Show S abl 11 n bohl bb ah about abou heroes of the southwest GALLUP r ALLUP N M through 6 h the dust of vanished yest yesterdays er weve just traveled the high h gh ranges of the earlier pat garrett of the itchy trigger finger finer fin er and john wesley hardin the texas preachers boy turned scorpion and doe doc holliday the coughing dentist with his nervous mannerism of shooting people and that babyish king of fall all the ka killers hers little sawed off billy the kid who smiled his bis diffident buck b u c it toothed smile even as he blasted out a life tor for every one of the A twenty one years of his life not counting as he himself would say mexicans and 11 irvin 8 cobb we viewed the his anc bullet pocks bocks and their personal burying grounds and we discovered lust just one survivor of those ancient two gun clans a rancid octogenarian wearing the look about him of a venerable shamefaced sheep where he sat with a gingham apron draping the withered flanks which once had supported his artillery and he shelling peas by the kitchen door of his present cifes boarding house houm destructive pests A AS S THOUGH it bad enough already with a presidential campaign on this year grasshoppers have threatened growing things in the midwest true to their advance notices the 17 year locusts are popping out along the eastern seaboard in ontario a plague of caterpillars covered the nall railroad road tracks so thickly trains could not run on schedule theres no word yet from our little southern friend the boll weevil but news Is expected maybe hes waiting for the return of the cotton crops that we used to plant tor for the export trade when we had an export cotton trade the pine borer is reported on the job in the north woods to date out here we have only the regular resident pests including the white termite the red ant and the mother who can prove her child Is another shirley temple it if somebody would only listen of the last named we already have upwards of and mare more arriving every day still we cannot hope to escape presently the party who goes around baking straw votes on the election will start multiplying rapidly what makes news OME gentleman who must work at S SOME the postoffice post office because seemingly stamps amps dont mean a thing tn in the world to him keeps taking issue with m me e for saying the reason why successful newspapers feature so called sensations above news of art and science and literature Is not through any desire to pander to morbid or vulgar tastes but because the average publisher being a smart merchandiser puts such wares in his shop window which is his front page as are calculated to catch the eye and win the trade of the general public my correspondent demands an answer all right lets make it a parable suppose mister that tomorrow through the town where you yon live passes a train bearing a distinguished sa savant vant who has made some great discovery say the cause a and nd cure of 0 botts and on another train there Is 13 a taffy haired lady who after a spectacular trial has ju just st been triumphantly antly acquitted on the ground of 0 self defense for shooting a gentleman friend eight or nine times in the back which one of these two travelers will draw the biggest crowd down to the station and brother which train will you meet favorite son keynoter ACK home the folks are all puffed blip BACK up with pride our own albin W barkley keynotes keynoted hey key noted fo for r the democratic convention until the rafters warped besides being a grand person and a hardworking hard working senator hes one of the last of the real southern silver tongued the kind that can make a song of a syllable and turn any creaso reasonably bably long word into an a n anthem and does he come from the place w where here the true faith prevails the majority stabilized just as soon as we got a lot of old timers to quit voting for jelt jeff davis we weaned them on W J bryan ours Is probably the only congressional district t in the union that never has gone republican IRVIN S COBB I 1 1 C 0 service lc |