Show JOKE WAS cl CI THE MOTHER buys buy stra straw hr for or her tribe of hopefuls at the harness fr J edmund robe la ot of the salvation nell company 1 N s a good story and tells it well lie he has the faculty ot or teeing seeing the funny things in the little happenings of every day life last ast season in a cue applit stand irk in pennsylvania I 1 met au an d school hum chum and not having seen I 1 him for years I 1 was more than pie pleased to spend pend as much of my iny one ilay day witti with him as I 1 could says mr roberts he was in the birness and I 1 spent the best part of the day in the back part of tile the shop keeping him company while he worked during the afternoon he be had occa slon to io go to tile the bank and left me in charge of the place until his return with a joking rejoinder to sell all I 1 could during his absence ho he had scarcely gone when in came a lady with tour four small boys in quarter sizes she took four straw hats has out of a basket and placed one oo on each small head and banded tile me a dollar as there was a sigu in the basket stating that they were A ere 25 rents cents each ach she tied the strings under baca small chin and left the store 1 1 I I was naturally somewhat bated fit at my ability as a ba lesman and when aben pi mi arld returned told him of my pale and gave him the dollar then he informed roe rae that those hats were for horses during hot weather and ho h had a good laugh on me well I 1 sold a dollars worth of hats bats arid and it the lady ever discovered that the hats were for horses and not tor for small boys I 1 was not there to hear the tin agh h |