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Show 1 PARR GETS A BIG REWARD tBI 1 How would jou llko to earn a reward or $100,- 000? Don't you think It would bo a pleasure to you If Undo Sam would place In your hand ton orlsp 110,000 bills and say: "Here, my good and faithful servant, Is a reward for a duty well done'" Pretty nice, eh? This la what will befall Richard Parr, a customs cus-toms deputy at Now York, who assisted tho government gov-ernment In recovering $2,000,000 in tho sugar underweight frauds. Parr hasn't rocolod the money yet because tho fund out of which Unolo Sam pays such rewards wasn't large enough, lhit he'll got It President Toft nmi Secretary Mac Yeagh have promised It and that's enough, for Parr-Parr Parr-Parr discovered tho uecrot spring on the docks H of the American Sugar Hollaing company by B which tho uuderwelRhlng practluo was carried on, Tho flual discoveries of B fraud wore nuulo in 1907, since which tlmo tho government has been engaged B in collecting tho duties out of which It had boon dofraudod. B "A hundred thousand dollars Is not much money In Now York, bat I B am grateful Just tho samo," said Parr when Informed of his good fortune. "I B Khali Invest tho bulk of tho money In real estate. 1 havo a wire, two sisters, B two nieces and two brothers and wo shall bo glad to own our own homo. B There will be no extravagance; I have plannod that B "My plans Include a vacation In the mountains and then perhaps a trip B to Kuropo. 1 have beeu working every day for two years and am on the B verjie of a nervous breakdown. Tho vacation Is moro to uie than the money. B bV BJ bbbbbW' bbbVbVJLmiimbmb BBHBJDBflBBABABABj BJBBBJBBBb. v X |