Show HE RECONSIDERED The Society oC His Friends Was Worth More Tltaii a Little Cash The popular citizen had made arrangements ar-rangements to go into business in another town He had sold his property prop-erty packed his household goods and everything was in readiness for his removal His friends got up a farewell dinner for him The tables groaned etc The viands were sumptuous The champagne was abundant and after a I began to circulate there was a flood of oratory The speeches were all to the effect that the loss the community was about to sustain was irreparable The II speakers dwelt upon the good qualities quali-ties of their friend his many excellent traits of character his genial companionable com-panionable ways and all took occasion to express their deep sense of personal person-al bereavement on acount of his contemplated removal Then they sang For lies a jolly good fellow Which nobody can deny Brimful of emotion the recipient of all this rose to reply Boys he said unsteadily fI didnt know what I was doing when I went into any scheme to leave this town I didnt know how sorry my friends would be to see me go I Thethe frienship of my friends is forth more to me than the few hunred dollre I might make by movin way from here and Ill bbe evrlastingly dadswangled f Im goin to move Im goin to stay ri here In this town fellers an dont you ferget it Whoop An hour later a dejected company of men assisted a helpless comrade up aback a-back stairway and dispersed without saying a word |