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Show MM . 1I0UDLK t'KUUF. , ' BjOl Sill Uke II" a Councilman Who Hijft lloll't LUo lllamoud ICInira. BH A atory liaa been quietly going the Hbh roundi lu uiunlol)al clrolca latoly to Haj tba rfjeet that aumotlmo ago a corlalu HHM mauof money who wlihcd lo work a 1 Wm Khema through the City Counoll ot I iH considerable Impoitauue, aont 0110 of mi 1B councllmeu a aluallu diamond fl rlCKaaa preueut. Thla ho wlihed tho ! couuclltiian from the preolnot, It 111 ' tn ' ,a'J' '" accept not that ho txpooted a? cil '" recelTe favor In relurn but llii I ill ahnply aa a prtfleDt. nothing inoro, II fill nothing leta. I he couuillmuu, till IS l frlanda eay, became Indignant at what llll ft! haionaldend uaort of bilbo and after iK 111 iiu" rerlectlon of aomo day returned It IjHjisH" with bla oompllmenta to thodonurwlth II Hall' tu laforaiatlou that tie wai boodle IrnV!) proof. lUi jfl It Is alio atalod that other council. H II k uc" wrr" 'ul,'l'7 ejuuded hut that II M II l'e, "" responded that tho scheme I 41 Ji might be oil right but that they didn't D JH il. llkedlnuioud lings anyway, and now m II !ii the laugh la ou the gentleuiaii who I if I ' couldn't llud a councilman that would I 1? accept a present. |