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Show I Saved By Its Tick. The last thing the woman did was to put four rings lu the clock on the mantel. "So thieves won't get the ..." she said. "I should think that would be simply Inviting thieves to run away with them." said her friend. "That Is a handsome clo:k. an thieves like clocks." "They do," said the woman, "but they will never steal this clock. It ticks too loud. No wise thief will run away with a clock that goes like a thrashing machine. It Isn't the alarm about his person that be ' sfrald of, for he csn stop the clock, but the occupants of the flat are like ly to return before he gets afe!y away, and If a loud ticking clock Is gone they will mis It the minute they step Inside the door, and maybe given him a hot chase for bis plunder " In Hock. Young men with meagre salaries evolve tiiiaucial makeshifts abhorrent lo the Dm' 1 and pliysieal sensibilities of their opulent eiders. Said one young sprig of boarding houhe gen lillty to ano'btr who expected to seek new quarters upon his return trum a l o months' trip on the road: "What are you going to do with all this personal truck thai la cluttering up your room? It wlil cost you any-bow any-bow a dollar a month for storage." "Not the way I am working things," said the man who was going away. "1 have purposely refrained from payli.g board for four weeks and the landlady will bold my stuff. Of course I shall square up when I come tack and jet It again, and la the u eantlm she will gits It free storage" |