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nan m 11 a. hi 1 -A NEW ONE - The old gentlemanwas very jabsent-mjnded. He met a lady in ,a car one day and shook her ha'nd vgnd said : - ; v riow s the dear husband?" "Boo-hoo, he's dead," said the lady, bursting into tears. "Don't you remember the funeral" last rWe'ek?" -rv N "Why, yes,"!said the old gen tleman, biting his lip. "Whyyes, pi course." A -Paixt r1a-rc 1afr Vi a -nf' ffio gSady again:' ; - How do you do? he saidi And how is your husband thfs bracing weather? ' "Still dead," said the lady. And- the old gentleman blushed. t "I'll make a note bf that," he fluttered to-himself as-he hurried away. And a short time afterward ""fine Vrr! WHY, ADOLF,') Wat SACK ) 5 t j x SOONER 4 I J wh"en".he metrth'e lady-once more the thought instantly shot info his mind "Husband: TroubL about husband." So he adopted a Lvery sympathetic air and said, pressing her hand: "Why," how do you do?, And your poor dear husband, he-" "Oh, he's fine' interrupted the lady. "We've just got back from our honeymoon."- f WHENTnJElilES For onegloribus week he -had been "dashing' it" at a seaside town.. Now he had bought her the last ice, the last Bag of straw berries and the last bpic of choco late, and was. waiting -for the train. On lightning wings the time for parting had arrived. He leaned disconsolately from the window' of the car. - i , "Goo'd-by, dear !" he murmured mournfully. "I'll write tomor row." . I ' ' 7 "Good-by, Bertie !" she return ed, with brave smiles. "Don't forget, now. Hasn't it" all been splendid?" " "The time I've left behind me' will always find ylplace amonf; myv.sweetesCmemoriesJ' he -said, sadly. Then the engine whistled and fate bore him away. "Yes," he sighed; as "he surveyed ah emp ty watch chain, . I shall always remember the time I've left be hind." ' - ; "Did you see that Jim got ten years for stealing that hoss?" Ji t 111111 llgUL, LUU. VV 11 V U1U11 L fie buy the hoss and not pay for him, hke any other gentlemaui, - J