Show ais aws titar in the interior of the state of new york an incident happened the other day which clearly exemplifies the fact that unscrupulous avariciousness is ver very y liable to lay traps pa ill in i iv winch I 1 nuh itself is caught tic canal comini found it necessary to draw largely from one of the eastern lakes rind and w in do doing 1 ing so cutoff cut off the supply of several severa I 1 flou floering flouring ring mills the owners of which subsequently filed claims agai against nast the state for damage the owner of one of these mills prepared his papers to file with the board of canal commissioners with much care that his claim might be clearly established by documentary proofs among the other papers was an affidavit as to the daily profits of the mill while it was running and the damage consequent on its being stopped for want of water the sum named in the affidavit as the daily profits was quite large nearly the commissioner in charge examined the papers carefully scanning the affidavit with close scrutiny this done lie he turned to the claimant with the remark this affidavit is correct I 1 suppose ayes yes was the prompt reply tho sum n named ar ined is the daily profits of the mill you are arc sure is correct all right sir 11 very well when I 1 have compared tin this s affidavit with your re turn to the assessor of internal revenue if I 1 find it to compain with your income report I 1 shall take plea pleasure surd in favoring the alic payment of your claim but until then I 1 can give no assor ance 11 i 1 if f this was a regular bombshell bomb shell the claim claimant ailt turned red in the face and was seized with a sudden series of short coughs he would like to have the aiD affidavit davit backmo back so that lie he might again compare it with his books and be qed quite sure it way correct the commissioner missioner shook his head claimant Oln Clai mant maut fancied that there might be acif an inadvertent error somewhere commissioner thought not Clai maint nervously desperate commissioner calmly inexorable and so the situation had to stand the result has not transpired yet but the impression seems to ae talat th at there is a discrepancy somewhere between the affidavit supporting the mill owners and the affidavit verifying his revenue returns |