Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-21
QUITE ENOUGH OF ST. LOUIS.

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st. Louis Sunday Sayings.
A very slight man, with a coarse, light
colored overcoat hanging loosely over suit
of ugly plaid, and a pair of stillettO shoes,
doing their best all by themselves to give
out an impression of aristocratic wealth,
stood in front of the Laclede hotel and
swung light gold-headed cane as he talked
with well-defined British accent.
mo, sir, am going East. lave sold my
rancho hin Texas, hand l have resigned
from the fire department in st. Louis, and
now l am going to spend some time hin
Boston and New York"
The speaker was Lord Dundas,
EARL OF AYLEsFoRD,
and heir to one of the largest estates near
the Scottish line.
"Yes, am tired of st. Louis" continued
"My Lord" looking pensively out of his
mild blue eyes, over which pair of very
ugly bruises indicated the indulgence of his
sporting proclivities among rough men, who
had so slight respect for English sciOns
as to ornament it all over with scars and
knobs of the American order. ''Indeed,
don't find anything to do ere. joined the
fire department as remedy for ennui, but
on the whole, don't think the fire depart
ment is very good place for ennui. The
men are rough and blackguard each other
frightfully. You've no hidea 'Ow rough
they talk. Pm tired of being a cattleman,
don't like
BEING A FIREMAN,
and I'm going East
Certainly, Lord Dundas is one of the most
eccentric characters that ever struck the
town. For four or five years he has been
known here more or less. Most of that time
he has been squandering his money on a
rancho in Texas, the provisions for which
he purchased in St Louis, making frequent
trips to this city, and visits of longer dura
ton than was absolutely required for mar.
keting purposes. During these visits he
| formed an alliance with a notorious woman
| with whom he frequently appeared at the
races, in boxes at the theatres, and in vari-
| Gus other places no less conspicuous. An
encounter with a bar-keeper, who was his
| only visible
RIVAL IN THE AFFECTIONS
of the frail beauty-an encounter in which
| the bar-keeper was wOrsted-gave the Ear
| a reputation down town for certain gifts a.
| a slugger, which were tested later on to hi:
| own serious discontinue.
Last summer Lord Dundas took up per
manent residence in st. Louis, and engaged
elegant apartments at the Southern hotel
He was liberal patron of the bar of thai
hotel, and one night his patronage of tina
necessary adjunct of all hightOned hostel
ries placed him in condition Of paralyzint
sOciability. He insisted on making the in
| innate acquaintance of all the new arrival!
at the hotel, and coercing them into joining
him in his bibulations. After two or three
delegates to convention of
PRESBYTERIAN CLERGYMEN,
| then in session i'm the city, had been rescue,
| from his grasp by friends, the head porte
was instructed to try and cool him off. Blu
| the ''relic of an effete, etc., was in no moo,
for cooling. He insisted in carrying out hi
plan of making every man in the hotel drinl
with him or fight, which he had understoo,
was conventional method of procedure il
this wild western country.
swell, you've either get to stop this or &c
out of the hotel" said the porter impatient
'awho,l! put me out9'
81 will"
"YOu can't do 1t.
"I dare YOU to come outside and stand bt
fore me three rounds,
MARQUIS OF QUEENsBERRY RULES"
"Pll go YOU"
The two went outside in twinkling, an
in the first round the porter worked in S;
ratOga trunk side-winder, which laid out th
Earl much in the condition of that pliabl
fabric devoted by time-honored custom
culinary renovation.
my Lord" changed his quarters to tn
| Z ;plau hofol offor fhic and for q tirna oaou
ed considerably broken in spirit. He recO'
cred, however, in few weeks, and his neJ
fancy was in the direction of the fire depar
ment He seemed so honest in his desire
, BECOME A FIREMAN
: that he was admitted to company No. /
, and after a training of several DAYS
mounting ladders and carrying hose, W,
, given the regulation uniform of the depar
ment,
dustry and intelligence he applied himse
to his duties, and beyond his difficulty
getting along with his associates, the
seemed to be nothing in the way of his b
coming an ornament to the department
In six weeks, however, during which tin
he had had the hose accidentally turned
him once or twice, and buckets full of wat
h. dropped on his Uranium at various occasio
e entirely by accident, he grew tired of d
service and
RESIGNED HIS POSITION,
u uniform and all.
Now, having given up his hopes of bel
:, cattle king and possibly chief of the |
Louis fire departments kind of a trans-l
/, lantic Captain Shaw-he sighs for the cultu
of the East. After a short enjoyment
that he will doubtless sail for his Britt
home, bearing upon his brow, and .ot in
notebook, "Ah Englishman's pressic
Of American Life"
W. P. L. Barnes, the senior counsel
= the defence in the Hill-Sharon case, is s;