Show THE relationship PUZZLE coln the rho crew rift of a trump to sin on ar canas town it was nt at the hour when tile the divides sh ales of night begin to tall fall anti the carmes winder wander homeward to tl roost the vt weary eary wayfarer gave a last gull culp andraid and said 1 I cannot you in a dudl for your ki n aness madame dut 13 u t here acie isa is a little puzzle which inny serve to while away au an idle hour my father left a wid widower nt at tho the age of forty seven marrical a ilminen of seventeen teel 1 and upon the following day my brother lyman wedded her mother thin then a widow of thirty six in due time it a sou son was 10 bom ia to each couple it mily may afford ablord you rou sonic some little amusement in estimating the vatious rc relationships my father now bears bean to lyman to clymans wife and ly lay mans child also tp himself und anil his hia own ovin wife and child you might anso calculate the relationship lyman bears to his own wife and child and to lis ill s father and the alic lat batters wife and hild thild t but I 1 must be on wy my way good evening aud and he be was ils gone golle when isham isbarn G hicks tho the of the benevolent lady returned lome home home what later lie he found th tho elvife wife of lis bis bo bosom suffering float a violent headache the te ic sult suit of an hours gnip knippling pling with the puzzle she repented repeated it to jilin him and retired nine much car earlier ier I 1 than an was as her cr wont and isham 0 1 laughed aloud and declared that a woman had no lead head anyhow and sat him down to work out tho the puzzle in fout it en minutes when mrs hicks awoke in the gray of the morning her husband was not by lier her 11 tile side As she stepped quietly to the sitting room door site heard jilin him say in dreary nl monotone botone lamins laby baby is jhc alic half brodlur of his fat fathers lier s stepmother her i wh ho is isa lo bi sfa father rs s ind and his mothers ter tind oli detar me mc how hon my head bead achas 11 the leaves leares of a huge scratch tablet lay about liim hini like a drift of snow nil all covered with figures and diagrams and before him was a sheet setting forth fourteen pr propositions po of which the following is a fair sample the older man mail is the father in law of his mother in law and the husband of his grandsons half sister who is also the tha childs grandmother step dispi of auburn lair hair layabout lay about on the table hicks remained in bed all that forenoon w ith ice on oil his brow and muttered drearily sentences cs like these ills his wife I 1 is his babas halt half brothers half nephews lews mothers son in law no that it his sons buns wife is his own mother in law and mother of liis his grandsons half hister bister auml um unit nis lais mother in law is oh dear mel in the afternoon he be went down to the lumber yard and told tile the puzzle to the men there assembled and they all laughed him to scorn and then figured on the smooth side of thirty six square feet of and had three fights without get ting ling as far as ilick bicks i had gono gone in the still watches of the night A husbandman who drifted in to trade horses became involved and beat his steed all the way home the puzzle permeated every nook and corner of the village two popular members of the Y st C A slapped each others faces over it colonel hooks pulled the noso nose of a tourist to i whom horn ho was trying to sell land and all tho the boys in town ought fought over orar it one john P smith attacked the wife of his bosom with ferocity and a scythe and knocked her into at th the well vi chere he she speedily drowned A mob chased sir Mr smith thirteen geographic miles and gave him five minutes in which to show cause why vi hy he should not dot be lynched whereupon he declared that the demise of mrs smith was attributable to chino providence and A stone over which she had stumbled the same throwing her into the well is his solo intention had been to bestow upon her a w well ell merited castigation cati cn gation I 1 for introduce the relationship puzzle into tho the household thereby assassinating the peace aad harmony of the same bame this announcement resulted in a prolonged and earnest debate upon the pirt part of th the estrin string hand bind which continued until the sheriff anti ami posse rescued mr smith and bore him to town court wm was in session ion at the time and the case came i up ip for trial on the morrow it was dark when the jury was sent out they canvassed the c case ase th thoroughly oro hicks who was vas va s among them detailed the puzzle end and e exhibited it his N tally sheet at 4 1 lit in the morning the door was burst open aud anti the jury tell fell down the stairs fighting like demons the stove biad d been overset and the biff building liling was ivas soon 11 in flames the hook book and ladder company 0 n y 11 ll pil swirled up and ran over three ge gentlemen alel e n two of whom immediately assaulted two firemen whereupon the whole body of the latter attacked the entire jury impartially the tha alarm of fire aroused the village and tha majority of the citizens appeared on oil the scene judge B denounced the tha firemen for rioting in the faco face of the destroyer and was nas attacked by the foreman of the company several citizens went to the assistance of the judge and three men whom lie he had fined filled jumped in to help the foreman arid and thus tho the fight waxed the fire wi w i forgotten the rival editors wrangled anti anil then fought a and nd their printers took sides the members of the various I 1 lodges could not stand by and see sec their ir brethren mauled hauled and they too rushed into the fray tito tha her mr marks mounted a hitchrick hitch bitch rack and cried peace and a man whom abom he be bid bad married to a harridan a week before smote hirn him with au an ax helve belve and deacon cronk ran to the ministers assistance in three minutes a nearly every churchman in town was in in tho fracas the rival undertakers fought every ram man who had a 1 grudge against any other orbi r man tried to got gat satisfaction then aud and there and all the debtors attacked their creditors creditor A gale gala had sprung up and before the fire had been got under control the major portion of the business part of the village was in in ashes this throw threw many men out of employment and they moved away soon after others seeing that there would be no boom for many nio ou departed several capitalists who had been about to nake make investments immediately folded there tents the grand jury found true bills a adust many of the participants in tho the great ecat light fight and they till nil fled like t alia lie wind nobody would buy property and the real estate agents left the number of tile voters was so reduced that a rival town secured the county seat scat and with it went everybody who could get away tito the newspapers both went many ot of the buildings vt ere loaded on trucks and hauled oft off to the county seat and a cyclone razed all of the remaining build ibbs und anti put an ind cad to the village lor for good anti anil all and nil this was the work of there the relationship la tion ship purzle behold how preat great it lame flame a little litte spark kindseth kind kindl leth etli now new yot boik k world |