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A. wviuvjyHsH M&HkssIIIIIHbIIH Phone Cost 57 Watson Drug Co. Wholesale and Retail The mott complete stock of Drue and Paltnt Mc dlclnct to be found In the InUnd Empire. Pris guaranteed iow M the loweit. Our PreIptlon Department merits your confidence. 421 Riverside Ave. Marito Block TraoiB (Mie OTTfe? tJlVIU. H 40BSSE "Gumcrlldffe Isn't a man Pre n Brent deal of uho for," remarked the citizen with the protruding waistband. "I'vo only met him a few tlmog,' Just when you'vo brought him In to lunch. but I'm freo to confess I don't like him. You know 1 never beat about the bush. If I like a man I like him and If I don't I'm as liable to tell him so as I am to tell anybody else. I know he's a friend of yours, or you think ho Is; but ho makes me tired, and that's all there Is to It" "Why, what's tho matter with him?" asked tho thin man with the bushy black beard. "I never heard of any body who had any particular fault to find with Gumerlldgo. I think he's one or tno iinesi rcnows mat ever stepped. I'vo known him for twenty years and I'vo never seen anythln? wrong with him." "No, I don't auppoM you hare," said the citizen of circumference "Still, I should think you'd have got sick of It In thnt time." "Sick of whatr "Taffy, soft soap, flattery; thnt's whnt I mean. That's what I don't like about him. He puts It all over you with a spado. That sort of thing sick ens mc." , "I didn't notice him putting It nil over you. He seemed to be pleasant, as he generally Is with everybody, but I don't think ho flattered you." "No, ho didn't flatter mo. He was flattering you." "Ouincrlldse?" "Yes. Oumorlldge. Take It at lunch tho last time. 'Lot Hilly ordor,' he says, 'I think Billy can order a lunch a little better than anybody I know of. If nilly wasn't a corking good business man he'd hnvo made the bullloflt kind of a head waiter. When I want something extra good, Just the right kind of combination of eatables, NEW LEASE OF LIFE &SMsfJsnsM'lv BKSSSSKaJsfJsafJslBBBVPIJKRt.'r ??? USSBkSBBBIBBBd ,SBlBBSBSBS&SBSBSBWSBHnSBPviZlfllKA . -m iM? SBBl tSHnBBlBHBHfc t'BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBMBiSSvrJiaWKSA"'lSK BBfl jvst.' 4iaBBHBBBBiaQKiiEbHaHBBBBi I A JAl' KNUINEEUINO TIUUMI'Il : THE UAISl.NU OF THE M1KAHA. The 'Japuuese uover consider a veuel lost All tho' battered hulks of the Hussluu nuvy have been recovered from tho mud of Port Arthur, and aro now elllelent member of the Mikado's navy. Togo's flagship, the Mllcasa, which took lire anil sank In the harbor of Sssebo, has now, after months of patient engineering effort, been refloated. The hull was boarded up, all ehks stopped, ami the water pumped out. Tho vessel roso to view mud-covered and rusty, hut still capable of retltmeut, and very soon tho admiral will" be on his old bridge ngnln. The Are ls now known to have been due to sponta neous combustion caused by tho decomposition of chemicals. A IMcked-Up Llvlnir. A convict's complacent acceptance of life's possibilities Is shown lu a dialogue between the criminal and Captain Spencer, senior missionary of the English Church Army. To a ques tion of tho captain's ns to what ho did when out of prison, lie replied; Well, In spring I does a bit of pea picking, aud lu the summer-tlmo I does a bit of frult-plcking, und In the autumn 1 does a bit of hop-plcKlng." "Ohl" said tho captain. "What hap pens after that?" "Well, now, mister," replied the con vict, "I may as well be honest, and tell you that in the winter tlmo I doM a bit of pocket-picking!" Tho mlssloner furrowed his brow In amuceraent, asking Anally, "And what happens theu?" The convict answered laconically, "Why, hero I am doing a bit of oakum picking." Both luaplcloua. Baron Hubner went one evening to call upon President Thiers, who was then ut the bead of the French repub lic' The barcn found the door of the house open and walked upstairs. In ths dim Ibjbt a man crept stealthily I tell you I put my trait In Billy r cry time.' " "Well," said Billy, "I guess I do know a thing or two In that line," "There are others," said tho large man. "I've got a sneaking sort of no tion that I'm pretty good In that line myself. But you wero a 'corking good business man' as well." "Well, I'm not genornlly regarded as a slouch," said tho thin man with the bushy black beard. "Perhaps not Mind you, I don't say you are. I don't think I'm any slouch as far as that goes, but I don't want a man going around In front of mo with a trumpet proclaiming It. 'Billy's a good fellow,' 'Billy always wan a good deal of a ladles' man,' 'You can't fool Billy on a diamond,' 'You couldn't get Billy to go Into any crooked deal of that kind,' That's one thing I can say nbout Billy ; I always know Just whero to And him. Ho'll stand by bis friends, Billy will.' 'When I'm In doubt I al ways ask Billy's opinion, and so on." "I don't seo anything particular for you to take exception to In that," said tho bearded man. "You don't?" "I certainly do not." "You like a man who flatters you, do you, then?" "I don't seo why you would call It flattery. I may havo a- few good qual ities and Gtimcrlldgo may have dis crimination enough to recognize them, hut I hope that Isn't any hanging of fense. For tho mattor of that, he was a good deal taken with you nnd I heard him cracking you up no end tho other (lay to somo of tho people at tho club." "Well," said the stout citizen with a slightly mollified air, "of courso I may be mistaken In him. I wouldn't want to Judgo a man too hastily, and. In oth er respects ho struck me an rvnlco fel low. What did ho Hay about me, BUI?" Chicago Dully News, ' FOR TOGO'S FLAG-SHIP. towurd him. Knowing that the presl dent went In fear of his life and, un willing to die a martyr In a cause not his own, the baron hurriedly explained, "I nm not M. Thiers." "I know that you aro not M. Thiers," answered tho mysterious stranger, "but I want to know who you are." Before answering the baron Insisted upon knowing tho Identity of his companion. "Oh, I am M. Thiers' butler," was the answer, Hubner declared himself. "Ahl" said .the butler, with a sigh of relief, "I have your name first on the list of vis itors." Each bad taken the other for an assassin. It Imm (hat War. "Soy, pa," asked Willie, "what U a nonagenarian, anyway?" "A nonagenarian, my son," replied Willie's pa, "Is usually a man who has or has not used tobacco all his life." Philadelphia Press. 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