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Show Selected Her Own Coin. This curious incident of travel In Africa is told by A. Henry Savage Landor: "I wished to buy a bag ot grain, but the woman who owned It would on no account accept sliver money for it, nor any article which she saw in my camp. My Somali servant had a bright idea the only one he bad during the entire Journey across Africa. He wont to one ot the boxes of provisions and tore oft a highly colored label from a corn beef ' tin. Having llckod It copiously, he i stuck It In the middle ot bis forehead. ; Inquisitive, like a woman, tho Carayu .; asked him what ho did It for. The , Somali said he had been selxed with a ! violent hcadacho and tho colored pa- per was a certain cure. The Carayu 1 at onco ottered the grain If the Somali would part with the maglo paper. Her wish was satisfied without delay and the woman departod happy." |