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went to little white pot from which
he filled the box and then collected the
nickel.
A little later came a bearfOOt boy.
He wanted a dimes worth of bear fat.
The clerk went to the same pot and
silled another tin box with the same
white stuff.
The next boy wanted 10 cents worth
of mosquito fat.
81 want to stop the mosquitoes bit
ing me- he said.
For the third time the drug clerk
tackled the same white pot and re-
marked to his customer:
-'Y ou're getting lot for 10 cents. It's
awful hard work catching the mosqui-
toes and getting the fat out of EN-
Then came a young man with his
arm tied up.
Il want quarters worth of nanny
goats grease"
Once more the same pot was scraped,
and when the quarter had been duly
collected, the druggist sang out to the
apprentice:
"Jim, run over to the butcher shop
for 10 cents worth of lard l want to
make my supper and the pots empty"
"Tricks?" he added. "Oh, no. If
didn't sell the stuff some other drug
gist would. Good hogs lard dosen't hurt
anything, and the faith of the patients
in their bears grease and snake oil will
do the rest detroit Free Press.
The Philadelphia Record says: "Col-
onel William A. HemphiIl, publisher of
the Atlanta Constitution and conspic-
uouS figure among the survivors of
Pickett's division, now in this city has
an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes for
use at social gatherings. In one of his
speeches he compares the recent con-
tempt of the Spaniards for the fighting
qualities of the Americans with a sim
liar feeling entertained at the outbreak
Of the civil war by the rebels for the
Yankees. He tells of Colonel Powell
who went through Alabama recruiting
soldiers, whom he cheered by declaring
that they could whip the Yankees with
pOpguns. After the war Powell ran
for ongress, and while speaking at a
meeting he was interrupted by an old
soldier with the question: Colonel,
were you not down here making speech
es before the war; Yes, SIR replied
the colonel. Didn't you say we could
whip the Yankees with popguns:' The
speaker was stumped for moment, but
recovered his wits in time to reply: 4
did, sir, but d--m them they wouldn't
fight us that way"
When Alexander Dumas, the young
er, was just out of college his father
took him on hunting trip. They put
up at farmhouse and occupied two
little bedrooms which opened into each
other. In the middle of the night the
son was awakened and saw his father
walking back and forth.
What are you doing asked the boy.
-'1 on see l am walking"
@'Y ou are sick ?"
Yes, I am in great pain, but l am
used to it. l have it every night"
''Is there nothing to cure it ?"
at is incurable
But can't it be relieved? ?"
"NO; when it takes NE get up and
walk. If it is very bad, l go to read
ing"
"And when it is insupportable?
Il go to work
1t was true; and in later years his
son often saw him sitting at his desk
writing.
GLOW can you work always?" some
one asked him upon an occasion.
Il have nothing else to do" he an
swered.- Pittsburg Dispatch.
O%O
Hardly.-"Cabman Sitting in the
street amid the ruins of his cab and
horse, to driver of the bus which oc.
casioned the -"You-.--
-,,-,M !!!!--!!.lv'
Constable Ito the orator. "Now
now! You mustn't call him such
names as that
Cabman Gin frenzy)-"Aim wot
smashed me cab and killed mo 'orse
an left me elpless cripple! Wot the
do you expect me to call ina
'owlin hangel ?"-Judy.