The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-10-02


"You can easily hire secretaries. In half
an hour we will set Off on this indispensable
journey"
For fifteen days the only man one seemed
TO meet on the roads, the steamboats,, the
cars, was the unhappy Verdavin, the can
didate in spite of himself. In the pelting
rain, in the broiling sun, everywhere went
he. Every morning his wife drew up the
programme for his days journey every
night be had to bring home to her good and
sufficient evidence that he had been at each
place he claimed to have visited.
Grand outcome - the bronchitis, three
mild sunstrokes, an incurable rheumatism
and confirmed gastric disease contracted
through drinking prosperity to France with
346 electors daily.
v.
"Emmie," he at last gasped, like one
about to faint, al feel that my strength"
"To-morrow," she said, relentlessly, "you
will canvass the forty parishes on this
| list"
And on all sides nothing was heard but
EXPLANATIONS of "What an ambitious chap
that Verdavin is Who ever saw any one
like him |"
"Amedee," she said, next day, "your adj
dress has not been circulated widely enough.
have had 100000 extra copies struck off
and distributed"
"But dear, printing comes ruinously ex-
pensvely. This morning only have paid
one bill of sixteen thous--"
"You must also manage to have your
name mentioned in connection with gener-
Gus deeds. have ordered six organs for as
many churches in as many close parishes"
"S-i-x o-r-g-a-n-sl"
eyes, and twelve fre-engines for villages
that are unprotected from the ravages of
the destroying element and where there is
large floating vote. Imagine how CRATE
full the poor people will be-"
"But, Emmie, cannot make ducks and
drakes-I mean church-organs and parish
fre-engines-out of my fortune"
"And do you count it for nothing, then,
the glory of being a statesman Besides,
once in politics, you are sure of getting your
money back an hundred-fold."
"What deuce of fellow that Verdavin
isr' said the outside world in awe-struck
amazement and admiration "he'll spend
every franc he has before he'll let himself
be beaten !"
vi.
One pleasant morning-it was just week
before the election-Madame aroused at
early dawn M. Verdavin, who was still
sleeping soundly, not having indeed re-
turned from an exhausting journey to the
back districts until 2 a. m.
"Amedee," she cried, Grouse yourself;
the honor Of our name has been vilely thrust
under foot and trodden in the dust, and you
must avenge it," And she handed the un-
happy man a newspaper in which he read
the following:
1t is about time to have done with the
brazen impudence of the charlatan who is
trapesDg round our streets and highways.
This Verdavin, a fellow of the baser sort,
seeks-but seeks in vain-to conceal his
demagogic instincts. He demands "Liber-
ty." We all know what that word means
with him behind it he prepares an am
buscade for property, the family, religion.
| This Verdavin, dealer in votes and haunter
of low :averns, is nothing more nor less
than a scalawag who has not even the cour-
age of his incendiary opinions.
"But that is not all" said his wife, and
handed him another journal in which he
read
Let the mask be torn off Our inteli-
gent voters will not let themselves be i'm
posed upon by Tartutfe of the cutters. NJ.
Verdavin, double-ender politician and
perfect nullity, pretends to array himself on
the side of the cause of Order. 1t is under
such guise that the friends of despotism
usually do their hellish work. This odious
being, whom we will not further pollute our
type by naming, has evidently been hired
to complicate the situation by his candidacy
Let the electors rise in their might and
sweep from the field this vain idiot.
Next morning Verdavin received a sword
thrust in the left arm from the Legtimist
editor, and the day afterward one to match
in the right arm from the Radical writer.
At last the day of election arrived. YER
DAWN had conducted his convass with an
unsparing energy his complicated disord-
ers had given him acorpse-like appearance /;
he had spent three quarters of his fortune I;
he carried both of his arms in slings.
But at night the prefect made the official
declaration:
ELEoTED-Verdavin, 23,oT2.
VII.
It was a week later when he entered the
Chamber. His wife, radiant and rejoicing,
was in one of the galleries He had chosen
seat in the center-order in Liberty, as il
were.
He arrived in the middle of a debate, SO
as not to be unduly noticed.
Precisely at tina. instant vote had been
taken, and as he reached the center of the
Chamber he heard the President declaring
that, inasmuch as il was literally honey
combed with fraudulent practices, the As
sembly thereby invalidated the election of
NJ. VerdaYin.
NJ. Verdavin tainted.
VIII.
Nine. Vsrdavin has brought an action
for separation and the management of her
own estate The bill alleges that the afore-
said Amedee Verdavin is hopelessly pos
sessed with the mania political ambition.
; And the public say of his wife: "Poor
little woman, it is a wonder she didn't bring
her action sooner That confounded idiot
must have spent three-quarters Of her for
tune with his senseless ideas of ambition r.
From As French Of Pierre NeroH.
WISDOM FOR boys.
Do you wish to make your mark in the