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Show Causa for Thankfulness. Mmit.-Col. R. H. Pratt, who recently recent-ly resigned from tho directorship of the Carlisle Indian school, once slept In a tent with eight young men, all of whom snored. Col. Pratt listened In disgust to tho medley of gurplos ' grunts and moans. In this horrlHr- chorus each participant's snoro could I bo distinctly heard, for each hnd ! I It something characteristic and mil nn I Col. Pratt writhed and fretted. A I. i on his left snored nervously, with kind of fluttering, wavering acc-!ii His was purhup tho most unbearable snoro of nil Suddenly the simi' ceased Its producer snorted and the: I lay very unlet. ! "Thank heaven," murmured Col I Pratt, "one Is dead." |