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Show 'SUenth district, who haI Just taken his seat, nuddenly prang to his tccl a&ln. "Lr. Chairman." he exclaimed. In ringing tone. "I rie to a question of personal privilege!" "The chair recoKnlzcs the gcntle-tran." gcntle-tran." ""I have a ricbt to -demand, air." r.arM the honorabl member, "the name of the bllly-bo-diOKl saioot thfct etuck a bent pla lo my chair!" Chicago Tribune. The Sure Way. "Your boy, Jcfry has a grand voice," sad Mr. Uolan. 'Yen; he nays he's Rolnc Into grand opera." replied Mr. Rafferty. "H want, says he. to have the crowds leanln' forward to catch every' tno he lifta his voice to express thins thai no man but himself can fully comprehend." "Jerry nays that, does he?" "He docs." "Tell him to be an auctioneer, lie can do the name thins and the money Ih surer." Washington Star. Hopeless. Rustic What bu you f labia for, misiter? Fisherman Oh-er-jut for recreation. recrea-tion. JlnKtlc W.H. you won t catch any. There nowt hut minnows and mu1 e-In tliere. Til-Bits. Base Canard. Kind Lady Why don't you brnee up, poor man. Think what you owe society. so-ciety. Sandy Pikes I don't owe society nuttln", lady. What do yer t'lnk I've been doln' playln' bridge whist Chicago News. April Fool. Bobble ran Into the sewing-room and cried: "Oh, mamma! There's a man In tho nursery kissing Frauleln." Mamma dropped her newlng and rushed for the stairway. "April fool!" said Robhie. gleefully. gleeful-ly. "It's only papa." Kverybondy s Magazine. JUST FOR FUN Feared Nothing Then. "How brave!" exclaims the wife, after h-r husband, at the hushed hour cf 3 a. m . h told her of his desperate des-perate resistance of three highwaymen bohd attempted to hold htni up only a block from bom. "I did not dream ?ou sre coursgfous. How dos it happen that you dared to give them buttle w hen any other man would have yielded weakly or weulJ have run away If he had the chance?" "My dear.- explains lb husband. "I had Just flnlrhed nerving myself to meet ye An, explain what k'-pt in out so Into and when I am In that finme. of mind I'll dfy anything" Life. A Rltlng Setman- Tbo honorable member from the |