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Show THE CHAUFFEUR'S REBUKE. Senator Depew rebuked quaintly, on his seventy-fifth seventy-fifth birthday, a reporter who asked him a too intimate inti-mate question. "You remind me," he said, smiling, "of an elderly elder-ly colonel in a Xew York club. There is no question ques-tion this colonel hesitates to ask. "The other day he saw drawn up beside Sherry's a fine motor car, and at the wheel of the car sat a chauffeur who had formerly been in his own employ. em-ploy. The colonel stopped and asked the chauffeur who his master was, how he liked his job and what wages he drew. "The chauffeur answered these questions politely. There was a cold glitter in his eye, though. He was waiting for an opening. It came when the inquisitive inquisi-tive old clubman said: "'Er Gaston, what er how much did your employer pay for this car?' " 'The fact is, sir,' the chauffeur answered promptly, 'I never had the impudence to ask him.' " |