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Show Uli. Itutkar' lto.rla. Anecdote nf fleu. rlpluner lmo callixl forth anerdoti- of iihnuit nil hi OMoelate hi Wathlngton In war tlitie. Gen. Ituiker, who wa Incharguof for wnnllngtuppllCMfor tho Ariuyof tho I'atoiiuiri, wa almost a niiicli of n rharru ter a (Icn. rtplnner. A long a ho kept uppllo mui lug ha carol llltlo about hli account. A trcaaury ollh-lal called fleu. Ilueker'i attriillou to tho fact that ho waaboutlM,ftOn,UWthort. "Tako It out of my xi) ," tall tho gen-crul, gen-crul, with gnat dignity. Tho treasury oindal figured that It would tako 3U0 )ean' vuy of tho quartermaater general to mnl.o gooil Iho drflelt, which, of It r all, wa found In bo mcrily a matter uf bookkeeping. Washington Htar. |