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Show The Colonel's Happy Thought. Colonel Sumpter McBride, of Austin, has been spending several weeks in New York. A few days ago, being in need of j some money, he applied to a Broadway i bank to cash a draft. "What is your name?" asked the pay-inq pay-inq teller. - Colonel Sumpter McBride, sir, of Austin, Aus-tin, Travis county, Texas." "You will have to be identified, Colonel." Colo-nel." This was something the Colonel had not taken into consideration. He knew of nobody who could identify him, and was about to leave the bank when a happy thought occurred to . him. He reached into his breast pocket and brought out ii photograph of himself, and, nolding it under the nose of the bank official, said : "There, sir; I guess that settles it." "Of course that's your photograph ; but how does that identify you?" ' "Well, sir, will you please tell me how I could have my photograph taken if I wasn't myself V' Texas Siftings. |