The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-01-04
Importing
By DAN DE QU1LLE.

Copyright, lsoa. BY American Press Associa-
toni
-" ,. RROEMIAL.
"Congratulate me. old man, am now
. Mayaower Of the Maydowers!" cried
my friend Sam johnson.
"A Mayfower?" queried |.
Eyes, Mayfower. Not in person, of
course, but by marriage. It shall now
be my care to perpetuate on the soil of
America the line of the noble house of
johnson. At last l am in the swim,
and blue is the hue Of my blood!'
"What! Married! Have you deserted
our noble band of bachelors"
eyes, and am now Of the noble band
of benedicts."
lin what bright spot in the Golden
State did you find your Mayaower
blooming?"
"Why, my dear fellow, I've not been
in California at all. I've been east.
Bless you, old man, since leaving the
Comstock I've crossed the 'briny'-have
been over to the land of our fathers"
"You don't mean to say that you've
brought bride from over the sea, when
we have in our own America the best
and most blooming beauties the world
can boast"
mo, no, my dear boy! No, my bride
is not from over the sea, but to win her
cost me trip to the land of my ances-
tors-to old England: where peacefully
slumbering in rural church yards He
E;whOle acres Of .TOhnsOns"
! ! "Why, Sam, you don't mean to tell
ne that you've been over to England
since last saw your
eyes, old man, that is just where
have been, and to a few other places be-
sides. Why, by Jove, man may cir
: cumnavigate the globe, and when he re-
appears on the Comstock he is supposed
to have merely been over the Sierras to
California on little flyer! I've knocked
about pretty lively since I left Virginia
City year ago."
IA year ago"
'Yes,.a year ago. You have hardly
missed me, but really left here year
ago. When you think fellow is over
in California. it never counts with you
in this town; it is the same as if he were
here at home. In the time I've been
away might have put about four CIR
dies round the EARTH"
The particular Sam johnson who
thus spoke was young nan about %
years of age. who had for three or four
years been engaged in cunning big
hosting engine at one of the leading sill
yer mines in Virginia City. He also
speculated little in Inning shares and
otherwise enjoyed himself after the
Comstock fashion. He was always
happy-go-luclzy young fellow and bought.
and sold mining stocks in such seem
ingly offhand, reckless way that his
friends were wont to say hat the god
dess of fortune herself took ARE of all
his speculations. The fact VS.. how
ever, that every move Sam MAJ in
stocks was we'll considered.
L was delighted to meet the jolly young
fellow, and having met we at once pro-
ceeded to our old quiet retreat to con-
verse at ease and pass upon the merits of
the newest brand of beer put forth as a
candidate for public favor.
eyes," continued Sam, when we had
anchored ourselves in our old time safe
harbor, Eyes, I've been down east, over
to England, down south and all about"
II can understand your trip to the
New England states and can guess that
s<ypu went down into Georgia or South
Carolina to look at mines, but I cannot
jim4gine why you should have gone to
England"
'Ha, ha, hal" laughed Sam.
|\'What is the joke about your trip to
England? Perhaps you made it merely
A6n1agination?'
"No, I actually went to England and
/ complished my mission there, but
Df6 bably no man ever before crossed the
1c&an on such an errand. Ha, ha! it
WAS the funniest, piece of business ever
undertaken. But it was success-a
glorious success"
What you are saying is all Greek to
me, SAM"
"Of course, but you'll see the fun of
the whole business when you've heard
my story: Then if you don't say that
the affair is the most elaborate joke of
the century I'll treat to the beer every
day for the next year. To begin with,
the whole and sole object OF my mission
to England was to steal and import an
ancestor for the johnson family"
"To import an ancestor?"
Eyes. A great-great-grandfather, and
I got him. He is now the pride of Pasou-
agessit."
ttI2ut he is not alive?"
)"Alive! Pooh, no! Been dead ever
since 1885,"
, CHAPTER I.
THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF PAsONA-
GESSIT.
bam then proceeded to tell me his story
aal follows:
(Iu know that my father, James A.
fohnson, left San Francisco about four
years ago pretty "well fixed, as the say
ing is. With what he made here and
.doTn at the BAY" he had very nearly
tw$ millions in good, solid gold coin.
Ut went back to New England to found
a home in which to end his days. After
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