, 1901-01-24

AhuS teN"'' mo toii. oiu iiiS q eA
Is all on end, and, in sheer despair,
He's climbed the temple and covers
there,
While all the wires are humming
20, Teddy, the Terror, is coming"
Salt Lake, Jan. 1S.-And the poet"
might have gone on to say that timid
folks will be out Of the way, and old
shotguns will be brought in play, for
everyone thinks there'l be - to pay,
for Teddy, the Terror, is coming.
President Springer announced it
from the platform to the National Live
Stock convention, and, though there
were cheers and applause, a noticeable
shudder ran along the line of ladies in
the front row of the balcony and a fee
lie old man, who has had troubles
enough in the course of a life of 10
years and twenty wives, was seen to
rise and hobble feebly out.
"Roosie's all right, I suppose" he
hl"lt' Gu, put uon L Want - Z III
gun plays at my time O. life. Let him
fight it out with the rest of EN-"
Not Altogether Certain.
But it is not altogeth.- certain that
the mar OIL the cicatricious smile and
intimidating teeth will perform in Salt
Lake. President Springer read a tele-
gram which conveyed Roosevelt's con-
CALCULATIONS and his regrets. provided
he found it impossible to come and pre-
sent them in person.
The Wyoming legislature, which has
been doing Salt Lake and taking easy
lessons in % culture at the live
stock academy, seems well pleased
with the progress it has made. It has
also been manifestly benefited, revised
and improved by the use of the exhil-
~arating waters that abound in this land
that also affords milk and honey.
81 don't think l ever had so much
fun in my life" said R. W. Breckons,
the keen-faced, shrewd and jovial
Cheyenne attorney. ooh, yes, I did,
too, once up at Rock Creek" he added
reminiscently. That was the time l
went up to defend Pat Dugan after he
he had tried to carve out the vital por-
tions of Tim Reilley's body. You re-
member the time, don't you Flynn"
The gentleman appealed to, A. M.
Flynn Of Douglas, a large and easy-go-
ing sheepman, capable Of remember
ing anything at short notice, nodded in
a way not to disturb him in his COM
Portable position In a big chair, and
said: Sure"
YES" continued Breckons, 81 was
defending Dugan, and when I got him
OF the stand l said: Now, Mr.. Dugan,
want you to tell me II 1t was not
Kelley who made the first hostile dem
cnstration.'
First to Order Drinks.
"Dugan looked at me sideways and
seemed puzzled. The words l used
were a trife large for him. Well said
Re at last, Kelley was the first to or.
der drinks"
Samuel Slaymaker is another inter-
esting member of the Wyoming dele
cation. He is sergeant-at-arms of the
Wyoming senate and the beloved of all
the old-timers. for he is an old-timer
himself. He is full Of stories, some of
them on himself.
81 was back in Pennsylvania last
winter" said he last night to a lit
tie coterie Of friends who surrounded
him, "and I amazed a young woman
very much. was at a dance at a
school house a few miles from town,
back in the old neighborhood where l
vas raised. You know, I love to dance
now just as well as I ever did and I can
shake a pretty lively foot, too, If l do
say it myself.
well, I took a partner for the first
Quadrille and We all stood up and got
ready for the send-off, but the fddlers
had a lot Of tuning to do and 1 got rest.
less. Finally I said to the young lady,
viii you ask the girl and the young
fellow next to us t. move over a little
way?
Yes she said, and she did so.
Then we showed over to where the 9TH
ers had been.
What did you want to move for?'
my partner asked.
WELL I said. I've been Twin out
west a good while, you know, and I
never like to stand with my back to the
wfnder.' And do you know" concluded
the veteran Of the plains, Il believe
that girl is still fgurin' on what 1
meant?" 81
"Yes, I see 1t, but what's the mean
ing Of it?" said Joseph Ruxton of Colo
RADIO, the liveliest stockman of his
years in all the 1900 delegates. Some
body had called his attention to the big
coat of arms of the state Of Utah that
overhangs the presidents chair at the
convention hall.
tits the states great seal-the coat.
of-arms."
Where's any coat?"
"Oh, the whole things a coat and It
represents the industries Of the state"
Does. Ell? But what does It mean,
that eagle with his fist full of arrows