WHAT'S IN A NAME.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1751, 21 May 1886, Page 5

WHAT'S IN A NAME.

Rev. T. De Witt Talmage was booked to lecture at Ann Arbor one Friday evening on "Is tbe World ; Better or Worse ? " He came into i Toledo from the East, and was unloaded at the Union Depot. He immediately went to the Ann Arbor Depot, but arrived there just in time to find out that he was too late for the train. This placed the noted divine in a predicament, for he was advertised to lecture and his train was gone. He, no doubt, began to think the world was worse. .An idea entered his cranium, and he immediately made use of it. He telegraphed to Governor James M. Ashley, President of the road, to hold the train at Alexis, the first Btation out, until he reached that point in another train ; he signed the dispatch " Talmage." When Governor Ashley read the dispatch he held the train ; the signature was talismanic, and De Witt got to Ann Arbor all right, and probably patted himself on the back to think how important a personage he was. He would have felt better had he heard Governor Ashley's exclamation when he learned that the talismanic " Talmage " was the signature of T. De Witt, instead of A A. Talmage, Manager of the Wabash. The Governor's exclamation, however, was one which some ministers might use in connection with the futurity of sinners. — Toledo Blade.