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Show the colored brethren have any fear on account of Jack's past life Pror-idenco Pror-idenco will find It impoualble to help him In the fight, they might frame their petitions something like the old negro preacher did when he was treed by the bear. The prcachjr said: "Oh, Lord, please help me, an ef yo' kaln't help me oh Lohd, fo' goodness sakes doau't help dat beah.-' Denver Po6t An Ambassador Lit Up. It was while Charlcmagno Tower was ambassador to Russia that a New York city newspaper "spread Itself" upon a fete held at St Petersburg. A green copy-reader produced this result: "As pleasing to the eye as was all this decoration there was additional pleasure in the sight, as one stood at the head of Proapekt Nevska, of Charlemagne Tower, brilliantly Illuminated, Illu-minated, looming grand and Imposing against tho winter sky." Boston Traveler. Crank and Crowded Car. "No, eir," ho growled, "I'm 'frald of germs; I never grasp a strap. The car then lurched and down he sat Plump In a lady's lap. Chicago Tribune. The Baseball Girl. I "Ho would have proposed had you I given him half a chanco." "Oh, well, chances were coming rap-Idly rap-Idly just them. Charge me with an error" responded the summer girl Kansas City' Journal. The Greatest Shock. "What did you find particularly chocking at that play?" "The people I saw In the audience whom I had hitherto regarded as sedate se-date and conservative people." Washington Wash-ington Star. Shoes Costs Savage Nothing. "Why is It, I wonder, that the savages sav-ages have so many more children than civilized people have?" "One reason, perhaps. Is that tho savages' children run barefooted." Chicago Record Herald. Cut Low In the Neck. Walter Did you order beef a la mode, sir? Diner (Impatiently) I did. What's tho matter? Waiting for tho styles to change? Boston Transcript, JUST FOR FUN 1 Got His Receipt. He had run up a nmall bill at thy village store and went to pay it first asking for a receipt. The proprietor grumble.1 and com-plalnod com-plalnod it was too small to give a receipt for. It would do just as well, h$ said, to cross the account off, and so drew a diagonal pencil : lino across the book. "Doea that sottlo It?" asked the customer. "Sure," "An ye'll nlver be askin' for it ngin?" "Certainly nit." "Faith, thin," said the other, coolly, cool-ly, "an' 111 kapo ruo money In mo pocket poc-ket "Rut I can rub that out," said tho storekeeper. "I thought bo," said the eustom-J eustom-J er, dryly. "Maybo yeil be glvln" mo i i i t I a receipt now. Here's yer money." Lippincott's. Delays of the Law. "I understand that you called on the plaintiff, is that so?" "Yes " replied the witness. "What did he say?" The attorney for the defense jumped jump-ed to his fet-t and objected that tho conversation could not be admitted iu evidence. A half hour's argument tpllowed and the judges retired to their private room to consider tho point. An hour later they filed into the courtroom and announced that the question might be put. "Well, what did the plaintiff ay?" "He wasn't at home, sir," cam "tho answer. Housekccpor. A Suggestion. A friend writes this department to slate that he had heard that the colored col-ored churches aro offering up prayer for the success of Jack Johnson when he nieotd Jeff. He sut;Kest8 that if |