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Show The Missionary's Ittle Joker. A native Maori chieftain, the d cendant of cannibal kinga, is now completing com-pleting his medical education in Chicago. Chi-cago. Cannibalism ended in his tribe, he ays, when Bishop Selwyn convert!) his grandfather; but he tells somi stories of it which have a distinctl humorous flavor. For instance: - Mil aid that once a chief captured a missionary mis-sionary who was anything but a toothsome tooth-some morsel, as he was old and thin, and looked as if his flesh would hi tough. The missionary warned the chief that he would not make a good dinner, and pulling up his trousen, cut a slice off the calf of his leg and offered it to the chief. The chief tasted tast-ed it, said he didn't like it, and passed it to a subchief. The sub tasted it, made a wry face, and passed it on. The next man who took a bite ot 11 spat it out. The missionary was released. re-leased. After he had gone it was discovered dis-covered that he wore a cork leg. Never Orlp Nor (Jrlpe. Don't open a uVor with an ax. use a key! Don'i open your bowels with mercurial pili poison, use CcareU Cuiidv Cathartic! Druggists. 10c, SSc, toe. |