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Show Joked With the Bureau Second Expense Account of Special 1 Examiner Showed He Had a Sense of Humor. Kx-Commlssloner of Pensions Waro told nn nmuslng story of tho expense account? of u special examiner of tho bureau, In tho American Spectator. Tho first account, whon examined nt tho end of tho month, was found to contain the Horn: "Portor. CO conts." Tho auditing olllco promptly notified tho oxamlnor that tho government did not pay for thu malt refreshments of Its servants; whereupon thu exam Iner patiently explained thnt the CO j cents hud boon given to tho porter on a train for holplng with his baggage bag-gage He wns then Informed that tho Item would ho allowod, but that In future In similar rases hu would uso tho form ""porterage" ' I When tho nccount for the following mouth was received the nudltor waa astonished to find a charge of two dollars for "cabbage." "Ho must be running a boarding house or a rabbit farm." was tho of flcer'H comment. It was only after another exchange of letters thnt It developed that It had been for local transportation, and not for vegetables, that the expenditure expendi-ture had been mndo. |