People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Was It Hypnotism? [ARTICLE]

Was It Hypnotism?

From West Shore. Portland. O*e., Cc . 18. 'OO. As I was coming down t >wn a few days ago I met Grizzly in the car, and as we were old chummies and had not seen each other for a few weeks, I greeted him very cordially. “What's hew in the papers this morning?" I inquired to set the conversational ball comfortably rolling. “Paper isn’t out yet this week. Say, I hear they have discovered gold in California.” I looked at him a little curiously. and before I could make up my mind what he was driving at, he said: “No use talking, General Taylor is our man for president.” Then I looked at him rather closely to see if he showed any symptoms of insanity in his eye; but he was in appearance as rational as ever.

“Now that we’ve got the Mex lean war closed up in good shape and the Oregon question settled, it.is time we—” “Say,” said I, breaking in upon him, “are you crazy or just giving me a whirl of some kind?” He looked at me blankly for half a minute, and then a smile began to spread over his face. “I beg your pardon, old man, I believe I am getting a trifle off. You see, I got one of those for-ty-year-old dictionaries as a premium the other day for subscribing to a newspaper that is of no earthly good itself, and it just keeps my mind working about forty years behind the times. Let’s get off and take something.” Quill.