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"How can you be interested in running for alderman?" she asked "It is

such aIt

would be grand to have you a senator, so that we could go to Washington

I should love to be in all the gaieties and uished

people"

"Why, sweetheart, you don't suppose I care for the great na "That's only the end of a

lever I do care immensely to be one of those ill clean up this

city and keep it clean Perhaps, if we do these near-by things, the big

ones will come, by and by"

"A sort of public househed and nodded

But Lena shrugged her shoulders and pouted as the door shut and she idly

watched her husband's final hand-wave

He walked don and the fresh northern air set his pulses

quickening He noted ho gray heads there were, how full everything

seeroups of happy

well-kept children, bundled up for winter play and bubbling over with

exuberance To any passer-by they told that these were the ho married people Everywhere life looked sweet and nororous And he knew that for miles in every direction there were more

such homes of more such people

But when he reached the part of tohither his steps were bent, all

this was reversed Here was dirt, if not of body, then of spirit Here

were a thousand evil influences at work Here was public plundering for