Show S A SACK OF FLOUR I. I The rhe selling of or ora ofa a box of or cherries in New York over O a and aua a over oer for the benefit of the Titanic charity fund i s a reminder of old times When tl the e civil was raging an 11 organization was was formed to purchase necessities luxuries and in medicines for the sick and aud wounded V tin In Iii Austin Nev one on day a a g gentleman bought a sack of flour a and d. d calling alling the bo boys is on the street together he explained n d that he wanted to sell the flour for th the bene benefit of the thc sanitary fund Thereupon There Thera upon he appointed a a awen well wen known character as auctioneer Rue a and he lie mounting a box called caned for bids The They fa last fast t and came generous and amounted to a large sum in a few minutes The flour was f finally nally bid in b by a gentleman a at an extravagant n price e. e l Tie The e gentleman paid the monc money and at once told the thc auctioneer to sell the thc flour our again This was done o cr and nd over o each bu buyer cl so soon as he be paid giving giving giving ing the time flour back to be bc sold again W When en Austin was pretty w well drained of cash time the sack was taken to other towns and the then cast east Finan Finally the aggregate aggregate gate sales amounted t to more th than n foi th that Jt one oue sack of flour And because of it many man mansol a sol soI soldier dier in hospital and prison had d quinine and Dovers Dover's powders and blankets and gentle nursing and i delicacies s from t the e ha hands bands s. s of devoted women and we we are arc informed that in the great plc picture ure gallery gaUer of the other world a phot photograph graph of that sack of of flour flam has hos a n most conspicuous ous niche I |