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Show TAMILY TIMS TABLES. "About seven year ago" aaid Mr. WrlfKleaome. "I lost a contract that woiili have netted me M.bftti simply by missing a train; It was the nl.i story of the other man's Ktttug there first. "I mlest-d my train by relying on a time tattle handed out to me at hum, where tlie felt-gram cam to me. " 'Have we got a time table "n the X-X- A O ? I said to my daughter. " Tertalnly.' said she, and she handed one -over. "The tram I would have to take, 1 fnund bv that, left nt It p. m. I gt down to' the station handily to 11 ml that the train hal gone at 9 30 and th-n I ftlprovered there that the time table I had consulted waa one six months old. Perhaips yon never ji w a huuoehvid collection col-lection of time fablea. "Ours is kept, or it was then, in a drawer In a writing tabl; not there arranged ar-ranged in order, but just put in any eav. a no the result was that i hat drawer there waa a mound of time tablet jumbled all tog-ether and containing contain-ing in all a great number, for when they put In a new time table thev nsver took out the coiTespondlng old one. "I had happened not to get a very old one, but one about middle aged;, old enough to be wrong but still voung enoiiKh to make me trust It, which. I plainly, is where I slipped a co: but later I manaaed to Inaugurate great domestic reform. "About a week after that unpleasant occurrence ! carried home a complete aet i of current time tables, and then I emptied emp-tied ih.it drawer of all the old ones, some of them dating hack, I do believe, a year or more, and then I put In those new time tables arranged In order, and then ; I Issued general household order No. 1 on the subiect of time tables, which was to the effect that the tables must be kept, each road in a pile br Itself, and further, that whenever a new time table oe any rwad waa brought In the eorn-- ponding old one must be absolutely and tee tot ally and unhesitatingly throw awav. "This scheme has worked well and It , ha never bee nscs ary te) Issue fen- I eral order No. t." |