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C 154 ) verage of their wages was only six Rupees a month. I remembered to have heard of one in stance of extraordinary fidelity. An officer died in his palanquin at the distance of nearly three hundred miles from Madras with a sum of about Thirty Thousand Rupees in his possession. Those honest bearers, alarmed lest suspicion should attach to them, salted his body, brought it three hundred miles to Madras, and lodged it in the Town-major's office, with all the money sealed in bags.” 64. Cardinal Ximenes. The most upright and one of the most able ministers that ever lived was Ximenes, regent of Spain during part of the minority of Charles V. IIe was perhaps the only minister ofwhom itean be said . thathe did not advance a single member of his family to any post of honor. He behaved with much kindness to: wards his relatives, but left them in the enjoyment of their humble.station... Having on one