Life — October 29, 1896 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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“Hum,” said the editor, guardedly, foreseeing a poet with atale of woe and a manuscript. “My name," continued the visitor, fingering a blotter, ‘is Gillespie— Henry W. Gillespie. I live in Waukegan—have lived there twenty years last March. Tam a barber, and I have a son, Archibald.” “* Yes," assented the editor, wondering what the deuce. “My so Archibald,” continued Mr. Gillespie, ‘tis an idiot—that is to say, feeble-minded, although perfectly harmless—wouldn’t hurt a child, you know.” A FULL DAY. “Aw, yes,” said the visitor, vaguely. “« He has worried me a great deal lately by writing things, you know:”” “ Idiots always do,” snorted the editor. “Yes. Letters to the papers on politics and the tariff, poems and stories, you know. He gives them to me to post, and I bura them, you understand.” “ Quite right : “Yes. But last. week he sent a story away himself, and I've just found it out, and that’s why I came here.” “« What do you—you mean that he sent it to this paper ?”” “So [ understand, sir. Of course I want it destroyed and anything else he sends.” A pipLomart stationed at Wash- ington, who has spent the season at Bar Harbor, was asked by a correspondent what amusements they had up there and what they found to occupy their minds with. “Well,” he replied, with undiplo- matic frankness, ‘‘ we always had something to occupy our minds. We had to give con- siderable thought to the problem of what we shoud wear. Then every morning we had to decide whether we should go driving in eet Ll the landau or the cart. In the afternoon Se we had to decide whether we should play a LQ tennis or golf." But what did you do after Il make a note of it,” said the editor, kindly. “You say his name is Archibald Gillespie ?” “Yes, sir, But he doesn’t use that name when he writes. He calls himself —he's an idiot, you know—Arbald Glasp.” The editor caught his breath in a surprised sort of way and reached for a pigeonhole. “ And the story ?” “Just a lot of misspelled words jumbled together. He called. it—poor fellow—let me see, ‘Muss Angloss Jour,’ I think it was." “WELL, sir?” said the great editor. The great editor spread a manuscript before him on the table. “T have called,” began the visitor, who was visibly agitated, ‘on a rather “Great heavens!" he muttered. ‘I have just accepted it as a. French- painful errand.” Canadian dialect story !"—Chicago Times-Herald. CALIFORNIA. ARTIES will leave New York in October and frequently thereafter for California. The tickets provide for all traveling and The label of every bottle of genuine tel expenses for the outward and return trips, all railroad tickeca for the side trips fornia, with privilege of re~ z duced rates at the hotels in that state, and give the pamenyer entire freedom of movement. Special Farina Cologne’bears the word Vestibuled Trains with Dining-Cars. Choice of routes. a Other tours in season to Europes Hawall, Japan, China, Round the World, Mextco, Florida, etc. ** Gegeniiber.”’ Railroad and Steamship tickets at lowest rates to all parts of the World. Send for descriptive book, mentioning Information desired. | RAYMOND & WHITCOMB, 31 East 14th Street, cor. Union Square, West, New York. dinner?” ‘ Well, in the evening we generally discussed the question whether we should get full at home or at the Kebo Valley Club."—CAicago Times-Herald. See that this label is on the bottle you buy. BUFFALO LITHIAWATER NERVOUS INDIGESTION REV. R, A. GOODWIN, of the Diocese of Virginia, Richmond, Va., says: ‘1 have made use of BUFFALO LITHIA WATER iiopiss resuits ‘Tr tse jucroased in a marked denree, both sy appetite and digestive powers, and invigorated my general health. When suffering great Nervous Prostra- Send for free pamphlets to tion, the result of over mental labor, | have found it a prompt and wonderful restorative, and | regard it as Schieffelin & Co., Sole Agents, New York, Invaluable to the brain worker.” Sold by Druggists. Pamphlet free. Proprietor, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va. THE GuB= COCKTAILS ==. me SCR BE Per Gan bem - - For the Yacht, Camping Party, Summer Hotel, Fishing Party, Mountains, | i or the All ready for use, require no mixing. Connoisseurs. agree that of two cocktails made of the same material and NULHENS & KROPF ANNA postions, the one botied and aged must beihe beter. Tey our YORK Cocktall-without any sweetening “dryand | - cious, For sale on the Dining and Buffet Cars of the principal railroads of the U. S., and all druggists and dealers. AVOID IMITATIONS. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Prop: 39 Broaoway, New York. HARTFORD, CONN. 20 PiccaDiLty, W. LONDON, ENG,