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Show Slightly Deficient. i Here's one that has leaked out of an (). X. C. ui'ter a couple of years or so : A young man, a tr'Hl soldier, but sadly lacking in book-lamin was up for a commission. He st-agertU through part of the examination to the Increasing bedovilment of tJle ofll-cers ofll-cers In charge, hut when it came o geographical tpiesl Ions Ids Ignorance was limitless. Finally one of the odi-cers, odi-cers, after listening to a piece of astound as-tound I ng misinform lit ion, .'limped to his feet and thundered : "My sainted aunt's black cat! Here you are say you want to defend your country ami, by the whiskers of a ring-toed monkey, you don't even know where It is !" American Legion Weekly. Middle Weat National Cemetery. On the prairies of the Platte river In Nebraska Is located the only national cemetery in the Middle West that of Port Mcpherson. Here under the cut-loiiwnods cut-loiiwnods and evei-givens of the plains lie the dead of the American wars of the west. Jtoccnlly in of tlie World war dead from France have been hurled hur-led (here by Fort McPhorson pnst of the American Legion. On lilJI of the earlier grave markers Is tlie single word, "Unknovn." "We Aim to Please." Convict No. 7111 hear Itlll the Mugg is out again find that he's the most popular hold-up guy In Chi cago. I Convict 117 Yeah. He alwflys glvea Hie victims bnck car fare, so now he i yets the cream of the trade. Amert-:an Amert-:an Legion Weekly. ' |