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Show MAKES A DIFFERENCE. Some years ago, In a southern state, a small boy had some puppies in a basket and he was trying to persuade per-suade a man to purchase one of them. "Wouldn't you like to buy a puppy,, sir?" he asked. "What are your puppies, my boy," the man questioned, "are they Republicans Repub-licans or Democrats?" "They are Republicans," the boy answered quickly, and with conviction. convic-tion. Much pleased, the geneleman bought one of them. Two weeks later the boy met the same man and tried to sell him another puppy. "Well," asked the man, "what, kind of puppies have you today?" He glanced into the basket and saw that tney were from the same lot as that of his recent purchase. "Democrats," the little fellow replied re-plied promptly. "Ah," the man exclaimed, "but two-weeks two-weeks ago I had one from the same family and you sa'.d that they were Republican puppies. How do you account ac-count for that?" "O! Oh! Misrer, you see they have-their have-their eyes open now." Ex. |