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Show row. Vh, they laugh at b(ni at the barber's. Atf be was pott In k bis hair cut the, other day he ahl to I ho barber bar-ber wLstfully: Do ou think I'll have a stronp beard? My father ban a very st ions; one.' 'It looks to me,' nald the barber, 'us though you took after i your iuothr.' " Washington Star. ! What He Wished to Know. "Here's is an article. In ihU magazine, maga-zine, entitled. How to Meet Trouble," said Mrs Wr-dderly. "Shall I read It-to It-to you?" "No, thank you," replied Ms wife's husband "How to dodpe trouble Is the brand of Information I'm looking for." Chicago News. That Strange Feeling. He didn't know he was In love, Wo really must confess He thought the feeling Upon him stealing. Was merely blllonf-nons. Kansas City .Journal. His Revenge. "You shouldn't have propohed to me," Kbe paid. Kentlv. "You might havo known I'd refuse you." "I did know," he said, savagely, "or 1 wouldn't have proposed." Baltimore American. old enmltv between Minneapolis and St. Paul. "It was a bitter ' and irrational enmity." said Professor Burton, '"lor Minneapolis and St. Paul are both really very pleasant places. "U Is recorded thai a Minneapolia j capitalist could not, till late n life, bo ( Ir.duced to xet foot Inside St. Paul, j Ho did one day make the Journey, and after some hours In the neighbor- . ItiR city he returned home analn, n bitter eel to his mouth. ' "'Well, what did u think of our own. tdr?" a St. Paul reporter asked , him that nipht. I "'The uplieM, vilest town I've ever se-n," (he capltollst replied. "The reporter was hurt He Vn'-w ' he could not print anything of that eorl. He bit his lip and said: "'Yet God made St. Paul, sir.' "'CertalDly bo did,' tho capltulist answered, 'but we must always remember re-member that ho made It for the. St. Paulltes; and, by the same token, thouph comparisons arc odious, he mado hell."'-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Family Traiti- .Mm Rice, the coach of the Columbia I crew, was praising a stalwart fresh- j man. "He's mi younp and tender." said I the con.-h. "you'd now-r think be could JUST FOR FUN He Was Older. There is a society In New York that each ear takes a dozen or rq ;abt Side children and j;iviK them the tlm of their lives for a month at an old farmhouse over In Jersey. The very I first thine that lakes place upon the arrival of th consignment Is a thorough thor-ough fcrubblnp "Good gracious, Jakoy, your bath water la as black os ink." the attendant attend-ant remarked to a lad at ,hc end of Ibis distressing reremony. "It Is dirtier hy far than any of the oihers." "Well, an't I two years older "an any of them kids?" Jakey demanded. Brooklyn Life. St. Paul Never Suited Him. Uichard Burton, the ioet and educator, edu-cator, rejoiced at a luncheon In Minneapolis, Minne-apolis, over the disapppar8,1v r- the |