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Show ! VICTIM OF PRACTICAL JOKE Rather Mean Trick, Credited to Mem ber of Wathington Club, Played ! on Bunnesi Man. They nr" telllnc a story around lhi i;i:eciiet rlnh of a prarthiil Jo',i j played upon an our i.f imi n vl-iior i who is rnovr pmn-lillous In the manner In whleh h- draws all the coiilrarls for the company of which h" N president. presi-dent. Il appears tluil a short time hko he .iuie tn Washington prepared to clo-e a deal inolinc a small Hmounr of money. When the papers werp finally t ppd he seanm-d them carefully, ami w In n alien! to afTix h's signal lire he was akel hy one of the other parties of the ileal to l.e his j fountain pen, us he wanted m keep u ! an n soinenjr of Hip on asion Kallo-r a pprpi'in liny the eoinpl I iiienr. he did j j no, and that tilht enlrained for I'.os- ton. A flay or two after hla arrival . home he had occasion to look up the contract, and found, to his di-ma, that therp were no si Rlia I urvs In the a U reptnenf . His Wakhinyton friends I hail simply made him u-e a fountain pen that was illled with disappearing disappear-ing ink. When Ihe hoax was explained ex-plained to hllll hy wire he sen' ha - U the follov.Iiiif message: "llei iirnlii.' wllh hy own Ink. Tin- dinner Is on j me." Washington Slur. |