Show hard up the ad editor it or has gone a skating ing and an unusual thing for him left us short of copy ile he has len left no sub consequently we the writer of this article upon learning the state of utter titter destitution in which the prin are placed have determined to furnish the readers of the tan a chapter of the editors life although he gets maimed for his services the editor was born in old kaintuck Kain tuch and his maternal relative tock good care that he I 1 should not go near the water until ite he it had ad learned to swim or upon the ice until he be be i came a proficient in the beautiful exercise exercise I 1 of skating thus he grew to manhood manha od n hen 1 he tore himself from the scenes of his boyhood I 1 and struck out for the west aril and arrived in st louis here he attracted the attention of a host of fast young mena men who nho sympathizing with him indis in his ignorance of so many branches of the fine arts ed to undertake his bis education accordingly one of the number gave him lessons in striking out from the shoulder and came very near 11 higbe his beauty aut y In learning him to swim they narrowly missed drowning him but consoled him with promises of les sons in dancing this they commenced and continued until the instructor gave it as his candid opinion that he could dance most so well asa as a boss hoss 11 lie ile received but one lesson n skating and notwithstanding the rough treatment he received upon that occasion he has boldly and fearlessly gone fc forth rth to today day ay to receive his second we haar secured h services of a surgeon anti and anxiously await his is return |