The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-21
JACK OF All TRADES.
a HlaIIer.oEFact Romance
BY CHARLES READE.
Concluded next week.

Concluded next week.
The first town I showed her at
as mine was Verdnm, and the
next day wrote to Mademoiselle
at Paris to tell her Of the
change in my fortunes. This was
the only letter l had sent, for we
parted bad friends. l received 8
kinder letter than the abrupt tone
of my letter deserved. She con
graduated me, and thanked me
for remembering that whatever
good fortune befell me must give
her particular pleasure, and in the
postscript she told me she was
just about to leave Paris and re-
turn to her parents in SWitzer-
land.
Dick crossed over into Prussia,
tramped that country, and pene-
trated into the heart of Germany.
AS 1 had hoped, she descended on
this nation with all the charm Of
novelty, and used to clear the cop
per Germany is mostly made OF
copper. Bucketful of farthings
was a common thing fori6me to
have in my carriage. out of a
whole village. 1 remember early
in this trip being at a country
inn. l saw rustics, male and fe-
male. dressed in their Sunday
clothes, coming over the hills
from every side to one point. /
thought there must be a fair or
something. 1 asked the land
lord what they were all coming
for. He said, "Why, you, to be
sure" They never saw such q
thing in their lives, and never will
again.
In fact, at one or two small pla-
ces we were stopped by the au-
thorities, who had heard that we
carried more specie out of little
towns than the circulating medi'
um would bear.
In short, my first coup was sue.
cessful. Alter six months Ger,
many, Bavaria, Prussia, etc., I re-
turned to the Rhine at Strarbourg
with eight thousand francs. Du
ring all this time she never hurt q
soul, I watched her so fearlully
close. So, being debarred from
murder, she tried arson.
At a place in Bavaria her shed
was suddenly observed to be in
flames, and we saved her with diff
ficulty.
The cause never transpired I'M
til now, but l saw directly how it
had been done. | had unWarily
left my coat in her way. The
pockets were found emptied of al
their contents, among which waG
a lucifer. box, fragments of which
found in the straw. She haC
played with this in her trunk
hammering it backward and for
ward against her knee, dropping
the lighted matches into thu
straw, when they stung her, anC
very nearly roasted her own beef
the mischievous, uneasy devil.
My readers will not travel Will
an elephant; but business o
some sort will fall to the lot o
some of them soon or late. and, as
charIatanry is the very soul o.
modern business, it may not b.
amiss to show how the humble
artisan worked his elephant.
We never allowed ourselves t.
drop casually upon any place Tx
a shower of rain.
A man in bright livery, greer
and gold, mounted on a show
horse, used to ride into the towI
or village, and go round to all tn
inns, making loud inquiries abou
their means of accommodation 70
the elephant and her train. Fou
hours after him, the people now
being a little agog, another greer
and gold man came in on a traine'
horse, and inquired for No. l
AS soon as he had found him, tn
two rode together round the town
mo two blowing a trumpet an,
proclaiming the elephant; the ma
ton she had instructed in tn
wonders of nature; the kings sh
had amused; her grandeur, her in
telligence, and, above all, her dove
like disposition.
This was allowed to ferment TO
some hours, and, when expecta
ton was at it's hight, the rest O
the cavalcade used to heave i,
sight, Dick bringing up the rear
Arrived, 1 used to shut her in on
of sight, and send all my men an,
horses round, parading, trumpet
ing, and posting bills, so that a
last the people were quite ripe 70
her, and then we went to work
. and thus the humble artisan an,
his elephant cut greater dis
than lions, and tigers, and noun
tebanks, and quacks, and dreV
more money.
This is the way our show bill
read:
By permission of the Worship fu
the Mayor,
the great
: ELEPHANT
of the King of Siam,
from Franconi's Olympic Circus
Mademoiselle Dick,
Colossal Elephant, eleven feet hig