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"If I am married, I don't know -it," answered Ball Banium. , The young woman tapped her foot thoughtfully. "Will you marry me "like you thought I meant it at first?" she asked, fin ally. "Just give me a chance," said Bill. "Well, here's your chance. 'For I like your looks and I like your farm and Thomas Williamson, ''whom I came here to marry as an unknown correspondent, doesn t please me overmuch." In 15 minutes Wm. Barnum and Miss Letty Lee, procuring a license from the deputy clerk nearby, were married by Squire Spicer. As they returned hand in'hand to Meadow Farms, they encountered a timid-looking man holding two horses in the road. "Goodbye, Thomas," said M"r$. Wm. Barnum. "I've found me a better man? Excuse me for keep ing you waiting." "Huh!" grunted Mr. William son. "If you'd told me you was goin to -marry that chap, I could have Been mostto'Perryville by this time."' Then, fie watched' them disap pear, sfill-lhand-in-hand,- into the spiclMpan shelter of Meadow Farms- cottage. o o Tp prevent tomato soup from curdling add hot tomatoes with soda to the thickened milk. If you paint your' tin wash basins on' the inside with a good white enamel paint it prolongs their usefulness .DUNGEON BOY'S MOTHER APPEALS TO GOVERNOR. VUOJUJLM r fHaOSHHHP9MK"38I: w i;juiiJWKJJTT-r.l 7a:acifii.Croaj5e-j(7 Cincinnati, O., May 31. Mrs. George Goosey, 925 Betts st., is the mother of Allen Goosey, 15, who, with other boys, has been kept shackled in a dungeon at the Lancaster Industrial School for 15 days because he did not resist the lure of bjrd songs add spring weather, but xaa,ajvvay from re straint and study. x . She wrote a letter Tuesday afternoon-to Gov. Harmon, beg gingjbintf to let her have her boy agaiir and appealing to himto in vestigate conditions at ttie, Lan caster,School. 'Would the Governor let me take Allen home if -I'd go to see him myself?" she asked, when shq 4 W A- J'2f .!