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Show The Kindly Mastiff Spoke for Her. That was u tine passage between the executive of Kentucky and tho wife r theeondemued man, who went to Frankfort Frank-fort Friday to ask for ft pardon. She had presented her papers and sat breathless breath-less while tho arbiter of her fate perused i i iiti a. iimsiilr. the them; and, as she waited, a masliir, me playmate of the governor's little soiir-;j beak not Riven to HtranKers-uncoiled hiuiM'lf from tho nr,', where ho laid boon Kim;, and came up in that friendly way which only Uo-s know how to affect, with perfect biucerity, and, 8eeill(; s"-1 pens and pain in the agiuited features of tho poor woman, ho put his paws een'.lv upon her knees and be-ati to lick her hands. The governor finished the papers, and the petitioner was ubout to Kpculc wlien tho fe-riiii old soldier uaid: "It in not iiecessiiry, niadam; tlm dog has spoken for you," and btraihtaway . biLjned tho document which was to ro-lease ro-lease a living man from prison and en-iihlo en-iihlo hiin to V' tohisKi'ave from his owa hoiiu. Louisville Coiiriei-JourmU. |