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Show SOME OPTIMIST. - Reference waa made to the optimism of a certain party In the lobby of a Washington hotel the other night when Congressman Willie C. Hawley of Oregon broadly smiled, and said the party In question would have to go some to beat the record of Jim Jo nee. Jim Jones, so related the congressman, lives In an eastern suburban town. Some thne ago a friend, in passing Jim's house, noticed a hole in the ground and a pile of bricks close by. He wond ered . bu t there waa nobody at hand to explain. Further down the atreet he met another friend of Jlm'a. "Say. Jake." queried the first, "what In the deuce la going on down at Jim's? His place Is mussed up like a building operation!" "That's what'a coming onT," answered Jake. "He la building a garage." "Building a garagef' wonderlngly exclaimed ex-claimed the other. "What for? He hasn't got an automobile, has he?" "No. heplled Jake, "but he waa walk -Ing along the street the other day and found a raffle ticket for one that la to be chanced off." Exchange- |