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Show GUNNISON GOSSIP. LBy Nemo. The story of the Prodigal son is a very pretty fable, but while the father gets great credit for killing the fatted calf, the mother gets no praise for cooking It, the most important part of the banquet. Tramp promoters and peddlers are usually fakirs. Their schemes are not worth a plugged niekel, and they are generally as crooked as a spiral spring, Dont trade with them in preference to the home merohant. These are seme of the rules in life by whleh we are surrounded. The Qolden Rule, "Do bo to others as you would have others do unto you." The Silver Bale, "Do unto others as they do unto you." The Iron Rule, "Do others before hey get a chance to do yea." These metalio rules seem to show we are living in an Iren Age, An advertisement says, "every home should have a talking maohine" However , this dont appeal to a married mar-ried man, whe already has suoh an instrument whioh not only, talks, but sings, scolds, tsuds the baby and does the housework. . series of meetings. The last day of the meeting Billy also succeeded in jarring loose from the audience over $10,000 in pin money, which is very fair compensation for preaohing for Jesus at bo much per. He is said to be sweeping the state of Ohio, but has not yet reached Adams county. When he goes thera they will keep an open eye, and their hands on their cash. Take the world easy and do not worry, and happiness will come aB naturally as flies in summer. One cannot ohaDge conditions by worry, it only makes Matters worse. A violent temper may be a disease, or It may be merely a trait of character, charac-ter, but either is unfortunate. A man with a temper like a rattlesnake in dag days is a nuisance ; he is continually continu-ally in a broil with his fellow man and oon gets so he hates himself as well as everybody else. Better smile and be happy while passing through this life. Billy Sundy, reformed base-ball flayer, now evangelist,, has had aj great streak of luek at Portsmouth, Ohio, where he. jarred loose from Satan's olutehes 5200 sinners in one |