The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-13

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/ hacked up BY hts parents and fis sponsors,
s4ould have afflicted him with so absurd
b Inappropriate a name. Felix indeed
pretty sort Of designation TO have af-
i 1xed 10 him. who had ever been the child
If misfortune whom Melancholy had
j marked for her own. and IN whose eyes
Hfe Itself had long ceased TO appear a
/ Possession worth retaining Strictly
kopsaking, he could not feel much ill-wilI
tpwards Providence, sine. he no longer
1eelieyed in the existence OF such a force
Hut he did think that he had legitimate
fgrlesance against his father and mother
IAho. not content with having perpefrated
tihe above mentioned misnomer had add
I'D to their other iniauities by dying within
IA few days Of one another and leaving
him with scarcely penny OF income be-
1send that which he derived from his dis
ssasteful labors as a clerk In the estab-
iashment OF Messrs. Bailey * Co. whole
tale tobaccoBists. Mincinx Lane r. G.
5fhat they were not to blame for having
Nbeqaeathed their patronymic TO him he
being himself just young man. as well
n~s a gifted one-was bound TO admit; still
III is rather vexatious 20 be called Green
when yoG are conscious OF being perhaps
ne very last person I'm the city OF Lon
don TO whom that adjective, In It's slang
acceptation. could be made 10 apply.
II was not always that Felix Green had
boon animated by feelings Of such intense
bitterness against the round world and all
Tho dwell therein as he was at the time
when he was destined TO become the hero
Of brief but spirited episode. In the
ohrly days OF his connection with the firm
Of Bailey Co. Che was but two and
7 twenty even now he had been able TO sur
vcy mankind with less jaundieed eye:
but successive disappointments and dis
Illusions had sadly soured n nature which.
sander happier auspices, might have been
phiianthropic and generous. 1t was not
only that he took no interest In tobacco
and loathed bookkeeping. unfortunate IA
this was fer one who helped to keep the
books Of a tobaoconist II might have been
endured. In view OF the necessity OF earn
ing bread and butter somehow or other
But what disposition however sweet. can
lfail to deteriorate I'm the long run when
lsehliisd by continual. siekenlng experience
OF the stupidity and prejudice which re-
fuse 10 recognize genius Now. Mr.
6feen's poems were works Of genius: he
did not require anyone to tell him that
tal'housh. 20 be sure. Sophia Bailey had
HcQuentiy said sol. ssli less dla he re-
a,iiro anybody TO tell him that they were
Nothing of the sort. Yet that was what
publishers and magazine editors had had
the Impotence to asser, again and again
some OF them In many words others
~ the even cearser method OF leaving his
communications unnoticed. II almost
boxed ~ II Grass ignorance would pre-
faii-as IL Felix Green would have 10 live
gu, his appointed days, "a youth 10 For
June and TO Fame unknown"-~as II his
passionate melodies and harmonies would
perish with him. If such thought as
hat Is not enough "a make conscious
genius grind It's teeth and tear It's hair.
what isf
Nevertheless. there was a worse experi-
fenee-or at ali events one quite as bad
IN store for this luckless rhymster His
employer a shrewd. burly good -humored
Phliistine. who neither knew nor cared
anything about poetry. hut who was cap
able OF being moved by compassion for
Solitary orphans had repeatedly taken
Felix ont with him. after business hours.
20 the snug little house at uammersnith
There he dwetf with an only daughter
and had given him supper there. A Mr..
Bailey was prone 10 falling asleep after
. ais meals and Miss Sophia was young
rather pretty, very sentimental and far
more appreciatlve OF original literary tall
-nt than certain purbiind editors had
shown themselves to be. the natural con
sequences ensucd. Felix. who connded hts
woes, his wrongs. his aspirations, every
ashing except his love land that was so
obvious that she could not have been ig-
5norant 81 III. 20 this enhancing maiden.
INved FOR many weeks In what. alas
proved 10 b. a FOOLS paradise. when. one
fine morning he was abruptly and cruelty
Uniformed that Sophia was about 20 es-
rcuse a hcSrSci vtctuailer and that the
match WAS one 81 affection both sides
Ithe iron entered into his soul That. NJ
| least WAS the phrase that he used in sub
ssquentiy relating what had happened 10
| BIS friend pcmpster. and pempster said
/ he didn't wonder
pailsd. shcck-headed. out-a;-elbows
Iemr-ier was parsonage whom Felix
Green esteemed almost as highly as he
| did hlmself-which was saving great
! deal. Net that psmps;er was a poet. nor
Ser the matter - that that he had ever
advanced SO far towards earning the es-
| TEEN ~ dun and practical generation
- 70 accomplish a single hard days work
but his ideas upon political social and
Religious subjects coincidea With. II indeed
they had not created. those OF his Young
friend. ana he was beautifully fluent
'aiker. Why was pempssrr poor. hungry.
sairssy especially ihivsts1. and unemploy-
I'd Obviously because the existing con
s''toa 81 society was rotten 20 the core
lie bad demonstrated this ~ Felix p nun
afsd times. and 50 plausible We're hts
methods ~ argument that ne had Httle
eimenlty In tracing The perndy cf Sophia
~fe@Aee 20 kae sell same cause.
i What's a garl brought up Ike what
/ sasse been 90 de- ne asked. "Ain'f she
eesa taught from her cradle 20 worship
saeoey and sell herself 20 the htgaes. hid.
tso whenever hc comes forrarAe Blame
ses '-'iawd bless your soul. don't blame
s'sf' shes The victim az a pcrnirions SyS-
Tesa o. etdscatten that's hat she Is ana
,-A@Fss thousands upcu thousands Ike her
aas % TIE hartstecracy welt they ain'e
80 e<issr than tacy showA be fsat-s Ger
/ an but Yea may take rDv word for II
N~s 'es real curse ~ thtS country-aht
80" ~ other countries too~lS shs middle
StAss rs yeur eawsansi bls ana small.
ae Saais imrr ysng or the face e the
| - hsa hopsi remarked Felix gloom.
- hsi soph's had soul above her
saTfHonaurs
Hps'eF wte B, viii ho perceived wa
| - an aiirs-rr.rtt person expectoTatt,i
s'E ass made few tveachant osastr-
4 eFs which it .s }-spsssthle 20 report.
| - Fe'SSsa - tHe very sorcthls Language Fa
tneY wer~ coached
| -" t-A asc ua mistake atou; it-'
s'8RsnGea SHOW n9e MACS or s. w.
s@a @>sofiai's snA Ia precious saou irg