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Show ADDRE8SED THEM IN ENGLISH. ' How Congressman Bede Won Over I Scandinavian Audience. Congressman Dcdo of Minnesota still looks back with horror to an experience ex-perience he had with a Scandinavian audience In his state lost campaign. It was up In the pine woods nnd tho other orator ot tho evening was a stalwart Norseman who was to speak In his nntlve tongue. This man failed to arrive and tho committeeman askod Dedo: "Do you speak Norwegian still?" Dedo unthinkingly replied In tho affirmative, though ho knew only a few phrases. When ho faced the audience of about 200 big bluo-cyod chaps of the Ole and Nels class he determined de-termined to get out ot the difficulty as best tie could, so ho said: "As many of you as cannot understand English stand up." All wore ashamed to make such an acknowledgment and not a man moved. "All right, my friends," said Bede, "as it makos me hoarse to talk Norwcglnn for any length of Unto I'll just address you In English, which you all know and will appreciate as well." Chicago Chronicle. |