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Show OF SMALL CONCERN Why Uncle Eph Refused Informs, He Felt to Be Altogether su. perfluous. - When Robert H. Davis was yQlr and loose in the feet he once' v-. 5 dered into a little Mississippi T. It was a bright day in the early s,j and he walked down one street '"ji and by he came to the county ir ' a two-storied affair, standing "j with tbe sidewalk. "There was a , gro pressing his face against t barred window on the second fh-said fh-said Mr. Davis, "holding on t0 bars and yawning. By and by an negro came limping along the s-toting s-toting a whitewash bucket. "'Hello, Uncle Eph'm,' says the o- in the window. "'Howdy,' says Ephraim, iir;:,, on. "'Wait a minule, uncle,' savs lonesome negro in the window. 'V, - '. time is it, uncle?' "Uncle Ephraim limped right c-He c-He hardly looked up. " 'What diffunce does it make o you, niggeh?' he asked. 'You a- goin' nowhere." " New York Letter ( the Cincinnati Times-Star. |