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Show A Fixed Income. A southern congressman, who formerly for-merly practiced law in Mississippi, tells of an amusing case he once tried in that state. He was then a student in the office of his uncle, Colonel Martin, who figured in local politics. The main figure in the trial was a lazy negro named Duck Sutton, arrested arrest-ed at the instance of his wife, who alleged al-leged that he contributed nothing to her support and refused to work. Examining Ex-amining Sutton, the young lawyer asked : "Dick, have you any fixed income " Sutton was puzzled by the term. Counsel explained that the expression meant a certainty, money not paid for odd jubs, but for steady employment; in other words, a compensation at stated stat-ed intervals on which he could absolutely abso-lutely rely. The negro's face brightened, bright-ened, and he said: "I think I has a fixed income, sah." "And what is this fixed income?" "Well, sah," answered Dick, with a broad grin in the direction of Colonel Martin, "de colonel here allers give rat fo' dollars an' a sack of flour on 'lection 'lec-tion day." |