, 1890-08-24

how to Overcome the llidins Habit,
cloth fifty cents, paper two bits. He was
secured partially because of his political
influence, and also because he is a
thorough connoisseur Of spoopju.
He said he would 90 cheertully. Be-
sides these two | also invited Mr.. Sawdorf
Astor Plaice, of Lenbox. He is not large
physically, but he has a brain which is
what might be called a teeming brain.
When he is thinking real earnestly. if you
go quite close TO his brain you can hear it
purr. l never saw such a brainy cuss as
ne is. His thoughts sometime rumble
like a telegraph pole. he thinks SO hard.
l selected him because | wanted a bunch
of picked men, and any one could see that
be was a picked man to Just look at him.
He seemed somehow to have been picked
too soon. He took a banjo with him.
That also was picked. Before we had
fairly started he got everything about
him to harmonic by having his pockets
picked.
My next thought was to procure the
needful food supply for our long journey,
and obtain permission of my paper to
draw on it whenever / needed any money.
l also wrote an editorial regarding my sa-
gacIty and things, leaving it to be printed
on the day OF my departure.
| now begin to look about me Cor food
and whang whang, iingsang and colored
beads to be used for purposes OF
traffic. My first purchase consisted oil 6
small hamper of Rockford cheese, which
is an snti-scorbutic and also iusures alb
solute isolation to its happy possessor, /
fully believe that the Rockford cheese
giving it the Auglicized spelling, for |
am always kind to the Rockford and
Limburger cheeses, never laying n hand
on eyether of them otherwise than in
k;ndness-I say that the Rockford
cheese. aside from the Excelsior stencil
works, east of Newark. has no living
rival. And [ would also add that its
dead rivals would do well to look care
fully after their %laurels. So / got a
hamper of this cheese with a little
damper in the top which l could open
whenever | wanted a little solitude.
| also secured some biltong and a small
mill to use in grinding mealie, against
the time when we should be beyond the
reach Of Acker, Merrall & Condit's de.
livery wagons. | took with me in my
inside pocket a small autograph album
which / purposed getting Emin Tute.
wiler to write iuto rs soon as we had
relieved him. | said little to my chief,
who had preceded me via Ocean Grove
and Cape May; but il was my idea while
he was thus leisurely scouting through
the game country and tracing the
sources of the Passaic to quietly slip in
and relieve Emin Tutewiler mvself, thus
compelling my chief to play the rear
guard act and give me an opportunity
by means OF a stereopucon and lecture
TO do a good business with the Young
Mems Christian Association on my re-
turn.
Mr.. Aston Place said that be would
advise me to procure two or three gun
bearers who were familiar with the in
terror and who had become acclimated.
i therefore secured two gun bearers for
my own use named Sahib Williams and
Congo Briggs. | got them of Sir George
Pullman, who said he did not want them
any more. 0pe of them had lost a cake
Of soap some&here between Fort Wayne
and Chicago, aud although he had looked
very diligently over every inch of the
ground, he could not find 1t. SO Sir
George had to bounce him for the ex-
ample and in order to preserve the dis
cipline. Congo Briggs had thoughtlessly
shut up one of the directors children in
a upper berth and forgotten about 1t
till he got into Forty second street. where
tue parents discovered that they were
short one child.
Our start was auspIcious. | had armed
myself with an elephant gun and an ex
press rife, which with my bat box and
an oil stove were IN the hands OF my gun
bearers. We carried with us a few
macadamized sea biscuit and some im.
pervious pie in a shawl strap, in case we
should not find any pie trees IN bearing
on our arrival in the interior. We
sailed on the 10th and touched at Hell
Gate on the same day. taking this way
out in order to head off Emin Tute
wilef, whom | had some fears might. vis
Newport and the steamer Pilgrim, geI
home before the relief expedition got ts
him.
The head Of the expedition has STATED
IN one OF his magazine articles that W,
fooled away too much time at Far Rocka
way, and also took two-thirds of th,
spoopju DESIGNATED for the entire enter
prise. SO that he ran short = little south o
Red Bank, and was thus compelled +
stop and 20 into camp for over a wee|
until four paRazis could be sent back 10
more spoopiu. for which he had To pa
the exorbitant price Of sixteen doti pc
plambo- do not know how much
plambo is. neither doth | reck . plain, 10