Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1910 — A Mushroom Lover. [ARTICLE]

A Mushroom Lover.

Senator Depew, at a dinner in New York, praised a turkey’s mushroom stuffing. "These mushrooms,” he concluded, “remind me of an incident that occurred while I was abroad in the autumn. You know how, on an English train, the passengers are locked in small compartments, and there is an emergency signal for them to pull in case the train must be stopped. Well, the signal was pulled one autumn day, and the train, with a great grinding of brakes, came to a sudden stop, and guards and conductor, pale with horror, ran up and down the carriages to see what terrible thing could have happened. They found, in a rearmost carriage, an old woman leaning far out of the window, waving her arms and her umbrella excitedly. " “What’s the matter, madam? Why did you Btop the train?’ they asked her. *’ ‘You fools,’ she answered, *why didn’t you stop before? We’ve Just passed two of the finest mushrooms I’ve seen this many a year.”