Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-09-25

floor-was as elegant an assortment OF
collins as any dead man could ask for.
"That night when / was alone in my
room ! got to thinking of those collins
under me, and every night after that
while stayed my mind would revert
TO the undertaking business down IN
the room below, and / must admit that
nv reflections in no wise frightened
the Joys of our boarding house.
"The undertaking business didn't
serve to depress Blackburn-coffins had
no terrors for him, and he didn't care
any more about corpse than he dld
for a cold. But mine was different
case. Those collins preyed on me.
felt lonesome and homesick enough
without them, and at the end of two
weeks | had fully made up my mind to
get out at the end of my month and
hunt new place for myself. l was
getting the worse of the boarding.
house, anyhow; Blackburn was getting
fat and l was getting the bones right
along.
"It was on Sunday night at the end
of my second week and l was sitting
alone in my room, forlorn and sorrow
full. and brooding over that stock OF
burial cases just under my feet, when
in came young friend OF mine from
Missouri. He had been in Washing
ton several years, however, and worked
in one of The departments. He was a
light, easy talker, and had begun to
cheer me up little, when he suddenly
looked about the room with bird-like
air and remarked:
F" Your room here is very familiar
to me, Senator. l used to be up here
quite often.
"How was that?' ] asked
Why went on my young friend,
this room used to belong to Jones.
You knew Jones young Jones OF
Sedalia-used to work here in the War
Department. Committed suicide. and
all that. Yes, indeed, committed sui
eide right in this very room.
My horror began to recur two-fold
My interesting young friend gabbled
on.
Certainly / came here ono night
and lights were burning and the
door was ajar, but no one answered
when l raped. After rapping while
I pushed along in. Here was Jones
hanging by the neck to that chandelier
Yes, indeed, cold dead. We cut him
down. l remember the incident clear
ly, and how his head rested on that
figure in the carpet.
cit was at this point l interrupted
him. I told him 1 had business to
transact with my landady. called
that good woman, and simply told her
that she might send my trunk the next
day to an address I would mail her.
As for myself I would change my
boarding-ho that night, and did.
To live over a coffin factory, and in
the actual room of suicide, was more
than my nerve would bear.
Governor Stewart said Represen-
tative Hatch, one day toward the close
of last session, twas, when L was
boy, one of the greatest characters in
Missouri. He was the brightest and
best of the political takers of the day,
and on the stump nobody was match
for Stewart. He was Governor Of the
State when the Prince of Wales. as
boy, visited this country. and there is
a story often told of how Stewart, at
the reception in st. Louis given In
honor of the Prince of Wales, became
exuberantly happy. In those days
everybody drank, and so far from be-
ing any exception, Governor Stewart
rather emphasized the rule. The Gov
ernor had gotten up a grand ball in st.
Louis in honor of the Prince, and Gov
ernor Stewart attended to add grace
and glory to the occasion. The open
ing of the festivities found Stewart and
the Prince ON raised platform at one
side of the hall, while the valor and
beauty of st. Louis and the regions
round about swept by in brilliant pro-
cession. Both Stewart and the Prince
had not forgotten to take an occasional
drink. and both were feeling good
the Governor especially so. At one
crisis Stewards admiration of the
scene, as we'll as his entire satisfaction
Witn his OWu pOsltlOu ds OOSoIhol VI
the State. was evidenced by his sudden
ly bestowing upon the Prince re-
sounding slap upon his royal back,
which almost knocked him off the
platform into the midst of the festiyi
ties.
" Prince, remarked Stewart, hilar-
iously. don't you wish you were Gov
ernor of Missouri
1.-THE Prince said he did, and it in
no wise amazed Stewart.
'As / have remarked" continued
Representative Hatch, linen did a
great deal of drinking in the days of
Governor Stewart. During one of
Stewards campaigns he had entered
upon series of joint debates with his
opponent. and being much better de-
batter and more brilliant orator than
the enemy. he was getting away with
him. was boy in Hannibal at the