Truth | 1907-06-29 | Page 4 | Using His Friends

USING HIS FRIENDS. A visitor from New York to the suburbs said to his host during the afternoon: By-the-way, your front gate needs , reparing. It was all I could do to ' get it open. You ought to have it fv trimmed or greased or something." "Oh, no," replied the owner 'Oh ! no, that's all right." i " Why is it?" asked the visitor. " Because," was the reply, " every ' one who comes through this gate j pumps two buckets of watei into the t tank on the roof."