Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — Prepared for Emergencies. [ARTICLE]

Prepared for Emergencies.

He was( more than 70 years of age, this old soldier, and he walked slowly, feebly along Exchange street, carrying in one hand a huge carpet bag, whlcb looked as If It bad seen generations of service. A well-known Buffalo man Baw the old soldier. “Where are you going, my friend?” he asked, kindly. “I ain’t goln’ nowhar Jest now,” was the answer in a troubled, hesitating sort of a way. “Have you had your breakfast?” waa the next question. “Yaaß, I ’et somethin’ on the train. I allars carries my feed with me. “I allars carries a piller with me, too,” he said, gaining courage at the sight of a friendly face. “Then I allars know that wharever I be, I’ll have a place wbar I can lay my head,” and the old man pointed to the side of his carpet bag, on which was strapped a small pillow, encased in a slip of white, trimmed with coarse lace. “Yer see, when I strike a place whar I can rest a bit, it’s sorter nice to have a piller handy,” he said, by way of explantion, as he got on a street car which would take him to his destination, and thanked the Buffalo man for paying his fare. —Buffalo Commercial. The Duchess d’Uzes, whose escape from the Paris bazaar fire is memorable, Is exceedingly rich, an accomplished musician and sculptor, an intrepid horsewoman and passionately fond of fox hrntlng.