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sr&r? - 'EJiyWWHBFKWS? TRULY DEVOTED The captain had not been long married when he was ordered into camp. The camp was in plain sight of the captain's residence, but then it was still a separation, and to light en this terrible condition it was ar ranged that the bereaved husband arid wife should signal to each other often with handkerchiefs. It was on the second day that the young wife was seated on the porch reading. "Tell me, Jane," she said, "is the captain still signaling?" "Yes, ma'am," answered the maid. "Then keep waving your handker chief. I want to finish this novel." At the same moment, in camp, an officer from an adjoining company stepped up to the captain. "I say, old fellow," he asked, "why do you keep that man out there all day waving a handkerchief?" "Oh, it's merely a bit of signal code practice" for him." o o TODAY'S BELLRINGER Frank Daniels, the musical com edy star, has now entered moving- pictures. Recently Mr. Daniels and Herbert Prior were leaving the Lamb's club in New York when they espied a drunken individual leaning against a show window. "Now go back to bed, Maria," this party was saying, "I'm all right." Daniels and Prior looked in the window and saw a wax figure in a fancy night dress. o o THIS OUGHT TO RAZE A SMILE "I've got a razor at home just like the New York subway," vouchsafed the first vaudeville clown. "How so?" asked the second clown, accommodating as usuaL "If s hollow ground!" THAT DENTIST AGAIN "I've been having another tussle with the dentist" "Who came out best? "ILjsa&AJixaStZ. Jaiten ifrfijah-Jfrllnw. HIS REASON "Here comes my tailor, let's cros3 the street" "Why? To avoid having to pay his bill?" "No to avoid his asking me to pay it" o o NO DANGER r "D'y want all the road.?" shouted an irate motor driver, tooting for all he was worth in a narrow country lane. "Pull aside and let me pass." "Who, steady now!" grinned the farmer from the top of a load of hay. "I dunno as I'm in a hurry!" "You are looking for trouble, my man!" spluttered the fellow in the car, as the motor throbbed and fumed "impatiently. "Are you going to move or not?" "I don't know as I be in any hurry t' morning." "Seemed in hurry enough to let that carriage pass just now," smiled the angry one. "Oh, ay! But that horse wuz eat in' my hay. There ain't no danger o' you eatin' it, I reckon you don't look hungry!" Tit-Bits. o o CANT FOOL HIM , "She's against vivisection." "Yes I found that out when I tried to open my heart to her' T2tf Jg& y