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Miss Perkins never married,
She had no hub. alack!
So she had to keep a cow !,
To hook her IN the back!
POOR GIRL!
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A great many people wonder where
the newspapers get enough stuffito I'LL
their columns every day. But the
Joke in; the case becomes apparent
when women express great surprise at
one writer being able 10 write col.
umn every day, when It Is a cinch that
the typical woman talks enough to fill
several columns. and sometimes more
than q whole page at a sitting.
The woman who does not talk to
the extent OF three columns a day
must have sore throat. or be shut up
where she is not able to get the ear
OF somebody.
But YOU say that Just such talk isn't
worth printing. II It is worth hearing
isn't 1t worth reading? And don't you
know that the most Interesting matter
In paper is Just talk about things
that occur, and most profitable, too,
for 1t is such talk that familiarizes the
things Of that moment. Z
Now that your attention has been
called 10 it, isn't 1t a fact that you
like best to read about people you
know, places you've been and things
that you've thought and talked about?
What care we for people whom we
didn't know and in whom We are not
Interested? Or what interest can we
take in things that are unfamiliar to
US? True, We are more or less cur.
ious about new people and strange
places, but curiosity is vastly different
from personal interest. l,tsi' 8
Those who write as they talk, and
for the purpose OF giving expression to
thoughts which insist upon being eX.
pressed. are always classed among the
good writer's even II that which they
say Is not wondrously wise. n
Many takers. as well as writer's, are
apt to be sloppy; that is, careless as
to tllelr manner OF expression. Some
never seem to be able to end their
sentences until they have become so
involved that no one can tell whatitis
all about. 5it 80 MT II i.dj
Following is a news item clipped
from a western paper that foated at
Its masthead the name of,NIark Twain
as editor. says a writer: II 9. .,it4,,'iTl
Last 'eyeningl about 6 o'clock, Mr..
William Schuyler. an, old citizen, was
leaving his residence to 80 down town,
as has been his. custom for many
years, excepting a short interval In
1850 during ,whiehShe was confined to
his bed by injuries received In ; at
tempting to stop .a:runaway horse by
thoughtlessly placing himself directly
in IT'S wake. and throwing up his hands
and shouting, which II he had done SO
even moment sooner, must have In.
evitably have frightened the animal
still more, instead Of checking its
sneed, although disastrous enough to
as 1t was, and rendered more
melancholy and distressing by reason
OF the presence OF his wife's mother,
who was there and saw the sad occur.
renee. Notwithstanding 1t is at least
likely. though not necessarily SO, that
she should be accommodating in an
other direction when incident occur
not being, viyacious and on the look.
out, as a general thing. but even the
reverse. as her own mother is said to
have stated, who is no more. but died
in the full hope Of glorious resur.
rectlon. upward Of three years ago,
aged Sc. being Christian woman and
without guile, as 1t were, or property,
In consequence Of the fire Of 1S49,
which destroyed every single thing she
had In the world. But such Is life.
Let us take warning by this solemn
occurrence, and let us so conduct our
selves that when We come to die we
can do 1t. Let us place our, hands
upon our hearts and say with earnest
ness and sincerity that from this day
forth we will beware Of the intoxicat.
ing bowl"
, What happened to Schuyler?