HOW THEY MET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 10

HOW THEY MET.

— , * Two brothers who had not seen each other f or 1 ten .years met a few days ago at the Grand Central Station, New York. As soon as one saw the other coming down the platform he rushed toward him and fell on his neck. 'Ahoy hugged each other, these honest German blacksmiths; they kissed each other, they jumped about and shouted and laughed wildly in their joy. An observing crowd impeded the nwements of passengers, and the brothers, arrested for disturbing the peace, were thrawn into a cell, where tliey could exchange reminiscences and vent their happiness without jarring tho less sentimental. An .eminent Bostonian waa away from ■.he city for 'a dozen years. Returning, he visited his club, and he thus described his visit : "There were the same men in the samo ."Mats. They , wero drinking tho "drinks they used to order when I bft. They were talking about the same things. One of them looked up when I went into tho room, nodded, and said : 'Hello, Wiggkepoon ! How aro you? Huven't seen you lately,' and then he turned to tho crort'd : 'As I was saying, tho park system would be still better if — "Boston Herald. ___„__,.,

Captain Mahan, at The Hague Congress (says Life), argued against immunity of merchant vessels and their cargoes from capture at war-time. It is an incentive to wnr, he says, to remove such an evil as this. So it is, and it would depiive naval officers of their only chaiice to get rich, for it would abolish prize-money. The Hague Congress seems to want to sink war to the level ' of a sport. Thu football congress last summer snowed the same disposition concerning footbalL