The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-31
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TIE WilISilshlaNNN -A'
An incident OF the desert fight near
Ntelenneh recalls an episode Of more than
inwr years ago. shall have to tell one or
two little stories without any regard to
Chronological order. Indeed desire 70
S,"rt with Cameron, war correspondent Oh
the London Standard, lying dead in the
Great Desert, get back to Canada and the
White Mountains, and again takenp CAM
eron, who had not yet been slam N Wv! w.
effort to chronicle the bloody phaSe OIL wy ~
imbecie foreign policy Of his country; ~ -
the gentle reader" viii permit tlis lee-
and.easy treatment l can roll nm t"o
little stories into one OF less Size tiia''
poor mans LOAF
In the autumn Of 1880 two SOLITARY
travellers might have been seen" maEinga
lyingtrip through New England bent upon
n mild invasion OF the Dominion. The
yuspgRgr was the other one. Owing to
ono or two happenings on the way nos:
NECESSARY to describe, arrived a. Moilrea'
tL" two suIitary travellers found it conven'
lent. II not oil prime necessity, to put AZ
- a' SnconI cla2s inn. II it had not been for
th;a little circumstance tie death OF an
Euclisl war correspondent in the lace Of
Nm" False Prophets men would liuye AT
troctal 10 speciul attention in the Gallery.
Nrxt TO us 1T table sat u short, thIck'set,
ruIly.faced man whom nature had ell
Lnwed ropiousy with q ruddy.rcd head.
IVA were reIishinE our breakfast with the
ninuant sauce OF hunger, when, IN our
imotediate ueighhorhood, there was Ter,
rifle detonation. The rnddy'red. beaded
man had exploded, and looked Il ke We:
smvias after IN eruption. The waiter had
Lromwht him his glcak "dOnc to dcatlh;"
in ia Inry, in which he had id Is
blooIv h'cycs," he had upset the walters
trnv. and now, alas the lava tide OF beet
st"ak cravev was c0ursing down his rud-
dv.red head and ruddy face. We were
L3th afraid 10 laugh, for this animated
dynamite machine had eyes ana was
be!ching fire from them; aud nc nau u
hard looking fist which it please, nm 70
Clench and bring down on the table win
lar that might have been heard III
China. You may have noticed that q
muscular man with temper has way o.
commanding certain sort OF respect;
Wa yielded it TO him, my coHpanion anu
!, but it was u very trying situation.
X
"But man oughtnt to make fool oil
himself, ought he?" Thus spake Vesu-
yius after the Eruption, turning to us with
mild manner and u kindly smile, asthouSh
the three OF us had been engaged III
good humored argument. But daresay
Won gentlemen from the States are not SO
particular about your steaks" (iiowdld
hcknOw we we're from "the State" ?-how
does everybody find you out as as soon as
Won cross the linc?) ".The truth is they
don't know how to broil steak anywhere
ont OF Old England. can't say how 1t is
with you in the States, but at home an
Enplishman is not himself at all il his
strak goes wrong with him. l know q
man whose whole life was changed by
steak" And then he related the story o.
steak.
81 had chum in london, "'said the
rud1y.rel-headed man, "who brcnkfasted
every day ut II o'clock, and always had
steak for his breakfast. lie had found n
public house where they served him his
steak to his taste, and no persuasion could
induce him to breakfast anywhere else.
Finally told him that had friend who
knnt house for her father and brolled his
steak for him, and would put her against
nil London in that lines My Chum said II
there was such u woman in the Queens
dominions he'd havehGE fora wife though
lOO0O Bashi-B azouks barred the way. ]
i, tnUstOti0n Hin nnf II
retircd tradesman and his daughter,
snIrnditl specimen OF the English young
woman, full OF health but not beautiful,
pleasing in person, well educated and =
model housekCepcr He met beeisteaE
the like Of which he said no had never
tasted. lie swore' to me that ne would
marry that girl. He made good progress
with the wooing, and then the retired
tradesmnn began 10 suspect that my shnm
cared for something more than the steak.
One fine day, without word OF warning,
the London lodgings were vacated. The
old bird and the young one had i!own-no
one knew whittier. Well, that young ras-
cal followed them for six months, almost
around the world, and at last don't ex-
poet you to believe this, you know-shere
was q smash.up on Massachusetts rail-
way-my chum was on board following
trail that led to the White Mountains-rt
there were cries Of help! heIpv and my
GhIm plcKed up len"l0 i sInn snH' siHn ao
iIle!ess; 10 sps s,?H UM rascal S Ind bor"S
. .ha % tmr,n VI" 70 piaee Of safety
a amJ ,ho I;,ht foil IN The pallid face. he
saw that t6e bcefsteak girl was in his
arms! Perhaps there is something more
romantic han thisinthe booSs,"nd perhaps
you don't believe it. An, yes INC elderly
purity. Well, he WAS u good deal knocked