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Show Winnipeg's rrurliral Jobor. Richard Burden is a facetious citizen of Winnipeg who goes through life having hav-ing fun with his face. He can twist his features into the semblances of age, mirth, sorrow or distress, and it is one f hij amu ie-nients ie-nients to attract a street crowd and work on tho sympathies of the tender hearted by recounting s"tnu ta u pei-sotial sutler in p. lie generally secures a goodly l arvist of cvi, which he pnui"tlv t-t i ns niciMKD Bt KDnN. ever to seine worth' dnv'.ty. for ha is well off a.id cms his capers "just fox fun." II j Tegards, as his greatest triumph tri-umph the impersonation of a garrulous old woman soliciting a'ins. Cut Mr. Burden can do other things than play practical jokes, however. For instance, he can hwitn, as he demonstrated demon-strated some time ago, when he jmnp?d from tho deck of a steamer and rescued ; a drowning woman. To show hov he appreciates notoriety it may be men-tiouel men-tiouel that ho valued not at all the medal given him for saving a life, but went into ecstaeies when the Winnipeg ; brass band testified to hii heroism by tendering him a serenade. |