The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-22
SID WILSON'S POOR GRIP.
HE MEYER COULD HOLD THINGS
 AND HE LOST 4 WIFE.
Tn Times of Crisis He Always Held on When He Should Let Go-His Sleigh Ride With a Schoolmarms and His Inability to Hold Her and the Horse Upset Their Love Affair.

Inability to Hold Her and the Horse
 Upset Their Love Affair.
 The Society for the Encouragement of
 Truth Telling had finished the routine
 business of it's monthly meeting and
 the question whether missionary effort should be undertaken to influence anna
 teur fishermen to refrain from further patronage Of the Father of Lies was
 laid on the table because there was no agreement as to the best means to be adopted The conversation dr1fted around to an article published recently to the effect that Connecticut man had taken his sweetheart out sleigh riding without looking under the seat of the sleigh. The article said that there was setting hen under the seat which pecked the girls ankles, caused the horse to run away, upset the sleigh and ruined a love affair.
 The First Reformed Liar had men, tioned the article to show the perni- cious tendencies of the newspapers of the present day and to see if some meth of securing foothold for the So- ciety for the Encouragement of Truth Telling could not be obtained on the public press. A dozen Reformed Liars, in good standing, approved the idea at once, but the liar on probation, as the newest member was always known, manifested signs of uneasiness and the others waited for him to speak. He said:
 "Of course, the suggestion put forth by our esteemed member IS excellent, but, if you will permit me to say SO, 1 am inclined to think that the subject he has selected as an example is not en- tireIy sound as an illustration Of lying, by newspapers. Now, to discuss this particular story further, let me say that I lived in Connecticut for many years and the strangest things in all the world happen up there, no matter whether It is in the line of physical research, or queer wrinkles in making love. More over I once knew case that closely resembled the incident the First Re- formed Liar has spoken of and l will mention it, now that my time of proba- tion is expiring, to show my eligibility for full membership in this society.
 ssFor many years I lived in Winsted, 11p in the foothills of the Berkshires. It
  doubtless know There is good sleigh ing there often in March, just when setting hens begin to get active for the spring campaign. One of the finest young men ill the town was sid Wilson. His people were considered rich. Sid was thrifty and had learned the knack of making money. At twenty-six he al- ready had several thousands of dollars of his own.
 ssBut, prosper as he did in material affairs, Sid never had any luck in mak- ing love. Something always happened to break off his tender attachments just when they were ripe for the harvest We never could understand it, but af- fer 2, long study of the situation we de- ciled that it was because Sid never learned how to hold anything, that is pl1ysically, I mean, unless it was the almighty dollar.
 "He could hold on to that all right, but he had no physical grasp for other good things. In fact, he was the worst holder of anything you ever saw. He always clung to the things he should have let go and always let go of things he should have held. It is for that req son that Sid is to-day bachelor of for ty and\ Mary Johnson is spinster of ] about the same age, and it also ex- l plains why they have not spoken in | fourteen years instead of being married | and having an interesting family about | them.
 "Sid's infirmity was first noticed when ! he was a boy playing baseball. In | practice he could hold any kind of l ball thrown or batted to him. Many | was the game we lost because Sid at 1 the critical moment in a game would | drop the ball. We lost so many tro- phies by this peculiarity of Sid that we had to put him off the team, and that made had feeling in town.
 "Then again. remember that one day Sid got hold of the handles of an cleo trio battery. That was one of the things he should have let go, but he do it and he nearly died of the shock he received before we got him