The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, June 17, 1897, Image 6

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Carson I said Involuntarily stoop
ing to knock the ash from my cigar
perhaps I ought not to ask although
I have known you for nearly three
years but is it usual for a wife to wear
two wedding rings
Dead silence He had just lowered
bis violin after a very soft solo for it
was considerable past midnight when
I ventured that curious question
There had been an evening party
and as I was to stay at the house till
morning Carsons wife had said Good
night and left us to finish our inevita
ble smoke and talk His mouth twitch
ed a little but it was some time before
be retorted in a low tone
Is is usual for a man well under 40
to have hair as white as mine
Well perhaps not but I thought
you attributed that to some shock or
ithcr What has that to do with with
the two rings
Everything lie listened at the
door for a moment turned down the
lights and then came and sat down
spreading his hands over the fire
Two rings Exactly one is the ring
I put on her finger when I married her
the second was put there by another
man and will stay there as long as the
first
Never mind now I said His voice
liad trailed off huskily J bad no idea
there was any tragic element behind
tko fact
Tragic Heavens It was more
than that Arthur he whispered turn
ing up a drawn face
I never meant to touch upon it but
when you spoke it came back with a
Tush as vivid as if I had been standing
at the mouth of the old north shaft
again And that was six years ago
Youve heard me speak at least of
the mine itself the Langley mine in
Derbyshire I had only been assistant
surveyor at the pits there for about
nine months when it happened
At 9 oclock that morning Arthur
three of us stepped into the cage old
Jim Halliday the foreman his son
Jim and myself the men had gone
down an hour before
I shall never forget that young
Jims sweetheart had walked over to
the pit with him as she occasionally
did
They were to be married in a week
or two and she and she had on her
finger the ring he had bought in Derby
the day before just for safetys sake
-or perhaps out of womanly pride
i recollect that just as the chain
clanked and the winter sunshine was
disappearing overhead he shouted out
a third Good by to her little dream
ing that it was to be good by Little
enough old Halliday and I thought that
days would elapse before we emerged
into Gods sunlight again
A new vein had been bored the year
before and then abandoned because it
ran in the direction of the river We
three had had instructions to widen it
for a space of o00 yards a piece of
work that had occupied us nearly a
month
Old Jim picked and young Jim
wheeled the coal away to the nearest
gallery from where it was carried over
rails to the bottom of the main shaft
Well by 4 oclock that afternoon we
calculated roughly that we had
the limit laid down
I think its as near as ossible
31 r Carson old Halliday said Jim
give another count we dont want the
water coming in
Jim went back We could hear him
singing out the paces in his light-hearted
fashion as he returned his voice
echoing through the long galleries
pooh youre miles off
it dad lie was only a score of years
off though Two-sixty-nine two-seventy-four
Itll allow a full twenty yet
I reckon
He had just finished his count when
but there no man could properly de
scribe it It was something one had to
realize for himself before he could un
derstand a bare half of the sudden
He was the first to come back to
sense He gave one choking cry of
Jim and staggered back to that black
pile The boys hand was sticking out
from the bottom of it clutching con
vulsively at nothing I sat down and
watched in a sort of dreary fascina
tion as old Jim uttering strange cries
tore at the mass in a mad frenzy God
help him Jim was the only thing he
had in the world to love In less than
live minutes ho had dragged him out
and sat down to hug him in his arms
Dead No he could just open his
poor dust filled ejes in answer to his
fathers whispers but we knew at
once that he would never again make
the galleries echo his piercing whistle
For whole hours I suppose neither
of us attempted to realize our situation
We sat on in the dead silence waiting
for something to happen
Once or twice we saw young Jims
blackened lips move feebly and each
time his father would mutter brokenly
Ay my precious boy well look after
her
Once the old man broke out quiver
ingly into the hymn Abide with Me
but he got no further than the third
line That perhaps was about 8
oclock but we could keep no count of
the time as my watch had stopped
Hour after hour must have gono by
and still old Jim sat with rigid face
and staring eyes clasping his burden
In all probability it was morning above
ground before at last he spoke
How long can we hold out Mr Car
son Im feared to go Ive been a
godless man all my time
That aroused me I examined our
position carefully The passage was
about eight yards wide at this point
and measured about twenty paces from
the end to where that solid wall of coal
blocked our path to the outer world
As the bore ran level with the foot of
the north shaft we were about forty
feet below the clear surface We had
no food and our lamps would burn
say another five or six hours while
the breathing air hot and gaseous al
ready would probably become unen
durable before the evening came That
was our situation and let any man con
ceive a worse if he can One slender
chance of escape at the best left per
haps the entire passage was not block
ed and we might force our way to the
main gallery I was not afraid of
death in the way that it comes to most
people but I was afraid to meet and
struggle with it there We sprang to
the task wild at the thought that those
few hours of stupor might have made
all the difference
You can guess what happened and
why after a long spell of fighting to
break through that horrible wall old
Jim threw himself down with a groan
and refused to go on
As fast as we loosened one mass
another crashed down in its place at
the end of our desperate attempt we
were half choked and blinded with
dust our hands were raw and we had
made scarce any headway
Barely too had we given up the
work as hopeless when my lamp flick
ered out half an hour later old Jims
followed suit
Total oblivion As I sat and con
templated our fate a faintuess of min
gled hunger and despair crept over me
Young Jim quite still was propped up
against the wall close by
Within a few feet of me sat his
father at times he would start up and
shriek out in nameless terror at others
ho would catch up his pick and hack
at the walls with the fury of a maniac
And worse was to come
I think I must have fainted I do
not seem to recollect more until the
moment when I became conscious of
my mates hard breathing over me and
of the fact that his hand was feeling
or so it seemed for my throat I
dashed away panting under the shock
of this new horror
Jim I gasped for heavens sake
keep sane If were to go let us die
terror that whitened our lips and seem- like men
ed to bring our hearts to a standstill
There was a rumbling in one of the
distant galleries and a sickening trem
ble of the ground underneath us then
then the most paralyzing sound I do
believe that is to be heard in this
world
How or why it happened is some
thing to be placed among the host of
unsolved mysteries but there was one
grinding splintering roar as though
the earth had split in two pieces
Before we could stir hand or foot to
save ourselves before we could even
tal n in that an explosion had occurred
while we were guarding against an
other sort of danger down thundered a
mass of coal tons upon tons of it that
blocked up the only passage leading to
the shaft
It just reached young Jim standing
-where he did he was struck down
we heard his screech stifled beneath
the debris For about five more sec
onds the earth seemed to be heaving
and threatening universal chaos then
all became still as a tomb
A tomb We had our lamps old
Jim and t looked and saw that we
were cut off from the rest of the world
What happened next I hardly
know I was stupefied with the shock
sick with a mortal fear of death He
and I stood staring mutely at each
other The one thing I recollect is that
his face was gray as marblp and that
a line of froth stead on his lips
No answer i nearu mm crawling
away and that was all The dead
silence was only broken by a faint
trickling sound Trickling
Yes I put my hand to the level and
found half an inch of water and hot
ter and more stifling grew the atmos
phere Praying hard to myself I re
alized now that should no help come
only a few hours could live betwixt us
and the end And then old Jim might
go first and I should be left Nay I
was already practically alone the fear
that was slowly whitening my hair and
turned old Jims brain
He suddenly sent xin a peal of de
lirious laughter Water Who says
water Why mates Im swimming in
it Heres a go
Presently he began creeping round
find me I could hear him coming
by his labored respiration and swish
ing of the ooze as he moved
Round and round the space we went
stealthily until at last he made a cun
ning rush and caught me by the ankle
Got him He yelled it with a glee that
was unmistakable
Mere words could never convey the
sensation of that moment Half suf
focated past all ordinary fear I closed
with my poor old mate and we went
staggering to and fro across our prison
until at last I managed to throw him
so that his head struck heavily against
the wall
After that he lay quite still I be
lieved at the time that I had killed him
but we knew afterward that it was
that biow which preserved his reason
The rest can be told In a few words
After that I lay there like one in a
dream while the pestilential air slowly
did its work
Sometimes I fancied I could feel
cool breezes blowing down on me and
at others heard some one telling me to
wake ui for the whistle had sounded
at the pits
How loiig I lay so I can only con
jecture I really knew nothing more
until I was roused by the sound of that
coal barrier crashing down before the
picks and spades of a dozen rescuers
and the hubbub from a dozen throats
as they broke into our tomb
Only just time Old Jims face was
only just out of the water and they
said that no human being could have
lived in that atmosphere for another
two hours And young Jim well
there was just enough life left in him
to lost three days
Till the end of that third day I
kept to my bed and then they sent to
say that ho was going but that he
wished to see me first I reached the
house in time to catch his last whis
per
You youll take her mate Marry
her no one else Only only youll let
my ring stay there Promise me
that
What could I do but promise I
had no thought then of marrying his
sweetheart but it was his dying wish
and for years Jim and I had been like
brothers
Just a year later I asked her if there
was any room in her heart for me and
and well thats enough Now you
know why my wife wears two wedding
rings Saturday Evening Post
When Grant Visited Japan
There was no pageant in General
Grants journey round the world more
imposing than the reception given by
the Mikado at Japans capital writes
John Russell Young in the Ladies
Home Journal The United States
steamer Richmond bearing General
Grant and his party steamed into Yo
kohama the harbor of Tokyo escorted
by the Ashuelot and a Japanese man-of-war
on July 3 1879 There was as
sembled a fleet of war ships of other
powers At noon the Admirals barge
flying General Grants flag as ex-President
and conveying the General and
his wife Prince Dati Minister Bing
ham and Minister Yoshida slowly
pushed for the shore and on the instant
every naval vessel manned yards and
fired the American national salute The
day was as beautiful as days of which
we dream a blue cloudless sky a
soothing lapping sea The sudden
transformation from this sleepy lazy
silent summer day into the turbulence
and danger of war the roar of cannon
the music every band playing an
American air the manned yards the
officers on deck in full dress and salut
ing the barge as it passed the cheers
of the multitude thronging the shore
the fantastic day fire works the can
non smoke banking into clouds the
barge moving with slow steady stroke
all formed a brilliant and extraordinary
scene As the Admiralty steps were
approached there in waiting stood the
Imperial Princes the Ministers and
the high officials of the realm in the
splendor of their rank and station As
the General stepped on shore the Jap
anese guns thundered their greeting
the bands played The Star Spangled
Banner and Mr Iwakura the vener
able Prime Minister advanced and
taking the Generals hand In the name
of the Emperor welcomed him to Jap
an Reaching Tokyo after an hour in
the train the city authorities met us
with an address and the Mikados state
carriage through a continuous double
line of Infantry standing at present
conveyed the General to the Imperial
Palace of Enriokwan
Different Numes for Waves
They have curiously different names
for waves about the coast of Great
Britain The Teterhead folk call the
large breakers that fall with a crash
on the beatxi by the grim name of Nor
rawa Norway carpenter On the low
Lincolnshire coast as on the southwest
ern Atlantic fronting shore of these
islands the gradually long unbroken
waves are known as rollers Among
East Anglians a heavy surf tumbling
In with an offshore wind or In a calm
is called by the expressive name of a
slog while a well marked swell roll
ing in independently of any blowing is
called a home There Is no wind
a Suffolk fisherman will say but a
nasty home on the beach Suffolk
men also speak of the bark of the
surf and a sea covered with foam Is
spoken of as feather white The
foam itself Is known as spoon drift
So in the vernacular we have it The
sea was all a feather white with spoon
drift New York Marine Journal
Strange Indeed
On the battlefield of an
Irish doctor named OReilly was attend
ing to the wounds of the British solJ
diers
A young guardsman doing active ser
vice for the first time had got a sword
cut on his arm what an old soldier
would call a scratch
Tommy Atkins was crying out
Oh doctor my arm I shall die
Dr OReilly getting tired of his
moaning called out
Be aisy wid yer noise now sure
yere makin more noise than that poor
feller down there wid his head cut off
Japans Navy
Japan is going to spend 40000 in
putting twelve young Japanese
dents through a three years course
of study of naval architecture and ma
rine engineering in England They
will work as gentlemen apprentices
with the great shipbuilding firms
As you grow older strawberries taate
more watery
ApSf
Once upon a time a man who needed
the aid of Fontenelle went to the great
philosopher and began an apology for
a pamphlet he had written against him
Fontenelles withering answer was
Sir this is the first time I have heard
of it
Leo the Thirteenth was greatly in de
mand as a diner out while filling the
office of nuncio at Brussels Always
severe in matters of propriety he was
deeply offended by a baron who passed
him a snuff box on the lid of which was
enameled a feminine finger en des
habille Controlling his annoyance his
future holiness replied Very pretty
Is it your wife
When William J Stillman was In
Greece for the London Times a report
was sent out that he had been behead
ed One of his friends telegraphed to
the correspondent this message Ru
mor here that your head has been
taken off Is it true The message
reached Stillman and this was his re
ply My dear boy a newspaper man
never loses his head
When Mr Hunter the Confederate
Secretary of State referred to the cor
respondence between Charles the First
and Parliament as a precedent for a
negotiation between a constitutional
ruler and rebels Lincoln replied Up
on matters of history I must refer you
to Mr Seward for he is posted in such
things and I dont profess to be but
my only distinct recollection of the mat
ter is that Charles lost his head
There was once a mathematical tutor
In one of our great universities who
was in the habit of boasting that he
neither knew nor cared to know any
thing about poets or poetry and con
sidered it all a lot of unpractical rot
A certain brother tutor anxious to con
vert him gave him the famous Charge
of the Light Brigade to read The
mathematician took it up and began
to read aloud thus Half a league
half a league half a league Then
he banged the book down exclaiming
Impatiently Well if the fool meant a
league and a half why on earth didnt
he say so
James Russell Lowell when Ameri
can minister to England was much
bothered by the wife of an American
Senator who was determined to be
presented at court The woman was
noisy illiterate and socially impossi
ble but she was the wife of a Senator
There came a time when the minister
worn out with her importunities was
about to capitulate in that hour of
weakness however he chanced to over
hear his persecutor say to a friend re
garding a dressmakers bill which had
just come in When I see the size of
that bill I just laid back and yelled
The lady was not presented
A privately printed volume about the
famous Athenaeum Club in London
just issued has some stories about
bishops many of whom are members
of it One is of a clerical dignitary
who being anxious to consult one of
the fathers on a theological point
asked a servant of the club if Justin
Martyr was in the library I dont
think hes a member my lord was the
answer but Ill go and ask the por
ter The curious behavior of a bishop
is thus described by an eye witness
As I stood talking outside the Athe
naeum the other day I saw a bishop
a humble suffragan drive up in a
hansom and bid the unpaid cabman
wait while he went into the club A
minute or twro later out came a real
bishop who guilelessly got into the
waiting hansom and being mistaken
by the cabman for his original fare
was straightway driven off Then
issued the suffragan whose inquiries
for his cab led to his being informed
by a second cabman that it had been
taken by another gent in leggings
The Chinese Vote
The Chinese vote will soon be a
political feature in California In San
Franciscos filthy Chinatown an infan
tile army has been reared There are
not less than 2000 native sons and
daughters in San Franciscos China
town in whose veins Chinese blood
flows and who are lawful heirs of
American citizenship A small army of
Mongols is marching leisurely along
the dusty highway of time toward the
ballot box
Not later than the year 1920 at the
present birth rate in Chinatown and
supposing average conditions regard
ing mortality to obtain it is as clear
as ajrything can be that something like
2500 Chinese children will be entitled
to the ballot in San Francisco alone
Sacramento Stockton Los Angeles
San Jose and in fact nearly all com
munities in California have also their
native born Mongolian babies who are
on their way to citizenship
Cowardice of Alligators
The cowardice of alligators is well
known by the people who reside along
the bayous which were at one time f re
quenited by the saurians said a gen
tleman from Southwestern Louisiana
A great mauy persons who only know
of the alligator by reputation swallow
without a qualm the stories which are
so often told about the hairbreadth es
capes and remarkable adventures with
these reptiles The truth is that they
do not possess sufficient courage the
aligators I mean to attack a mouse
unless it was chained to a bank and
couldnt show light
I remember crossing a stream in the
Vermillion country a number of years
before the craze for alligator hides had
struck the country I entered a skiff
and when about half way over my
dog which I had forgotten came
bounding after me and leaping into the
water began to swim across after the
boat Almost immediately several al
ligators lying with the tips of their
noses above the surface began to move
after the dog and soon came within a
few feet of the animal He realized
that he was being chased and proceed
ed to turn the tables by chasing them
He barked and turned to make for the
gators but they got out of the way
Well the dog and the saurians kept
up this performance until the former
had crossed the stream The alliga
tors seemed to be afraid to come within
biting distance although it would have
been impossible for the dog to have
injured them They were simply afraid
thats all and it is always the way
with them I have frequently swam
after an alligator myself and he would
invariably turn tail and get out of sight
in a hurry Courage They have no
more than a goat
A WONDERFUL CHANGE
What the South Is Now and What It
Was Twenty Years AcO
Where the proud city of Birmingham
stands to day there were in 1S77 only
worn out fields Chattanooga was a
dilapidated village Atlanta still sat in
the ashes of the war Florida was al
most as much of a wilderness as in thu
days of Spanish rule Texas had made
no impression upon the worlds markets
as a cotton producer The States of
Louisiana Mississippi and Arkansas
were in poverty and despair because
of the miseries of the reconstruction
period The coal and iron mines of
Tennessee Alabama and Virginia wera
practically undiscovered and unopen
ed There was no serious competition
by any southern port with New York
and Boston for the export and import
trade With a single exception there
was not one great railroad system in
the South and that did not touch the
southeastern part
Twenty years ago the manufacture
of cotton in the South was wholly an
infant industry and cities now known
as textile working centers were mere
trading posts at the cross roads The
fruit and vegetable business of Florida
was so small as to attract little atten
tion while the fruit and melon busi
ness of Georgia did not exist at all
Southern farmers then bought their
corn and meats instead of raising them
as thej1 do now and the cotton crop of
Georgia notwithstanding the compar
atively low prices and notwithstanding
the cities have absorbed so much of he
rural population is twice as large as
it was then
In a Balloon
A dim sunlight strikes us in the bal
loon Suddenly we realize we are in
bright sunshine again with fleecy
white clouds below us and a deep sky
above Look at the shadow of the bal
loon on the clouds See the light pris
matic colors like a halo around the
shadow of the car Here we are all
alone in perfect silence in the depths
of a great abyss massive clouds tow
ering up on all sides a snowy white
mass below But no sign of earth no
sign of anything human Not a sound
not a sign of life What peace What
bliss Horrors Whats that report
The balloon must have burst Oh non
sense Keep still Its only a fold of
the stuff nipped by the netting being
suddenly released thats all
Well we are falling for see the bits
of paper apparently ascending And
we must take care for the coldness
and dampness of this cloud will cause
the gas to contract and we shall fall
rapidly So get a bag of ballast ready
for we are already in the darkness of
the cloud Now the gas bag shrinks
and writhes and the loose folds rustle
together and it gets darker You can
feel the breeze blowing upward against
your face or hand held over the edge
of the car Well thats not to be won-
dered at for remember we are falling
say a thousand feet a minute which is
the same thing as if we were going
along ten miles an hour sitting in a
dogcart Not quite the same you say
youd sooner be in the cart Well per
haps if the horse were going straight
at a wall without the possibility of
being able to stop him you would think
otherwise But look There is the
earth again so out with your ballast
Go on Pour out plenty theres no good
economizing
Sale of Tjanclseers
Sir Edwin Landseers A Piper ana
a Pair of Nutcrackers was sold re
cently in London for S13o and his
Eager Terrier for 2S35 a -view of
Gillingham by W Muiler for 5SS0
Millaiss My Second Sermon for
1705 Friths The Pet Fawn for
1GS0 Linnells The Emigrants for
4410 Peter Grahams The Cradle
of the Sea Bird for S435o and two
pictures by Clarkson Stanfeld The
Worms Head Briston Channel for
1725 and Cittora on the Gulf of
Salerno for 2310
A Mistake
Of course said the jeweler row
meant well but dont do that again
What do you mean inquired the
man in charge of the repair depart
ment
You charged that last man so much
that instead of having his old watch
fixed he bought a new one that I had
marked down to cost as an advertise
ment Washington Star
j Corrected
Mrs Gray Its positively disgraceful
Black has begun courting again before
his dead wife is hardly cold
Mr Gray My dear I think you
wrong Black I happen to know that
his wife was cremated Minneapolis
Times
News Abont Ccesar
Teacher Now what can you teil me
about Julius Caesar
Pupil He wrote boobs in classics
Tid Bits
There are two occasions when women
count their own fingers one of them is
when they hear that a widower is to
be married
A TRAMP AND A HAT
How a Mystery Was Solved aud a L j
Jury Chagrined
A Chicago lawyer who was called to
a small town in the Pennsylvania oil
region awhile ago on legal business be
came greatly interested in a prisoner
whom he found there in jail awaiting
trial for murder The fellow was a
tranip jmd apparently had not a friend
in the oil district or anywhere else on
earth The case against him however
was based entirely on circumstantial
evidence and the Chicago man be
lieved that it would be an easy matter
to establish the prisoners innocence
and secure his acquittal Having had
several talks with the tramp who told
a plain straightforward convincing
story the lawyer undertook to conduct
his defense solely in the interest of
justice
The prosecution made out a complete
chain of incriminating circumstances
It WJis shown that late in the evening
a pistol shot had been heard and pe
destrians who hastened to investigate
found a resident of the town lying in
the street dead with a bullet hole in
his head It looked like an attempted
robery which met with resistance and
resulted in murder Lying beside the
body was an old battered Derby hat
The alarm was given and a search
was organized which resulted in the
arrest of the tramp who was found in
an alley not far away and was bare
headed The hat found by the
dered mans body fitted the suspects f
head nicely But the tramp had no re
volver
The prosecution claimed that the
prisoner had thrown his weapon into a
neighboring river after committing the
murder and tlie whole case hinged
upon the identification of the hat The
tramp explained his bareheaded condi
tion by saying that he had lost his head
covering while stealing a ride on a
freight train The Chicago lawyer de
nied the identification of the hat He
pointed out the fact that although it
fitted the prisoner it would also fit the
prosecuting attorney and the presiding
judge himself
The jury retired and in a few min
utes brought in a verdict of acquittal
The prisoner seemed to take the result
quite stoically He thanked tlie Chi
cago man added his profound convic
tion that the latter was a bird and
turning to the Court remarked Judge
may I liave my hat now if you aivj
through with it
Pioneer Days in the White House
Congress first assembled in the new
Capitol on Nov 17 1S00 and John
Adams then President took up his
abode in the Executive Mansion
writes ex President Harrison of The
Domestic Side of the White nouse in
the Ladies Home Journal Neither thu
Capitol nor the Executive Mansion was
fully completed The proportions of tho
house seemed to Mrs Adams as grand
and superb The plan was taken from
the palac of the Duke of Leinster in
Dublin- If they will put me up somej
bells and let me have wood enough to
keep fires wrote Mrs Adams I design
to be pleased But though literally in
the woods no one could be found to cut
and cart firewood The few cords of
wood that had been provided had been
expended to dry the plastering A
Pennsylvania wagon secured through
a Treasury clerk delivered a cord and
a half of wood which is wrote Mrs
Adams all we have for this house
where twelve fires are constantly re
quired and we are told the roads will
soon be so bad that it canot be drawn
The society- ladies were impatient
for a drawing room in the Executive
Mansion and this when Mrs Adams
had no looking glasses but dwarfs
and not a twentieth part lamps enough
to light the house There was no in
closure and she made a drying room
for her clothes of the great East room
The original cost of the White House
is said to have bvn a little more than
three hundred thousand dollars and
something more than that amount was
expended in restoring it after its de
struction by fire in 1S14 and in the
building of the north and south por
ticos
Teaching Music
A Scottish highland piper having a
scholar to teach disdained to crack his
brains with tlie names of semibreves
minims crotchets and quavers
Here Donald said he tak yer
pipes lad an gie us a blast So verra
weel blawn indeed but whats a
sound Donald without sense Ye
mawn blow forever without makin a
tune ot if I dlnna tell ye how the
queer things on the paper mawn help
ye You so tliat big fellow wi a
round open face qointng to a semi
breve between two lin s of a bar He
moves slowly from that line to this
while ye Ixsa t anc wi yer fist and gie
us a long blast If now if ye put a
leg to him ye make twa o him an
hell move twice as fast and if ye
black his face hell run four times
faster than tlie fellow wi the white
face but If after blacking his face
yed bend his knee or tie his leg hell
hop eight times faster than the white
faced chap I showed you first Now
wheneer ye blaw yer pipes Donald
remember this that the tighter those
fellows legs are tied the faster theyll
run and the quicker theyre sure to
run That is tlie more legs they have
bent up contrary to nature the faster
goes the music
Too Far
He They have carried these musi
cals so fax that it is positive torturo
to listen to them
She Yes there are some people who
believe they are a whole orchestra sim
ply because have a drum in their
ear Judge
it Does
The front wheel of a bicycle should
be called for often it goeth be
fore a fall Philadelphia Press
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