, 1875-07-28
THE COUNTY TREAsURER's CoRYs.

4aHu uuW cutnG6 HlT. JACOB l1EftM ana SAyH
TINT lo is not a candidate for tho Office Of
County Treasurer against Mr. 4 @. HEs1Eo
or any other 1nan, whoreat there will bo
weeping md wailing among the widows and
orphans, at the House OF the Good Shepherd,
in the Homo Of the Friendless, md the
Homes Of the Old Ladies', the Firing Women,
and tho Foundlings,-all Of whom expected
to obtain their share Of the aalaTy, interest,"
md pcrquisites attached to tho Office, which
lsEnM WINS going to divide among them. And
n!so co1nea "DurrA1o" MILLER nndntlirlns sol
etnnly md ancredly that tho aloresaid REuM
will not be candidate, the whole thing be-
ing job Put mp on him [DupFA1o) simply be-
causo he failed to keep the "corks in his
pocket" and for onco was caught without
vo,chers.
The way that DuFF41>o got caught without
Lin vouchers was something like this: Stroll
ling about rs buiTaloes do, lie fell in with
REIN and the sIayor, and purely in the way
Of social recreation, aftcr dropping into Aid
FoLEY'B, tho four found themselves in q
rrivate room at tho Pacific, where the
champagne was ordered by tie DuYrA1o
AacAE1Atlf AAAA tl40 CVAfE&aAklUu uAtuGAl13
turned upon the County Treasurership. Bur-
rh.o. being tla host OF course, had to intend
to tho wine, and when ho has duty Of this
kind to perform he says he usually keeps the
corks in his pocket, because wine-yendors
sometimes have IN unpleasant habit Of
charging for more bottlea than there are
corks. Having tho corks by him, however,
| hn hno o4a aa1r n~s7 H.
corrupt schemes Of tho publican, and can
crushingIy ovcrwholm him by producing tho
corks, Upon this unfortunate occaAion, how
ever, BUFFALO forgot to tako his customary
precaltion, md it resulted in disaster. Tho
conversation grow very animated, and, as it
grow, the wnitcr was kopt in constant motion
between the trio aud the wine-ccllar. The
result of all this was, that, when the
reporters captured DuYFALo, he was with
out ths corks In his pocket, and
consequently could not remember cor
recly. KEuM could not remember vory well
either. Whether the Mayor could remember
is what no fellow can find out, as gornKnH
sayB. because no fellow sounded him. Out
OF tllis memorial muddlo calne the announce
ment that 1tEuaf was a candidate for tho
County Treasurership, and tho jubilauon in
all the homes and hospitals when the news
reached them that they were to divide equal
iy in tho emolumentA
And now It appears that there Ia nothing
Of ule kind It is myth, chimora, \ vis-
Ion, m eilervesence, The pretty fabric with
its airy hopos and glitterlng promises dis
solves away, and all that Is left Is the empty
bottles and ono solemn faot that
lsuYpA1o Mu.lEn did not keep tho
corks, and the significant souvenir Of
the symposium in tho ahapo Of bill for 1916,
which sum Is nocossary 10 compensate for
the bottles Of Roedsrer or Mum,n whose
corks were not kcpt In the County Trcaa-
urcr's pocket, after his usual habit. This
littla !. o. U. is significant in double
ousc,-not only a. accounting for the lapse
Of memory, but aa III indicator OF the
bitulous capacity OF tho conclaye when talk
ing county politics and when no note is mnde
Of the popping Of the corks. seyonty-d five
dollars meana twenty-five bottles, which,
divided among three. gives egh& aado oQuarter
| bottles per mau (the fractional bottles
should probably bs credited To the re-
| portcrA which IL not bad for IN intor-
NAL matinee performance. What It might
have been, however, had It been regular
evening set-down, nlusk be laft to the i1uagi-
nation OF the reader, The dsnouement
shouI teach BuKyALo M11IRa useful lesson,
and remind him to be more careful in Tho
future, and collect tho eorks ~ fast as they
fly. by 10 doing he may avoid such =
shocking bill, which ID bal example, and
such An equally shocking lapse Of memory,
and will no. again arouse falsa hopes among
! thu widows md orphans aud n1iha women,