The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-01-31
4 81 uA1HiCk'S DAY EPISODE

Wow Il degenerate, Poet Managed tn 80
cure = s.'a" t,"m 4. ~. ID-vrw.
Mr.. Chaun.s;;; NJ Ee;mw attends
the dinners Of all the various ma
tlonal %>o.let'es Scotch. English.
Irish. Welsh He always has an II,
prolr1a'" story with which to gan
nish hi> speech BE related the fol
lowing experience. ut /, II. r"trick'>
Day DINNER >n.iir Years ago
walked out of the New York no
tel and n' Broadway to-day WlvI
! came opposite the Old London
Street building middle aged man
acrG~te.i me, He looked H. If he had
seen better days His clothes v,crT.
very old fashioned ard the tn,, hut
ton OF his shiny coat answered. for
both re.ktIe and scartpin,
In IL celrc ;!tse he said
MI. belmw that building over
there IL Il ~trav.Sty On the odd streets
of london
Is NJ sad |. luokin. straight
ahead and ~luickrning my pace. He
qulckenei his pace. too. and he kept
up with me couldn't get away
from iIIlm
They tried IT. represent the uuld
London streets" he went on. and
the places where sam Johnson and
Oliver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke
and all them lv,> used to spird
their tonne But they We're away
oh know the streets of ulild Lon
don aud ! know all about them byes.
johnson and tnlls,mth ;,r. Burke.
All. that was Il great Ia'IlNl III Brit
lkh history wlinn linn byes lived"
You were mt neutrality-suspicious.
with them ! SUPPOSE. SAID |. rlanc
ing at ms rlolbrS
"oh. no hut know al! about
them In that onld London street
they wer represented ;S being all
b tonne IN the commercial part of
the .1ty Now that's all hosll
Goldsmith knew nothing about com.
meitsa He could not even sell hi,
own manuscripts Sam johnson had
to sell them for hila. and then he
drIn'; know what to do with the
money after he had got it,"
'Tl,i, Is 81. Patrick's Day" re
marked
'fls. | know 1t Is. SAID my com
panIon 'Fingal and Ossian wrote
about st. Patrick. | say, Mr.. Depew.
Homer was II o "a Greek"
WASH hef' said |.
No. Sir have looked that up
You must IL. IN the literary line
yourself. : | SAID
Oh. yes. ] am a poet. and. If | do
ray II myself, my poetry has been
read on both sides of the Atlantic"
We had reached Fourt.l avenue by
this time. having walked up Broad.
way to Eighth street. and through,
Eighth street. stopped to wait for
a Fourth avenue car. and turning to
the poet SAID Well. my friend. how
much " Its What is this going to
cost mel"
He looked panied and said We'll,
! am sorry you look i. the matter i'll
such a commercial spirit. But as
nave been out Of work about two
months. and there is no demand for
poetry Just now. think about fifty
cents will do"
But this il st. Patrick's." said |.
Il remember that. but l don't drink
anything but coffee"
oh. well. If you don't drink any ,
thing but coffee twenty-five cents
will do. and there it is"
! handed him a quarter and
jumped on the car. and the last l saw
of him he was standing in the same
'pot looking after the car and won. i,
!,
Two or three days later, when the ,
tory had been published. the man !,
'alled upon Mr.. Depew and borrowed j,
I've dollars on the plea that his acct. &
3ental encounter with the orator had |
upplied the incident which saved Mr.. q
Oepew's speech. New York World. q