Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — WAITING FOR IT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAITING FOR IT

i 1 “ . Having a pressing engagement with a good client, an oil merchant was obliged to leave hie office in sole charge of a scrubwoman. “Now, my good woman,” he said, indicating the telephone, “when you hear the bell ring attached to that little box, just go to the tube and shout, ‘Hello! Who are you?’ and wait for a- reply.” The merchant had been gone about half an hour when the telephone bell rang furiously. The woman rushed to the tube, shouted out the necessary query, and put'the receiver to her ear. “I’m Dobson, from Harlem,” came the answer. “Got a lot of oil for; you, and wish to send it on at once. ' Be ready to receive it.” Presently the merchant returned, and, to hie amazement, saw" the woman holding an empty bucket under the telephone tube. - i “What on earth are you doing with that pail?” he asked. “Well, sir,” she replied, “as soon as you was gone a man shouted through the tube that he was sending a larg« supply of oil, and ask some one to re celve it, so I’m a-holding this bucket a-waiting for it to run through!"

“What is remorse, pa?” “Remorse, my son, is the feeling that comes over a man in July when he remembers how he found fault with #ie cold and blustery dajjfcof March.”

REMORSE.