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"PROSPERITY' "Say, what is that button you are wearing?" asked the Man from Mars of a passing Working man. "That is the button-oihe Pros perity League," answered the Workingman, removing 'his hat, "You aje then prosperous, I take it, and earn enough to sup port your entire family in com fort," continued the Mah from Mars. "Oh, no sir," said the Work ingman. "What, not married?" asked the Man from Mars, in surprise. "Oh, yes, sir," replied the Workingman. "I have a large family and they also have good jobs except the youngest one, a child of four, and we can undoubt edly squeeze him in somewhere in a year or two." "Is your employer prosperous as all that?" continued the Man from Mars, thinking the Work- inerman was joking. "Does his' whole family also work?" "Oh, no, sir," answered the Workingman in dead earnest. "They don't have to work." "Oh, then, they are not so pros perousasjou are?" said the Man from Mars, keeping up the bur lesque. "Oh, yes, sir," replied the Workingman. "They are ,the only QnesTvho are prosperous." "Then why do you wear that button?" asked the Man from Mars, somewhat impatiently, un certain of the trend of the conver sation. "Because it is one of the rules OSGAR AND I Wf 155 DoraeLL 03MRf or m AtAKH TRM 3H5 mini; of the shop. It is one of our em-n clover's hobbies to point to them with pride when waited on b', committee. "Stting," muttered the Mart' from Mars, turning on his heel. The Preacher We never re; lize'the full value of anything un tilwe lose it. The Bereaved Widow That'l so especially if the lost thing insured. 'fii. there l" veiled a farmer fc a tramp whom he found in one oj his aoole trees. "What are vot doimr there?1' "Trying to ge outiJ' explained the tramp. 'Tvff s liict- Wan An-nrn frrm a hallnntv-- IUSkMiVVWIlH w- v v..-wv. i f i s z By 1 m m i t