The Green Forest tribune., 1918-02-08
A Lucky Mistake
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Copyright. 1917, Western Newspaper Unior
By VICTOR RADCLIFFE

old volumes, priceless in N.lueS, but the contents dry, weighty and utterly im- penetrable to the average mind.
 His training and education had won him post as curator of famous pub lie museum. The perquisites and sal ary were quite liberal, but Amos had an ambition to diffuse the information he had gathered. He entered the lee ture field in addition to his museum duties. He yearly went the rounds of learning. During the past year, how ever, he fancied that he was following a beaten track.
 'There is not much new to say of the old" he remarked more than once.
 "Brighten your discourse with some thing modern as to style, then, profess sor," suggested close frend.
 Once Professor Tyndall collected all that was humorous along the line of ancient humor. He assumed a light style in this especial work, sent the article to a journal devoted to anti quarian features. and was frowned down. To the mind of the erudit edi- tor the solemn dignity of age must not be invaded with trifling wit.
 For all that, Professor Tyndall made the discovery that while old dyed-n- the-wool college heads nodded approv- ingly at the delivery of time honOred, hackneyed themes, the young students were distrait and bored. Again, his services were not called for so much as previously. He revised his old lee lures, took the tattered, criss- crossed manuscripts to city copyist, and placed in the hands of Miss Lettie Rose the task of their transcription. The neat, pretty public stenOgrapher and typiSt was about his own age, un- der thirty, and her interest in his lee lures attracted him towards her. It got to be a pleasure to Tyndall to call upon and chat with the bright eyed, pleasant faced young lady.
 q have learned so much from your lecture on Ancient Pompeii,' NIr. Tyn- dall" said Lettie Rose quite enthusi astically one day. "How very interest ing your profession must be-always surrounded by mementoes of ages long oiAiNC EtSts SthlIpI, l0tIIICl cllid SA- pert. 1 have finished copying the lee ture you are to deliver next week, and I copied also Humor of the Ancients,' Mir. Tyndall, thought most of that"
 "You dd?" questioned the professor dubious as to the literary taste of his amanuersis.
 "Yes, professor" declared Lettie doughtily. "I medn as to it's entertain ing qualities. You will pardon me for expressing my poor inexperienced opinion, but if I were a young man at college that article would give me most pleasant hour"
 "H'm" commented the professor, rather dryly. ''The editor submitted It to quite-er-well, sat down on it."
 "Then he had no true senes of hu- mor," asserted Lettie. "It brings out a new vein in your literary ability, pro- lessor. Really, I would try it out some time, just to see the effect.'
 q have thought of doing just that" murmured Tyndall in his abstracted way. Do you know l have often won dered if my routine lectures are not too dry and musty."
 "Oh! never that, professor" dis claimed Lettie.
 That friendly young lady is open ing my eyes somewhat" reflected Tyn- dall as he left Miss Rose and she was, indeed, not only as to the current value of his production, but as well to a new conception of the lighter moods of life without which existence becomes a dreary routine.
 A few days later Tyndall came in desperate hurry into the office over which Miss Rose presided.
 T have just time to catch a train, quick date for a lecture. The first copy you made, please, Miss Rose"
 Lettie reached in the drawer of an open desk where the copied manu- scripts lay, neatly folded. She secured the one labeled Ancient Pompeii" taking out several others to select 1t from. Then she became interested in the explanation of her patron that he was to deliver lecture at certain town that evening"
 IHe cndrln or her company made Tyndall temporarily forget the urgency of the occasion, and Lettie was so in- terested that she unconsciously mixed up the manuscripts.
 T declare!' spoke the professor ab- ruptly, glancing at his watch, and he sprang to his feet
 T have only five minutes in which to catch my train"
 He seized the manuscript Lettie handed him, thrust 1t into an inside pocket, caught up his grip and bolted from the door.
 "Good luck! p Lettie cried out cheer fly after him.
 Professor Tyndall arrived at Cleve- land that afternoon, to find two emi- nent professors and two gentlemen whom he did not know at the depot
 The college auditorium burned down this morning, Professor Tyndall, was advised.
 You startle mel" murmured Tyn- dall
 And the local improvement associa- tion is disappointed as to speaker they expected, who has been taken i'll. We were discussing the feasibility of not disappointing ticket holders. You would have no objection to delivering