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Show Explanation Briefly Made. Harold Knulson, Kepublican whip of tlic house, tells a yarn about an old fellow up in his country who has !i job carrying the mail from the depot to the post office, for till of which ho eels $1. a trip. Some of the boys around the pro-eery pro-eery store the other night pot to kiddies kid-dies the old chap about his joli and. eventually, they asked liltn how much he made out of It. "T make ?1 a trip, three trips a day, ?i:r a month, or 53,000 a year," ho said. These figures not sounding . jus right, one of the boys sought to pit him down on his calculations. "How do you make ?3,000 a year?" he asked. "A-carryin" the mail," responded the carrier, and with those few words lie , departed. |