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My dear sir, rest easy; thing just as easy to work, only by another name "—Mllwaukee Sentinel Oldest Inhabitant. “Who fs your oldest inhabitant?™ “014 Bill Davis” “Where is he living?” “He's In jail. He wuz sentenced be Lung 80 years ago an’ ez bin fight The Proper Sensation. “How does the razor feel, asked the silly barber “1 give It up.” snapped the victim, “but If it realizes how it makes my face feel It ought to feel ashamed." — Philadelphia Press. . sir? Preserves. Mother's putting up preserves; Father's awful sore, For it gets on father's nerves To put up, with and for — Puck, A CINCH. : him out of your will If he mar her—No, the idiot would marr) lustrated Bits So Budden. “Your sudden marriage to Mr. Sap ) sald the ex widow's friend, ‘sur iia me’ f reckon it surprised him, also,” re f ‘he bride, with a smile — Hous vast Evasion. 3 Seve quit keeping up appear valley. Philanthropy at Small Cost. | + Friend—Say, old boy, how Ian the world did you, with your small income, get such a reputation as a great philan- | thropist? Sharpp—I announced far and wide that I would pay the rallroad fares of all the unemployed who wished to go work on farms. “Well?” “Well, total sents.”"—N. Y. expense Weekly so far, ten His Choice. Tired Tatters—Say, Weary, ef youss had yore cholce, which'd youse rudder be—hang'd er 'lectroduted? Weary Walker—Dunno youse? Tired course, Weary Walker—'Cause why? Tired Tatters—'Cause dey let a fel, | Jer dle a-settin’ down —Chicago Dally | News. Which'd Tatters—'Lectrocuted, uy | —————————— | An Annoying Mistake. i, “Wasn't It scandalous the way Mrs ‘Waddson acted at the Cashington's dinner?” “l hadnt heard about it. she do?” i “Flirted desperately with her hus | band all the evening, supposing he was | somebody she bad met somewhere fn Europe.”—Chicago Record-Heraiu. What did A Medical Student. Mrs. Donohue-—~Th' druggist sez ye're | to take a wineglass full av this medi- cinew anst ivry hour durin’ th’ day Mr. Donobue—An’ durin’ th’ night, phwat? Mrs. Donohue—He didn't say, but | | suppose he manes ye're to slaep off th’ i iflects av it thin —Puck Insinuation. Mrs. Newcomer—Were you ever in ‘ashington? Mrs. Upperton—Yes, my husband served two years In the house of repre: sculatives Mrs. Newocomer—Indeed! By the way. how much do the pages got a lyear?—Chicago Dally News. The Best Way Out. Wedderly—You look worried, old man. What's the cause thereof? Singleton (with a sigh)—Oh, several things Wedderly— Well, take my advice and marry one of them and Jet the others go. I've had the same experience, — Tit-Bits Value of a Reputation. Judge (indignantly)—And you de- clare this man to be Innocent, even after hearing his own confession to the crime? Foreman of Jury—Wal-al yo see, yer poner Ey a iw, that : ) rust him mow - Hank Scrubbins: Confidence Man 6] HAD sold a Iarge inv foros of the general dise store in Chicago Clty and we sitting In the shade in fron store walling for my at the little statio withstanding the fact place consisted of a ra train eral wretched frame houses ted the adjacent land extuited in its metlrog often used it to tanta who vould pot boast su The shade the hot dusty Kan i relief from the burning sultry had baked the flelds all day breeze started to blow corn flelds to rustle and flelds to sway in graceful waves I had been watching a was by two large black down the long road, leaving a low cloud of dust behind; the lene driver was an old man, a typical old settler, As he tied his horses to a («1 companion exclaimed “Gy gum! There's old Han bing. Gets more letters a goods and getrichquich any other fellow in the « “Does he ever bite?’ I asked “Don’t know about that i ways called him a pretty smoot till all the green goods men 14 country got to warmin' up to him like he was an easy mark’ After Mr. Scrubbins had beer duced to me he read a lette him by the postmaster Wher was finished he elevated the railing, took a bite from tobacco and sald “Well, I reckon. boy y heerd about me turnin’ confiden have you?” “No, how's that? asked master, all attention “Jest lke thi Last sold my wheat | heerd Dobson “Salt Marsh by payin’ the delinquent ¢ a quarter section to it and rock sat, and when t's drs smooth as a billiard ball Wor body have It because nothin’l on it; and as it joins me on I thought | might find uze fer | was dead set against it for aw after I promised her one of t fangled washin' machines ¢ right, and so I hitched up and v over to the county seat a dirt cheap The boys all me fer buyin’ It but a fl Jest sold 2,000 bushe t to spend part of it anyhow “Well, after I had it fer x and found the land w account to me Lize and my Marthy got talkin’ about movin to some city where there was a college Lize seen In her ‘Fireside Helper as how we could get minin’ stock, money or soméd good business store for our whole plum farm and they kept nag gin’ me to do something So I writ « one of the fellers at Chicago and In a few days got a letter from : f in Kansas City, who fez he was the other feller's agent Well we i tin’ letters and paper from fellers that sald the know my old dad back in after awhile I writ to one Kansas Clty to come and loo} farm “Well, the feller came there at the depot, just as It ¥ of evening n drawn horses approach arnt no daughter SHAM. "I MET HIM ATTH dark He a big deal deal on in Kansas had to get back, said he could kK over the place that night and get back in the mornin’ and Lize to go with him and see his part ner in Kansas City. He had a letter writ by a lawyer in the county seat sayin’ the records was all right He was dressed out fit to kill and talked like greased lightnin’, and didn't want to see no one ‘cept me and Liz “Well, by dad! didn't know that salt soz he was (n vanted me and marsh was so purty till 1 seen it that night. Most level as a table and roll in’. Ought a" seen the feller eyes | pop out—looked like ‘twas worth $100] an acre. So Lize and me didn’t want! “So the feller bought our tickets and | we went to Kansas City on the three] o'clock traln next mornin Met the feller’s pard as we waz climbin’ off the union depot and was goin’ to mild a better one soon As fhe railroads would They took us ta 8 hotel tlm] | ellers =ald nol to worry as they owned the ho see that there was® ne pay Seems as they was farm for apotlher feller the fent first they wanted to trade $1¢ bills as was stele from the mint at Washington, D. C., but Lize she kicked in tha Phen they wanted us to take r minin stock in a gold mine in and Lise Kicked afin Ihe then sald they guessed they i take only the north quarter as After dickerin® awhile we rec ed $75 a acre was a purty fair price, i ones of them fellers s«z he had in a suburb worth $1550 he trade betause he =aw | i honest feller ail went out in a street cg even i en it was only worth about When we got down to kicked again and 1 was gettin’ ¥ rousin’ boilin’ het and so | whis to oue of the fellers to take her and buy her someting That there went and bought her a silk dress and a hat and some beads and ali ime back she was ready to sign anything So they asked a who was loafin’ papers, Well, lawyer up the ready and he bad ‘em all we signed ‘em and 1 Cri AUN BOUGHT HER A SILK DRESS" lives in Kan:zas City and runs one of them ines down to run the i me and Llize come I watched fer them fellers fer ral weeks and at last one came I watched him drive up the marsh and then he stood lookin’ ‘round not knowin’ what to do next He come up to the house, and after a lot of loud talkin he give in and said {| sure 1d one on kim. He fin'lly sez if 1¥ him a ticket to Kansas City he ill deed the :alt marsh back to me and so | bought the ticket and here's the deed The salt marsh is mine” By gum! that's a confidence scheme, all right,” sald the postmas ut what 41d vou do with the b (bd will Well, you see John Kind a took a fancy fo that store and we sold it to him and Marthy is spendin’ the money at college “I guess there's your train comin’ over yonder, mister." Kansas Clly Star PAYS NO RENT OR TAXES. Former New York Policeman Dwells in a Peculiar-Looking House- boat in Ireland Dublin —In an inlet of the sea near Renman County Kerry Joseph D Hagerty, a retired New York police nan, lives on a pecular-looking houss his wife and four children ie enjoys ideal liberty, paying ent por taxes He came to {t listrict two years ago and after staying with relatives for awhile de- cided to build hiz houseboat It 1s 40 feet long and contains a kitchen living room and two staterooms with bunks [t cost him $2,000 The roof, being flat and indented, is used as a water tank, fresh water being procured from a nearby stream; by an ingenious arrangement of pipes this an be conveyed luside for use in the range boller and similiar purposes. On is a little plot of ground on which ire grown vegetables and poultry Is cared for the use of the Hagerty fam- biy saore We want no interference from any sald Hagerty. "We are free born ple and we Intend to remain so i ly else jn this country ($s a slave. If they aren't, why do they pay 0 llve on the earth that God made for them? 1'm busy, good day.” LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID When er the fa'r fame f frie The shadow of stead Of word disgrace shall | of blame, or pi Ding gol be 3 » low but cheek of shame witht Worse Yet. Briggs These lawyers are no re gpecters of persons When | Nas cross-examined the other day | was made to feel like a thief Griggs—That's nothing The (ast time | was cross-examined 1 felt like a common, grdisary president of an PRICE ONE CENT \ REMARKABLE THANSFORMATION A YOUNG BROOKLYN WOMAN CHANGED INTO A MAN. STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE smorphosis Occurs at the rty-Four and She Will ife Anew In Mas- uline Role, { \fay Hest an es- f firookiyn, who has x to which she r+, has been trans. to a hospital a few then the strange ng over her and mas ing dominance. She ; stitution after anop- sme days 420, 4 man. completion of the metamorphosis ra woman in experience and feas but a man in form and physical y for a new environment, life, was impressed upon ie N. Finley, the physi. harge of the case, and she ule, there to don mals + a new name and fit hers i which this amazing re has necessitated. wi Miss Best was a girl, with an abnormal fondness for the sports of boys. Asshe she would have liked to play basctall and done other mannish things, but was restrained by a sense of delicacy As a young woman she was tall, broad shouldered and very handsome, with fof black hairand Llue eyes. She was strong, bad rather large hands and feet for a woman, and walked with a mannish stride. In spite of these things, a slight harshuess of voice and the increasing growth of hair on her face, she never bad the slightest suspicion of the change in life she was undergolog Her ideals remaioed feminine; she chosa girl companions. She painted, sewed any} did all the other things that women do. She hag men friends and girl friend acd was popular with both, Miss Best devoted herself (0 severa women's clubs to which she belonged £rew ge LEAVE THE HOSP = DON MALE ATTIRE to her church and to her charitab work, living a life of usefulness and endearing herself more and more to b friends Miss Dest was always aware of th streak of mannishness in her, but did pot think it was any greater than had manifested itself in many other women whom she had seen. She did not think seriously of the matter until a few years ago. when her beard began to gro £ fast that It was necessary for her shave every day. In spite of this gro she kept her secre! from everyo save those who lived with her. Thi beard humiliated her to some ex but vever gave her the slightest -suspl clon that she was undergoing any sex ual change It was a little over two weeks ag that Miss Rest was brought to asuddi realization of her condition, She«kney then for the first time that she was Bo a woman but a man, She was prostra ed Ly the blow and consulted her physis cian % Dr Finley wes brought into the © and he had Mis: Best removed to t hospital, where an operation wis P formed which confirmed what Best had suspected When the news was broken to M 3 Best she was very ill for a time. was told however, that outside of shock =he had nothing to fear, that could assume the sex of a man fre and without embarrassment, but was obviously impossible for her to tinue to live as a woman, Miss Best left the hébpital” in clothing in which she cutered and y to her home in Brooklyn. 1 rangements were quickly made removal to St. Louis, from which she will make her plunge into the sa man. Before Miss Best could \ the reallzation of the eh had come over her prostra and she has been {IY In b Mustn't Bite Ris Des Moines, la~AnS In straining Henry H. Duke his wife has been issued trict court on complaint of who asks a divorce on the cruelty. This cruelty, she sists id biting her whenaver ragel. She makes the fu lon that Duke #4 In the habit bis children to Pula,
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