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Show GUNNISON GAB, LBy Nemo. The chronic knocker has all seasons for his own. Iu cold and heat, wet and dry, in fair weather and foul, in 'flush times as well as in panics he sticks his mug into the affairs of other people, and does his best to queer the world and everybody in it. Ever since Satan bscame a knocker in the garden of Eden, and knocked off the apple for Eve to eat, he or some of his pals have been knocking all along the line. Even Greater Gunnison has a few of these creatures Notwithstanding our fertile soil, salubrious climate, public-spirited people, and an abundance of the purest, and best water on earth, so soft that one can wash clean without the use of soap, yet these buzzards of evil will draw tlovvn the corners of their mouths, and swear that this is not a fit country to come to. They area pest aud on evil in any community. com-munity. It would be a blessing if the whole family of knockers were knocked off the earth. KNOCK the KNOCKERS. The old war scare with Japan is again doing duy. Whenever the yellow journals run short of material, or want to start a sensation, with big head lines they fall back on the little yellow man. All this talk is the sort of stuff dreamg are made of. The fact is, there iB more to fear from the yellow streak in Borne of our so-called so-called statesmen than from the ochre colored mm of Tpkio. Drawing is a fine art if reference is had to daubing paint on a piece of cauvas ; but drawing a tooth, drawing draw-ing a blister, or. drawing a check, is no high order of artistic skill. Some people draw to a flush, and some to a pair ; some draw a pipe or cigar, some draw a cork too often while others simply draw tea. Next to drawing one's breath, the moBt pleasure pleas-ure is found in the drawing of one's salary. ' Play ball," means a good deal more than pounding the pig skin over the diamond To play ball in life means to be wide awake, alert, stroug, happy, and to have the faculty facul-ty of a good loser as well as a winner. win-ner. On the big diamoud of the earth, but few play the game well ; the most of us play like we were forced into the game and not because we enjoy it. I; seems that a fellow always gets low down when he is hard up, and frequently gets sent up when he is low down. Verily, this is a world of ups and downs. Wear and tear is what gets away with our incomo, A woman spends her portion on wear, while a man drops his part on a tear. People who get something for nothing seldom appreciate it, for the reason that it did not cost anything. What we get by. hard knocks we prize most. There are some women in this country if they beat their husbands with an elm club, would likely be arrested ar-rested for cruelty to auimals. |