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Show Once Tramp, Then a GoTvroaff. Your correspondent, while passing op Pennsylvania avenue with a bureau officer, offi-cer, passed a man named Wilkinson, who was recently turned out of the office of the comptroller of the currency on account ac-count of "offensive partisanship." The bureau officer, after passing Wilkinson, turned to me and said: "You recognize that man? Yes; well, there waa an incident In the early part of his life which connects him in a way with one of the most prominent Democrats Demo-crats In Ohio. A good many years ago Wilkinson was moving into a house at Springtield, now one of the most prosperous pros-perous manufacturing towns in the central cen-tral part of the Buckeye state. While his goods were being put Into the house, and those belonging to the outgoing tenant were being put on a wagon, a seedy looking tramp came up and inquired in-quired if he could get something to eat, oilering to assist in the work if he was accommodated. The outgoing tenant referred the tramp to the incoming tenant, ten-ant, and the latter took the wanderer : into the house and gave him a dinner. i Tliere was not much attention paid to that tramp, and for years those who saw him on that day lost sight of him. Finally he reappeared, however, entered into the business of the place and began to grow. He grew in every sphere of life. He became wealthy and influential. A few years ago he was governor, and now he has more property and money than any man in his section of the state. It is not necessary for me to mention his name. He Uvea at Springfield yet and is a very rich man. His name is a house- l hold word throughout Ohio." Washing- i ton Cor. jN'ew York Press. i |