The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-11
The Too Credulous Mr.. Sodini.

Except for those readers Of The
Globe who find something to inter-
est them in the police items, Mr.. So
DIM needs explanation. To sundry cit
liens he is known and needs none.
But they are not readers of The
G 10 re. In fact, they are readers of
no newspapers. The Police Gazette
is as far as they go in search of cur
rent news, and in that the limitations
of their education restrict them to the
pictures; the letterpress is too much
for them.
Sodini halls more or less remotely
from Italy. but Immediately from Min
neapolis. Under the impression that
St. Paul was fully as wicked a city as
its Twin. that black sheep of the FAM
lily, Sodini came here few weeks ago
to reopen a resort on East Seventh
street, where the performances are not
of kind to elevate moral character.
His efforts have led to the occasional
appearance CT his name in the depart
ment of the paper assigned to the do
ings of the police. 1t may be added
that what politics SOdini INDUCES him
self in is Republican of the yellow
est hue. Thus much by way of ex-
PLANTATION, if not of recommendation.
A few doors below the establishment
presided over by Sodini, under the pro-
lection of the police over the entrance
to door opening on a flight of stairs.
hangs a modest sign, weather. beaten,
which bears, with becoming modesty,
the statement that somewhere above
is the Office of A. r. Kiefer, Dealer in
Real Estate There also is the domicile
of the Hunted Statesman. AS the de-
scendant of Remus and Romulus
| whiled away the tedium of the inter-
walls between performances by stand
| ing in the gateway of his theater
watching the passing throng, he was
struck by the impressive bearing of
one who occasionally passed that way
| with solemn tread and majestic mien,
as had been so many others. His Gu
riosity led him to ask who was this
seGate, dignified, problem solving. re-
sponsibility- burdened person, and he
was told, in subdued, awe-laden voice
| that he was the Statesman whom Office
was perennially hunting Sodini was i'm
pressed; deeply SO. Why not? Why
should not an impressible son of Italy
be profoundly stirred when phlegmatic
! Mortimer have been similarly moved :?
When the astral body Of Office
| known to us as a nomination finally
caught the colonel last week and Of
| fered him the Republican candidacy
| for the mayoralty, Sodini waxed en-
| thuSiastic. 1t seemed to him as if the
entire electorate must be unanimous in
forcing that Office upon this States
man. 1t could not be possible that in
a community so enlightened as is that
of St Paul there could be found more
than a beggarly corporal's guard of
men who would not feel that In max
| ing that Statesman the citys chief ex-
ecutive they would honor themselves.
Every one, he argued, must be as i'm
pressed as he was with the condescen-
sion of the great man in deigning to
accept an Office so far beneath his abiI-
ity.
| So Sodini, his sporting instincts
reused, confident of the outcome, and
probably mindful of the value of a
possible pull" put up his bluff of two
to one on the Statesman whom Office
hunts. The result was told in Sun
| days G o b e; how he found his ac-
commodation; how he put up $500 for
| felt on his wager Of $4,000 to $1,000 that
| his Statesman would be caught this
time by the persistent Office; how, later,
he foregathered with the wise men of
his party before he made his bluff
i good, and how he let his forfeit CO.
| nd al he 1,,Io
because he let his Judgment be imposed
upon by appearances; because he took
a shadow for substance: because-well,