The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-11
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From the Chicago Herald.
Have YOU never met a person whom you
.,,,,gbt YOU knew, puzzled over the face as
AZ over dreams, wondered where you
ia met. failed TO recollect and equally
- IN dismiss the subject from your
- and so gone on for a day-wonder-
- nuzzling, losing your temper, and at
, 10 hitting upon the solution in the easiest
-. and found yourself surprised that
!, should have not occurred to you beforel
vosq Well. so have lots of other people.
,.is the commonest and one of the unpleas-
anta,t things in the world. Now and then
:. fnd man or woman who can recall at
s..+ sight the name, station, and PECULIAR
80. If the man met; fix the exact circum-
.+snces under which that meeting occurred,
~ natter how long time may have elasped,
" O5 he able co say some one word which
shsl link that remote or misty past to the
n-assnt But these persons are exceptions.
Esov are like the darkey who stands
- The door of the hotel dining room and
askas vour hat. He will cast one look
~ Won as YOU turn away and enter the
snsrtment devoted to the viands, and when
y6n come out he will fish from pile of
;housand your hat and hand it to you with
ont 40 much as a chance of error. But not
very man-not even every colored man
can DO It. There is a faculty not given to
ali alike. and one which can never be &C
onired So with the ability of recalling
when and where you met the man or
woman who crosses your path on the street
and vanishes only to trouble You.
KNEW HER, BUT COULD NOT PLACE HER.
Some very comical situations are the out
growth of this inability either to forget or
Tamember. A man was walking down the
straet with his friend. They were just
rassing Blackall's candy store when a
woman came out, looked at the first man,
a newspaper writer, bowed in funny way,
and passed on. She had looked at each
man, and neither recognized her, though
each supposed she was a friend OF the other.
As they came to Clark street they were
turned aside by crowd collected about the
patrol box. The policeman had a woman
in charge She was drunk, dirty
and obscene. She was waiting for
the wagon with the vile protest of
the utterly depraved. These two passed
on without pause or comment but all the
time the newspaper man was wondering
who was the woman who had bowed to him
at the coffee store. The face was familiar,
but the picture presented by his mind was
OF @ woman III BluBudu upIOns Auol o
were the same blue eyes, the same smile, the
same tilt of the noSe-but an aproni Where
had he seen her? He could neither toss the
matter ont of his mind nor decide it. He
bent his head and walked on, puzzled be-
vond expression. He would decide it.
Where had he seen hers
The other man was thinking of the spec
tacle at the patrol box. He was a sympa-
thetic fellow, and it grieved even more
than it shocked him. Suddenly the news
paper man stopped, struck his thigh, looked
back over the route they had come, and ex-
claimed:
by the Lord, that was my wifen'
"Who-that woman at the patrol box"
asked his friend
mo, no; the one that came out of Black
alls and bowed to us.''
If this story seems too severe a tax on
credulity, the name of the newspaper man
can be furnished. and both he and his wife
will testify to its truth. She declares she is
the safest woman in Chicago, as wherever
she may meet her husband he will not be
likely to recognize her.
LINCoLN's MARVELLOUS MEMORY.
Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the best
man in the country in his day to remember
mon and to place them without hesitation
in the environment where he last saw them.
He was first of all politician, and the poll
tician who forge is lost. When he was a
comparatively young man and a candidate
for the Illinois legislature he took dinner
with Sangamon county farmer, and after
the meal they two stood at the barnyard
gate, talking and whiting. Lincoln's
knife needed sharpening, and the yankee
IL him prompted him to sharpen it. He
walked to a toolbox the farmer had nailed
just inside the wagon shed, took from it q
milestone and came back to the great gate,
where he stood again and began Sharpening
his knife. One post of the gate was very
nigh, and ROD from the top supported the
extended weight of the gate. A man came
along the road in a wagon, going in the di-
rection Lincoln wanted to travel, and he
babe his host good-by and clambered in the
vehicle-intent, no doubt, on getting
another vote.
Years afterward, when he was President.
soldier came to call upon him at the white
house, and at the first sight the gaunt chief
executive said:
Yes, remember you. You used to live
on the Danville road. l took dinner with
you one day when 1 was running for the
legislature. Recollect we stood together
ou9 at the barnyard gate, and sharpened
my knifeg'
''Ya-as," drawled the farmer soldier,
ana wherever did you put that milestone
OHO WhOAo p1dC6 over d uOZeu UluQ6S,
Dut never could find it after the day you
used 1t. We lowed mebby you had took it
along with you"
!, No, said Lincoln, looking serious, as if
Lne matter were as important as the recent
aeIeat of Pemberton. mo- Iput it on top OF
that gate post-the high one"
wen" exclaimed the visitor, ''mebby
you did. Couldn't nobody else have put il
tuere, and none of us ever thought to look
there for it.n
he went on home, and when he got there
one OF the first things he did was to climb
Upon the gate and look for the milestone.
~ was there, right where it had lain for
nileen years. the honest fellow, adoring
us chieI, wrote letter before his furlougt
oApFeu, telling the President the milestone
was found and never would be lost again.
HAD A SMILE AND A MEMORY,
sometimes man is better off, however
4or Ine faculty of forgetting One of the
tEuoieSale houses in the city used to keeI
aor collector man who possessed the most
eaLlllaole air imaginable. He would go into
Tue country store of a delinquent customer
slaEe his hands cordially, laugh, and tel
--nn an excellent story, buy cigar if there
We're any for sale, and then hurry away
VII, "i.u Ihe promise to return again in a mo-
t msnt, When he did come back be would
t"ueeae that rustic into settlement more
aaYyo5aole than the debtor ever thought he
ooulu De Induced to give to any one-somt
tplsu' he rest undoubtedly security; and
ouen ne would go away while the glow OF
TuHiJoyment still pervaded the face of the
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