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Show H NEW VERSION OF HAPPENING H ; Rumor That "Higher Critic" Ha Un- H J 1 earthed a Reviled Account of H 8olomon' Famous Deed, M , f History Ih becoming more iinrollnblo H nil (ho time. The other day n "high- H ex critic." oxcavntlng In the 1'olopon- 1 i nesus. unearthod tho following revised 1 j account of one of King Solomon' fa- H J nious verdicts. 1 It seems Hint there a a child H ( which was claimed In tun women, H . nnd tho case n broiiRht lioforo H j iclge Hnlomnn for derision Accord- H i InK to tho old voihIoii of tho story H , Judge Solomon, aftur carcrul consld- H era! Ion, proposed that tho child ho H cut In two nnd hnlf given to each worn- H an, whereupon thu rent mother pro- H It no iv appears Hint thin Ih not B what ho did at all He win Mill H i Khrowder. Instead of cutting tho child H In two on the Hpot.hu ordered that It H he capitalized Thereupon u company H was fnrrnod and the stock equally dl- H Tldod between the two clalmai.tB. lie H then put the child to work In a sweat- shop. Iloth women, satisfied, went away and lived In euso and affluence B ever after on the proceedi. Life |