The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-09-20
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And now Henry Wattssson, 10 q, letter
from Paris 70 lhe Louisville JesrsAI, has
his farewell shot ct the Shah, whose recent
triumphal tour through Europe he thus
summarizes:
There was never more absurd, and 10
some respects more upprincipled and Do
morslizing theatrical performance than the
serlea of pageauts, ova.ions and l'onoss
which greeted this filthy Asiatic vsssbond
from his advent into Europe to bic exit
into Persia. That he insulted . Russian
princess that he besouled the home OF %
English Queen; that he swindled gaping
rifIra6 of boot. kissing jewslers. would seem
N be most natural thing for such varlet
10 do. His personal behavior was conspicu.
ously illbred and unbesrable. He did only
whst the within Of the moment suggested,
regardless OF persous, usages and conse~
quences. He paid not the smallest attention
TO bis entertainer. except ~ It suited his
caprice. His table manners were particu"
larry bad. He would take up . peach, bite
bite Of It, and throw the remainder on the
floor He would suck plum Of about half
it, juice, and drop the pulpy substance on
tho cloth. In oil things he affected the
King.of. Kings, wrapped in the mantle OF
his own heather originality and dirt
A good many years ago, away down in
tho wilds Of Tennessee, Tom Neal, OF
Dyersburg, discovered dsrkey who had
found bag of diamonds bid In hollow
jog Originally It was bag Of gold. but for
present purposes It will snswer better -
bax Of diamonds). took from the f'rst .
spiritual and imaginary interest In that dsr>
key, stealing him away from Albert Roberts
Who had dramatic designs on him, and car.
syine him through series Of extraordinary
adventures. Al proper intervals, ! took him
70 Mexico with Macmillan, and made him
Q Duke of the Empire; carried him to
France with Bazaipe, and made him the
kscper of IN American bar IN the Rae Do y
Psix. and finally left him with Thoedorus In
Abysinnis. lnevcr wrote line about that
dsskey that was not Immediately eobbed
Up by oil the newspapers. At last I got to
half believing my own romsnce-or rather
Tom Neal's--a and st this moment I am al'
most persuaded that my quondsm coloTed
Tennessee hero Is tho Shah VI Persia !
observed = striking likeness between the
two, and xm sure that one Of these dsys It
will come out how Baron Reuter- caused the
real Shah 10 he privately assassinased; how.
having become acquainted with our Tennes'
ssesu, and finding him man OF parts and
experience, he smueglsd him into TeheEan,
and how, wishing 70 advertise bic Persian
ssilvay scheme In Europe, he planned this
recent visit.
b that q Il may, Nurs.sa Deem ID mas
Ter spirit. He 10 tho premium confidence
man Of tho day. If he 10 descended from
Darius hs has right 70 claim that be has
done what Darius could not do-overrun
Europe. am . little foggy about these
historical points, except where make them
myself: hut Il strikes me that Darius was
natter loose both In bic money matters and
IN bic morals. No odds for that; Nurs ed
Deem 10 success In bis line of business.
He 10 At TO b The hero Of the best comic
opers of the day, and, ~ be hes already
figured In London farce. Why might he
not b. taken up BY n. ChAsiss Leeoql ] II
Roberts wants 70 get even on the old &C.
count, here 10 noble chance. He may
rspossess himself Of the darkey and the hol'
low log and unite Tennessee and Persia BY
q dramatic link OF muse sad diamonds
Surviving the ravages Of time" ..