Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — His Too Effusive Friend. [ARTICLE]

His Too Effusive Friend.

From their conversation they must have been old college chums who had not met for a long time until they ran up against each other in an Eleventh avenue street car last evening. . The smaller one was accompanied by two middle-aged men, who looked like prosperous merchants, while the other excollegian, ono of those fellows with a stentorian voice,, was alone. They shook hands effusively, and then began amexchange of reminiscences, in which such fragments as “Don’t you remember the 'bd game with Yale?” and “WhatTf become of Jack Soandso?” were .distinguishable all over the car. The big mauewas not particularly careful in bis choice of language, and occasionally would lip out an oath that might have done credit to a “boarded pard.” Suddenly the other seemed to .realize that something was wrong, and leaning over, he whispered: “Say, oldman, be a little careful. You know, I have a church here in Philadelphia, and these two fellows with mo are a coupla of my most influential trustees." Tha big man got off at the next corner.— Philadelphia Record.