Show A frugal Stat statesman bamin senator edmunds Is ia relieved Lell beil eved to be in very comfortable circumstance he hab has a good brick house on massachusetts avenue in this city and a good frame house at burling conand he lives very velly nicely in both he fhe has big rugs and big dog dogs in both he is as fond of them as he is of a good table and a good sideboard but he la Is a very careful man hla his bur burlington ington dwelling is the only house on the street without a strip of sidewalk b fore it th the alk sik comes down to tha lino iino thon thou there thure la Is a break of gravel then tho sidewalk the senator would not lay a sidewalk ho irb was only there in the summer he said and gravel wati wats good enough for him the town did not lay the pavement becaas because ra r a it doubted whether it would ever get its money back it knew that the senator did not pay taxes willingly it remembered that when the legislature passed an act levying a personal tax the senator quietly declared it unconstitutional and announced that he wo would uld pay no taxes under it except buch ench as were wrung from him hla by force the assessors have much luck with the senator the act gave them the right to double the value of all the personal property they could find they strongly suspected that something like but all they could find was a cow a horse or twosome jewelry a gold watch some furni ture and so on worth in all 2000 or they doubled it they collected about one tenth of the tax they ought to have collected the senator smiled driml grimly y a and ind stroked the silky back of 0 his largest dog the senator never wastes anything not even words last summer he invited two hi friends ends both well to do lawyers like himself though not so well known outside outbid e of new york to fish flah from a salmon stream annually placed at his disposal by some canadian friends he gave his bis guests an idea iden of the number of days he contemplated remaining onabe eamand str informed them that it would be a li baskot basket lunch every evers everybody body to lo contribute something to the gi general table the lawyers were delighted with the invitation and rather impressed by the fact that it was extended by a man who wm wab wanted by some people as president of the united states they equipped themselves as aa though for foi an arctic expedition they did not seethe senator again until they reached the fishing camp he had preceded them they could not bee see vie the baggage he brought it was presumably under cover somewhere their baggage was perfectly perceptible the first mall mali to unpack turned out potted meats and vegetables dried meats nud and fruits preserves Je fellios lel iel Illee lies bread breads checel sauces wine win liquors cigars and all the otner good things to be found in boston then the t senators mena Bena d fors tors other guest opened his hamper he had almost every edible that the other fellow had and more drinkables drin kables tha contents of the two magazines covered about all the vacant there was around the camp when they had laid everything they bad had on the ground the guests looked at their host who was quietly t tt his long white beard as who should bay esy show how chow C your hand hund benat senst ir r the senator returned to his baggage tran train and boon soon reappeared bearing his contri button without difficulty in his two hands some crackers como bome cheese some simple dried and salted meats a little good brandy and that was about all the guests had profound respect for the sen een scooter etor but pm im told that their somewhat Ws respectful disrespectful opi opinion filon of the man was fully visible in their faces he is a very careful care ful man as aa well as a very good senator philadel P hla ala prees preas |