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Show CNC MAN NOT PLEASED. H Or.ttor'c Compliment to Town Called H Forth Varm Protest. H Two Interesting stortc3 aro told ot ' H th'i lato Gen. W. II. L. Dames, of Call- H foi'tla Ono concerns a campaign H sp"cch that tho general mado In lied- H dins. Dclng a diplomat as well as an H orator, IM-no3, who had not been In Hcddlng fcY a dcoado or moro, sought H to 3ay something llnttorlng about tho town's gr-'.vtli, When he i cached tho H filling In sta-o of his speech, ho said: . H "I want to rongratulato tho citizens of H Redding on tho wonderful progress ot H their beautiful city. When I was last H hero, nut ir.iny yoars ago, I had to put H up at u rnmshacklo hotel, with poor H accommodations and badly cooked H food. What do I find to-day? A mag- H ntflccnt caravansary with a culstno H worthy of a metropolis " Tho compll- H meat won applause, and after tho meeting w s over many o' tho audi- H tors crowd. ' to tho platform to shako H hands with tho speaker. Cuo old fol- ' H low, with a rtonoar board, waited pa- B tlcntly for h. turn. When ho i cached H tho general ho calmly put his hands H behind him, shook his hoad angrily H nnd blurted out: "All I want' to say Is that you'to a white-headed old falsi-. H that hotol." H Tho oihui story deals with tho spo- H clal session ot tho legtslaturo called H to till tlio vacancy caused by tho H failure of tho solona of 1S90 to oloct 1 n United States senator. Dames H wanted tho honor, hut tho compromls- H crs passed him by and plckod out H Thomas H. Hard, of Vontura. Tho H nlGht of Parda' election Gov. Gngo was , M roused from hli bed by a caller who H refused to wait until morning. Gago H opened tho door and thero stood Gen. H Uarncs. "Governor," said tho general H solemnly, "you nailed tills session to 'H tilt a vacancy. Instead ot tilling a va- , cancy you havo created ono." And H then without another word tho gcnoral "' J |