Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-28
4 Noble Incognito.
tr c. Crawford in Chicago News.1


Two weeks ago there appeared at tie
GraHi Union hotel, Saratoga, a man whose
appearance and dress attracted general at
tentioa. lie was in tie neighborhood of 50
yeays OF age. He was slightly above the
mciiI-i height, but was quite round
shou!J1ced. His face was very angular and
sallow- lis hair was very thin and well
dyed i was brushed around from the back
of his neck into long straight patches in
front o1 AIS cars, l5aching nearly around to
his small brown eyes, hidden under very
busiy eyebrows. His nose was angular,
thin, agi very sharp and red His mouth
was TN, and curved downward. His face
was saootlt-sbaven On the chin and around
the mouth. Long whisieTs, as thin
and shaPe,ess as bunch Of
withercJ grass, hung down from
each she of the face. The whisl1ers
were dyel q royal purple black, which were
faded ou5 in patches leaving a reddish pur-
PIE CLEAN here and there. A white, soft hat
of cz,quis;tcly fine felt, with black band,
was ygovn at ell times well pulled down over
The thil face. His linen was always white,
and OF the best, as was shown by the huge
collar and tie faring cuffs that nearly con-
cealed his thin, weazened hands. His cTavaG
was black STOCK covering his shirt bosom
down to his high-buttoned white waistcoat
Upon the cravat he wore q handsome opal.
His coat was q dark blue English walking
coat Of a very old-fashioned cut, with enor-
nous pockets over his hips. His trousers
were gray and wide but were tightly strapped
over 4 pai, of pateltleathar boots During
the greater part CT the day when he went out
to wa. he would wear white cotton gloves a
size or two too large.
He made TO attempt to force his acquaint-
ance upon any one. He had declined to
register when he came to the Grand Union,
and, Is he paid for his rooms one month in
advance, his eccentricity was respected.
Some Philadelphia people one day noticed
the Old gentleman uponthe porch. Engaging
in conversation with him, they found him
very familiar with English affairs, while at
the sanlo time he spoke with marked Eng
hsh accent.
Ore Of the Philadelphians, q tall, portly
man, with shoe-brush side wiskers, black
eyes, . majestic port, and an enormously
high bcllcrowned white hat, sauntered up to
the Office and made inquiries about the Eng
lishnal. The Phi!adelphian was an ex-
mayo, and had been in England while he
was yea in Office There he had received
many attentions, and had learned to love
LORI with the robust heartiness OF an Eng
iShnsn. lie scented a lord in the peculiar
strange on the hotel piazza. The clerk could
tell Ein nothing. The stranger had given no
name, but had paid in advance. He was
some eccentric old gentleman, who evidently
wishcC ID remain unknown.
The e,,-mayor was certain that the man
was On English nobleman. Said he to his
friends: ~ think I rene nber his face I
am cutie certain have dined with him in
London. It is just like him to desire to
remain unknown here so as to be able to
better understand cur ways. We win keep a
watch ever him and respect his wishes in this
matter. 1t is important that we keep with
him so as to give him the best possible
opinion Of Americans. You know. unless we
keep Nth him he may meet some of those
disagrecable New York or Chicago people.
That day when the ex-mayor and his asso-
ciatcs were around the old gentleman he
dropped his cigar case. The ex-mayor
picked it up and hastily returned it, but he
saw = coronet and ''Castlereagh" before it
was returned to the owners pocket.
But the news was too great to hold. The
ex-Inayor told the news about the hotel, and
soon Lord Castlereagh," as he was called
behind his back, was the centre of most
marked attention
Judge Hilton went up to him first and in
vited him to breakfast at Woodlawn. Cas-
tlereagh looked very much surprised, but de
cliRsd. Then Hilton went around the hotel
denouncing the so-called English aristocracy.
"They don't know how to entertain people, VI
said he. when 1 was in Scotland last was
invited By Lord Roseberry to take lunch with
him, and, by CAD, sir he took me to a rail
road restaurant and fed me on pork pies and
bitter beer"
Hilton's snub only increased the popularity
of Castlereagh. But when he declined al
the invitations offered from every source, the
respect for him rapidly rose to something like
veneration. When he was in the dining
room, his old white hat on the hotel rack was
regarded with almost sacred veneration.
The old gentleman drank wine freely al
his meals, and always appeared to have
plen.y Of money. As he asked for no favors
and accepted none, any one would have beer
simply hooted at for doubling his being G
member of the English peerage.
One night when Castlereagh was out upo1
the front porch the MARBLE of a real night
ingale trin was heard The English lori
was greatly excited He looked up ant
down the gayly lighted Broadway and al
most shed tears OF delight as the nightingale
mass grew sweeter and sweeter. He said
"Y5eg your pardon" to the ex-mayor, ''bu
lam passionately fond Of the song of tn
nightingale 1t is the first I have heard il
this country
The ex-mayor explained that there wer
no native nightingaleS in this country. TIL
song was probably from one that had es
caped from its cage.
While all this speculation was going on til
ladies came out from the parlor and the ger
tlernen from the Hobbies, until the wide pore
was filed.
Then the song closed, and In It's place We
heard a rumbling chuckle of laugh as
black negro dwarf with enormous shoulder