River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-10
JENKINS PROPHECY.
Also an Account OF How 1t Was
Fulfilled.


Fulfilled.
Ny friend Jenkins drew another OF
my Office chairs toward him. laid his
feet across ii and emitted a long
drawn spiral 81 smoke from the lips
from which liz had lust removed the
stem of a Faeerzchaum pipe which was
my chrcaic envy. had in vain en-
deavorcd 70 he. purchase, or purIoin
the said pip.
NO use, old boy. had been his in
variable reply. -Thi~ pipe belonged
20 the old 'StuSout Lagoon aud cling
10 il as 10 a sort Of 81 red relic"
ZACH, those old Vienna days. How
merry they were, AMI how fun Of
work.
jenkins. NJ. D.. lay back in his
chair and watched the spirals expand
and grow dim until they blended with
She general murily tint of the atmOs-
phere in my inner office. and unused.
We had spent the preceding two hours
OF more preparing specimens for the
microscope, and now that the evening
was well on its way, had Land aside
work for our customary goodnight
smoke. Our friendship had been II
strange enough one. Meeting first ut
BirOth's KliuiE in Vienna, the ex-
change of a cas- al remark inspired by
the feeling If c4llaTa,icTis among stu
dents Of the samc sciences. had led TO
an acquaintance full Of pleasure TO
both.
7 had left him there. with face
pointed TO the Orient. when | turned
my reluctant steps Parisward on my
return to America
--GoOd-byc. old fellow. may write
10 you some time. but not now"
When / have made the welkin ring
with the name of the famous DIR. Jen-
kius YOU will surely hear from me;
until then ! shall be too busy to carry
on much correspondence Peace be
unto you.
lie wrung my hand in parting, while
the merry look in his eyes that made
one forget for the nonce that life was
not all a Joke. dimmed little.
And To you, peace" and | turned
away.
Three years passed. and walking
rapidly around the corner Of Chestnut
-treet in the early dusk. on my way TO
my Office in Twelfth. ran uucere-
muaiously into "a pedestrian coming
with equal momentum from Twelfth TO
Chestnut
i beg pardon. sir, didn't sec
Won said ]. hastily, as 4 recovered
from the rebound and was rushing
past him.
Its only fair to suppose you
wouldn't have bumped yourse.fagainst
me to your own detriment if you had
sosn me. sir. 50 accept your apology
ia it, entirety
Il turned in Amusement to see what
manner Of uan was my late opponent
who shoulJ answer my aHl.Hfs honor
p5E in this wise, and we both burst
into hearty laugh.
we were both a bit shaken in the
conclusion. ! believe continued he,
Iuu.hingly. ..but it did. if you'H par
don me. sound a little Jasmine in you
To explain that you didn't see me
May ask. sir, II You run into people
that way when You 90 see them
As be bad spoken | had turned a
little. aud tire light from the street
lamp on the corner had fallen on my
face
Brown. rs live. Old boy. how
smaIl tie world IS
.Ienkfu~,
\ haud-cla~p followed that bridged
the ,i.ent years and made us chums
again and in Vienna
.You shall come home with me for
the night; SAID l. Come; no re-
fu-al. dwell hard by. BY the way.
which hotel are YOU At. JenlSins2 and
I'll send around for your traps
I'm no. At a hotci-my traps are
too numerous for transportation and
can't remain away from my office to-
night. even for the pleasure Of staying
with my toughest Brown
-Ori,e2~ I has stammered. Il
don't quite comprehend. In Phila-
Gc'phia
Precisely. You grasp the situa-
tiuu with amazing cIearness. Six
teeuth and Girard- Been there two
years"
And 81 IL was For two years we
who believed each other ut the anti
poJ,z had walked the streets OF the
same yeeat city. scarcely more than "A
stones throw apart. How odd it all
seemed
We took up the old friendship
where we laid it down and again
pIodded on our way together. We
studied. We Investigated. we made
elaborate chemical aad physiological
experiments and researches And vet
Tho welkin had not rung with the name
of .Teukius. Tie modest patrOnymic,
Brown. had no. reached out its octopus
arms and drawn 20 It the gaze of all
the world.
Things were in this stage the even
Ing our >,nry opens. Jenkios watched
the rings % smoke blend with the sur
rounding haze for awhile-then spoke,
as one who had been wrestling with 4
mighty problem;
Things don't seem 10 me - DC
quite equally divided in this world.
Brown DO they to you? The ricn
are too rich. and the poor are ICO
moor" continued he. directly.
oh. come. now, Don't let lis has7
any of that sort OF sOeialistic stat I
thought you had some sense. said l.
Its 90. though. 81 the same. coz
tinued he. just by way OF illustra-
tion-as a study in social science, say.
look at The patients who flock y the
Dives of our beloved profession, ana
then 1t those who come 10 see poor
Lazaruses. or Lazari. or Lazaroni-
hang il what IS the plural Of Lie<arus'