The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-07
OTHER PEOPLES
BILLS

spfightly woman OF that name as sh,
and her husband surveyed their new
dat, 1T may prove very handy. /
anything nice comes addressed K
them ! shall simply appropriate it,
But she had forgotten this laugh
ing announcement when the post
man rang the bell the first morning
after they had moved IN and 1t was
Ia all innocence that she tore open an
envelope and then sat staring at its
contents.
| Carriage hire, $2S;" she ga9ped.
why, we haven't ordered SO much
as q cab for weeks. Paul, what does
it mean?"
He studied the bill Mean? ii
means the other Andrewg," he de-
cidsd, "A Better mark II Opened BY
mistake and put 1t back into the
| boz"
That was the beginning. Three
mails day brought bills, bills, bills.
X. N. Andrews was the other
mans name and her husband hap
pened to be p. M. Andrews diff
erence SO slight that creditors seorn-
ed to notice Besides. the other man
had failed to leave his new address.
How do such people liver" sput-
tered Mrs, Andrews one morning
when she had been looking for d
mail box choked with nothing but
the former tenants bills. They
never paid for anything, II seems.
There have been collectors here
from all the dry-goods stores and
some OF them made themselves abb
solutely obnoxious through the spaak- I
ing tube. They won't believe I'm
less | actually see them face to face
that I'm not the same Mrs. Andrews
that they've been used to calling "a.
Or course we're newcomers In the |
neighborhood and | don't want to
get the reputation Of being disagree.
able, SO try to be polite to them all.
But the milkman, the groeeryman, |
he iceman and lot Of others have
been here aud I'm tired. =
1T won't do my credit any good,
VIII it, said Andrews, with grin.
i lhink the worst Is over, though.
they'll begin to let up now. I'm
lorry for the creditors myself"
And I'm sorry for me-, was the
'esponse from his wife HI yoa
lad to answer the string d. people
hat do you'd wish yosr La I'd Wa
iaberbusch. This afte !! I'LL / 3ans
aan came to collect d years sith-
cription for weekly maya last
had never heard OF and III sisaEi3
'ouldn't allow me to be ans body
ut Mrs. r. N. Andrews. fse yas
lirly inpertirant to Ie.
He was, eh? Well, don't 5o
and bit of that There's no rea
m why man that never runs an
count anywhere should have his
lie annoyed over other folks Bills.
ou.d better be sharp with them
ter this Shut the door in their
ce necessary. We've had an
gh."
"All rAght. agreed Mrs. Andrews.
tb stolid satisfaction.
The mkt morning, fired by the {
y that new month had begun
d the same old batch of bills had
me again, she waited almost i'm 4
tiently for the first collector. is
The day wore on and promptly at h,
o'clock In the evening p. NJ. An ie
sws walked into his house with n
expectant, conquering hero air. n
piping to the dining-room door, he on
re comprehensive glance at the n,
lie and then grinned broadly. ",
You've forgotten It Yourself" he
4, as his wife appeared. III you eo
. Pm going to cry about 1t the wi
= you did last year" sn
What in the world do you mean"
Ha. ha! To-dey's the 9Th. my I A..
r. Didn't the flowers Gomez" 80
Paul are you crazy? What flow. ~,
," III
My dear, this is our wedding an- -
srsary," was the triumphant an
ncement. ~
It's no such thing married
on April 10th" Sa'
The dickens you did" Then he VI
ed. looking more crestfallen every '-'u
ute, And | squandered Sc on .ie
ers to prove to you that could iui
smber II for once" eus
Flowers Five dollars, oh, Paul. 100
!, did you pay cash for them7" Jus
What a question, You've got VIE
on the brain. Why. no.
,honed the florist out here to mas
'em over and | told him I'D QUE
. In and pay him in the morn OF
; had
RS. Andrews fell into her hus- gro'
s arms. He didn't understand. are
oke to him down the tube the
dn't let him come up-and all urea
ouid say was; Box Of flowers sT
Andrews. SIS oh, Il was the put
collector since our talk last niyht tain
see. so ] just gave him all the OF II
1 I've been keeping in for five essa
s. He kept ringing and ring as u
be bell after ] told him to 90 I'll Il
t last he said his boss told him roma
D come away without the cash his
told him I'd have him arrested He $
didn't go. and he said the whole its &
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