Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — Settled the Question of Age. [ARTICLE]

Settled the Question of Age.

D. W. Caldwell, tne late president of the Lake Shore, and John P. Miller, general superintendent of the Southwestern system of the Pennsylvania, were friends all their lives, but there was one thing on which they could never agree, and that was as to which was the older. One day they were driving up to Caldwell's country home in a buggy. “John,” said the Lake Shore man, “you have always insisted that I am alder than you.” “Why, of course. I was born in ” “That’s all right, John; if you are younger than I am suppose you open the gate.” Without a word Mr. Miller climbed from the buggy, opened the gate, and Mr. Caldwell drove through. And then he did not stop, but went on to the bouse, leaving Mr. Miller to follow through the dark and mud as best he could. When the house was reached the soil was scraped off Mr. Miller and nothing more was said. He had proved that he was the younger man of the two.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.