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Show Puts Job In Second Place. A Humboldt rutidier returned from a year's trip through the east to find that a one-time neighbor of hla, a tuan noted for hla perfect patience, bad b.en having a siege of bud luck. l'lu hearing the newa he Immediately Immediate-ly Bought out the neighbor to condole with him. "Well, John." he Bald, after greet. Ing had b'-en exchanged. "I hear you lout all of your timber through the forest fires." The other man nodded. "And tbey aay that the river cut off your best bottom land; that your boga all died of cholera; that your wife and children had been alck, and that they have now foreclosed the mortgage on your other place. John nodded again. "Yes, It's all true," he said, looking about him at what had once been bla prosperous farm, "all true. Why, sometimes 1 get alrnoat dlacourged." Ladlea' Home Journal. |