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Show I HIS WEALTH CAME PROM AUNT. Honest Taxpayer Thought He Was on a Graft Trail. Once upon a time a free-born taxpayer tax-payer who could not be satisfied to let well enough alone by paying his 0 taxes and letting other folks divvy on the stealings, went to the alderman of his ward and said: "My dear sir, I come to ask you a question that has caused mo several sleepless nights, and I hope you will have no hesitation In answering." "Did you ever know an alderman to hesitate at anything?" was asked in reply. "The question, sir, Is this: How Is it possible for an alderman In receipt of a salary of not more than 500 a year to accumulato at least ?20,000 worth of riches In the space of five years?" W "Meaning that I have done that same?" "Prithee, It is so." "There are various ways, my friend, such as buying stocks In an airship or cornering the catnip market, but to bo plain with you I owe my ad vancement to the death of my aunt. She died and left me all she had, and here In my desk are the written proofs." "Truly, but I am disappointed," said the taxpayer, as he turned away. "I believed that I was on a hot trail, and that wo would have another case for Hughes to Investigate. I beg your pardon and will now tako my departure. , Moral (If any be needed): "If he had asked me how much my aunt left me I should have been up a tree," smiled the alderman, as he rubbed his hands together and felt tho bland-ness bland-ness of Integrity stealing over him. Chicago News. a |