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new york there is '2 sisters in a famely up in the.bronnix that aint been speaking to each uther for sevrel days and they are both very lovely gerls, too you see, if was like this clara, he older one, is about 27, and she was kind" of beginning to slip into the spinnister class, when a cuppel of months ago she picked up a live one by the name of edgar " ' '. edgar was about 32 and kind of bashful, but he"was stiddy and' "sober and gitting agood sallery, and when he begun calling on clara, her whole famely chirkea up quite a bit Clara's sister ethel is only 18, and gee, but shewas interested in the romanse of edgar and clara every 2 or 3 days she would .ask clara was edgar beginning to thaw out any, and when did she think he' was likely to come through with the fatal question clara could only always say that she was "hoping for therbest, but edgar dident seem to be desepded from lockinvarpr don jooan well, a few notes ago edgar he called, "and he stayed till away after midnite ethel was lipstares and she wouldent go to bed, she just kept .listening over the staircase and -wondering was anything coming off finelly she heard edgar and clara come out in the hall, and then she heard a dore shut- . - (you know sometimes a feller opens-and shuts the dffre a few times before he is really gone) well, when ethel heard ,the dore, she leaned over the starecase and she whispered ' . ' " o sis, o sis, did you land him- -. V for a few minnits.tfiere was a dethlike- stillne,ss,-and then a maskeline voice said " yes, ethel, she did WHERE THE PINS CO "What becomes of the pins?" has been answered by science. Dr, Xav ier of Paris thought the question of sufficient importance to make it the subject of a prolonged inquiry and in vestigation, and he has given the an swer that they go to dust. He found that an ordinary pin left exposed to the elements and hard ships of the world 'will disappear in eighteen months, and an ordinary, hairpin required only 154 days to' vanish in the shape of dust. A steel pen nib lasted eighteen months and a polished steel needle withstood the ravaged of time for two and a half years.