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Show HE KNEW HI3 PLACZ. Story Containing a Moral for Many Married Men. John R. I'rortor, prealdent of th civil aen.- commission, was In former for-mer year atato geolcglat of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, and he had traveled all ovor the mountain lectlone of that atato. He waa talking about the peculiar people of that remote country not long ago In a conversation on th recent re-cent disturbance In llreathllt county. "I ice," ho raid, "that Senator Dlackbiirn rny they ara the moat Incomprehensible In-comprehensible p-oplo In the world, and maybe they aro, In general. But ona day I met ono who wasn't nt all ao. 1 had been riding ovor loma mlrhty rough n ndwny. and waa tired I and hungry, when I emtio to a farmhouse farm-house of the uiiial mountain type. I'ottsrlrp, away ut a woodpllo neor th gate wai a man about forty year old, lorg and lanky and with the mountain allow, hut his faco waa brlKbt and a quaint llltio rmllo aeoined lo be (lodging (lod-ging In and out nf It aa bo looked up on my nnproai n. "'Good morning, I raid, reining In my hurio. 'I'd like to soo the man of the house.' "'Thar ain't nore,' h replied Tory gravely. 'The party you wanter loe I my wife, 1 reckon." " Now York Tlmoa. |