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Show HI8 WEALTH CAME PROM AUNT. Honest Taxpayer Thought Ha Wu on a Craft Trail. Once upon a tlmo a free-born taxpayer tax-payer who could not bo satisfied to let well enough alono by paying his taxes and letting other folks divvy on the stealings, wont to the alderman of his ward and aald: "My dear sir, I come to aak you a question that hns caused m aeveral aleeplssa nights, nnd I hope you will have no hesitation in answering." "Did you over know an alderman to hesitate at anything?" was asked in reply. "The question, air, Is this: How la It posslblo for an alderman In rocelpt of a salary of not more than 1500 a tear to accumulate at least $20,000 worth of richei in tho apace of five years?" "Moaning that I have done that samoT" "Prltnoo, it is so." "Thero are various ware, my friend, such aa buying stocks In an airship or cornering tho catnip market, but to be plain with you I owe my advancement ad-vancement to tbo death of my aunt She died and left me all sfao had, and here In my desk are the written proofs." "Truly, but I am disappointed," aald the taxpayer, as ho turned away. "I bolleved that I was on n hot trail, and that we would have another rasa for Hughes to Investigate. I beg your pardon and will now take my departure. Moral (tf any he needed): "If he had asked me how much my aunt left me I should have been up a tree," smiled tho alderman, as ho rubbed his handa together and felt tho bland-ncss bland-ncss of Integrity stealing over him. Chicago Nowa. |