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28 THI Story Corner A malrr.n of Hie most determined character was encountered by a young womnn rejwrtrr on a country paper, who was sent oui to interview loading citizens as to their politics. ".May I see .Mr. ? r.n'- asMii 01 a sieru-ioaKing woman win opened the door ai one house. "No, vo l can't," answered (lie iiuilrnn. decisively. "Hut 1 want to know what parly he belongs to," pleaded the girl The woman drew up her tall figure. "Well, lake a good look al me." she said. "I'm I he party he belongs to!" A pleasantry in a lerent paper reminds me of something which happen* d in (he days or my youth. Marcus Morton, Democrat, having Ikhui chosen governor of Massachusetts, a Whig minister, in closing his pulpit reading of the governor's Toanksgi ving ITochuuat inn. punctuated hs signatures as follows: "Marcus Morton, Governor? .ldhn A Howies, Secretary? God sav" the ?fii!iinnr. wealth of MassacJiuselts!"?<J. 1- C. A man who stuttered badly wont to a specialist and aflen ten difficult lessons learned to say quite distinctly. "Peter Piper picked a pec k of pickled poppers '* His friends congratulated bin: upon this splendid achievement. "Yes." said tle> man doubtfully, "but it's s-s-such a d d deucedly d-d-d-d illicuh rem mark to w-w-work into an ordin-n nary c-c-convers-s-sa-tion, y" know."?Everybody's Magazine. Professor (coming from his club holding up triumphantly his umbrella to his wife): "You see, my dear Alma, how stupid arc all the anecdotes about our absent-mindedness. You see. I haven't forgotten my umbrella." Mrs. Professor: "Hut, my dear, you didn't take youi umbrella with you; you left ii at home.' A gentleman living in Leeds nns a smart son. When a friend called re cently, the father said to hlin |?olitely, "I wish 1 had another cigar to offer you.' looking- with regret at the one he was smoking. Now was the small hoy's chance. "I know where they are. pa." lie said, dragging open a drawer and bringing out a box of a choice brand. THE FAILURE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION. "Well,'* observed old man l'otts, "I've spent a heap of money 011 my boy Bill's education?niore'n nine hundred dollars jest to see him through Yale. And I ilin't tllroileh vel 11 chnrolv ~ sore to think of the money I'm wastin' on a boy who ain't got as much sense now as Tie had before he went to college." "What's the matter, father?" asked Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a little hard on Hill." "No, 1 ain't, Mary," answered the old man. "Just to show you: A little while ago I says to him i thinks it was going to rain tomorrow. What fool answer d'ye sorbose he made me?" "I'm sure 1 don't know, father." "He begged my pardon!"?Harper's Weekly. ? PRESBYTERIAN ' - -y' F||' luilllnr* rvtSIHn I iw the il It relieve p-aH tm,ti | catii Ilsi I Buy Y There ar largest in tl lower l'reigl When you i from. 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