When they begin to see these things, I think they will begin to see that so far as they are concerned it dont make any difference to them which ticket they vote; that the feller most interested in their vote is the canderdate feller who is wantin to draw the salary. Does a feller have to go to sleep to dream that holdin office is the best payin bizness in the country? Does a feller have to go to sleep to dream that the salaries of all officeholders are too high, and that the foreigner dont pay the taxes out of which these salaries are paid? Does a feller have to go to sleep to dream that all public expense ort to be cut down and kept cut down? These are some of the dreams that the dreamless people would dream if they would go to readin of papers and books that Jobe and his likes would have me sent to the lunatic asylum for readin. (Here is another comer. I must quit.) CHAPTER V. JOBE MUST RAISE $2,100. MY heart is heavy. Poor Jobe is nearly destracted. Our home is in jeopardy. Congressman Richer must have his money. He must have it by Aprile fust. Poor feller, he too is in bad straits; his gittin defeated last fall upset his calkerlations. And jist to think, Jobe voted agin him; helped to defeat him, as it were. But Mistur Richer holds no spite agin Jobe for that. He was a Dimicrat, and he knew Jobe was a strait Republican. Such things will happen to any feller runnin for office; somebody has to be defeated. They all cant hold office. I wish he had been elected agin, and so does Jobe. Jobe wishes it, though he is a Republican and voted agin him. Poor Mistur Richer, he is in desperate strates. He is hard up. If he had been elected agin he wouldent a been that way. It makes my head swim to think about what his disappointments are and may be. Here is his letter to Jobe. It is so kind and nice. And jist to think of what a big man it is from, and the place. Jobe likes to read the headin: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23, 1895. J. GASKINS, ESQ.: _Dear Sir and Friend_—Owing to circumstances over which I _now_ have no control, I am compelled to call on you to pay the $2,100 with interest due me on mortgage, not later than April 1st of the current year. No doubt, Mr. Gaskins, this will take you unawares, and most probably unprepared. Were it not for the political reverses with which I met last fall, I would not be compelled to do what, I assure you, is a very unpleasant thing to me, _i. e._, call on you for this money at this time. No doubt you will think that on the $5,000 a year salary I have drawn for two years, now nearly past, and the other sources of revenue that have become the perquisites belonging to a Congressman’s office, I ought to be able to get along without, in this way, inconveniencing you.