Show SO1E GOOD SHORT STORIES Phi Armour As a Brakeman Detroit News George A Sheldon depot master of the Lake Shore station who died dn Oct 25 after fortyslx earS of continuous con-tinuous service with the Lake Shore company was a veritable encyclopedIa or railroad Incident and his well told tales If repeated In his own select phrase would rank as classic literature litera-ture His narrations were conned to actualities thus gIvIng them a real value He was many year a conductor conduc-tor and among the best ot the Inc dents he related Is the folowing One day there steppel aboard my train a well dressed business appear I log man who as he tendered his fare remarked I I see ou are still on the road 11 Sheldon Yes I am still nt i I replied hut I am not certain that I remember you though I think I have een yot before I be-fore i Yes you have seen me before em phaslzpI the passenger and While you doubtless have forgotten I I sun re 1emr that you once did me the greatest favor of amy life Come to t seat when you get time and Ill tel you about I When I had finished collecting fares I dropped Into the strangers seat and he contInued Years ago I was ftmr days brakenun abod yoU train At thc end of the four days you took me aside and remarked In a tone or sympathy path Im sorry to have to tel you 50 but the fat is I young man you are too much of n Cool to ever male a 001 railroader Take my advice and quit I took jour advice and went Into other business and the result 15 I I made a rail fortune I thank you Mr f relon lor your wise counsel J Vhut Is your name I asked PhIl D Armour ot Chicago re piled m3 exbrakeman and I shall al wayn remember your kindness r was a stupid railroader and you advised me for my good Until this Interview added Mi Sheldon I never suspected that Philip D Armour the packer was the brakeman I brake-man I discharged ers beffre Business Conscience I Youths Companion The Sunday morals of many a community com-munity are an Improvement upon those of ordinary workdays Somehow con sclenco Seems to sleep when the hand Is busy partculjrly IC the hand be employed em-ployed upon some profitable work A London artist tells of a curious iml I dent that came undr his notice some little while ago I had a old English bracket clock that I took niselt to a wholE ale firm of clockmakers to be repaired tIn t-In the shop r noUced a peculIar place oC tehanfsm the purpose of which puzzle me 80 I sought for Inform f tion ton replied one ur the firm thats a special orderor a temple In China It Is to vorlc nn Idol nnd mae him move Presumably that clockmaker was an excellent Christian in his ownesUma ton I do not know whther there was anything In my look that he considered called fQt an cxplaaH bt he add eti etiBusiness Business 15 bUllnes you know Youd be astonished to learn What it h ny orders we lometm have In our trade Only th Qterldny lr asked us It we would make stime imitatIon sme Imitton gellnc J7 hthmtlok they sht < < o i < I us one to COP But we replied deln lag merely saying that We had 80 far conducted our business honestly and Intendl always to do r So according to the ethics of our Informant In-formant I Is not dishonest to make clOckwork Intended secretly to make a Idol move bUt It Is dishonest to make I medlaeal clocks Applied ScIence I doe not seem unwarrantable to I suspect that ll Stephen Leacock who contribute the following to the London I OUtlook has learned In suffering what he teaches 11 boardinghouse geometry Here are some of Mr Leucks definitions defini-tions and nom boardinghouses 1 AlL boardinghouses are the sae = Boarders In thq same boarding I house and un the same flat are equal to one another i A single room Is that which has no parts and no magnitude I 4 The landlady ot a boardinghouse Is n raralelogram anohlung angular figure which cannot be dcscrlbed but Is l equal to anything I I 5 All other rooms being taken a single sin-gle room Is sal to be a double room I Among postulatt and propositions the tion following are o1thJ of considers It A pie may be produced any number of tme The landlady may b reduced to ler iUons lowest terms y a series of prop I ii A beelne may he made from one hoardnghouse to another 1 1 The clothes of a boardinghouse I bed although produced ever so far both irays wIll not meet 5 Any tvo molsat a bondlngnouse I are together lens than one sQu re meal I I Buttering His rend On Both Sides Phladcphln Post In times gone In Ireland the Protestant Protest-ant minister Collected the In the harvest har-vest whIle the Catholic prIest got In his stipends at Christmas Father Edward Ed-ward and the Re Sandy Iontom cry were one day ridIng together In their usual friendly way through 1n ver and bantering each other a1out their callings Heres the Dacach RUl h sid Father Edward let us have hIs opinion The Bacach Ruadh or Red Beggarman was an arrant knave too clever to work while he could live upon the fat or the land without JamIe said Father Edward Ed-ward to him Ir you had a son would you sooner make a priest or a minister ot him 7 I I had a son Jet reverence rever-ence I should have hlmt mlnlsthcr In the harvesanztprieat at Christmas i |