An Interval
By F. A MITCHEL
Copyright by American Press Asso
ciation. 1911.
Ussd An»th«r Sr*»n*a Ue^»,
In the bull ut tlie huu.w
rel.rv~» :.t
allies there is a painting ot Gi>u,;o
Wattliiugluu. He looks u most uiiii-
mundiug persou. with tlie stature of
a giant unti a faultless pby-..¡uc Put
looking at tlie portrait recently a pul»
lie man comincuted:
“Ti.it Is a good dent of a sham.
George Washington never looked like
licit, though I've no doubt he would
have btHii proud to appear so magnifi
cent
"Nolice tlie legs." the speaker con
tinued. "They are perfect beauties,
but they are not Washington's. They
are file legs of General Smith of Now
Jersey, a soldier of tlie Revolution.
"H happened Illis wry." he explain
ed in conclusion: "Washington bad
quite unimpressive logs, and the artist
who painted that picture was so dis
satisfied with their shape that be per-
si ‘I it General Smith to lend his
fnuliicss members as models.
So.
. ...
while we have the face and torso of
our great first president, the support
ing legs are those of one of Ills gen
erals. Long may they stand!"— Wash I
ington Post.
"it's queer bow little difference ten
yours will make in the look of persons
when you're with em all the time
and how much difference it makes
when you don't see 'em And if you
don't see 'em tor a mutter of twenty
year. why. you don't kuow 'em ut all.'’
The words were spoken by Joshua
Sparks to Ills friend. Muhuldn Stickler.
“Yes. Mr. Sparks, uud that's the
reason I don't lake stock in the idee
that love is anything more'n livin' to
gether"
“1 knew of a case of that kind onct.
it came under my own observation.
Vou know Martha Wrinkles, don't
you?"
“Yes. 1 kuow lier; she's a skinny old
maid ”
"Waal, when Murtha was a gal she
was as purty as any on 'em. I was a
leetle soft on her myself then. But I
didn't have uo chance. She was sot
on Ben Higgins, as fine a lookin'
young man us ever handled a pitch
fork. And Ben was sot on her They
was the lovenest couple 1 ever see.
They was goln' to git married when
Ben was tuk sick. He was sick a long
while, and when he got well tlie doc
tor said he’d better go off somewhere
else to git a change of air.
“Ben. he went to Colorado, where tlie
air is dry and pure. He tuk a pictur'
of Martha with him. and they both said
their love was the itndyin’ kind
It
didn’t matter how long they .might lie
separated, neither of ’em would marry
any one else, and they would marry
each other when they come together
ag'ln.
“Beu was twenty when lie went
away and Martha was nineteen. Tlie
separation was longer than either of
’em had any idee of when they parted.
Ben was live years glttln* back Ins
Twist of the Pretzel.
health
By that time lie tliort he'd
Tile pretzel is capable of infinite pos
come to au age when tie’ll like to have
a little souiepin laid up before lie got sibilities in tlie matter of shape. It
married Ko lie worked and worked, shows almost as many forms as do the
but somehow riches didn't come, it was leaves of trees. The construction 'of
tlie pretzel may lie not inaptly describ
twenty one years before lie got back
“Neither he nor Martha was much at ed, in sailor terms, its peculiar shape
writin', even when he went away. is attained in this way: A bight is
First off they wrote onct a month, taken in a roll of dough, and tlie ends
then onct a year, and after that it are given a half twist and brought
was onct in five years. But they was back upon I lie opposite sides of the
bight. 'I llis process gives to till* pretzel
true to each other all these years
"Ben was forty-two years old when a heart shaped appearance, but no one
be come hack. He come to ine fust ever ventured to hint that any senti
before seein’ Martha at all. 1 didn't mental reason existed for assigning
know him. Some men looks purty this shape to Shell a prosaic thing as
young at forty-two, and some looks a pretzel. When tlie pretzel has been
Ben was one o’ tlie old duii- “varnished” it is subjected to a
purty old
lookin' kind, He wore specs, his head process of salting, and tlie tiling Is
was smooth as a billiard ball, and complete. Harper's.
wbat hair there was on Hie sides was
grizzly gray.
“'Don't y'kuow me. Josh?' he said.
under certain conditions. Theright
•I’m Ben Higgins'
"tVaal. to lie perlite I told Ill in I d medicine- must be taken before the
bad trouble with my eyes
disease lias progressed too far. Air.
"He told me that he’d come home to
marry Martini He’d made some moil Petry A. Pitman, Dale, lex., says:
e.v during tlie last few years and was “I was down in bed for four months
lookin' forward to tlie ree'llzation of
■vitlt kidney and bladder trouble and
the dream of his life He tuk the ple-
gall
stone
One bottle of Foley’s
tur’ of Martha out of bis pocket anil
showed it to me. My sakes, bow far K idney Remedy cured me well and
away it seemed! There sat a purty
sound. ’ ’ Ask for it.
youug gal that I’d known twenty
years before. Now she was gray in Bandon Drug Co.
the front of her head, and the wrinkles
she’s got now was beglnnln* to spread
Not So Easy as It Sesmed.
over tier face and neck and arms nlid
Twelve persons decided to lunch
bands I guess it makes a woman sour get her every day and agreed not to sit
lookin' to waft for 11 lover Anyway, twice In the same order. One of the
she looked just ns If she could bit«' number, a mathematician, surprised
off a tenpenny nail.
his associates by informing them that
“ 'Beu.' says I. 'Martha's changed a their decision meant that one and one-
I
bit since that was taken.'
third million years must elapse before
" 'Melihe.' he said, 'she might have they would again be seated in the
changed somewhat. I'm gotn' to see original order. Two men can sit to
her tonight, and i'll see how much gether only in two different ways,
she's altered.
three in six’ ways, four in twenty-four,
" 'Come round to my bouse to sup five in 120. six It! "20. seven in 5.040,
per.’ I said. 'You can go to see Martha eight in 40.320. nine in 362.S8R. ten In
afterwards.'
3.02S.S00. eleven in 39.91C.S00 and
“ 'All right.' he answered; 'I will.
twelve in 479.1OO.C0O.—Pilch fur Alle.
“I asked Martha to come to supper,
not fellin' her she was to meet her old
lover. I wanted to see 'em when they
first saw each other. I didn't go to s etlcctivc ler coughs and colds in
do trouble of Introducin’ 'em. as city
cither children or grown persons.
folks do Martha she sot at one end
In
of the tnblo-by my wife, and Ben sot No opiates, no harmful drugs.
by me. tlie yunkers tietween, Cotise the yellow packagi
Refustf sub
quence was that Ben and Martha i stitutes.
I
didn't have nothin' to say to each
Co.
Fact Is they didn’t appear to
other
take no Interest Into each other.
When Hen and I got up from the tn-
tile I asked him if he wouldn't like to
"Von are going the pace too rn
go out and look al the stock, ile said ly. old man."
he would, and we went to the barn.
“Yes: my wife has draggl'd
"After nwhlle Ben said he guessed through London. Paris, California
he'd go and see his old love, Then 1 Florida.”
told him Mart hn Imd been setfln' at
“Isn't it about time for yott to
the other end of the table nt supfier
divorced and settle down?'—Exchange.
"Yon ought to seen the way he look
ed at me. There was a pained expres
For summer di arrhoea in . -hlldren
slon. ns though fie bad built a tiennti-
fill structure over him away up Into llw.iis give Chamberlain's Coli< ,
tlie sky and It had collapsed and come
down on Ids head The first thing he : Choicta and Diarrhoea Remedy and
I castor oil, in»l a speedy .tire is cer-
said was:
’•'Did she know who I wnsT
1 tain For sale by C. V Lowe.
“'No inn mj wife tins told her by
thf« time
•'1 xnw he'd hotter not go to see MY CLOTHES ARI; AT THE
Martha right off. and I told him so
He agreed with me When my wife
told Martha that she had set nt the
same table with her old lover she
acted about the same way as Bon did
She didn't go home that evenin', fear
In' he would go fo see her.
"Ben stayed nroiui<1 here for awhile.
He and Martha used to meet onct In
awhile, hut they fiertend<>d not to
know each other for what they was
Where Yours Ought to he
when young. Blmeby Ben went back
to Colorado, and Martha said she cou’d
Prop,
A. F. DERINGER
breath» free onct more."
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