The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-07
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THrs WoRID IS VERY SMALL WHEN YOU COME TO FIGURE THE CHANGES OUT.

despair when my mother dashed our hopes as the fiction writers put it. He threatened to go of and have himsei1 killed by the tigers in India, and made my mothers life so miserable that 1t srieyes me now to think of 1t. Well, mother and I left Paris for this country just thirty-five years ago. and l was most happily married, as you all know, in Bal timore two years later.
 T went to the Worlds Fair with two of my grown daughters and son, and one afternoon, in the luncheon room Of the Palmer House. I dropped valuable diamond ring. I had no idea of ever get ting 1t back, but I left word with the manager of the hotel about the loss. That same evening he brought the ring to my room.
 An English gentleman found 1t on the floor of the luncheon room, the man ager told me, and he is to return later intthe evening tornquire whether 1t IS the jewel you lost
 q asked the manager to request the finder of the diamond to send his card to my room in order that l might thank him. when he came to inquire, and, sure enough. an hour or so later. his cara was brought to my room. It was the card of a Major-General in the British service, and there were ever so many distinguished orders attached to the name. which was that of the old Paris flame. A few moments later received him, and, of course. I knew him at once. He was a distinguished looking elderly gentleman. I asked him smilingly if ne knew me, and, of course, he didn't Know me from Eve after the changes of years. Such a jolly time of it as we had when I made myself known to him, and how we did laugh-it is very unromantic but if is so-over that hopeless early attach ment of ours I introduced the fine-look- ing soldier to my daughters and son. ana the next evening he brought around ms wife of many years, chubby, gray haired woman of most charming man ners, and she told me with laugh or how terribly jealous of me she had been many years before when she had found a tiny picture of me in one of her hus- bands forgotten and packed-aWay iock- ets.'
 More than twenty years ago." said middleaged army officer, "I was sta tioned at far Northwestern post, at which there was a pest Of bears-grlz- zlies as we'll as the black ones. The grizzlies would traipse right into the garrison limits and walk off with the post cattle, particularly the lambs and calves, and a good deal of our spare time was spent in hunting them. One of the most SUI ccessful hunters of the bears was sergeant in my company. who never got permission to go into the forest with his Springfield that he didn't fetch home a bear hide and some bear meat. He Killed four huge grizzlies unaided during the time that was at the post.
 Last spring I was visiting New York, with my wife, and one day we took the boat for a trip up to Glen Island. Theqf1 a fine menagerie there, with some pa
 ticularly fine specimens of grizzly bears. I was standing in front of the grizzly dug-out, telling my wife of few Of the mean kinds of grizzlies. and in the course of my narration of my early experience with them I mentioned that sergeant i'll my company who had been so infallible in his aim when he went after the beasts. I was still talking about him when we turned away from the bear den. As l turned was surprised to see good looking man of about my own age com ing to attention and giving me the old time No, salute. as the men called 1t. But I was good deal more surprised when, upon taking a second look at his
 face, 1 saw that he was the sergeant ol
 whom I had only that moment ceased
 speaking to my wife. He had his wife
 with him and mighty prosperous folk l they were, too. He had left the army years before and had obtained employ ment with the New York Central Rail- road, and he was then one of the off cials of the company. with his headquar- ters at New Rochelle, right across the way from Glen Island"