The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-07

my opinion is that we are too easily
pleased with titled people here in this coun-
try. Sir Edwin Arnold is good man and
writes as good poem as anybody ] know,
but when he appears in public as a reader
along side o. such talent as you and Miss
Potter, and at the same price, L say it is
discriminating against our own indus
tries.n
Possibly this is true. Yet, working as
we do together in the great field OF litera-
ture, and trying as best we may 10 advance
and elevate the tastes and aspirations of
mankind, | would hardly wish to criticise
the methods or gestures of Sir Edwin.
know only too well how long it takes TO get
good set of gestures together. 1t cannot
be done at once. Even when we DO So
others may rob US of them and fiji them to
other selections, going ahead of US and so
making US appear later on, when we visit
the same town, as plagiarists.
Sir Edwin Arnold has always used me
well, and though [ did not stop at his house
while in England as ! had already
promised other K. G. BIS and K. rs that |
would take my trunk right to their places
and stay, yet | always heard him well
spoken ef everywhere.
We welcome the English author on our
shores at all times, and give him a hearty
Endorsement, but we ask him as an Offset
to this to throw the chest well out, stand
erect, hold up the chin instead of the audi
ence, and refrain from wetting the thumb
while turning over the leaves.
Shortly after her majesty printed her
Life and Service of John Brown" it
occurred TO me that brief excerpts from
this work would do well for readings in
this country, SO l wrote to her in care of
her manager asking her what she would
take for fifty choice dates in America, to
read jointly with me, each Of US selecting
from our own works. My idea was that
my own selections would, as it were, give
a solid and literary character 10 the enter
tainment, while her own would brighten
up the evening with mirth and gladuess.
Whether her majesty did not understand
the meaning Of the word excerpt and,
therefore, cruelty misiudged my meaning,
or was unable 20 get a chaperon in time |
do no. know, but suffice it 10 say that the
royal fungus is growing rank on my still
unanswered Billie Do.
l saw very sad man yesterday on the
cars as l rode west. There were scalding
/ tears in every tone, and his chin quivered
! like horses lip. His name was Brown,
| ne said, generally called FlamingO Brown,
because of long, wavy neck he had, which
struck me as the longest, ruddiest sweep
Of undulating neck and aquiiine Adam
| uppl6 luaO laQ ever seen.
FIamlngo Brown told me that he was on
his way to Dwight, Ills, and in order tc
| give the Kelley cure a good, honest trial he
| said he said he should enter the institute in
a beastly state of intoxication He had s
pretty fair start already, and some Of his
| longest words flew to my head in a very
short time.
II was not always thus said FlamingC
Brown, uncciling mis- neck from around his
NCd. aN-f H.
! oumbbell so that you could hear it in the
next car. Then he sobbed little on the
back of the seat, meantime feeling about il
his pockets for handkerchief which ht
did not have. | felt sorry for him and gave
him an extra which l wear in my overcoa
for looks entirely. 1t is one l bought a
the Bon Marche, in Paris, paying for i
three francs and pour boir. You canno
do anything in Paris without a pour boir
When called on Carnot / sent in my care
and pour boir and never saw either O
! them again.
tlamingo Brown after awhile dried hi
tears IN measure, also in my new hand
kerchief, and then he told me his story
Possibly you too, gentle reader, may car,
to hear it. He said
VI was temperance lecture in Georgi,
all my early life. 1t was easy for me to b.
temperate, for | did not like rum, and s.
T. W
was good job. 1t was q pleasure and
pront. can see now that l was not en-
titled to so much glory as l thought was
Alas l had an enemy-a rival, Mr.
Nye-a goddess young man who likeo t
take wine at times, and yet withal was no
Intentionally bad. He seemed, however
to resent my earnest work in the temper
ance field, because, he said, knew nothin,
about lntemperance except what l had rea
in books, and SO oftentimes he told me
ought to keep off the grass and talk abou
things upon which was informed, if sue
a thing could be found through the wan
columns of the paper.
I'VE also loved the same sweet, swee
girl She wavered. She seemed to enio
wavering 1t gave her good deal of al
tentlon and quiet summer evenings an
buggy rides DER the lea.
j "In an unguarded moment tried to d