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Show HAD BEEN SWINOLrs LJL Ten Thousand Years Ate, b.t U lord Remembersci It. "Wo had an old hotel kceicr In . n of our Kansas towns who was a r of many quaint theories" s d Joseph Tomllnson, a lawyer of 1.; . pendenco. Kan. "Ono of his odd conceits ivns tlia all human beings will come back earth In exactly 10,000 years, and tin they will duplicate In their reappear ance every act and word of their pi-Io existence. This was his pet hobb; and tho old man would expound it t'f overy guest. On ono occasion a couple of strangers whom ho had entertalnct over night and who had listened tr his 10,000 year formula, when starting start-ing away In the morning, owned ur that they were dead broke and couli1 not pay, but ono of them remarked that it did not matter, for at tho end of a hundred centuries they would call that way again, and a3 he would be keeping tho samo house they would cancol their Indebtedness. "No, you won't get off with that dodge," spoke up tho landlord. "I am onto you sharpers. You are tho same pair of swindlers that beat mo out of a hotel bill 10,000 years ago, and you can't work that racket on me again." Washington Post. |