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^ ? The ? j Scrap Book > ? Saving Himself. An Irishman who was repairing a chimney on a housetop fell from the roof and luckily bit several clotheslines that broke bis fall until be landed nninjnred on a wire about twenty feet from tbc ground. After he had struggled there for a few moments the man deliberately let go and fell with a heavy bump on the ground. Another workman ran and picked blm up and asked, "Pbat tbc divvil did ye let go for, you tluntberin* blockhead?" "Faith." was the reply. "1 was afraid the domn'd wire would break." The Game of Life. JJie Is a game of whist. From unseen sources TIM cams are snuineu ana me nanus are dealt. Blind are our efforts to control the forces That thcugh unseen, are no less strongly felt. 1 do not like the way the cards are shuffled. But yet I like the game and want to Play. And through the long, long night will I. unruffled. 1 Play what 1 get until the break of day. ?Eugene F. Ware. One Enough. A Cbtrese missionary, a lady, was taking tin with a mandarin's eight wires. ?i*be Chinese ladles examined her clothing, her lialr. her teeth, and so on. but her feet especially amazed them. "Why." one cried, "you can walk and rnn as we!! as a man?' "Tea. to be sure!" said the mlssionary. "Can yon ride a horse and swim L too?" "Yes." "Then yon must be as strong as a man?" "I am." "And you wouldn't let a man heat yon. not even if be was your husband, would you?" "Indeed. I wouldn't:" paid the mis- j slonnfc\ The mandarin's eijrht wives looked : at one another, noddinsr their heads j Then the oldest said softly: ?."Now 1 understand why the foreicrn I alevfl never has more than one wife, j He Is afraid." Choose Your Words. A lady who was vpry plain looklns: i called or. a friend. This friend's little | crirl earn?into the rootn. and her mother Introduced her. "But. mamma, isn't she awfully homely?'* said the "youny bo|?eful" after the lady's departure. "Why. I.aura. you mustn't say such thincs. It Isn't |>oMte" "I meant it only as a Joke." "But. dear, how much more of a Joke It would have been If you had said. "How pretty she is."" He Thought it fecuhar. 8ome years ago Frank A. Munsey. j tbe magazine man. hired a private secretary. Speaker Reed dropped In to call on Mr. Mnnsey. who was an old i friend of his. The secretary said that 1 Mr. Munse.v was engaged. "All right." sai^ Reed. "HI wait." j At tbe end of half an hour Munsey's j door oi?ened. and tbe publisher aj>- j peared. showing his caller out. Seeing tbe speaker, be grasped his hand nod dragged him Into his office. An honr later, when Reed had goue. Mr. Munsey called his secretary. "Look here. Rlock." he said, "what do you nynn by letting Speaker Reed j wait unannounced hair an hour?" "Wa-wa watb that Mr. Reed?" "It certainly was." "Why. I thought it wath the Rev. Dr. John flail." said the secretary. "Dr. Hal! has been dead two years." ' .'answered Mnnsev severely. "I know it." replied- tbe secretary, i "Tbath why J thougbt it wath tbovery I peculiar." Joined the Rejected. A murder case bad been called in 1 court, and it was extremely difficult to ; 1 get a jury. A long list of talesmeu had been examined with poor results when Mike McGinnis was summoned. "Mr. McGiunls." asked tbe judge, "have you formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence, oi me pri>ou**r ;<i me ujit."Xo. sir." replied Mike. "Hare .ton any conscientious scru- ! pies against capital punishmentV" -Not iu this case, your bouor," M'ke replied. PLEA Individuality i please you not onl; ter of style, for nev EVERY ( is here and you wi l;V . C f ' Ijii .T ? The ? Scrap Book He Ducked. When Srnnrt Rohson. the nctor. n\as a young man he was an incorrigible practical joker. He was traveling $WfT iJB in EnKIand witb a friend, a small Pwiau mnru oiu, one summer, and on the Liverpool train Bill fell asleep. While he slept R o b s o n stole his ticket from his poeker. Id a little white the conductor was to be seen IDVISED HIM TO E8- appr0acb,ng. CAI'E "Tickets. BUI! et out your ticker!" Robson said. Bill, after a frantic search, said, with an oath, that his ticket whs lost. - Hole son then advised hint to escape paying by hiding under the seat. This Bill decided to do. and when the ronductor apjiear- ~ ed he lay mi his J back on the dusty M floor quite invisl If J Robson snrren- p dered both tick- r^T**ZjT . V ets. whereupon ) u the conductor y 11 "Here are two T LJ tickets. Wtiere Is your friend, sir':" Je" "L'uder the seat<-"RAWi.ed awkwardthere." the actor LY F0RTUanswered. "I don't kuow why he wanted to avoid you." m? .-loo/I U#v|.?w1 tliw. I UP COIIUIIVItir. MII|IIIWU, iwnru uu der the seat. mid Bill, with a look of mingled rage and chagrin that hbanged to a sickly smile as hp caught sight of Robsons face. crawled awkwardly fort b. What There's Time For. Lots of time for lots of things. Though it's said that time has wings: There is always time to find Ways of being sweet and kind. There is always time to share Smiles and goodness everywhere; Time to send the frowns away. Time a gentle wont to say. Time tor helpfulness and time To assist the weak to climb. T.me to give a little flower, Time for friendship any hour. But there Is no time to spare For unkindness anywhere. ? Frank Walcott Hutt. Got Better All the Time. A party of tourists wore doing Boston aiid Cambridge. Said one; "So this is the cemetery where they say Jaiues Rtisseli Lowell as a small boy went 'out one Halloween night to look for ghosts. I wonder which stone be was biding behind and if he really did see a ghost." "I can't tell yon. raa'arn." answered the guide. "but over here lies a man who had three wives. On the stone of the first one be had Inscribed, 'My Wife;* on the stone of the second. 'My Dear Wife." and on that of the third. *My Beloved Wife.' If any chosts try walking around here It ought to be that first wife." Needed a Bracer. A Louisville family, whereof a number are young girte. recently entertained a cousin who has rarely veiitt/rod out of the mountains of the Blue Grass State. One evening there was a dance in honor of the birthday of oue of the young ladies, and it was with considerable ditliculty that the backward cousin wah Induced to come "downstairs" and mingle with the gay com puny there assembled. About 10 o'clock a certain young lady, observing that the mountaineer had taken no part in the dancing said; "Mr. Cummins, aren't you going to dance with roe'r" After an embarrassed pause the vis itor said. "1 will if you'll excuse uie i for a few miuutos so that 1 can get j about sis drinks." "Heavens.*" exclaimed the girl, dum | founded by this extraordinary cAndi tion thus imposed. "I beg your pardon." returned the mountaineer, aghast at the effect be had produced, "but the truth is that 1 uever have auy confidence in my dancing uutil I've five or six whiskies."Lippincott's. I SING s the keynote in 01 y in the hat but in 'er before have we :onceiv 11 find it a pleasur s. I Still In the Dark. As every lawyer knows. Senator Daniel is tLie author ot a comprehensive treatise on uegotiahle instruments which is generally considered to be the leading authority on the subject. A friend one day inquired how it was tbat in tbe midst of hif arduous political duties, wbicb must have demanded his constant attention, he found time to write two such exhaustive volumes. "Well." replied the senator^"it happened this way: A young fellow I 1 knew came to me one dev and said. I - J - ?.k? Iisay. Air. j>nuit-i. u?>cs ? um.it. bear Interest?* And-would you bei Here It?? I couldn't answer that slmi pie iiuestloii. So 1 determined tbeu and there to find out all about it it took me a long t J trie, but I did it." "Well, senator.." observed the friend lifter a short pause, "does a sight draft bear Interest?" There was a moment's silence. "Hanged if 1 know!" was the abruptreply. ? IdLIPPIN! MONTHLY M 42 TEARS YOUNG It is a high-class, pure-spirited contains one complete copvrigltted a half-dozen capital short stOTie articles, and the jolly-best humor < month you will find a group of absorbing interest \ Jv SPECIAL FE 12 GREAT COMPLETE NOVELS. 6 > 75 FASCINATING SHORT STORIES. 5 / k 200 PAGES OF N 2000 Pages Yearly of F 25c per copy THE BEST OB' LIPPINC East Washington Square SEND FOR OUR SPECIAI | OUR RESi :? Capital jg Surplus and Profits jSr Deposits jg Actual Cash in Bank ? 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