Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-10-24
"ARTEMUs WARD SEES THE PRINCE.

AhTEMUS WARD" SEES THE PRINCE.
Our good natured and facetious friend, GEAR.
temus Ward,'' has been to s'Kanady'' to see
the Prince of Wales, and writes long COM
munication to his friends of the s'EditoriaI
korpse," giving an account of his interview
with the scion of royalty. He says: sI've
bin follerin Mrs. Victory's hopeful sun Albert
Edward threw Kanady with my unparalleled
Show, and tho haint made much in pecoon-
cry pint of vew, I've lernt sumthin new, over
here on British Sile, where they bleeve in
Saint George and the Dragon. Previs to
cummin over hear tawt my orginist how to
grind Rule Brittany and other airs which is
poplar on British Sile. likewise fixt wax
hgger up tn represent Sir Edmun He'd the
Govner Ginral. The statoot fixt up is the
most versytile wax statoot ever saw. I've
rhowed it as William Penn. Napoleon Bony-
part, Juke of Wellington, the Beneker Boy,
Mrs. Cunningham Il yaris other notid persons,
& also for certin pirut named Hix. I've bin
SO long amung wax statoots that kin fix 'em
to SCOT the tastes of folks, & with sum paints
| hev kin give their fass benevolent or
fendish look as the kase requires. l give Sir
Edmun He'd beneverlent look, & when sum
folks who thawt they was smart sed it didn't
look like Sir Edmun He'd enymore than it did
anybody else, sed, ssThat's the pint. That's
the beauty of the Statoot. Ii looks like Sir
Edmun He'd or any other man. You may kali
it what you please. Eff it dosen't look like
anybody that ever lived, then it's sertiny a
remarkable Statoot & well worth seein. l
kali it Sir Edmun He'd. Yu may kali it what
you darn pleece.';' The Snowman next de-
tails the difficulties which he experienced in
gaining access to the Prince, and relates in
his own peculiar style rather stormy inter-
view he had with the s'Kurnal of the Seventy
Fust,' who was Mortified at the idea of car
temus" seeking the presence Of royalty, and
would have made short work of his pretensions
but for his Royal Highness himself, who, in
the nick of time came to his rescue. The
scene that followed between the Snowman and
the Prince is thus detailed
ssWali," sez l, sAlbert Edward, how's the
old folks ?'' seller Majesty & the Prince are
we'll, he sed. ssDuz the old man take his
Lager Beer reglar 20 inquired. The Prince
larfed 4 intermatid that the old man didn't
let many kegs of that bevridge spile in the
seller in the coarse of yere. We sot x tawk-
bimeby axed him how he liked bein Prince
as fur as heed got. ssTo speak plain, Mister
Ward,'' he sed, "I don't much like it. I'm
sick of all this bowin & scrapn & crawlin &
hurrain over boy like me. l wood rather
go threw the country quietly & enjoy myself
in my own way, with the other boys, & not
be made Show of to be garped at-by every
body. But you know, Mister Ward, L can't
help bein Prince, & l must do all l kin to
fit myself fur the persishun must sumtime
ockepy.'' ssThat's troo,'' sez 1, sssickness
and the doctors will carry the Queen orr one
of these dase, sure's yer born.'' The time
hevin arove fur me take my departer, | rose
up and sed ssAlbert Edward, must go, but
previs to doin so will obsarve that you SCOT
me. Your good feller Albert Edward, &
tho Ime agn Princes as a gineral thing. l
must say like the cut Of yure Glib. When
you git to be King try to be as good man as
yure muther has bin. Be just and be Jenerus,
espeshully to showmen, who hev alters bin
abooZed sins the dase of Noah, who was the
fust man to go into the Menagery bizness, &
eff the daily papers of his time are to be bleev-
ed Noah's colleckshun of livin wild beasts
beet ennything ever seen sine, tho make
bold to dowt eff his snaiks was ahead of mine.
Albert Edward, adoo 20 | TUX his hand which
he shook warmly, Il givin him perpetooal
free pars to my show, Il also parses to take
home for the Queen 4 Old Albert, put on
my hat & walked away.
The Snowman thus gives vent to the feelings
which sweled his busSum'' after leaving the
royal presence. He writes :-ssMrs. Ward,''
l solilerquized, as wakt along, 'sMrs. Ward,
eff yu Good see your husband now, Jest he
prowdly emerjiS from the presents of the fu- |
tur King of Ingland you'd be sorry you kalled
him Beest jest becawz he cum home tired l
mite and wantid to go to bed without takin OFF
his boots. You'd be sorry for tryin to deprive
y ure HuSUanu OF tne pTiceilSS doom OF iloerty,
Betsy Jane ~ Jest then l met long per-
seshun Of men, with gownds onto 'em. The
leader was on horseback, & ridin up to me he
sed, car you Orange?'' Sez I, (which p.
ssAir you Orang geman ~ he repeated sternly.
esI used to peddle lemins,'' sez L, ssbut new
er delt in oranges. They are apt to spile on
yure hands. What particler Loonatic Asylum
hev you K yure friends escaped from eff l may
be so bold.'' Just then a sudden thawt struck
me & l sed, "Oh yure the fellers who air wor
ryi the Prince so & given the Juke of Moo
castle cold SWEETS at rite, by yure Internal
catawawlins, air you? Wall, take the advice
of a Amerykin sitterzen, take orr them gownds
x don't try to git up religious fite, which is
40 times wuss nor prize fite, over Albert Ed
ard, who wants to receive you all on a ekal
footin, not keering tinker's cuss what meet |
in house yon sleep in Sundays. Go home and
mind your business x not make noosinses of
With which observashuns l
left 'em. 1 sh all leeve British Sile 4thwith.''
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED
STATEs.-According to the Church Almanac
for 1860, the Episcopal Church in the United
States contains thirty-three dioceses. The |