Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-29
MINISTER HUNT.
1fsw He Captured the Car with Censcn-
nini sherry From Louisiana.


Ifsw He Captured the Car with Censcn.
NAL sherry From Louisiana.
Washington bis. to Philadelphia Record
Minister Hunt has captured the
car. The story goes that Hunts first
few months at the court OF the czal
made him homesick. Everybody was
wonderfully polite to hinl-almost as
polite as himself In fact--but lie did
not seem to get on. He couldn't get
near enough TO the smiling faces
around him to see whether the smiles
were real or false. Perhaps IL was his
own frlgidity, intensified by the Rus
sian atmosphere; perhaps IL was the
general uncertainty of the court as To
the precise moment at which the
subterranean mines which under
lie the whole surface of Russia
were to explode; or IL may have been
the cars way of showing his disap-
prevail OF our attitude towards the
liberals Of Russia. At any rate, our
minister couldn't get into confidential
relations with anybody, and the story
goes that IL fretted him. He was
growing thin and pale, when one
bright morning he received cable
gram from New Orleans informing
him that Don Jose Domingo, "A rich
tobacco importer who had been his
client and friend, had died, leaving
him his entire estate. Hunts heart
leaped for Joy. Not because he was TO
receive a legacy In money or lands,
although he knew very well the inn
portance Of such an addition to his
slender fortune; butbecause he remem-
bered Domingo's wine-cellar and some
particular wines that slumbcred I'm It's
rccesses. The car loves rare old wines
and so do all the Russians. Minister
Hunt recalled golden days at the dead
Senor's house, when he had seen on
the table wines that were more than II
century old. He smiled all over as he |
thought of the sherry made on Don
Domingo's ancestral estate in Spain, |
which he had brought with him when |
ne was exiled for his adherence to the |
retender--sherry fifteen years old,
mahogany colored sherry fifty years
old, olive colored sherry n hundred
years old, pale and clear as
amber, and with n bouquet
that filled the room with romance and
poetry. Then he sat down ut his desk
and replied to the cablegram In some
such terms as these: Send me cask
of Dominge's hundred-year-old sher-
ry." Then he waited smilingly.
Presently the sherry arrived and was
bottled. Then the Minister gave one
OF the incest dinners ever given In st.
Petersburg. He got fife best wines he
could, and he got together number
Of prominent dignitaries, including
some of the cronies of the car. AT
the proper moment he made his guests
acquainted with Don Josc's century
They were perceptlbly
pleased. They were kind enough to
compliment One of the cronies re-
half audibly, that the ear
must hear OF this. When the ear
heard OF II and had expressed or init
mated desire to hear more of 1t Min
lister Hunt contrived to get a bottle of
It to him III n very pleasing way. 1t
was not long before the ear gave the
q special audience and the
latter had the pleasure of receiving
graceful compliments Oh his ability as
His Magniiicence was
Kind enough To ask half-facetiously
whether the world held any more of
chat wonderful wine. And then the |
drifted to other matters |
and every minute the minister rot |
nearer to the ear. The ear has tasted |
the century sherry since, and our re-
iations with Russia continue to be OF
character tbot Is mutually satisfac-
tDry.