The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-03

the terrible state of affairs and touched"
for large amount of money. A large
annuity is alleged to have been fixed upon
Mr.. Drayton and even larger sum upon
Mrs. Drayton, for which she was to cast
Mr.. Borrowe overheard. About the time
the new checks were finding their proper
destination we hear of Mr.. Borrowe and
Mrs. Drayton being abroad. Not long
afterward the fiery and furious husband
overlook them in cafe in Paris and ac-
costed them thus: "Ah, there! caught
you againl When are you two going to
bolt 2" AS they had just ordered liver
and bacon, he would be hard-hearted
husband who would expect them to
bolt that. Mr.. Drayton was not the
cruel monster to do it, and if the
breakfast was disturbed by any other
incident it is not SO recorded. Then
we have the long correspondence prior
to the bloody duel the gentlemen were
going to fight in France-France being
selected because larger liberty is
allowed there in such matters. The lam
guage of the correspondence indicated
that this was going to be one of the most
earnest and deadly duels that had ever en-
sanguined the soil of France. Old Roche
fort and the other boulevardiers of Paris,
who have fought fifty or sixty duels
apiece, were not to be sin it," The out
look was bloody and terrible until the
red-nosed Due de Morny was called in and
decided that there could be no duel, for
the reason that the villain in the case was
the only gentleman in the partyl This
would have done for the climax but the
banked, embroiled and embittered men
insisted upon sailing back home on the
same vessel. The reporters went down
the bay to find out whether there had
been q fight on shipboard, and so
inf hnf
they neglected to ascertain whether
Messrs. Drayton and Borrowe had not oc-
cupied the same stateroom during the
passage. Anyhow, it is certain that they
did not STAY each other, for their anxious
friends say they never looked better. The
question is: What have they come for?"
And perhaps the answer submitted by a
man on the Bowery is as good as any:
''De blokes broke de contract-old man
Aston shut Oft de pensions-and dey are
over here to pull his leg. See?" The
somber lines in this picture are fu- nished
by Ward McAliister standing in the back
ground, wringing his lily-white hands and
lamenting more over these three lambs
than over the other 597 that have not Deen
found out. Meanwhile ''sassiety," which
has been in the habit of looking to the
Astors as the source from which all social
blessings fow, is suffering greatly from
nervous prostratiou.
Famous After Dinner Speakers.
/ observe that Senator David B. Hill,
during his recent trip through the South,
delivered an after-dinner speech in Savan-
nah in which he paid rather ieft-handed
compliment to the professional after
dinner speakers of the country. The sem
ator is not man noted for his sparkling
humor. think he enjoys a good thing
when he hears it, but do not believe that
he ever told funny story TO anybody in
his life, or that he has any appreciation of
the bright side of existence. To him all
things are serious. / was, therefore, sur
prised TO observe that in his Savannah
speech he attempted TO be somewhat TO-
cose. He suggested that our negro min
strelsy had undergone great change.
and had practically lost its vital
lty, giving place, as it were, to the
humorous after-dinner speaker This is
neither funny nor true. Negro minstrelsy
has died out simply because we no longer
nave artists who can depict the genuine
African, who Is, at best, caricature on
the Caucasian race. But the best of our
after-dlnner speakers are certainly several
grades above the best minstreisy that our
times have known. l am free to saw that
have heard here in New York speeches
delivered at public dinners such as | be-
iieNe couiu not De heard any other place in
the world. While men like Depew, Porter,
Ingersoll and Fellows manage to inject a
reasonable amount of hilarity into their
speeches, as is becoming when men are TO
be entertained who have dined agreeahly,
they also are able to transmit a great
deal OF excellent thought. After all is
said, | must admit that Mr.. Depew
IS the best all-around after-dinner
speaker have ever heard. There
is apparently no occasion to which he is
not equal. He generally manages to in
troduce considerable fiippancy into the
first half of his speech, but he never fails
to wind up with the expression Of some