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Show A' LONG TIME. In the service of certain commute of the Senate, the chairman of which la - a Southern Senator, Is a certain eapablf young stenographer and typewriter. In addition to the clerk of the committee. One day the chairman, missing thj very capable stenographer. Inquired of the clerk where he waa. , ' - - . . "He la not here today. sir." responded the clerk; hta father la dead." Some days later the chairman again asked for the missing employee, only to receive the same reply from the clerk: "He Is not here today, air; bis father la dThe chairman aald nothing, but looked very Interested. ' . , ' A full week thereafter the head of the committee com-mittee for the third time Inquired as to the whereabout of the etenographer. In reply the clerk began the uiual announcement: "HeTi not here today, air; hie "Will you kindly advise me. interrupted the chairman, with l?n.,n "whether that young man Intends to stay away from hie dutiee all the time hie father la dead?" Harper's Weekly. |