Show TALES OF THE TOWN Cubic DA Palenta a distinguished na tlvo of the bootahaped l klni < loni which from tlmo Immemorial hoa been trying to kick II corner off time island of Sicily and hums so fu only succeeded In kicking IL hole In the Mediterranean HIU the other day lind a perplexing experience In tlc city and county building which his lack of knowledge of time United States lun gouge made more HO Guy as his dls rciiiectful American friends call him put on his thinking cap find did some tail think work Thought ho Da life o single blfpsedncsa no whata cracked up 1 dogSo lo bca Du bach hu lettdii I lln life of du So Imo let up svlHnfr da bnnan and went to ace his sweetheart Trcbclll I hot ltd and Into her ahollllku car he whlHpcrcd the ofttold tale of sweet nothings let was ao curried away that the llrst thine 3hc lee olu wasi In the city and count bulldlnir As everyone knows IL I IH not qulto two years since the books Illcs and other paraphernalia of tho Count Clerks office were removed from the of lice occupied by the County Clerk on thaI tha-I third lloor of tho building and room va huldl 1c made for them in time ofilco of the CUvk of Court on the fourth lloor Our Italian I hero and heroine had evidently not been l notllled of the 1 change and so they I walked Into time ofilcc in the third floor formerly occupied by i the t County Clerk and t which IB now used by the Collector of Internal I Revenue Guldo and bin betrothed be-trothed Hhufded up to the counter where the Italian I managed to make Clerk David Evans mulendand that ho wanted a 1 COm Unvu at onco proceeded to tlx up 1 lliuof license low I miicha aaked the Italian dig tlnt up a io gold piece Dave handed him hack in change Home thlnj like SI 1 at Hijjhl oC which Guldos Jaw dropped and his eyes bulged out of his head lie l ummtpcd to artlenlatu something about price u license BOIL up By this I time tho other clerks In the office had tumbled to thu humor of the situation and wero enjoying the comedy of errors But 12vaiis continued 1 to be perplexed at time Halianu I excited action and wondered whether or not the man had really wanted a license At lermgthm < ono of the oilier clerks put u flea In his ell and the horrible mistake was revealed re-vealed the money vat returned and Guldo was directed to hie with his bride to the south room on tin next floor above tl The only trouble with the young lady hereinafter referred to hi that she Is 1 sIncere sIn-cere herself and thua Is Inclined to credulity credu-lity Her irlends arc well aware of her proneness lo bcllcvo Implicitly what Hhe Is told but her trust In human nature Is uo Kreat that oftrepented betrayals of her confidence have lot taught her to question statements of her friends The other night upon her reluming from u trip up town she was told Go to the telephone Number 8 wants you Accordingly Ac-cordingly she called up Number S Hello Is this Number 8 Yea came back to her In zt rotund voIce Vcll did you wall me7 Who arc you Im N its S Haw 1 haw haw no we didnt want t you particularly but wed bo glad to havo you drop In any time What place Is this demanded the young lady beginning to gel a trlllo suspicious sus-picious This Oh this t Is tho police station Sorry we cant rhat was all but history teaches that she will be Imposed upon jut JIH readily next time There Is in fact net a movement already on foot lo have her call I 103 which Is the State prison f a l shining example of the way children should not be raised was presented lo t the shoppers in a Main street dry goods store one day last week Ills mother was trying to lind something for about one third of what It was worth and the Imp gal on his knees on a revolving seat carefully turning the Ijottoms of his mull little feet toward the crowded aisle Catching the eye of 0 strange woman wo-man he asked Do you want to sit down She said she did not You k couldnt if I I you did Couldnt 1C you did Couldnt 1C you did shrieked the smlll devil in such Ilendlsh gldo that the woman could hardly restrain her yearning to turn him across her knee and administer the treatment that wau evidently evi-dently BO ocrloURly overlooked at home The fond mother smiled proudly at tho satanlc Imp and seemed to think he was receiving the admiration of everybody in the store I t o Tn n burst of confidence n lady on the east sldo confessed the other day that she was a shoplifter You may not believe she saId that a woman could steal from noel a coull 1rom a store by dent but that is tho way It was in my case 1 have a hat with a bird on 11 which 1 wore down town on a shopping trip In ono of the stores I entered there was a wire stretched ovur time aisle with some lace handkerchiefs hung on I 1 got what I wanted and went out I visited visit-ed several other stores called on some friends and wont home When I took off my hat I found something wrapped around the bird Well when 1 unwrapped It I found It to be a laco handkerchief one of the very lot hung on that wire While I was walking under the wire the bird must have caught the handkerchief and I walked all ovor town with tho evi dance body of my crime in plain sight of every bodyTake Take it back Not much T felt more like suing the store for damages for exposing ex-posing mo to the acorn of the public |