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Show EASIER THAN' TO EXPLAIN Hew ths Man Who Had Bten on Long Spree Squared Hlmeslf at Horn. Congressman Edward W. Townaend of New Jersey, very much In the public pub-lic eye as the author of "Chlmmle Fadden." tho othor day emerged hurriedly hur-riedly through tho swinging doors out of tho house, grabbed an acquaintance by tho arm and rushed him down through the document room and Into tho open air. "What's It all about r demanded tho friend when ho got his breath. "Something tells mo that a roll rail Impends, said Townsend. "and. for a reason I have. I'd like to bo reported dead or absent. Either would bo easier explained than my vote. Which reminds re-minds mo of a story. "A long tlmo ago I worked on a newspaper In Carson City, Nov. Thero was another fellow pa tho paper who waa a good deal of a rummy and who used to go off on long sprees. One day he disappeared and nothing was heard of him for a month. Ho Just got aboard of a train and started east, and at 8t, Louis ho got a bun, tbo record of which Is atlll preserved In tho archives of the brewery Just back of tho town. Ho forgot homo and mother and everything else. When ho came to at the end of .W days ho felt that be waa up against It a bit at homo. " 'Here,' said he. Ma a desperate rase requiring a desperate remedy.' Then he hied him to a telegraph shop and sent this message to his wife: " 'I died at 4 o'clock this afternoon. What shall I do with tho remalrsr" |