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Show RATHER OVERDID THE THING Friends of Candidate for Government Appointment Laid the Flattery on a Bit Thick. John L. McNabb, attorney, tells this j one on himself: "When I was a candidate can-didate for United States district attor-! attor-! ney In this district several years ago, j my friends procured documents and ! testimonials without number to mi! j stantlote the desired appointment, and o book full of this eulogistic matter j was forwarded to President Tuft. An outsider reading the documents would have supposed I was a candidate for admission into the heavenly kingdom, so unreserved were the commendation. "Not long ago I met ex-President Toft while he was In this city. He has a remnrknlile memory. Shaking me by the hand, he said: 'When I finished rending the grandiloquent reports re-ports In your favor some years ago I pictured to myself a man possessed with angels' wings ond fit to be the American ambassador extraordinary to the heavenly kingdom. I supposed you were dead at the time, for the report read like an epitaph on a tombstone, so remarkable were the testimonials of your friends In your behalf." " 8un Francisco Chronicle. |