The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-06-30
A FAIR CONFEDERATE.


lie had come into the refreshment
room al Eusto station and had rec
ognized me as . former fellow
traveller. ! had asked him to have
a cup Of tea. "Not for me. I'm
like good old Nebuchadrezzer, !
am. lit may be 'olesome,' says
old Nebuchadnezzer when they
turned him out 10 grass-'it may
be 'olesome,' he says, "but II amt
nice.'"
He threw his head back and
laughed and coughetl very much
al this. Then he called the buxum
young lady behind the bar Flossie
darling, and asked her to give him
some gin hot-unsweetened.
"Don't DRAIN in,"lle said, when
she was putting the water III
"don' DRAIN it. Give il a chawnce.
Il cawn't swim you know" he
leaned across The counter and
spoke more lovingly 10 lhe mag
nificent young person. IL 81, lsy,
where re yon goins next Sunday,
Aders Ehg Give US one Of those
violets you've got"
The magnificent lady frowned
at hlm with such Ioft,ness that l
expected him to die on lhe spot.
But he didn't. He only hummed a
song intended, think to have a
topical reference:
ooh, her line is in the Aahr wy;
And since she's lived dahn our wy
All the little domains in our alleys got the
mock"
The lady at the bar painted and
said breaihlessly (and with no
slops) what l.ext she wondered
horrid fellow little less noise if
you please you're rot in a low
music hall now. He responded to
this with some feeling that he
wished he was.
He drank TO a toast Of Ten thons.
and year for all Of Us, and came
over and sat near me. He said he
had nothing to do that night till 10
o'clock, and then, please Cord, he
should be busy. myself hal
half an hour 10 spare, for my train
did moi 70 until ~. He said busi
ness was very slack, and (witi
sudden bitterness he said hs
would be expletlved il he didn'
some day turn Salvat,oner.
4 Some vt us don't seem to have
what | call not no luck. | dom
know how il is. Jest when yol
think you've got hold Of rea
good thing" he added in a coarse
confidential whisper, sis jest whel
you're a-going to be disappointed
ut is The unexpected that al
ways happens" | quoted.
He made me repeat this remarl
twice, and when he had grasped 1t
true iiwar,iness he slapped me ol
the knee and said was a fai
young coughdrop. Then hp tool
Off his soft cap and silently dnsle.
a lew crumbs of the table and pu
il on again.
"rhe best-looking business wa
ever mixed up in lie said slowly
twas down at Heron Court, nea
GuliIord. l may be a bit old fash
loned in my tastes, but I've alway
been rather partial to duclesses.
He said this with a relish, a
. though they were something sol
in Tins.
"And when / saw in LIoyd's tina
, The Young duke had gone and maj
ried Miss Deborah Clancy, daugh
!. ter Of the we'll known rubber mer
J chant Of New Haven, Ct., an
2 when saw that he wedding pres
|, enis were both numerous ant
g costly and The happy pair had lei
D town for The Dukes house nea
/ Guilford amid a shower OF rice an
I. old slippers, then l said to myseI
3 | SAID, Go in and win, my boy, an
(. play the gone off oi your own ba
| Don't have no pariners,' l says |
/, myself, don't have no con(ede
|. rates, but jest goin aud have
good old try So l dressed myse
]. up very tastsly and I went dow
TO Milford station.
II bad a Gladstone bag with M