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WASHINGTON. Have sympathy
for Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the
president. She, of all beloved wives
in the land whose husbands have an
income more than sufficient to afford
a bare living, is most to be pitied.
Every other such wife in the land has
added something to the house since
returning from her summer spent
away from home. There is probab'y
not another woman in the land who
has not added at least one piece of
furniture, had a room papered, bought
pew curtains for at least one room,
added a rug to the children's bedroom
or has done something of that kind.
But Mrs. Roosevelt has no addition to
boast of.
When she got back to the White
House not long ago she found every
thing just as it was when she went
away. Some painting had been done
inside and out, but that is all. It
might just as well not have been j
done, because the new paint is just
Changes Likely by Coming New Mistress
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MAN, mere man, rules the furniture
and the arrangement of things in
the White House. In this instance, the
mere man Is Col. Charles S. Bromwell.
He is a young engineer so youthful in
appearance that the silver eagle on
his shoulder straps, indicating the
rank of colonel, certainly looks like a
stray bird. He is a colonel only while
he is in charge of the White House.
Being an engineer. It would be im
possible for Bromwell to have the
Japanese vases in the wide entrance
hall of the White House set more than
a sixteenth of an inch out of line. It
would also be impossible for him to
have a mirror hung at an angle never
before known in the White House.
Congress in falling to provide for
any new furniture or anything else
new this year remembered that it is
the custom when there is a new first
lady of the land in the White House
for all the authorities to bow low and
ask her pleasure in regard to things.
.Mrs. Roosevelt chose the present un
pleasing blue of the blue room to re
place the delicate baby blue brocade
Capital Laundry War Is Taken to Court
THERE is war among the washers of
the American statesmen's shirts
and collars and cuffs. Alleging that a
combination has been formed among
the local laundry concerns of Washing
ton, the purpose of which is to drive
out of business all competing estab
lishments, in violation of the Sherman
anti-trust act, the Model Laundry Com
pany of this city, through its attorney,
lias filed a request in the form of an
injunction, in the supreme court of the
district, praying the court to restrain
the association, the Washington Laun
drymdn's exchange, from interfering
with its business.
Eleven other laundries of the city
are named as defendants. It is asked
additionally that the injunction be
made permanent.
Tlc complainant alleges that in the
defendants' efforts to ruin the busi
Many Disasters in Coal Mining Industry
ACCIDENTS in coal mines of the
United States during the last cal
endar year resulted in the death of
3,125 men and injury to 5,314 more,
according to statistics made public
by the geological survey.
The death record among the coal
miners during the year was greater
by 1.033 than in 1906, and is said to
have been the worst year in the his
tory of the coal-mining industry.
The figures do not represent the
full extent of the disasters, as reports
were not received from some states
having no mine inspectors.
West Virginia reported the heaviest
death rate In 190712.35 per 1,000 em
ployes, and this state also showed the
lowest production for each life lost
65,969 tons. New Mexico stood next
oa the list with a death rate of 11.45
and a production of 77,322 tons for
each life lost. Alabama was third
with a death rate of 7.2 per 1.000 and
a production of 92,535 tons for each
life lost. Missouri had the lowest
death rate, heading the roll of honor
with .95 and 499.742 tons of coal
mined for each life lost.
Statistics do not bear out the popu
lar idea that most mine disasters re
sult from explosions. Of the total
number reported during the last year
947 deaths and 343 injuries resulted
from gas and dust explosions and 201
deaths and 416 injuries were caused by
powder explosions.
The chief cause of death among
the miners, the report explains, was
in the White House
J like that which it replaced. Where
ivorv white greeted her eves last win
ter it will do so again this season.
Where the tint was cream or buff it
will still be cream or buff at the time
when she gives it up to Mrs. William
on March 4, 1909.
Now wouldn't it get on your nerves,
careful housekeeper, to know that you
could not do anything to change the
look of things; that you couldn't move
the chiffonier over into another cor
ner, or get rid of the curtain in the
dining-room that looked so good when
it first caroe to your view, but now
has grown almost hideous?
But that is Mrs. Roosevelt's fix pre
cisely. Congress last winter did not
make any allowance for new furniture,
carpets, rugs or hangings of any kind.
The allowance was merely for mainte
nance. That, of course, covers any
repairs that may be needed to furni
ture, hangings or draperies, but it
does not permit the introduction of
new things.
Every vase, every chair, every side
table and every picture is in exactly
the place it occupied when Mrs. Roose
velt went away. The same old
"throw" covers the piano, and the
Florentine mirror hangs at the very
angle it described when the family
went to Oyster Bay.
on the walls of that apartment during
the McKinley administration. She also
selected furniture less ornate than the
Louis XVI of the McKinley regime.
Col. Bromwell in submitting his es
timate this year for the probable cost
of maintenance and renewals at the
White House during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1910, set the figure at
$50,000, or $15,000 more than the cur
rent fiscal year.
That means that $15,000 will be at
the disposal of the new mistress next
summer. Inasmuch as the appropria
tion bills for the year beginning on
July 1 must all be passed before
March 4, a mere nod from the new
first lady of the land, if she has any
particular idea of how things should
be done, will be sufficient to get more
money for her, even if her husband
has not been inducted into office.
With $15,000 to start with, the new
first lady will be able to get new
dishes if she does not like the kind
used by the Roosevelt family, and
probably have the wall coverings in
several of the rooms changed. In a
pinch it might be made to cover the
cost of a few bits of furniture to take
the place of the ugly stuff in the east
room.
During the first year of a new fam
ily in the White House the cost of
new furniture and maintenance runs
up to about $1,000 a week.
ness of the Model Laundry Company
they have attempted, and in some in
stances have succeeded, in employing
drivers of the Model Laundry Com
pany, through whom a greater part of
the laundry business is controlled, and
have made threats to establishments
selling laundry supplies that they
would be boycotted in the future by
members of the exchange if they con
tinued to sell their goods to the com
plainant. For many months the laundries of
the national capital have attracted the
attention of the official element in the
city. Dinners seven nights a week
have made a great demand on Immac
ulate dress shirts, not to speak of the
other accessories of a statesman's
wardrobe. Last winter a Pennsyl
vania congressman introduced a bill
making it a penal offense or some
thing of that kind to tear shirts, etc.,
in the wash. This is the first time
the laundrymen have sought the fame
of the railroads, and the Standard Oil
Company in joining the trust magnate
class.
The Chinese washy-washees are
watching the affair with smiling coun
tenances. due to the falling of mine roofs and
coal. Such disasters caused 1,122
deaths and 2,141 injuries.
E. W. Parker, chief statistician of
the survey, asserts that much benefit
will result from the action of congress
in appropriating $150,000 to investi
gate mine disasters. He says one of
the greatest needs of the coal-mining
industry is the enforcement of mili
tary discipline in the operation of the
mines.
Mrs. W. J. Bryan's Ancestry.
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan was
the only child of John Baird, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry, a man of fine
literary tastes and devout religious
temperament. On the maternal side
Mrs. Bryan comes of English stock.
Her mother's father was Col. Darius
Dexter of Jamestown, N. T. Mother
of 'three children and grandmother of,
two at the age of 47, Mrs. Bryan is
still confidante and helper of her hus
band, though no longer the girlish fig
ure that accompanied her husband
everywhere on his whirlwind cam
paign of 1896.
In a Hurry.
Excited Gent Is that feller in what
wrote that article about Jed Smith?
Editor I believe not no, I know
he isn't; he just stepped out to get
his revolver loaded and get the nicks
ground out of his knife; take a seat;
he won't be gone long.
Excited Gent No, I'm in a hurry;
I may drop in later. Toledo Blade.
European Women Architects.
Mme. Michaelis, an architect, is now
constructing what will be when fin
ished the largest building in Mar
seilles. Great Britain has at least one
famous woman architect, Miss Elisa
beth McClelland.
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Within the last few years I have
enjoyed any amount of experience in
bear hunting, mainly throughout Fin
Jnish and Russian Karelen, where I
have accounted for over a score or
'more of these fascinating beasts. My
.hunting in Finland and Russia has al
ways been in winter time. The most
pleasurable hunting trip that I can
recall was one carried out on ski. The
starting-point for this, as for most of
my expeditions, was the little village
of Snojarvi, situated on the lake of
the same name, 14 Swedish (S4 Eng
lish) miles to the east of Wartsila,
in Finnish Karelen.
At dawn we left the village and
traversed the r ier part of the dis
tance in sledges. Then on ski we
Icame to a dense thicket wherein our
bear was surmised to have stowed
,himself away for his long winter's
!nap. It had been ascertained that he
had taken up his quarters on "Bratt"
(I. e., above ground, on a bed made
of moss and twigs with the trunk
of a fallen tree to roof him). Capt
Bjorkenstam and I volunteered to
make our way into the dense brush
wood and have a look round. I was
a few yards ahead of my frien.d, when
my eye was arrested by the sight of
some dark object protruding from
beneath the shadow of a pine. I
grasped the fact with some tumultu
ous thumping of the heart for I was
serving my novitiate that there
snuggled, unaware and unsuspecting,
the object of our call. I halted; our
visit was unexpected, unprepared for,
and the gentle soul might shyly de
camp. Hastily I took aim and fired.
My bear as hastily vanished, melting
away with phantasmal precipitancy
into space. I ran to the charmed spot
where he had lain and searched eager
ly for gory traces that might show
my bullet had not been misspent.
No trace was visible, but a plowed
furrow through the snow indicated
the direction he had taken. The long
fur ot his coat had been my undoing
and my bullet had flown too high. I
followed hotly in pursuit with Bro
berg at my heels, and a memorably
exciting race followed. At last, on
a more sparsely wooded tract, where
we could increase our speed con
siderably, we sighted the broad back
of the runaway some yards ahead of
us. A grand spectacle he presented,
this great black furry object, floun
dering with heavy tread through the
pure white snow, against the vast
shadowy background of stately pines
in their wintry dress. I opened fire;
the beast growled savagely, shook
himself painfully, yet doggedly pro
ceeded on his course of retreat; then
my second bullet laid him prone. His
chase had lasted just three-quarters
of an hour.
Another bear had lodged himself
for the winter in a cave made by
himself in the bowels of mother earth
and under cover of a huge prostrate
pine. After locating him, I gave my
foresters the order to halt, and pro
ceeded alone. Advancing cautiously,
so as not to disturb his slumbers, I
hesitated some moments over the fall
en tree trunk, for round and about
its roots I noticed the snow was dis
colored and of a brownish hue. I
guessed this to be the ventilator and
the entrance to the den. I announced
my coming by repeated shouts, but its
occupant made no sign. I thereupon
called one of my men and bade him
fell a young tree, and use it as a stake
to stir up the sluggard. A formidable
roar was the immediate result of
these tactics; out rushed the land
lord of the besieged premises with an
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of hospitable intentions of the warm
est description. I judged fit not to
await this welcome, and he straight
ened out on his own doorstep with a
bullet through his brain.
In Karelen the bear is yet regarded
as a noxious horror. The great black
haircd "Slagbjorn," or killing bear,
is still rampant there, and a couple
of winters back I was able to wreak
justifiable vengeance on some beasts
that had killed over a score of cows.
and nine horses. News had been
brought me that some of these rascalf
were hibernating on a small marsh
bound island. We found no difficult
in locating their lair, and I took uj
my post at the entrance to it, armec
only with my spear. I may explain
that a bear-spear consists of an ash
staff some two yards long and about a
couple of inches in diameter; there
is a blade of steel about 12 inches in
length, and the shaft is copper cased
as a prevention against the teeth of
Bruin. As soon as my gentleman ap
peared I tried to stick him in the
throat, but he parried adroitly and I
missed; I made another lunge and
succeeded in driving my spear point
through his breast. He started roar
ing furiously and snapped at my cop
per cased staff, then made an attempt
to strike at my arm with his huge
forepaw, so that I might drop my
weapon. There was a thrilling uncer
tainty as to the outcome; the power
ful brute hung on to my spear at the
one end, while I as grimly held on at
the other end. His bites went through
the copper plate and he started shred
ding the wood beneath. Strenuously I
checked his further advances, and
gradually, for his wounds began to
tell, his resistance weakened, and he
dropped at last over the aperture of
his den. I pulled out the spear, but so
much strength still remained in him
that he seized the blade and bit it
with a force that left deep indenta
tions in the steel. Herr Broberg then
finished him off with his own weapon.
This struggle from start to finish
covered five minutes.
I certainly have had, as have all
other big game hunters, one or two
narrow escapes, but so far my luck
has carried me through and Bruin has
never got the best of it. I once found
myself in tight quarters with an over
grown specimen of the Slagbjorn va
riety. He had chosen for his sleeping
place the center of an open tract
where, while the giant forest trees
had long since been burned down,
dense bushes had grown in their place
and these, snowladen and frost-stiffened,
obdurately impeded my way. It
was no easy task to advance noiseless
ly here, where every twig was a snare
to entangle my long ski. I stumbled,
fell and lay floundering in the deep
snow. Simultaneously my bear
loomed forth on the near horizon.
He might I considered have select
ed a more auspicous moment for his
manifestation. Prone as I was, for ski
arc infernal machines when speedy
extrication is desirable, I took careful
aim and fired; my shot went home,
and certainly my good genius direct
ed it, for had I missed or merely
wounded, my position would have
been almost unenviable.
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A Dungeon Made
Glorious
Jeremiah, the Prophet. Cheered by
a Heavenly Visitant.
BY THE "HIGHWAY AND BYWAV
PREACHER
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Scripture Authority Jeremiah 32:2,
33:1-3, 38:1-6.
SERMONETTE.
No prison has ever yet been
builti strong enough and tight
enough to keep the Divine pres
ence from- penetrating its inner
most recesses and holding com
munion and fellowship with the
one whose devotion to the cause
of righteousness has cast him
therein.
Jeremiah is only one of
myriads who through the ages
have found the dungeon made
glorious with the Divine pres
ence. Joseph's prison became God's
schoolroom, where daily he
drilled the young Hebrew for
the great place he was to fill.
The lion's den becomes for Dan
iel the Divine reception hall,
the fiery furnace proves the
trysting place where the faithful
three meet and talk and walk
with their God. Paul found in
the inner prison at Philippi the
joy and harmony of heavenly
songs whose vibrations shook
the prison walls, and brought
the jailer to his knees a peni
tent. From Paul's prison there
came-the richest and best of his
writings. It was a Bunyan in
prison who gave to the world
that classic, "Pilgrim's Prog
ress." The darkest, most foul place
on earth may become the bright
est and sweetest place if faith
reaches up and claims that
heavenly companionship which
it is the privilege of every one to
enjoy.
The soul can always rise above
the physical condition. "Fear
not them which kill the body, but
are not able to kill the soul; but
rather fear him which is able
to destroy both soul and body in
hell." The words of Jesus.
How sublimely he exemplified
this teaching, and how ready he
is to help his disciples to live
above the mere physical and to
fear not man, but God.
Truth always has and always
will thrive on persecution. The
effc-rt to suppress the prophet
Jeremiah and to discredit his
message served but to advertise
him to the nation and to give
added force to his message. In
the dungeon Jeremiah obtained
new revelation from God so that
not only was his personal ex
perience enriched, but his min
istry to the nation was strength
ened. Surely the wrath of man
does work to the praise of God.
THE STORY.
HE WHO is fearless to speak the
truth is certain to bring upon him
self the harsh judgment of others who
may choose to believe a lie. But one
course was open to Jeremiah to-whom
God had revealed his plan concerning
the certainty of judgment upon Jeru
salem. He must speak, and speak the
truth, however unpopular and unwel
come that truth might be.
Surely it could not appear very
loyal to his king and the city in which
he dwelt to counsel submission to the
king of Babylon, and yet he knew
as God had revealed it to him that
resistance were useless and that the
judgment of God spoken against the
nation because of its idolatry and sin
could not be averted. And because
the prophet feared God rather than
men, and because he must obey him
and speak his message all through
Jerusalem, he cried, saying:
"Thus saith the Lord, He that re
maineth in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine and by the pes
tilence: but he that goeth forth to the
Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have
his life for a prey, and shall live.
Thus saith the Lord, This city shall
surely be given into the hand of the
king of Babylon's army, which shall
take it."
What a sth that message caused.
Scarcely had Jeremiah finished de
livering his proclamation in the
market place in Jerusalem, ere the
princes had come from the presence
of the king with authority to seize
him and do with him as they de
sired.
Now, the king feared the prophet
exceedingly, and could never before
be persuaded to lay violent hands
upon him, though he had shut him up
in the court of the prison on various
occasions. But on this day the
princes had come in such a rage that
he could not resist their demands:
"Let this man be put to death,"
they cried; "for thus he weakeneth
the hands of the men of war that re
main in this city, and the bands of
all the people, in speaking such words
junto them: for this man seeketh not
the welfare of this people, but the
hurt."
And having obtained the consent of
the king, they rushed forth to seize
the person of the prophet, fully de
termined upon killing him. But
when they had come upon him they
feared to do so because of the people,
who, wasted by disease and lack of
food, were now in great distress, and
the hope of deliverance from their
suffering held out by the prophet
seemed good to them.
Instead, therefore, of killing him,
the princes drew him to the prison of
Malchlah, which was a terrible dun
geon, into whose depths the light
was unable to penetrate. Into this
place then Jeremiah was cast, and
into the thick, filthy mire of the bot
tom of the pit the feet of the prophet
sank until he could neither move this
way nor that He was in great dan
ger of losing his balance and becom
ing submerged in the soft, oozy
ground. To prevent this, he worked
his way slowly and painfully to the
side of the pit, and, bracing his body
In a slight niche in the walls, ke
waited.
He had been placed there to mis
erably rsrish, he knew. He had heard
of the noisome place and had known
of many desperate criminals who had
passed days in the depths of the great
pit. But none had ever been cast
into the pit as he had been without a
sustaining rope to hold upon and pre
vent slipping down, down, into the
miry depths and to death. He looked
up 'to see if he could discover any
glimmer of light that told of sunlight
above, but could see only the same
black darkness above as pressed in
about .him. He .listened for some
sound, but only the loud beating of
his heart could be heard in the death
like stillness.
"I shall die here," he thought "And
then I shall be with God," he added.
The thought seemed to cheer him.
and he began to chant one of the
Psalms' he had learned to love so
well.
"Out of the depths have I cried unto
thee, O Lord."
He paused. Had the Psalmist, too,
been cast into the depths of some hor
rible pit to die? And he wondered:
"Did God hear and answer?"
As though by way of answer there
floated in around him a light whose
refulgence transformed the noisome
pit into a place of heavenly glory,
and he heard his own name spoken,
and he knew that God was with him.
Ah, the blessed joy of that moment
For ten times the suffering and dis
tress which he was enduring he would
not have missed that blessed expe
rience. There was a new joy and
sweetness to him in -the thought that
he belonged to God and that no harm
could come to him save that which
God was willing to permit, and which
would be for his honor and glory.
And while God was visiting and
cheering Jeremiah in the foul dun
geon, he was sending his messengers
to the rescue of the prophet.
While Jeremiah was still lost in the
contemplation of the vision God had
given him he heard his name called,
and instantly recognized the voice of
Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian eunuch
who served in the king's house, and
who was his faithful friend.
"Put now these old cast clouts and
rotten rags under thine armholes
under the cords."
Quickly the prophet obeyed, and
soon felt himself being drawn from
the depths of the mire and on up, up,
up, until the blinding light of day
burst in upon his vision.
Never could he forget that experi
ence in the dungeon, and later as the
spirit of God moved upon him, he
wrote: "Mine enemies chased me sore,
like a bird, without cause. They have
cut off my life in the dungeon, and
cast a stone upon me. Waters flowed
over mine head; then I said I am cut
off. I called upon thy name, O Lord,
out of the low dungeon. Thou hast
heard my voice; hide not thine ear at
my breathing, at my cry. Thou drew
est near in the day that I called upon
thee. Thou saidst, Fear not. O Lord,
thou hast pleaded the cause of my
soul; thou hast redeemed my life."
PRAYED TO STATUE OF LIBERTY.
Chinese Crew, Amazed by Size of
"Deity," Burn Incense and Chant.
When the 37 members of the Chi
nese crew of the Braemer, a tramp
steamship, found themselves under the
shadow of the Statue of Liberty the
other day at sunrise they rushed pell
mell below decks, returned presently
in solemn state and while their braids
wiggled in the wind kowtowed and
burned incense before the giant figure,
ft was the biggest idol they had ever
seen, they declared afterward, and
they felt they owed it reverence de
spite the fact that it was some thou
sands of miles from home and was
somewhat different from the deities
they had been accustomed to see
ing. Capt. L. S. Saxby and the first offi
cer, W. W. Clark,' of the Braemar,
which left Hongkong on July 3, were
surprised, says the New York Herald,
on looking for their crew to find that
not one of the Chinese sailors re
mained on deck. The haze had just
lifted from the bay and the great
statue stood revealed in all its grand
eur. Hi Wen, interpreter for the
crew, explained to the captain that a
few minutes previously the celestials
had dropped everything and rushed
below deck as if all the devils of
northern China were after them. They
cast back glances at the towering fig
ure of Liberty.
While Hi Wen was explaining this
hysterical disappearance to the cap
tain the 37 Chinamen passed through
the forecastle gangway like a funeral
procession, each carrying joss sticks
and turning his eyes toward heaven.
All ranged themselves along the deck
under the shadow of the Goddess of
Liberty. There they stood for five
minutes, chanting a celestial prayer
and bowing with true oriental dignity.
"Chinamen no sabe Clist," said Hi
Wen. "Him man allee same you and
we; walkee 'round. Him big American
joss. Him good."
When the sailors had paid their re
spects to the statue they returned to
their work, but at intervals during the
day they looked with awe at the gi
gantic figure. They had never come
to America before, and they marveled.
HI Wen said, what they would find in
land when they encountered -such a
wonder at the mere threshold of the
country.
Tulip Soup.
"What makes this vegetable soup
taste so different r asked the young
husband.
"Only the leeks you sent home," re
plied the bride. "You remember yoa
said you were going to order leeks."
"I didn't order any leeks." growled
the husband, but he finished his bowl
of soup rather than disappoint her.
That afternon he stopped at the
grocery store.
"How did you come to send leeks up
to my house this morning?" he de
manded. "I didn't order them."
"Great Scott! Did you eat them?"
exclaimed the grocer.
"Sure, we ate them."
"O, for land's sake. They were Mrs.
Jackson's tulip bulbs. Sha left them
on the counter and they got into your
basket by mistake." Detroit Free
Press.'
PUTTING IT UP TO BILL IE.
Lsglcal Reason Why He Should Be
the One to Ask Favor.
The wagons of the "greatest show
on earth" passed up the avenue at
daybreak. Their incessant rumble
soon awakened ten-year-old Blllle and
his five-year-old brother, Robert Theh
mother feigned sleep as the two white
robed figures crept past her bed into
the hall, on the way to investigate.
Robert struggled manfully with the
unaccustomed task of putting on his
clothes. "Wait 'for me, Blllle," his
mother heard him beg. "You'll get
ahead of me."
"Get mother to help you," counseled
Billle, who was having troubles of his
own.
Mother started to the rescue, and
then paused as 'she heard the voice
of her younger, guarded but anxious
and Insistent:
"You ask her, Billle. You've known
her longer than I have." Everybody's
Magazine.
NOT THE RIGHT MAN.
The Rejected And will nothing
make you change your mind?
She M'yes. another man might
GIRL WAS DELIRIOUS
With Fearful Eczema Pain, Heat,
and Tingling Were Excruciating
Cuttcura Acted Like Magic.
"An eruption broke out on my
daughter's chest I took her to a
doctor, and he pronounced it to be
eczema of a very bad form. Ke treated
her, but the disease spread to her back,
and then the whole of her head was'
affected, and all her hair had to be cut
off. The pain she suffered was excru
ciating, and with that and the heat
and tingling her life was almost un
bearable. Occasionally she was deliri
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sleep for many nights. The second
doctor we tried afforded her just as
little relief as the first. Then I pur
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Rival Dignities.
An Englishman, fond of Boasting
of his ancestry, took a coin from his
pocket and, pointing to the bead en
graved on it, said: "My groat-greatgrandfather
was made a lord by the
king whose picture you see on this
shilling."
"What a coincidence!" said his
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was made an angel by the
Indian whose picture you see on this
cent" Ladies' Home Journal.
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"What's that?"
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