The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-06-14

TO- Plays the violin we'll.
IL. Is an expert singlestick player,
boxer and swOrdsman.
II. Has good practical knowledge
of British law.
When I had got so far in my list /
threw it into the fire in despair. If
| can only find what the fellow Is driv-
ing at by reconciling all these accom-
pliShmentS, and discovering a calling
which needs them ALL" l said to my
self, Il may as well give up the at
tempt at once"
l see that have alluded above to
his powers upon the violin. These are
very remarkable, but as eccentric as all
his other accomplishments. That he
could play pieces, and difficult pieces, l
knew well, because at my request he
has played me some of MendelssOhn' s
''Lieder,' and other favorites. When
left to himself, however, he would sell
dom produce any music or atte@pt any
recognized air. Leaning back\in his
ar n. chair of an evening, :le would close
his eyes and scIape carelessly at the
fiddle which was thrown tcross mis-
knee Sometimes the chords We're son
orous and melancholy. OccaSi 0Illly
they were fantastic and cheerful.
Clearly they reGecte1 the thoughts
which possessed him, bit VIII :thcr the
music aided those thoughts, or wheth-
er the pl;iying was simply fhe result of
| 4 Whilti or fancy was more than
| could determine" might l1aye rebellad
against these exasperating solos had
it not been that he usually termir ated
them by playing in quick succession a
whole series of my faYOrite airs as d
slight compensation for the trial upon
my patience.
During the first week or so ne had no
CALLERS, and I had begun to think that
my companion was as friendless a man
as I was myself. Presently, however,
I found that he had many acquaint,
ances, and those in the most different
classes Of society. There was one lit
tie, sallOw, rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow
who was introduced to me as Mr.. Le-
strade, and who came three or four
times in Il single week One morning
young girl called, fashionably dress,
ed, and stayed for half an hour or
more The same afternoon brought a
gray headed, seedy visitor, looking like
a Jew peddler, who appeared to ME to
b,. much excited, and who was clC Sely
followed by q slip-shod elderly woman
On another occasion an old white-hair.
ed gentleman had an interview with
nv companion, and on another rail
way, porter in his valveteen uniform
When amy. of these nondescript iHdivid
tails put in an appearance SherlOcE
Holmes used to beg for the use of the
sitting-rOOm, and would retire to my
bedroom. He always SapOlOgiZed to me
for putting me to this inc0nv venience
"IrhaVe tOEuSe this room as a place OF
business" he said; "and these'!peoplt
are my icllents'' Again I had an op
p6rtunitg bf asking HIM point blanl
question, and again my delicacy pre-
vented me from forcing another maI
to confide In me. / imagined at thu
time that he had some strong reasol
for not alluding to it, but he soon dis
PEELED the idea by coming round t.
the subject of his own accord
1t was upon the fourth of March
as I have good reason to remember
tha@ I rose somewhat earlier than usu
al, and found that Sherlock Holmes
had not yet finished his breakfast, Th'
landlady had become so accustomed t.
my late habits that my place had no
, been laid nor my coffee prepared. Witt
the unreasonable petulaace Of malklnG
rang the bell an gave curt int. ma
, ton that I was ready. Then / picke(
UP magazine from the table and at
tempted to while away the time -wbil,
, my companion munched silently at hi
, toast. One Of the articles had pen
. Gil mark at the heading, and I natufall
began 10 1lin my eye through it, 1t
somewhat ambitious title was 9TH
; Book Of Life" and it attempted t
> show how much an obser 9ant man ma
, learn by an accurate and systemati
, examination of all that. came in hi
way. tIt,sstruck ane as being re
markable mixture of shrewdness an
, of absuEditN The reasoning was*clOs
! nhd inteffse, but the deductions appear
! ed to me to be far-fetched and l6xal
: gerated::" Tile writer 'claimed BY a me
! mentaEt Expression, D. tWitcR of
: muscle or a glance OF an eye, to father
d MANS inmost thoughts. Deeeit, az
! coEding to him, was an impossibilit
+ in the case of one trained to observe
+ tion aHd analysis: His eQncllusilQns wor
\. as infallible as SO many propositions Q
y Euclid. So startling would his II
suits appear to the aninitiated that, III
= til they Learned the processes by whic
= he had arrived at them, they NIGH
= we'll consider him as a necpomanoer,
"Fpom q drop Of water" said th
= writer, "a logician could infer the POI
y sibility of an Atlantic or Niagar
y without having seen or heard of on
: or the other. So all life is grea
: chain, the nature Cf. Yhich is knoY
: whenever we are sESowFi "a dsiffgle I'm
/ Of if"Ilke all otnpeef otnpe arts the seieenlet secletlt