The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-04
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Mr.. tllau,trv Il lfet~W attends
the dinners at aii thr various IA
tional Soelesie- scotch. English.
Irish. Welsh. liz always has an Up
propriate si.ry ~lth which 10 gar
nis,l hi. $latci. lie related the fol
lowing experience ut 1t IT. i.ttt1rE :
Day dinner >pi,l" years .t..u
walked uut Of the View .",k ito
tel and up Broaiway today Nl"1
! came opposite The Ola London
Street building il middle eyed man
! accost.,l inc. He looked ;t| If h" h.ai
seer better days. His clothes We're
very old fashioned and TIE ,r,3 :nit
ton of his shiny coa answered for
both neckt,e and scarfpin.
In Il Celtic accent lie said
MI. De1"w that building over
there is a tiave>ty on the old streets
of London
Is IN SAID |. looking straight
ahead and GulcSening my pace He
quickenei his pace. too. ami he kept
lp with me ! couldn't get away
from Inn
They tired to represent the ould
London .~stiFct~. he vent 81 and
the places wilrrr s':m .ioL,sUii and
Oliver Goldsmith atal Edmund Eaikc
and all them i,yes used tn >Dlii,s
thel, tonne !ill; they were away
of know tir streets of niilj Lon
/ L., MI I-,,,,k all a1,i1f fI.,,, 1,,-fs.
! johnson and Goldsmith anf. Burke.
All. that was /, great period | II Brit
lsh history whin thin byes lived.
You were not contemporaneoiis
with them. | suppose, said |. glanc
ing at his clothes.
ooh. no. but | know all about
them In that ould London street
they represented as being all
the tonne III the commercial part of
the city. Now that's all insIi
Goldsmith knew nothing about com
mess He could not even sell his
own manuscripts. sam johnson had
to sell them for him. and then he
didn't know what to do with the
money after he had got it"
This Is ST. Patrick's Day re-
marked.
.Yis. | know II Is. said my com
panion 'Flngal and Ossian wrote
about st. Patrick. | say. Mr.. Depew
Homer was not a Greek"
''Wasnt hel" said |.
No. sir. have looked that up
You must be IN the literary line
yourself" SAID.
Oh. yes: ! am a poet. and. If dc
eay 1t myself. my poetry has been
I read On both sides Of the Atlantic"
We had reached Fourth avenue by
this time. having walked up Broad.
way to Eighth street. and through
Eighth street. stopped to wait fol
a Fourth avenue car. and turning t.
the poet eald Well. my friend, how
much IL IT. What is this going tt
cost meg"
He looked panied and said We'll
] am sorry you look a. the matter II
such a commercial spirit. But as
nave been out Of work about two
months. and there Is no demand fOl
poetry Just now. ! think about fft,
cents will do"
But this is st. Patrick's." said /
Il remember that. but ] don't drinl
anything but coffee
oh. well. If you cont drink any
thing but coffee twenty-five cent
will do. and there it Is
handed him a quarter ant
jumped on the car. and the last ] saw
Of hun he was standing In the sam
spot looking after the a and won
der1ng.
Two or three days later, when tn
story had been published. the ma,
called upon Mr.. Depew and borrowe
i've dollars on the plea that his acc
dental encounter with the orator ha'
supplied the incident which saved Nh
Depew's speech. New York World
For the first f,lne siiIre roNsn PrIEt