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Show TWEftc WAG NO STJKNS f& tf. But lie Hod Abundant Reason Neves!b less to Bo Suspicions. There was a bright new 60 cent piece lying on the pavement on Jefferson ay enuo, near Griswold street, when h bow backed man with a satchel came ilong from tho depot. Ho saw tho coin virile ho was yot 20 feet away, and h made a sudden forward rush to get it The movement was almost instantly checked, however, and ho walked slowly slow-ly forward and baoked to tho curbstone and stood there and gazed at tho coin Tith a foxy look on his countenance. Id ' about a minnto a pedestrian canio up. aw tho coin and reached for it and put It in his pocket. Observing the attitud of the old man at the same time he turned and queried: "It didn't belong to you, did it?" "Waal, I swan I" wns tho reply. "What's tho matterr" "This is the queerest durned town 1 ever struck iu all my life. I was coming up this street last year about this time Vvhen I saw a 50 cent piece lyin jesa ibout here. I mado a grab fur it, foU sn my nose and rolled all over and flnal Vy got up to iind that a boy had astrinf on tho m-'soy and had pulled it into that doorway." "And so you were shy of this onef "Yaas, I was shy." "And are half a dollar behind tfcs game?" "Yaas, I'm half a dollar out Saj, Are you in a hurry;' "Yes great hurry. " "Wall, I'll hov to find somobody cbc then. I want to find a feller who'll sol rjown with mo fur about two hours and post mo up. I'm comin into DetroiS onco a week now, and I want to find onl what's got strings to it and what's lyis aronnd loose andMn be picked up.' tJotroit Free Press. Iato field on tho enmno. Sixteen months ago, on tho platforn of tho World's fair congresses in Chicago, Chi-cago, I stated that, never having believed be-lieved in universal snlfrage unallied to universal intelligence anS honesty, I had never publicly advocated woman saffrago. Logically I have always believed be-lieved that women had as much right to tbe ballot as men. I donici the right to both sexes. I have always claimed that suffrage is a privilege and should be granted as a reward of merit regardless of sex. If woman suffrage leaders had taken the same ground, I would have joined them long ago. I was convinced that whenever a majority ma-jority of Americau women wanted the ballot thoy would get it. I never met a man who did not assent to this conviction convic-tion and who did not second my assertion asser-tion that the worst opponents to female suffrage are women themselves. Why, then, did I experience a change of hoart in Chicago? Becanso I had bo-gun bo-gun to look into our naturalization laws and was terrified at facts. Because I discovered th.t the new states were in the hands of aliens, not citizens of tho United States. Because I saw that female fe-male immigration was much less than male immigration; that 3 large majority major-ity of female voters would be American born, and that tho sooner tho forces of anarchy and rebellion were met by the conservators of homo and law tho better for the country. I heard the threatonings of riot that broke out a year later, and it seemed to me time for women to como to the foro. What I thought 16 moDths ago I firnv ty believe now. A High .Roller. ' 'Those iwnseats next to you, " said tbji osher at tne crowded theater, "seem to fie unoccupied. Please lot these gentlemen gentle-men sit down "In them." "Those seats, mo good man, " respond Ed Cholly languidly, producing his checks and looking at tho usher through his eyeglass, "belong to mo ovahcoat Please stand a little to one side. You obstwuct mo view of the stage." Chi-0020 Chi-0020 Tribune The Trilby Waist. A now wrinklo in designs is tho "Trilby" waist, which is trimmed with closo bands, laid over the fullness of a plaited or gathered bodice. Trilby herself her-self woro only two of these decorations, which crossed in front, and this adherence adher-ence to the model is absolute, other forms of trimming filling up deficien cies and making tho crossed bands ay. pear like decoration. New York Ad- 8I "isOE. |