The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-07-21

! 60Q taaG 6pTt O1 UIlu4 IL = sISllOWas
| Is content to work right along his chief
| Is quite content to let him. That's the
| way affairs have gone for years with
me- The other week went over to
Washington to interview senator on
the political prospects tell you what
it is, Silly, without Dragging, there
are some big men IN the states whom
no one but me can Interview. And yet
old Scrag says I'm no credit to his
class! Why, last year my political pre-
dictions were telegraphed all over this
| country, and have since appeared in
| the European press. No credit! By
Jove, would like to have old Scrag in
a twenty-four-foot ring with thin
gloves on for about ten minutes!''
81 doubt if he would shine under
those circumstances. But never mind:
him. He spoke, for once, without due
| reflection, and with perhaps an exag-
! gerated remembrance of your school
day offenses. What happened when
you went to Westinghouse
IA strange thing happened. When
J was admitted to the senator's library
i saw another fellow, whom thought I
knew, sitting there. said to the SEN
| ator: L will come when you are alone
The senator looked up in surprise, and
| said: I am alone I didn't say any
thing, but went on with my interview:
and the other fellow took notes all the
time. didn't like this, but said moth
| ing, for the senator is not a man to
offend, and it is by not offending these
fellows that can get the information
do. Well, the other fellow came out
with me, and as looked at him saw
that he was myself. This did not
strike me as strange at the time, but I
argued with him all the way to New
York and tried to show him that he;
wasn't treating me fairly. l wrote up
the interview with the other fellow in
| terfering all the while, SO l compro-
missed, and half the time put in what he
| suggested and half the time what I
| editor went over the stuff he lookedi
alarmed I told him frankly just how
I had been interfered with. and he
! looked none the less alarmed when L
had finished. He. sent at once for g.
doctor. The doctor metaphorically
took me apart, and then said to my
chief: This man is simply worked to
death. He must have a vacation, and
a real one, with absolutely nothing to
think of, or he is going to go to pieces,
and that with suddenness that will
surprise everybody The chief, to my,
establishment, consented without a
murmur, and even upbraided me for
not going away sooner. Then the doc
tor said to me: You get. some CONF
panion--some man with no brains, IL
possible, who will not discuss politics,
who has no opinion on anything that
any sane man would care to talk about,
and who couldn't say bright thing If
| he tried for year. Get such man to
20 Off to the woods somewhere. Up in
Maine or in Canada. AS far away from
| post offices and telegraph offices as pos
sible. And, by the way, don't leave
| your address at the Argus office Thus
it happened, Silly, when he described
this man SO graphically, at once
thought Of you"
81 am deeply gratifed, am sure,",
said the professor, with the ghost of q
smile, ito be so promptly remembered
| in such a connection, and if can be of
any service to you shall be very glad.
| take it, then, that you have. mo inten-
ton of stopping in Buffalo?'
"You bet haven't. I'm in for the for
est primeval, the mur1nuring pines and
| the hemlock, bearded with moss and
! green in the something Or other for
| get the rest. I want to quit lying on
paper and lie on my back instead, on
the sward or in hammock I'm going
to avoid all boarding houses or delight
quiet of the forest"
'"rhere ought to be some nice places
| along the lake Shore
ono. sir. No lake shore for me- 1t
| would remind me Of the Lake Shore
railroad when it was calm, and of Long
Branch when it was rough. No, sir.
The woods, the woods and the woods.
have hired tent and lot of cook
ing things. I'm going to take that
tent over to Canada tomorrow, and
then propose we engage man with
| team to cart it somewhere into the
woods, fifteen or twenty miles away.
We shall have to be near farmhouse,
so that we can get fresh butter, milk
t1uu CSAS. Ills I'll COuJoCs IL d uloit1x"
| vantage; but shall try to get near
some one who has never even heard Of
New York"
"You may find that somewhat diff
cult"
ooh. don't know. l have great
hopes of the lack of intelligence in the
Canadians"
GOTTEN the narrowest," said the pro-
lessor, slowly, ARE those who think
themselves the most cosmopolitan 4.
Fright you areE' cried Yates, skim
ming lightly over the remark and see~
ing nothing applicable to his case in it.
''Well, I've laid in about half a ton,
more or less, Of tobacco, and have
bought an empty Jug"
can empty one?"
Eyes. Among the few things worth
having that the Canadians possess, ID
good whisky. Besides, the empty jug
will save trouble at the custom house.
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