Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

insane, nv son. See here. have you been
training with that ass again-that radical,
| if you prefer the term, though the words
are synonymous-Lord Tanzy, of Toll
mache?"
The son did not reply, and the old lord
/ continued:
eyes, you confess. That puppy, that
shame to his birth and caste. who holds all
hereditary lordships and privilege to be
usurpation, all nobility tinsel sham, all
aristocratic institutions a fraud, all in
| equalities in rank a legalized crime and an
| infamy, and no bread honest bread that a
man doesn't earn by his own work-work,
pahn'-and the old patrcian brushed
imaginary labor-dirt from his wkite hands.
"You have come to hold Just those opinions
yourself, 1 suppose" he added with sneer
A faint flush in the younger mans cheek
told that the shot had hit and hurt, but he
answered with dignity:
81 have, 1 say it without shame-I feel
none. And now my reason for resolving to
renounce my heirship without resistance is
explained. l wish to retire from what to
me is false existence, false position, and
begin my life over again-begin it right
begin it on the level of mere manhood, un-
assisted by Fictitious aids, and succeed or
fail by pure merit or the want of it. 1 will
60 to America, where all men are equal and
have an equal chance; will live or die,
! sink or swim, win or lose as Just man, that
alone and not single helping gaud or
fiction back of it.
"Hear, hearr' The two men looked at
each other steadily in the eve moment or
two, then the elder one added, musinrly.
Absolutely crazy-ab-so-lutelyp' After
another silence, he said, as one who, long
troubled by clouds, detects ray of sun
shine. We'll, there will be one satlsfac-
tlon-Slmon Lathers will come here to
enter into his own, and will drown him in
the horse pond. That poor devil-always so
humble in his letters, so pitiful, so deferen-
tlal; so stepped in reference for our great
line and lofty station; SO anxious to placate
us; so prayerful for recognition as reia-
tive, bearer in his veins of sacred blood,
and withal so POOR, so needy, so threadbare
and paupershod as to raiment, SO despised
so laughed at for his silly claimantship by
the lewd American scum around him-ach,
the vulgar, crawling, insuferable tramp;
to read one OF his cringing, naSlseating let
ters-well?'
This to splendid flunkey all in infamed
plush and buttons and knee-breeches as to
his trunk, and glinting white frost-work
of ground glass paste as to his head, who
stood with his heels together and the upper
half of him bent forward, salver in his
hands.
''The letters, my lord"
My lord took them and the servant dissp-
peared.
"Among the rest an American letter.
From the tramp, of course, Jove but here's
a change. No brown paper envelope this
time, flched from shop and carrying the
shops advertisement in the corner Oh,
no, proper enough envelope, with @ most
ostentatiouslv broad mourning border-for
his cat, perhaps, since he was a bachelor
and fastened with red wax-a batch of it as
big as half crown-and-and-our crest
for d seal-motto and all. And the igno-
rant, sprawling hand is gone; he sports a
secretary evidently-a secretary with a
most confident swing and flourish to his
pen. Oh, indeed, our fortunes are improv-
ing over there-our meek tramp has under
gone metamorphosis"
''Read it, my lord, please
eyes, this time will. For the sake of
the cat %
1902 SIXTEENTH STREET,
WASHINGTON, May 9. (
MY LoRD-It is my painful duty to an
nounce to you that the head of our illustri-
Gus house is no more-the Right Honorable
the Most Noble. the Most Puissant Simon
Iathers, Lord Rossmore, having departed
this lie ("Gone at laSt-this is nnspeakably
precious news, my son'') at his seat in the
enyironS of the hamlet of Duffy's Corners
in the grand old State of ArHansas-and his
twin brother with him, both being crushed
by log at a smoke-house raising, owing to
carelessness on the part of all present, refer
able to over-confidence and gayety induced
by overplus of sour mash" ENtolled be
sour mash, whatever that may be- eh
Berkeley?")-five days ago, with no scion of
our ancient race present to close his eyes
and inter him with the honors due his his
torfc name and lofty rankin fact, he is on
the ice yet, him and his brother-friendS
n q collection f 7 ha1 tal Z
immediate occasion to have their noble