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Show Reasonable Excuse. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the noted food expert, and Dr. Samuel Wilson, retired re-tired minister, were discussing old times one day last week. Both the men are graduates of Hanover Han-over college, near the Ohio river, along whijh the minister spent his early years. - "I remember the great floods of '82, 'S.'! and S4" said Dr. Wilson. "During "Dur-ing one of those floods we had to retire re-tire to the second floor, and then to the third floor. "We had to cook our food over the grate," he recalled. "In the morning we would let down a bucket on a rope to the milkman, who came in a skiff." Dr. Wiley smiled. "That would be some excuse for watering the milk," he said. |