Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-17

t48m en- n1t a0B aaoNt GE& Hala4 q
eki1af Who panke6 them % and N,
pseked thsm OF Who ever So shsu
bn1 tbe raasleE, ahe frei9h1 oexk snf
Charles n. LanHtFgf
Who y ChaEies r LaRa1ryf TAszs &
enc pesuli8Fify abUut tie safg aketekl
ouxii1e q him, as presented IL egi1snae
uotch, Wien aftealiea d ones called !.
4. oan hardis fad 30 imuless TIE Enini
slfonaly, and seems % ne Of eReat 80
ni1eanoe. Il h this. Yea usEsr e,
tam oxcaps IL certain axsd raiafioas Z
Ne oas8, and thoas relations. WsatsseI
y0uF o0ilt of views. are always tn
aame- Always the1o Il tha sans aaior
ing, the same lights snd shades, IL
sane perspective Or want Of perspse
tive. Like 9 pigt1Fe on the val. hs 81
Ways lass y01. 10 vain you shift youE
poaition II hope 70 catch 8 side Eisw d
him. a SIDE view Il impossible. H
haa length and breadth but no apparent
ihiokness. he dsoidedly Iaeks tie ap.
pearnnoe Of eoIiditF Bhioh belongs 70 Z
real psrson or thing, naeR from diEsE-
eHt atandpoinla o. b. binooniaF visisn,
Il seems e. Il q fsw strokes, akiifullJ
laid On. we're al there ID 81 him. Il
otheF words. II advooaiss for respond.
enis win allow me 10 borrow a. expras-
sive word from thaw brief. bis appear.
anee 10 s'eaaxy which term, suppose
b Q eaphmiam fog the viQoFoua valaal
phrase @toB thin.n
Again, ash, who h this Charles r
Langtry2 He would seem 10 be q vaEy
devoted character 10 0ne thinn
only-hlB whole axistanoe narrowed %
one point-one single shipment Of skins
from Juneau. Did be ever exist before
Has be ever existed sineas Did be come
into .beine for thia sole end IN life2 Has
be Felap4sd into bis elemental Win %
have q raanFractioa? His eVanescsnl
biography reminds one Of that Of the
nrsg eableQrans-san eF---tmm0rtalfzsd
By Oliver Wendell Holmes-De Saasy.
VIII OhaFlss b. LlaatFy, too. have i'm
mortality Perhaps the master or the
freight clerk. the only persons Whu
claim o. admit 90 have knewn him,
o0uld answsF; but they do not.
would not be undszstood % hold o.
insinnate that there Il Lok and never
vas 9 person who actually bore the
name Of Charles B. IAnQtFy. There
may be several living peFseas Of thai
aane and many dad. That IL not i'm.
probable. peEhapa. Bat she name ts no.
. common one. And, apriori, It & vory
impEobable. indeed. thaf there ever va
any peFson Of that name in Juneau
We need testimony 10 convince a. that
such q person wae ever there. Test.
mony IL offered, but that testimony 4
Questionable, and gives us bus {
shadouy. perhaps Elusive, impression
There is no clear-cut, outstanding figure
no many-sidsd haman individuality
presented.
Bat what Il 10 be thsueht Of the naml
itself, -Obas. h. LanRtEy"? Is no
that Fealia'icf Is not lie verisimilitu Il
alone sufficient to verify the shipment
81 the skins? Is not the inventioa o.
such q name highly impfobablel in
cline TO think the contrary. II the ship
ment OF skins be fictitious, then the in
ventiVe clerk vent In quest OF a name
And altheugh his metrioal talent, a
eginced by his measurement Of the bar
reis, hardly would seem 10 equal tn
constructive Ingenuity Of his tmaoina-
ton, as exhibited 10 croatinQ their con,
tsnta. can we'll conceive bow bic mind
keeping time 20 the uneasy hQtteF Of hi
heart, might have mesndeFed the foRRl
shores OF probability In bis sub Aresil
search for name be had never lost.
And l can easily believe. that, cut q
thai misty sea where the warm OurFen
Of IMAGINATION strikes the cold tides o
memory, and whittier ell lost and all de
sired thinRs drift TO mingle, there cam
singing into the consciousness Of III
amAra - 40 4
doubtless often read the advertisement
Of the Lost Child" and on who's
stateFOom wall quite likely hung 30
photograph Of the Jersey LiIy,n-si
him, say, out OF that misty sea, SOM
seal or siren sang, Try the name o
Charles Il. LAnatfy." For, what u men
tel invention but composition7 And Il
suoh competition the mind finds frat q
hand those elements which have beer
often before u and which, theFafors
most readily present themselves. Ans
while, Of course, one cannot claim tha
there 10 evidence in tins ease, on vhiol
70 base q serious folding that this nam
must hsye have bad the double and par
tioulaF cfiQin suggested, thsFe b IN thl
name. and In the oomponents, the eiveI
name and suFnan 9, into Which Il natu
rally subdivides. and In the striking 90
tncideRee Of thOae osmponeata with tws
names OF almost worldwide puhlieitg
presumably veil known 10 this freighl
clerk, enoaRh 70 compel q finding. tina
such en- origin e net fmpEobabia, and {.
destroy the force OF any arRumeat frou
lhe vssisimilitude Of the possibly thns
derived name.
pne vvH,aeo-a. A.. -.-g..s,. - 49,.
The writing Of Il IN the freight beck hal
bean attended with some vacillation AMI
study. Is All stands on an erasare ex
cept the initial letter " o. Originally
the name 20. E. LanRtry" vas written
bat that was, for some cause. afterwartlI
rejected, ane ell having heen prssty
much rubbed out OF aiQht bnl the . @, I
the II has b. LIanRtRy" waa added ore
the eTaguFs.
In enc rest Of The book, erasurs az j
name 10 very rare. Where ID does ocenF
IL 10 almost always due 10 the expannfne
Of en- entire entry. The sffacamenA. Il
snch case, IL never peKfeet. and alwavl
admits Of tbe restoration Of most or AZ
Of the original entry, which, when r.
stored. u seen - havs baeu condamaet
ter inadvertent mispiacsmenf af ponl
stoer innocent and rsooRnixshis reassu
Ia thFes notable instances, hoWever
eFasare Of q oonsignse's name ocoars
IL thoso three instances "Kaasan Bsy
Ca hes been substituted foE some otheI
name. bus | think not for thas Of sh.
master.
Casting ons last slanes ossr thess en-
tFies-the ChaFiss Il. LanatFy sntry snl
that IN she reoapitalatton-Iss g e.
What b lsft Of them. In tha former
the name Of TIE shipssr or oonsipnee
TIE words -skinss and s.asltsdn and -
aauFes Sis are fsund tainted vii
mental SAoillatien OF disturbance. An.
the figures ~li9" and al sabafqnent a..
oependent figures are proved faiss
While IN the iAitaf, AZ The aSarea, with
o1t exeeptso1, are proved false. L
FALSE fQarss 80. Than, applviaz a.
maxius. NosrifNr soeils and FaISns ?
$40, falsls IL oalsibus, Wat have we hsf
IN thess entries thai b esfroboraaed ;
thofuuehly Trustworthy evidence
Nothing bat this. 10 Kaasan Bav. 4
boiRN TIE entries thus turn int dire
exiaeace for the GossFanent. 10 n
eject that fourteen Barrels Of unnama,
soUswhas Uers hFouRhi b. The ship !
KAassn Bag.
On ths whole, oonalads that IN
masssris and freight elark's tale abop
The LAngtFy shipment d inharNusiy sx
csedingly tmprobable. even IL Il s. no
AltaRstheF tncradihla. The nsxt qaps
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