Show REFORM REFORMS S Chicago Tribune One day a n few wise de decided decided decided that the tle centipede had too many feet They rhey caught him and put him on an operating table What are you going to do gentle gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen men 1 asked the centipede We Weare are r going to reform you they i answered I What Is la the matter with me me I you iou have e a lot of surplus feet fe We have hate decided to amputate some of them You have no right to meddle with me rue protested the centipede de hI If I I have too many thany ma y feet they will drop off of lof of themselves In time Suppose you at attend ati attend i tend to your own own business and let me mo alone But they paid no attention to his II protest prot S st They bit off his hIt last three feet teet as a beginning Then they removed a afoot afoot foot here and there occasionally occa on taking one Ione of the detached feet and sticking It H Iton Iton Hon on hi In laplace place of other that had been bit bitten bitten ten off and when they had finished the theo operation o they stood oft off and anil looked d at attha atthe the tha th 3 centipede I I Now No they the said you look much in ch better That will do for thIs thU time but when the public has become accustomed d to the sight ol you In your y w w we ice will operate on you again and re rei re 1 I move moe some 8 more re of your Our unnecessary f feet t You still nave have to too many Then they went w t away way and left him Presently a frond frind e came me along wh What t h bo hap haPP happened ed to yoa asked I have been V 1 a lot sf of lobsters he h answered an tved 0 What Md did they do it t lee r a 0 Just JUt bj they the were io ere lobsters saW saId the he centipede er tl bitterly qS |