Show that funny column A certain paper once thought that it must do like its neighbor and run a paragraph column it advertised for alio right sort of a man jn this way wages no object good looks not desirable good sena not expected good morals not wanted the man came and went to work one column waa his task and ho finished it it looked well aa printed and lie publisher hoped for good results the next day a plain looking fanner came in and asked for alie man who wrote that column The wa t summoned you are alie author of this col dmn I hear said alie farmer yes kir very proudly rubbing his hands owe yon a deal that I can only partly repay iu money but hero are which insist on your taking as an earnest of my gratitude the man took the money and asked what wa the special camusci of gratitude the tanner said you saved my brothers ills after ho biad been given up by the doctor it was aliis way lie waa taken amt monday with a lit of laughing hysterics which crew and we had tried cv grything ery thing in vain had taken libin to funerals anul to the scenes of all the norri blo wo could hear of but still ho laughed and laughed medicine wad equally and it hommed M if there wa nothing but death for libin ho could neither eat drink nor sleep but laugh his mouth stretched twice it usual width fand wat almont para lyzen I got your paper and began your column of cornica to him I got to the end of th fiat one I noticed in in him and by the time had read half n column his mouth was quito and he wan aa calm W over ilo lias never laughed since and I dont ever will aaen and that i tho cause gratitude la it not enough tho thought so and lio concluded to din pouso with alio column of funny |