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r!gS? riglit, while others looked indig- nant. Unly one, a plump little woman who had sat jurfobttusive ly in the corner,, acted. Gladys had hardly taken-breath- Tor her second, installment of sobs, when this, woman was kneeling beside, the child with atms protectingly around her, murmuring --mother comforts which the two eavesdroppers could not hear, but -whose nature her manner made quite" apparent. Well,"..said Horton triump antly, "now what" do youfhmk?" "Worked liketa charm,"" declar ed Engle- with enthusiasm. "That's the wife for ine. I don't care whether shccan cooloof not. Now, you go in and fell the. rest of them - that uve thatfged my mind afcoufv employing them? and bring thatisweet little tubm an in the corner back with you, A closer -"view strengthened Engle's convictions. 'Although no longer young, shewas ex 'tremely pretty in a subdued," gen tle way, an ideal wife for? a-mid-" dle-aged.rnanuiacturrswi;th three , difficult children. "Let me see; Fm afraid IJve"fbV gotten your name," began Engle, as she stood with downcast eyes? before him," "Mrs. Hardwick," she fold him in her soft voice. "What?" exclaimed Engle. 'Ofa, I see a widow." " ' "No; my husband is living," she replied; "but lie's out of work, so" I am obliged to do something to help take care of him and the children." r t - , CAN'T FOOL HIM m "TI&u "Movin picture!' Huh! (jan't fool Silas. y Been, sfandin here "half anliounand she haintmoved ,aiHnch"!" " - - ' - oo NO GIFT' " - ' The following" conversation vas enacted oriadowh-town trol ley car one mbrnhijg, between two young "Irishmen, 'orre of whom w3s the bearer bf a finely black ened eye'. 7 " ''Say, Jim," said the party with uninjured optics, '"who give yez the black oye?" "Huhl who give me ut?' Who gfve me tit?" replied Jim, with . swourjded ptide sticking out'of his one sound illuminator. "Nobody give me ut, yez shlob. Ol hod to foight loike heir tu git -this?' , o- ' ' Did You Know The term "Mossback" was Sr iginally applied to democrats aft er the civil war, the" word being taken 'from that mud turtj.es which lie in stagnant vjater accii mulate a green mossy .growth on, their shelly