Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-25
SOME ODD MEETINGS

the World Inree interesting stories were
| told.
one afternoon, two summers ago." said
gentleman who spends. the bulk Of his
| time In New York. Il was standing idly in
front of tea house in Kobe. Japan, watch
ing the passing show. As 1 stood there a
couple of well-groomed middle-aged men
passed into the tea house. One of them was
snort and stout and had the look and &C
cent or German. while the other seemed to
pe either an Englishman an American
Coulont quite make out which from his
taih as ne passed into the tea house. Glad
10 see couple of men in my own Dress l
stloHed into the tea house and took seat
near the table that had been chosen by the
pair had noticed. They were talking volu-
DIy; ana frequently Ioverheard the man who
, Americ, IKE elmer an Engiishman or an
woro mad peculiar significance for me. for
me reason tnat my home for the past thlr-
y years mas been in that part of upper
new York city which Is called Harlem 1t
seemed strange to hear it mentioned in such
IN H, out,o1-the-Way corner of the earth as
ROPE Japan. When 1 got to Rejecting over
IL, however. smiled to myself
mat man. said to myself '!s not
Iaikng ABOUT the Harlem on Manhattan
1siano, out about HARLEM, Holland. What
Manhattan? va
Ihat was rather unphilosophical way
OF looking at it, of course, but as say.
| II seemed Incredible that in such a place /
snoulo near man engaged in a discourse
| in. ~ 'eiohseu
AT length, however. happened to over
near the man who had mentioned Harlem
u thp such thorough-going Americanism
was an american. So introduced myself
presently to the pair Of gentlemen, md was
cordially received.
happened to hear You advert to Har-
ma uyho
i had puzzled me- You will pardon my cur
,MEsity, but We're you speaking of Harlem,
New s. work York or Harlem, Holland?"
Why. Harlem, New York of course
ne laughingly replied. HARLEM, Holland.
ask? why w Sou
&c., Because said I. 1T sounded good to
| hear the old place mentioned. since n has
been my home for generation.
GO way, is that So? he exclaimed with
thoroughly American manner. WHY.
life. too "' "a 1iS
I asked him. -" ave oi'
:. "a and Twenty eighth said he.
he looked amazed naturally
What number? he asked me-
~ mentioned the number of my house
ne mentioned the number of his house
on On tne same street as mine and 1t only
Two squares from my Harlem home. And
ne mad been going down town at the same
| nour as [ had for many years, and return
ing nome on the same street, and yet l GER
talnly had never seen him before and he
| swore he had never seen me, although when
we exchanged cards we knew all about each
| other"
| "As some of you know" said charming
Baltimore woman of middle age, Il gained
| what Is foolishly called the finishing of
| my education in Paris, In which l spent
TOUR years with my mother. Few American
| slris reside In Paris for any length Of time
| a vi II oil :~to
| and mine happened to be with a clever
young British army officer, who was one of
tne military attaches with the British en-
bassy at Paris. He thought that he was
desperately in love with me, and 1 thought
| that l was madly in love with him. and of
| course we went through all of the stages
OF youthful despair when my mother
| dashed our hopes as the fiction writers
| put It, He threatened to go off and have
| himself killed by tigers in India and
made my mothers life so miserable that it
| grieves me now to think of it. Well moth
er and left Paris for this country Just
| thirty-five years ago. and I was most hap
PLY married, as you all know, in Baltimore
| two years later.
Il went to the worlds fair with two of
| my grown daughters and a SON and one
| afternoon. In the luncheon room of the Pal
| mer House, 1 dropped a valuable diamond
ring. l had no idea of ever getting it back,
but 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
| MOOR of the luncheon ROOM the manager
told me. and he Is to return later on in the
evening to inquire whether it is the jewel
you lost
Il asked the manager to request the find
| er of the diamond to send his card to my
| room. in order that I might thank him,
| when he came to inquire and, sure enough,
an hour or so later his card was brought to
my room. It was the card of major gen.
| eral In the British service. and there were
| ever so many distinguished orders attached
| to the name, which was that of my old
Paris flame. A few moments later I re-
| ceived him. and, of course. 1 knew him at
| once. He was distinguished looking eld-
| erly gentleman. I asked him smilingly If
| he knew me. and, of course, he didn't know
me from Eve after the changes of years.
| Such jolly time of 1t as we had when 1
| made myself known to him, and how we
did Taught Is very unromantic, but it is
| so-over that hopeless early attachment of
| ours. I introduced the fine-looking soldier
| to my daughters and son. and the next
| evening he brought around his wife of
many years. chubby. gray-haired woman
| of most charming manners, and she told
me with a laugh of how terribly jealous of
| me she had been many years before when
| she had found a tiny picture of me in one
| Of her husbands forgotten and packed
| away lockets.'
More than twenty years ago." said a
| middle-aged army officer, II was stationed
at a far northwestern military post at
| which there was a pest of bears-grizzlies
| well the black ones. The grizzlies
would traipse right into the garrison limits
| and walk off with the post cattle, particu-
| larry the lambs and calves, and good deal
| of our spare time spent in hunting
| them. One of the most successful hupters
| of the bears was a sergeant in my COM
| pany, who never got permission to go into
| the forest with his Springfield that he
| didn't fetch home 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 the ride up to Glen Island. There's
| a fine menagerie there with some particu-
| larly fine specimens of grizzly bears. I
was standing in front of the grizzly dug
| out. telling my wife of few of the mean
! kinks Of grizzlies, and in the course of my
| narration Of my early experience with them
| I mentioned that sergeant in my company
| who had been so infallible in his aim when
| he went after the beasts. / was still talk
| ing about him when we turned away from
| the bear den. AS turned l was surprised
| to see good-looking man Of about my own
| age coming to attention and giving me the
| time No. salute, as the men called it.
But I was a good deal more surprised
| when, upon taking a second look at his
| face, I saw that he was the sergeant of
whom T had Only that moment ceased