Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-14


intend to leave the train. Ny compan-
ION follows me up the platform, and calls
the guard to take my name and address.
Being under the scrutiny of the other
passengers, who evidently think 1 have
got into trouble for card sharplng, and
having made up ny mind to pay the
penalty, | lose no time in giving my
card.
AT home am received with open arms
and am hurried into the dining room
by my boys to inspect device over the
sldeboard for my especial beneft-"Wel-
come" in blue letters on white ground,
My wife is full of inquiries after all our
friends in Edinburgh, and what sort of a
journey have had.
Having informed her that individually
and collectively ali our friends are as we'll
as could be expected. considering the
wintery weather they have had, and that
all were as kind and hospitable as ever, I
briefly tell her of my smoking adventure.
'And who was your companion2" asks
my wife.
Show should | know
''Why you have his card"
"To be sure; quite forgot that" says
/, producing my card-case. I search it
through carefully, but no card, other than
my own, can I find.
81 know put it in here Why, bless
me! | must have given it to the guard
instead OF my own. How oddr
have almost dismissed the adventure
from my mind, when few days later
my wife, in skimming over the paper at
the breakfast-table, breaks out into
merry laugh. What on earth can she
find so amusing in any other than the
agony" column, which see is not the
portion under perusal. 1t is the political
reports, and she hands me the paper,
pointing out the place for my attention.
''At tte-Police Court, J-B-,
Of Veraadah House, Crouch Hill, was
summoned by the Great Northern Rail
way Company for smoking in carriage
not a smoking carriage. to the annoyance
OF other passengers. The guard having
proved identity, and the accuseds card,
given up by himself, being put in as cor
Operative evidence, the magistrate asked
the defendant if he had anything to say
in reply An attempt was made TO prove
that the accused was really the com
plant, and he had given the card to the
real offender; which the magistrate char
acterlzed as an impudent lame defence,
and fined the defendant in the full pen
atty of forty shillings.'
81 My DEAR says my wife.
" Well, my dear" | respond.
/" Verandah House is that pretty place
that just had been finished little far
ther up the hill. Don't you think you
behaved in rather an unneighborly mar
ner?7
" Did our neighbor behave any bet
ter?"
CAT al, event he suffered uniustly.
This canLot be allowed to pass Don't
you think you had better call and apollo
gize?"
" Well, I'll think about it."
On my way home from the station that
enening | lang the visitors bell at Yer
andah House, and was in due course
ushered into the presence of the pro-
prietor. Our recognition was mutual;
and as my neighbor approached me, l
prepared tC put myself in defensive at
tltude. His hand however, was not ex-
tended to commit an assault, and before
| could stammer out the elaborate
apology [ had prepared, was forestalIed
by hearty shake Of the hand and an
apology from the quondam tire-eater.
Under such circumstances it may easily
be guessed that a satisfactory under
standing was soon arrived at and an ex-
changa of invitations to spend the re-
mainder of the evening in each others
society ended in my returning home with
my neighbor as my guest
am very partial to an after
dinner cigar. Having already commit
ted myself, however, | determined to
practice little self denial; but what was
my surprise. when ] carried off my
nei3hbor to my study to show him few
rare volumes of which | am almost as
proud as am IF my children, to see my
friend produce cigar-case, and not only
otter me the means OF indulging in my
favorite weakness, but himself preparing
to join in it.
you may we'll look surprised" said
he; but in truth | am an inveterate smok-
er. passed many years of my life in
Havana, and these cigars which ven.
ture to say you will find remarkably
good--are of my own importing
"But you expressed such contrary
opinions the other day"
"The fact is, that when in the West In
dies | suffered from severe attack of
yellow fever, and the remedial appliances
SO effected my mind that for some time I
had to be placed under restraint Thanks
to the skill Of clever practitioner, am
cured; but my Old malady still shows j.
self in occasional fits of unco ntrollble ob
stinacy'
Il beg your pardon" says l; shut are
you not a military man."
eyes; | was captain in the-th Regi-
ment.''
Captain B. NV mind reverts to the
story had heTard on the morning of our
first meeting. But was our friend as thor
oughly cured as his ex-kceper seemed to
imagine? can't say but know that he
is an excellent neighbor. He treats his
misadventure as capital Joke; and it is
likely to be a stock story for the rest of
his life how he was fined forty shilliugs
by the railway company because another
passenger had infringed bylaw No. T.
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