The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-03-15

Ing from some neigho0Ting tree.
Distances Jonathan takes no account
Of: fJP him they do Lot exist Attic
annual dinner Of the Glover club. at
Philadelphia. seated opposite me was the
eslitcr of one Of the large Chicago news
papers. He had come from Chicago to
philadelphia, to lie present. After all.
Is IL hut twenty-f.ur hours journey.
1hat all! | could not help making a
rema rk On the sub Iect to nay neighbor al
table.
There is nothing at al astonishing
about it. said he; you see that t<.ld
gentleman with lcng beard over there?
Well he has come from san Francisco"
a piece g: can as hack duck. at that
moment in my rhroat, nearly choked me.
Excuse me" | sad To my neighbor,
~ have only been in America three
montEs-I shall get sed to it, shall get
used to it."
Twas looking one day at the list Of en-
gageInents, which my manager had Just
sent me for the following week. To my
stupt faction read:
Monday - New York. Tuesday
Youngstown. Wednesday-Indiana
lis
| ran to the Office Of this imperturhable
Yankee and asked him: is it possible
that / can reach these towns 50 far apart
III time To give my lectures"
"Nothing easier" he replied, seizing
the railway guide. Your New York
lecture comes oil at 3 III the afternoon.
At ). you have a train which gets to
Youngstown by noon next day, There
you lecture 1T 3. Pay your bill and send
your luggage 10 the station before going
10 thu Opera house, where you have to
speak. AS soon as your lecture is over,
Jump into a cab and you will catch the
lOo'clock train. " hi,h will set you down
at indianapolis in time for your next
days engagement"
"N hat. 90 to the train in evening
dress" | exclaimed.
And why not? You undress in the
sleeping car, suppose
II Won would have an idea Of good
lecturing tour in America, just imagine
yourself appearing i'll public one day in
London, the next in Paris, the day after
| in Berlin, then IN Jenna, St. Petersburg
and Constantinople, to finish up the week,
| Then take Ieheran. and the chief cities
| of Asia, and You have 1t fair idea of the
| journeys.
! Here is a little scene of American life.
| 1t was told me, not only without boast,
| but as the most natural thing in the
world, by MIR, l.. S. Metcalf, the editor
of The Forum.
Mr. Metcaif wished to have an article
on the subject of the MormOns for his
! review. For several weeks he had been
| la correspondence with one of the elders
| of the Mormon church.
"All this letter writing does not ad-
vance matters much" thought Mr.. Met
| calf; zone or two hours conversation
would settle the thing"
Two hours later he was in the train
for Salt Lake City. He probably reck-
oned this way: at is oniy five DAYS
journey in the cars. and what is that
when one sets against it a good talk In
the interest Of the review"
Mr. Metcalf set out, arrived. saw, had
his chat, took the car again, and came
home.
"But," timidly advanced, what be-
came Of the review during all this timer
oh! it suffered nothing from my
| absence" said it's editor; Il installed
myself at the table in the car, where
was able to carry on my work at my
ease. When we stopped at the stations,
I posted my letters and sent and re-
ceived kilograms with as little difficulty
as in New York"
"But could you really work easily in
the train?'
Better, much better than at my own
desk, my dear sir; there was no one to
| come and disturb me-"
Twas one day relating this converse
ton to an American journalist.
"You are simply wonderful, you
Americans,' said to him: you would
! go to the Sandwich Islands to fetch
news OF the king at Honolulu"
"Just SO, he repiied-''I have done it. y
One of my fellow passengers on my
! homeward trip was d New Yorker who,
| on the morning of the day the boat was
to sail, left home without the least in.
| tention Of crossing the Atlantic Having
made up his mind ut noon, he telegraphed
| to his wife: Don't wait dinner, am off
to Europe" bought a bag ard a few
| necesSaries for the voyage and calm! y
embarked at haIf-past 3 for Europe.
American wives are used to this sort of
! thing and think nothing Of 1t. >
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