The herald., 1895-11-29
A FEW SHORT
STORIES GATHERED FROM
HERE AND THERE

III the uaVS Wnen Eugene f10lu llVeu
in st. Joseph, Mo-, Il. +. Indermile of
this city also lived there, and the two
very much resemble each other and
dressed much alike, though they had
never met. One day, after both had been
there more than year, and had been ire
quently mistaken for each other, they
met in public place.
Mr.. Indermille says he was som W hat
astonished to see himself coming in at
door when he was really standing still.
Approaching each other, Field said :
~ know yon. You are Indernille."
Yes" said Indermille, land you are
Eugene Field"
They had some pleasant conversation
and afterward became fast friends.
One day FIELD burst into Inderm lille $
place OF busness-they had now become
familiar enougL to call each other by
their Christian names-and said in a
hurried way:
Say Fred. wish YOU would 60 and sit
for photograph for me. Some friends of
mine want my picture and | am so
pressed for time that ] can't attend to IL
Just now"
z 4 =
When the Indian chieftains Ju, Geron-
imo and Bonito were making trouble in
New Mexico ana Arizona in the spring
CT 1883 General Crook, it will be remem.
bered, chased these unconventional and
copper. colored disturbers and their fol-
lowers over into old Mexico, where the
general secluded himself from the author
tiles a. Washington so as to clean out the
arrant Apaches before lie could oe inter-
fered with by the tender-hearttd infants
at the capital, and it will also be rem EN-
bered that he succeeded SO we'll that the
maursudiDg chieftalns were ultimately
confined to the circumscri bed circles of
the Dry Tortugas and other betittins
places.
by tine New York Herald and the San
Francisco Chronicle to report the affair
from the Mexican side and to find Crook
If possible.
The reporter met the Mexican general,
Ruman Rsjurera, at that time com m and
ing the second military district of Mex
leo, who had sent Lieutenant-Colonel
GalIaradO to cooperate with Crook in
capturing Geronimo ct al. The CORE
spondent joined the expedition and upon
the success Of the movement filed dis
patches at Chihuahua, Mexico and Ell
paso, Texas. and at some stations on the
iine OF the Sonora railroad to his two
papers. the Chronicle in San Francisco
and the Herald IN Now York. The
Chronicle printed them, but to the hoi ror
of the proprietor, M. II. DeYoung, the
same dispatches appeared sim ultaneously
IN the Morning Call, the Chronicle $ rival.
Tnereupon Mr.. De Young wrote vlgor-
Gus letter, containing moso able bodied
expressions to his correspondent. asking
him among other things if he was entIre-
ly lost to journalistic honor and all that.
The poor correspondent who thoe hit
no had made some big scoops. was aim ost
paralyzed with astonishment and much
torn by modification. He, thousands of
miles away, did not understand it.
1t developed, however, that the differ.
ence in time between New York and San
francisco had caused all the trouble, the
telegraph messages to the Herald and
Chronicle being word for word the same,
fled and sent at the Same time, the New
York paper printed them three hours be-
fore the Chronicle came out. The New
York correspondent of the San Francisco
Call obtained them from proofs in the
Herald office and thus sent them, word
for word, to the Call in time for that
paper to get them out at the same time
tbs Chronicle did
When MIR. De Young learned of the true
lnwardness OF the affair he sent ample
apologies to the correspondent and the
entente coTdiale was beautifully re.
Colone! George q. Gill of Chicago, owns
by inheritance the Olympian Springs in
Kentucky. beautiful resort among the
eastern hills o: ttat state, and once Owned
by Henry Clay from whom Colonel GiIrs
grandfather purchased them.
One night in winter a few months aoo
Gill arrived at the railway station, two
miles and q half from the springs. He
was on his way for visit to his propertv
after several years absence, though the
resort was his birthplace and there he
had spent mis- bovhood. The night. or
evening, was a m iserahle one.-cbillv
sleety and dismal. The road to the
springs was deep with mud. and it rcn
through forests where catamount and
bear were plentiful. The walk would
have been dreadful one.
Gill sauntered up and down the plat
form OF the ii tie station Illuminating
about how he was to obtain conveyapce
to his estimation.
After awhile a mana native-ap-
preached him and said:
"Ain't you Gill?"
''Yes SIR"
You amt Gawge Gill"
That's who am.
well. my names Psratt. I knowed
20 the liokT'
The lick' is the local name OF the re-