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Show f SHORT STORIES OF STREET AND TOWN j two little girls In nice white dresses, and just as Boon as they can get out of the house they go and eat those nasty mulberries. The sight they present when they come into the house la enough to make any neat mother eick. Those trees are a nuisance, and I want It abated." "What would you like to have us do?" asked the clerk. ' "Do? Why cut those trees' down at once, that's what I want you to do." "But the trees cannot be cut down without the consent of the owner." "Well, I want you to send a man and have the limba cut off and If he can't do that without the consent of the owner I want you to have every old mulberry on those trees shaken off and swept into the gutter." The woman was referred to the Street department. A good crop of mulberries is expected from the seme trees next j year. - J. Parley White, chief deputy and clerk under Sheriff Emery, won. $10 on the election and yet he is out $10. It happened this way: A- man entered the registration office the last evening of registration: He was a Democrat and felt sure of party victory. vic-tory. Observing a campaign button of Sheriff Emery on the lapel of Parley's coat he remarked: "I am sorry for you. Parley, but that man Is going to lose this time." "Oh, I don't know," replied Mr. White. "Well, I do, and Tnbet you $10 that Emery is beaten." The money was put up in the hands of Mrs. White, who was' the registration registra-tion agent Parley won the bet but Mrs. White still has the money. "It's all in the family." remarked Parley, philosophically. Some people have peculiar ideas as to what the City Board of Health is supposed sup-posed to do. A few "days ago the telephone tele-phone rang and the obliging Inspector who answered it had the following conversation con-versation with a woman who was on the other end of the line. "Is this the Board of Health?" "Yes, ma'am." "Do you abate nuisances V "We do as far as we possibly can." "Well, I wish that you would send a man out to number right away." "What Is the trouble?" "Well, there's been a dog on our lawn all day, and I want it removed." "Is the dog dead?" "No; I wish It was. .It's been howling for the last three hours. It's a nuisance, and we want it abated right away." "Has the dog a tag on?" asked the Inspector. "I don't know; I won't go near It." "Will you kindly call up the dog tax collector; he will attend to It." "But don't you abate a nuisance?" "Yes, madame, a good many of them every day, but that dog is not in our line." Bang! went the receiver on the other end of the line. During the mulberry season this year a woman entered the office and said: "Is this the office where you make a complaint about a nuisance?" "Yes, madame; what can I do for your' , "Well, I want you 10 sena a man out to my place right away." "What is the trouble T' "Well. It Is Just like this: My next door neighbor has got a lot of mulberry trees In front of his place. I dress my |