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ZFf&rl&j 'UJUftn jyiB" jjb efniir, it, ,,. ..,.,, a iwwnMmjtiiBw.MiifWiii.tiipm r-rnf - -i. Vfci" ii JULY 2, 1900 The Commoner. 15 tleman from Iowa say all those peo ple were crying about?" "Well, it was too much for the house. The members roared with laughter, the galleries laughed and yelled, and cheered, and it was some time before I could go on. In fact, it pretty nearly ruined my speech." Philadelphia Times. RBAIj lilVE JOUBNAMSM The following three paragraphs are clipped from the up-to-date finan cial papers. The footnotes are ours: "Vice President Gawtry, of the Consolidated Gas Co., makes an em phatic and unqualified denial of the rumor that George B. Cortelyou, the retiring secretary of the treasury, has been offered the presidency of the gas company. Central Banker, Cincinnati, May 15, 1909." (Mr. Cortelyou has been president of the Consolidated Gas Co. for near ly twp months.) "It is stated on good authority that W. A. Garrett, president of the Sea board National bank, of New York City, will resign the presidency on November 1, to become vice presi dent of a prominent firm manufac turing railway equipment in Balti more. American Banker." (S. G. Bayne is president of the Seaboard National Bank and Mr. Garrett, of the Seaboard Air Line R. It. Co.) "The, United States Mint at Chi cago is overcrowded with silver and gold bullion coming from Colorado and Goldfield and other parts of Ne-' vada. Recently the San Francisco Mint has been shipping to Denver. About $50,000,000 has gone this way.r Wall. Street- paper.".. . (We had not known that Chicago was blessed with a United States mint.) -The Financial Age. ' WASTED NO TIME , ."Stpne, wall, .Jackson," said a Vir ginia .veteran "used to tell a story about a bridge builder. "This bridge builder was called Old Miles. He was very necessary to Jackson because the flimsy bridges on the line of march were continu ally being swept away by the floods or destroyed by the enemy; and in .these contingencies. Miles was a reg ular jewel. He could run you up a bridge in the time it would take an other man to make the measure ments. "One day the union troops burned a bridge across the Shenandoah. Stonewall Jackson called Old Miles to him and said: " 'You must put all your men to work Miles, and you must keep them at it all night, for I've got to have a bridge, across this stream by morn ing. My engineer will draw up the plans for you.' "Well, early the next morning Jackson, very much worried, met old Miles. " 'See here,' he said, dubiously, how abbut that bridge? Did the engineer' give you the plan?' "Old Miles took the cigar from his .mouth. and flicked the ash off with a sneer. " 'General,' he said, 'the bridge is done.'1; V dunno' whether jthe picter is or' not.' " Baltimore- Sun. smeared about from a lollypop, the stick of which was protruding from her mouth. "Thinking she was one of my Sun day school girls, I said: 'Hello, Mary.' "She stopped, looked up and con sidered me in a grave manner a short time, and then said: " 'Aw, make a noise like a hoop and roll on! Roll on!' " CHEERFUIiliY "Here, Benny," said Mr. Bloom bumper to his young son, as the latter started to church, "are a shil ling and a penny. You can put which you please in the contribution box." Benny thanked his papa and went to church. Curious to know which coin Benny had given, his papa asked him when he returned, and Benny replied: "Well, papa, it was this way. The preacher said the Lord loved a cheer ful giver, and I knew I could give a penny a good deal more cheerfully than I could give a shilling, so I put the penny In." Tit-Bits. A. WOMAN'S BARGAIN An Oil City man, who was detained at the house for a part of the day, handed his wife, who was going down-town, a quarter of a dol lar and requested her to get him three cigars for it. When she returned she handed him ;the package, remarking, exul tantly: "That shows that women can beat men all hollow when it comes to making purchases. I found a place where I could' get eight for a quar ter instead of three. Isn't that go ing some?" And the poor man, as he took his medicine, merely remarked: "It certainly is, dear." Oil City Blizzard. Texas Information Free HnTXwrpS2"ft,,n,tcd, 5!lh. n.U lho land and ftl1 land propositions in S ! 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Thompson,- assistant pastor of Trinity church,. told, a good story on himself recently. "You know I have b'een here only a short; time, bu,t I believe it was during one of my first days in the Jity that I was "walking along one df the' streets, ,npr t!& church w:hen I came across a little girl aged 7 or 8 years. Her face was simply black with dust that had gathered upon the'- sticky .ntqlas'ses thath'ad THE RETORT COURTEOUS An old darky wanted to join a fashionable city church, and the min ister, ' knowing it was hardly the thing to do and not wanting to hurt his feelings, told him to go home and pray over it. In a few days the darky came back. "Well, what do you think cf it by this time?" asked the preacher. "Well, sab," replied the colored man. "Ah prayed an' prayed an de good Lawd, ' he says to me, 'Rastus, Ah wouldn't i bodder mah head about dat no mo. Ah've been trying to git into dat chu'eh mahse'f for de las' twenty yeahs and Ah ain't done had no luck.' " Christian Register. 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