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Show referee counted 'ten'?" asked the disappointed dis-appointed backer. "I was a little confnsed." confessed confess-ed the vanquished pugilist. "I thouunt be was counting up the jrat receipt and I was lUlnlng for bigger big-ger figure;. Washington Star. The Sympathetic Chanticleer. Little Eleanor, wbo wm very fond of chlckcDH. etood crying over a dead rooster. Thinking that something some-thing pood oueht to be said, she remarked re-marked between her sobs: "He was always so. glad when one of the hens laid an egg." The Doll Do-ll neator. JUST FOR FUN Made a Big Difference. Senator Aldrlch of Rhode Islund rarely tells a story, but tho position of the Insurgent Republican senators In finally voting for some of the administration ad-ministration bills, and their attitude toward the regulars, when so doing, reminded him of a thin, hatchet-faccd hatchet-faccd woman ho saw once In a street car in Providence. She &tood In the rear doorway of the car and refused to move up, although al-though several tinier asked to do 6o by thrj conductor. "Move up. madam, move up!" tho conductor shouted, pushing her ahead. "I shan't do It," sho said. "I shan't move a peg." ' "Move up," Insisted the conductor. ' 1 "Plenty of room in the middle of tho 1 car." "I shan't do it," paid tho woman, I clinging to her trap. Just then a man ran Herons the ' track In front of tho car and the ruotorman put on hla brakvs hard. Tho car stopped very suddenly. The i woman was pulled from ber strap and I sent skittering up to the front end, i1 where sho banged against the door. From that position she glared back at tho conductor and shouted: "Well, I'm here; but you didn't j make me come!" Philadelphia Sat- i urday Evening Post. I Empty TKIea. j William Jennings Rryan once Joked j about our American fondness for tl- ( ties. j "You all know of th Colonel," he ! ald, "wbo got his titlo by inberlt- j. nnce. having married Colonel Brown's i r willow? But I once met a General who got his title neither by Inheritance, Inherit-ance, nor by service, nor by anything any-thing jou could mention. " 'Genera!,' I said to him. 'how do you come by this ttlle of yours, any way?' " 'Why, lr,' said he. 'I parsed my youth in the flour trade, and for twenty-seven yearn was a general miller." "I know another titled man. Judge Grt-ne. '"Aro you, elr,' I once asked him. 'a United States Judge or a circuit court Judge?' "'I ain't neither,' he replied. 'I'm n Judec of hos raclu.7 " Washington Washing-ton Star. What Sho Adored. In her trim llttlo bathing suit the sat on the white sand, i "I adore Intelligence." she cried. "So do I," said hr. "All the name, though beauty and Intellect never go together." "And do yo nthink me Intellectual?" Intellect-ual?" sho faltered. "No," be confessed frankly. With a faint fluhb she murmured: "Piatt erer." Exchange. Unob$ervlng. "John, did you take the note to Mr. .Foneg?" "Yes, but I don't think ho can read It." "Why so, John?" "Because he Is blind. Ir. While I wur in the room he asked me twlct where my hat-ur, and It wur on my head all the time." Housekeeper. Sport and Colo. "Why didn't you get up bMore the |