The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-11
How Minister Hunt Cant,u,
Gear.

Minister Hunt has cant,,
Car. The story goes that The
first few months at the conrt .isuht's
Car made him homesick 81 the
body was wonderfully polite to 't h;s
almost as polite as himself. in 4ln
but he didn't seem to get On NJ Tact
couldn't get near enough to he
smiling faces around him r. The
whether the smiles were real ~ See
Perhaps it vas his own fripidit,na lse'
tensified by the Russian atmosnL, H.
perhaps it was the general unc1,tseife;
ty of the court as to the prec;sa am
ment at which the subterranma1ot'
mines which underlie the wholss a
face of Russia were to explode. sur
may have been the Cars WOW "N
showing disapproval of our attitrs%
towards the Liberals of Russia ae
any rate, our Minister couldn,t Az
into confidential relations with sa
body, and the story goes that if Su!'
ted him. He was growing thin auG
pale, when one bright morning ha ~"
ceived a cablegrem from New ~
leans informing him that Don mr. M
Domingo, a rich tobacco imno..
er who had been his client ons
friend, had died, leaving him his an
tire estate. Hunts heart leanas
for Joy. Not because he was to ra
ceive a legacy in money or lands o..
though he knew very well the i'm.
portance of such an addition to hi,
slender fortune: but because he ra
membered Domingo's wine celia
and some particular wines that SLIM.
bered in its recesses. The Car loves
rare old wines, and SO do all the RuSs
slams. Minister Hunt recalled golden
days at the dead senor's house, when
he had seen on the table wines that
were more than a century old. Ha
smiled all over as he thought of tha
sherry made on Don Domingo's an.
cestral estate in Spain, which be had
brought with him when he was ex.
lied for his adherence to the Preten.
der-sherry fifteen years cd, mahog.
any colored; sherry fifty years old.
olive colored; sherrya hundred year,
old, pale aud clear IS amber, and with
a buoquet that filled the room with
and poetry. Then he SAT
down at his desk and replied to the
cablegram in some such terms a.
these: "Send me a cask of Domin:
COS hundred year old sherry" Then
he waited smilingly. Presently the
arrived and Was bottled,
Then the Minister gave m of the
incest dinners that was ever given in
st. Petersburg. He got the best
he could, and he got together
4 number of prominent dignitaries,
including some OF the cronies of the
Gar. At the proper moment he
made his guests acquainted with Don
Jose's century sherry. They Were
pleased. They were kind
enough to compliment. One OF the
remarked half audibIy that
he Gar must hear of this. When
he Gar had heard Of it, and had
expressed Or intimated a half desire
o hear more of it, Minister Hunt
,ontrived to get a bottle Of it to
Tim in a very pleasing way.
It was not long before the Gar
,ave the Minister a special audience,
md the latter had the pleasure of re-
graceful compliments on his
as a cOnnOisseur. His Mag
Offence was kind enough to ask,
,alf facetiously, whether the world
leld any more OF that wonderful
vine. And then the conversation
lrifted to other matters, and every
the Minister got nearer to the
Ear. The Gar has tasted the ecu.
ury sherry since, and our relations
With Russia continue to be of a
haracter that is mutually saiisfacto-
" Washington Dispatch to IHHa-
Record.