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Show CIRCUMSTANTIAL RVIDENCE. Jabez Enjoyed the Pane Pudding and the Cat Qet ths PunUhinent The Itts flnator 0ugh, of Alahinw. pr"tlt9d law tor many veari? In Hu-faula. Hu-faula. A Ktlfatila nlan tald or him the otbr day: ' In an eloitieut iluch on clrruin-sjtant clrruin-sjtant Ixl oTldonce I once heard Senator Sena-tor I'URh drlv nome the d'nr of this sort of evMnng1 with a good stoiy "He Bald that a .UtifAula woman made one of Miose coin. pond puddings for vhlch tli ladlas of our'aUll- are fHPious. She pill thu (iitd'llng b a eholf to cool and thou he vnl out to have a dims fltt'-t. JHr little Bon Jnb? hm left alon In the houe "Jabez plaj-fd with hla toy ill! he got huugiy. Then he put a extr be neatli the shelf, climbed up and ate all of the delicious pone pudding that hie small luteior ould possibly hold. To oonelud", he did a Htrange thing. "He cauzht the cat, dabbltd het four paws in the soft yallotv cifstard In tli bottom of the dish and thul pet her don-n Hhe seampored thro'igh thfl Vltcb6u Into the dining loom and parlor and thonce out of deorr, On the hare boards of the kitchen, on the dlnlng-icem's ied caipet,aud on the patloi's cariief of girenfshe lrtt lm-partially lm-partially Rtuall colden footpllnt, verv neat, very counpleuous. The boy smllod softly to hlnwelf "And that evening, on hla fa'br"a retuin he hard n wild scampelJiig below, be-low, the banging of the front ffii, a toirlfle meulns nnd the .sharp c'afV of a rifle. "Then llttlo .labes emlleil so'U-, ts himself again. "'Ah, me!' he aa.ld, 'there gc??. another an-other victim of ilroumstantial o"l denes ' " , |