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Show Filling the Long-Felt Want Dean PaJmer, who Is associated with his father, the famous Charlie Palmer, in the business of buying and selling newspapers, says he had a friend who made a trip once to a state lunatic asylum In Minnesota. While strolling about the grounda he happened upon an old man of a benign aspect sitting under a tree. "Good evening," said the venerable gentleman. "A stranger here, I assume?" as-sume?" "Yes," said Palmer's friend, "I am. I itake It that you, too, are a visitor." "Unfortunately," said the old gentleman, gentle-man, "I am an Inmate." "But pardon me but you don't look like " began the astonished stranger. "I'm not, either," said the old gentleman. gentle-man. "My son, I am the victim of circumstances. Members of my family coveted my property. On trumped up charges they had me declared of unsound, un-sound, mind, and I was railroaded off from my home and brought to this place where I have ever since been In confinement. And yet, If only the truth were known, I am engaged in a great scientific literary work an undertaking which has busied me for years and which. If Justice Is ever done, will some day make my name famous throughout the English-speaking English-speaking world." "And what, may I ask, Is this work ?" "I am engaged," said "the old gentleman, gentle-man, "In compiling a complete Index to The Unabridged Dictionary." I |