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Show GOT AWAY FROM IT NEATLY Lightning Calculator Also Proved He Was Lightning Quick at Dodging Dodg-ing an Issue. Congressman Benjamin G. Humphries Humph-ries of Mississippi told this story at a social gathering as an Illustration of the masterful way in which some people peo-ple can evade an issue. At a vaudeville performance one night one of the troupe offered to answer by mental arithmetic any question ques-tion that might be asked him by those in the audience. So long as the question ques-tion remained in the expected channel there was plain sailing, but finally one man got beyond the buoys. "If you please, sir," asked this individual, in-dividual, "how far off can one hear thunder?" "I am very sorry, sir," responded the wonder on the stage, "but I can't tell you." "You can't tell me," returneed the questioner. "Why, I thought" "Not about thunder," interposed the stage party, doing a quick piece of dodging. "You see I am only a lightning light-ning calculator." Philadelphia Evening Eve-ning Telegraph. |