under a bad tooth and at the present time my face is very much
swollen.

further that the 9th being a red letter day in my life being
the day on which my dear wife passed away

and I have understood that all those over 60 year of age was
exempt from these things. So I shall be extreemly obligid if
you could free me this time answer by bearer will oblig
your respectfully

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[Illustration: AFTER A BAD DAY'S GOLF.

"HERE WE ARE AGAIN."]

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CONTINENTAL INTELLIGENCE.

An extraordinary domestic tragedy is reported from a remote
province of Poland. A beautiful young woman, named Vera Alexandrina
Polianowski, who had been married only about two years, was expecting
the return home of her husband, a sailor. During his absence of five
months a mournful calamity had befallen her in an affection of the
larynx, which threatened to deprive her temporarily of the power to
articulate. Realising her impending affliction, she had taught a grey
parrot, which her husband had left with her, to exclaim repeatedly
from just inside the door of her cottage, in joyous accents that bore