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Show In a Thirsty Place. A countryman was inscribing th name of a highly respected, recently departed deacon on a tombstone. The stone rested on an empty beer barrel in bis shop. A friend of the late worthy called In to see how the sculptor was proceeding pro-ceeding with the work, and objected to bis friend's tombstone resting on a beer barrel, remarking: "Do you know, John, that my dear departed friend never drank a drop of beer In his life?" "Well,'-' replied John. "I tet h would give something for a P'nt now I", Chicago American. ' |