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Show Great Waste of Ink. He entered the West hotel, a fine, courtly southern gentleman, very affable af-fable and genial, says the Minneapolis Tribune. And this is what he wrote on the register. "Hinton Graves Lee, resident in Augusta, Au-gusta, Ga., prior to February 1, and in Georgia state since 1852, now resident at Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan." Clerks A. D. Hein and A. M. Shartln looked it over and had a whispered consultation. "Think of it," said Hein. "Why, the ink firm could afford to pay the traveling expenses and a good salary to Mr. Lee. If that habit ever spreads, there wouldn't be ink enough in the United States to go around." |