A cure for the blues

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Preface

T N offering this collection of the effusions of my -*■ prolific brain, I feel that I am supplying an existing necessity — at least, I hope so. I am not an egotist, but still I have a pretty good opinion of myself and my writings, and if the book does not succeed, the fault will lie with the public, not with me. If the readers don’t get the worth of their money out of this rich harvest of brains, they are hard to please. This is all I have to say.

My chief object in issuing this attractive little volume is to supply the prevailing demand for light, humorous literature, and I feel confident, that as soon as the book is scattered broadcast throughout the land, there will be an immediate harvest of good deeds — murders will grow less frequent, suicides will cease, and people will stop stealing things

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out of their reach. In fact, this wicked countrywill begin to think that the millennium has come. Then I shall feel that my efforts have not been entirely without reward.

In this connection it is proper to add that I am the only and original “ Man with the Iron Jaw,” of the Philadelphia Sunday Times, and all others writing under that title are frauds and imitators.

With this precaution, I submit these pages to the reader, with a firm and steadfast confidence in their success.

The public’s humble servant.

Jonathan Jinks.

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Candler’s Centennial Cousins, . . . . 103

The Trials OF A Latter-Day Saint, . . . .118