I aaa agsPKaawt affiuaiaUMHiiJAMMWJiw wiiwimwimiwi
ST JOHNS iV
dome draw the chairs arrvtnd the hearth
my lad
What its but 10 oclock and all is
nright
3f I had kept that strength that ouce I
had
They had been ranged there with the
mornings light
Just once a year just once poor souls
theyre let
To cross the old home threshold and to
sit
Beside the fire and here we dont forget
I say theyre ready ere the lamps are
lit
Put the old grandsires elbow seat the
first
In the warm corner tat he his
own
And next the rocker where thy mother
nursed
Her first born proud as on a monarchs
throne
And then the little stool that she would
draw
Close up to me as we sat laughing there
And I would make as if I scarcely saw
The firelight dancing on her sunny hair
Up there at Eno gat the tall grass waves
And the red roses glitter in the sun
The three tall crosses mark the three
green graves
Where they lie quiet lifes hot battle
done
Old mar and matron and unwedded
maid
For many a weary year of labor gone
But they will rise for all so deeply laid
And seek us on the eve of good St John
Pour out three cups of the old cider boy
Put the three sweetest apples on the
plate
Bring flowers to give the board a look
of joy
And then go rest while I sit here and
wait
T shall not greet them at the open door
I shall not see them lift the heavy latch
Nor hear their footsteps on the oaken
floor
Though eyes and ears are straining as
I watch
And yet I think as they come in at last
That I shall know them near me once
again
And all the gladness of the dear dead past
Will beat once more in dulling heart and
brain
While age and weariness like robes out
worn
Will drop from off me and young brave
and true
With wrongs forgiven and sweet hopes
reborn
I and my loved our lost lives will renew
What the old man is doting is he lad
Perhaps so yet hell have his willful
way
And give our rites the honor that they
had
Ere all was cold and scowifnl as to
day
Cm h r tlie west is palling Set the
-chairs
-
And go all round us must be still and
dumb
The saints are gracious when man trusts
and dares
My darling oh my darling wilt thou
come
Household Words
ITHIEOTTHE WIGHT
There was a large party at the Cha
teau de Kerdall near Valines
The Marquis de Kerdall and his
young wife had just returned from a
tour of the world on their yacht during
which they had paid flying visits to
Africa America and Oceanica and
they had celebrated their home com
ing by gathering together all their
friends and relatives at their beautiful
country house
Among the guests was old Dr Corna
buc an illustrious member of the Acad
emy of Metaphysical Sciences so orig
inal so absent minded so venerable in
lis blonde peruke and his costume of
the fashion of 1S50 Then there was
3Ime De Lartigues an old school
friend of the Marquise a brilliant and
coquettish Parisienne And there was
Miss Hawthorne an English maiden
lady with youthful propensities And
there were many others all of whom
found plenty of amusement to their
hearts content at Kerdall
Outside of the ordinary pleasures of
life there were some unusual attrac
tions In the first place the host and
liostess had seen and experienced so
much that was novel and startling that
their conversation was always fascin
ating Then the rooms of the castle
constituted a veritable museum being
stocked with rare and curious objects
from two continents And finally a
menagerie had been created in one cor
ner of the park and stocked with vari
ous animals which M De Kerdall had
picked up during the voyage and
brought back to Prance for purposes
of acclimatization There were gazelles
antelopes Thibet goats Nile ibises rose
iflaniingoes opossums beavers and an
-Asiatic ape of the mandrill species as
mild as a lamb but as mischievous as
-all his kind An iron lattice cage had
been built for him close to the conserva
tory
As will be seen the chateau de Ker
dall was a veritable Eden but this fact
didnot prevent little Mme De Lartigues
from dreading the isolated position of
the place among the wide expanse of
woods and fields
I should be afraid to live here all
rthe year round she said
Afraid of what my dear asked
-the Marquise
Oh of robbers they would fairly
revel here
Robbers In this mansion filled to the
eaves with guests and servants Ev
erybody mocked at the young woman
and old Dr Cornabuc told horrible
6tories till Mme De Lartigues ashamed
of her chimerical fears was the first
to laugh and when the retiring hour
came she mounted to her sleeping
-apartment on the second floor supplied
with a goodly stocX of heroism Within
-a short time all the occupants of the
-chateau were in the land of dreams
How long Mme De Lartigues sJept
ehe knew not She was awakened Dy
a rattling at her window which she
had left half opened on account of the
heat
Wliat was her terror when in the
feeble starlight she saw a form climb
ing noiselessly through the window
She tried to scream but her throat
was parched with fright and she vould
not utter a sound
The man had entered the chamber
Then the poor wGtKn hastily buried
her head beneath the bed clothing
Half dead with fear she could hear
her nocturnal visitor going and coming
across the carpet with muffled steps
It seemed as though he must have re
moved his shoes in order to tread sof try
Bathed with cold perspiration and her
teeth chattering she awaited the
blow from the invader But it did
not come
After about a quarter of an hour she
timidly peered out She could see and
hear nothing Slightly reassured she
recovered the use of her voice and
started a series of shrieks so sharp
piercing and terrible that in an instant
the entire chateau was turned into her
chamber with lights in their hands
M and Mme De Kerdall at the head
What is it Whats the matter
they cried
She recounted her horrible vision
They would not believe her she had
been dreaming Who could have climb
ed into this chamber so high above the
ground without a ladder
Did you see him plainly asked the
Marquis with a touch of suspicion in
his voice
As plainly as I see you and it even
seemed She hesitated
What
It seemed as though I could recog
nize Dr Cornabuc in his blonde wig
and redingote
Everybody laughed What Dr Corna
buc A man of age and character scal
ing windows at midnight It was cer
tain now that Mme Lartigues had
been dreaming They tried to dissipate
her fear and she was just about to per
suade herself that she had been the vic
tim of an hallucination when she hap
pened to cast her eyes upon the bureau
where she had left her jewels
They were gone It had truly been a
robber
The laughing suddenly ceased and
they looked at one another in conster
nation
All at once anothercry was heard a
piercing shriek coming through the
stillness of the night It appeared to
emanate from Miss Hawthornes cham
ber There was a rush for her apart
ment and the English lady was found
standing in the middle of the room
with frightened eyes
There there she cried pointing to
the window A man He has escaped
but I recognized him
Who was it
Dr Cornabuc
The doctor again This time nobody
laughed Cornabuc was looked for
among the persons who had been at
tracted by the excitement but he was
not there He was the only occupant
of thechateau who was missing
Come let us go to the doctors room
said the Marquis knitting his brows
He will doubtless solve the mystery
for us
All followed Kerdall the men half
dressed the women in their white
night robes all carrying candles a
weird procession
Upon the entrance of the crowd the
doctor hurriedly wrapped himself in
the bedclothes his wrinkled counten
ance alone being visible over the top
and this convulsed by anger into a
comical grimace The candle light was
reflected from his bald pate which
shone like ivory
Is this some ill timed joke he
stormed What is going on Is the
chateau on fire I heard a terrible out
cry and was about to inquire into it
You must come and join us doctor
said Kerdall
And how shall I do it cried the
Doctor furiously Some rascal has
run off with my clothing and in ex
change he has left me this and he
savagely hurled a white object into the
middle of the room
My corsets murmured Miss Haw
thorne modestly lowering her eyes
And this continued the Doctor
wildly brandishing another article
My hat cried Mme de Lartigues
This raillery passes all bounds
howled the Doctor whose shining head
with one final grimace ducked beneath
the bed clothing like the clown going
through a trap door in the marionette
theater
They knew not what to think The
mystery was growing more complicat
ed It certainly looked as though a rob
ber had entered the chateau perhaps
a whole band of burglars and assassins
Mme De Lartigues imagined a troop of
brigands armed to the teeth
Let us hope they have no guns said
the Marquis to raise the hopes of his
guests
There was no echo to the pleasantry
Suddenly a strange sound was heard
coming from the ground floor It was
certainly the piano in the reception
salon but it was surely being played
by goblin fingers and so furiously that
it seemed as though the keys must be
broken
This is too much cried the Mar
quis rushing toward the staircase with
all the crowd excepting Dr Cornabuc
close behind him
They hastily penetrated the salon It
was empty The mysterious visitor
was gone but he could not be far away
The crash of china and glass announced
his presence in the dining room
Everybody rushed thither and the
Marquis who was in the lead dimly
saw a form escaping through the win
dowr into the garden
This time weve got him he cried
The men seized guns and knives from
a hunting rack in the vestibule and
started across the garden and park in
pursuit of the fugitive while the wom
en barricaded themselves In the V oa
and anxiously awaited the result ot the
chase
It was about an hour later in the un
certain light which precedes the rising
of the sun that a servant discovered
the mysterious stranger ensconced
among the branches of a large oak At
his call the Marquis and his guests
hastened to the spot
Come down commanded M De
Kerdall but the bandit only settled
himself deeper among the foliage and
made do response
Come lwn or I will shoot
And as there was no reply he lifted
his gun and already had his finger upon
the trigger when the domestic hurried
ly pulled his arm and said
Do not fire monsieur It is Dr Corn
abuc
And sure enough the blonde wig and
long redingote could now be seen among
the leaves
But at this moment the first ray of
sunlight gleamed in from the east and
the oak was illuminated The Marquis
suddenly broke into a fit of explosive
laughter and as his guests gazed up
into the tree they could not keep from
following his example
The ape
Everything was explained The ani
mal had escaped from his cage the pre
vious evening and had managed to
effect an entrance into the chateau
Animated by his instinct of imitation
he had first attired himself in the doc
tors effects and then wandered over
the house at his own free will
He was put back into his prison after
some little trouble and at daybreak the
party enjoyed a hearty laugh at the ad
ventures of the night
But Dr Cornabuc did not appear at
the table He left the chateau at an
early hour furious and without taking
leave
Since this episode he has nevr set
foot at Kerdall and he has nevei lost
a feeling of deep antipathy to Mme De
Lartigues and Miss Hawthorne
How could they have mixed me t
with a monkey he wants to know-
Argonaut
Dangerous Sheep
The dangers of mountain climbing
are in general pretty well understood
and so can be guarded against but Sir
W Martin Conway in Scribners Mag
azine narrates a mountain adventure
of a really novel sort
On the way to Mud Lake we had a
strange adventure of which I was for
tunate enough to secure a photograph
We were approaching the highest sheep
pasture as the day waned The sheep
seventeen hundred in number saw us
from the surrounding slopes and urged
by a longing for salt rushed down
upon us from all sides with one united
Baa in a wild converging ava
lanche
We beat off the leaders but they
could not retreat for those behind
pressed them forward Finding that
Carrel was the Salter morsel the whole
flock surged upon him They lifted
him off his feet carried him forward
cast him to the ground and poured over
him
Fortunately the ground was flat
When the shepherd saw what had hap
pened he whistled shrilly thrice where
upon the sheep dispersed in terror flee
ing up the mountainside in all direc
tions till no two remained together
Very Polite
The Saxons are a very polite people
so over polite that they not infrequent
ly bring down ridicule upon themselves
It used to be told in Dresden that a
stranger in the city was one day cross
ing the great bridge that spans the
Elbe and asked a native to be direct
ed to a certain church which he wish
ed to find
Really my dear sir said the Dres
dener bowing low I grieve greatly
to say it but I cannot tell you
The stranger passed on a little sur
prised at this voluble answer to a sim
ple question He had proceeded but a
few rods when he heard hurried foot
steps behind him and turning saw
the same man running to catch up with
him
In a moment his pursuer was by hisi
side his breath nearly gone but
enough left to say
My dear sir you asked me how you
could find the cnurch and it pained
me to have to say that I did not know
Just nowvI met my brother and asked
him but I grieve to say that he did not
know either
Hirschs Hoodoo
Baron Hirsch shortly before his
death sold his very beautiful estate
at St Jean because it was too damp to
be healthy He purchased another
through an agent and started to erect
a magnificent chateau upon it Afjter
he had expended about 35000 on the
new property which he intended to en
dow as a childrens hospital after his
death he was informed that jt was even
damper than St Jean He went in per
son to see and finding the report true
and that the property was of no use
whatever for his benevolent purpose
added to the thought that he had been
swindled caused him to fly into a vio
lent rage which was the direct cause
of his death
Thrifty Old Age
Besides doing the butter making
cooking washing and t housework of
her family an SO-year-old woman of
Whitneyville Me walks a mile or
two daily to pick blueberries for which
she gets about eight cents a quart
Give a boy a piece of work to do and
he spends half of the time in inventing
some contrivance to make his work
easier
You will run across a man oftenei
whose boarding house suits him than
oie vrbQ is suited with his home
CARVINGS IN A CAVE
Prehistoric Relics Discovered in Cen
tral France
In a letter addressed to the Secretary
of the French Academy of Sciences
the well known anthropologist M E
Riviere announces that in the course
ol a mission confided to Jiim by the
Ministry of Public Instruction he has
discovered in the Department of the
Dordogne a prehistoric cave of which
he has explored 127 meters Its walls
are covered with drawings of animals
These drawings are cut deep in the
rock some of them boing buried under
stalagmites This fact is according to
M Riviere most important as it con
stitutes an undeniable proof of the
great antiquity of the drawings in ques
tion
The caves of the Dordogne have for
some fortj years been noted for their
relies of a very early race of men They
were first explored by M Lartet of
France and our fellow countryman
Mr Christy whose fine collection is
now in the British Museum but the
one recently examined by M Riviere
appears to be of exceptional size and
interest The special interest if in
deed it be not unique of M Rivieres
discovery is that he has found some
kind of incised ornamentation upon the
actual walls of a cave These carvings
are sometimes covered by a film of
stalagmite which shows them to be
very far from modern the patterns
however of the engravings will be a
yet more satisfactory proof of their
antiquity for the style of ornamenta
tion practiced by this folk is not so fa
miliar to experts that they can recog
nize it without difficulty Both the ob
jects depicted and the material em
ployed throw considerable light upon
the condition of Western Europe at this
early age The antlers of reindeer are
commonly used for tools and orna
ments and the bones of this animal
abound in the debris on the floors Ob
viously it must then have been as com
mon in Perigord as it now is in the ex
treme north of Asia or America
This fact taking into consideration
the present range of the animal and re
membering the habits of the people in
dicates that in those days Central
France cannot have had a climate more
genial than that of Northern Norway
at the present era In addition to these
animals the red deer the Irish elk the
wild horse the glutton and possibly
the rhinoceros are depicted but the
most interesting sketch of all is a fair
ly accurate and rather spirited outline
of a mammoth scratched on a piece of
tusk these figures sometimes are ac
tually sculptured as if to form the han
dles of knives or of tools of some kind
but in other cases as in the last named
they are inclosed on the flat or curved
surface of a bone or of an antler Re
mains of the cave lion and cave bear
have been found though not abundant
ly together with those of the hyena
the ibex the chamois and the saiga
antelope which now inhabit the plains
of the Volga and Southern Siberia
These men of the Dordogne had prob
ably attained to a stage of civilization
comparable with that of the Esqui
maux before they were brought into
contact with Europeans and there is
so strong a family likeness in the handi
work of the two that Prof Boyd Daw
kins who has paid much attention to
the subject is of opinion that the Es
quimaux are the nearest approach to
descendants and representatives of this
long lost race As comparatively few
bones of the Dordogne folk have been
identified with certainty up to the pres
ent time we are hardly in a position to
say what anatomical evidence there is
for this view but so far as it goes it is
favorable London Standard
Actions Betrayed Their
Three girls sat on a shady bench in
Washington Park the other afternoon
they were all looking after an acquaint
ance who had just walked past in com
pany with a young man
Hes awfully in love with her re
marked the girj on the end of the bench
Im sure I dont think her pretty at
all said the girl in tne middle her
face is too red
I didnt say she was pretty retort
ed the girl on the end of the bench
I only said that he is awfully in love
with her
How do you know he is said the
third girl He didnt tell you I sup
pose Did she
He had no need to Ive seen them
together often enough to know She
invited me to meet him at her house the
other evening too
Wanted to show him off I suppose
said the girl in the middle of the bench
Maybe she did She doesnt care a
rap for him though I can tell him
that
But you havent told us yet how you
know he loves her so much insisted
the girl in the middle
He disagrees with everything she
says criticises everything she does
and snaps at her if she attempts to ex
plain her words or actions
O said the girl in the middle
Then how are you so sure that she
ioesnt care a rap for him asked
the third girl
She gets mad too
O said the other girls in unison
Chicago Tribune
Queer Ideas About Sleep
The natives of the Philippine Islands
have many peculiar notions and prac
tices They are indolent in the ex
treme and never tire of sitting still and
gazing at nothing in particular
One of the rudest acts in their eyes
iv to step over a person asleep on the
floor Sleeping is with them a very
solemn matter They are strongly
averse to waking any one the idea be
ing that during sleep the soul is absent
from the body and may not have time
to return if slumber is suddenly broken
To get a servant to rouse you you
must give him the strictest of orders
Then at the time appointed he will
stand by your side and call Senor
Senor repeatedly each time more
loudly than before until you are half
awake then after waiting a little
while he will return to the low note
and again raise his voice gradually till
j ou are fully conscious
DECAY OF A POPULAR FAD
Little Demand Iow for Collections of
Postage Stamps
According to postal officials there has
been a big slump within the past year
or two in the stamp collecting business
Although the Government clerks are
supposed to strictly avoid all dealings
with stamp collectors they are in a po
sition to accurately gauge the condition
of the stamp market and they are
unanimous in saying that interest in
this fad has fallen off wonderfully of
late
Letters from stamp collectors became
so numerous some time ago that Assist
ant Postmaster General Kerr Craige
found it necessary to get out a circular
letter in reply to these queries This
letter starts out by saying that the post
office department does not buy or deal
in canceled stamps No specimen
stamps either foreign or domestic are
sold or given away by the department
The department also fixed the penalty
for postmasters selling stamps for any
larger or less sum than the values indi
cated on their faces by decreeing that
any official violating this law be fined
not less than 50 nor more than 500
Probably the greatest drop in tne
prices of stamps is that noted in the
case of Columbian stamps Rare speci
mens of this issue that eighteen months
ago were away above par can be picked
up almost anywhere at their face val
ue The reason assigned for the slump
in the prices of Columbian stamps is
the fact that so many individuals in
vested in them as a matter of specula
tion The majority of these people
knew nothing whatever of the relative
value of stamps to the regular collec
tors and after failing to realize on
them at once they have sold out and so
fairly flooded the stamp market
Alocal stamp collector is authority for
the statement that there is soon to be
a united effort made by the dealers to
revive the drooping stamp trade This
move is to take the shape of an attempt
to bring back the boy trade which is
necessary for the success of the busi
ness It is said that the reason so many
boys have abandoned stamp collecting
of late years is because of the gradual
increase in the prices of rare stamps
The first move will be to prepare a
number of specimen stamp albums
This winter a simplified album which
will not call for stamps of rarity will
be placed on sale at moderate prices
It is thought that in this way the trade
can be stimulated although it is con
ceded that it will be several years be
fore the stamps will be at a premium
again Pittsburg Dispatch
A Hundred and Fifty Miles an Hour
An electrical engineer has been ex
hibiting in London the model of his-pro-
posed single rail electric line for speeds
of 150 miles an hour The rail is fixed
en a V shaped trestle and runs up into
the body of the car which as it were
nms astride of it The car runs on
twelve bearing wheels and seats 135
passengers with space for their bag-
gage One of the difficulties met with
in schemes for excessively high speed
travel is the tendency of the car to run
off the track By running the rail
within the car the lateral tendency of
the train is overcome But in this late
scheme the great difficulty seems to be
the passenger What would happen to the
passenger when the train took a sharp
curve while going at 150 miles an hour
is not explained
High Plight of Migrating Birds
Human life is in danger at an eleva
tion of twenty five thousand feet and
at a considerably lower altitude bodily
ecertion becomes almost impossible
Birds on the other hand rise to an
elevation of thirty five or forty thou
sand feet and at such heights sustain
yvent muscular exertions for an in
definite period In that respect as in
the matter of flight itself they have a
manifest advantage over the best of us
It is not to be supposed that most
birds ever reach the enormous heights
just mentioned but it seems to be cer
tain that the great majority of even the
smaller species when on their semi-annual
migrations move at heights be
yond the power of the human eye to
see them
The Trolley and the Farm
Electric railroads are proving of great
benefit to the farmers in Maine The
trolley lines run out from the large
cities and towns to villages far re
moved from steam railroad communi
cation and in several districts arrange
ments are making to run trolley milk
tvains vegetable trains and the like
the farmers to their
enable get prod
uce quickly to market It is even pro
posed to run trolley coal trains to sup
ply coal to small towns that now use
only wood
Internal Humidity
I hate said Mr Tolliver as he
vainly tried to get his straw hat over
his head to get these miserable hats
wet They shrink so
Mrs Tolliver looked up from the
breakfast table
There was no rain last night she
freezingly remarked
Then Mr Tolliver hastily perched his
hat on top of his aching head and hur
ried from the house Cleveland Plain
dealer
Kind of Him
I was reading of a man who had sus
tained a broken leg in a trolley acci
dent said Asbury Peppers and I
could but think how kind it was on
his part
Kind said Mrs Hammond
Yes It is a certainty that the
broken leg would not sustain him is
It not Cincinnati Enquirer
QUEEN VICTORIAS HEN HOUSv
Beautiful Specimens of Fcathercilr
Tribe Stock the Royal Aviary
There are plenty of proofs that the
tastes of Queen Victoria are decidedly
domestic but none seems more con
vincing than that she Is an enthusiasts
chicken raiser The royal aviary or
as the good New England housewife
would call it the queens hencoop as
described in the London Feathered
World by Artist Ernest M Jessop is
a very elaborate affair
The queen has her head chicken
man who is aided by a large corps
of experienced assistants For forty
years the royal poultry pens were un
der female supervision Mrs DAlbert
anson now in charge of the queens
room at the kennels being supervisor A
man named Hammond has succeeded
her He knows all about chickens
their value and their artful ways
Many breeds are kept in the royal
aviary gold and silver spangled Ham-
burgs gold and silver penciled and
black ones besides Black white and
speckled Dorkings strut about in com
pany with proud American riyinouth
Rocks black MInorcas white Leghorns
Andalusians white Rocks and Hou
dans American Plymouth Rocks are
by the way among the queens favor
ites
The bantams as U3ual are the pride
of the roost One named oby is as
tame as a kitten He is Hammonds
toy When the keeper claps his hante
the midget runs to meet him jumps V
unon his hand nnd phonriflnorc fn Ma r
hearts delight
The chickens are let out daily in
batches of the same breeu for an hours
run on the grass For breakfast they
get soft food and for the evening meal
they get an abundance of wheat There
is no hospital at the royal aviary As
soon as one of the birds appears to be
ailing it is put to death and afterward
cremated
The most formidable creatures in the
lot are the wild turkeys imported from
Canada but now thoroughly naturaliz y
ed Two beautiful golden eagles are
among the curiosities of the collection
One was captured thirty years ago in
Windsor forest There are Aylesbury
ducks but not many There are also
golden pheasants and pigeons of vari
ous kinds
An average of fifty eggs a day are
laid by the hens They go to the castle
Buckingham Palace and Osborne
House only
The queen has an apartment at the
aviary It is a bright sunny room
with nearly pure white walls A case
of stuffed birds shot by the prince con
sort is the principal ornament The
aviary was once one of the popular
-resorts of the roj al family and a tea
service of dark blue and white Dresden
china is still in the house New York
World
Got a Joke on Jay Gould
Fisk liked a joke on his partner bet
ter than anything else in the worlfi
vjrouiu ji uyc a uiiuncc ot some ooUUiW ia
in the Tenth National bank foTiis
personal account household expnses
etc Being called west on a mission
that lasted several weeks he left his
check book locked in the safe drawer
to which Fisk had a key In the office
was a clever young clerk whom Fisk
had caught in the act of imitating his
and Goulds signatures the imitation
of Goulds being a facsimile Within
an hour after the wizards departure
check book and clerk were together
under Fisks supervision and at his
instigation More than a dozen blank
checks were signed with the name of
Jay Gould and in the course of a
monixi the 30000 had disappeared
Fisk being at that time in the extrava
gant clutches of Josie Mansfield On
the very day of Goulds return the
bank sent a notice of overdraft The
little man nearly fainted He had
several fits His excitement was in
tense He declared that there was a
to ruin him He hastened
to the bank and they showed him h m a
checks signed by himself they did no
doubt and he raved and tore his hair
Nor could he doubt the signature It
was genuine even in his own eyes
rigid investigation was started whi
Fisk put an end to by informin
Gould with many a poke in the rib
that he had drawn and used the
Did Fisk make it good an Inno
cent asked when this story was old
Return the 30000 was the re
ply If Fisk had returned it Wall
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A Quick Witness
Attorney examining witness Yon
say you saw the shots fired
Witness Yes sir
How near were you to the scene
of the affray
When the i t shot was fired I
was about ten feet from the shooter
Ten feet Well now tell the court
where you were when the second shot
was fired
I didnt measure the distance
Speaking approximately how far
should you say
Well it approximated to half a
mile
Juat the Man
Rooter A friend of mine had a load
of bricks dumped on him the other
day and escaped without the slightest
injury
Baseball Magnate Yon interest me
Where can he be found
Rooter Why what do you want
with him
Baseball Magnate Hes just the fel
low for a good umpire trhiladelphiar
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As Amended
People who live in glass houses
began Mrs Tibbetts
People who live in glass houses
interrupted Mr Tibbetts in a mans
dogmatic way should pull down th4
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