The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-02
GA TOURIST FROM INJIANNY, 3,

"a TOURIST FROM INJIANNY."
WE first saw him from the deck of
the Unser Fritz, as that gallant steamer
was preparing to leave the port of New
York for Plymouth, Havre and Ham
burg. Perhaps it was that all objects
at that moment became indelibly i'm
pressed on the memory of the depart
ing voyager; perhaps it was that mere
interrupting trivialities always assume
undue magnitude to us when we are
waiting for something really important;
but l retain a vivid impression of him
as he appeared on the gangway in APP
parently hopeless, yet, as it afterward
appeared, really triumphant alterca-
ton with the German-speaking deck
hands and stewards. He was not a
heroic figure. Clad in a worn linen
buster, his arms filled with bags and
parcels, he might have been taken for
hackman carrying the luggage of his
fare. But it was noticeable that. al
though he calmly persisted in speaking
English and ignoring the German Of
his antagonists, he, in some rude fash
ion, accomplished his object without
losing his temper or increasing his
temperature, while his foreign enemy
was crimson with rage and perspirino
with heat, and that presently, HAVING
violated dozen of the ships regula-
tions, he took his. place by the side of
avery pretty girl, apparently his supe-
rior in station, who addressed him as
g father" AS the great ship swung out
into the stream, he was still a central
figure on our deck, getting into every
body's way, addressing all with equal
familiarity, imperturbable to affront
or snub, but always doggedly and per-
sistently adhering to one purpose, how
ever trivial or inadequate to the means
employed. You're sittin' on suthin'
O. mine, Miss he began for the third
or fourth time to the elegant Miss
Montmorris, who was revisiting Europe
under high social conditions. "Jist
rise up while | get it-'twont take a
minit.' Not only was that lady forced
to rise, but to make necessary the rising
and discomposing of the whole Mont
morris party who were congregated
around her. The missing "suthin'"
was discovered to be a very old and
battered newspaper. Its the Gin
cinnatty Times" he explained, as he
quietly took it up, oblivious to the in
dignant glances of the party. cts a
little squoshed by your sittin' on it, but
it'll do to refer to. It's got a letter
from Payris, shown the prices o. them
thar hotels and rist'rants, and | allow
ed to my darter we might want it on
the other side. Thar's one or two
French names thar that rather gets me
-mebbee your eyes is stronger but
here the entire Montmorris party hus-
tied away, leaving him with the paper
in one hand-the other pointing at the
paragraph. Not at all discounted, he
glanced at the vacant bench, took pos
session of it with his hat, buster, and
umbrella, then disappeared, and pres
emily appeared again with his daugh-
ter, lank-looking young man, and an
angular elderly female, and so re-
placed the Montmorrisses.
When we were fairly at sea he was
missed. A pleasing belief that he had
fallen overheard, or had been left be-
hind, was dissipated by his appearance
one morning, with his daughter on one
arm, and the elderly female before re-
ferred to on the other. The Unser Fritz
was rolling heavily at the time, but
with his usual awkward pertinacity he
insisted upon attempting to walk to-
ward the best part of the deck, as he
always did, as if it were right and
duty. A lurch brought him and his I'M
certain freight in contact with the Mont
morisses, there was moment of wild
confusion, two or three seats were
emptied, and he was finally led away
by the stewart, an obviously and OBJ
trusively sick man. But when he had
disappeared below it was noticed
that he had secured two excellent seats
for his female companions. Nobody
dared to disturb the elder, nobody
cared to disturb the younger-who it
may be here recorded had a certain shv
reserve which checked aught but the
simplest civilities from the masculine
passengers.
A few days later it was discovered
that he was not an inmate of the first,
but of the second cabin; that the elder
ly female was not his wife as popularity
supposed, but the roommate of his
daughter in the first cabin. These facts
made his various intrusions on the sa-
loon deck the more exasperating to the
Montmorrisses, yet the more difficult to
deal with. Eventually, however, he
had, as usual, his own way; no place
was sacred, or debarred his slouched
hat and buster. They were turned out
OF the engine-room to reappear-upon
the bridge; they were forbidden the
forecastle, to rise a ghostly presence
beside the officer in his solemn super
vision of the compass. They would
have been dashed to the rigging on
their way to the maintop, but for the
silent protest of his daughters pres
ence on the deck. Most of his inter