Grinding Creditors

"We can't go to Europe this year," sald the progressive business man, decidedly. "But, John - " "It's no use to argüe," he interrupted. "Yoy wanted to go and I did my best, but my scoundrelly creditors won't let me. They're the most unaccommodating lot I ever had deallngs with." "They- they won't have you arrested, will they?" she asked, anxlously. "Arrested!" he exclalmed. "Well, I should say not. But they're mean and petty. Why, Maria, when I falled I figured that I could pay them 20 cents on the dollar, and then we'd take a trip around the world, but they're so small they wouldn't accept it. Then I offered 'em 30 cents and arranged for a trip to Europe, but they wouldn't take that." "Then what can we do, John?" "Well, I've made up my mind to offer them 50 cents to-morrow, and if they take that we'll try Narragansett Pier or Bar Harbor for a month." "Do you think they will accept it?" "I don't know. When men get so mean and small that they'll hold a poor unfortunate man for more than 20 cents on the dollar when he has all his plans made for a tour of the world, you can't teil what they'll do. These fellows are so grind ing mean that I don't believe they'd care if they made me pay 100 cents on the dollar and beat me out of my vacation entirely. There are some awfully annoylng and perverse men in this world."