Show introduced himself absentminded absent minded readers will trill know how to sympathize with a 1 I gentleman whose tale of misery we borrow from the now new yolk times lie ile begins by describing his first meet meeting ilig with gon gen miles now dow at the head of the united states army this wat was in a hotel office in ili pasadena cal then he goes on there was vas a fire in ili the groat great fireplace perhaps as much for sake as an thing else and the big room was decidedly a pleasant place gen miles maj truman aud and myself sat there until 11 the general talked freely and most inot interestingly and to me it was a very enjoyable evening in I 1 had always had the heartiest admiration for uen ell miles I 1 had ben been a soldier myself and I 1 thought I 1 should always leil lember that evening with gratification the next m while going out 0 or tile the hotel nadein in los angeles I 1 met it a gentleman who said sahl good morning I 1 stopped and talked but I 1 could not dot possibly recall him presently he sald said you dont remember me inc I 1 sau said no I 1 did not my ily name Is miles lie said well I 1 wished that the hotel nadeau had been getting in coal and that there 1 had td been a convenient coalhole coal hole bole open for tile me to slide into but there and I 1 did the best enst I 1 could under tinder the cli circumstances which I 1 gue guess was waa pour poor enough but the general was perfectly good humored about it lor for which I 1 was profoundly thankful seeing the general in it a different light or amid total totally v different surrounding and when I 1 had least expected to meet him coupled perhaps NN itil some degree degre of natural absentmindedness absent mindedness on my own part had brought tills this discomfiture upon tile me and ella chiglin chigi in over this second encounter with en ell miles lias has always materially lessened lebom d my enjoyment of tile the fart |