The Russellville Democrat., 1893-11-23


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 He career ns-ssfeYeh was e1e e4 u- b=1zsn ga4s1e. He cd nos drink hs was exactly bonasss ae was never rz2s so aas empl0gerss Yee was ersry#nere 9lshargsd- Bringing x 10 suteress sg hig 5ates. hs bfDught no atteat59a ais azy Ess tss1s of tAiugs neg gsets1 and things 6gne z1s a1d from pses e p.see zzd from tgEn t8 tDwA. ae earrasa the character of 0ne thoroughly iaeoI- peteat. N3 uaa1 ea1 bear tas word app s6 to hn vi bout some 9ssh Of color, as indeed ttasre is none other tazE 70 e2gaat ealg slams ln rlz- E face ths door Of Sa.f -resFssg3. And to HeTrsek- wao wss e0nsel9ezs of tale1t& and aeea sements, who locked oown upon f1ess hBmbss 1u.ies in gaien he was found want ing, tae pain w@s the more ex- g1iste. Early in hls fall, be had eezzsd to Ds able to make rsD1t- taceee shortly after aaTing nothing but failure 10 com 1anleats, ha ceased writing home {; ard 29out yazr before this tale begins, turned sa9deBly upon its gtraets Of 5za Francisco by : v1 gar ard i1fariztsd German Jew, he Lad 5roasa the last bonds of self- resyset and, upon a sudden impulse, changed hsz nams and inTested his Lass dollar ir 3 posssge o8 tbs nal origastines tbs City of PaPsets. With what expectations ns had trimmed nis Eight for tbs South Seas Herr5ek perhaps scarcely knew. Dou0tless thsrs were fortunes to bs made iE pearl and eoprz o0ubtless others not more gifted than himself had eiimbed iu ths island world to Ds Qzaess' eo1sorts and kingss minis ters. But if Herrick had gone there with any raanf1l purpose be would have kept ais fathers name the alias betrayed his moral nkruptcy ; Le had struck he flag ns entertained 10 hope to reingta.s himself or help his straitened family; and he came to the islauds (whers he knew fhe climate to be scft, bread cheap, and mshners easy), sulker from hfe's battle and his own immediate duty. Failure, he had said, was his por- tioa let t be pleasant failure.
 It is, fortunately. not enough te say, ''I will be base !"
 Herrick continued in the islands his career Of failure but in the new scene and under the new name he suffered no lesg sharply than before. 4 place was got, t was lost in the old gtyie from the long s1feriDg Of the keepers of restaurants he fell 10 more open charity upon the waysids; ; az time went On good nature became weary, and, after a repulse or two, Herrick became shy. There were women enough who would have sup- ported far worse and a far uglisr man Herrick never met CT knex them or if he did toth, some man lisr feeling would revolt, and he pre- ferrsd starvation. Drenched with rains, broiling by day, sbiyering by night, a disused and rninous prison for a bedroom, his diet begged CT pilfered out of rubbish heaps, his associates two creatures equally cut cast with himself, he had drained for months the cup of patience. He had known what 1t was to be re- signed, what 1t was to break forth in a childish fury of rebellion against fate, and what # was 10 sinkinto the coma of despair. The time had changed him. He told himself DO longer tales of an easy and perhaps agreeable declension; he read his nature otherwise; he had proved himself incapable of rising, and he now learned by experience that he could not stoop to fall. Something that was scarcely pride or strength, that was perhaps only refinement, withheld him from exploitation but he looked on upon his own misfor- tune with a growing rage, and some times wondered at his patience.
 Ii was now the fourth month com plotted, and still there was no change or sign of change. The moon, rae. ing through 6 world of flying clouds of every size and shape and density, some black as ink stains, some deli cate as lawn, threw the marvel of her Southern brightness over the same lovely and detested scene the island mountains crowned with the peren- nial island cloud, the embowered city studied with rare lamps, the lnasts in the harbor, the smooth mirror of the lagoon, and the mole of the barrier reef on which the breakers whitened. The moon shone, too, with bull's-eye sweeps, on his companions; on the stalwart frame of the Amer .can who called himself Brown, and was known 10 be a master mariner in sore disgrace; and on he dwarGsh person, the pale eyes and toothless smile of vulgar and oad-hearted eockney clerk. Here vas society for Robert HIerrick The Yankee skipper was a man at east he had sterling qualities of and resolution he was ,ne whose hand you could take