Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-18
THE TRIP INSPIRED A SONG.
Bumped UnceremOniOusly Into a
New Custom OF the Road.
HUNTING UP A MODEL BARBER.
ronnd After Long Chase. but a Guinea
Visit Was Too Much Of a Luxury
for tho American.

b4e"t WallAct eatafo as one OF tue ueli D.
lfe created furore In London, chiefly be-
cause. as ho himself says. II was pure
American and showed Thorn 20"
On his arrival London tho genial
"Dogonet" enthuSed over HIN In the REF
eree," Lady Henry Somerset welcomed In
him one Of the most powerful Of temperance
advocates In the United States; while the
bishop OF Derry and his colleague. the
Dean, expressed unsolicited their delight In
his verse.
Captain Jack gives his experience as a
cowboy who has lived all his lie in the
mountains or on the plains, while crossing
the ocean and while living in London In
this account:
The day before sailed for Europe did
lots OF serious thinking. had spent the
greater portion OF my lie cut In the big
border country where the prairie schoon-
err was the largest vessel aaoat, and the
thought OF 30O0-mile trip over the water
with the possibility OF side trip down
INTO the coral caves among mernaids and
lamp, elammy fishes aud the salt-preserved
bones Of previous voyagers worried me not
llttle. Then, too. had read a great
deal about sea sickness. male de-mer"
believe some people cal, It while suffering
from Partisan alteration Of mind. l crohsed
The ocean when but KID OF tender years,
came over to this wonderful country clad
IN Scottish kits, with the glad sunlight
playing softly over my bare. brown knees
and on the trip. while suffering. as all
people suffered on the sail vessels Of that
lay, had given up to the denizens Of the
brlny deep everything that was portable
about my PHI. being. and memories OF
hat wretched voyage yet haunted me.
When went on board the Teutonlc,
however, and noted the air Of uuconcern Of
the other passengers my truant confidence
returned, and tried to feel that trip
TO Europe was but commonplace affair.
| felt premonltlon that was going to
have trouble should the sea prove rough.
and shortly after going on board made
tour OF tho vessel and noted the most Sc
eludod places to which could hastily retire
lhould my stomach prove rebelllous and
Inalsi on casting up accounts with me.
even nxed In my mind the determination
that when the spirit moved me | would
transact the business In as low tone OF
voice as the spssmodle action would per-
nit 30 as to not attract the attention OF
the other passengers. All my precautions,
however, Were unnecessary, for King Nep.
tune was in most placid. eontented state
OF mind and We had smooth water all
the way over. made special mention of
this fact every night when | returned
thanks to Heaven for preserving me through
tho day.
On the third day out We sighted mon.
ster whaler. and the passengers crowded
the decll to get view of the oyergrown
sucker, He WIS laying on about TWO points
to lecward, and mad evidently hove to when
he ligh,ed our vessel. lie squir,ed signals
% Va for few moments. but IA our signal
officer was not eoDyorsant with the whale
code they were not replied to. aud In dis
gust he threw himself lntn diving attl-
lude, waved Us 4 goodhy vita his great tail
and went down home again
A stood gazing In open-eyed wonder IN.
on tho massive nsh | recalled story had
heard about an Inflated person named Jonah
something who was cast overheard iron,
some outgoing craft for refusing to auell
a storm when requested TO do so by the frs,
cabin passengers, and who had been swal-
lowed raw BY whale. perhaps a forofath.r
OF the one tnon giving public test Of It's
pumping machinery In front OF US. | had
always looked upon the story with a feeling
Of suspicion and ever after hearing Il had
refused TO lend money to the man who told IL
% me. but as l noted the great proportions
OF that king Of the deep the yarn seemed
more probable. and a regrotful feeling pos-
sesaed ms as | rejected that perhaps for
all those years hA1 been doing an injust.ee
10 the man who had 80 solamnly assured me
that the whale did swallow Jonah, aud nnd.
Ing him lndlgcslible had disposed Of him at
tho nrst favorable opportunity. And. SO
the man said, poor Jonah was held without
bail In tho midst Of the whale for forty DAYS
u NsHfH HNf ANNH % H...I
blurber. was never permitted to see the
Ugh, " day excepting when tho whale
would yavn. but was held there a close pris-
onCr until his time had expired, aud he was
released on hia own recoguizanee. 1, struck
me that tho unfortunate man must have
been put ashore by the whale on Eome coast
OF America and that his tribe has increased
aud multiplied, for the land Is now overrun
with Jouahs, large number OF them being
IN the theatrical ranl,s
We passed an iceberg too, away out yon-
der, In latitude 50 many degrees longitude so
much ives. Of somewhere. We gazed upon
IL Va silent awe untll a fellow passenger
heaycd great SIGH and feellngly said;
IL had that IN Now York last summer
when de- mercury vag cut OF slight | would
have bsen richer than the Nanderbilss
VIVA, pity that 10 going to wAate7
When l eudesyaeed 70 console him with
the fact thai ihe ice was unht for use on
NNNNNhN u "a AAiAllt ltsFNfNtsf AN hAleAl1
retorted: az would soil it for cooking Ice.
my irlena, ! would sell Il for cooking lcer'
The cosmopolitan spirit / found among
tho passengers somewhat surprised me.
Before we were out twenty-four hours
everybody knew everybody else, and where
he or she was going. and how long they
would stay. Tho merchant prince and the
wcll'to-do mechanic, the French Count
and tho Yankei no count. the foreign
ninihter and tho domestic layman. the
English lord and the plain American clti-
zen ohsttsd together and blew smoke in
each others faceS In the most soel0ble
banner. Some were crossing the water
for their health. Some were returning
homo In possession OF the health which
had escaped them. aud which they had
pursued to America and nuelly racaptured
In the mountains " our great West. Some
We're going for pleasure. sonle on businosa
and some because II was fashionable to
do Europe al least onoo year.
In tho smoking room the utmost jollity
prevailed European fairy taluz wero
plttod agaipst some OF Americas moat
popular 7r9yarleationH, aud the most gifted
liar on b0arc was regarded az pFlnca
among his fellows, The poker tables were
ever surrounded by devcteos Of that en-
t.cing game and while standing behind an
English gentleman who sat 10 a game /
was astoushed az the proficiency one eau
acquire n the art In short course Of
study. ne assured MS he never saw the
game until he came over to America a few
weeks before. yet no sat there cool and
confident, and guarded the honor Of a Jack
pot with a handful Of goldea soveroigns