Show y c y r l. l W 4 r tr t- t HIS THOUGHTS FAR AWAY Good Stories Told of Minded Absent-Minded Ohio Man I Sweet Brown carpenter and jobber jobber job job- i ber bel has suddenly sprung into promInence prominence prom prom- prominence as the most absent minded man in southern Ohio and the stories that are being told of his forgetfulness forgetful- forgetful ness indicate th that t his mind and his Ills body ody are at least as far apart as hl his home Some and Cincinnati which is sixty mUss miles Browns Brown's last achievement chroni- chroni chronicled chronicled chroni cled led in his home paper was performed performed performed per per- formed a short time ago He was building a corn crib for a farmer at atthe atthe th the e edge ge of or town town and finished it with himself inside and the saw outside outside out out- side EO so he had to call for help being unable to pry loose the boards lards beards he had nailed on with his light hammer He explained that he was thinking thinking think think- ing of something else Ont Ono On of his remarkable fe Tents feits ts was told by a woman for whom he was doing some repairing He located a aleak aleak aleak leak in the roof roof and then clImbed onto the top of the house to fix fix the shingles but was unable to find the spot so he again ascended into the garret marked a large chaIt rot mark around the leak and went back up onto the top of the house to fix It The cistern in his pasture lot ran tan dry and he was forced to drive his is cow along the road a quarter of a 2 amile amile mile to a spring for water while the cistern was being repaired and oue one morning he opened the pasture gate walked out trudged down to the spring and then discovered he had forgotten the cow His neighbors declare that when he dies he will forget to attend the fun fun- eral Chicago Chicago Tribune |