A WILD WEST STORY.;

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

A WILD WEST STORY. ;

Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, the American wit, tells a story of a Yale man who was the stroke oar of his crew, and the chief athlete on the football field. He spent years in missionary labour in the Far West. Walking one day through a frontier town, a cowboy stepped up to him, and said, "Parson, you don't bave enough fun. Take a drink H The minister' declined. "Well, parson," he said, "you must have some fun ! Here's a faro game just beginning. Take a hand in the game." The minister again declined. "Parson," said the cowboy, "you'll die if you don't have some fun." And he knocked the parson's hat off his head, and hit him on the ear. The old athlete's spirit was roused. The science which he had learned in the college gymnasium was recalled, and the blow landed the cowboy sprawling in. the street. Then the parson walked over him as if he had been a doormat. As the ambulance was carrying the cowboy off he raised his hed-.l feebly, and said, "Parson, what did you fool me for ? Why. you *re chock-full of fun!"

General Gruics, formerly Servian Minister to St. Petersburg, who relieved of his office, degraded, and expelled on account of a letter speaking disrespectfully of King Milan, has been restored to favour by King Alexander and appointed to Constantinople. This shows the spread of Russian influence in Servia.