Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-05-27

AuhN Is"fIi' viii fFN>iufA fNtfFtlh-iA .
eccentric. IL NOT cranky I'm there d
method in an his madness. aud he draws
great conclusions from very slight iudi
cations Of things. Indeed ! think. alio-
gothef that he n-pcture made of him
by Prentice twenty -udd Years ago i
nearly A. good A. a photograph.
The pen-picture To- Nhich MI Wall al
luded ha> recent, h.rn Frequently
printed. supplied in the iir>t place. Of
late. from the memory Of this writer, and
IL will b. ~ interesting A. a pen picture
10 those " ho have not seen 10 that the
sketch and it, attendant circumstances
are here given.
Away back Wonder ia the Gs
Train. with susan H. anthony.
Cady stanton. Anna Dickeu>on
and other womau's rights champions Wis
tied Louisville ON an equal suffrage Cruz
SADIE. While In that city Train called on
Mr.. Prentice. the editor Of the Louisville
Journal, al his 'sancium' in the Journal
building. This was long before the con-
>olidatiOn Of the Courier and Journal.
Mr.. Prentice was engaged with his am
anuensi> >helling out cop" for the
Journals hopper. when there came a rap
al the door-a vigorou, rap. The aman-
rnsis opened the door. and there stood
une Of the handsomest men he had ever
seen. \ man somewhat above the medium
size, Young. brght-looking and dcbonair.
llis hair was dark and heavy and his
onlt beard Va a Symetrical aud we'll kept
moustache. His hat was a becoming black
>louch. his coat OF the old-timc blue
hrOadcloth. pigeon tail coat. with Hat.
shining brass buttons: the Ve>i Wa Of
heavy white flannel. or sonnet hing Of that
nature. and black doeskln pantaloons
With patent leather shoes. completed the
costume Of this gentleman. who had the
hearing of cosmopolitan. lie gave the
amauensis his card which read. --ti.orge
Francis Train" Girls Americans >urn.
the last three words written In blue ~
red pencil. Train Was introduced To- Mr..
Prentice and for an instant seemed thnn-
der-struck. Doubtless he had expected ia
see very elegant aud distinguished look
ing old gentleman. Instead he saw one
who wa near 10 being "a lean and slip
pered pantaloon. a man prcmaturrly old
with long irongray hair and
heard. the latter tied ia wiSp
with piece 1T cotton Irvine.
man dressed in toru yarl jacket. COM
monty called ''wampus. black Ves,
stained with tobacco juice. black aud
shiny pantaloons. with his feel in a pail
Of slip-shod shoes. This waS George D.
Prentice. the famous editor wit aud poet
~ the Louisville journal. who was never
theleSs distinguished-loo looking because 81
his wondrous ewes aud overhanring fore.
head. The two fell quickly into conyer-
>ation and were suon cH rtpp"if After q
visit Of perhaps half-an-hour Train with.
drew and then Mr.. Prentice said tu nj,
smanuen>i> Write and will dictate a
paragraph concerning Mr.. Train. With
mt going nio the peculiaritic> If Nj,
style ur dicialiau. in which he AWAY,
gave out the punctuation mark, A. b..
went. thus making the proceeding quite
droll TO a stranger. the paragraph. ~
pen picture which he dictated 6, here
with giye4
"A iocon, ptive that has run oii the
track. tnrs~i upside down. with the COW
ettcher hnrfcd in stump and the wheel,
msskfhg a thousand revolution, a minute
Kite ln the air that ha> lost ii> tail d
human novel without a hero man VIII,
climbs a tree for birds nest. out on a
limb. aud in order to get il saws the liml
M between himself and the Tree. \ ,hiI
ithoui rudder-a clock ithout hand.
an arrow shot into the air sermon
that j. all teNt--a pantomimr 81
words-the apotheosl> of talk. TIA,
incarnation Of gah. Handsome vivaeious.
muscular. a. neat a~ cat. clean ta tn,
marrow a judge Of the effect Of clothes
frugal ia food and regular only in habits
\ monday mystery solved conundrun
"a cypher hunting for a figure 10 pas
for something; with the brains of twentl
men Ia his head, all pulling In direren
directions; not bad a TO heart. but maj
who has shaken hands with reverence.
This j. even George Francis Train u
this day, a. 10 character. but Ia the mean
time lac has grown old and his hair an,
nonstache are almost a. white a. the IN
linked portion Of this papers That he /
still MONDAY mystery. even to a maj
who has been around the globe. CONSTANT,
la his company. shows that he j. re-
markable person
- sunday morning last at Two o'clock thi
writer sat with him in club room. whel
he was surrounded by railroad aud news
paper men. he and they chattciing all tn
time and vet he was debating Ia a
amanuenss. off-hand. despatch Of NOR
than thousand words. which seemed T.
him "a pent mp Utica. a. he appeared 3,
have only got fairly started when the an
n0uneement was made that he limit la,
been reached and be- must saw of or hl.
dispatch. which had heen asked by 1
newspaper ln distant citv. would nj
get through ln time to be printed ia ID,
paper Of that morning IN that dispatcl
he talked of the affairs Of the world know.
ingly. and a. II the globe were a picture,
toy which he held in his han,
and turned il over at hi. will
some ~ his conclusions ~ cN-
pressed would seem erroneous 10 the
average observer and vet he gave good
reasons FOE them. lie told Of German
men Of war in the RED Sea going down "a
Zanzibar laden with troops aud from his
and other circumstances drew the con
clusiOn that Germany viii possess herself
II equatorial Africa. lie said that the
Young Emperor Of Germany j. William.
his grand father aud Frederick the great
rolled into one; that he Is more than
dozen of the best Gnelphs and HoenloI.