The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-01-28

not appear until the guests had all eaten.
He became at once engaged in the discus
sion Of the currency question. The land
lady tried to persuade him to take some
tea. He waved her off and continued to
talk on his then pet subject. "Take crul-
ler, any way" she said, presenting cake
basket filed with these articles. He put
forth his hand, took not the cruller but the
basket, depositing it in his lap. He kept
on talking. After q time his hand, with
which he was gesticulating, touched a crul-
ler. He took one and began eating, talk
ing all the while Of currency. He finished
the cruller and began another, and so on
until all had been eaten, and the guests
meanwhile laboriously restraining them
selves from laughing outright. His host
ess was in a fever .. excitement. She
knew that crullers absorbed in large quan-
titles were next to indigestible. She had
heard that cheese literally eaten would
counteract their effect. The question was
how to get Horace to eat the cheese with
out reminding him of his extraordinary
feat with the crullers. A lucky thought
came to her relief. She took the empty
basket and put in its place a plate Of
cheese. Horace was meanwhile 'xpound-
ing his views on the currency question. He
saw nothing in the change. Slowly the
cheese disappeared as the crullers had done,
and the great economist was saved the hor-
ror of an attack of dyspepsia. Horace
never knew of this little episode, but the
guests enjoyed it hugely.
Twenty years ago the Tribune Office was
heated by an old fashioned hot-air furnace
sending its blasts through wooden tubes
about one foot square into the various
rooms, the quantity being regulated by
wooden CRATES sliding across the tubes.
On Sunday there was no heat until pat
fired up in the evening. On bitter day
in February, Sunday morning, Mr.. Greeley
hurried into the editorial room, his hands
and pockets full of papers, pulled a chair
to the place in the wall whence the heat
should have come, kicked the slide away,
and stuck as much of his feet as he could
into the wooden tube. OF course it was
cold and not hot air that came out, but the
philosopher was absorbed in the Herald
| (not then over-civil neighbour and did not
realize his mistake. Soon Mr.. William M.
Newman, then ship news editor of the ITi-
6une, entered, and seeing "the situation"
said, "Why, Horace, what are you doing
with your boots in that hole there's no
heat on yet? ?" Mr.. Greeley took down his
feet, and, in half offended tone, piped out
in his peculiar whine. "Now, what did
you tell me that for? I was gettn' nicely
warm"
The philosopher carried with no little
pride a fine $3.50 chronometer gold watch,
presented to him by the Tribune printers
1t would have kept accurate time if
the owner had wound it, but that he sell
dom did; and when he tried it was an even
chance that he would set the key on the
hands, and after whirling them around a
dozen times think the job was done. An
hour afterward, in looking for the time, he
wondered "why the thing wouldn't 60"
One night as he was going home, he asked
Mr.. David P. Rhoades, the night clerk, for
SIS. David handed it out, and Horace
.jammed it into his waistcoat pocket as far
as his fingers would go. On the car his
watch was stolen.
The next day when he reached the Office
he told the story of the robbery, winding
up with: "They stole my watch, but they
didn't get my So" The theft was made
known to Col. Chas. S. Spencer, the noted
criminal lawyer. He sent word to one of
the chief "knucks" that if Mr.. Greeleys
watch was not in his hands within twenty
four hours, the first of the gang that should
be "nipped" would get the full benefit Of
the law. In less than twenty-four hoars
J Col. Spencer handed the watch to th&as-
tonished philosopher.