Show A GIFTED ACTOR who was wag enabled to draw the pensions or of the soldiers old lers A regular personification of deceased pensioners has been discovered at the station of Du Dapo olic this is a delightful healthy place in the district of Ratna girl about five miles from the sea at an elevation of six hundred feet it was the residence of veteran sep ys who had been pensioned after doing good service in 1857 8 an anonymous petition brought to light the distressing fact that the pensions had been drawn long after the decease of the real incumbents and that there was besides an original scheme by which pensions still due to survivors had been intercepted and were in the main enjoyed by money lenders in the bazar and by the native clerks of the department says the saturday review A long investigation followed in which the military authorities were all but baffled but by the skill of an Engli englishman bliman in the ordnance department and of an intelligent parsee books were seized rolls were inspected and it was found that one bannak who had originally been intended for the army had been in the habit of dressing himself up as a pensioner and drawing the allowances this enterprising individual from his photograph and from the letter press must have had a lively sense of humor lie he was sagacious enough not to personate more than two pensioners on the same day one in the morning and one in the evening except on special occasions when he appeared live five times his military salute was admirably given and lie subsequently related with just pride how lie had managed to draw the allowance of the suh badar major and of sirdar bahadur for four years of course this gifted actor had got his own commission every time the sharpness s s of the english superintendent in detecting a serious of interpolations in the native account books would have done credit to the best officers in scotland yard |