National Republican., 1884-02-28
ANABoB IN DISGUISE.
The Remarkable Career OF n Newspaper
Humorist-A wonderful Genius.

The Remarkable Career OF Newspaper
Humorist-A wonderful Genius.
Eugene Field, the humorist of the Chicago
telegram, is remarkable man. AS he strides
along the avenue everybody turns to look at
him. But for the hump on his shoulders he
would be nearly seven feet in height and as
it is he towers away above the heads OF men
of average inches. His arms are of abnormal
length, and swing nearly to his knees sway:
ing to and fro as though he had no special
control over their movements. His enor-
nous head, which Is set upon long, thin,
turtle neck that appears TO have
telescope powers of contraction and expan-
sion, bob3 up and down like cork buoy in
choppy sea. Having lost an eye, section OF
chin, and one ear in a terrible combat with
Chinese pirates nineteen years ago his face is
not beautiful, and the scars upon both
cheeks burned in by cannibals Of Central
Africa, still further disfgure countenance
that must once have been ravishing lovely.
The twenty-seven years spent in q monastery
in tho Businesses of old Mexico have left
their traces upon Mr.. Field, which time can
never eradicate. He looks like monk, acts
like monk, and would be taken for o MEM
ber Of some holy order anywhere.
This much for appearance For more than
thirty years after abandoning the calling for
which his noble parents, the Duke and
Duchess of Trwyncilan Braich.y-Proll had
intended him, Mr.. Field (whose real name is
Lord Llanarth Llanerelyviddle) was n soldier
of fortune and q traveller. He is probably
the greatest of modern explorers having
traversed every part Of Asia, Africa, and the
western continents He converses huently
in thirty-seven languages, some Of which
have been dead for several centuries. Tiring
of carnage and oriental research he eventu-
ally returned to his fathers castle in
the north of Wales, where for seventeen
years he pursued the study Of chemistry in
all its mysterious paths. Among other things
he discovered the art of making gold and
precious stones. Tons upon tons of yellow
metal were stored in his ancestral cellars and
dozen ancestral dungeons are packed with
diamonds, amethysts, rubies, and other gems
of the purest ray serene. He could have
unsettled the markets of the world but being
u financial bull he has been feeding the lambs
quietly, 80 as not to disturb the worlds
finances too much.
For nearly twenty years Lord Llanerely-
viddle, for such he might US we'll now be called
has been in this country in the guise of
newspaper man. He writes for the
press as pastime, and although
enormously wealthy he draws his salary
with scrupulous regularity, thus scoring one
against the cashier 1t is surmised that this
editorial nabob is tired of masquerading, and
it is said that he is about engag-
lhB IN an enterprise OF enormous pro-
portions. He informed several of his
friends in confidence yesterday that he is
soon to become great national newspaper
absorber, and buy up all the newspapers in
the country. He will print his newspapers
for his personal qualification, circulating
them free OF cost. In this manner he will
become benefactor to his race. The ex-
pense Of printing these tremendous daily
editions will only consume q small percent
age of his colossal income. The hero of these
wonderful adventures does not look to be
more than 81 years of age.