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Show "JOKE" DROVE OLD MAN INSANE. Prank Played by Thoughtless Youths Has Sad Result. B. B, Messer, farmer, 65 years of age, who lives near here, is hopelessly Insane, duo to an alleged Joko played upon him by his grandsons, sajs n dlBpatch from Huntington, W Vn. Recently he gave a dinner, to which his children nnd grandchildren were Invited. While at this reunion six of his grandsons, ranging from 1C to 30 cars of age, who resldo at a dlstanco dls-tanco from tho Mosser homestend, planned, as a Joke, that each ono should write tho old man n letter tho foll6wlng week. Each letter was to express solicitude for his safety, slnco the writer had dreamed that his grandfather grand-father had died, and nlso was to nil-Sine nil-Sine the old man to tnko extra care of ilmsolf. Tho letters arrived ono by ono. On Monday tho first was received; Tuesday Tues-day the second; Wednesday and Thursday llko letters followed each other with tho samo dark foreboding Tho result was that tho old man nl lowed the matter to prey upon his mind so heavily that by Saturday ho lost his reason and will bo confined In an aslum. Journal Has Practical Name. In Anniston, n town In Alabama, there nre largo Iron works, plpo factories fac-tories and charcoal and coke furnaces. Naturally, there U a good bit of heat there and blasts from tho furnaces greet tho Inhabitants In tho morning and waft them to sleep at night. Two papers aro published In tho town, one of them a morning and tho other an evening Issue. Tho aforesaid heat and blasts were probably accountable for tho name of tho morning paper, which Is known as "Tho Hot Blast," an ap-propilato ap-propilato designation under tho circumstances, cir-cumstances, although It Is true that the policy of tho publishers may havo had something to do with Its christening Few Women Faint. It Is a curious fact, of general remark, re-mark, and observed not by physicians oulj, that fainting la less common than It used to be. It Is rare that one see j a woman carried out of n church or theater, vet forty jears ago It was a mntter of such commn occurrence as barely to oxclto remaik. This Is duo In very prcat lueasino to tho outdoor out-door life jnung women lead In these ilajs of ten Is and golf and other sports. Tho heart aud tho circulation aro btrongt' "nod by ex rclso In the open air nn. It takes a great Bhock to dlsordci the blood b. .nco In tile Lody of the modern woman. |