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Show One Way of Knowing. Two friends put up at a hotel, and one of them could not sleep or for some other reason got up early the following morning and went for a walk before breakfast. He returned in time to join his friend at the meal, and was greeted by the jocular: "Up and early this morning, Bill. What's the trouble?" "How do you know I was up early, Jim?" Bill fenced. "I heard you go out an hour 1efore I came down," explained Bill. "How did you know it was me, though?" queried Bill. "Oh, I can always tell your footsteps foot-steps by your cough !" Answers. Doubtful Proposition. Representative Frear of Wisconsin sai.'l at a dinner in Milwaukee: "There has been n lot of talk to the contrary but nevertheless the cost of all kinds of wearing apparel keeps unreasonably high. . . "A rich Milwaukee banker sat nt luncheon the other day when a servant serv-ant entered and said: " 'There's a second-hand clothes man nt the back door, sir.' " 'Good I' said the rich hanker. 'Ask him if he can let me have a secondhand second-hand pair of shoes at a reasonable price.' " Nothing in the world is either nobler or rarer than a truly devoted friendship. |