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admitted that he had not, I asked Mrs. Boot 

 to prepare something hurriedly while I 

 showed him the garden and the chickens. 

 While he was eating, among other things I 

 asked him how much they charged for 

 bringing him in an auto down to our place. 

 He replied, "Not anything. I told them I 

 wanted to purchase a little piece of land in 

 your vicinity, and they said there would be 

 no charge." 



When I expressed some surprise he stop- 

 ped his dinner to reach his hand in his side 

 pocket, and said : 



" Why, look here, Mr. Root ; I got a free 

 pass from Tampa. Here are passes over 

 this new east and west railroad." 



When I expressed further surprise, and 

 asked him why they gave him this free 

 transportation, he said he was talking of 

 buying some land of a certain company out 

 on the new road. Just here I interposed 

 something as follows: 



" Why, my good friend, if I undenstand 

 yon, you have got these passes by repre- 

 senting that you wish or intend to purchase 

 of a company out on this new road, and yet 

 you tell me the garage people sent you down 

 "liere free, with the understanding that you 

 wanted to buy in this neighborhood." 



He stopped eating for a minute, evident- 

 ly seeing he was caught; but very soon he 

 recovered and replied: ' 



"Mr. Root, this is a free country; and a 

 man can purchase wherever he pleases." 



The above seemed to be his version of 

 " personal liberty "• — just about the kind of 

 personal liberty the liquor people so con- 

 stantly harp on. 



While the m.an was finishing his dinner it 

 suddenly occurred to me that he would be 

 going over to neighbor Rood's and getting 

 Mr. Rood to show him the real estate around 

 our neighborhood with his automobile. I 

 asked to be excused for a moment to look 

 after some business. The business was to 

 slip over to Mr. Rood's and inform him in 

 regard to the " complexion " of our visitor. 

 Mr. Rood said he had had some experience 

 with that sort of chap, and that I might be 

 sure he would not waste time on him. 



After this man had finished I told him to 

 leave his valises with us while he went over 

 to talk with Mr. Rood about the property in 

 our vicinity, and then I went on with my 

 work. Pretty soon Mrs. Root came and 

 told me our new visitor had started on foot 

 back to town with his tAvo heavy valises, and 

 she wanted m.e to hurry up and overtake 

 him with the auto because of his heavy load. 

 You may tliink, friends, I was a little un- 

 christianlike when I said, " No, let him 

 travel." She further informed me that he 



came in somewhat excited and demanded his 



valises. When she told him I had put them 



out in the auto-house he rushed out and put 



off on foot as described. 



" Did he not thank you for the pains you 



took to get him up his dinner*? " 



"Not a word of thanks; and he seemed 



put out because you had set his stuff out in 



the auto-house." 



I do not know but he expected his old 



traps would be deposited in our best room, 

 and that he would be invited to stay a week, 

 making our home his headquarters. If so, 

 he made a mistake. 



I have mentioned the above because I 

 have for some time felt sure the real-estate 

 men — at least many of them — have been 

 unduly censured. 1 know of two or three 

 cases where they have paid the money back 

 because a customer became discouraged or 

 got the blues, when they had been a good 

 deal out of pocket besides the loss of time. 

 Of course the above is no excuse for unre- 

 liable make-believe real-estate agencies, etc. 



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" god's kingdom coming.'^ 

 We clip the following from the Cleveland 

 Plain Dealer: 



DULUTH VOTES DRV ; CITY GIVES PROHIBITION 400 

 MA.TORITY; 15,000 BALLOTED. 



DuLUTH, Minn., June 20. — Complete returns on 

 yesterday's wet and dry vote in Duluth show about 

 400 majority for the drys, out of a total vote of 

 approximately 15,000. 



Under the terms of the initiative ordinance, thus 

 adopted, no more saloon licenses will be granted in 

 this city to run after July 1, 1917. Those now ex- 

 isting will be canceled as they expire. 



Duluth is said to be the largest city to vote dry 

 by local option. 



LEPROSY A MENACE, EVEN IN THE UNITED 

 STATES. 



The following is clipped from th.e Daily 

 Commercial of Three Rivei's, Mich.: 



Recent investigations show that in South Ameri- 

 ca the conditions are becoming alarming. Absolute- 

 ly no precaution is taken. Brazil alone has 750,000 

 cases. 



In one village of 1500, one-third of the population 

 were lepers. In this particular village every male 

 leper able to work was employed at making cigars, 

 most of which were shipped to the United States. 



It is estimated that there are between five hun 

 dred and one thousand cases in the United States 

 As only eighteen states have laws requiring cases of 

 leprosy to be reported it is hard to get statistics 

 At present there are two state asylums, one in Mas 

 sachusetts with ten inmates, and one in Louisiana 

 with one hundred. 



Please note what is said in the above 

 about cigars from South America. How 

 about " cutting out " all cigars ? What 

 about the class of people who usually make 

 cigars?- 



