Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-02
A California; LAND SALE.
IFI0m Ae San Fra1eisco Call.1

until his sixteenth year came from no efforts of
phases His warm Imagination portrayed moth
lng In the future but the bright aliurements OF
pleasure. The idea of an Independent income,
or OF ever making dollar, never occurred to
him. How he should chin for himself when his
dream OF idleness was over, he never for a mo-
ment considered. With a sublimity Of self-con-
everything 70 chance, PrOvidencs or fortune.
when the civil war came, he enlisted, not from
motives of patriotism, but because he believed il
lasted, ne Jared tolersbly and escaped unin-
juTed. When Il ended, with more OF truth than
poetry, he realized that his occupation had
gone. For the first time In bis life he had 10
f'lOok out" for his bread snd butter" He dis
covered wi n sorrow that his air-castes we're not
cash articles, and that they had 70 be speedily
relinguished. He tried 10 accept the situation;
but it was hard for him 10 DO so. This WAS par
ticularly the case, because his old srmy habits
persisted IN clinsing to him. He could never
stay anywhere siI months. No sooner was he
comfortably situated in one place than q rest
less fever for change seized him. The mex
thing was rash move In any dirsc tiOn that hap
peEed 20 suggest itself. In all cases the result
WAS inevitably the same. He was stranded on
the shoals OF impecuniOsity. His last expedition
vas 10 London. What he went there for he
could not have told, had he been hanged the
next moment for want OF an explanation.
There he was, however, and a hard battle of Is
he had since arriving. HIS cash became ex-
hausted within twentv-four hOars BV Occasion-
ally selling magazine article, and by occa-
siOnally dep0sittUg a bit OF j5Welry at his
AlIAC - AAg A@iA u su1kou u Attp cuut A01 DOly
together until the opening OF our story. Even
In these harsh extremities he sometimes dehed
Fate by grinding of yard or two Of doggereI.
And yet this adventurous young mans name
mas only Brown.
Brown took long walk that evening. He
usually dined II I've. Five al come and gone,
and he had not dinsd. Circumstances over
which he had no control rendered his dining in
advisable. The fact was. bis exchsquer had be-
come as empty as has stomsch. Before his last
run OF bsd luck he hal a short run Of good
luck, and had improved the opportunity by get.
ting his jewelry back from his uncle's clutches.
siI shall not pawn my jewels again." he re-
marked 20 himself in lofty manner, "a he
stIOlled down = deserted avenue of Regents
Park. alt GOES no good. Besides, they bee Ome
me, and prefer TO wear them
For some tine be continued his reflections.
The more he walked, however, the more impe-
TfOus became the demands OF his digestive or
Esns. Like their owner, they lOnged for some
ming TO 90.
al must quit this travelling about," he so!ilo-
ouized. "It only makes me hung Eier, }" and SO,
philOscpher-liSe, he determined 70 face al
Versity IN a reclining position An uncOmmOnly
large oak attracted him, and beneath its mag
nihcent branches he spraWled out on the grass
to consider matters.
zine" he continued. "PhOse fellows must take
me for millionaire, they are 50 COMPOUNDED
slow in giving answers. III wait on them till
Tomorrow. Then, If dOn't make a raise to
mOrrOW night I'll shake some coin out of some
Of these WeItdressed mOney-bays, with my
strong right arm. open robbery used 70 be an
aristOcrsuc mode OF making money. Why
shouldn't il be nOw2 As 4 military necessity,
the situation justides 10. When ratiOns got
scarce in Georgia, sherman told Us 10 forage
literally on the country"
just then his COgitsttOns were interrupted by
the near approach Of a stranger.
Hes an American" said Brown, "and I'll
bet he's hard up, too. be looks seedier than
do"
The stranger WAS tall. stOop-shouldered
man, hesvily built, with long hair and long
TrrFgy vuh - NJ anil al a
an thought.
.sGOOd evening, >" said Brown.
HHellO, B" vas the indefinite response.
"FrOm over the pond, Amt YEP"
ssYes."
'What pArt?''
fsCali u Nevada
HHOW's thiugs2'
The stranger swore s0me-nOt st Brown,
though-and took seat on the grass. He WAS
fully fifty years or age, and his cOUntenance be-
tOkeneds cold, hard, selfish, practical nature;
and yet, for AL that, he seemed TO be longing
for human sympathy. He had = couple of bad
cigars with him, which he soon produced, and
after lighting them, the two compared notes.
They both tod very large stories.
GIVE made And lost two Fortunes" said the
stranger, glOOmily.
HAnd vet. old a. am, I've only squaniersd
cDe," replied Brown, with an air Of despond-
ency.
The stranger probably spoke the truth, but,
a. the reader knows, Brown omitted TO.
81 amt beat yet. though" declared the
stranger, vehemently, with an expression of
don with less than a hundred Thousand. I've
got mining stock IN the market, have. I'll BE-
EKed YETI
"I'm on mercenary lay myself" Brown
ehimed IN, 'bat it's scarcely worth while 70 eX
plain"
FYou couldn't loan me guinea, could you?'
the stranger asked hesitstinyly.
"HaTdiy or 20 short an aCQu 4iltance," an
1vered Brown, after which the conversation
Jagged slightly, and IN q short time they parted.
PnurFuaffv ~ 5Ofalork -
ing, Brown held 3 celebration. He had sold his
magazine article Tor three guineas, and, to use
MS own phIaseolOgy, he went in for good
dinner" When be had leisurely dispatched IL,
he ordered a cab and drove over to Regents
Park. AHghting, he hunted up tho exact spot
o. tne preceding evenings adventure, and
awaited the gentleman from Nevada
al know he'll be around" said Brown 70 him
self, and sure enough, in a little time he was
He was a tribe gruf, though. That incident
about the guinea seemed 70 hsye rufled his Sc
renity somewhat, and yet, Notwithstanding, he
appeared exceedingly glad 20 see Brown. Brown
asd the cigars this time, aud pTofered them
with an easy grace that sOOthed the strangers
feelings 20 q perCeptible degree.
'By the way" remarked Brown, "yOu nsed-
Sd guinea last night Here il is.''
"ENcuse me, mister, I" said the stranger, with
some embarrassment. 81 guess I won't take it.
You don't know me any better than you did last
night"
That's al right, )" said Brown heartily. "The
tact is, didn't have it then and I've got it now
and you're welcome TO j." and be forced 1t into
inc stranger : paiLny anu declined 70 listen to
1he aWkWaTk thanks be was threatened with
They talked quite a while after that. The
Stranger was full Of yarns" ab5It the FAR west
lie lad been forty miner; he had n .ded in the
tropics. he had mined In Colorado, and lad been
'-sWsmped the last time in the Waite Pine ex-
element.
81 put my whole Pile In a White Pine hill. >
lie said with a sigh, ''and it's there vet, YOu
write good hand, don't yOu9''
Yes, rather "a good one" answered Brown
earelessly, wondering what that had to 90 with
the subject under discussion.
II wish you'd copy some papers for me, il
Certainly"
90, ct had best be done tonight. 1 want to use
Lye?1 ""
lone twenty-nine, Church street, near Edge.
ware ROAD"
They left the park immediately Brown in
tlsted on paying for a cab, and n twenty min
hles they were IN the strange = cheapiy-fur-
nished apartment in the locality mentioned
nder the bed was An old box fastened with a
paddock, which the stranger hauled ont and nm
locked. and from which lie lifted bundle of
custy and legal-lOOking documents SeIecting
The Argest, and giving Brown a quire OF fools
cap, ne proceeded 70 dictate the contents II
proved 70 o. power OF attorney authoriZ-
ing IaIty D the name of John Harrington To
IGEOflate the sale Of cert al frar.u