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Show i'i PAY8 ALIMONY ALL IN PENNIES, 8aloon-Keeper Doles Out $3 a Week In Coppers to His Wife.' Now York. James Drown, saloon-keeper saloon-keeper at Tho Forge, Brook Haven, on Long Island, near Southhampton, pay tils wlfo $3 weekly alimony. Ho payt !' It In ponnles. I Every Saturday he appears at the I office ot former Justice George W, I II 1- f dreth with a bag full of coppers. t dumps them on tho office desk and h makos a fair count bofdre the eyes of ' t tho Justice. Sometimes, when he can't ' get 300 pennies, ho puts In a nickel, If It is a grim Joke, the saloon -eepor does not admit It by word of I smile. Ho says ho does business In ponnles, and It Is handy to use them In allopathic doses when paying all mony. Mrs. Drown, who ha three small children to-ompport, accepts the coppers cop-pers In tho samo outward spirit they tare given. "Never scold him," she tells .Mr. 1111-dreth. 1111-dreth. "I am glad enough to get them, and If pennies are his butlness men " dlum, they aro my hard cash. ( wouldn't know how to upon I a dollar bill." |