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Show WOMAN AND HER WATCH When a woman becomes distinguished distin-guished for executive ability, and through her Ultent and enterprise competes successfully with the stronger sex, it is rather delightful to see a delicious little bit of feminine fem-inine inconsequence betraying itself as it is sure so do once jn a while. One of the cleverest women in New York took her watch to the Jeweler's the other day to be mendedj I 'I cannot imagine what is the matter with it," she said to the clerk rather plaintively. ,I have been very careful of it ever since you sent it home, and it has not had a !ar or shock of any kind" and turning to the lady who was with her, while the man was examining ex-amining it ,,tt is such a nuhanee for a busy woman like me to be without a watch. "I have missed two engagements this week simply because I had no timepiece. I shook it,", she went on tojthe jeweler, "and even warmed it by the fire, but it wouldn't go." The man, with a perfectly grave face but with laughter in his eyes, said, " Perhaps, madam, you did not try winding it," and handed the watch back to her ticking with steady regularity. "You don't mean to say that was all that was the matter with it?', said the astonished owner. "That was all madam, "answered the clerk, with eer so slight a srrile. New York Tribune. The practical results of reciprocity reciproc-ity or free trade were recently illustrated illus-trated The Brazilian ports with I50, 000 of American farm products on board, comprising the following articles: Maryland shipped 1,770 kegs and 300 cases of lard and 11 kegs of bacon; Kansas, 391 barrels and 47 kegs of bacon and 950 kegs lard; Illinois, 105 barrels and 10 kegs of bacon and 1, 705 kegs of lard; Ohio, 500 barrels of flour and 50 kegs of lard; Virginia, 4,000 barrels bar-rels of flour' and Missouri 600 parrels par-rels of ffour. The encouraging feature of this shipment is that it comprises exclusively farmproducts, thus opening a market for the agriculturists. ag-riculturists. That is what has always al-ways been claimed for freer trade intercourse with other nations, and it is a noteworthy fact that the very first cargo which has left our shorts under reciprocity should so thoroughly thor-oughly justify the claim. Denver News. ' |