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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-13
bradley, the Headstrong.
BY FRANK PRATT.

isn't 1t queer how small the world is,
men, as they steered each other down the
aisle of the smoker, while the car seemed
TO be doing it's best to jolt them both over
the shoulders of other passengers in the
seats-''I m always running into somebody
l haven't seen for a long time Now. who
would have thought of meeting you coming
into this smoker--in this section of the
country?'
Yes said the taler-he with the new
tweed travelling cap-''but then the world
like up apart. Let's sit down here-apart
for years How many years is it?"
Must be a good ten. l should say said
the first speaker. a dark, wiry man. with
small side whskers.
quite that hadn't heard of you for
quite long while when Scobel told me
about that desperate love affair of yours
and that was"
"Ha. ha.-YeS, that was more than four
years ago. Did Scobel ever tell you the
end of that? No? Got a cigar" The small
man wriggled his neck with an air OF COM
plete Self-SatiSfactiOn. ''Well I don't mind
telling you, knowing that it won't go any
farther, of course
'Of course, that's understood
Il don't mind telling you that / always
thought myself well out of that affair-yes.
You see, she went away from Galena one
summer to spend some time at small
watering place where aunt of hers was
staying. OF course, we kept up correspond
ence-very sweet and all that. you know
but all of sudden the letters stopped.
Well, I didn't know what to make of that.
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She Knew the Symptoms,

Isl" SAID the farmers wife. as her
needles were deftly rounding the heel Of
a stocking, "Rube'S in love-
'Nuthin of the kind" exclaimed the old
gentleman, as he damned his spectacles to
the top of his bald head. "Rube's only a
big. awk'ard, overgrown boy. What are
you talkin' bout, Hannah? Don't seem
morn a year sence he began wearin' 'spen-
ders. He haint no more'n love than l am
that is, 1 mean, he hain't dom no more
courtin' or thinkin' bout gittin' married. -
Isl, yor dllus was a KNOWN man bout
polertcs, farmin judgin' of stock, pckin'
out q good school teacher fur the districk
and all sich, but you must let a woman
alone fur KNOWN when young peoples in
love. Rubes had the signs fur sever'l
months. He goes round seem nuthin',
don't eat good. looks sleepy in the morn
ms, furgits what he was goin to do mex
and don't take interest in things bout the
place Don't you notice that he's allus
maxim some excuse fur goln' down to the
village, and that three miles away?"
He illus has a erran He went fur some
papers an env lopes this time That's hin,
comm in now
RUDE" said the mother innocently
could you let me have a couple of sheets
Of that paper fur to write some recipes
| on?'
Rube blushed and tried to put on not
| guilty look as he declared that he haG
| forgotten the stationery.
whats that?" snorted the old gentle
man, walk six miles a purpose to gil
| somethin you forgot? Don't think you kin
fool your parents. boy. You are"
But Rube fell upstairs and the good old
lady laughed happily, without even saying;
Il told you so''-Detroit Free Press.
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An Anril Fool.

mo person living can play another April
fool joke on me with impunity." puffed
Fatluy as he stamped about his office This
is the last year that I'm open to any such
trickery. I'm going to let other people
alone and they've got to 'reciprocate or TAX,
the consequences.
After Fatty had said things rapidly for a
few moments some one ventured to ASK
him what had happened.
20 l went to one of those parties last
evening where they think it's funny to put
up Jobs on you and play jokes you just
because it's All-Fools' day. 1 chewed on
carames stuffed with cotton took punch
that had nothing stronger in it than red
rain water had cake sugared with salt
found the sleeves of my overcoat sewed up
and opened my umbrella on leaving only t
be suffocated with an avalanche of corn
starch. Great joke wasn't it," shouted
Flatly as everybody roared.
"This morning 1 oversight and had tC
race for the street car"
There was another general Taught at the
thought of F'latly running.
Il just made it, and right ahead of me a
stylish young lady entered the car and we
naturally sat down side by side because
there were only two seats left. hen [ dis
covered that. in my hurry, l had forgotten
to put on gloves. Thinking it better form
to don them there than be without them
L got them out of my pocket. AS l extended
my hand upward there was a rivulet of rice
from every finger of the glove 1t ran ovel
me and into her lap, while all the fool pas.
sengers laughed and that sap-headed Joke
ly walked right up and congratulated me
I tried to explain for the benefit of the lady
but no one would listen. She simply shriv-
eled me with a look, and asked some man
across the isle to change seats with her"
Detroit Free Press.
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siderable sit down, please. What was it
that interested you So?"
The question was addressed to both ana
in manner which plainly showed that these
two naughty boys were to be investigated
under the searchlight of discioli1a. Trappes
was silent, only smiling pleasantly.
"Oh. nothing, dear" said the iron-willed
Bradley. with a look at Trappes that might
have meant either appeal or reproach.
Trappes had not yet obeyed the order to
sit down. He was standing with one hand
on the back of Bradley's chair.
Mrs. Bradley he said. I'm afraid l
must hurry off now to look after some
matters back here-have to change cars at
indianapolis. you know-we are nearly
there-see you later
And Trappes really seemed to anticipat e
much pleasure from the future meeting. for
he was smiling unmistaka BILE enjoyment as
he moved away.
Bradley sat silent while the sensible wo-
man discoursed, her discourse beginning
when I say thing l mean it, You
should follow the same maxim, Demetrius.''
A few minutes later this discourse was In
terrupted by the cry. pois-change
cars for the Vandalia." At which Bradley
arose mechanically
sit STILL Demetrius,' said his wife. eve
don't change here"
Just then a voice behind the culprit' s
chair said: Isn't this Mr. Bradley?' and
he turned to face remarkably pretty,
flushed, smiling girl
IT'S such long time since we met, isn't
it," and she held out her hand
"Eloise!' gasped Bradley. II beg your
pardon-Miss Jennings
Mrs. Trappes. now" she laughed. Then
as the tall man with the tweed cap came
up behind her she added Let me intro
duce Mr.. Trappes-the man on the limb!
oh" Bradley stammered. so pleased
to meet you. Mr.. Jennings-Mrs. Eloise."
GLAD to meet Mrs. Elweese," said the
sensible Mrs. Bradley, severely acknOw-
Lodging pleasant bow from the younger
woman.
"Al out for the Vandaia!' the conduc-
tor shouted.
You don't get out here, Demetrius."
Mrs. Bradley repeated.
"How-hOw long have you been mar
ried?" Bradley asked, slowly settling into
his chair
Just three weeks said the young bride
$50 glad to have met you, Mrs Bradley
Your husband is quite an old friend Of
mine. You must keep a firm hand on him;
he's dreadfully headstrong. l wish l had
time to tell you. Goodbye
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Getting His Deserts.

There was big, cOarse-voiced fellow
with red face, superfluity of beef about
his head and an Unsuitable desire to hear
himself talk, that was nicely come up with
in barber shop the other day. He was
f1ashily dressed and seemed aggrieved tina
every man employed in the place did not
rush to help him get ready for the chair
He had assistance in having himself brought
down to condition for being shaved declin-
ing to handle anything from his hat to his
collar and necktie.
While being lathered and shaved he told
boisterously and profanely about the de-
generacy of the times Men who had to earn
their living didn't know their places and
acted as though they were just as good as
those who hired them. The greatest mis-
take this country had ever made was when
1t did away with slavery instead Of ex-
tending 1t to every state and territory in
the union.
After he had insisted upon half dozen
additions and extra touches from the knight
of the strop, the big man stepped from the
chair and produced a fat pOcketbook while
still holding forth in his offensive vein
"Nevah mine dat. said the proprietor
who had known life on the plantation In
the old days. I'VE don make no cha &c
TO- takin de bristles off of animals like
you
The bully was about to break loose like
an unheralded cyclone of destruction. bu,
he saw a half dozen BARRIERS about him
each one whetting a razor on the palm OF
his hand and looking solemn.
"HoW do you make money at that price,
he asked with q sickly grin.
we make 1t up often gemen, sah." and
1t was wonderful to see how soon the big
man was dressed and away
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this man-gratitude, and all that. And the
end of it VAS
You broke it off?'
oh. of course, the lady must always have
that privilege" said Bradley. with courtly
smile. BUTT ended there"
And you never married at all, did you,
Bradley?"
"I?' said Bradley. suddenly pulling cut
his watch. oh yes-by lingo. l mist be
getting back You must let me introduce
you to my wife-she's a splendid woman--a
most sensible woman. Come on
Trappes had not quite finished his Cigar;
neither, for that matter. had Bradley. See
ing his friends sudden enthusiasm how
ever, to present him-Trappes to Mrs. Brad
ley, Trappes could not in honor appcic 10
value the introduction at less than the VOL tn
of a half-smoked cigar. They rose, and
the smaller man almost dragged the bigger
into the parlor-car.
The two had no sooner passed through
the vestibule and closed the door behind
them than q very distinct voice, of low
register, said: Here, where are you going
to? Is this what you call five minutes,
Demetrius Bradley?'
"Oh. That you. dear?' said Bradley IN
some confusion. Yes. dear. Let me intro
duce-I met a friend in the smoker-Mr.
Trappes."
Trappes bowed as gravely as he could.
"Delighted to meet Mrs. Bradley" he
said. Your husband inte.n5tel Inc so in
his conversation, Mrs. Bradley, that we
hardly knew how time was Aging.
Men seldom do when they are INDUCING
in tobacco" And Mrs. Bradley drew her
self up to her full height, which was con-
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Plenty to DO.

II thought you told me- Wilson, that
you intended to do business Just the same
after you had moved into the suburbs. l
know you have plenty, but l always
thought you one Of those men who insist
upon dying in the harness.
You were right about it, my old friend.
I believed that it would be impossible for
me to avoid spending at least two or three
hours day on change. but my time is
completely taken up and 1 haven't looked
at a market report for a MONTH"
"Wouldn't believe it if anyone else told
me. How do you eXist?"
m having young trees set out, getting
a garden ready, experimenting the build
ing of a barn, watching them pave the
street and having continued kick with
the assessors, who seem to think that nv
property is worth all l paid for IT,
you'll soon have all that off your hands
I was afraid you might have left us per-
manently.'
''Oh. I've only commenced. I have a Jer-
sey COW, a pointer pup, a tandem. two
Berkshire pigs and kodak besides
Never mind. The COW. the pup and the
kodak are enough. I'll just tell the boys
that it's all off, far as trade with you
is concerned. You have three fads that will
keep you buster than coon in bee tree
Detroit Free Press.
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SECRECY NECESSARY.
1t Was the Only Thing Lacking For q
Successful Divorce Case

He entered the lawyers office sideways
and seated himself on the edge of a chair
with his knees together and his feet wide
apart. He held his hat in his hand. and oc-
casonally glanced suspiciously and with
lady who was hammerng the keys Of q
typewriter near by.
What can l do fer you?" asked the at
torney.
DO you-do you get divorces for people?''
he asked
Sometimes" said the lawyer. do you
want One?'
'Sh-sh-sh." With this cautionary as.
pirate, the little man drew close to the
lawyers desk and nodded his head slowly.
Can | get one?" he asked.
That depends" said the lawyer. Il
could not answer until you tell me what
the circumstances and what evidence
you have"
'Sh-sh-sh," again cautinned the little
man. Can l get divorce without her
finding it out until 1t is all over?''
Not in this state" said the lawyer, land
nowhere else legally. Do you know where
she is?"
''Sh-sh-sh." he cautioned again. eyes, /
know where she is. =
Then she will certainly have to be nOti-
fed when the suit is commenced"
.Then that settles it,. said the little man.
eff she knew that 1 had even been to see
YOU she would thrash the FIFE out of me.
and if / began suit for divorce and she
found it out there would be no living with
her Goodbye. The game is off. Sh-sh-
sh.'-New York Journal.
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down as a liar II them wigglers hadn't
churned that milk as slick as a whistle, an
war cruisin' round on a lump NV butter
as big as walnut War Peter put out by
tbs? Not bit. He sold the butter, deliv-
cred the milk ter his customers, an didn't
90 thing ter them wigglers but take the
null outfit home an made 'em do his churn-
in after that. Some men would a bin sat
lsfed with this. but not Peter. The very
next thing he does is ter write a piece fer
one NV them big magazines called Recent
Progress In Science. A Paper Shown the
Advantage Nv Utilizin' the Power NV the
W1gglus Narrativus in the Produckshun NV
country Butter, er somethin' like that an
Diame my hide eff the fool editor didn't give
MIN hundred dollars fer It, Peter allus
mad way NV lcOkin' out fer number one
an When his wife died he took her ter the
church in his milk wagon as he war goin
ter deliver milk. jist ter save expenses, an
When they war goin' ter ring the bell he sed
they better not. as it might sour his milk
yes, sir. that's what he did When he
died 1t war found that he'd put it in his
Will that % cents adnisshun was ter be
charged at his funeral, but some lowed that
wasn't so mean, he let children come at
half price. It's strange how some people
want the earth. New York Journal
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BABES THROWN OUT TO DIE.
Chinese Method of Getting Rid of
Girls.

John F. Fraser, s. Edward Lunn and
Francis H. Lowe, three Englishmen, who
are cycling around the world, have written
an interesting letter from Chaotungfu, a
city of Western Central China, to the North
China Daily News at Shanghai. This letter
gives a most interesting description of that
great city, and tells of it's horrors. The
letter says:
'One afternoon we stroled around the
summit of the walls. They about Is
feet wide. and would provide admira bic
cycling track. We halted near the principal
gate to watch the heterogeneous ncomings
and outgongs. 1t noisy. busy scene
Within five minutes $40 persons went through
the gate.
AT regular intervals around the wall
were projections with fetid pits of rubbish
at their base Here the bodies of hundreds
of infants were thrown. A Chinese only
counts his sons. Girls are unnecessary in
cumbrances. And Chaotungfu is a dis
mally poor city, and there is no society for
the prevention of cruelty to children, quite
IS per cent Of the daughters born are done
to death. Girl babies from few days old
to years of age are pitched over the ram
parts. They are not always killed first. The
parish dogs may often be seen gne.wing the
arm of an infant yet alive. The missionaries
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-13

told us 1t Is no infrequent thing to find two
or three baby corpses in the course Of an
afternoons stroll.
"As there are warehouses; the bodies
of the poor are also thrown outside the city.
The wolves and the hyeras come down in
the night. and when day breaks there is no
trace left of the unfortunate dead Good
Samaritanism Is a thing not practiced in
ChaOtungfu. Should a man fall sick by the
roadside, no one comes to succor him. If
he dies in your house you are put to the
expense of burying him. Therefore the best
thing to do is to leave him alone and let the
wild animals do their work
"Chaotungfu is indeed notorious for it's
inhumanity. The punishments inflicted for
crime are horribly barbarous Not long
ago a woman guilty of infidelity was strung
up by the neck, with her toes just touching
the ground. There she hung till death end
ed her misery. A murderer was crucified
on one of the city gates. red hot nails being
hammered through the wrists. The wretch
tried to shorten the agony by battering his
head against the woodwork So the
authorities provided pillow to prevent
anything of the kind. 1t took four doys for
him to die.
But it is for providing the whole of
western China with it's slave girls that
Chatoungfu is famOusly Infamous The ma
jority of the girls saved from pitching over
the city wall are kept for the purpose of
sale. There are merchants in the business
who make a large profit by taking up
groups of little girls to Yunnanseng. Poor
people-who can not afford the necessary
wedding gifts when their son marries-will
purchase a child of three or four years and
keep her till she is of marriageable age,
Most of these Chaotungfu girls are sold for
servants in the yamens Many, however,
are sold into cOncubinage.
A comon ordinary drudge of girl is sold
for about 5 shillings. A pretty, healthy
girl will. may be, fetch couple Of pounds.
rarely more. But this selling into bondage
Is by no means regarded as a degradation.
A girl whose young years have been spent
amid grinding poverty regards 1t rather as
a considerable step up in life when she be-
comes the property Of a mandarin's wife
who clothes her we'll and feeds her.
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A MEAN MAN.
He Didn't Use Il Warti fora Collar But
ton, He Was Worse.

'Speallin' NV mean men, observed the
man from Coyote Prairie, 'allus mecks me
think NV Peter Funkler who used to run a
milk wagon over ter High Hoss'
Sold chalk and water for milk, did he"'
remarked a listener.
Hardly. Ketch Peter spendin' money fer
chalk. But water. Well, yes, a few. he
used ter water his milk tull we could see
the bottom Nv the cans. an when his GUS
toners complained at it bein so thin he sed
it war a new kind NV transparent milk
which war d perty transparent lie-but Peter
had way meckin' SIGH things go.
Stingy. Why. sir, he would actually shed
tears ter see them cows wv his eat, an he
used ter wait tull dark ter feed 'em SO they
couldn't see the sawdust in the chop feed.
He used ter water his milk out the
rain bar'ls, an one mornin he chucked in
about a millyun wiggletails without KNOWN
it. When he got ter town We can put me
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The Tfappists

obtained their rules from it. The Tfappists
are an offshOot of the order.
The river Jordan makes the greatest descent
In the shortest distance of almost any stream.
During it's course Of 12O miles 1t has q falls
and descends 200 feet.