Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-17

nooo so long 1 TeeI as though we ougn1
to be old friends, said Mrs. Sigsby.
81 will. I'll be glad to, ? returned
Gibson heartily
Mrs. Sigsby brought little tray con-
tanning matches, and the two men lit
cigars and went out
When they were on the sidewalk,
Sigsby burst out laughing and said:
"Gib, that was smooth. !"
dead smooth, assented Gibson.
sharper n tacks, amt WEI"
Sharp That's what call diploma
cy."
President ought to know about us.
Blessed if don't think he'd appoint us
right off. .
"That board meeting was great
play, old man., chuckled Sigsby.
Takes brains to do thing like that,
doesn t it?' returned Gibson.
Il tell you you got to be smarter'n
chain lightning to fool woman, said
Sigsby.
Yes, that was about the most bril-
liant thing | ever had hand in Two
big, husky liars like us fooling one lit
tie innocent, inexperienced woman was
certainly a great achievement. I'm
proud of it.
They smoked and walked in silence a
few yards when Sigsby burst out:
Hang you, Glib, you needn't make
man feel smaller'n a two spotI Ny
wife's good as gold, but she's slower
than He seemed to have difficulty
in finding word that expressed the de-
gree of slowness. SO he said, st. Louis. "
"You know your own business, old
man, but don't ever ask me to take a
hand at that game again If | had a
thing like that Gibson jerked his
thumb over his shoulder" smuggling
up under my vest, you wouldn't catch
me chasing any butterfiies-not on your
lifei''
They had reached the corner, and
Sigsby signaled passing car
Better come along. he said. with
his hand on the rail
mo, thanks Good nightp'
GOOD night, old mani"
'Oh, Ben, I'm SO gladr' said Mrs.
Sigsby, sitting up in bed and putting
her arms around Mr. Sigsby's neck as
he came in at II p. m. and stopped to
kiss her.
There was a thrill in her voice that
told how glad she was.
ut WASH t a very long board meeting,
was it,"
''No. got away as soon as l could.
/ wanted to get home before you went
to sleep.
Darling Mrs. Sigsby's voice
broke, and she laid her little blond head
on the broad breast of her husband and
sobbed.
She said it was because-she was so
glad-that he came home-earIy Chi
cago Record.
The Secret of New York's Greatness.
Ernest Ingersoll writes an article fol
st. Nicholas on the Greater New York,
his paper being entitled Reasoning Out
a Metropolis Mr.. Ingersoll says:
The secret of New York proud great
ness-why she is and always will be
buS ali pcIAdA City Vi NOIbH AluSEtCd III
wealth and influence and commercial
power, even though some other town
may some time in the future count
few more inhabitants-is found in the
word transportation T"
New York stands in the best place for
the distribution of people and things.
the raw material for manufactures, the
products of mills and furnaces and
shops, the yield of farms and mines and
forests and the goods going and coming
across the seas. Valleys that form easy
and natural roads open out south, west,
north and northeast, like the folds of a
fan, and the resources of a great coun-
try flow naturally along them toward
her Golfers. In front of her is the ocean
gateway, open to the fleets of the world.
New York is New York because she
stands where the wealth of the new
world and the treasures of the old world
most easily and naturally meet, and she
will be grander and even more splendid
as time rolls on.