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Show An After Election Correspondence. "The shortest correspondence on record," rec-ord," said Congressman Covert of New York yesterday, "passed between Amoa Cummings and me a few months ago. Shortly after the November election, when Amos was defeated for congress, he was appointed subway commissioner of New York at a salary of $5,000 a year. When I heard of it, I sent Amos this letter: " 'Dear Amos' Then I drew a picture pic-ture of a human hand and wrote in red letters across the palm the word 'Shake!' 'Yours, Covert' "Two days later I received a reply. It read thus: " 'Dear Jim' Underneath was a human hand stretched in the opposite direction from that drawn in my letter and bearing on the palm the word 'Thanks. In the corner of the page was an excellent delineation of a champagne glass half filled with wine, and under it the words 'With pleasure. Yours, Amos. ' "But I always believed that Amos' reply was not genuine. You ask me why? Because I never saw him with a half filled glass. Itwas either brimming over or empty. " Washington Times, j |