| Show I I SOME GOO SHORT SORS Took In 1ro iru Territory II I I The reports of the threatened blindness 1 blind-ness of eSenator Palmer of IllInois 1 lgings to my mind the Iltat l talk I lind I I with him and the last l story I heard I him tell sid an Illinois congresa I to a Washington Post man I was in I Springfield last spring at the old sena I tars home A visItor had jUt ber pentng some Spanisioats and ear I pressed the fear that we should cone out of the war with an easy won vic tO I I That makes me think or a man I said the esenaior who used to live I down here I Macoupin county at Car lnvie He went down to St Louis I onC and when he came back he was full of bad whiskY and fghtpg talk He got off the train at the Carlmle depot and began to talk big Whoopee lie said I can lick any uiai in this town maf pad the slightest at n Upn and the ma wet on r bet I can lick any man in 1Ia coupin county he yelled bolder Still nobody notIced him He waxed 5 Come on he shouted 1 ca lick any man in the state of Ilnoy Here soMebody took except n to his remarks and knocked him down He rtrgied to a sitting potureAnd appeared to reflect Ob Jim he said to himself aloud Oh Jim I reckon you took in I to much territory that last time I Were He Got His Port i A capIta story oncering a prom1 meat member of the stock exchange H going the rounds He was a man who enjoyed his wine andawas took great care of it when he happened to pick up a choice vintage While living in u fashionable quarter of the Vest End he chanced to buy a large cask oe very fine old por which he had placed at the extreme end of hIs cellar and tom to-m e p recty sure that it should nol be touched he had a wall built across London the cellar and so closed it In sacs ci paper I was abut a year or two latethat he OM evening accepted a Invitatow to dine with hi5 nextdoor neighbor when the latter brought out some very fine old port Several glasses havIng 1 been drunk the man of shares and stocks recognizing Its excellent quaitJr I I paIred his host where he could get some port like i I Well old fellow returned the other I wIll ie you into a secret bu dont say a word about it I was having som alterations mae in my cellar lately when we discOvered that some old fool who lived in this house before had built a wall around a large cask of port and had forgotten ail about it This Is some of it but Im arid there isnt much left The effect upon the worthY stockbrokers stock-brokers feeling may be imagined Not A Observant Stan Chicago News The old man in the shaggy overcoat mentioned something about Kansas in his talk and the Bostonian leaned over toward him and asked Did you say you were from Ran sasNo No but I joe come from than Then I want to ask you a few ques lions How are times out there tons tme I dUnno Is money plenty Or tight Cant say I But dont ou know how the faI1 I r are feeling towns Is business good or bad In the I I didnt ask anybody Youyou pre not a observIng man said the Bastonian No I guess not I went out to Ran sits to see a wIdder I use to know and to ask her to mar me I got to her house at 3 oclock In the afternoon I asked her to have me and she sad she wouidnt and at 330 I was on my way back I dIdnt see no crops nor ask about god times or bad The state of Kansas may be holdin a regia Fourth of July over good times or everybody 1 may be goin to the poorhouse AU I know about it is that Im an old fool for spendin I Oi to run arter a Kansas I widder hen I could hey marrIed b New Hampshire gal fur twelve shil t lns Wrote The Heavenly Twins Chicago Record About a mile from Tnbrld e Wells Engiand in a little gray house lives Sarah Grad who wrote the Heavenly TwIns She is nearing middle age is a meiumsized woman wit dark hair cearcut feature and is an easy con yeratonalst In the room where her writing 154 done there are so quaint things among them a stork mounted so he appears to be watching her nt work That she may not forget the suffering of the word she keeps close by her desk an engav ing or Dudley Hadys picture of the destitute poor 01 London Her desk Is a table of mahogany fitted wIth draw ers and the top is littered with blotter books in pens and papers The chair at the desk is highbacked with curved legs and a bookcase stands close at had There is a bay window in the writing room which has been made into a cozy corner wih couch pillows anti curtains cur-tains Handsome rugs and paintings add to the room Sarah Grand is fond of children es peany Beth the baby daughter of her stepson and the child frequenty plays about her while her grandmother is writing seemingly not at all disturbed disturb-ed by childish prattle A Possibility Boston JournaL She wa a portly lady with a lot ot bundlesand It may be note at thIs I point that it is almost always the case tat the larger a lady Is the larger and I more numerous are the bundles she c rrle5nd when she entered the railroad road station she was puffing so that a drowsy man on the front seat jumped up suddenly thinking i was the engIne en-gIne of the train lIe was waiting for She approached the ticket window and there she put her bundles in all the I available space They were nice new store bundles however and no objection tion was made Is the train for Junglele gone yet she inquired No maam responded the clerk How far is it thereAbout there-About seventy miles I guess maam for he was new to that place and wa not thoroughly conversant with details Whats the price of a ticlcet tcltet One ninetY ight maam One ninetyeight she repeated How does that happen r dont Ino maam he replied re-plied as he eyed her bundles I guess it must be marketidown from 2 I |
