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Whv Ho Didn't Cut Across,
Senator Dubois tells of a Kentucky
mountaineer who had never seen the
steam cars, says tho Washington Tost.
At last he consented to make a jour
ney to tho nenrest station and behold
tho transportation wonder.
This mountaineer arrived a llttlo
ahead of tho schedule time. He tar
ried Impatiently near tho track, so
thai tho train could not steal by him
unawares. After awhilo ho started
out to meet tho belated locomotive.
Ho mot It as it rounded a curve Turn-
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ing about, the mountaineer ran along
tho track as for his life.
"Toot, toot," sounded tho locomo
tive, slowing up, hut the mountaineer
only dug tho gravel more industrious
ly than ever. He soon reached the
stat'on completely out of breath.
"Why didn't you cut across?
quired one of the bystanders
"Cut across," exclaimed the
couth lad. "If I had struck the plowed
ground the thing certainly would have
caught me."
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This tale was told by Governor
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to u toast at a Pennsylvania German
banquet in Philadelphia, says the
Denver Times. The story, he said
shewed tho readiness of the Pennsyl
vania Dutchman to 'obey those in au
thority: Ti. -loo-! ri t.-i-
xOUt ouunuan, under orders,
burned every barn fTom a valley
above Staunton to a certain point be
low WnnllftBfn. A , l. uo
.. ,. ".v,nv.oi.v;i. a. uanu 01 anerv
rebels followed this raid, watching for
a chance to pick up any stragglers.
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hands was a little Pennsylvania
Dutchman, who quietly turned to his
captors and inquired:
"Vat you fellers KOinj? tn h u
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is der rule."
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reply threw tho
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Birds an Tree Planters.
1U oiras perform
an Important ) grow.
part in the economv nf nntnr in n
Ir-rm Wk """" IO YYCU
7HU to vPry Person even superfici
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time Arizona wood chopper says
blue iavs havo ninnt0,i fit
nnee3TTn0W S a11 ver in Ari
SSt .?l..?aI3 theso- toWta have a
ui, uL uur.viuir Kmnu
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the
anarfa i-r, 41..
frtly 4 ttat Tttey
. "u .uoa ana bury larjrn
" ujl wnich sprout and
ground.
He was -walking through tho VeB
with an eastern man a short timo
ago, when one of thase 'oirds flew
from a tree to tho ground, stuck his
bill Into the earth and quickly flew
away. When told what happened tno
eastern man was skeptical, hut tno
two wont to tho spot and with a kniw
dug out a sound pi no nut from a depui
of about an inch and a hah. Thus
it will he seen that naturo has no'
own plan for forest perpetuation.-
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