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Show AN ABSENT MINDED. A Hall road Man Porkata Ilia Friand'a Ilt-tla Ilt-tla Dollar. Two railroad men not strangers in Zion atood at a Main street bar yesterday. yester-day. Job had asked Jake to drink, the former tossing a dollar on the mahog-ny. mahog-ny. "Say, Job, this is my treat, see?" said Jake. The dollar never moved, and while two shining glasses and a bottle of juice confronted the party, Jake slid a fifiy t cent coin on the board. Thereupon he picked up the dollar and put it in his own pocket. Job nerer said a word to Jake, but tbe matter came out somehow and today there is a general smile among the railroad boys. Job is not dry now but he thinks absent minded-ness minded-ness ccmes high. |