty dog so o the gift 1 j vas was declared postponed sine die i 4 In due course he returned to his home borne homeI fin I in SIt Salt Lake Jake where upon his arrival he espied pled the spaniel on the domestic porch wagging his tall tail as ae of yore with a You twinkle in m his eye I aub it was learned that t ot the dog returned to Salt Lake Lak on the samo same train that he became came up oni on and the con conductor ductor lOr recognizing the animal permitted Him to deadhead back home I Jack Reeves Reeve and his hi dog sun still hd down i the chief clerks derks office together b Everybody EYer bod Y Dr r Gilbert B Pfoutz f We Ue stories Morie he tells in regard to the d daw y of oi his bill youth when he ho used to toT tobO togo T go bO tiger shooting hooting OP or the back of an nn ele ela elephant In tropical topical India Tile Tha story of his voyage through the canal caSal caSalI I I when the deck heck of the steamer wits was cov coy covered ered ored with fl flying 1 sh 11 to the extent that the officer of the watch could not keep j hi his feet teet owing to the fact that millions of the th tInny finny tribe were flopping around Is well known to the average Salt I Laker iker The oc It hi ha has a new story to add to hi his lile repertoire however which he told on ont ii t train oming coming down 11 from OTI Ogden recently Dr Jr Pfoutz ia is i pi a d to tu back Mck his latest I a adventure with a affidavit if naces necessary I s sary It occurred up In Jacksons Hole c country last summer and the reason why f it has not be made public before is not quite apparent When out on his fishing and hunting I trip t the medical man invariably carries a r rubber pneumatic mattress in his kit While the wagon was wu crossing the Snake r river just above the famous rapids that s swirl through the canyon through which n no man has passed and retained his nis life t the current caught the vehicle in mid midstream midstream midstream s stream and in an instant the wagon was t turned over spilling its contents j ing lug the doctor into the foaming river Dr Pfoutz says that he was carried f fully feet teet before he gained the surface t to come up alongside of the inflated mat t tress It was the work of a desperate man battling for life to grasp the big 1 p pneumatic bed climb on and hold on like I g grim death to the corners Through that awful canyon can on went the mattress with its living freight spinning like a The sensation was frightful Ever and anti anon the rubber robber concern would strike e a aI t boulder to bound in the air several feet I a and go skipping over the waves like a I s stormy petrel After a while the doctor got used to these little surprises and i lighting a cigarette which he had taken from his water tight case ca proceeded to admire the grand s scenery to eventually emerge from the canyon into still water just in time to save his life owing to the mattress having received several tures In transit After sleeping out in the open on his trusty trust mattress and having no less than four distinct hairbreadth escapes escapee from tram tire the visitation of prowling mountain lions e practitioner p r eventually found an isolated d I ranch where his pressing needs leeds t tended ended to under the understanding that the did not propose to believe belleve I the mattress story |