The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-03
HE SKIPPED.
A BOARDING HOUSE EPI-
SODE.
IN WHICH AN OLD AND YOUNG
MAN GURE-PROBABLE VA
CANCY IN A WELL REGU-
LATED AGENCY.

A boarding house episode is common,
but such an event usually occurs in the
dead hour of night, when the little stars
of night are playing bO-peep away up
among the constellation. When the dog
star makes faces at the moon and howls
dismally, When darkness broods DER
hill top and tower, and the great world
slumbers. Then it is that the
BOARDING HOUSE EPISODE.
comes to the surface and startles the com
munity in which it Is situated. Not so,
however, with the one THE STATESMAN
deals with this morning.
This one, contrary to the established
rule of episodes generally, occurred at
about the hour of noon. 1t was
UNDER THE GLARE
of the MONDAY sun, that a well-known
young man organized a first-class scandal,
and created no end of excitement, which
caused him to leave his boarding house in
a hurry. To those who saw him it was
evident he had hastily resolved to vacate
his comfortable quarters, to seek, per-
chance, a more genial cline. In truth,
this was his object but its conception had
been wholly unexpected, and his flight was
sudden. Indeed, SO instantaneOusly had
he formed his plans, and so quickly did
he proceed to carry them out, that he for
got his coat, hat and shoes, as he
RAPIDLY DKIFTED OUT
upon the cold, cold world, to battle with
its myriad vicissitudes. He was not hap
py. He had good reasons not to be.
With one cruel blow of shovel his hopes
had been dashed to pieces, and his happi-
ness marred forever. How swift the con-
dition and estate of man do change! One
moment he is up in the world, and the
next he is down. 1t was SO with the
young man of whom The STATESMAN
speaks. One short five minutes ago he
was happy; now he is fleeing.
leaving behind his love and
his wardrobe. He left the boarding
house. as has been intimated hastily, his
movements being greatly accelerated by a
furious old man with
ENERGY AND SHOVEL.
But the young man was used to both, they
having been seen; and felt in the old mans
room, where they were used so deftly that
the excitement aof the moment, and the
impression of the shovel will never be
wholly effaced from his memory and his
head. Almost destitute of clothing, he
finally reached his Office, and all that day,
and all that night he kept a lookout for
the old gentleman who breathed
vengeance, and the night air
as he searched high and low for the OBJ
ject of his wrath. Early the next morn
ing young man wearing a full suit of
clothes and a shot gun warily wendell his
way down back alley, and boarding a
train, escaped from the city, and Austin
will know him no more forever.
At the boarding house where all this
occurred, and where once all was peace
;. n y, there nsw1brrow and desola-
ton. No bow of promise across
its horizon. Hopes have been blasted
and lives-alas! some of them young
scattered, while the gloom of woe broods
like the ghost of an extinguished world
over the once happy home circle.
The plain English of all of the above is
that young man and a woman, old
enough to have known better, created a
scandal, and the young man, to save his
bacon, skipped out. His occupation had
been that of telling the fortunes of others
for the benefit of trade.