Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1891, Page 10

10 KIPLING’S IMPRESSIONS poin What the Popular Indian Writer Saw : in San Francisco, A CRITICAL FRAME OF MIND. ‘Widespread Provincialism—In the Toils of = Reporter—He Says There is No American Langusge—The People and the Streets—A Banco Steering Mistake. Written for The Evening Star. ([ US 18 WHAT BRET HARTE hes written of the great city of fan Francjsco, and for the past fortnight I have been wondering what made him do it. There is neither serenity nor indifference to be found in these parts, and evil would it be for the continents whose wardship wore intrusted to so reckless a guardian. Be- been the least attempt at grading those hills, and indeed you might as well try to grade the hillocks of Sind. The cablecars have forall ‘tical made Hi i iz of They turn corners almost at right angles, crocs cher Mines, ‘sad for 1 Fan up the sides of honses. agency of their flig will ‘ive-storied hanism. I gave up asking leases Providence to make cat ran Up whe ee eee and jor twopence halfpenn: can that car, why shall I seek the reeeuns of the miracle?’ Rather let me look out of the win- | am dows till the shops give place to thousands and thousands of little houses made of wood (to STORIES OF TOM CORWIN. His Kindness of Heart and His Head of Wit and Humor—His Fair War Prisoner—Gov. Sprague’s Profitable Real Estate Investment —President Madison's Crystal Flute. Written for The Evening Star. FPSTORY RECORDS « number of expres sions and sentences uttered in debate or public speeches which have become engrafted in our language, remaining fixed in the minds of the people and frequently recalled. Some of them have proved damaging to the reputa- tion of those who uttered them. Time fails vo dislodge them from memory. The expres- sion made use of by Mr. Corwin in a debate in the House of Representatives during the war with Mexico, when he said, “Were Is Mexi- 4 TEXAS BAD WAX. Sketch of a Character From Life Often Met em the Frontier. 9ORN ADAM, 4 VERY BAD Max, TELLS EE OWS STORY IN 4 WAT To GIVE RIMBELY 4 FAIRER STAXDINO—a CURIOUS TALR OF 4 REMARESBLE cuanacraa, F #1 §4 “BAD JOmN ADAM.’ as T'm known, it was then. I didn't care what did. We never saw any pleasure together. I knew sbe pined for him and kept his picture by her, but we lived together twelve years, then took « fever in the “The day she died A Td been, went to sleep and woke up a little flighty and thought we was all boys and Girls at school again “AM at once she sat up in bed and langbed and ber face looked like a litte girl's. "I going to him,” she anid.” He looked ‘at me with a curious, ghastl Diankness. “I'm agoing to him,” be repeated; gndagain ine husky whisper, “Tm agoing to He threw out his tind in agesture of in- tolerable anguish: “He robbed me livi be robbed me dead. She never spok: tly he looked up about the girl? You might have thought she'd ight hold me pitched neck and crop from twenty | imitate stone), each house just big enough for talk. An Indian club|can I would welcome the American army bee comfort to me. I did eversthing’ for ber to 1@ high seas into the whirl of Califor- | # man and his family. Let me watch about Christmas time will ge) it Properly with bloody hands to hospitable graves,” re- ay faster f any guidance and left to draw (aay dialer fee ae eee Te a ante ol hee eat ners |ferred to fn a previoes article, ctung to 2 my own conclusions. Protect me from the Tigrloces sev now Gut f onsen Seta Ga'the uttermost ends of their own continent the tales | him for years and to the party of which he ey wrath of an outraged community if these let-| matter of book piracy), because I ived | are larger, thicker and more spinous and even | was so distinguished a leader, and kept him ined i one to wait on her nor look at her but me: ters be ever read by American eyes. San | that my curse is working and that h | more agure than any Indian variety. out of public life until the return of the whig Francisco is a mad city—inhabited for the | is becoming a horror already. They delude and, — the time her mother'd had, I did'nt 5 INDIA FORGOTTEN. party to pow want her to marry most part by perfectly imsine people, whose | Hemselves into, the, belief that they talk En-| And Iforgot all about India for ton days|" Mr. Seward's expression of his Everything went lovely for « whileand I women are of a remarkable beauty. When the | Stish—the English—an wine in one ing with “an English accent.” | While I went out to dinners and watched the | speeches during the early days of the abolition City of Pekin steamed through the Golden | The man who pitied me spoke, co far aul was ‘ Seihonseat teens oer ary in the seeuing Gate I saw with great joy that the block house | concerned, the language of thieves. And they flict” vane etet the eacknnee ae whieh quandol the mouths of the “Sess ine | Shoe Te ask iiss toes aoe ne one of a thousand speakers. ‘These inscances recall bor in the world, sir,” conld be silenced by | 74" i they uso the sherk aud wens oo |i te onrs Worth three or four million | {Memorable expression made uso of by the two ts from Hong Kong with safety, | gimme os Bergenline 4 dollare taay be @ good talker, levee an ic? | Hon. James H. Hammond of South Carolina in (Gre and dispatch. Also, there was not 6 | simple ts to be past mistaking they pronounce | dollars may be.» good. With Gwice that nsing | a debate in the Senate of the United States dur- single American vewel of wx shale. |Goteueaitichaar OM | fe to be avoided, anda twenty-million teen ie. | ing the administration of Mr. Buchanan. In Sab may cound bloodthirsty, but remember 1| ©? @=** things happen! just twenty millions. Take an instance. I was | tat debate some allusion. to the relative labor ied ,come olth = griawase agen metho bor p=aramlissnainy- eared 74 about seeing the | of the north and south was made, and in reply grievance of the pirated h books. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee man | eaw the most peace and pleasure Lever my life—which ain't saying much— she |came tome and told me she was going to marry a low-down sneaking chump that I never thought enough of to keep out of her wi @ wasn't like her mother. I could’t do anything with her. When she said a thing she Meant it, so 1 tried drawing him off and when I found bim sneaking back to steal her off I sMoT HIM. oro ee a Mr. Hammond spoke of the laborers as “They tried me for thet, I never will f tor of his vas in my i co oa . ; lorget SEES A REPORTER. schoolmarm, the cider and the salt codtah of | Supboeed newrpager meh oecenin cai ek ae "mudaills" of the ountry. The expression was d i Sleeps dates and such things. Of course be | the men that hadit done. I'll even up the ™ ood shen ext 1| the eastern states are responsible for what he tY ‘morted fadignantly: “See him! Great | Seized upon at once and turned in on expres, | in Baltim. ‘The British legation was - a tion % * P score with every one of them before I die. en & reporter leaped aboard and ere a | sion of contempt for the white labor of the ore. there are very few that care to dispute a | *°°" I. Hi d | calls a nasal accent. I know better. They stole | Scott! No! If he happens to appear in the of- | Tons’ ny. t explanation made by | Sented by Messrs. Vane and gton, a1 that with him. ‘She's gone back to Missouri to her mother's ee eae ee Me pemet ts enenan irae aon Sar | Bao 5 Seve, Se somatiene (Site Rin: bel, Gank | EE" mcneead et acbetd coh cana (ae aes af ony sem ametien ae || j kin folks. She thinks i'm too wicked to live me exhaustively while I was getting ashore, de-| ‘Cn'and the enort of delight was aned ie theds | heaven, oulelde of tak I move tu cicciet ohare Py pre ete | suadae or ‘attr’ sooy tn tae f é | nad mot Gt to din, ont che eciewe Seuss aniae manding of all things in the worl pots | Bostrils forever bya just Providence. That is | he cannot come.” And yet the first thing |i", the coming conflict with slavery, an Dooper’ saccecling "to ax catidom hud toget me to repent, but I know whether I've Indian journalism. It is an awfal thing to| Why they talk a foreign tongue today. “Cate | have been taught to belicve is. that money was | °ff2ct was to drive from the Senate (of Mowe | charuing witew eodiesah too eneamteal Got anything to repent of. I send ber money.” land with a new lie on your lips. | iy Yogs * bite ts dogs and vo’ parrots, | everything in America. RopranD Kiriixa, | Volition) one of ‘the most conservative the dor tees. Mindful of the moral aspect of the case I tried cril-mindad custom | Sa Res 284, Tabbite is dogs and 20's parrots, = crate the south contained within her borders. | a wager countess as} house man, who turned my most sacred rai Foacamegar as Goold peters fa” A Hindu is A BUSY SHOP GIRL. WHAT MUDSILLS MEANT. 2 . a a little preach on my own account. | Not an or- odox one, perhaps, but I maid that neighbors ment on a floor composed of stable refuse and | o Hindi and a brother’ to the man eho kuows A few days since I met an old friend of Mr. me kim A NOTED CRYSTAL FLUTE. | were pleasant, kindly people and that if he pine splinters: but the reporter overwhelmed | hig vernacular. Anda Frenchman is French | & Counter Maiden Gives a Very Good Hammond who had known him for many years| My memory of «valuable relic of the long f : are So pay 00 Wall onl mapttronan tote | Dod Bag ernment oy ll, he might find a by b t | because he speaks his own language. But the of Herself. : and from him I learred some facts about him | past was recalled by the sight of a crystal fiute ~ the sheep business he refused, characteristic- | it #0 and be happier. . rong bas _ a P eafins Hag mad A gentle and warm-hearted old Indy was mak- | which will be of interest. Mr. Hammond re- | Now on loan exhibition to the National Museum. c ‘ ally, to change or modify his plans, and has | He took itas « matter of course and some- | slang. provincialism, accent and so forth. Now | ; ba B : 2 Obs 000 | That i have heard their voices all the beauty of | 6 Some purchases in one of the big dry goods | sided on a magnificent plantation in & valley of | It was the property of Dr. Cornelius Boyle and 3 gro and poorer and more quarrel-| What humorourly. “Of course you'd say all Bret Harte is being ruined for me, because I | €mporiums og 23d street, says the New York | the Savannah river. In erecting the buildings | is now owned by his family. I saw it fine for the last ten years. You'll see him at | that: women folks alway do. Dut, you've got rom SLR | find myself catching through the roll of his | Sun, and was attracted by the graces of manner | 2" his plantation they dug no trenches, aa we | at the time it came into round-up tomorrow. sense. you re considerable of a man glass windowed shops a g something i he ft i a| poured. Ime to own that I ty » " do here, f re was no stone available for | d a mnted to Mr. Madi- ‘ All this was very discouraging, very sordid | S mpg un © poet eee ee ae | something | rhythmical prose the cadence of, his peculiar |and physique displayed by the young woman | the founda... valle Tantoe wen tee ‘and Snir signa oe ‘the firme Ne- 2 |! and wicked, and not at ail picturesque, but | eect gp Bh ed cag | nwt tet. Claes mig. Feed on hy 5 Pye | fath — —— aye a ee ‘Bar® | "20 waited on her. She questioned her abou | inid in the mud andon these “mudusills,” as they oleon, and is inscribed ‘‘Presente s Son Excel- Se him, O, when Isaw him, somes | chay Want tay oo Wik oman bee beh eee mayeelf up in a hdpel Be I wooden | 705 coe how watchs dae nde ber epee e Har’ | her life and habits and the girl, recognizing the ed, all buildings in that section were Fence, James Madison, President d’Etats Unis, eaatichay—ao Zon want cmmo Gao tree | Sey wre't ey © Sduting for my rightoand Satoes, deat, cbrett we e | ma hasiee of tho ciel = honesty of the old creature's interest, smilingly | ¢ th - | 1815,” but the name of the giver is not known. creature, ® mountain or Se eles is ae lnc Gateaaee tian with emp! : ‘But Lain sorry for Bret Harte. Tt happened | replied to her queries, ing of ‘the ‘bone new of the northegn | It is about eighteen inches long, composed of pore mgeeg = oy meg mer lg og age om fom py ty IE r . a verte ~ whi tT poaght x Ni mak store?” tates, be the expression “‘mudaills,” which three separate ‘te, each about six inches i oon “ yews rede | you? I'l take any amount a preact f au ou want to go : an| ofthe ety and made answer toavely thet | gq ieMhq mace 2°, YOU make in this store | inthe part of the siste be represented, Uader | tre'aytZelace Pari ence, sunt te, Inches ° 7 EE a a ey a affable a ee pi was hallowed ground to me because of Bret asked the old lady. its peculiar condition, meant foundation. Thus material. The silver mountings bear the name ing. — u 7 i little girl. I leave outall the time out here "1 {Bight dollars week, ma’am,” she replied. | he intended to express his view of the labor ele- | of the silver worker, but nothing is known of the attention, and one which I found afterward no | “4 ward in the city. Go six blocks north to cor- | Harte. That vas true. gaeecsca ts comfortably on that/’ | ment of the country, that the was habitual with him. and think of heras she was at your age an ‘ali : - younger.” 5 - ey. then w: - : Ww make consid teide.” | of its greatness. Thus misunderstood no sub- ‘a. man OVER xx vant f. Se eee peepee pond fornia don't claim Bret Harte. He's been so = wee,I considerable outside.’ soquent explanation availed "The worl oenty sii ak maa, ' po with | y,h* fine, fierce, Bedonin-like face softened, Fs | long in England that he's quite English. Have| ‘How: re the rong “ a a . keen eyes turned upon me the kindest, ings you there. | factoni ‘have a typewriter at home and I get from | the mou every ranter who went throug! session of his venerated consort and from shoulders slightly stooped from a lifetime | gentlest I. ooaaee aid; “God Tdo not vouch for the liters) accuracy of | 7o™,"e<n Our. cracker factories or thenew offices | gq there S expentiter af, home and T get from | the mouth of, ovary ranter who feeling which | fer it became the property of her son, Payne maerpeaprenany Agee pelea eed | pe Gpanell dee gate, chant sor these directions, quoting but froma disordered | that to the outside world the city was worth a | J#dy’s hair when she goes to large dances. She's | resulted in the war. F Todd, esq., who presented or bequeathed it to : Poteet be was marked, | me, a:id, with a «weeping wave of the band and memory. | great deal less than the mane T'veves intortea | one of the Four Hundred and che day she was | Mr. Hammond was a Union man. He op- | his friend who had attended him in the illness 5 oe any ne mea , , “Amen.” I said. “But who ai I that 1 | {5\curse the people with a provinclalism #0 te | trading with me at this counter and she liked | posed secession in every way. He denounerd | hay ena gto, nad atte greatly, being afflicted eee wood as this. faces are rather the rule, | no further word, was off down the road at - Pothe K. IL” whi by an enormous beard, touched with gray, over | ing gallop. 0 t ers of such as you name? the way my hair was arranged. Yousee I have a | “The Kansas and Nebraska bill,” which was the | with that Penalty, the gout, which Mr. to teg Tp Fengl 4 tale : i coul uckled pist it, nt picture, obedient y promise. ure they may be ‘men of repute, ‘THE CLIFF HOUSE. very great quantity of hair and so has she and | test of fealty to the administration of Buchanan | like many others have, invited by a veri- inbainok saawnoe Set] Menaity & manned war pee hee kes "4 a id an it it element ivant Pe § é and might hit back. Bring it down to dots, my But let us return to our sheep—which m fest thought I managed mine so well and got | and a1 2 pairs element in producing the} table bon vivant, Dr. Boyle Ppa Bg Bad eyes — Soe a) it to look so smooth she asked me if I would | strife which ended only at Appomattox. Ina teach her how to do it. I offered to do it for her | debate in the Senate in “The Kansas and Ne- but unfortunately it could not be found among predatory, violent, aggressive ranch, ke swearing, threatening and protest- A of this relic as given him by Mr. Todd, strong, 7, a ena » I thought he would have smitten me, but he | the sea lions of the Cliff House. They are the that igh jorse viking. ‘Ashe é t have fitted a N | ing to the lat that be wouldn't have bis pas. i” id: “Iti Ye ¥ tures cut up and his cattle ail killed or {i that noone ever used the | great show of San Francisco. You take train | and I did so at her house. Since then she has | bracka bill” Mr. Hammond said: “Itis a decep- his papers after hie death and much of the story , See aa ae a ee eae ean gallop, bie | tetas cat up and Bis entdie all Ried ot rT . that every one was supposed | which pulls up the middle of the- street (it | sent for me quite regularly and at each visit I | tion and an illusion, inducing the south to join | ag I have told it came from the doctor. Time wy mighty beard blowing over his mighty chest, | when « train was wrecked by ol 7 to know how the streets ran, for sometimes the | killed two people the day before yesterday, | make her Ireceive $5. I also make gentle- | in a false and useless issue, which has kept the | has somewhat tarnished the silver mountings, “f F 4 hho aroused in the my jumbled s stions of | being placed on the track not mile from his Bames were ap on the lamys and sometimes | heingunbraked and driven absolutely regurdiess | men’s scarfs for down-town manufacturers and | whole country in turmoil for the last five years | but has not obliterated the inscriptions or iim: . keh Ti Darsocher "and other | houss hone of bis ectghbore doubaed bus wean they weren't. Fortitied with these directions | of consequences). and you pull up somewhere | get $1-10 a dozen for them. I can finish adozen | and given fresh life and rigor to the anti-| paired the tonesof melody I heard from it I proceeded till I found a mighty street, full of | atthe back of the city on the Pacific beach. |in two evenings at home. I usually em- | slavery sentiment of the north. A great posse went with the sheriff to arrost him. They stood outside the closed door and If Thad been born czar of Russia, with ab- | called upon him to surrender. 4 years ago. sumptuous buildings four or five stories high, i i: loy myself in this way when I have no t; When South Carolina seceded Mr. Hammond |” I remember so well Mrs. Madison and have but paved with rule cobblestones, after aie | Crisially pea bee age eteas onan Leviling toi” Almagetian © males toons Gld | colteedtohie planistces oes in the fashion : t no seen her frequently taking an evening stroll y t "As if would have he pr hommatiatpanh fully defied with advertisements that they are | €20.8 week; and, an I havea sister that makes | Wat, which he opposed, and. before Reciove he | slong F strool visiting Me. ‘Adam, Mrs: Major Seine orrerecen aunt, carried off half the | Ashe bhimeeif would have described 4, * an kicked 0; ‘the door and . - died. When he feit the approach of death he | Wheston and the ‘on hes é things picturesque and peculiar that I havemo- a THE CABLE CAR. now one big blistered abomination. “A hundred | just ae much, she and mamma and I are really | died. | Whe nese the supccesh lot cent mentarily longed for, [should now haves col. TURNED LOOSE BOTH SIK-AMOOTERS. a ing up @.nest day.” rec im - | that street, then containing only private resi- ; ‘ : Here a tramear, without any visible means of | Yards from the shore stood a big rock covered | laying up a nest egg for a rainy day. cated, and said: “If the south ie pucesseful 9 oreo es oon ay : ; lection that would be the bane of my i tid stedlthily beled’ sne andl neccis | withthe careansos of te sleek seu beasts "whe |. -Yes,"reaid the Chingy: Dut where do you | cated, dences. Slie was accom way He killed and wounded several men, was rn pir} When all the cutting-ont and branding was i get an: time during all this?” may raise @ monument to mark my place of companion, and as I recall bore none of tho Y himeelf mortaliy wounded and died within an struck ‘me in the back. That was the famous | surges. No bold man hed punted the cheaters | “Ob; responded the shop gil, “T don't need | rer(;if unsucceufal, plough ever seteaie, | saseomeansom an ae E handsome face slightly See er end pean rardimerlpraectiy ] eable car of San Francisco, which runs by | sky blue or advertised uewspapers on ther | any pastimes except Sundays, when ‘we all go | erate it 1 com Mr.” Paul, Hammond, sur- | rouged, for she said she considered it a duty to a. coming up ta speak to me. Dismounted, he | he knew nothing about the wrecking of the Gripping an endless wire rope sunk in the | backs, wherefore they did not match the land- | down to Staten Island and take dinner with Soe ee ee ‘himself | 2oclety to hide the ravages of time instead of M4 was a somewhat less imposing . having | train, but it didn't make any difference, he was Ground. A hundred yards further there was a | scape, which was chisdy hoarding. Some dey, | mamma's suster. ; Planters in the south. He devotes himself | allowing them to intrude thelr presence upon the cightly awkward gut Shick coment | jeovte etna te nee en hws slight commotion in the street, a gathering to- | perhaps, whatever sort of government may |, The old lady patted the shop girl's hand | to aA ead aie ee riding gives. ‘He laid « broad, brown baed on ee rte ree tae ns that lit”) obtain in this country will make « restoration | fondly and smiled: > ee leet oe He hesuever sioerer aoe 4 anthye tarde pee wy my pony’s mane, and spoke in a great voice tered as it moved very swiftly. onderous | 16 kee; ai “You good young woman,” diy Ms is great frame, tuned 7 ybe, ” e Irish gentleman, with priest's cords in his hat present the socaraign pessta ak meant hans | Lobaus wagin tedle’” Yea tarts a ened | ite advocate fates sericea pio- | buthe seems to have devoted his life utter aks that matched his great frame, Yoakey of | to seck, maybe, for a place where the giving of ea Hele pistol practice. And his spirit went out, savage and defiant, q n : , \ hj : peculiar gent a dog « bad name is not equivalent to hanging and a small nickel plated badge on his fat rd so much already, are vending cherries | rich husband. And who knows; perhaps you'll | ture of him saw a few days ago, taken from | death of Mr. Madison, to whom he was private J 4 “T have been trying to get Mr. McGregor to | him. A MacGowax. bosom rged frot O i the virtues of “Little Bile Beans” | get one. We'll see, we'll see. life by Mr. Brady, exhibits ag he was, one | secretary, to the enjoyments of the table. He i f 7 en “- Chimamsn ‘who Fine yy tabbed cas se ppl cor Les cetaals: La iad ea a of the handsomeet men I ever saw, and during | did not > the 2 bring you over to my place,” he said, fixing me and was bleeding like a pig. The bystanders | ee oe with @ kindly but embarrassing scrutiny. “I THE ELEVA’ THE OLD ACQUAINTANCE. his senatorial career one of the most popular. went their ways and the Chinaman, assisted by What is the Sisters’ Progress Doing for the Brothers’? Yj ; show you a lot of Mexican homes, give you i iccanlad! Neaiada: & HIS GOOD LOOKS SAVED HIM. ve a1 way disposed of the valu- f o>: sone hare » give 3 fhe policeman, his own. “Of course this was aan a oe press hearer He Tells a Story Involving @ Case of Mis-| Iwas amused by a story told me by my old Sble at dinon pers whichage now held by the : rt pal tg inte p ron Sel eget one eee, bu ‘i goes trary, fine feathers clues : é heirs o' .C. : <y get pecans aanet a (becpomes at I ——— ted = ‘emuhi Sentiehs ‘Thesoada waite cee Identity. friend who knew Mr. Hammond and his brother, | (oew Mr. Todd he had reached the period of 4 — iced ouak Suis anthiniiy iam dae Charles Dudley ipeapeses Harper's. 2 had dealt the stab. “It said a great deal for the | ited wealth—in the streets, but not an accent | 70m the New York Sun. - who wasamember of Congress during the preai- | the sear and yellow leaf and bore but'little re- 4 and continuing to guce cosets a enng talk” | | The attempt to elevate women, as it is face Tretttenes, of the manicipal arrangement of the | that would not have been dear at 50 cents, | _ | One dad fine lady came in here,” ssid the | dential term of General Jackson. Senator | semblance to the young privaiesoccetsry af bie if “They tell me,"‘he said, “that you just eal! | HOUSY called, is no longer an experiment, but Pizk aS LAwAs crowd did not at once | Wherefore, revolving in my mind that these | st doctor toa reporter. “She was the wife of | Hammond had a younger brother, who was a | stepfather, the leader of the gayeties of the Ex-| 4 ? ‘ Be. me : that | how is it about the attempt to elevate men by blcek the street to sco what was going forward. | folks were barbarians, I was presently en- | one of the city judges and she sees » maltese | graduate of West Pome He one ag | ecutive Mansion. pm oun San Soar” Who Lees ecaes aacteee | Misseuambeatgeetesd’ Aas te oun et AT Iwas the sixth man and the last who assisted | lightened and made aware that they also were | cat in the cage, and she says: the handsomest man in the south. My friend we have of the flute t oh live mdary story on some coyote of # man the happier she day improving? Are the politicians, for in- - " at u politicians, for in st the performance, and my curiosity was six | the heirs of all the ages and civilized after all. | « ‘Oh, that’ ctolen says so handsome that a distinguished lady, | comes down to us from the past id the peacefuller she'll die. Bony % " times the grentert! Endecd, I felt chomed of | Thens appeared before me an affable stranger Sy Samy aeees wes two days | wy eT comer td sancep tbe comboy | St*, any better; do they read more; do they showing it. 9 it e crystal, r 9 ; king of him in her old age, said he was so | it is eaic, came from the mines of Siberis, and g f . of Prepossessing appetrance, with a blue and | 960, say" the. ‘Give her to me,’ snynthe. ‘Mo, | Sacks that when be would enters parlor she | ® political prisoner confined there by lo: j 4 I should have considered that { had made an | Y * fit themselves by study for legislativeand ‘A CRACK AT THE HOTEL cLERK. an innocent eye. ing me by name he | a’am,' says I; if you want that cat,’ says I, tient labor fashioned this work & Asi onn, E weseesi rie executive positions; are they any better in- could not help saying, as she gazed upon him, . There were no more incidents until 1| Clsimed to have met me in New York at the | ‘you will have to pay me $10 for it.’ ‘Butshe’s | Well, Marcellus, you are the handsomest Beauty, the differ -nt parts being fitted to form done 80 as soon as he had ridécn off. formed on economic questions; are they more “T never saw old John Adium so mas to man, | sensitive to a reputation for honorable dealing; : Windsor, and to this claim I gave a qualified | my own eat,’ysays she. ‘I won't dispute your | thing in the world.” During his Inst year at e story goes on to sa} : reached the Palace Hotel, a seven-storied war- y it, spay dispute y woman or child in my life,” said m t. Idid not th i 5 4 i to bl it ion of Ni durin; ren of humanity with a thousand rooms in it. | he was 2 fk pape te bes word,” says I, ‘but that eat will cost you $10,’ | West Point he got into some trouble and, with , either pean of Ske siacaie te man tek are they more jealous for the good name of the “Tone with its simple archaic suggestions ! him, | country in such » matter, say, as the interna three other cadets, was expelled. He came to paign in Ru = All the travel books will tell you about hotel | velopments. My fear was that in his delight in Washington—General Jackson was President— pols of wer, and waa by fo tional copyright? And the young men in offices, in shops, in business, are they being raised im- THE CAT DOCTOR. N OF MEN, arrangements in this country. They should be | finding me so responsive he would ce re-| “Sho went away and pretty soon her husband | to get his brother, then a member of Cot resented to President Mi wi been to be ‘appreciated. Understand clearly | marks about ‘New York and the Windsor which | came in. ‘Here, my man,’ says he, ‘you've got | to & to have him reinstated, who said: “I can- | Won his admiration by the successful conduct Spd this letter is written after a thousand miles |I could not understand. And, indeed, he | my wife's cat here,” says he, ‘and you'll have to | not ask the President to reinstate you. Your | of the war of 1812 ageinst thelr common enemy, r? ae ;, * . by tellectually, or do they share proportionally riences—that money will not buy ventured in this direction once or ti give her up,’ says he. conduct deserved expulsion.” He refused to| England. The size of the piece of crystal from ‘ 4 i, ° , in the west. Whet the hotel clerkthe | asking me" what I thought of such’ "acd | © Well, sf, T'bed taken the cat that was in the | ComuUCE_ deserv the President, but on a visiting | Which each pert is cut has’ somewhat puzzled ST pee pete man who awards your room to youand who is|such streets, which, m bis tone, | case out of it and put another one there after | card he wrote a few words of introduction | geologists, as pone - Led Celie = i ther —_ “ jestion posed to give you information—when that|I gathered’ to ‘be anythin, but | the lady went out, and so I says to the old ent: | Reaching the White House he sent his broth-| veTy rare. Sanlendons Eaidioal stoops to attend to your | respectable. It is trying to talk fb New | ‘Is that your cat in the cage?’ says 7, ‘It is,’ | or's card to the President and was granted an | flaw, and when we consider the hardness of wants he does so whistling or humming or | York in almost unknown San Francisco. But | says he; “I would know her anywhere.’ ‘Well, mat scene The next week Mr. McGregor took me over | for himself by a little observation of the wa: as ~ to the K. 0. ranch and went on to attend a| in which young men «pend their leisure time. ikelabes eats ents ne *3 Tore | Found-up, saying that if he didn’t call for me | And as to the ont man- b; h interview. Gen. Jackson was in dressing kown . by 5 Caee Te Aen ee n ~ poy Picking his teeth, or pauses to converse with | my friend was merciful. He protested that I | then,” says I, ‘you will have to pay me #10 for | and slippers smoking a pipe, and as Marcellus highly prized by Mr. Madison Sn My Best pet ane onary | mere ond dread nm the industr Some one he knows. These performances, I | was one after his own heart, and pressed upon | that cat,’ says I. ‘There was @ man sent away | enter: was reading the card. He raised his | ® gift flew over his vast range. He int ya ray ~ _ ate to impress upon you that he is «| me rare and curious drinks ‘at more than one | only last week for stealing a cat,’ = he. ‘and | eyes and was struck with this nineteen-year-old | nd admiration. Ino. F. ‘The all bis Mexicans and filled my saddle pockets | indu young lady of the period’. Are man and your equal. From his general | bar. These drinks accepted with gratitude, you'd better be careful,’ sayshe. “Ten dollars Apollo, and, looking at him a few moments, ‘H. Johnston in Fortnightly Review. when 5 o'clock | tries? It is by the observation of the ordi- Sppearance and the ‘size of his diamonds he | a also the cigars with whic his pockets ware ie may prion,’ mys I. and in the afternoon he | $a: ,'80,you, are the young, Faseal who has . q ~fie jh ad dy AT @ught to be your superior. There is no neces- | stor: ie would ahow me fe of the city. | “Well, n expelled from West Point! ou —— y a tity for this wwaggering self-cousciousnese of Having no desire to watch » weary old ply and his wife and his danghter came in together. | think ought to do to you, eh?” n pher estimates the drift of the age. freedom. Business is business, and the man | again I evaded the offer and received in liea is bs iy the a pad ee and “I hope, Mr. President” ‘Mi Hus said, te _ mee which ee antly ad sa : ‘Ob, m; , dear % . | “you will send me ani me graduate, ‘care anything what is of the other half of the world. ¢ the right one?’ says the old gent. ‘I'd ‘make some return ate: her ine million® mye the ‘daughter. | Tat L™*7 = no doubt on’ it,” says the old lady: |" "You do, eh? Well, you young rascal, I will restore who is paid to attend toa man might reasona- | of the devil's instruction much coarse flattery. devote his whole attention to the job. Out | Curiously constituted is the soul of man. office hours he can take his coach ‘and four | Knowing how and where this man lied, waiting ‘nd pervade society if be pleases. idly for the finale, I was distinctly conscious as mn s ve In a vast marble paved hall under the glare | he bubbled compliments in myear of soft our lost pussy,’ says she. en you you, for,” as though speaking his of an electric light sat forty or fifty men, and | thrills of gratified prid from hat rim # her 3B my man,’ says the old gent to me. | thoughts alond, “the servico cannot afford to for their use and amusement were provided | to boot heels. I was wise, quoth he—anybody | ‘I will for $10 and noless,’ says I. ‘ lose 80 handsome « cavalier. spittoons of infinite capacity aud generous | could see that with half an fell, th lot of f dalking and srgu-| ‘The President wrote to the Secretary of War ape. Most of the men wore frock coats and | versed in the ways of the world; so acquaint. to reinstate him and Marcellus took it to the = Sop hats—the things that we in India put on at | ance to be desired; one who had tated the cup department, but the Secretary, who had read “low- @ wedding breakfast if we possees them—but | of life with discretion. the of the court’ and passed on laid ; they all spat. They spat on principle. The sure sme, and said: “Of course I. will ‘stood, in spittoons were on the staircases, in each bed | au this pleased meand in @ meneure numbed obey this order, but I ‘almost’ as Foom—yea, and in chambers even more sacred hen these. They chased one into retirement, | the suspicion that was aroused. pe. bat they blossomed in chiefest splendor round | Eventually the blue-eyed one discovered, nay, ‘the bar. and they were all used, every reeking | insisted, that I had a taste for cards (this was ne of them. clumsily worked in, but it was my ANSWERS MENDACIOUS AND EVASIVE. that I met him half way and allowed lest before I began to feel denthiy sick | Chance of good acting). ns another reporter grappled me. What he wanted Se ‘to know was the precise area of India in square miles. I referred him to Whittaker. He had pever heard of Whittaker. He wanted it from wy own mouth and I would not tell him. Then he swerved off just like the other man to de- ‘mils of journaliim in our own country. I ven- tured to suggest that the interior economy of « most coucerned the people who worked “That's the very thing that interests us,” mid. “Have you got reporters anything our reporters on Indian newspapers? “We have not,” I said, and suppressed the “thank God” rising to my lips. “Why haven't Your" midhe. “Eecause they would die, aid. It was exactly like talking to achili—e very rude little child. He would begin almost every sentence with, “Now tell me something bout India.” and would turn aimlessly from i EF if ime ‘78 | army and after marriage retired to rate life and 4 fine plantation beraliy stocked with the labor of the south and died soon after the war #88 tt i H EGF gf : ! TOM CORWIN'S WIT AND HUMOR. i 3F i i ae * tere Ee PLETE 1] 1 i L iF to the other without the least con- fisuity. Iwas not angry, but keenly inter- F i i 2 j i F H itt ft ¢? it and evasive. After all it really did not matter what Isaid. He could not understand. I can ! i i E ! i interview. The man made | me out to be an idiot several sizes more drivel- ing than my destiny intended, and the rank- ess of his ignorance managed to distort the few poor facts with which I supplied him into large and elaborate lies. Then, thuught [, “the matter of American shall be looked into later on. At present I will enjoy f - iti E i i & iat if i Fi i i a a8 ith i AOUT THE crrr. No man rose to tell me what were the lions of | i i H F : 7 | it ris F Fett e } | i i HI H tl : i it i [ ti . i f heads were wolfing food from counter. ‘It was the institution of the “free lunch” I had | America—at least with crowns on struck. HH eee i i breif ie 5 nit if i i ; ett fi a8 Lif