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Show l'ulleil lu Scorn. "Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a question?" Interrupted n man in the audience. "Certainly," said tho orator. "Did you or did you not once run for tho olllce of Lieutenant-Governor?" In breathless silence tho vast assembly assem-bly awaited his answer. Ho drew himself up to his full height, flashed a glance of concentrated scorn at the presumptions varlct and raised his voice till It Jarred fhu rafters. "Yes, sir," ho said. "I did! I once ran for the olllco of Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Now Jersey and I was defeated, sir, by tho largest majority ma-jority by which any ninn ever escaped that olllco In the history of tho United States!" Utterly crushed and humiliated by tho outburst of applause that greeted this triumphant rejoinder, the crestfallen crestfal-len man who had presumed to mens-uro mens-uro wits with a seasoned campaigner slunk ignomlulously out of tho building. build-ing. Chicago Tribune. |