Show TALES OF TRAVELERS HOW SMALL THE WORLD IS IS SHOWN BY ODD MEETINGS people run across acquaintances in all sorts of out of the way places in every part of the world awo men left alip city the same day wing in opposite directions says the new york sun they met on their re turn and exchanged experiences came back from my journey sal 1 the man who had spent his time n new england more impressed ban ever fth the idea that the world s growing smaller I 1 went I 1 had never been be ore and where I 1 was likely to meet 10 one whom I 1 knew at the first neal the sti anger upon my right look d up from his newspaper and said something om ething about the bridge disaster t quebec TI e stranger said he had a special read of bildne accidents since he had een a in the ashtabula affair t number of ears before lie related lis experience and concluded with the tat ement that he owed his rescue to i man whom he had never met before r since the incident as described by him vas vivid in my recollection I 1 was ae man who had saved him the ac ident happened about 30 years ago singular that at our first greeting rree ting after he affair thea conversation opened on he subject mentioned after the meal I 1 walked into the of the hotel and looked over the register I 1 noticed a familiar name a writer was from my home town t looked him up we had not seen one another for 10 years and then we had parted as enemies it was about a girl we had i good laugh over the meeting in a strange part of the country and con eluded that we had the best of the third fellow who won the girl later and was afterward but that Is of no interest to you like you began the other return ed tourist I 1 went into a new country to me I 1 thought I 1 bad lost myself away up the saguina Sa guena aher one day I 1 went out in a canoe look ing for fish after the catch my guide paddled ashore and we prepared for a teat soon afterward another tourist landed nearby lie haan hadn t had a bite after I 1 had jollied him a while I 1 asked him to sit down and take pot luck then we fell to our pipes you know that Is the bridge on which all smokers meet later on I 1 offered him my flask he declined and laughingly re marked that it he had not changed his usual garb for the outfit he had on he might not have been asked he was a minister his story was interesting he left college in this country aft er graduation and went abroad he kept on until he reached india there he became interested in commercial pursuits he failed he went broke ho met a showman who was organizing a minstrel company he engaged to go with him as a gerior the made money it landed in australia there it went to pieces one of the company was a negro lie and this man who had shared my fish dinner started out together to find work they felt in with a salvation army outfit both were good singers the upshot waa that the white man became converted he lift the salvation company and became an episcopal minister the negro followed in his steps the white pan Is rector of a church in the north west the begio is a missionary in what Is your name I 1 asked the tominie and when he gave it I 1 re piled we were classmates at university that was the only experience I 1 had during my trip but I 1 think it peats yours what was the negro s right name the man who told the first tory the dominie gave it as then the first speaker said its the same coon he was the son ot my fathers old slave he ran away when he was a boy and the first we ever heard of him was after he had become a preacher I 1 think this rounds up the two stories even |