Show why ho he explain detroit free pres I some eight or ten years ago a silvery tongued chap who claimed to be a fruit treo agent swindled the farmers fari acra of this country in r ia ful manner and on one a resident of nankin was so go mad about it that lie c came me to detroit searched ilia rascal out and gave him ft it coundi pounding ing on th the street estreet after lio gut through work he told the ellna J that he would lick him twice mi bad if he ever put hie his eyes on him again and it was a threat to bo be remembered and nursed about three weeks ago the nankin man was traveling in county and as ho he journea along the high highway ivay he lie met the fruit tree swindler that he halted and called out here you arc are again you boldface ra yea yes im here was the calm reply ill v well som I and im going to lick you until you cant holler I said id do iland I always k kap my word climb down here the stranger er clum without a protest slie shedding adding his ilia coat ins w ho struck the ground and a figlia bs se gun in about two minutes he had used need up the farmer and waa was coolly replacing his coat i see here said the manfrom nankin as he wiped hia his nose with ith a burdock you fight better thanya u did eight years ago well I dunno this is my first affair with you I wallop you in fro croul 11 of the detroit Post postoffice office eight years year ago no air I was in australia up to a year ago and you never saw me bc before forc never and was never in nankin never well ill be hanged come com I to look at you TOU I can gee that you you are not the man why on earth you explainer or ask me to you must have thought mo me mistaken oh yes Cs I knew you were tal taken lut but I had bad just discovered that I had bad driven seven miles on the wrong road and was wishing some ono one would corao come along and give me two words of sass I want any tiny explanations about it A rotten sweet apple will cure that black eye in three or four days and salt and water will tighten your front teeth in a week or to o I feel 50 per cent better and im ever so much obliged so long to you from egypt comes the story that gen stone the friend of tho the khe dive diva and like likewise an imaginative american bought a horse from a dedolia and left alexandria with no other company to seek the army of arabi bey after riding for 12 houra hours gen stone returned to tho the Anier american icom consulate and reported that arabi and his array army were nowhere to be found this extraordinary achievement was at once flashed fd to every part of the world it lt is is quite evident from this that gen stone roust must have been at seme some precious stage of his career a member of a legislative invests investigating at i ng committee in the ilia unit united ed ata states tes would be in valuable invaluable in washington |