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Show Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Medal and Diploma. Thought They Were "Worth It. Billings was a traveling man, carrying carry-ing a line of handkerchiefs and neckwear. neck-wear. He met a rather attractive young woman on one of his trips, and before he realized how ill it comported with his duties he had married her. Nature had never intended him for a married man, and he was seldom at home, even when his duties would haye permitted him. Finally he became irregular ir-regular in the matter of remittances, and his wife, needing some pin money, took down his route book and found a letter would reach him at Peru, Ind. So she wrote him there, asking for $10. He was in the Bearss House billiard room when he read the letter. . He had no $10 to spare. He needed all his money for his own follies. But the request annoyed him, He got tip, walked about the room for a moment, mo-ment, and his eyes at length rested on a deck of cards, lying where some man had completed a game of solitaire. The top card on each pile was a nine spot. Billings looked at them a moment, then picked np the four cards, inclosed them in an envelope and sent it to hia wife. At Crawfordsville he received another an-other letter from her, demanding in indignant in-dignant terms what he meant by sending her four nines. He sat down in the writing writ-ing room of the Robbins House and wrote the following reply: 'You wanted $10. I sent you f our j nines. Four nines are worth $10 any time." Chicago Herald. |