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r SENEGA COUNTY COTTEIER-JOUBNAL THUBSDAY, JUNE 1 1 , 1903. A FR.EN’ OF ME FR.EN S FREN’ LEICESTER Copyright, 1602 , HOLME By T. C. McClvrr m-- “Well, Kitty,” said young Mr. Billy Dunn to liis better half, “I’m up against it for fair. There ain’t a thing in sight, an’ that’s a fact.” ’ “Ah, now,” replied Kitty in an en couraging tone, “don’t go to sayin’ that, Billy. Sure there must he a-plen ty o’ jobs -for such a fine man as you are yourself. An’ our good clothes 'still lastin’ an’ you lookin’ so well too. Sure, now, go down to Steve O’Con nell an’ ast him. He’ll know a man or two, that’s what.” “Now I’ll tell you, Billy,” said Steve O’Connell ten minutes later, leaning comfortably across his little bar, “I don’t know. You see, it’s just after election, an’ everything’s full up to the gunnel. But notv I ’ll tell you honest, Billy. I’ll do som e thin’ for you. I'll introduce you to the man that ’ll intro duce you to the man that ’ll introduce you to the man that’s cap’n o’ the pre cin c t , an’ t h e r e ’s one ch a n s t in a hun- derd that there’ll be somethin’ doin’.” The .side door opened, and the tip of a helmet was thrust into the room. two letters before'him. The governor merely glanced at them; and then perused the letter of the mayor. It was a strong letter of recommendation. Mr. Dunn had taken care of that. “Don’t believe I’ve got a thing for you, Mr. Dunn,” said the governor, “but I’ll see.” He pushed a button. “Sturgis,” he said to a man who appeared, “this is Mr. Dunn, a per sonal friend of Captain Kelly and the chief up the state and of Mayor Clay ton. They want to place him, and I want to know what w’e’ve got on hand.” “Well,” returned Sturgis doubtfully, “I don’t know. There’s only one place left, and I don’t know whether that will suit any friend of the mayor. I doubt it. Still”— “What is it?” inquired the governor. “It’s the head of that new record de partment, that’s all.” “Well, that’s a fact, Mr. Dunn,’-’ in terposed the governor, “I don’t know whether it would suit you, but it’s all we’ve got, and if you want it”— Dunn leaned forward in his chair. “What does it pay, Mr. Sturgis?” he in quired. “■Well, that’s just it,” returned Stur gis. “It only pays $3,000 regular sala ry, but”— “Three thousand!” gasped Mr. Billy “Yes,” returned Sturgis apologetical ly. “I thought you wouldn’t Want it, although there are lots of men that do. Still, Mr. Dunn, what with postage and sealing wax and—and things, why., you “By George!” exclaimed the bartender, ought to get at least $5,01)0 out of it, “TTm-o’c fiio TTifin hiTu«eif Snv Mui- One way and another, during the year. one way and another, during the yeai ■What do you think? It’s the best yre can do.” Mr. Dunn rose from his chair and ‘Here’s the man himself. Say, Mul ligan,” he called. The helmet ad vanced into the saloon with Mulligan under it. “Say, Mulligan, you know , Mr. Dunn. No? Well, make yourself walked over to the window, 'll ell, acquainted with him. Mr. Dunn, Mi‘. , he replied finally, in a doubtful tone Mulligan, ilr. Mulligan, Mr. Dunn, of voice, “I’ll take it, after all.”- Mulligan,” he continued, “Billy wants | The governor looked pleased. He to get a job out o’ your office. What ! leaned over and whispered to Sturgis: ’ll you have? He wants to get a job, on* onnirl tri-vn rrui n« an’ could you oblige me as a freu’ Mulligan, by puttin’ my fren’ Billy Dunn next to the wardman?” “An’ I’ll take gi-eat pleasure,” said Mulligan, smacking his lips, “in intro ducin’ to any wardman any f me friend Steve O’Connell. An’ that’s really elegant whisky you have on tap, Mr. O’Connell, so it is.” “Captain,” said the wardman a day or two later as he ushered in a -well dressed man, “this is Billy Dunn, pret ty well known around here and a gi'eaj: friend of a friend of mine. He wants a job, anything you know to tide over for awhile. If you can do anything for him, cap, why, I’m standing back of liim, you know.” “Mr. Dunn.” remarked the captain after the wardman had left, “I’ll tell you just how it is. You know this is just after election, and everybody ,wants everything in sight. There ain’t a thing I’ve got that there ain’t a dozen fellows trying to hold it down. I ’ll tell you what I’ll do, though. I’ll give you a signed knockdown to the “This makes me solid now with those up state fellows, and you can write Dobbins and tell him that he can’t have the job. I didn’t want him to get it anyway. So it’s all right all around.” lu XU.U.O- “’VYell now, Mr. Dunn,” said the gov- friend o’ ; ernor as his visitor rose,' “you can start in when you get ready, any time. And when you go back remember me to the mayor and Kelly and the chief. •They’re good fellows, all of them. Goodby, sir.” “Kitty,” exclaimed the Hon. Billy Dunn a few hours later, as he finished his recital of what had happened, “this is my new motto. 1 made it up my self.” “Let’s hear it!” exclaimed Kitty ex- pectantlj'. The Hon. Billy Dunn drew himself to his full height. i “It’s ‘Always seek an introduction when in doubt,’ ” he said. “It’s the I latest move in the game of politics, it ! Is.” KJhief, and i f he can do anything, w h y , ‘St I . aiodifyins a Story. In writing about the cowboys of South America, Mr. Paul Fountain represents them as having been ma- j ligned by other travelers who had not He wrote a short letter of introduc- j t'ome in contact with the men them- ‘ selves, but had listened to stories told about them. To show that such stories increase as the square of the distance there you are. That’s the best tion, and, being pleased with the ap pearance of the applicant, he made it a bit stronger than usual. “Blame it all!” exclaimed the chief of police as Dunn stood before him at headquarters the next day. “Kelly knows blame well there’s no use send ing you fellows up to me. Every blame ■ posftion in my power to give is full, and Kelly knows it.” He glanced i.p from the letter. The appearance of his visitor somewhat mollified him. “Mr. Dunn,” he continued, “I’m* sorry, blame sorry, to disappoint a personal friend of the captain’s, but you know there’s he tells the following anecdote, which reminds one of the classic three black crows: A friend was traveling on foot to a I lace which he called “Chip City,” At The i'rst stop h is host exclaimed: •'i^'hat! Going to Chip? Why, they kilLd seventeen men there in a street fight last week!” The next day the host with whom he happened to stop varied the story thus: “Going to Chip? Terrible place. W’’hy, a limit to offices and to patience too. | they stabbed twelve men to death there But here, since you’re a personal friend a month ago!” of Kelly’s, there’s one thing I can do. I’ve got some influence with the may or, and I understand he’s got some small jobs left. I’ll write a note, and you take it to the mayor, with this note of Kelly’s, and I’ll call him up on the phone and tell him you’re coming. I’m always ready to oblige a friend of the captain’s if I can.” Dunn took the note and started for the mayor.. He ran the gantlet and stood in line to wait his turn. “Mr. Mayor,” he said as the mayor read the note and looked up with the air of a man who knows what’s com ing and doesn’t want to hear it—“Mr. Mayor, I don’t want a job.” “You— don’t—want—a—job!” gasped the mayor. “Not a job? The chief sent you here, and you don’t want a job? “Mr.—er—Dunn,” resumed the niaj’- «r impressively, “I have seen over 500 men today. I have kept count,” he continued, pointing to a piece of paper, ■“and you are the first of all the men who don’t want a job. xlnd you a friend of the chief’s! Well, tell me, what, in heaven’s name, what do you want? I am ready, willing and able to do anything for the man who doesn’t want a job!”. •T want,” said Dunn, “a letter of in troduction to the governor, whom, singularly enough,” he added apologet ically, “singularly enough, I have never met.” “Here, Mr. Dunn,” replied the mayor, ■ “you keep those letters. I don’t want them. And for the rest. I’ll accommo date vou with the greatest of pleasure —any friend of the chief’s. Go over to that young lady in the corner and dic tate such a letter as you want and I’ll sign it. Well, well; a friend of the i chief’s and doesn’t want a job! Now, what can I do for you,” continued the mayor to the next man in the line, re- suruing his accustomed air of weari ness. And the next man wanted a job. Two days later 3Mr. William Dunn sat closeted with the governor. “Here are three letters,” explained Mr. Dunn—“one from Captain Kelly, one from the chief and one from the mayor. 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Three months ago they killed-two men in the street.” Arrived at Chip City, which was a mining place, my friend found that a single man had been killed in a fair fight about two years previously. Left Her Editor In Tears. Little Miss Vera’s ideas of the sus ceptibility of the editorial heart are somewhat exaggerated. She has been deeply impressed of late' by the erratic movements of a mature friend who prepares manuscript for newspapers and so has come to be something of a writer herself. Over page after page she scrawls undecipherable sentences in her unsteady, primary department hand, and when the stories are fin ished she submits them in person to an imaginary editor whom she has flubbed “Mr. Bunting.” One day last week she told her friend that she had written a new story. “What is it about?” asked the friend. “Oh,” was the reply, “I can’t tell. It is too sad to talk about.” The friend asked no further ques tions, and presently Vera volunteered additional information. “I took it downtown and showed it to Mr. Bunt ing today,” she said. “Yes?” said her friend. “What did he say about it?” I “He 'didn’t s'ay anything,” was the I reply, “but he just cried as if his heart ! would break.”— New York Press. They -Were UjiUno-»vn Until After th e Invention of Printing. The most surpi-ising thing in the his tory of the title page is the fact that it was utterly unknown until a few years after the invention of printing. In the days before that great era, when all books were in manuscript, no scribe ever thought of prefacing his work with a separate page or leaf devoted to the title. When printing took the place of writ ing, changes came gradually. In many early printed books there was still •scope for handwork. Initial letters were left for the “rubrisher,” as he was called, to decorate and illuminate bj' As books multiplied this practice, of course, soon died out. Occasionally wealthy and luxurious book owners would employ a skillful illuminator to adorn the pages and margins of a print ed book just as in former days manu scripts had been illuminated. The manuscript practice of surround ing the text with an ornamental border was also often applied to early printed books. The introduction of the title page showed the same mingling of old and new. Printing was invented about 1450, but no title page, properly so called, is known before 1470. In the earliest ex amples the title is either, as in manu scripts, given in the first two or three lines of the first page, to be immedi ately followed by the printed text, or is simply, as it liiis been called, a la bel—that is, it consists of a very brief title at the top of a blank page. There was one curious exception. A “Kalendar” printed by Ratdolt at Ven ice in 1476 has a full title page in the modern style. This remarkable page consists of an iutroduotory poem sur rounded on three sid e s by ornam ental borders, with, at the bottom, the place of printing and date—“Venetiis, 1476” —and the names of the printers. But this is quite an exceptional in stance. Such a title page is hardly found again for twenty years and did not become common till about 1520, more than forty years later. A particularly noticeable feature in many title pages of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is the length of the descriptive titles. Con troversial pamphlets and books of trav el and adventure especially have titles which are extraordinarily long winded. The whole page is filled with small type, giving an analysis of the contents of book or pamphlet. Then toward the end of the seven teenth century and through its suc cessor came the reign of the bold and plain title page, and the plain title has lasted until the present day. Wliat Would You Do? People are fond of telling what they would do if they had $1,000,000. It’s safe to bet that nine men out of ten if they had $1,000,000 would do nothing. —Kansas City Independent. Quite a number of men have mistak en Wall street for Easy street—Puck. The AVord Asnostie. Professor Huxley invented the word “agnostic.” Finding himself one day a “man without a rag of a label to cover himself with,” he concluded to call himself by a name of his own coining. 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