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TH ED RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 31, 1908. 
HUMOROUS 
There lived in the citv of Worcester, 
A man who could crow like a roocester^c^ 5 v 
But as he grew old of'' " 
He often caught cold, J?’ ’ 
And then he couldn’t crow as he urccsmr. 
—Illustrated Bits. 
The Mother: “My little boy was 
rude, I know. I am afraid he is awfully 
spoiled.” The Stranger: “Don’t men¬ 
tion it, madam. It is better that he 
should be spoiled than that his young 
life should be embittered by the thought 
that he is different from all other Amer¬ 
ican children.”-—Life. 
“Why, Mrs. White,” began the sum¬ 
mer visitor newly returned to Say- 
mouth, “how those maples of yours 
have grown since last year! It’s per¬ 
fectly amazing!” “Oh, I do’ know’s 
it’s anything to wonder at,” said Mrs. 
White, easily. “They aint got anything 
else to do.”—Youth’s Companion. 
The minister was a great hand shaker 
—shutting down like a vise. One day 
he took a boy’s hand and gave it an 
awful squeeze, as he said: “My little 
fellow, I hope you are pretty well to¬ 
day.” With tears in his eyes, the boy 
answered, “I was till you shook hands 
with me.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 
“What’s the matter, my lad?” an old 
gentleman asked of a youngster who 
was crying lustily in the street. But the 
boy couldn’t reply through his sobs. 
“Please, sir,” chimed in a companion, 
“we were playing marbles, and he’s bin 
an’ lost his glass alley.” “There, don’t 
cry,” exclaimed the old gentleman 
kindly. “Here’s a penny; run and buy 
some more.” But the tears continued to 
flow. “There,” went on the benefactor, 
“I wouldn’t cry any more if I were 
you.” “Yes-e-s you would,” gasped the 
weeping one, “if you’d”—sobs—“lost 
your father’s glass eye!”—Melbourne 
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POLITICS AND 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
The manufacturer of a much advertised cream separator, 
sold mainly by implement dealers, is out with an announce¬ 
ment to employes that if Bryan should be elected his factory 
will have to at once close down. Regardless of political 
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of threatening employes in this manner. 
But if this separator factory does close down it will not 
be because either Taft or Bryan is elected, but because of 
the sweeping success of the new 1908 line of Improved 
DE LAVAL machines, which has already “closed down” 
most attempted competition. 
So far as DE LAVAL machines are concerned, there are 
going to be just as many cows and just as much milk to 
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NEW YORK. 
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CHICAGO 
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