I * HER DEFENSE SEEMED GOOD
" Ump of Conscious Innocence" on
Words of Woman Accused of
Stealing Boots.
A bright spirit of earlier days,
Charley McKeand, an advocate ready
for any emergency, dropped into
court too late one day to read the
depositions, and found himself faced
with the duty of defending a woman
for stealing a pair of boots. Tie
burst into a moving harangue, and
said he would read the very words of
her defense on arrest, since they bore
"the stamp of conscious innocence."
Ho seized the depositions, and went
on: "Ha! Here we are. Oh, h'm I"
He faltered a litMc when he saw
them. "Well, genllemen, this uneducated
woman does not put it as you
or I would put it, but I said I would
read her words and I will. What
she says is: 'How the hell could I
have the hoots when he ^a?
wearing them ?' And, gentlemen,"
continued McKeand in a coneludiinp
burst of eloquence, "1 ask you with
some confidence, how the hell could
she?"
PIANO WASN'T REALLY HURT
But the Scotchman Admitted "She
Slipped and Broke Some of the
Front Teeth."
A great. house warming was taking
place at the nrnigal-M'Dougare
place. There was game to hunt,
ghosts to ditto, am! good food and
\ wine withal. There were bagpipes
and haggis* dancer* and singers. To
erown all, Dougal-M'Dougal had ordered
a 200-guinea piano from Lon/don.
He went up to town, hut decided
not to t;;kc it down with him,
. *' as it was too bulky. Instead, he liad
it sent down Wlmn lw> flnnlli- r.v.
turned lie asked his trusted retainer
if the piano had arrived all right.
"Weel," the former replied, "she's
as rieht as ye cud expect. She slipped
as she was ganging tac the boose, and
broke a few of her front teeth, hut 1
cannu think she's really hurt."
*
MODERN MORALS.
Bishop Wilson of New York said
the other day that the morulity of
New York politicians was not all
that could be desired. j
"In polities, as in some lines of
business," he continued, "the remark
of the very cynical young woman
holds true.
"'So you are going to marry
George at last,' she said to a friend.
io 1...
"M!e is I In* most upright, highminded,
honorable follow in the
world,' was tl\o enthusiastic roplv.
, " 'Goodness, my dear,' said th<
cynic, 'you'll starve to duuiii.'"?
Washington Star.
P
REPORTER GOT IN WRONG.
The reporter's life is a happy one.
When he snlTcrs an indignity the
course of that, indignity is usually
beneath consideration, or else the
insult is due to some misunderstanding.
A reporter went to a house the
day after a wedding and said to the
servant who answered his ring: "Can
you let me have some details, please,
of yesterday's ceremony?" The
servant frowned. "No, I can't," she
said. "They ate every crumb! And
I think you ought to he ashamed, an
able-bodied young man Tike you, going
around begging forro'd details!"
FAIR WARNING.
Peasant (reading over his accident
Insurance to his powerful wife) ?
Look here, next time you fall out
with me you'd better take care. This
policy both that, when I puffer from
J circumstances over which I have no
r | control I don't, get anything.?Fliegende
ftlacttcr.
INSULATED.
| ^ "Gaddy ia in no danger of a
hock."
"Why not?"
, "Too much rublier business about
him."
"Haa he cultivated manners?"
"ITe ought to have. He went to
an aericiiltnrAl coII^t*."
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V .
The inhabitants of the Balkan
|uut iium diu nut mo wartiKe, ierocious
people that popular iinaginaHon
in th:s country is ant to picture
them. The Servians, for example,
are a genuine simple peasant folk,
v.hose home life might be eopietl
with advantage by thf populations
living under the rule of the great
powers of Europe. The Servian
Tact ices the art of co-o|>oration,
while civilized people are learning it*
lements. Every little homestead in
. ervia is a family commune, while
in some of the mountain districts exists
the zadriga, or communal vil'age,
where everything is held in
ommpn and where the oldest man is
he guide and commander and final
hthority as to the mating of the
tcople in bis district.
THE MOCKER.
j "I understand you are nt ou*s
with Rinks. Dubbleigh," said dor
rocks.
| "I am tiiat!" returned Dubbleigh,
I with fervor. "No more Rinks for
me. Last Sunday, when my new ear
j lay in the ditch, I asked Rinks to see
f he couldn't find snmrhndv or cnitm.
thing to pull it out, nnd flic blister:ng
idiot c'T'Tcd mo a corkscrew."?
Harper's Weekly.
AS FAR AS HE'D GONE.
"Do you love them that linte
you ?"
"Not quite, but I love ihcm that
liute my enemies."
MOT IMPOSSIBLE.
"Do you suppose she married liirn
i'or lover"
"Well, such things have hap- j
lcncd."
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JUST THINK OF IT!
A. Four Hundred Dollar Piano
Absolutely Given Away!
That advertising is now a science is
ignin demonstrated practically to the
uying public of this section by the
wonderful advertising system now em.loy?d
by the enterprising business
:ouse of McElhaney & Co.. who are
oing to give away ABSOLUTELY
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n August 1 the beautiful CLAXTON
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' l THINK OF IT1 A Four hundred
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he enormous sum spent in advertising
ihe fact of McElhaney & Co. giving
iway a $400 Pidno is a stupendous unlertaking
and it clearly demonstrates
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ittle ahead" of the spirit of the times.
Every purchaser of $1.00 worth of
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00 votes on the Piano. The person
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c'.rength, until I feel like another perron."
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We give back your money If VInol
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AT MILLS & YOUNG'S STABLES.
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