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Show Gunnison Gossip By 0. Nemo. A potato has eyes, but it dont read fcbis paper,- If you would keep posted oa local events dont be a potato, but read The Gazette. The baseball microbe is in Greater Gunnison ttiicker than Eg7ti.au flies. rveryooay "bas 'em," old and young, male and female ; but there will be no I quarantine against the disease, as it is a re.al pleasure to catch the fever. All enjoy the sport except the umpire, the empire, the emporer, 01 whatever you call him. But it is the great American Ameri-can game after all. In the game with the Sterling boys last week, the grand stand rooters made so much noise that it cracked the plate glass on the bank and killed a ton or two of carp in the reservoir. If you want good esercisa aDd desire de-sire the good opinion of your Deigbors cut down the weeds in front of your premises. This is a dnty as well as charity. Gunnison valley offers to the home seeker better advantage and better sail at reasonable prices than any other spot in the iutire inter-mountain regioD. We combine a semi-tropical climate with cool summers and mild winters, an abundance of water p.Dd the most fertile soil on earth, Every vegetable of the temperate zone flourish here, from the red apple to the yellow pumpkin. What we need most is a few mora first-olass farmers and a lot f C,i i 1 . ...... ui uin-uiatis uoosters. An intelligent industrious tiller of the soil, in this valley, on forty acres of land can become be-come an independent nabob in a few years, and be healthy, happy and contented. What more can you ask for? ' Are we a race of liars? Strange and startling as this question may be let us pause and enter the secret recesses re-cesses of our hearts for an answer. One can act and 'live a lie without speaking one. Aud yet the world is full of 6pokeu as wbll as of acted falsehood. The newspapers lie to the public, and the public lie to the newspapers ; the politician Hes to the voters, the voter lies to the politician ; the merchant lies to the customer, and the customer does the same to the merchant ; parents fib to their children, chil-dren, and, of course, the little chaps break even on the game ; the clergy gives the pew-holder romance and speculation for facts, while the laymen, lay-men, with pious mien, nod approval to a lot of stuff, that down in their hearts they dont believe for a minute. This double acting farce ia played by doctor aud patient, lawyer and client, husband and wife, lovers, bankers, burglars, and the whole business world generally. All try to impress others with an exaggerated idea of an importance, or a condition we do not possess. Meu wear a dress suit aud go without an undershirt, and women sport costly plumes in a gaudy hat and have holes ia their stockings. Speculation and wealth getting is like a military campaign all deceit, strategy, and misleading the foe The world seems to have gone mad in the burlesque game of frauds and fakes, and each generation devises new scenery, sce-nery, uew actors and new stunts to keep up the performance for fooliog ourselves aud all others. Thus we all go raiubcw chasing after receding happiness, which old Satan fotever paints on a backgrond of despair while every heartbeat bears us across the nar, ow boundary of time into the bosom of au eternity that hat'n no shore. J Are we a race of liais? Stop, look and listen, and answer the question' , for yourself- ' |