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Show Selected Her Own Coin. r This curiouB incident of travel In Africa is told by A. Henry Savage Landor: "I wished to' buy a bag of grain, but the woman who owned It would on no account accept silver money for It, nor any article which she saw In my camp. My Somali servant had a bright Idea the only ono he had during the entire Journey across Africa. Ho went to ono ot the boxes of provisions and tore oft a highly colored label from a corn beet tin. Having licked It copiously, ho stuck It In the middle of his forehead. Inquisitive, llko' a woman, the Carayu asked him what ho did It for. Tho Somali said ho had boen Belzed with a violent headache and tho colored pa-per pa-per was a certain cure. The Carayu at onco offered tho grain If tho Somali would part with tho maglo paper. Her JH wish was satisfied without dolay and the woman departed happy," |