Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1912 — WAITING FOR IT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAITING FOR IT

Having a pressing engagement with i good client, an oil merchant war obliged to leave his office in sole ?harge of a scrubwoman. "Now, my good woman,” he said, iniicatlng the telephone, ‘‘when you a ear the bell ring attached to that litbox, 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 tub-), shouted out the necessary luery, aiid put the receiver to her ear. “I’m Dobson, from Harlem,” camt he answer. “Got a lot of oil for you, amrYMShto send it on at once;—Be eady to receive it.” Presently the merchant returned md, to his amazement, saw the woman holding an empty bucket undei the Telephone tuba. —— “What on earth are you doing with that pail?” he asked. “Well, sir,” she replied, “as soon at you was gone a man shouted through the tube that he wag sendi ig a large supply of oil, and ask some pne to receive’it, so I’m a-holdlng tills bucket a-waiting for it to run through!”

"What is remoise, pa?” “Remorse, my son, is the feeling flat comes over a man in July when e r<-me: :bers how he found fault with ' e cold and blustery days of March.”

REMORSE.