Daily Republican., 1889-10-02
SOME FAMOUS PEOPLE.
BIT NJ. QUAD.

1t is really wonderful how MANY ia
nous people one meets at Atlantic CITY
by the sea 1t IL, of. course, a famous
place, and people go there from all over
t9e United States, but the way you can
run across dukes, lords, generals, gov.
ernors, Admirals, judges and senators ia
somethinR positively amazing. had
been there just two hours this last sum-
mer when distingue looking man came
up to me on the veranda and said:
beg pardon, but feel that should
like to kno~ you personally. 1 have
read your 'lnnocents Abroad and had
many hearty laugh over IT,"
But l did not write the Tnnoccnts
Abroad, my friend. You have con.
founded me with Mark Twain"
"Oh-ahl Well, It's all the same.
I've read after you, after your style, and
desire TO Introduce myself as Lord Oar
dover, Of England"
Glad to meet you, my lord. You
don't look we'll"
mo, ! am not well. That's why l
came to America-for the change. / am
In hopes to improve very fast now"
"Did the Lordess and the little Lord
lings come with youi" ....
"Well, no. They couldn't get away,
you see. It's sort OF flying trip, you
know"
ut must be awfully nice to be a lord
aud to boss everybody around aud to
have big castle and forty hired girls
and TO trade with grocer who daren't
send In bill, and TO have a coat of
arms showing that you descended from
some naughty old ru.er of 5000 years
ago."
''It tis--it Is" he feeliugly replied, as
he bowed his thanks tor ihe fiye.cent
cigar held towards him.
We talked for an hour or two on yari-
ous matters, and then he said he must
go, but would see me again coon, He
said It did his soul good to meet with a
man of my stamp-a man OF lofty ideas
and an unsuspicious nature, aud he still
held my hand in loving grasp when a
sudden thought occurred to him.
Oh, by the way, / see that the
steamer by which shall reoeive FL, 900
Is reported rs arrived In New YORK, but
/ won't get the money for day or two
yet. Could you spare me S20?"
There were tears In my eyes as replied
that could not. had only seven cents
after getting down there, and didn't see
how l was TO get any more for two weeks.
would willingly give him i've of this,
aud try to run things on a cent week,
but he refused to take It. He dropped
my hand as If II had been a red. hot cold
ehisel, and his face showed that his liver
was out of order as he turned away and
walked of. saw him frequently for the
next two weeks, and though called hun
my lord, and took of my hat aud bowed
low, he cut me cold aud dead. How I
offended him do not know. never
had much experience with lords, and per-
haps rubbed the fur the wrong way or
him up too high.
Only day or two after my meeting
with the lord an admiral came sround to
see me. | had just got bag OF peanuts
and big rocking chair, prepared 10 enter
Into the festivities of the occasion, when
he interrupted. He was short, fat man
inclined to large lot OF freckles, and the
checks in his suit were rather loud, but
clothes don't make the man, you know.
He introduced himself as Admiral White
OF the navy, aud added that he had
wanted TO see me for upwards of eighteen
years.
We sat aud had long talk. / was sur
prised at the perfect confidence we seemed
TO have In each other from the very start.
and our frankness would have done your
heart good.
incidentally, OF course, he referred to
the fact that he captured Fort Fisher and
Fort McAllister during the war, and that
he led the advance on New Orleans. |
didn't dispute him, but 1 told half q
dozen lies equally as good, aud the way
we did enjoy ourselves was immense.
Finally the parting came. / knew what
it would bring, and 1 was sad. As he
rose up and put his hand on my shoulder
In an aflectionate way he said:
have just sent to our pay master for
q thousand or SO, but 1t won't come do 1n
until this evening. Meanwhile / want to
send my vile off on the Baltimore train.
II you can spare me thirty or forty dol
lars, III run over with 1t about O'Clock
Tonight"
Then had to own up to him that
owing to the eaving In of my gold mine
iu Yucatan, and tho loss of So, 600, 600 by
fire In California, and the non-arrival of
my semi annual dividend of $500, 900
from my diamond pasture In Africa,
WAS hard up aud secretly using stove
polish on my shoes In place OF the regu-
lar luxury.
"But you don't doubt mel" he asked.
''Neveri would die first"
But he went away grleved and mad,
and next day when me, him at the post.
Office and attempted to link my arm In
his In a brotherly way he repulsed me
and said ought to be arrested on my
looks.
The next caller found me down on the
sands, where was trying the effects of a
sunbath on boil which wanted to mon
opolize all my leg. He was a fine look
ing man, tall and straight, and he had on
a black suit aud spoke seven different
languages. didn't hear but one, but
boy further back on the beach said he
used the other six In walking the first
u iity feet away from mo. He introd iced |
birsself as Prof. Langley, of Harvard,
and explained that his great speciality |
was mathematics. We shock. We
liked each ether from the first look. |
some people h,ld you of, you know,
Intil they can ascertain whether your
great grandfather was the confidential |
Idvlser OF William the Couqueror, or |
,nly ioremast hand on the Mayaower,
Iut we were not that way. When we had |
alked bit, he said:
"Being as have read all the speeches
'ou have made In the Senate, and being
- my friend, the President, warned me
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