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Show Talk and adverse comment about the recent low sdlary ordinance pasced over the mayor's veto by the city council coun-cil will not down. Those complaining HBk that If any salaries were to be cut why were not the mayor b, thp city attorney's at-torney's and that of the justice of the peace? And why were not the coun-cilrnen's coun-cilrnen's fees of $1.0jper session and SO cents per hour for committee work reduced? Since Councilman Keeler overstepped the bounds of propriety and brofcp the recognized rules of all legislative bodies as to divulge before the council and public how the members mem-bers of the judiciary committee voted in committee in order to let it be known that ha wanted to pay the policeman po-liceman S45 00 per month, it has leaked out that he wanted to further cut the marshal's Balary to $50.00 ppr month and that be and Simmons would have cut the mayor's pittance of a salary only they said it would look too had to do this in view of the fact that the mayor had supplied the city for a year past with electric street lighting at his own cost. Charmed by a Snalce. Snakes travel a good deal on their reputation. They scare birds and small animals bo th ey becomo helpless. We si know this to bo a fact And then wheu Biey get in a tight place with a man tkoy try 10 raa a bluff on him. A lawyer law-yer in our town once met a rattlesnake down in the Ozarks and began to experiment, experi-ment, or rather to let tho snake experiment, experi-ment, to see if there was anything in the snake charming theory. Fj said that the snake's eyes got brighter and brighter, and his scales became glistening, glisten-ing, and his body seemed to swell up 8 little thicker, and the whole outfit became be-came so engrossing that he finally ran away irom the snake in a dead scare and didn't get over it for a good while after. Ho told me that it was his belief that if he had kept company with thai snake much longer he would hare loi iis wits. Forest and Stream. |