Judge — October 29, 1898 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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THE NICK OF TIME. HAPPENED in Kansas, the abode of sockless statesmen and petti- coated politicians, where an uncan- celed farm-mortgage is a curiosity. The slanting rays of a radiant sun fell athwart a party of checker- players. sitting in a harness-shop. The contest had been in progress for hours, and the interest had reached such a pitch that, unno- ticed, a great, black swirling cloud hovered in the offing. Rapidly it grew, the while increasing in black- ness and switlingness, rushing to- ward the little village; but the game of checkers continued. The glamour of the sun's rays faded, a sepulchral stillness settled upon that part of the earth; then quick, jerky blasts of wind warn- ingly heralded the approach of the'cyclone, but not an eye was removed from the checker-board. * Here comes old Army Boy, loaded as usual.” “Yes; he was that way all the time at Santiago.” A crash; a roar; blind- ing confusion; darkness; a peculiar whistling of the wind as though passing through the air on a mile-a-minute train; another crash, ‘The harness-shop had been bodily picked up by the cyclone, carried forty-six rods, and dumped into a corn-field. “Jim!” called’ one man, rubbing his eyes and cau- tiously inventorying his per- son; * Jim!" “Here 1 am,” replied Jim, rather feebly, from be- neath the work-bench, “Tsay, Jim; I’m allfired glad that twister hit us just “ Why so?” groaned Jim. “Why, if it hadn't you'd surely got into my king-row the very next move, in spite of all I could do, and busted up the game.” PRANK J. STILLMAN, ARRIAGE is the cold See WHAT QUEERED HIM. ALLEGED BLIND MAN—"' Beautiful lady, pity de blind.” - Miss ANTEAQUE (suspiciously)—"* How did you know a lady was passing if you are blind?" ALLEGED BLIND MAN—' By de lightness uv yer tread, lady.” Miss ANTEAQUE (simperingly)—"" Here is a half-dollar ; but I must scold you for saying I am beautiful.” ALLEGED BLIND MAN—"‘Ah, lady, if you knew how badly I needed dis money you would fergive a little lyin’ gallantry. T’ank yer.” THE NERVOUS INVALID. SS YOU say your wife is much stronger, but that she’s feeling worse. I don’t quite understand.” “It’s simple enough. She can be as sick only as her strength will permit, and natu- rally the more strength she has the worse she can feel.” . THE LAST STRAW. potato ‘of love Isipor HamsTein—"* Ven I vas sent to der vork-house for dirty days you can suppose vat mein feelinks vas; but ven I got dere unt vas told dot I must take a bath, dot settled it. I vished meiuseélluf dead.” comicbooks.com