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Show ?rxrnrr,- - , ...., - . ,. n , , ,,, Time for Final Rites. A colored man had been arrested en n charge of beating and cruelly mistreating his wife. After hearing the charge against the prisoner tho justice turned to tho first witness. . "Mndnm," ho said, "If tlilB man woro I your husband and had given you a I beating, would you call In tho po-j lice?" I The woman addressed, a veritable amazou In slzo nnd aggressiveness, turned a smiling countenance, toward'1 tho justice nnd nnsworod: "No, Jodgo, If ho was mah husband nnd ho treated . mo. Ink ho did 'is wife, ah wouldn't! call no p'llcoman. No, Bah, nh'd call ' do undertaker." Current Literature, i |