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Show I . SPANIARD SEEN AT HIS BEST. Illustration of Courtesy and Hospitality Hospital-ity It Would Be Hard to Find Match For. Havolock Ellis, in his "Soul ot Bpaln," has revealed Intimately and charmingly the temperament of tho Spanish people. According to hltn, tho Spaniard is Btlll fundamentally primitive. In proof of his possession of tho primal Instincts of hospitality ' and charity ho quotes the following anecdote from an Aragoneao newspaper newspa-per of a fow years ago, at a tlmo when there was much distress in Aragon. 1A laborer out of work came on tho highroad determined to rob tho first porson ho mot. This was u man with a wagon. The laboror bado him halt, and demanded his money. "Hero ar.o $30, nil that I have," tho ' detained man replied. "Thoro is nothing left for mo but , robbery. My family are dying of hunger," tho aggressor said, apologetically, apologet-ically, and proceeded to put tho money i ' in his poekot; but as ho did so his mind changed. "Tako this, chlco," ho snld, handing hand-ing buck $20. "One is enough for I me." "Would you like anything I have In tho cart?" asked tho wagoner, Impressed Im-pressed by this generosity. "Yes," said tho man. "Tako this dollar back, too. I had hotter havo i some rice and somo beans." Tho wagoner handed over a bag of oataoles, and then held out flvo dollars, which, however, tho laborer refused. "Tako them for luck money," said the wagoner. "I owo you that." And only so was tho would-be robber rob-ber persuaded to accept. Youth's Companion. |