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Show Bitterly Disappointed. Here's a story In the week's annals of Maine merchants, this time from Portland. A Portland tradesman waa visited by a friend from the country and among attempts to entertain took tho visitor to the theater. When the lights were low the merchant quietly drew forth a pair of opera glasses and handed them to Ms guest. A con-tented con-tented "Ab" slipped from the man from the country and then hi anna In the air were fa'itly discernible. "What's the trouble asked the host. The answer came li a distressing! plain whisper of disappointment: "OK nothing, only the thing empty." |