The sun., 1894-09-16
a FILIAL PILGRIMAGE.
Detniis or Its Outcome, with References 20
Mnrk Of Arl md q ElnnIn Dinner.

IL II not so difficult to be pilgrim nowadays II
you choose your Mecca with forcthought and
do not become too greatly exalted. Thousands
travel by steamer to the old original Mecca; and
Bourdes hns Its special excursion trains painted
white like our old ghost" mail trains; and.
generally speaking, pilgrimage isn't so very
remarkable nowadnys-if you choose your
shrine. Now the man who made tho pilgrimage
herein TO be described is the same whose quiet
Fourth OF July in the country began at mid
night with salute of an unconscionablo num-
Der Of guns and ended at 10 o'clock In tho even-
ing with two cannon crackers exploding on his
front porch. so perhaps any place away from
thnt where he spent his quiet Fourth
might seem nm excellent shrine. But he is a
man of determination when his wife's around
so he made no pilgrimage simply to get away
from place; what ho wanted was to get to
some place.
II may be the fact that one Of his family was
once n prominent civil service roformer that
filled him with the Chinese reverence for ances-
trail domcies; as to that he is not sure. But be
that as It may, he decided TO visit the birth
place of two ancestors-oneo of them her so ten
derly referred to by Gilbert In the lines:
Had that refreShmcnt been denied
Indeed, our strephon might have died.
The other was that estimable woman who does
not need to bo taught how to suck eggs.
Now the Strcphon of this pilgrimage was for
tunate in the choice of his Mecca; for, though
this learned old lady Is really only his step
grandmother, yet she and Strcphon's mother,
1olanthc. were born in tho same house; what is
more, in the same room. So one journey would
settle everything; ono shower of dutiful tears
would do Tor both; one burst OF hlial feeling
could serve as astep-grand-filial ditto and there
would be no waste Of emotional tissue.
10 rhnu nj ia hott half nAa Dh,-l1t
started.
They took the rear car OF tho train so that
they might @ see .be scencry but It'll thew % found S that
about seven other persons had taken the rear
seats Mt earlier stations, 40 thev had 10 take
front seats in the car and examine the view
through clouds Of soft coal smoke. At Curtis's
Station it seemed as If rival pilgrimage was UNI
DER way. tall ana thin Episcopal clergyman
entered the car, pushed in by one-two-three
-, W. .' ~ ~ l'lo ~ -
ianky youth not in orders. The parson clucked
dncklinqs II rtbey were rg,v dpctI,nSs @ nos s toooSIrs
sn Nte' 80 vs., Wv "
had sIa S the
"Wo two " he said, as he held mn a now tbon-
, III, it,. :. - ,,a,.a ~ 80
where in the cars" and then he looked as II ho
knew he'd said something that tangled bit,
ductor tore out whole, pinch of leaves, and tho
pGrson composed himself. :. =.
had kept on, it would have gone through a
motel; 20. with the native modesty OF New
EEnEiander. the engineer stopped II, and every
Ing the hotel was built where 1t was, because the
1oWn SI is really worth wortn LOCKING at ana ahoihet
Sra9sh the aRS dst yon IN Bsen
y, Then came the business end OF the Pilgrimage m
Mr. ana MIS- Strepnoh went down MI IN prner rS
tne Town IL pult IN that Way-nhu then cast
around TO locate their Kaaba. There were no
these people went to what a native called "the
Atheenyum. ~, mere Mr Strephon lnterviewed
an agreeable librarian, while Mrs strephon, who
always WAS noted Tor her kindly ways, AIDED
distressed young woman TO select one OF hud-
yerd kipiing,,ss books: ,,
But Mulvaney has been in about all his books,
three Of the stories OF the last preceding colec-
I've read all but this signed the young lady,
"and I've forgotten the name"
Ihey decidsd nhally thaL the nook wanteo
was called Muiyaney or. the Light that W Went
explained parenthetically TO the Librarian; but
the Atheenyum didn't own the book; SO the
y0ung LADY s9ok an aTmTui ind Gf ha5
history Of the city: ,u,.,
North street Mrs: strephon saw some syeetiy
pretty S.anped perhs' p s' 80 she s,teppea ihoS oP
the store, anu While sne was DuyihB some OF
them Strephon himself became confidential
with the proprietor. a.,
IN the course OF zen minutes conversation the
pIVprIetor nau soi as iar US tnis
was 1ust GONG 10 say that really dqn,t
tbsrs niS No onn ,ne t St te me bis,ory os
the city, and he can tell you all about It,. There
ne goes now anu the proprietor pointed mes
s1ng 70 IN, the S sur o,nce' ,,,x-,,, h.s..os ,a
so 70 the sun once the pliRrIin hasteneu, anu
caught nj: Jones, ntroducea himseii as seeker M
nitr truti. anu Nuitcu' o,u -ir' yvhco NaS
hanf nd NHaU N rh nj