The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-22

went down the shaft of the Savage
mine 1850 feet, went through the tun-
mel for four or five miles. and then to
the party. They came home the same
way, and some enjoyed the tunnel
even more than the dance"
Tom Webb was the most uniucky
boy in our town said Frank Gillespie
in the Knutsford last evening. There
was rule in our school that every
new kid entering would have to be
licked as a sort of an initiation. we
would start one of the younger boys
on any newcomer, ard if he couldn't
lick. him we'd send the next biggest
to have try. and so on up the line
until the kid was licked.
"One day a fellow came to school
who licked everything in sight, and
the last chance to uphold the dignity
of the school rested with Tom Webb.
He was pretty good scraDper, and
we felt safe. The two boys met, and
Tom began to pull off his coat He
got just to that place in the process
where his arms were pinioned back of
him and then the other fellow began
Tom couldn't get his coat on or OF,
and the new boy had things all his
own way. He literally wiped the
earth with him. and from then on we
| had a new bully.
Everything Tom tried he had bad
luck at" continued Frank He meant
well enough, but he was sort of a
Jonah. Before circuSeS began to use
the railroads to any extent, they used
| to travel overland. 1t was a custom
! in our town for the kids to get up early
and chase into the country three or
tour miles to meet an incoming circus,
A circus came to town one day, and
all of the fellows got 10 bright and
early to meet it. They all started
| ahead of Tom and struck the different
| men connected with the show tor a
job so that they could get in free 1t
| was pretty hard sometimes for those
| who hadn't an early start, but this
particular day everyone got a job
Finally Tom came up, but it was
! too late and there was nothing left. AT
last, however, the man in charge of
the camels told Tom that if he would
water the herd In which there were
| eleven Of the ships of the desert he
| could see the show. The circus got
| to town, the cameis were staked, and
about noon Tom began to carry water
to the beasts. He had to hoist it from
| a well across the street and carry &
in two big buckets. When he crossed
with the first buckets the camels be-
gan to below, and look lovingly at the
water. Well. you know those things
drink about a barrel apiece, and just
as Tom carried the last bucket the
show let out. and he had seen the
camels."
Toms father had a clearing cover
ed with stumps, and there We're hun
dreds of bees in this particular mar
OF the farm. The old man couldn
stand the bees, and so he made Ton
plough the field. The bees didn't do
thing to him, and he couldn't make {
hat fit him two days in succession
His father used 10 comfor. him by
saying never mind my son. all thos,
that stung you are dead now"
Gillespie" said friend near by
you lay this ali to Tom Webb. but i
seems mighty strange TO me tnal yol
should remember it so we'll"
Ed Bennett related funny littl
joke in the Templeton last evening, il
which a telegraph office and roulett
table figure quite conspicuously.
You see, it was this way" he said
about o'clock the other evening tn
old gentleman handed me some none.
and dispatch, and sent me TO tn
telegraph office. Now, after O'Clock
as you know. the message is red an
cheaper, while before 8 it is sen
black and costs more. My fathe
knew that it was near the changin