At Moulins, France, dwells a modest carpenter who has admired M. Aristide Briand, Premier of France, since the days when L'Endormeur* was writing articles for the anarchist journal Le Peuple (circa 1885).
Last week the carpenter was outraged to discover that his hero's salary as Premier is but 90,000 francs a year. Vexed and eager to right what he considered a wrong, the carpenter straightway despatched 1,000 francs ($33) to M. Briand, with the request that he expend it as "pocket money."
Unfortunately the letter came under the eye...
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