Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — He Had Run for Office. [ARTICLE]

He Had Run for Office.

Mrs. De Blank—“ Well, I will try von, if yon have a good recommendation from yon last place.” Domestic—“A what mum?” \ - “A recommendation—a character.” “A charack ter, is it ye want?” An’ sich as yon ask me, me, for a charackter ?” “Well, well, and why not ?” “l’on mam —yon, the wife of a snakefhafe, a blackleg, a villain, the man what mnrdered his grandmother, sure, and stole the pennies from a dead panper’s eyes, you-——” “Mercy on ns! What are you talking about?” “l'er villain of a husband, of course. 1 Sure didn’t 1 rade the papers when he was mnnin’ for office?” —San Francisco Post