Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-08
LOBSTER SALAD.

Verify all is vanity and Fame is but as
a breath that goeth before the wind. In
the days that have gone there were
mighty ones who lived in the mouths of
all men, so that the waste places OF the
earth, yea even unto Cumminsvllle n
Philadelphia, rang loud with their names.
And it came to pass that they ceased TO
hustle, and they are but as dead ones
their deeds are as naught.
Behold, one saith: Now, 1 mind me
there was Luetgert,' and another satin,
"Luetgert. Luetgert; who was L~uetgert?'
why, Luetgert," saith the first, "Wlst
We not, was he who destroyed the sausage
trade for the space of two moons, and DIS
covered to the knowledge of the people
that there We're sesamoid bones.'
"And what" saith the second voice,
"are sesamoid bones?"
Then the first voice shall say sadly:
ALAS, I know not, but there was a time
when all men knew
And another one saith: In the days or
Benjamin Harrison-- .
And another saith: Il prythee, Who
was this Benjamin, and What did he do?'
Then ansWereth the first: "Of a truth
I know not"
Thus it is to achieve fame. and thus
ever it shall be. Even tomorrow it shall
be said: at.
"Blount. Blount! Who the - was
Blount?' end none shall be found to re-
member the Keely motor Of politics.
Already hath the darkness of oblivion
settled down upon the man Who sank
ships and refused money, but took the
oscillations of hysteria. SO even great
Pingree, who punpeth himself full and
explodeth with such speech as shaketh
villages, must needs explode again lest he
be forgotten.
There were those who bore the names Of
Cleveland and Bayard and Wilson and
/ Hobart and PETER, but their lamps have
gone out and no man listeth where they
stray. Side by side with Tesla, who hasn't
done it yet, whatever it was, shall Eagan
and Miles sink into the fitfully lit halls
of the past along with the bigamist who
brought his three wives to congress and
the man WhO discovered coon songs. Ahd
the minds of men shall know them no
more. So, even now it may be necessary
to state that Eagan was the man who Glsl
covered how to. cell a fellow officer a lrar
in such terms that the paper upon which
it was set down should take fire from
spontaneous combustion, and that Miles
is the man who has more fancy costumes
than the sultan of Turkey. II y
And in the days of the Spanish-Amer-
lean comedy there was one who was the
greatest general, by actual weight. that
was ever sent out in a car with extra
trucks under it to misdirect a field of bat
tie. But his name liveth no longer than
that of the man who so gloriOusly slapped
him. Thus are the favorites of presidents
and of kings forgot.
Verify, verify, all is vanity and four
flushing. Man goeth forth in the morn
| ing and sayeth: 10! look who [ ami
and he maketh a great noise. The which
men hearing, fall down and worship, say
ing: 80 f a truth, this man who filleth
the high noon with his voice is a warm
member and he has fve-cent cigars and
revamped cocktails called after his name
and getteth him a rubber hat. But al
night he becometh a lobster.
Glory fadeth away like the mists of the
morning, but there be one man, who, il
t he yet appear. shall have his name suns
in undying cadenCes in the hearts of men
I And he is that man who shall discover g
collar button that will not slip down in,
side when a man hath but ten minutes il
which to dress.