Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-25

nave AlWAyu QluofeU from MI.
James Owen OConnOr and the Count
johannes regarding the cause OF the
terrible mortality in the last act Of
Hamlet, and I do not want at this
date 70 get into a long WOrdy war with
Euripides or his folks, who might be
sensitive.
In conclusion, Mr.. Gurley, let me
say shat l am ready at any time TO write
out thesis or an exhaustive treatise
on almost anything for those who do
not feel like it. AN ] ask is that you
will make allowances for the fact that
my opinions when ], 800 miles from my
library are purely OF hand and may err
at times.
You are right I'm attributinR the
Queens death 20 weakness. Weakness
aud lack of strength together carry of
many Of our best queens, / think.
Regarding the madness OF Hamlet, l
agree with Mr.. OCOnnOr that 10 was
only temporary, and in Mr.. O'ConnOr's
own conception OF the part / think it
was caused especially in Peoria by the
fact that twenty-seven great coarse
boys brought 10 a pair Of frozen rabbits
apiece and threw them with unerring
skill at a sOliloQuy which Hamlet was
trying 20 free himself OF. II that
would not make Hamlet mad I don't
know what would. Still, as say, with
out my library 1 am not sure Of any
thing.
speaking OF being entertained while
traToling and leCturing over the c0un-
try, remarked Bret Harte 90 me a few
weeks ago, II do not murmur or repine
because this matter is not always man
aged successfully, but remember some
cases when I look over my glorious
past where I should have known better
than to accept from strangers the hos
FATALITIES which really gave me a pang.
"Once I received a letter from a man
who had been a constant reader and
who wanted me 90 make his house my
home. and an that sort OF thing-DO
airs, no scallops, but just a glad con-
trast 20 hotel life. was 10 DO al his
town in o few days, and so In an I'M
guarded moment K accepted. I used 10
accept everything In those days-eYery-
thing that was not tied down too hard.
''Wen, the man met me at the depot,
and we walked through a keen frosty
air 60 his house in Muggin's addition. l
was tired and wanted to lie down and
be at rest, for had sat up all day in a
hot coach, and every nerve in me tim
Cled, but people began to drop in to
greet me and dine at the house, so
could not do so. My room was very
neat, bat the shams hurt my ears, so
that / could not get TO sleep till it was
time TO go down to dinner.
"The first course was TO be stewed
oysters, so I was told by one OF the
children when I first came. 1t turned
out 20 be- true. The host dished them
out with a teaCup into deep quart
bowls, and trying TO keep up run Of
persilage while serving the thing he
ran out OF stew before he had gone half
wav round. So he attacked his wife
for more stew, but there was no more.
"'All right. " he said, just give me
back your bowls, and We'll have new
deal Those were his very words We
gave him back our cooling stew, and he
poured the whole thing BACK again.
Then we had a new deal.
ssI never saw such a cheerful ass as
that man in my life. His carving was
inst as bright and unconventional.
,Oh. we take it farmer fashion here,
saws he, and with that be cut out a
hinge OF beeisteak for me, squirted the
gravy into the preachers ear and just
missed stabbing the carving knife into
the hired girl as she passed oy. Her
corset saved her life.
"Oh, he was the very worst I ever
saw. What ever put it into his head TO
entertain people 1 don't know. He
Kent the tenderl0in himself aud kicked
AT one of tho children under the table
with such vigor that no missed the
child and injured both his own leg and
that of the table.
"He was the man who found out that
a watermelon could be favored with
most ANYTHING while growing by intro
dncinq che fluid flavor through the
growing stem, and then get out patent
I for fpoculating the melon with Jamaica
/ Ginger 20 ward of the collie. he GER
raiply showed greater possibilities as q
clav-bank ass than most any man ever
saw.
81 never made HIS house my home az
| tar that. although he wanted me 70 do
/ en- and rather insisted on il, Offering 10
I lot me select from the Little boys which
/ ever one / would rather sleep with"
Possibly am wrong in attributing
the above experience 90 Mr.. Harte.
/ Maybe 1t was Emerson who told me
about it.
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