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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH. UTAH Happinesscan never be upon falsehood. The profits of lying are much It pays to be true. At least we shall be at peace with ourselves. Where is happiness? It is to be found in the world all about us, in the stillness of a summer night, in the pride of a good thing done, in the flush of a summer dawn, the following of an ideal, the strong grip of a friend, the perfect heart of a rose, or the wild sweetness of a song. It is always very near. Dame Every man, if you know him, is interesting. The only uninteresting people are those you dont A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all storms. windfall. happmess '"p RUEfounded d. over-estimate- Nellie Melba. No Dice We Have a Tala Hang It ! Perkin3 Wants a Softer Berth Oh, John, I forgot to tell you. know. Well have to do something about Love of money is the root the batress. Hes been mutlers of half the evil and lack of money Hewants a new one. complaining. root of the the other half. The what? Who? A hermit has learned that letHow silly of me! Of course I ting people know what you think mean the matlers buttress. isnt worth while.. I still dont get it. What? The book that nobody noes the Well have to get the battler a checkbook. new mutress. Hes been complainMen do exist who havent the ing. Who has been complaining faintest conception of what a beautiful town is, and dont care. about what? The mutrer has been comIt is as easy to waste hard about the batless. I mean plaining earned money as it is if it is a The condition the batrer has been complaining about the mutless. !!! Its Perkins; he wants a softer bed! d of being and . seldom hard-boile- is incurable even concealed. By FLOYD GIBBONS, Famous Headline Hunter the moral of this story, boys and girls, is that gambling pay. Not that I need any story to convince me of it. I once bet two bucks on a horse I thought would come in first at Saratoga, and the next time I saw him was two years later, pulling the steam calliope in a circus parade in Denver. Yep, its risky business letting a horse invest your money for you, but not half as risky as the chances Lieutenant Tommy Griffin, of the Eighteenth infantry, Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., took when .ie started wooing Lady Luck that fateful July night back in 1922. Lieutenant Tommy has gone a long way in the army since 1922. Then he was just plain Private Tommy, of the and Seventeenth field artillery, a national guard outfit of and Seventeenth was doing Goldsboro, N, C. The its regular two weeks field work at Fort Bragg. It was a hot night, and some of the boys were holding cavalry maneuvers on a blanket in one of the tents. For horses they were using little white, spotted cubes, and those horses were galloping back and forth across the blanket in a way that would have scared an enemy army out of at least six weeks pay. Tommy and Pal Are Attracted by Galloping Ivories. Of course, an unsympathetic officer of the day might have suspected that those fellows were shooting craps, but Im going to take Tommys word for it that those shouts of Come on, seven! that came from the .tent, were just the cries of excited rooters who wanted to see the Seventh regiment win. Tommy and a friend were coming back from an evening In a nearby town when they heard the boys cheering the Seventh regiment on. There was also a lot of encouragement being given to Big Dick, who, I presume, was the captain of the Seventh regiment, and Little Joe, who must have been the first lieutenant. The rooting attracted Tommy and his pal, and they dropped into the tent to see what was going on. There were three men in the tent a sergeant named Joe and two privates, Bill and John. The sergeant had been drinking, and he rolled NOW One-Hundr- ed One-Hundr- ed lnce PAi Ample Compensation The greater the difficulty, the EOtREfRiT! more glory there is in surmounting it. Ambition is constitutional while pep depends on the state of the health. There's a Difference What is there in dressing to atA conservative puts two and two tract attention? Ones world is in together and so does an optimist, some one elses eye. but the conservative has the two and two. Cow Tunnel What we call charm is founded on kindheartedness. You One of the worst hazards of can depend on that virtue. the highway is a loose cow. BeIn ruling, better be careful. cause her actions are unpredictMinorities have a way of suddenly able, not a few motorists not to mention cows have lost their becoming majorities. of farmers Yet thousands lives. Brilliancy Amuses forced to drive their cattle are No one has the moral right to across talk cynical who cant do it day. busy thoroughfares every brilliantly. To overcome this, one PennsylA boy bandit starts when there vania farmer recently built a tunis nobody to keep fool ideas out of nel under the highway near his a boys head. house. It is of concrete pipe five There is a good deal of protest- feet in diameter. The farmer now ing by the cannon fodder; but drives his cattle under the road in European cannon fodder will instead of over it. Washington Post. have to do better than that. Scuyi! I have won ever 300 awards for baking and have used man? brands of baking powder. I now iso Clabber Girl, exclusively." Mrs. M. E Rynerson Indiana State Fair Winner . r The Argument Got Pretty Hot for a Minute. out the ivories with a sort of grim determination. He had lost several dollars, and Tommy could see that he wasnt taking it any too well. Losing Sergeant Returns to Make Trouble. The other two lads were in a jovial mood, though neither one of them had imbibed any alcohol. John had the dice and Tommy watched him while he set a point, made it, and picked up his winnings. And it was right there that the friendly game began to take on a serious aspect. Joe, the sergeant, claimed that John hadnt won the money and told him to put it down. There was an argument that got pretty hot for a minute, but in the end John put the dough back just to humor him, and the play was resumed. A couple more throws and Joe left, weaving his way unsteadily out of the door. But a few minutes later he was back again, a .45 revolver In his hand and an ugly scowl on his face. Joe was looking for trouble. That much was plain to everybody. He began to accuse John of talking about him behind his back. His finger was tight against the trigger, and looking over, Tommy could see the yellow of cartridge rims in the chamber of the gun. There was no joke about it. That gat was loaded. t Drunken Maniacs Bullet Wakes John Up. wait for any more. He made a leap for Joe and didnt Tommy grabbed the gun. But Joe kept his grip on the revolver, too, and the pair of them rolled over on the tent floor, fighting desperately for pos", session of the weapon. . Says Tommy: I wasnt sure I could hold him' long, and I yelled to John to go away. He just sat there looking at me. Then suddenly Joe pulled the trigger. There was a sharp crack that deafened me for a minute, and a bullet whizzed by my head and ripped on out through the top of the tent. I should have been scared then, but I wasnt. At that moment I was too excited to feel the effects of fear. , And still John sat calmly on his cot, watching Tommy wrestle with the drunken maniac. Whether he was dazed or scared stiff or just thought it was all a joke. Tommy never learned. But he sat there until another shot rang but, and this time the Bullet hit John in the hip. That broke the spell. John leaped to his feet and streaked out of the tent. Tommy says hes never seen a man run so fast in his life. Tommy Stares Into the Muzzle of a .45. Tommy was tired by that time dead tired. Joe was strong as a bull, and he knew hed never be able to get that gun away from him. John was gone, he says, and I didnt think Joe would shoot me. I took a chance and let. him go. He got up, drunk and furious, and for a jfull minute I lay on the ground staring into the muzzle of the .45. Thats ,when I did get scared. I have never seen a gun muzzle grow to look so large. I expected every second to be my last, and I began wishing he would shoot and get it over with. But no! He just stood there, fingers on the trigger, face purple with rage. Then all of a sudden he seemed to realize that John had gone, and he ran out of the tent after him. That was the beginning of the end. In another ten seconds the whole camp was in an uproar. 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