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Show WANTED HIM TO REMEMBER. Ungracious Treatment Accorded Would-be Philanthropist An official visitor to an asylum was surprised In the course of his inspection inspec-tion to find among the inmates a gentleman gen-tleman who complained that he was unlawfully confined by his relatives, who wanted his money. The official took him aside and heard him lay his case lucidly and sensibly before him. The man seemed to be so remarkably remark-ably clear-headed that the commissioner commis-sioner made notes of the case and promised that he should not be long detained. He spent some hours in making an' inspection of the institution, institu-tion, after which he again saw the unfortunate gentleman and expressed the deepest sympathy with him, confined con-fined there sane among the mad. "But do not fear," he added; "your case will be gone into at once, and your discharge will be speedy. There is no doubt about your sanity." "Thank you! A thousand times thank you!" said the gentleman. "You will never regret the trouble you are taking." They walked to the gate together, chatting' as they went, and shook, hands cordially at parting. The commissioner com-missioner was passing through the gate when he was violently kicked from behind' and prostrated in the mud. He rose with difficulty, and supporting himself by the- gate, gasped:, "What what was that for?" ' . "That," said the gentleman, now" grinning through the bars, "that's lest you forget!" ' ' " |