Show He Went to Bed The recent failure in busines3 of the Rev Mr Pierce and subsequent developments call to mind the old story of the man who lived in a tenement ten-ement house and was annoyed one J night to such an extent that he couldnt sleep by a noise as of someone some-one stamping on the floor above Partially dressing himself the man thus ruthlessly deprived of his rest stoe silently up a flight of stairs entered the room from whence the noise had proceeded and found a pale man with disheveled hair and wrinkled brow pacing the floor seemingly in a state of the most abject ab-ject dispair What is the matter friend asked the man from the ground floorltis something troubling you Yes replied the miserable one as he dropped heavily in a chair and looked up in a piteous way at the newcomer I owe Smith round the corner a bill of five dollars It is due tomorrow and I havnt a dime to meet it with Is that what youre walking for returned the other Well my friend take my advice you go to bed and let Smith walk It appears the reverend gentleman gentle-man aforesaid decided to retire to his downy couch and let Smith do the pedestrianizing |