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Show LAWYER'S MEAN ACT GOT EVEN WITH MANKIND'S ENEMY, EN-EMY, THE BOOK AGENT. Half Day's Time and Much Physical Exertion Spent in Vain Endeavor to Make a Man See Where His Best Interests Lay. The lawyer's office was on the fourth floor of one of the old buildings build-ings in the downtown district that have no elevators. The book agent, Eifter having laboriously climbed the stairs and approached unsuccessfully every one else in the building, had arrived at the lawyer's offico with his illustrated history of the late Spanish-American Spanish-American war, with an addition giving giv-ing an account of our troubles in the ' Philiopinos, and a department covering cover-ing fully each one of our foreign possessions, pos-sessions, the latter department containing con-taining complete details concerning the difficulty with the Sandwich Islands Is-lands and the Hawaiian revolution. The book agent explained all this and much more, but the lawyer wasn't impressed. "1 don't want the book," he said several times. "You don't want it," said the book agent,' "because you think you don't need it. Now, anything a man needs id wants." Then he spent an hour and a half trying to convince the lawyer that he would find the hook a daily invaluable invalua-ble aid in his business, but the lawyer couldn't see it. Having plenty of time to spare, however, and enjoying the conversation of the book audit, he sat with his feet resting on his desk and allowed the book agent to talk away to his heart's content. At the end of the afternoon, when the book agent had talked himself completely out, the lawyer again repeated: "I don't want the book." "I'll tell you," he said finally; "don't be hasty In this matter. Think K over carefully. I know you will decide to take the book. You can't help it. You need the book; you've got to have it. I'll come back and see you again." He wrapped up his sample editions, packed them away, and bade the lawyer law-yer "good-day." "Ill drop in again," he said assur-ingly assur-ingly as he paused at the door, "and I think I'll find that you have changed your mind." His steps sounded down the stairway stair-way as he made his way out of the building, and as the noise of them died away the lawyer rose, went to his window, raised it, and looked down. The book agent emerged on the street below and the lawyer yelled to him : "Hey," he cried. The hook agent looked up. The lawyer law-yer beckoned to him, and the book agent disappeared within the building build-ing again with alacrity. "You called me back," he said breathlessly and with a beaming countenance as he -made his appearance appear-ance again at the lawyer's door. ' "Yes," said the lawyer. "I just wanted to'.say that you needn't drop in again." Then he shut the door, while the took agent wandered up and down the hallway for a few moments in a blind, helpless sort of way before he discovered the stairway and descended descend-ed four fltxirs into the outer world. Chicago Tribune. |