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Show AN tXCITED WASaiOR, ! Taking fivo :;cnjnf.er wai iripi : under uua Arm and iv cn-y of the London Times uml'jr ti.e ou.tr, Mr.! Wiiiic IsfL :Lo crliia c:d prucctleJ ' directly homeward, Itii.g iJore pmriolic evtry moment. "Oh! we're going to lay 'em right out, Nancy?" he said as "lie dropped his h:it in the hall. "Did you ordur the fl.ur?" she asked in a curelcs-i tone. "l-'lour? What do I cure about Qour! Tho RussianB have Rot Kars and halt of the Turkish arroyi" "Have, eh? Well, I hopa that I paper -hanyor will be here in the morniug. You didn't think to see about "Kij?ht hero is Kare, ftnd right here bis where the Turks ?ot mauled!" he eiclaimed ua he knelt on the floor and traced one of the maps. "Did, eh? S;iy, John, can't you rake fl the lawn this morning, and did you eee about the whitewashing" "Will you talk about whitewashing when all Europe is convulsed with war?" he tiercely demanded as be shook tho other Tour maps at her. "I I'd liko thoeo onion bods marked out to-day, she replied "Ouion-beda marked out, when this very copy o( tho London Times editorially predicts that a million armed men will he rushiog at eocli other's throata in less than aiity days!" There was a dead pilence until his finger rested on the city of Erzcroum, when be should: "Hera she is! Right around here is where they are malting the Turks bowl lor Bugar!" "By the way, John," she aoltly remarked, re-marked, aB ahe looked up, "don't you think that summer-kitchen will have to be reshingled this spring?" The girl who doeB general housework house-work sayn bo tore the five war-maps into 500 pieces, aud banged the London Lon-don Times against the wall with an awful thump as he jumped out doors; but girla are sometimes prejudiced. Mr. White was in the corner grocery at half past 11 saying to the proprietor: proprie-tor: "Don't it make your blood jump as you read of the European situation?" situa-tion?" 1 ' , , ' Aud the proprietor raked the cheese knife on tho edge ot the counter coun-ter to clean it, and repliwd: "betmiR t i.n Uif in nil Hrwfl nova who cut soap mit diss knile." How can you expect anybody but a warrior to feel aa warriors do? . |