m HIS WEALTHY BRIDE. v sH " aaafl A nitlctiolor Wlm Mimlcil For Monoj f H Commissioner of Corporations James ' II. Garfield (old this story nt n dinner i H In Topeka, apropos of disappointments: -bbbbbb1 There was u certain crusty old bach- ( M elor who had employed for seventeen years n faithful cook. This cook hnd rasaa! red hair, freckles and cross eye. Her ' H teetli were singularly even nnd white. ' bbbH but, then, ten to one, her teeth were ILbbbbbI false, for sho wns not likely to bnve (aaaH renl teeth of such beauty. Her nge. 'sibbbbi Judge, wns forty-seven. H Though nn adept with the snucepnn nml the rolling pin, this faithful worn H nn could not read. Therefore she gn ''l her employer tu transact nil her little M nffnlrs for her. She hnd a hank no- M count nf about $100 flint he managed. M One day the cook said that sho wanted H to withdraw nil her savings from the bank. Her employer was amazed. H "It has taken you nine yenrs lo snvn H Hint money," he said. "Why do you M wish to draw it nut?" H "Hecause, sir." replied the cook, "lost M night I drenmed tho number of the B new lottery. It was n million and one, B 1 am convinced that It Is the winning Hl number, and I nm going to play It." H Tho bachelor laughed nt the cook's H dream. He called her n superstitious HBl numbskull. He adjured her uot to H waste her money nu n lottery. Hut the H cook, showing her white false tooth In H nu obsttnnte smile, persisted. She took HBf her money out of the hank. Shc risked H It nil In a full chance on n million and H Thereafter tho bachelor often Joked B her over her foolishness. He often HHl asked her If she did not regret the BJ Jeopardy she had put her money In. BBl She would frown, blush, blink her cros HJ eyes and leave the loom In silence. BBl Now Imagine this man's nmazement BBl when, one morning a few weeks later, BBj ho read In bis newspaper in those BB days the lottery wrs legal that n mill- BJ Ion mid one hnd taken the grand prize BB of $150,000. BJ The hacheloi was uot rich. Such n BB sum ns $150,000 meant a great deal to BB him. Furthermore, he knew that his BB faithful cook had long loved him afar BB off. And she could not rend. Shu BB knew nothing of her wonderful for- BB BB He summoned her. Then nnd there BB ho proposed marriage. She nccepted BJ him. That day these two became one. BB As they sped homeward from their BJ honeymoon, the man looking Indul- BB Tciitly nt bis not young wife, said: BH "Hy the way, I want you to let me BVJ seo that lottery ticket Hint we so often BB wrangled over," BB "Indeed mid I can't do that." the BB bride said simply. "You laughed and BB Joked nhout It mi I sold It last week to BJ the butcher." Philadelphia livening, BB , BBJ