Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — He Fell Among Borrowers. [ARTICLE]

He Fell Among Borrowers.

According to the Sheridan (Oregon) Sun there is a schoolmaster in that State who has had enough of board* Ing with people who treat him as “one of the family.” He wishes to maintain a brotherly spirit, but says that there are certain personal effects, properly so called, which he prefers neither to borrow nor lend. Let ua hope that the Sun exaggerates the story. He was boarding around, and In the course of his peregrinations arrived at a house there were several grown up sonis and daughers. He was taken at once into Intimate fellowship. ■ On the second morning William, one of the boys, camo Into the new boarder's room and borrowed his toothbrush. The schoolmastor demurred, and went so far as to enter into particulars about microbes and microblc infection; but William took tho brush. “1 ain’t afraid to uso It after you if you ain't after mo," ho said. The next evening Samuel, another •on, bon owed tho master's best white shirt to wear to a dance; and Maria, one of the daughters, while trying to extract some of his perfumery, spilled the greater part of it upon her clothes. So matters went on, with increasing friendliness, and when the teacher took his leave, the mother was wearing a pair of his socks, the girls had begged his tooth-powder and the remainder of bls perfumery, the old man had worn out his ulster hunting doer, and the boys had on two of his white shirts, two pair of his socks, a vest and a hat. One of the girls had made love to the boarder's four-dollar silk umbrella, but though the fact is not stated, we are given to understand that her suit was unsuccessful.