Show HIS ONLY CHANCE an AB ambitious politician receives a doubtful compliment the politician had been making a tour of his district business had called him to a remote part of the state and he was taking advantage of the opportunity to cultivate the inhabitants he had discreetly sounded one of the rural voters who exercises a great deal of influence and who had hitherto been a vigorous opponent of his ambitious ambitions says the detroit free press he was very much surprised to hear him say colonel I 1 hope youre going to run next election well was the answer if there were a demand by the people who are desirous of having an honest government by capable men perhaps and he lingered on the word perhaps I 1 might be persuaded to abandon the delights of domestic peace and the selfish successes of private business and enter the lists once more colonel was the response you know me yes sir and I 1 have always respected you sir as a conscientious cons clentious and valorous foe you know knora I 1 am pretty well veil acquainted around here yes and if I 1 undertake to tell you what the sentiment of the people in this particular section is give me credit cr knowing what I 1 am talking about beyond question well colonel what we want is juat the kind of government you describe and were all mighty anxious for you to get into the field and head bead your ticket some of us were talking it over the other evening and we agreed that one of the best things that could happen would be for you to consent to run im it would save the day colonel thank you for the compliment nt any compliment colonel its the simple truth things are getting terribly uncertain unc ertan and if you dont wade in and get the nomination from your party as likely as not to hit on some good man and defeat us sarah grands oraida husband tile the late surgeon labut beut col mcfall who was the hn husband of sarah grand was waa sixty sitt sin yem years of age and a third of his life was spent in pie he dische discharge of ids als military medical duties lu in andi india where he the cholera three times in its attack on the me troops and did so eo well in fighting it that he was mentioned in dispatches as a widower he married marsted the lady since known as sarah sah grand graid he was at ait least twice her oge age aua and ho he had two sons of whom one 6 T was fas her senior and theother her contemporary thea only child of his second marriage 43 ulm also a son now some twenty three aarm years pg of age who has adopted the stage as a pr profession ofes slon of Offal 1 ids shw jams one is in the army and the other athea a journalist and illustrator for flor some time pea past matrimonial incompatibility had bad kept husband and wife apart but despite this and a shrewd suspicion he figured not too favorably in some ot of his cifes books the deceased officer was a reader and id admirer of them aesa and had them all on iris bis shelves cold fact mrs brown C can hycki yew account for the tact that the best people are am 4 not 1 always the lendsy religious jbrown B 1 that beems to be batac the way ay chaw my dear tou 1011 bibles and an d prater blobs boobs that issues 1 y 8 4 f t f 4 rf fw A |