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Show Cutting Down Expenses. There being a famino In tho land and taxes very high, the king sent tor his treasurer and said: "Ben All, you old robber, aro tho people doing much kicking over tho hard times?" "They do nothing but kick, your highness," was the reply. , "They soem dissatisfied, do thoy?" i "I never saw the beat." i "And It will bo very hard to collect i the taxos?", "Very hard. Most of the people have eaten up their corn and aro now i living on roots." "I sympathise with them, Ben All, you fraud from way back, and I want them to know that economy Is my ' ' watchword. You can Issue a proclamation proc-lamation that I was going to erect a million-dollar palace this year, but lb order not to add to the distress of my people, 1 shall content myself with a $16 horse pond. That's all ,old man, and now you hustle along another cargo car-go of champagne from Paris." Moral: A king who can't work a racket now and then Is not fit to govern. |