The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-18

...ad I'm with "a shower Bath, Followed
WITH several other Annoying Pieasan-
..,.s and Wound Up With a Grand On
.,aught of Life Insurance Agents.
"Wen / guess I've got even with
,,ocs all right enough for all the prac-
,;col Jokes he has been playing on me
Cor tbe last week., said De Smith
,loefullv. as he hung up his coat and
tool his scat at the luncheon table with
a party of friends
Flows that?" asked one of the
friends
"Well, Jones is great joker, you
Lpow." explained De Smith. ''He
thinks it's a good thing to thump and
round like the deuce ON fellows door
as he goes down the hotel corridor
about O'Clock in the morning He new
or Goes TO bed when a decent man
should, and he rather resents it if any
of his friends do. He has been pound
INC on my door that way now almost
every morning for the past week"
"Why didn't you get up and kick
him." asked one of the party.
Il did try to three or four times, " re-
nlied De Smith, "but he always got
down the hall little way and then
laughed at me- But I'm even with him
now. Twas fixed for him when he came
along this morning. / had big pail Of
wafer fixed over the transom, and when
old Jonesiecame along and began thump-
ING | pulled the string fastened to it,
aud I heard old Jonesie curse under his
breath and mutter, Darn you, De
Smith. I'll get even for this. Then he
walked down the hall and looked out
in time TO see him shaking the water
off his coat and hat. "
"That was getting even pretty well,
old man. wish could have seen him
when the flood struck him" put in one
of the party.
ooh, that was all right for a start
er." said De Smith, "but it wasn't
half the dose l gave him after. You
see, Jones has been breaking my sleep
for week, and it took more than a
bucket of water to square accounts. l
anticipated his visit of this morning,
SO last night before going to bed | left
an order to call him at O'Clock. Old
Jonesie didn't get to bed before 3
o'clock, so he didn't get much sleep be-
fore 6. Then bell boy began to pound
Oh his door and shout that it was time
to get up. Jones shouted back to the
boy to get out or he'd break his neck,
but the boy replied that he had orders
TO get Jones out of bed and he was GO
ing to do it. Finally Jones got up in
his rage and hustled down to the hotel
office to find out what in thunder they
meant by breaking his sleep that way.
The clerk told him there was an order
for a call at o'clock, and that was all
he knew about it,
"Well, Jonesie went back to bed, but
he didn't get to sleep again. / paid the
bell boy enough to prevent that, and at
8 O'Clock he came down to breakfast
was down town by that time, so rang
Jonesie up on the telephone. My office
boy got him ON the wire and told him
to wait just moment, please. Well,
Jonesie waited about five minutes and
then gave the bell vicious ring. The
boy answered the ring and asked Jonesie
what he wanted. Il want to know who
rang me up, said Jonesie. Nobody
here said the boy, and he said he
heard Jonesie swear as he rang off.
We'll, I gave him that telephone
racket three times before he caught on.
He was pretty hot, l guess, when he
for him there. had telephoned to &
lot of my life insurance friends thai
Jonesie wanted to take out policy be-
fore leaving the city in the Afternoon
and advised them to send man around
to see him. There were two in the Office
when he reached it, and five more came
III during the morning
Jones thought he was going to do &
lot of work, too, but as a matter of fac
he spent the day explaining that ht
didn't want any life insurance or any
thing else but chance to tend to his
own business. One of the agents finally
let 1T out that had recommended Jones
as a good risk, and he rang me up a
once. I've got enough, he says. I'm
willing to call it all square if you are
You've got the best of it, admit, III
squalled, so I told him was willing II
call 1T off if he would remember not Il
hammer ON my door hereafter when III
was going by at 3 in the morning. HI
replied that he wouldn't rap at my dool
again if the hotel was afire, and so W.
called it off.
Jones has beaten me out of whole
lot OF sleep of late, but / guess In
even, fellows What do you Think
And DE Smith leaned back in his chai
and looked at himself admiringly in thu
mirror across the room. = Chicago
Times Herald.