Show l- l l 4 r fr I I LOST LOST TEMPER WAS COSTLY Poet Banker Danker Threw way and nd BouBack Bouw Bou- II Back ills Hit Own Property Edmund Clarence Stedman the poet banker had a high temper and was exceedingly sensitive One day exasperated exasperated exas exas- by the tho crass stupidity of a servant senant ho he throw threw a n book at his head bead Tho The boy ducked and the tho book sailed out of the window After it hurried the menial but he be was too late a passerby had picked It up and Balked d dort off ort with it Stedman began to wonder what book he ho had thrown away and to his horror discovered that It was wasa a quaint and rare little Uttie volume for tor which h he had paid 50 His JUs chagrin was Intense as tho the work was almost the tho prospects of replacing It were remote Some time afterward when brows brows- browsing browsing ing lag In a Do second hand book shop our splenetic poet perceived to his great delight a copy of tho very book ho had lost Jost He lie asked the price Its very Tery 1 ire we replied the tho dealer but as you ou a at aan I an old custom customer I Ill I'll ll let you have haTe it h or 40 nobody else elso could have It or r less than 60 GO Stedman gladly p p. d the tho 40 got homo home with his treasure is 3 soon as possible and sat sal down to gloat over It A card dropped out of tho leaves It was his own Further examination showed that ho had bought back his property It cured him of casting books at servants servants' sonY sonY- ants' ants heads New New York Press Pesa |