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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 26 October 1901, Page 4

[ f FADING INK NO LONGER. I Avoosg lady, who moves in the besi ■ociety, entered a West-End photographer's Itudio not loag ago, and taking three letters oat o i the seal-skin bag she | earned, requested Ufa to photograph them for her. The letters were the moat tender and talent loving missives imaginable. They •ere addressed to the young lady herself, rte photographer 1 * curiosity got the better V his judgment, and he finally said '• Yon'll pardon me,- but this iob is a little (nusoal. isn't it?" j "Is it?" she said, smiling. "It strikes me so," he replied. "I don't ■M why yon want photographs of those biters since youhave the letters themselves' • Don't you ? Well, I do. Suppose the s!v " . u_ere t0 be lost or burned, or desgc »oyea in some other way ?" ■ f ' " Woul d°'t the photographs be destroveo |Mt as easily as the letters ?"■ h ,** Perhaps not, especially if they were not tfr tept in the same place with the letters m no ' afraid of losing them by fire ot if? 5, a,, y s , uch wa y as that. The fact is thi If 5* ® fading and in a short time it will be a Wegjble." / ' u Therejis a girl for you who won't miss anj c IBAnces iti the breach of promise business r., r / f' L/ BET WITH HIMSELF- '• t« fa told of a queer gambler oa. thr ho was in the habit of makii% I ilngovs with himself, and was correspond i tagfycheerfal or downcast and gloomy, wis Kwse. In sporting parlance, he was con rtantly "at horse and horse" with himself ■ he fonml in that double-headed cob ■ ■'Sp n t|«o highest delights of anticipation Althoiun he lacked' the determination tc ■ £ ,- ictoftuy bet, still hehanntedthe pool and sard-rooms with his hands in his pockets jL/ lingUnj bis silver coin and transferring hi* Sj '. money from one pocket to the other, accord p'; sngto whether his right or left side won. j>« He kept n regular account mentally with iU his right and left hands, ana thus realised al : I' the excitement of betting without being subjj- 1 ' tecled to the liaUpKjr of dropping his wealth, !»; but a( the same time he was constantly on ' V verge of actually participating in the EL, game, but never could muster up eeurage tc jp . Wosit the money on the table, p.; i His great scheme was to select a number fir' (■> a lottery, which he wquM carry in his It- head; and he awaited the repon of the <j " irawings with feverish anxiety, which foi S Bveral days previous te the event almost P. prostrated him, so serves* and worked up ' Would he become. One time he actually won the first prize io f Shway. The gain sf so much wealth, in his u mind, proved to be a shock he could net withstand, and superinduced an attack o 1 it hrtic fever, to which he succumbed.

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