Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20

ing it is q gladstone sight to see Mr.. Wander
bilt and the Baron wedding onions or tarring
the noses oftheir sheep.
vANDERBILT's LITTLE GIFT.
Mr.. Vanderbilt showed me yesterday q
picture frame which he has designed, and
which will be used for large photograph
of myself to sit ON his piano in the off parlor.
It is designed to contain nothing but prod
ucts of his place, such as cereals and other
grain, seeds, nuts, acorns, etc, etc These
are glued on pine frame and then o coat Of
shellao is put on over the whole SO as to
look almost like boughten frame There
will be an inner row of buckwheat, then a
row of fa1seed, then two rows of rye and
one Of wheat, then corn, oats, ETC., with
acorns and nuts, chinkapins, ETC., ETC., in the
corners, with rosette of corn in the ear and
festoons of dried apples over the whole.
At 8 A. M every day Mr. Vanderbilt
rings his bell at my door and with a long
handled dipper he hands us out our milk,
also our nice, new laid hen eggs, fresh from
the hand of the artisan, and warm with the
atmosphere Of the home nest, and with now
and then dear little white feather still
clinging to them. He also fetches us our
roasting ears, and when he butchers we get
all sorts of novelties from him. No man
need ever ask for better neighbor than
George is. He helps me during the hoeing
season, and help him in harvest. We own
thrashing machine together, and In the
fall we not only do our own thrashing with
1t, but can make as high as $50, we think,
by thrashing for the neighbora
NO oARKINa CARES THERE
tute of cark. There has been but one case
of cark here since came. One case of cark
and one of Milwaukee beer. The day goes
blithely by, and at night write for an hour
in my diary lot of moral thoughts, which
will be eagerly published after my death.
I have decided to make no dying speech,
for might die at the same time when some
other eminent man is doing the same thing,
and so what said might not receive that
attention which it SO justly merited.
How would hate to play against Mr..
Blaine, for instance, man who could easily
score deathbed success at any time, while
I am timid and feel almost certain that in
any forensic effort of that kind I would
probably cork myself and say something
which would afterward bitterly regret.
What can be more pitiful than bad break
in grammar or the frequent use of tautology
Va
that have decided to keep dairy, to be
published when am gone. 1t will be
good thing. It will show me in my serious
moods and also, here and there, have little
trickles Of pure merriment in 1t, thing
could not Introduce into Tying speech
with credit to myself I will also thus
have chance to rectify the grammars in it
and have it punctuated as go along.
AN INTERESTING VISITOR
AsI say, we move along quietly here
from day to-day, with little to excite or
overstimulate the brain. Last Saturday
man with dreamy look in his pale blue
eyes came here and sat down on my porch
to look at my view. have o good view
here, and keep my horses in deserted saw
mill He sat there with his hat of, drink
ing in the view and tanning his high,
smooth brow with his hat. At first took
him to be my doppelganger. he had the
same Ben Davis style of Adams apple, and
his high forward indicated that he was just
as brainy as he could be.
For time I let him sit there. Then I
stepped out and passed the time of day
with him. He answered rather in q brief
and distracted way. but finally asked my
name. told him what it was ana he took
my hand. He said he had been frequently
taken for me. was glad of it. did not
care if he had been taken tor me, only why
did those authorities who took him for me
let him 90 again? Finally, he said he knew
some Of my folks. 1 said that might be.
My folks never did seem to learn anything
by experience. Some of them, said, were
so kind hearted that they couldn't be un-
kind even to bunko man He laughed
sad laugh, like one who breakfasts with the
President of the United States on the 1st
day of April and cuts into Canton flannel
cake.
LETTING HIS HOSPITALITY LOOSE.
But at last he interested me in himself
He was here Tor his health, he said. He
had air cells in his lungs, think, or some
thing of that kind. He also had letter
from my brother 1t was letter of intro
duction from my brother. AS I read it 1
could almost see how he suffered as he wrote
1t. Probably this man had supported him
when he ran for Office last fall, and now he
had paid the debt by giving him letter of
to me.
Taking him by the hand, said: "Sir, |
you are my guest. A letter from my brother |
will be honored at all times, never mind |
what / happen to be doing at the time The |
letter seems to be genuine, and my brother |
has failed to put in the cipher which means
10 do you up So I judge that he means |