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Show I " J - Didn't Waut Them Taxed. $ , ' S ' , ; A good story is told on one of our local prhibitioiiiata, at least he was u yro- L liibitionit" during the campaign hat ' year, and spent, the greater part of his time promulgating the principles ho advocated. Ilia voico could ho heard at -, almost any time of the day or night . His denunciation of saloons and gumbl- ;i . ing halls were the loudest and most - ?' vehement heard on Main sheet. It did i! ' N 3iot make any difference to him if taxes ' ij ytif'Jp weie doubled. Yea, doubled four times, -A i one couhl soul be saved thereby. His vS"' devotion to the c.iU3e was whole-aouled ; ; and free from any selfish motive what- 'r tiver. lie did,t eeem to even luinkei after ollioe. At least if his heart . "' treasured u si eret hmging for politicle 't emolument thev veie not gratified, bo j -that his devotion to the good cause was $?' ' to alb uppeiuenceu so sincere and , geuerous that unless lestrained by x wiser heads he would have placed his , "V last dollar on the altar. Well, the battle ' ,fv ' was fought, and won by the aunihilaiers "- of the whiskey trulliu. They assumed 'ifi?'' control ot the city and tin empty fskiv j treasury. The deputy assessor began M' Jiis am. mil duties to as to give the city 3&ly3vk , ' dads some sort of a basis for an estimate jj$ ' us to the umouiit of revenue that would jkHEjp "i ' -vouie in dining the year. WhenThur- llifP'dirf)J 'mail ihst made his appeal ance with ids u t"!F "2ft?' assesement rolls' our prohibitionist Y ' icfei red to alone wad among thcfiistto -caleh on. The sight almost pari listed ' him. He had a l.ult: bunch of calves in his yard he had been lecding through i the winter. If the calved' wejo nut le- jnoved at once they would he assectea v v for city puiposeq. This he had :iu iae,u of allowing. Talk wan cheap but it , . tukea money to pay taxes. Hut ho was I T,f '"I equal lo-the occasion, for tiding hiui- v t "-,.' ' auirin the boiom 01 his taiuily uiuil -yjamv. ,..- ujght came and the hiidge roud was. , ". - Shady lie itishea his little bunch of ,r. .aucKlingy over the liver and as a couse- wJ"X quence the suunvs of war lor the ccmiilg Av U'11 WHst the saloons will bo reduced itfJffliSL & by abouti7-,cems.-Jutho stoiy lS'tiuo "lw'V ' "fihas lutnur a Shady look, even if '$&& '' legitimate. ' X. . . j Z"1 "Li - - |