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mmmmmmmmmmm AIN'T NATURE WONDERFUL! 0h, Hum! Well, the price of coal has flopped and that's the surest sign of spring. Wise birds say everything has its drawbacks and every spring has its baseball The teams hie south and reports come back they're all in midseason form. Whether they mean in poker, pinochle, eating or baseball, wegarn ble on the first trio and especially on the third. , We don't see how they figure this midseason chatter. It wouldn't do for a fighter to feel Hke' the tenth round before the fight started. The sport writers ought to lay down their forks and think that "over. The pitchers all promise ttife their rash season. Their arms all healed up, etc., but these baseball promises are neck and chin ahead of a shoe-string for cracking on the left-hand side of the middle. All the managers predict their gang "Will waltz off with the rag, but there's only one pennant and, as has been the custom, seven or so teams nly see It in moving pictures. .It's a great shell game, this base ball junk. Every spring the same record, only a new needle. The say ing goes, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you caa't fool all the people all of the time." But when Abe said that, base ball wasn't invented yet. o o MEANT IT FOR HIM ' He was fond of playing jokes on his wife, and this time he thought he had a winner. "My dear," he said, as they sat afc supper, "I just heard such a sad story of a young -girl today. They thought she jvas going bMnd, and so a surgeon operated on her ami found "Yes," gasped the wife breath lessly. "That she's got a .young jnan. in ', her eye!" ended the husband with a chuckle.. For a moment there was silence.. Then the lady remarked slowly: "Well, it would all depend on What sort of a man it 'was. Some of them she could have seen through easily enough." o o CHESTNUT. CHARLIE p. -r ? Kri -, "BOH.DWS V& ippwcBouas HesT? -( m, CwlS"C' ' v JH weLLTEL OS-HOW -c i .c hgFHWiPof g .J ", NWE SecAlKE-rHEYAfte v ALL CA&ilEftM ,ST QSf-h - - vi I .Ft 6! L ... 1 .x-- . -. . rs- M