| Show m SIMPKINS PAYS HIS INCOME TAX by ROBERT mcblair mr simpkins gnad at the lie on tile the wall till ills eyes tilled filled with tears I 1 is iii a portrait tit tits lila father colonel who hud had four 1 limes 11 iles been for valor ring it the civil 1 I or nr and a nil had bin died bravely bruve lyon on tile the held field of action mr air simpkins throat ached now for or two reasons ren sona firs paral I 1 lip lie reverenced reveren ced a and nil adored the alie ti neni emory ory of ills his father secondly hit his age ond ax h eyes e ea and lili 1119 game log dut let him go 0 o to 1 f and ns lis lie he observed the ilie bearing beai liiK arid nd it it coin promis ing ine gaze baze of colonel Simp simpkins kinn lie he paw mw in imagination the khakiel klin krind ad lads of if the new generation marching forth and crossing lossone loss lne three thousand miles of iwa ca to light fight maybe lie die for liberty mr lr simpkins peered around to ninke sure that ri elther bess nor joint john who lio were ere at tho the leasing ages of sixteen anil and seventeen vere ft dipre hey could see him then lie he straightened and threw lis right light oni ara tit up for it Fri lute hut abts gity gi it shoulder sli twin twigged ged tind and tie lie grinned kronin il ito even cen salute Da dani dan iril i I 1 sold mr simpkins ond alli hj other hand fler fiercely cely twirled ills IV wl ite in I 1 it iio tu turned rued fin kiil limped into tile library and r sat tit ton ilowit it creakily renk reak lly Ily before beffi L the desk on oil which were cro lying the blanks for ills income in tax statement monks which tie lie had rather grumpily got from flip internal eteve HUB fine eilicer only that day after lunch von ton t on on oil ills way howe home fruin front tile club mr air simpkins for 1917 had nin minted to just about 1000 antl he hall been rather snappy on oil the subject of taxes ever since lie ho hod discovered that th the e more inco mo a ninn mail linit lina the grenter the lie of it hu he pays in taape lie he mild could think of 1 era men who like himself were nero mar ofed and lilt and two ivro children and yet although their incomes were nearly half of ills his they would pity only it small fraction of the lie he paid tie lie gloomily drew tile the blank tiena nearer r and began in the in information formation that it asked for ali aa mr air simpkins income ans lie hit hal to lure figure out tile the payable on oil each of the success sl e smaller sinn ller classes or of incomes in order to arrive at uie lite total due from hin self acl t lie iio passed over the alist class ylo must pay taxes stint la 14 single men inen makoul over 1000 ills calculation vir fir inar ried men then showed uy up ns lis foi orm s i cirit t they pity imy 2 per cent ii nili r ole 1010 law lav on nil all income over for or ench of their children under eighteen years anis in ili mr Sit cuse case this wits wa which it lid put ilon down in tile the blo column lie he saw next tile abo under the 1017 ina married nion men pa pai nn all additional a 2 per cent on oil all over 2000 with lite lie J same nine allowance for children tills this added t 1 tits ills payable column he then hen olmer obi lewd voI that for every t aw jutow in tits ills income over lie had to pay it surtax the percentage growing forger with each jump this thin was 2 0 more added gilded to lilt hlo burden and on nn top of till nil this canie nil an idt cess cesa Profi tn tax of 8 per cent oil nil occupation income over mak ink ing mor inora the total then lip he must pay wits was four hiir teen hundred and thirty four dolln dillni air a Illig rIly tildes theres young une henry wit kins wlm who mar marrivel take jake johnsons johnanna girl i lie maker 2000 nil and hit he pay a cent of taxes I 1 guess tits his Is hla his war ns as well ns as ninnel thinking of young binik henry wilkins i lie remembered that lint mrs wilkins went every afternoon to make bandages for the lie itell cited cross unit flail lenry who it a was the ocal I drift with Us its questionnaires well ix he to himself that makes it ilk 1 thought next of judge indue willough lii 15 ahme income was about lie flo wily tinly anys 20 rommen commented ted air simpkins riot not quite so angrily this time and ami then n thought struck him 1 iltis hr sill sat up rigidly in ili ills his chair judge WIllough bya son find been drowned on the lie Tuscan la when nhen it was with the loys loss of two hun ailred soldiers judge gave tits bis son to Ai amerlyn Amerl cn muttered mr simpkins ito iio leaned forward suddenly and put lits ills face in tits his hands for a 11 lik time mr simpkins sat very still in that position was waa no ino sound in the he library except the ticking of the tali nil eleck deck and nn an ocen trill of laughter from the calill dren skylarking ups ilas the square of light on tile carpet withdrew itself through the aindow window In dow and first twilight and then settled ft in about the he quiet white hilred some 1 times Irn irascible old mon ann mr Simp hins was thinking things which lie would never afterward speak of lie ho was thIn thinking Ling filings that were too sacred ever to lie he put into words hut but game inkling of its his thoughts may bo be found in tits hla rejoinder to mrs simpkins when that placid lady came in fit and turned on tile hie lights lichts arid asked him whether ile he was ready for dinner judge jul Willough bys only son was worth as much us nil fourteen hundred undred li and thirty four dollars liea ho mr simpkins demanded of her As B tits wife who was not unused to in it lita super fleta irritations watched him in mild mr simpkins limped out to tin the tinli and took ills his old felt hat flat ond silver headed cane from the hat ruck reck I 1 vetting himself out into tile fogg evening lie he topped tapped ili hla 1 way down tu to tin the vorner nil and mailed hl his Il income leville tax lenient and check with f its ills own lia linnija nuts now sod tit he thanked suld said mr air Sim phing ns as tilt the till lid cloaked clanked shut over ills missive 1 I 1 mio mil ju do this touch for y te iny court country try any |
