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Show Not Miseed. 'If a man gets an idea into his head that the community he lives in cannot get along without him, the surest ciire is for him to take a month's visit somewhere," remarks E. R. Going of Osawatomie. "When he conies home he will find that the cow has been milked regularly regu-larly during .his absence, that the corn has been husked and cribbed just as well as he could have done it, that the chickens and ducks and pigs didn't stop growing during his absence, ab-sence, that the regular winter literary society has been organized and is making progress without his august - presence, that the roads have been dragged regularly and that some of his own neighbors didn't even know-he know-he had been away. These are just a few of the little things that make a fellow realise he is not so many potatoes pota-toes to the hill as he thinks he is. Kansas City -Journal. |