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Show Dodging the Tax Gatherer. Yesterday forenoon a city tax man with a auspicious looking bundle of papera under bis arm walked up Main street and caused a flutter of ex aitement in the bosoms of many delinquents. de-linquents. One man watched that bundle from behind a dry gooda box till it passed by his store and faded in the distance, and then sneaked out of his back door and cut cross lots to the Oity Hall to settle. On hia way he met three of his brother merchants returning, all of whom had seen that suspicious looking bundle and had come arouud the back way to pay up and ease their minds of those inharmonious inhar-monious workings of the imagination caused by gigantic visionB of attach-jment attach-jment notices, collection fees, officer's mileage, posters on the front door, public auotiona, and other unpleasantness unpleas-antness coincident with a listleaa d ia regard of the operations of the law. Another man didn't see tbe bundle soon enough and had a levy made on hia property. All day long that man was figuring bow to get back some officer's costs he paid out in the morning and wondering how tho deuce he came to forget, in the long dull days of the heated period, to tell his bookkeeper to remind bim that October 31st was tbe last day allowed for the payment of taxes |