The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-24

The next day he left US, and seIs
me sad for one. The quiet de-
termination with which NE acted
upon positive experience of her
was enough to make man though,
full; and then Bernard was the
flower of us: he was the drop of
mirth and gayety in our iron cup.
He was pure. unadulterated
Erenchman; and to be just, where
can you find anything so delight
full as Frenchman-of the right
sort?
He fiuttered hhme singing,
''Lex doux yeux de ma brunette,
Tout.e Observation-Disclosures
lett-e,"
and left us in black.
/ God bless you, my merry fellow.
hope you found your children
healthy, and your brunette true,
and your friends alive, and fhat
the world is just to you, and
smiles on you, as you do on 1t,
and did on us.
From Liverpool we walked to |
Glasgow, from Glasgow to Edin-
burgh, and from Edinburgh on a
cold starry midnight we started |
for Newcastle.
In this interval of business let
me paint you my companions Pip
pin and Elliot. The reader is en-
titled to this, for there must have
been something out of the COM
mon in their looks, since / was
within an ace of being killed
along of the Italians face, and was
imprisoned four days through the
Englishman's mug.
The italian whom we know by |
the nickname of Pippin was man
of immense stature and athletic
mould. His face, once seen,
would never be forgotten. His
skin, almost as swarthy as Othel-
los, was set off by dazzling ivory
teeth and lighted by two glori-
Gus eyes, black as jet, brilliant as
diamonds; the orbs of black liuht-
ming cleaned from beneath eye
brows that many a dandy would
have bought for mustaches at
high valuation. A nose like a
reaping-hook completed him.
Perch him on a toderable-siz
rock, and there you had q black
eagle.
AS if this was not enough, Pip
pin would always wear a cOpieal
at;and, had he but stepped upon
the stage in "Masaniello" or the
like, all the other brigands would
have sunk down to a rural police
by the side of our man. But now
comes the absurdity. His inside
was not different from his out; it
was the exact opposite. You
might turn over twenty thousandi
bullet heads and bolus eyes before
you could find one man so thor
oughly harmless as this thunder
ing brigand He was Just a pet, a
universal pet of all the men and
women that came nea r him. He
had the disposition of "A dove and
the heart of a hare. He was O
lamb in VOLTS clothing.
My next portrait is not so pleas
ing.
A MAN TURNED BRUTE
Some ten years before this, a
line, stout, young, English rustic |
entered the service OF Made moi
selle Dick. He was a model for
bone aud muscle, and had t wO |
cheeks like roses. When he 4
first went to Paris he was locke d |
upon as a curiosity there. Peo i
pie used to como to Dicks sta
bic to see her, and Elliot, thel
young English Samson. Just tie n II
years after this young Elliot had +,
got to be called sold Elliot" 81
His face was not only pale, it was
colorless; 1T was the face of walk Fl
ing corpse. This came Of ten Il
years brandy and brute. hav e h
often asked people to guess the f.
mans age, and they always guess
ed sixty, sixty-five, or saventy,-of- Il
Lenest the latter. H.,
He was foirty~GHe,-not. O. day lii
more. "a
This mans. mind had come q
down along With his body. He
understood nothing but elephant:
ne seldom talked. and then moth n
ing but elephant. He was an ele-A
Dhant-man. / will give you an
instance which always thought 4 /
curious.
An elephant, you may have OBJ |,
served, cannot stand quite still
The great weight of his head eau.
SEES a nodding movement, which
Is perpetual when the creature. 4
stands erect. Well, this Tom Ell
lot when he stood up, used all
ways to have one foot advanced. |,
and his eyes half closed, and his l.
head niddle-noding like an ele-En
plant all the time; and, with it all, Ia
such q presence of of brute and N
absence of soul in his mug. d
enough to give thoughtful man n,
some very queer ideas abaat man Il
ard beast. =!
CHAPTER vi. "
My Office in this trip was mere n
ly to contract for the elephants c
food at the various places; but 1 b
YVES getting older and shrewder, |
.ard more designing than used 3
&C. be, and was quite keen enough
to see in this elephant the means
Of lettering my fortunes, If
could but make friends with her. /
But how to do this? She was like Ia.
a coquette: strange admirers well j
come; but when you had ceurted p;
her awhile she got tired of you, b.
ana then nothing short of your i
demise Statistic d her caprice. Her
heart seemeT. inaccessible except 1
TO this bruNs Elliot, and he, drunk
or sober, g Iarded the secret of his
fascination by some instinct, for
reason be possessed in very
small de- gree.
| pla' yed the spy on quadru-
ped an' 1 a biped, and found out
the Ia ct, but the reason beat me.
saw that she was more tenderly
care5 ul of him than a mother of
her child. / saw him roll down
stun pid drunk under her belly, and
| s. w her lift first one foot and
kh an tho athar apd drary fba-,, |