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Show Half and Half. Hon. Horaco E. Stanton, npropos of tho mismanagement of n railroad that had gono Into n receiver's hands, said: "Tho calm and bland excuses offerpd for their mismanagement by tho road's various heads remind mo of Smith. "Smith, hiBt Sabbath, put In a strenuous stren-uous day cleaning up his garden for tho spring planting. "But Jones, his next door neighbor, tackled him Indignantly In tho smoker tho following morning and said: "Look hero, Smith, do you think I wnnt nil your tin cans and bones and old shooa thrown over Into my garden?' gar-den?' " 'You haven't got 'em all, old man. You'vo only got half,' said Smith calmly. 'Brown, on tho other side, got the other half.'" |