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Show ADVANTAGE OF INFIRMITY. Senator Depew says that the most Interesting In-teresting instance of true optimism that ever came to his notice was that afforded afford-ed by an old man HvlnaVnear Peeksklll, N. Y. - This old chsp, who could give Mark Tapley polnta on how to be cheerful tinder tin-der adverse conditions, was a character charac-ter In his way, and nearly every one in Peeksklll enjoyed drawing him out He suffered, from' a combination of palsy and St Vitus dance; and when he would painfully duck his head from ide.to side 1n the' manner peculiar to his complaint the effect wasrnost' dls- ressing. . One day a sympathetic" person said to the old fellow: "It must be dreadful to-be to-be afflicted In thla way." .' "Oh. I don't know." blithely responded respond-ed the Peeksklll man. It has its advantages. ad-vantages. Now, it's Just the thing when 1 got to a two-ring circus." |