Show PECULIAR OASE CASE OF BLUES ifa uarl gets harked market for life I cian mie she enke you yon marry her 7 new york mercury A pale young man entered a it lawyers ers office and and closed the door with il his is back like a and said ho be wanted a little advice the lawyer told him ho be had bad struck ek the right place and asked him to proceed well what I 1 want to know is if a man marks roc me for life can I 1 collect damages in such vases then said the young man if a girl goes out riding with me to a picnic and she gets marked for life can she collect damages from me tho the lawyer scratched hia his head a moment looked wise then thought a moment again with his forefinger 0 on it his forehead I 1 looked 0 into a volume of patent office reports and finally exar expressed ased the opinion to the young man inan that in the latter caso case there was no possible show of the girls collecting damages from him the rho young man threw down 10 as a retainer did said that the lawyer could consider himself engaged for the season to io prosecute one case and defend the other the lawyer nut the money in his vest pocket mechanically as though it was a matter of form and find told the young man to state his case taking off his hut but and wiping the perspiration off his forehead lie proceeded well I 1 want you to commence against a livery stable keeper for damages you see last summer I 1 hired a team and a top buggy to take a girl out to oconomowoc to the yacht races and we were going to take dinner at the hotel on the way out there tho the al mightiest thunderstorm thunder storm you ever say came up it drenched us from head to foot there a dry rag on me rne and the girl said if there was on her she know where it was but it finally cleared off ou and we ive drove into oconomowoc and an around bythe by the bank of the lake and got out in the wood we had bad on white clothes I 1 had on a pair of white marseilles pants ard the girl had on a white muslin dress well sir ir do you know when wo got out the whole back of us from the tile knees clear to the small of the tile back was as blue as indigo the buggy cushion was blue and when it got wet the tile blue just fairly ran off oft and it was the bluest blue you ever saw well I 1 thought that girl would die when she stood off ot with her back toward me I 1 could think of nothing but an italian sunset on the lake of chromo she waa was the bluest girl truo true blue and no mistake and my my when I 1 went away from her to get a better view of the yacht race and swear a little I 1 must have looked to her like some old blue ruin in a theater well we dare daro to go to the hotel for dinner and were afraid to stop at ait Mc as its the light horse home squadron was in I 1 camp where I 1 knew know all the boys boys and we get anything to cat eat except a glass of beer and a piece of do dog sausage at pewaukee which I 1 bay had a prussian bring out to the buggy the girl got mad because I 1 laughed at her having the blues and sho she speak to me at all on the way home we camo came into town after dark and I 1 thought the affair would blow over but blast me inthe if the blue color set on in my skin and nothing will take it of on I 1 have tried everything but it is just as blue today to day as it was the night I 1 got home from oconomowoc from my knees to the small of my back I 1 am deeply darkly beautifully blue and probably shall be during my natural life and I 1 want tho the livery man mail sued if I 1 wanted to tra travel vel with the circus as a tattooed man J T mind it so much but I 1 dont I 1 never knew know before that blue waa was a it fast color well this is only half the tro trouble uble about a week after we got I 1 back tho the girls father came to me with a gun guil and asked me mo what kind of a colored person I 1 was it seems the blue was just aa as set in its way in his family as it was ivas in mine I 1 explained it to him the best way I 1 could but he lie said there was only ono one reparation a man of honor could mako make in such cases ewes I 1 told him I 1 was trying all the dif different fler articles in tho the drug stores one after another to remove the bluing and as quick as I 1 could find something that would touch the spot I 1 would communicate with him that stood him off for a time but I 1 suppose the hoglo girl rl and her mother kept at him to do something about it and ho he goes for mo me once a week and threatens me until life is a burden a heair heavy eighteen carat burden withal with a blue I 1 ue background I 1 try to be joyous but it seems to mo me as though everybody knew of my cond 1 tion the old 0 d man saya says I 1 have got to marry the girl within two weeks or stand standa a lawsuit ifft if it should become fashionable to paint our bodies sky blue and not wear clothes I 1 could see my way clear or if I 1 could get a consulship to a warm climate I 1 would marry but the idea of beginning to keep house with a husband and wife w ife subject to hereditary heridi tary blues is too much and I 1 kick I 1 have told nobody but you and the druggist who furnishes me with drugs but I 1 think the girl has told everybody she knows because half the girls I 1 meet look at me as though was I 1 while white elephant can you save me the young lawyer said he believed lieveld d he le could but he lie would have bay e to look up the authorities and ho le took down a blue book of the legislature and told the young man to come collie in ill again ail saturday vi with ich 10 more it it certainly will be one of the most singular cases eliat lias has ever been beal before ore our courts and will attract much attention no doubt |