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Show HUMOR OF A BIG F'jjg On Hiimlay tilht a kind Rontleinsn rang a tloorlioll uptown and Informi-d Ilia in. .11, or w 1 1 1 1 1 it Dial hi-r wm would nut I.'1 home tint nlKht. he vii Iti.lplis: hi oinployfrs to keop .off the Ore. The motht-r got yery ex-cllort. ex-cllort. "Hut he must com home," the cried; "tell him I say he nitist, iinJer-land iinJer-land me, bo muni come home." "lint, my dear lndy,M aitlil tlie man anothlnRlty, "he rani comi home; evnry nun of the employe ate In iartly the aanie Hi." "Well. I don't rare ahottt anybody else; he must come home. Where J la hn nowT" 1 "llo'a no Hie roof." "On the roof." ahe BTesmert, "and he'a got on Ilie hest clothe he twin." "No, niy d'-ar madam, he hain't on hla bout cloltna,'' the man uinnagctl to nIk In. "What'a he rot on, then; haan't he anything: on?" The man liluahcd. "IIo has on a pair of nyeralla. a pair of ruhher hoots, and he la handling t hoae like a Amman." Tl.on tl e men Rod and the mother full a-weeplng. A little plrl heard the rumor that the whole c.ty would burn up, an aha rlnturmlnr-d to irf-isre. Hlie arot down an old eatrhol and In It alio carefully packfd asay a fivr crnta tlmt alie had i eared, small plnr-oa of hrlra hran that ahe prlzH. hrr llmltr-d amount of Jew-elry, Jew-elry, and hrr ticket for the llotnn Symphony conrrrt. With tl o aalrlml claniird In hrr arms ahe dotrrmlni-d to lay up all n I h t and aall I ho worst. I tut the mind nun " l m'l' h for her. (iia.luall her I.' ad i.mk forward. for-ward. Khe was tlel.t e"l--p, hut rl-.ae to her l.r. n, i m.o still eiuithcl ilia precious satchel. A large family livlne. out near Druid Hill park wan nLI-nly awakened ahoiit J o clock on Monday morning l.y aorre kind relative at tlie lp-phoi.n. The (-mid, anxlotia amil meant to wain them, hh.- had received official notice that the city wan all goliiK to he blown up by a aia explor Ion. l-'t them all Ket up. I 'it them dreae them-aelvea, them-aelvea, and I t tl -1 1 ri at on their Jewcla he preiared to fly. The family le-llcvod. le-llcvod. It mt up and hurriedly oWa-nd. oWa-nd. hnt, c.nt. iilovea. and all, clothed In their Hominy ralmert. Klvn minntea paaae.l, ton nilnutea, fifteen. At Inat the pater'amlllaa cnild atand It no longer. He ru-hed up to the telephone tele-phone and cnllr-il up police hradquar-te-a. The rumor waa fnlne. "It ain't ao." he yelled down tl e atepi. and aiamped Into hla room atammlng the d.mr after, and the faintly with averted avert-ed faca went alowly upitalra, un-dreaxi un-dreaxi I aiialn, and went to bed. When told by her mother that the rn had iletroyed her father'! hiial-ni'ii hiial-ni'ii a little girl waa heard to aay: "(Ih, mnmina. will wo he Tory poor, then, anil niut 1 come In through tho hark gn'e an the other glrla won t ae my rngnod drc-neaT" A llttlo boy who had wntr-hed the flainea from a high hull. ling told hla mime that anme one had made a hole In the earth and he had acen brutea. Ilal'.imora Herald. |