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Show CHECK HAD NOT RE. CHED HIM. And for That Reason, Possibly, It Was Still Tarvellng. Ex-Senator Lake Jones, of Wayno county, Ohio, who Is known all over Ohio as the "hound pup statesman," rrom his passionate love of fox-hunting, ,k was talking with a party of old-time friends In the lobby of a Columbus hotel recently. "I have an aunt," said Jones, "who has most pronounced Ideas of right and wrong, and a rather exaggerated sense of justice. Nearly thirty years ago she bought a piece of property from her brother In St. Louis. In a dozen years the property had quadrupled In value. To-day It Is worth ten or fifteen times what she paid for It. As the value advanced her worry Increased. Finally she mailed him a check for $15,000, explaining that she felt that she had not paid him what the property was really worth. "He promptly returned It, saying she had paid him all ho asked for It, and all It was worth at the time of tho sale. But sbe wouldn't take no for an answer, and sent It back to him. "Now, don't you know," laughed Jones, "that check has been passing back and forth through the malls between be-tween our families for the past fifteen years." "Did It ever fall Into your hands, Lake?" asked Major Robert Eddy, Jones' friend of a lifetime, smiling meaningly. "No," adm'tted Jones, half sadly, "not yet." Philadelphia Ledger. |