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Show POtLY Dr.SCnVED HIS CRACKER Aaka III. Mallar VI halt llarsUll tama, anil Hatail Ilia Miliar, A Philadelphia writer relates tin story of n parrot that protected hei owter'a homo from burglars, who hai entered through one of tho front par lor windows. They crept through thi halt room past tho bird and begat Jimmying open the Sideboard In th dltlng rcom where the silver win kept Ono of the other men gathered up tho costly Turkish rugs on thl floors and another wai taking down t it curtains when Polly spoke ip "Is thit you, Prank!" sho queried Tht burglars stopped ns If they had been she! Polly repeated the question In a loader nnd more Imperative key Thl noise of the parrot awakened her muter, Mr Fitter lie gratped a le v elver, which he had bought only n few days before, and kept under hit pIDow, nnd made for the head ot the stairs He pressed an electric button on tho wall and lit tho lights In lbs hill room, where he taw threo men straggling to open tho front door Ho promptly opened fire, but they succeeded succeed-ed In getting away Mr Fitter then wett downttalra where ho found thl parrot In her rngo under tho plauo. Tho cago was uptet, but tho blrj uninjured. un-injured. The owner placed her right tide up upon the piano, when she lifted her frightened head from under her wing and atked- "Is that you.rrank!" Rlda 1 lalita on Itliixlaa. Hhodea Is Inordinately fond of old things t en old women He has more old furniture, old china nnd curios generally than any man In Bouth Africa Af-rica Anything old and Dutch catchos blm Ho Is half Doer, no matter how he may hate the Dutch How a man cm hate a peoplo and yet so love and tJnilro their arts nnd Institutions Is a mystery "Oroolschur" It nn old-fashioned house. Ailed with old things-old things-old benches, old chairs, old chests, old books, old sllvsr, old gold, old glatt, old tiles, old Jugt, old vases, old pictures, pic-tures, old parchments nnd old wines. Ilbodes possesses typewritten translations transla-tions of all the foreign classics, which bt chiefly reads Froude, Carlylo nnd Globon aro bis favorite authors. He knows the latter by heart To him there Is nothing In the whole fltld of fiction that can compare with "Vanity "Van-ity Fair." Ills favorlto painter Is Sir Joshua Ileynolds Ho owns a Sir Joshua Victor Bmlth In tbo New York Press |