Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-17
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Grand outtOlut. tAit biobNhitic tiiltC
mild sunstrokes, an incurable rheuma-
Ism sad a confirmed gastric disease
,o,tracted through drinking prosperity
90 France with $40 electors daily.
"Emmie," he at last gasped like one
ohout TO faint, II feel that my
strength
Tomorrow. she said relentlessly.
"vou will canvass the Al parishes on
this list
And on all sides nothing was heard
but ordinations of What an ambi-
lions chap that Verdavin is. Who ever
saw any one like him?'
"Amedee," she said next day. your
address has not been circulated widely
enough | have had 100000 extra cop
los struck off and distributed"
But dear, printing comes rulnously
exnenslve. This morning only l have
paid one bin OF sixteen thouo'-
"Yon must also manage to have your
name mentioned in connection with
generous deeds | have ordered six or
rans for as many churches in as many
close parishes
"S-i-x organs"
yes and II fire engines for villages
that are unprotected from the ravages
Of the destroying element and where
there Is a large floating vote. Imagine
how gratified the poor people will be-
"But, Emmie. | cannot make ducks
and drakes-I mean church organs and
narish fire engines-of my fortune"
and do you count it for nothing,
then. the glory of being statesman?
Besides, once in politics, YOU are sure
Of getting your money back Il hundred
fold"
What devil of fellow that Yer
DAWN Isl said the outside world in
awestruck amazcmcnt and admiration.
Hell spend every frame he has before
he'll let himself be beaten
One pleasant morning--it was just n
week before the election - madame
aroused at early dawn NJ. Nerdavin who
was still sleeping soundly, not having.
indeed. returned from an exhausting
tourney TO the back districts until .
a. m.
"Amedec,' she cried, "rouSe yourself!
The honor of our name has been vilely
thrust under foot ana trodden in the
dust. and you must avenge it." And
she handed the unhappy man a news
paper in which he read the following
Il IS about time to have done with the brazen
imuulcucc Of the charatan who is trapesing round
our streets and highways. This yerdayin, fell
low Of the hascr sort, seeks but seeks in vain |
a. rs ., g.yi. inst H., Ip, pa,,.lI
Liberty" We all know what that word means
with him. Behind it he prepares ambuscade
for property The family. religion. This Nerdayin |
dealer In votes and haunter Of low tayerns, is
nothing more nor less than scalawag who has
not even the courage Of his incendary opinions.
"Rut this is not all said his wife
and handed him another journal, in
which he read:
Let the mask be torn off! Our intelligent voters
will not let themselves be imposed upon by a
Tartufa u the cutters. Nerdayin, double ender
politician and perfect nullity, pretends to array
himself on the side Of the Of order. II is |
under such a guise that the friends OF despoism |
usually do their hellish work. This odous being
whom will not further pollute our type by
naming, has evidently been hired 10 complieate
The situation by his candidacy. Let the electors
rise 10 their might and sweep from the field this
vain idiot
Next morning Verdavin received Il
sword thrust in the left arm from the
Legitimist editor, and the day after
ward one to match in the right arm
from the Radical editor.
Al last the day of the election arriv-
ed. Nerdavin had conducted his can
vass with unsparing energy; his com
plcatcd disorders had given him a
corpselike appearance; he had spent
three-quarterS of his fortune; he car
ried both of his arms in sings.
But at night the project made the
official declaration;
Elected Verdavin, 23,G72 votes.
1t was a week later when he entered
the chamber of deputies. His wife,
radiant and rejoichg =, was in one of
the galleries. He lad chosen n seat in
the center-order IA liberty, as it were.
Tie arrived in the middle of n debate.
Precisely at that instant vote had
been taken, and, as he reached the cen
Ter OF the hall, he heard the president
declaring that inasmuch as it was lit
orally honeycombed with fraudulent
Practices the assembly thereby inyal-
dated the election of NJ. Verdavin,
NJ Nerdayin tainted.
Nine. Nerdayin has brought an ac-
uou for separation and the manage
Lebt Of her own estate. The bill al
tges that the aforesaid Amedee Yer
oa'.n is hopelessly possessed with the
mania Of political ambition.
And the public say Of his wife: Poor
mile woman. it is a wonder she didn't
tU0g her action sooner. That con
founded idiot must have spent three
Quarters Of her fortune with his sense
,,~ IDEAS Of ambition. Translated
IRON the French For Argonaut.