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City Treasurer, "is that the city 1 is practically bankrupt. There's t $58,000 in judgments against it now, and $64,000 in other claims, i and everything has to be taken in its regular order. Of course, J if you're in a hurry you could s enter up judgment on the voucher t and then we'd get to it a year or c so sooner. This year we'll only t have a margin of about $20,000 c over actual running expenses to c retire these various claims, and e the judgments will come first." i Ml ti - j?*i ? -nam 1 my xen nonars in that c twenty thousand?" demanded Abner. t "Of course." c "Then sort it out and give it t to me." t "We can't do that. It's in the general fund, and can only be r reached by system." "StfVp it I" yelled Abner. "I'll ^ lie commitin' murder in a minute \ if you say that again." 4 "Do you want a voucher in | place of that order?" asked the i r City Treasurer. < Abner considered the matter 1 deeply for a minute. 141 wish I was a city," he re marked at last. "Why?" t "Great Cracky ! but I could > make money doin' business that > XV'WT I niAitl <! >'? - f *mj . M. UWU1UII I rt?t\ II11 IHHI8 (I I y the Vnnderbilts or the Goolds or t the Rockefellers, or nobody if I I could only jest collect in cash an' pay in vouchers. But I'm f going to have that ten dollars, t I'm goin' to see a lawyer." Lizzie looked at him with pa i thetic anxiety as he came along the corridor, and stopped to sav 1 to her: "Now, don't you worry, Liz. You're goin' to have a t typewrite machine, an' I'm going i to have that ten dollars. Jest you wait here." ^ The lawyer hemmed and haw ? ed, and finally said that he saw \ nothing to do but to accept the y voucher. f ^ "But that there ten dollars is ( ' mine," protested Abner. "It ( don't belong to the city." i "Of course, but, you see, the municipal system " < "Quit right, there!" broke in Abner. "I'm trying to keen mv temper, but I can't stand no more o" I hat system talk." "I admit that it seemsoulraee- / ous," said the lawyer; "but fl the city funds are pretty well 8 tied up?" ( k-J don't care not bin' 'bout the c city lunds." interrupted Abner. ' "Let 'em keep their old lunds, 8 but they hain't no business keep ^ in' my ten dollars." "Well, you might recover it fi i... i ? i - - "? - 1 uv leg-ti process rrom l lie Uily j Treasurer personally, if you j could show that lie acted without ^ authority," explained the lawyer; H "but it would cost more than ten a dollars to do it. My advice is to f take the voucher and wait." A hner sighed. ' How much ?" he asked as he 0 s rose to go. . r Five dollars, please," said the lawyer. r "It heats me the ways they t have ol makiu' money in the citv," mutterid Ahner, wending 1 8 a his way hack to the City Hall j P "It costs a teller money to he ^ bunkoed, an' then it costs him v more to find out that he's been ? bunkoed. There's fifteen dollars ' gone an' no type-write machine ' yet?an' no ten dollars back 8 Everybody says that ten dollars ' is mine, but I don't irit it. Iiv gum! I wish I could do business like that. 'The money's j, yourn,' says the city, 'if you can ( get it.' 'You can't get it,' says ( the lawyer ; 'five dollars, please.' Great snaokin' ches'nuts? I' don't see how anybody but a j stranger can be broke in the city 1" % To his surprise, he found Lizzie radiant when he returned. She still occupied the settee, but her face was wreathed in smiles. ? "It's all right, father!" she 1 cried as soon as she saw him. t 9 'He's gone for the typewriter \ iow." "Who's gone?" demanded Abler. J "Why, Mr. Skinner?Sam Skinner, the City Clerk*" aniwered the girl. "He happened o see me here, and?and I was j Tying, just the least little bit. 1 j .ouldn't help it, and I'm glad I <] lid, for he whs just as good as he ? :ould be. He said it was a i ihame, and he'd fix the matter ( lp somehow, if influeuce could [ l/\ it *" ** i "I'll bet ye," returned Abner bought fully, "that they keep him e :hasin' all over the country for j hree weeks to do it. I know r heir ways, darn em 1" \ But just then the City Clerk f eturned, carrying the typewrit- c ,r- 1 "I made it a personal matter e villi the Mayor," he explained, t 'and he ordered it back into my \ "lORRession, so now I can deliver r t to you on the City Treasurer's t >rder. Its really teo good to sell, a jut the city can buy another." j "Can it?" asked Abner. , "Of course." f "Then the fools ain't all r lead yet," asserted Abner. "I |< vouldn't sell the city a blind boss- c vitl* onavitio an' 4 ? vivai P|/w ? IIIO Oil 1 IIO Iirnvcn, vithout the money was paid into ny hand before I let po o' the ia|t.er.'' "But we're ever so much r ibliped to you," said Lizzie to he City Clerk. "Don't mention it," the latter 'eplied. "And I hope you'll drive over! o see us," she added. "Come on, Liz," put in Abner, akinp up the machine and m >v. np toward I he door. "Goinp home now?" she asked. "Not jest yet," lie answered. "I'm point; to put this in the vapon, an' then"I'm poinp to take /on over to the lawyer's office in' see it you can't cry that live lollars out of him. 1 hain't never juite seen your full value till IOW." 3ures Uheumatism and Catarrh?I Medicine Sent Free. t Send no money?simplv write \ tnd try Botanic Blood Balm at f >ur expense. 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During the last year of strain id relations between Russia and 'apan the Russian and Japanese epresentatives here have not >een at all intimate, despite the act that they meet frequently at iflicial and social functions. At he New Year's reception they xchanged formal greetings. At he diplomatic reception a week ater Col. Raspopow, the Russian nilitary attache, bowed to an atache of the Japanese legation md only received a stony stare n reply. At the diplomatic din ler Count Cassini came almost ace to face with the Japanese ninister. No greeting of any :ind was exchanged, but close ibservers noticed that a moment ater Count Casrini, in a recess if the blue room, quietly apiroached Mr. Takahira and spoke vith marked emphasis to him. The colloquy lasted but a mo nent. Close by was a European dip omat, irorn wiioinil is now learn 'd that Count Cassini told the lapanese minister that, although here were strained relations heween their countries there was 10 reason why there should not )eorlinary intercourse between he minister of Japan and the lean oi the diplomatic corps, Jount Cassini holds the lattei position. When next they met, it the judiciary reception, the Japanese minister was accompa lied by his staff and all bowed o the Russian ambassador and lis staff, the salutation being re aimed in kind. Washington hosts and hostess ;s will exercise discrimination so Olie !IS I^liawiil till.! .lunun urn .it >dds by not inviting the Russian unbassador and the Japanese ninister to the same dinners or ither affairs at which they would >e brought in contact. Escaped an Awful Fate. Mr.H.Haggins of Melt?ourne,Fla, rrites, "My doctor fold me 1 had :o sumption and nothing could >e done for me. I was given up <> die. 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