Judge — July 10, 1909 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE HUMOR OF DICKENS. T WAS in 1863 that I first met Charles Dickens. of ** Pickwick’? was | walking down Picca- dilly, in London, one bright summer morn- ing. I was headed in| the opposite direc- tion, and, being very much abstracted over a mathematical prop- | losition I had undertaken to solve for lone of my pupils at the Overhorst emy, of which Iwas at that time| bead master, I ran headfirst into the velist. I beg your pardon," said I, remov- ing my biliycock hat as I recognized the great literary genius of the hour. Don't mention gaid Dickens, as passed on, | It was not so much the humor of his retort as his manner—let me say at lonnee an indescribable manner—of speak~ ing the words that seemed to me so de Hi humor, still iously apt, and, while full of sly kindly. courteous and Although I never saw the novelist I have always cherished the wn of that friendly | arms. f ADSTC A CONVERSATION WITH G I was but a lad of twenty when I met the great Commoner. I had come only recently to London, and my one dissi- pation was riding on the thrippe Jus from Hampstead out as far Stoke-Willigus and back on § afternoons. Imagine my delight whe » day late in May, I found mys bing next to Mr. tone on the top| pf the ‘bus. He y much pied with a book reading, and I hesitated to interrupt him, al- though I fully realized that an oppor: | AN OLD TIMER CES. HAS HAD EXPERIE A woman who has used Postum since iit came upon the market knows from experience the wisdom of using Postum lin place of coffee if one values health aclear brain. She say: “At the time Postum was first. put on the market I was suffering from nervous dyspepsia, and my physician had repeatedly told me not to use tea or Finally I decided to take hi cand try Postum, I got a package | efully prepared, finding it us to the tast So I continued , and very soon its beneficial ef- fects convinced me of its value, for I well of my nervousness and dyspep- My husband had been drinking coffee ail his life until it had affected his nerves terribly, and I persuaded him to shift to Postum, It was him to make the change, for the Postum It certainly worked pot exhilarate or depress and docs not Htimulate, but steadily and honest! |trengthens the nerves and the stomach, 1 family continued to use Postum with atisfying results as shown in our fine lition of health, and we have noticed rather unexpected improvement in nd nerve powe sed brain and nerve power al- ways follows the use of Postum in pl of « metimes in a very marked There's a Reason, s for the famous lit- ad to Wellville."” end the above letter? Anew one irs trom time totime. They are gen- ue, and tull of human Interest. Ey hope nine, asy to get s arned that Postum docs * make a long story short, our en-.$ tunity to speak with such a man might never come to me again. Suddenly a long-deferred shower of rain began to The author | £2!!, but the statesman still read on, and | I saw that my opportunity had really arrived. “Excuse me for interrupting you, sir,” I observed, tapping him gently on the arm; ‘but it is beginning to rain.” He looked up pleasantly and smiled. By Jupiter!”’ he ejaculated. it is!’ Whereupon he rose from his seat and left the omnibus, returning to London in a four-wheeler. I was very much impressed by the readiness with which he met what prom- ised to be an uncomfortable situation —a quality which more than once in after life was characteristic of his pub- lic service, than which there has been no greater in our history in the last century. ANECDOTE OF TENNYSON. It can hardly be said, without a de- parture from the strict lines of fact, that I ever became Intimate with Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Indeed, we met only 1 can now once. It was at a famous debate in the House of Commons, between Lord Bea- consfield and Mr. Gladstone, of whose friendship I have already spoken. The debate was over, and on the way out of the Parliament. building I inadvertently My cha- d to put it into is such a crowd!" I ventured. rdly possible to see where one Merely 3 » wis no response, of the eye he other side of the corri- dor. And yet understood. ‘The genius that had produced so many and such astly subtle impr bya mere sug- gestion was in that g¢ and I knew ull that he would have ‘said had h it in words, A soul had spoken unother soul not through the medium but by that intangib sympathetic something th unerringly to the he great moment in my life, though I do not suppose Lord Tennyson ‘would have re membered it in later years had I ever nee, VE GREATNES: ** Feeling that few men die with Fame smiling upon them, THE MEMOIRS OF HORACE MAC FUDD, G.D.S. | met him again and reminded him of it, which I never did. A MEETING WITH NAPOLEON THE THIRD. I have always been glad that I was once privileged to meet Napoleon the Third, because I was a great admirer of his uncle, Napoleon the First. One in my station in life seldom comes into contact with royalty, and in after years, when we reach the reminiscent stage, the occasional mectings of this kind that one has been permitted to enjoy stand | out conspicuously in the retrospect. It was when he was in the heyday of his | power that the Emperor and I met one afternoon in the Champs Elysée. He | was driving in his imperial carriage with the Empress Eugénie, and in some way or other I managed to g the| royal way to such an extent that the first of the four horses attached to the Emperor’ 8 equipage knocked me down. The equerries were for stopping at once, but the Emperor leaned forward and in commanding tones bade the driver to drive on, “*He had no business to get in the way,’ I heard him say to the Empress, as the carriage passed over me. rest content. I have never ceased to think with pride upon his majesty’s gracious clem-| lency in not having me arrested, and it| thrills even my grandchildren when I tell them this little story and they realize that I, their undistinguished ancestor, a man of humble birth, was| once the subject of a conversation be- j tween a great Emperor and his imperial spouse, HORACE boDD GasTIT. BACK NUMBERS WANTED. Don't be content with our Say-So— TRY EVANS’ ALE We'll take our chances of making you a loyal member of our Sunshine League. UMC MEV PRAGE, Wellin re 1 DEALERS AN SUCH IS FAME. Mr. J. J. Hocker: are pleased to accept your manuscript entitled (one joke). Payment for accepted articles will be made in due course, A continuance of your favor is cordially invited. Very truly yours, ditor Grudge. (From the Hockerville Clarion, May 19th.) Mr. Jason Jared Hocker, one of the most talented of our community's lit- erary set, announces the sale of a manu- \script to a well-known New York pub- ishing house. Mr. Hocker states that his publishers are so impressed with the unusual quality of his work that he has been urgently requested to favor them with his future output. It is the au- thor’s wish that the amount of remu- neration be withheld from publication his panama hat. NED HARNEY. HY PAY STORAGE? Pawn Your Furs for the Summer DREIBALLS, HOCK & COMPANY CHANGED CONDITIONS. The New Woman bowed her head on her desk and groaned aloud, “What is it, my dear?" tenderly pleaded her husband, as he entered her office, “Your extravagance, Henry, will drive me into bankruptcy,” she said sternly. “I have provided you with everything, but this is the limit,"” and she drew from a pigeon-hole the bill for his panama hat. What makes women so good is trying to shame men out of being bad. 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