The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-23

i've Vllalty upon an Eremlto philosophy
fhey lowed TOR Bill King. Rams of a thou
sand mutton power baaed for Bill KING.
Great stations dashed their heels in the air
for joy and neigbed for Bill King. Cows
whose daily milk filed clsterns, flowing
down the channels of unbroken pedigree
nom reservoirs upon the thousand Canaan
lie hills, where there mothers had grazsd /,
chewed the cud less abstractedly at the
coming of Bill King. A great barn like
Solomon's temple presided over the herds
and sheltered the living treasures in the
luxurious stalls.
bill" said 1, "tell me, are you Jacob or
Laban?"
"Pm Esau," said Bill. "Your Ishmael:
none of your conundrums."
And this was the simple and obscure post
master OF one end of the capitol, whose sup
positions duties were the sorting of con-
gressmen's newspapers and
THE PACKING OF THEIR STATIONERY
and documents for transmission. Here he
was in his own constituency, filling young
men with the envy of Office, and by his rapid
accommodations dissatisfying them with
plain, steadfast avocation.
William" said 1, show much you have
saved out of your salary v'
YES" he said, ''it's pretty good for Door
fellow who has spent a few years licking
postage stamps and Strengthening them out.
It's what you save, Laertes, not what you
make, that gives you respectable poise,
social status, aud the reposs of the just"
Bilking laughed like horse at the plea
regular stock farm laugh-and we trotCed
like the wind on eagles fetlocks toward
the Falls of Minnehaha, where we took at
least one dissolved leather of the cock and
admired the miniature wonders of nature
George Lincoln kept the inn on the table
land above the fall-a fellow jobber with
Bilking. Their little game was to capture
the Fort Smelling reservation at an obscure
sale, one Frank Steele being the principal in
the transaction.
Said 1, in the innocence of my heart,
thinking there was to be an auction, and the
more bidders the better, for the possessory
announce the sale."
"Good Lord! Noip answered both the men
OF Minnehaha. ''If you advertise this sale
we may lose the highest bid. We want to
keep the thing dark and bid il in cheap"
believe they did afterwsrd, and L recol-
lect the queer sensibility felt, sitting there
in the grotto of Minnehaha-the pretty cas-.
cade laundering down the chasm, and the
cliffs and foliage shutting in all the legend
OF LOngfellow, which seemed woven into the
rainbow and exhaled from the spray-at the
possibility that these two land pirates were
pair OF Jupiters soliciting some Dame i'm
prisoned in the waterfall, and that the
golden haze around Minnehaha was the
shower of gold in which they were violating
her. Poor dainty legend, already written
into fame! Dear Naiad, praised too far away
for the security of thy comelinessi Long
shall see thee, not as the bride OF Hia-
watha, but as some lovely Susanna taking
thy bath, and pursued meantime by the
cupidity of the pair of elders:
HWould you ask me whence this legend,
Whence this spirit and this tradition?
would answer, would tell you,
From the thought of cock-eyed BiIking,
sitting there with tapster Lincoln,
BY the falls of Minnehaha,
Playing me for Hiawatha.
An old lobbyist like King had no business
TO be running for congress-. Whether
some desire to ornament his wealth with
homer impelled him. or the necessity of re-
turning to congress since there was no more
| hope of holding clerical relation there, or
apprehension that he must be on the spot to
protect himself, az any rate Bill King ran,
Even the regular democratic papers sup
ported him. His canvass cost HIM
LARGE SUM OF MONEY,
and then he had the modification of being
in the minority. / suppose that made no
difference, as he could buy democrats as
cheap as republicans.
Nearly year before he could take his
seat this unfortunate King of the lobby was
under investigation, and his nerve, which
was never of the best, for5ook him. He dis
appeared in the interior of New York, where
he had struggled in earlier and poorer days,
anu kept Ouo IOOt plVOL6u Oh Inc lOWu VI
Malone, where the Fenians invaded Canada,
and with the other leg stretched out, de-
scribing an arc through the queens
dominlons. The deputy sergeant
alarms followed Williams instincts,
and pursued him to the best stock
farm in Canada, where, as usual, be found
Bill, the cynosure of attraction for Alderney
and Devonshire cattle, Durham bulls. South
down rams, Yorkshire ewes, and imported
Arabian stations. Maneuvering for posi-
ton where all this neighing, lowing, baaiDg,
cock Growing, and believing came to To-
Gus, the deputy sergeant-at-a arms had only to
reach out his hands and put subpoena into
the paw of Bill King.
Rumor says that William threw back his
head, turned pale for moment, then burst
into horse laugh, and said, "You're hell
of fellowi Don't You know not to find a
man any better than this? You're inter
rupting me amidst great national duty.
am improving the short horns"