Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — Baffied the Linguists. [ARTICLE]

Baffied the Linguists.

The late PylJJ!.'fitephen J. Young, of Bowdoln, vyfti ,pn accomplished linguist. One' day* he was on a train bound for Bangor to Brunswick, Me., when the, conductor, who knew him, entered his phr .to ask him to come out to the second-class coach to try and find out wh«® certain stupid foreigner was going. conductor had attacked him In all the foreign lingo he cou|d master, and could get no other response tlia'n~a*|tuplff stare. Prof. Young went back to the rear of the train. The passenger sat there looking very, much disturbed and bewildered. The professor went at him in Canadian French, then in German, then in the languages of Scandinavia, Egypt, Italy, Spain and every other country on the face of this green earth. Still the passenger sat “mum as an ow’l," while the 16ok of bewilderment deepened on his face. The professor was nonplused, and was turning in defeat to his own car when the man looked wearily out of the window and remarked sadly to himself: “By gosh, I wish was ter hum.” He was an Aroostook Yankee and he could speak nothing but English.

Are you going to Louisville to attend the twenty-ninth annual encampment of the G. A. It. Sept. 11 to 14? The Monon Route is the national official route Chicago to Louisville, and the battlefield line from Louisville to the South. Special accommodations will be provided for all those who attend. In addition to the two regular trains daily (morning and evening), special trains will be run at such hours as will best accommodate the veterans, and special cars will be furnished posts of twenty-five or more members If so desired. Also special sleeping cars can be arranged for. The fare from Chicago to Louisville will be $0 for the round trip, and from Louisville to Chattanooga |8.36 for the ronhd trip. Tickets will be limited a sufficient length of time to enable members of the G. AJR. to visit Chickamauga battlefield. The National Park at that place will be dedicated with imposing ceremonies afte> the encampment at Ixmisville. For rates, special trains, special coaches, sleeping' cars and further information, address Sidney B. Jones, city passenger agent,’ 282 Clark street, Chicago; L. E. Sessions, traveling passenger agent, Minneapolis, Minn.; or Frank J. Reed, general passenger agent, Chicago.