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The Penn's Grove record., 1908-02-14
FEUD|s7 KILLED
Judge James Hargis, of Kentucky,
Shot by Son.
Wife of Victim Telegraphs From
jackson to Louisville For an
Expensive Coffin He Bought.

Jackson, Ky:-Judge James Har-
gis, for years one of the central fig
ures in the Hargis-C ockrill feud, was
murdered in his own store by his W
son, Beacher.
Judge Hargis was SHOT five times.
The son., who was crazy drunk, is
only twenty-one years old. He is the
only son, the other child of judge
Hargls being a daughter, Evelyn, who
was married only a month ago to DR..
Hogg, a prosperous physician of this
town.
Beacher Hargis has been unruly
Tor several years and has frequently
run away from home. He was re-
Gently arrested for vagrancy in Gin
clnnatl and his mother brought him
back to Jackson.
Several nights before Beacher Har-
Eis and his father had a dispute. and
Judge Hargis restrained the boy from
doing him violence by superior
strength. About 8 o'clock in the af-
ternoon he walked into his fathers
store and when the father u~pbraided
him for drinking he ran behind a
counter and getting a revolver began
firing at his father. The first shot
struck Judge Hargis in the breast
just under the left nipple and he fell.
The boy then a toward him, firing
as he approached until he had fred
five shots.
In the store were James Brophy.
and two women. Brophy grappled
with the boy after he had emptied his
revolver, and in a few minutes Off
GERS arrived and he was taken to Jail,
where he is a raving maniac.
Besides the bullet in the breast
which made the death wound, three
bullets entered his abdomen and one
his left leg. The boy when he began
shooting threw his overcoat over his
fathers face.
Judge Hargis was County Judge
for many years, had made many
friends and was a political power.
The Cockrills, Cardwells and Mar
cuses stood in his way. Marcus, a
young attorney, headed a contest to
the election of Hargis and Ed. Gala
han, which started the Hargis-Cock-
rill feud, which almost bankrupted
Hargis, and vas blamed for many
killings.
Judge Hargis inspected the stock
OF the National Casket Company at
Louisville, recently, and asked to be
shownethe most elaborate collins the
company had in stock. Nothing
suited him, and he finally ordered
n along his own ideas, costing
$500.
The following telegram was sent to
the company:
Express to-day coffin selected by
James Hargis, as he is dead.
MRS. JUDGE JAMES HARGIS."
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On the Contrary.

Eph Green-"Ah desires to pur-
chase all razzer."
Clerk-"Safety?"
Eph Green-"No, sab; dis am TO-
social usage. "-Harper's Weekly
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new JERSEY STATE NEWS
Resorts Push Waterway,

The Mayors League of New Jersey
Seashore Resorts, which was organ
lied several years ago, and has since
worked assiduously for the benefit
of the various resorts, was enter
tanned by the Board of Trade, of
Wildwood, and the Councils of the
boroughs of Wildwood, Anglesea and
Holly Beach. The occasion was the
regular yearly meeting of the league.
A banquet was served at the house Of
the Holly Beach Yacht Club, at Wild
wood Crest, and Mayor Stoy, of At
lantic City, the president, was toast
master. Many spirited addresses
were made recounting the accomplish
ments of the league and suggesting
new schemes for the advancement
and betterment of the resorts. The
projected inside waterway or channel
from Cape May to Sandy Hook, con-
Meeting all the coast resorts along
the route and providing a safe inside
course for pleasure craft and light
commercial traffic, was discussed, and
all present pledged continued interest
and influence for it's accomplishment.
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20,oo5.s1 FOR FALSE HINT.
Peale, Peacock & Kerr Win Their
Suit Aaginst Boston Financier.

Boston.-A verdict of S20,OO5.S1
against John NJ. Graham, president
of the International Trust Company,
was returned by a jury in the United
States Circuit Court in an action
brought by Peale, Peacock & Kerr, a
New York coal company, to recover
100000 from President Graham for
alleged false and fraudulent repre-
sensations regarding the financial
condition of the Thomas & Pike Coal
Company, of Boston, which went into
bankruptcy in May, 1906.
The New York firm alleged that, as
a result of representation by Presi-
dent Graham, it delayed to press it's
claim for ~$35,505.S1 against the Tho
mas & Pike Coal Company. 1t also
declared that the International Trust
Company was enabled by said delay
to recover full payment of claims
against the Thomas & Pike Coal Com
pany amounting to $6S,500.
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SUICIDE FEARED INSANITY
Doctor, in Dread of Homicidal
Mania, Killed Himself.
Physician, Told That He Was Going
Mad, Took Poison-Left Letters
to Wife and Children.

Utica, N. Y.-The details of the
suicide in Malone a few days ago OF
DR.. Stacy Dwight Williamson, a lead.
ing physician of that community, re.
veal that, prompted by expert medi.
cal opinion that he was rapidly de-
Veloping homicidal insanity and that
Ill an ~upguarded moment he might
attack his two small children or his
beautiful young wife, the doctor
made his will, dressed himself for
the grave and swallowed a quantity
OF morphine, which caused his death.
DR.. Williamson had a very lucra-
tive practice, was a leader in golf and
automobile circles in Malone and
with his wife moved in exclusive So
aal circles. He was of a jovial dispo-
sltlon until a year ago, when he was
seized with a fit of melancholy and
confded to his wife that his mother
and another relative had died of hon.
lcldal insanity and expressed the fear
that he, too, would meet such a fate.
Last summer lie appeared to shake
Off his melancholy spell, golf, auto
ing and outdoor sports and a tour of
camp service with a National Guard
company accomplishing a great deal
toward this end.
This winter, however, he devel-
oped another moody spell, and two
weeks ago informed his wife that he
was going to consult two of the ply
sicians at the Ogdensburg State Hos
pital with a view to ascertaining
whether Or not he was doomed to in
sanity. Leaving his practice in the
care of another Malone physician DR..
Williamson took a morning train over
to Ogd~ensburg, and in the evening
he returned with a message that
shattered hope in his household. His
medical friends at the Ogdensburg
State Hospital had informed him af-
ter a careful examination that his
worst fears would eventually be real
lied and that he was liable to become
violently insane without q moments
warning.
DR.. Williamson's mind was quickly
made up as to his course of proceed
ure. One morning several days later
he arose in apparently better spirits
than usual, summoned his coachman
and made calls or such of his patients
rs needed his immediate attention.
Then he drove home, wrote letters to
his wife and each of his children,
telling them he was doomed to insan-
lty and preferred death to existence
in a madhouse, also mentioning their
peril as long as he remained unre-
strained.
DR.. Williamson then went to his
sleeping apartments, took a bath,
shaved himself, attired himself in his
best clothing, swallowed a dose of
morphine and lay on a bed. His wife
found him there a few moments af-
terward, and despite his assurance
that he a not i'll she summoned
three physicians. They came prompt
ly, but DR.. Williamson informed them
that their services were useless, that
he had taken poison and would be
dead in half an hour. Then he kissed
his wife and children goodbye, as
surfing them he had done the proper
thing, lapsed into Inconsistencies
and died in just half al hour, as he
had said he would.
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Naugatuck, Conn.-Nine hundred
employees in the grinding department
of the Goodyear Metallic Rubber
Goods Company and the Goodyear
India Rubber Glove Company re-
turned to work. Before the end of
the week the plants will be running
IN full force.
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TOWN Is
Receiver Appointed For Historical
Cahokia, III.

Belleville, Ill.-The village of Ca
hokia, the oldest settlement in Hi
nois, has been placed in the hands OF
a receiver. This is the first time in
the history of the State that such
action has been taken against a town
or city.
Judge E. R. Burroughs. presiding
in the Circuit Court, appointed F. B.
Morrills, of Believille, as receiver
upon the petition of the Federal
Union Security Company, of Indian
apolis.
The court order results from an
effort to readjust the affairs of the
village, which were entangled as a
result of the alleged failure of Super
visor Anthony Bordeaux, who served
the village from 1882 to 1892, to
turn over to Camilla Droit, his sue
cessor, 100000 collected in rentals.
Cahokia, the first white settlement
in Illinois, was built up around the
mission established by the Jesuit
Fathers in 1900. The village wao
taken under the wings of the Virginia
Government in 1881 as the result OF
an expedition of Old Dominion sol
diers under the leadership of Colonel
Clark and Captain Bowman.
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Women in the DAYS News.

Mrs. George B. Mcclellan, mother
of the Mayor of New York City, is a
great ~fayorite at Nice, Italy.
Many messages of sympathy were
sent to Queen Amelie of Portugal
from all the capitals of Europe.
More than 6000 women are en-
ployed in the Russian Secret Service.
Some draw a salary of $1,000 a year.
Lady Rosemary Cairns is declared
to be the handsomest girl in London's
younger set. She is but eighteen
years old and is the only daughter of
Arthur William, the second Enrl of
Cairns, who died In 1890.
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The World of Sport.

Women are allowed to attend prize
fights in Paris, and they do SO in
great numbers.
big Chief" Bender has signed
with the Athletics. He 0 fifteen
games in a row last season.
En- Sue, a Chinaman, ran nifty
yards in 5 is seconds at
Hawaii, breaking the American rec
ord.
The current report Of the Ken
lucky State Racing Association shows
that in two years the Kentucky tracks
have paid out nearly $4,o00,00o 70
successful horsemen,
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FIVE SHOT TO A
Wealthy Man and Four Women Vic
Tins in Quiet English Village.

London.-The little Buckingham
village of Fawley was shocked by the
discovery of a quintuple murder. The
e of the tragedy was the resi-
dence of F. H. Holmes, who was
known to be wealthy.
A gardener who was working out
side the house alarmed at its unusual
quietness SO late in the morning n
tered and found successfully the bod
les of two women servants, Mrs.
Holmes and her daughter, all lying in
bed in different rooms. Each had
been shot in the head.
Later the body of Holmes was
found in a nearby wood. He, too,
had been shot in the head. The po-
lice so far are unable to decide
whether he killed the women and
then committed suicide, or whether
all five were shot by some person IN
known.
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Fire Damages Roebling Plant.

Fire in the Roebling wire works at
Trenton damaged the plant to the
extent of 100000, it is estimated.
Three large buildings were destroyed.
The cause of the fire is unknown. 1t
started in the rope department. The
plant covers about twenty acres. The
fire swept over about two acres of
ground. No lives were lost, and no
serious accidents have been reported.
About $50 men were thrown out of
employment. There was an insur-
ance Of 100000 on the property.
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Biddeford, Me. - The Pepperell
Manufacturing Company decided to
resume full time in the local cotton
mills. About 1000 operatives are af-
fected.
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About Noted People.

The latest form of sport to which
King Alfonso of Spain has devoted
himself is polo.
The Archbishop of Canterbury.
England, is one of the most remark
able of chess players.
Henry Clews is in demand as a
speaker on the financial situation and
the lessons of the panic.
Andrew Carnegie has pledged
100000 to Berea, the mountain col
lege in Eastern Kentucky. With the
exception OF the 100000 given to
Tuskegee, this is Mr. Carnegie's larg-
est single gift t Southern education.
legged nins-hour aGraeWauts
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Ex.slave Buries Old Master.

Lewis Reynolds, eighty-six years
old, who once owned 200 slaves and
a large cotton plantation near Ruston,
La, died penniless,- and was buried
by Oliver Lewis, a negro, who be-
longed to Reynolds in slavery times.
The aged planter had been nursed
and cared for by the negro three
years.
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Returned After Twenty Years.

Sir GENTLE Cave-Browne-Caye,
twelfth baronet of his line, left New
York City for England to assume the
title and estates descending to him
by the death of his father, Sir Mylles,
after not having communicated with
his family for nearly twenty years.
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To Fight Child Labor Bill Again.

South Jersey glass manufacturers
expect to wage a vigorous fight
against the passage of the Child La
Dor Bill which Assemblyman Gin
nelly, of Mercer County, introduced
in the Assembly, prohibiting children
under the age of sixteen years from
working in the factories and mills at
night. When a similar bill was in
troduced last year it passed in the
Assembly, but the manufacturers m
ployed lobbyists to defeat it, and the
Senate committee let the measure
'~'Sleen."
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Maiden, Mass. - More than 1000
operatives returned to work upon the
reopeniHg of the Fells factory of the
Boston Rubber Shoe Company in this
city.
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A man who seeks an excuse for
neglect or delay concerning religion
can find such excuse. The man who
seeks religion with his whole heart
will find it. Don't stumble over your
hating brother; don't get in the way
for him to stumble over you.-Bishop
Fitzgerald.
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Manchester, n. II. - 1t was an
nounced at the Amoskeag Mills that
the mills will resume their schedule
on full time.
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Hard Lines For Tramns.

The borough lookup at Clayton
has been made as inviting as To-
tors can make it, and yet it is likely
that tramps will steer clear of the
borough. The Improvements of the
lookup include new paint, %frescoing,
fumigation, scrubbing, new cots and
fresh mattress, but. alas, Mayor Mich
oils has decreed that every man who
goes into it must first take a bath.
Many wanderers have heretofore ap-
piled for lodgings at the lookup, but
the water for the bath is to be cold,
the towels short and thin, and it is
likely that nearby towns will be
more literally patronized.
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A Bit Limited.

The inquisitiye visitor to the studio
of the famous but crotchety artist
propounded the query, What do you
mix your colors WITH"
with brains, SIR" replied the
painter, in dignified tones.
"Ah," commented the visitor, $50
you paint miniatures. "-Pearson's
Weekly.
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Little Rooster Bests Big Dog.

Frank T%rueland, of Mullica Hill,
has a big dog and a pet rooster which
are becoming regular prize fighters.
The little rooster always gets the
best of the bout, and often gets the
dog cornered, when there is such a
bowling and growing that Mr.. True
land is forced to go to the dogs res
cue.
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TOBACCO TRUST INDICTED.
Charged With Conspiring to Reduce
Price of Raw Tobacco.

Lexington, Ky.-ThI Fayette Coun-
ty Grand Jury indicted the American
Tobacco Company on a charge of con.
spiracy to reduce the price of raw
tobacco.
This indictment is the direct result
of Circuit Judge Parker's order to
the Grand Jury to investigate the
tobacco situation in this region.
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Breaking through thin ice while
skating on Union Lake, at Millville,
Paul McCorrister, a lad, was in peril
of drowning in fifteen feet of water.
Ambrose Pancoast, at the peril of his
own life, lay upon the ice, forming a
human chain, reached the drowning
boy and pulled him safely out. The
crowd of skaters cheered the brave
onf
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German Treasurer Resigned.

Freiherr Won Stengel, Secretary OF
the Imperial Treasury of Germany,
resigned, his retirement being u TO
the financial questions which rema1p
unsettled.
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One Funeral For Two.

Just an hour before the time set for
the funeral of Mrs. Edward w. Bur-
roughs her husband died, and the
funeral was postponed until husband
and wife can be buried together. Mr..
and Mrs. Burroughs were we'll known
residents of Ewing, near Trenton.
Pneumonia, following grip, caused
the death of both.
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bennington Accepts Gift Tor Library.

Residents held a public meeting in
the Court House at Pennington and
decided to accept the gift of $4,000
for a public library building under
the will of the late DR.. William H.
Bartles. The building is also to be
occupied by the Hunterdon County
Historical Society. The Library AS
ISOLATION elected these officers: Presi-
dent, James A. Kline; vice-president,
George Webster; treasurer, Elias
V~osseller; secretary, Marcus L. Gla-
ger; librarian, Miss Elizabeth Van
Lew.
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Dairymen Give Up in Disgust.

More vendues are scheduled to take
place in Salem County than for many
years. Owing to the fight between
farmers and Philadelphia dealers
over the price of milk many dairymen
are selling or reducing their stock,
rather than sell milk for four cents a
quart, the present price.
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Youngest sachem of Red Men.

Benjamin Pancoasc, Just elected
past sachem of the Huron Tribe of
Red Men, of Mullica Hill, is the
youngest man holding that position
in the State. He is not yet twenty
old.
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Monument to Confederates.

The President told a committee at
Washington, D. c., representing the
Arlington Confederate Monument AS
ISOLATION, that he was heartily ir
favor of the plan to erect a monument
to the Confederate dead at Arlington
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MANY MILLS REOPENING.
Thousands of Men at Work After
Weeks of Idleness.

Cleveland, Ohio. - Between 5000
and 5000 men returned to work at
the Lorain plant of the National
Tube Company. The plant of the
American Steel and Wire Company 1T
Salem, Ohio, resumed double-turn
operations. Three mills of the Stark
Rolling Mill Company, at Canton,
Ohio, resumed. The B. F. Goodrich
Rubber Company has added ESQ men
within the last few weeks.
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At ReyolHe, New, Mrs. Isabel
Heskett, who was killed by Fred
Skinner, alias Fred Davis, who shot
himself, was a niece of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, according to her hus-
band, G. C. Heskett.
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TO KILL $4,000 WILD HORSES.

Orders Issued to Wipe Out Pest on
Government Lands i'm Nevada.
Reno, Nev.-Orders have been sent
out by the Forestry Department in
structing the rangers on the Toelyabe,
the Toquima and the Kouitor re-
serves, in Lander County, to kill all
wild horses found on the Government
domain.
There are about 5000 wild horses
on the reserves. They are doing
much damage to vegetation and at
tracing domestic animals to their
herds.
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A Sian.

81 don't know that man." said Miss
Vane, "but he's been telling e
one how wonderfully fresh my com.
plexion is"
YES" replied Miss Cutting. "Per.
haps he's an agent for it. "-Phila.
delphia Press.
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The Alternative.

He was growing because his wife
wore waists buttoned down the back
But you know, DEAR" she said.
sweetly, "you wouldn't like it at all
If 1 wore one unbuttoned down the
back."-Harper's Bazaar.
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A Reason For Leniencv.

A grandmother was ~reproving her
little grandchildren for making so
much noise.
Dear me, children, you are so
noisy to-day! Can't you be a little
more quiet?"
Now, grandma, you mustn't scold
us. You see. if Ut wasn't for us. Won
wouldn't be a grandma at all."-Har.
nsr's Weekly.
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A Motto "Sui Generis.n

"My Chinese Sunday-school pupil,
who has an eating house, where he
serves liberal allowances of chop suey
wants me to give him a motto for il. )"
Liberal with chop suey, is he?"
"Yes."
"Then why not proclaim himself in
motto fashion, 'Suey generous?'r-
Baltimore American.
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Quarrel at a College.

Sixty-five students of Bethany Col
lege, at Bellaire, Ohio, have quit be-
u the faculty expelled fifteen for
burning an efigy of President RAM
blett.
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A Fortunate Breakdown.
"Did Won 500 tha Alnsqn

OIu you see IHS AIVb.
ooh, yes. Our car broke down
right opposite them, and do you
know, I'm almost glad it did, 1 found
them so charming and interesting.
Puck.
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Boy OF Nine Alleged Mail Thief.

Christian West, of Bordentown, a
boy of nine, is charged with stealing
letters, both from lock boxes, left un-
fastened by patrons, and from drop
boxes in the postoffice. Postal in.
spectors are investigating.
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All in Prospect.

Stella-"Did Cholly propose?"
Bella-"Yes, but so far the poor
fellow really has nothing but a pair
Of auto goggles. New York Sun.
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CAID MACLEAN's RANSOM 100000
Raisuli Surrenders the English Cap
tive He Held Seven Months.

tive He Held Seven Months.
Tangier, Morocco.-Caid, Sir Harry
MacLean, commander of the Sultan's
bodyguard, and next to the Sultan
the most influential man in Morocco,
arrived here under an escort from
the bandit Raisuli, who has held him
under bondage for seven months.
He was brought here in accordance
with an agreement which the British
Government finally succeeded in max.
ing with Raisuli for his release, in re-
turn for which Great Britain will pay
100000 to Raisuli and guarantee him
protection and immunity from arrest.
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Number of Employees Increases.

Industrial conditions improve slow.
ly, yet there is some increase each
week in the number of operatives EN-
ployed in the factories and mills.
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Morse Indicted For Grand Larceny.

Two indictments, one of them at
least charging grand larceny were
returned against Charles w. Morse
by the special Grand Jury, in New
York City. which has been investi-
eating financial matters coming I'M
der jurisdiction of the State courts.
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STANDARD OILS APPEAL.
Case of s29,2f0,ooo Fine to Be Ar
gued in April, 1t is Expected.

Chicago.-The appeal of the Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana from the
fine Of s29,24O,000 imposed by Judge
Lands will be argued, it is expected,
before Judges Grosscup, Baker and
Seaman early in the April term of
the Court Of Appeals.
The record of the case has Just
been given to the Government law
ynrc
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Bobby Ito his sailor uncle)-"Are
you an old sea dog?"
Sailor Uncle-"Yes; that's what
they calls me-"
Bobby-"Well, then, let's hear you
bark. "-Pick-Me-Up.
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ArchitectUTais.

Sally Gay-"What a cunning Lit.
tie fellow Mr.. Callipers isl"
Dolly Swift -"Cunning? Why.
he's dreadfully b~owlegged."
Sally Gay-"Yes, but that gives
him such an arch look, you know
Truth.
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Why They Do.

"Pa, why do people always talk
about Dame Gossip"
Because it isn't polite to leave the
'e' of."-Chicago Record-Herald.
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He Knows.

Teacher-"Now, what little boy in
this Sunday-school can tell what a
pyramid ISL"
Tommy Tuff-"Why, OATS de
shape de pool balls is set up in fer de
break"
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Guide to Knockers.

An awful tyrant, this old gent;
where he s other shs wa foted i six n per cent.
He stood out for eleven.
You'd better keep your wallet shut
Whenever you are near him, but.
Really he was perfectly dear to his family,
and he had a large family, too;
He had a lovely wife.
.Metropolitan Magazine.
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Mean Trick.

Eva-"Jack is a brute"
Edna-"Why, dear?"
Eva-"He said he was going to
send me something that would make
my mouth water"
Edna-"Ah, a box of eighty-cent
chocolates?"
Eva-"No, he sent a lemon."-
Chicago News.