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Show ; AIT OBLIGING EDITOk . ; . . - . . ' - -7 In the course of the conference held in .- Washington last year by the-American .newspaper humorist, some one told the fallowing-, declaring that William Allen White waa the hero of the story. ' One day there strolled Into White's sanc-t sanc-t turn a man who waa evidently a politician politi-cian He edged confidently toward White J. end.i-.alipping a memorandum-written by ' ' himself under the eyea of the editor, said : . ' -"Say, old man. I'd take It to be a great 7.? '- i V favor if you'd Just -manage to put in the -. . r-y-i-aper that I'm lr. town with my wife, - stopping at the Blank hotel. You might - -work in something aa to my being an r - t-minent Kanaan, or words to that effect. PersonaUy. I don't care a hang about thia :"' ort ffnY; but well, you know what j' ' women ar. ' And I'll take one hundred .. "copies of th.9 .paper." , . ' -- - ' x '"''And the eminent K&nsan lald'before the V editor a nve-dollan note. , Then - he took r-' --: his departure. - . - , " . .'' The next morning, to his intense amase-men amase-men and disgust he read in White's pa--' . " per:- "Mr. -Richard Dash requests us to say that lie, with 'his wife, la stopping ': "' at the Blank hotel; that he is an eminent Kansan; that" he himself cares nothing -.. z 'tor newspaper nTitorietr. but that a so- ..J.'ciety note would be somewhat gratifying x , tov Mrs. Dash." He adds that he will take .-" ; one hundred coptea of the paper foe dis- 4 . .-trlbutlon among his friends. . . ' v --f ..... . . .-. e e e .. . i ,- -,, |