The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
Stories of the Early Days COldly Furnished Forth for Adul-
 teratei Pioneers

terateI PIOneerS.
 A seedy looking individual dropped into
 the office of d Front street merchant the
 other day. and waited his turn for an audi ence. His naturally thin countenance was elongated till he looked ike man who had got point from Mcdonald and used it, but he made short work of introducing himself
 am reminiscencer," he said. Ifur- nish "reminiscences of the earliest times for lots of old gentlemen who didn't get here till '5S and later, snd they get them off to English tourists and at swell dinners. You must excuse my looks, for the work Is wearing on my conscience more than usual of late. The number of people kill and the lies I have to tell to do it will make an awful record against me in the next world. know it. I've tried every thing to escape the responsibility, but it always results one way, and must live if l have to lie for it. l tried telling the truth once and 1t nearly finished me. I went up to San Que,.tin and from one of the oldest mul derers in the State, got the history of how be did it. This worked up into very authentic account, illUstrat- ing the presence of mind of the speaker, who, of course, was represented as shoot ing his man in self-defense As luck would have it the chap that bought it told the story in the presence of some relatives of the murdered man The names and dates being entirely accurate, my man had mar row escape fir m arrest. How be got out of the scrape 1 never heard, but he never patronized me again, so it cured me of telling the truth any more. You don't want something in my line now, perhaps. do you You don't look like forty miner, and l could ftyou out nicely for dinner party with reminisccnce related to you by, say, BroGerick. He is my best hold. come out strong on Frederick He was snch a rough one. Or I could do you something on the returned Californian plan, how you went back home with a bar rel full of nuggets ard laid them at the feet Of. the woman who had been true you through nineteen long years"
 The Fron. street man pushed back his glasses and caught lis breath. "See here, didn't you say this so1t of thIng was wear ing on your e nscience? Do Nou mean to tell me that any one encouragesyou in this wholesale fraId"'
 Of cturse do, srd you needn't be sur prised about it eitLer. Don't ,ou sell adul- terated tea and sugar and coffee: Yes, think you do, and what is to prevent my turning out adalterated pioneers? If a man has got rich out here, ana thinks it fun to be the hero of a reminiseence of forty-nine, whai's the objection, provided he pays? It gives tone to his wealth to have it old established, just as the year of the vintage does when placed on bottle of old wine. Or, if you don't care to repeat story in person, could mention you in print in some of my anecdotes 'our es- teemed fellow citizen who was an eye-wit- ness of thls affair?' I am under contract to furnish the Gulled'n Fleeced with re- miniscence a week till the last pioneer iS l shoveled off from the face of the earth, and it's good long job"
 My man," said Front street, "you just | shovel yourself off from the face of this | office, and tell the clerk not tu let you in | here again."
 The reminiscencer passed out; and in- quired of the clerk if he had. any pure i brandy he could recommend for an inval- | ia, but the hald-hearted clerk identified him, ard didn't have any brandy, He W indeed pioneer, and passed SIX months of tte year in the Inebriate's Home. from whence he flooded the weekly ress witl tales of forty-nine, picked up during fine moments of el reed sobriety from lot of kindred spirits who resort there.-TS. F. Post.