The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-05

that as DIR. Peck would reach
Stanton to attend the conference
on certain day, AIr.
Hugh Blair had gone there,
under his delusion, and would be
on the same train. Would the
Superintendent be SO kind as to
watch the train, and if the gentle
man described came, to take him
to the asylum, without exciting
his fears, and retain him there I'M
til his friends could come for INN
when all expenses would be paid,
and they woald he! eyer grateful,
etc.
The letter was scnt. and the trio
waited for the sequel.
DIR. Peck, in all his imposing
dignity, reached stanton on the
day expected. On stepping OF
the train he was accosted by no
lice gentleman with:
SIS this DIR. Peclf''
Yes, sir; am DR.. Peek, Presi
dent of Dickinson College" was
the dignified response.
''Glad to see you, sir; will You
step into my carriage, DIR. Peck?"
said the affable gentleman.
DIR. Peck, supposing it TO be an
attention which was being raid to
the President of Dickinson Col
lege, complied, and was driven TO
the Asylum, his companion chat
ting pleasantly on the way. He
had not been inside the institution
long before he discovered its char
acter. and naturally desired TO
know why he had been brought
there.
The Superintendent assured
him that he would not be harmed:
that he would simply be required
to remain at the institution until
his friends came tor him.
DR.. Peck became indignant.
and determined to be released.
He declared himself to be CDR.
Jesse L. Peck, President of Dick
inson College," but as this exact
~ correspondent with the descrip-
ton given OF the unfortunate
Hugh Blair and his peculiar delu-
sion, the Superintendent smiled
blandly, begged the doctor not to
excite himself.
Finally Mr.. Peck's protestations
were so violent that the Superin-
tendent, to pacify the supposed
monomanic, acceded to his request
to send for some of his confer
ence friends to identify him.
They came, in wonder and sur
prise, and the Doctor was recog-
nized by his astonishcd friends,
and released him with profuse APP
ologies from the Superintendent,
who could only, in palliation for
his error, produced his letter, as
Stunning to be from DR.. Peck, re-
garding the unfortunate Hugh
Blair.
DR.. Peck felt very much hurt
over the cruel joke; the pleasure
of his visit to the conference was
spoiled, and on his return to the
college the entire faculty-among
which were Prof Beard, now OF
the Smithsonian Institute, Prof.
Allen, now of Girard College, and
DR.. Tiffany, now pastor of the
Methodist Memorial Church of
Observation-Disclosures an inves-
LEGATION to discover tbs authors of
q prank which in its audacity,
riyalcd the student of Charles
O'Malley's day, but all their ef-
forts were in vain. The students
kept their secret we'll, and now, for
the first time, those who remember
the incident will learn the auth
ors' names.
Even the learned and honored
Moncure d. Conway may smile
when he recalls it; Marcus j. Par
rott certainly would if he was alive,
but he, like Bishop Peck, we be-
lieve, has passed away. Mr.. Con-
ways only surviving companion
of that memorable college prank
is the suave and digniffed gentle
man who manages the affairs of
the Louisville Industrial Exposi-
ton.
Marcus J. was alive in the en-
joyment of good health yesteaday.
He will enjoy the above, when he
reads it, and perhaps smilc.-ED.
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