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Show MR. LANE'S LITTLE BUY. We congratulate Mr. Line, president of the Bell Telephone company. When 'a. freiitlcman can go out from his breakfast table and just in passing down town make a little hid for 1.2t.(MK) wor'h of trlephone sto-k and (fct away wilh it, it shows that he is rather solid in the community. We can nuderstand the cheerfulness with which ho made the bid. becaue he knew that every man who hs a telephone in his house will have to help him raise the l.'.(Kl.tXHI; that he out of his own pocket does I not propose to pay a cent, w hich makes him all the more to be congratulated. When a man can buy a little block of property for inly H.2X,0fr.thai i not so much there are a good many people iu the world who could do that; twit when-1it knows at jibe same time that he can eompeall his neighbor !tt. help him raise that money, that is different. No wonder he is cheerful. All nf us would he under jthe same circumstances. By the way, no one could eel along without a telephone. That far it is n great benefactor; but when we realize how rich we have been making the telephone company, then we begin to feel ike the politicians and ti cry out. "Down with'all monopolists!" The telephone demand de-mand nowadays is like what Mrs. Fairfax id about her husband, which was: !'These infcrndl, .menf There is no getting on with or without them," . -. . . , |