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Show LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT. A newcomer from the' metropolis, feeling feel-ing sure that the people of the little mountain settlement In the Cumber-lands Cumber-lands would be Interested to know In advance the date of & certain event, asked permission to place the following clrpping from his daily paper In the window of the little postoffice: "A total lunar eclipse will take place tomorrow between 8 and 9 p. m." ' Not long after there was a knock at the door of his cottage near by. A half-grown girl stood there, industriously industrious-ly twisting the corner of her ragged apron. "Please, sir." she began hurriedly, "mother wants to know if it's to be in the chapel or the schoolhouse. And may I be doorkeeper? I kep' It for the waxworks wax-works last year, and there didn't a soul get past me "thout puttln' in" Youth's Companion. 1 |