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Show EDITOR AND OFFICE BOY, SECRETARY AND SENATOR (Washington Star.) ' Hudson. Minn.-, used to have a resident known as "Hod"' Taylor, who edited lix local pap'i. tht liUilsoti Star, He had a boy In his office whom evcrvtody in Hudson called VMose" Clapp. Taylor Is now assistant secretary of the treasury, and Clapp has just been rc-cvected as' United States senator front Minnesota. The other day the two were swapping-reminiscences swapping-reminiscences of the times when, thev enjoyed the relation of editor and office boy. Taylor was always fond A fishing; und one day sent the prcsrent senator out to dig bait for a prospective Incursion on the morrow. Clapp dug faithfully and turned up such an aggregation of angleworms' angle-worms' that the editor generously gave him a dollar. " . ..- . . Next morning both started out -bright and early for the tro'it brook, the editor I having, besides his fishing tackle, a good I lunch. The office boy had fishing tackle. but no lunch. Along in the d:y Tayler. having had good luck, rested "from his angling and inspected his Uincti. Clapp had had no luck and looked on with en-. vious eyes at his editor sJ calmly satisfying satis-fying the inner man. Finally he broke silence. I "Say. 'Hod.'" he exdaimed. as Assistant Assist-ant Secretary Taylor tells the story, "diil 1 you pay me that dollar yesterday for digging dig-ging bait or for starving me today?" |