The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-09-12

not expecting any one and hadn't
prepared for any one, but there
was enough to supply full mill
tary company, but not after | got
through. not only enjoyed my
dinner but l enjoyed the pleasant
half hour after-dinner converse.
tion with the family just as much.
| know of good one on Mr..
Goss that l think will bear repeat
ing, and will be just as interesting
to the DEMooRAT-SENTINEL readers
as it was distressing to Mr.. Goss.
Something less than one hundred
years ago Mr.. Goss was called up
on in his professional capacity.
He had several miles to drive and
the thermometer registered about
ten below. He was hurried and
left without supper. He arrived
at his destination at about 8
O'Clock at night, with his assist
ant, both nearly frozen. While
Mr.. Goss was busily engaged in
his professional work as under
taker, the lady Of the house came
in and asked him if he wouldn t
like to have nice warm supper,
she thought it would materially
assist him in his cold drive home
Mr.. Goss said that as he had had
no supper it would be very accept
able to him and his assistant. The
lady Immediately set about get
ting warm meal. Besides the
nice hot coffee she had prepared a
skillet of spare ribs. Now il there
is anything on earth that Mart
Goss does like, it is spare ribs.
They sat down to supper, Mart
paying his attention strictly to
coffee and spare ribs. Mart no.
ticed the assistant didn't help
himself to spare ribs and asked
him why he didn't take hold. The
assistant said he didn't care for
any.
ooh, you are Jew, are you.
Well, never mind, / can take care
of them" 1t is said Mart ate the
skillet of ribs.
After they had got mile or two
on the road home Mart happened
to think about those elegant spare
ribs and the warm coffee, and said:
SPY jolly, don't know what
I'd have done without those spare
ribs. ] don't know when l ate so
hearty. l am actually 80 full l
can hardly breathe. Why didn't
you eat any, don't you like them ?"
"Oh, yes," said the assistant,
81 am very fond of them. But l
couldn't have eaten any cf them to
save my life. T"
"Why, what was the matter
with them2 Since / come to think
about it they did taste rather
peculiar"
"Well, you know when you sent
me out in the kitchen for warm
water the cook was just taking the
skillet out from under the stove,
and she just turned the skillet
over and turned out a litter of lit
lie kittens. She never even wiped
The skillet but just dumped the
spare ribs in. j like spare ribs
out ! don't like them basted with
'ur. Oh, no. Not for me-"
1t Is unnecessary to state that
Mart Goss didn't take all those
pare ribs. home. And it is also
Unnecessary to state that if you
ay "Scat" to Mart Goss it
brings up" something distress
ng.
After short rest l very reluct-
ntly bid them good-by and start
d on. The very next place ]
topped was j. F. Krinn's. l
nocked and was bid "come in."
'he very first person / met was
irs. Lucy A. Crawford with the
cutest little week-old
ngel that had ever seen. 1t
'as actually the smartest baby,
or that age, ever. Its eyes
parked like diamonds and fol-
'wed me at every turn. While
OF able to "sit up" it certainly
las able to "notice things" And
Is no wonder, considering that
ne etork has been lowering over
nat home for nineteen years, and
ad just delivered the first bless
lg. Mrs. Krinn is doing very