Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-03

\ never knew q better exemplification
of a practical Irish bull than note our
absent-minded friend dispatched to his
wife one day, from his Office in the city.
He thought he had left his eyeglasses
at home and wrote to his wife, request
ing her to send them to him. Just as
he finished the note, however, he found
that he had the eyeglasses about him,
so he added postscript telling his wife
she need not look fer them as he had
found them.
I recall another absent-minded per-
son, a young man fresh from college,
very studious, very hazy and little
pedantic and conceited. His parents
and sisters would often demonstrate
with him about his Observation-Disclosures
begging him to try and check it before
it led to some serious trouble or incon-
venience, but he would merely answer
them with dreamy, superior smile.
In fact, he did not regard it as any
blemish in his character, but was rather
disposed to consider it as proof Of
his superiority to the world in general
that he could not allow his attention to
be fettered by the trivialities going on
around him. The occurrence which I
am now going to relate served, however,
to make deeper impression on him
than the admonitions of his friends.
One summer he and his two sisters
whom we will call Lucy and Emma)
started on little tour through pic
turesque part of the country. in pri-
vate conveyance driven by himself.
After driving nearly all day, Lucy and
Emma proposed to get out and walk
awhile, as they felt stiff from sitting SO
long, and, besides, wishing to gather
some ferns and flowers they saw on the
road. Just drive slowly along,
brother" said they, and We will soon
overtake YOU" At first, he started off
with recollection of their injunction,
but soon this, as we'll as the fact of their
existence, faded from his mind, and he
sank into dreamy contemplation Of the
religion and government of the ancient
Egyptians and Assyrians. Meantime,
the horses trotted briskly on, coming,
after while, to small river, over
which they forded.
Emma and Lucy, as soon as they saw
their brother getting out Of sight, COM
menced quickening their pace and hail
ing him at the top of their voices, but
in vain; he needed them not. Their
resolution held out very we'll, however,
till they reached the river bank. Here
they sat down and burst into tears. In.
dignation soon came to their assistance
and enabled them to regain their firm
ness and composure. 1t is a shame
for brother to have left us in this pre-
dicament ~ exclaimed Emma. "He
may call it Observation-Disclosures, but /
call it deadly sel6shness."
81 hope he will have good scare
about us" said Lucy. He deserves
it and it may be lesson to him and
check him up in his dreadful failing"
They then held hasty council as to
what they should do. Seeing little
farmhouse in the distance, they con-
cluded to 60 there and seek shelter for
the night. A dark cloud gathering in
the sky caused them to hasten to this
abode, and indeed they did not reach
it very long before a thunder storm
took place. By this time their brother
had come to his recollection and was
fairly shocked at his neglect of his sis
tiers. Through thunder, lightning and
pOuI1uS Ihlus ~ ~ AGtAo 1Aoh " AAAA~
self and horses, he drove back anxiously
looking for them. BY the time the
storm had subsidized, night closed in,
and he being unfamiliar with the
country, overlooked the farmhouse
where his sisters were sheltered. He
spent the most wretched night OF his
life wandering like lost spirit through
the country, startling the occupants of
every house he came across by his loud
raps and distracted inquiries. Not till
morning did hs stumble on his sisters
retreat, pale. haggard and wild.eyed,
such spectacle as turned their indig-
nation into pity. His self.reproaches
were so great that he did not leave them
room to say word. He earnestly
avowed his determination to try from
that day forth to conquer his absent
mindedness, the true nature and ten
dency of which he had just begun to
realize.-M. w. T., in Detroit Free
Press.