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Show Indisputable. The Illinois Central railroad runs through a large district of southern Illinois Illi-nois familiarly called "Egypt," out of deference to its largest town, Cairo. When tho fast tracks of the railroad were being laid through Egypt, the division di-vision superintendent of construction went one day for a drink of water to a well beside the cabin of an old Kentucky Ken-tucky darkey, who had found freedom and philosophy, on the north side of tho Ohio river. The old mnn was smoking smok-ing his corncob pipe in the shade of his sycamore tree. ' "Well. Uncle Sambo," said the railroad rail-road builder, as ho hung up the gourd on the well-sweep again, "don't you do any work at all?" ''Me? Yass, sah. I work six months everv winter on a flatboat. on dat river yonder. " "Well. I suppose when we get the railroad through yon will want to come in with us ana got a job on a flatcar. " "What for?" "To work, of course." "No, sah! Ain't ueveh goin to be 'nough work on your railroad to keep no man busy six months in the yeah. Can't vou seo dat river yonder, llowih'. flowin'?" "Yes. what of it?" "Well, sah, de Lord Io made dat river to float things down on. nnd dcr ain't no use bnilnin,3 into competition witH New Y'orK Times. -iHj |