He Was Paid for the Ad.

Otago Witness, Issue 2326, 29 September 1898, Page 52

He Was Paid for the Ad.

The Missing Husband. j "I was running a paper down in Tennessee then," prefaced the ex-newspaper man, whoso only work now is to collect what other people owe him in the way of rents and interest. "One of the few fine-looking women you find in the mountains of that region walked into the office one afternoon and said : 'Be youins the editor?' "Upon being informed that 1 enjoyed that J 'distinction* gho looked me pvgr its though

greatly disappointed, and then told a long 1 story of petty domestic difficulties that had . led to the disappearance of her husband about i two weeks before. Now, she wanted to put in a nice advertisement telling that he was forgiven and that she longed to havo him at home. How much would I charge her? i " 'Two dollars an inch,' I answered. | "Taking a pencil and a sheet of copy paper, she- figured laboriously for pretty nearly an hour. At length she tore the paper into shreds, and was deliberately walking out of the office when I asked her if she thought ! the charge was too high. ! "'I don't reckon I know anything 'bout j your bus'ness, suh. But I never see that much money, let 'lone handliu' of it. Joe's i wu'th it, but I couldn' never buy him back at them figgers. He's six foot three^in his bar© feet, suh, Joe is. At 2dol an inch I make it 150dol. I'll jest have to go out an' git his trail an' f oiler.' "I didn't even smile, gentlemen. There was something uoble in her resignation. I advertised 'Joe,' pot other papers to copy, and we rounded him up. One morning there was a lOgal keg of moonshine whisky at my kitchen door, and I did not advertise for an owner." — Detroit Free Press.