The sun., 1901-03-17

that the two scientists were merely hired
by the people and were in part paid for out
OF his own pocket Percival Instantly re-
torted.
"I'll tell you what wen do We can't stop.
but we can refund. Your portion OF the tax
Is about two cents. Here II is
lie was then allowed 10 continue the days
trip without furt ther interruption. In sew
era towns the pair were taken for trnmps out
OF work. and various benevolent Countrymen
volunteered TO secure them employment
now IN hat factory and again on "A farm
The year afterward. when Perciv6l was
travelling alone he had even more serious
troubles. He was not of n sociable dispO-
sition. and became so engrossed In his scien-
tifc studies that he gave little heed 10 those
about him. A well-known physician drove
up TO an inn In remote town of the State
late one alterno0n in 1899 and was welcomed
with overwhelming JOY by the innkeeper
lie was the very man that the innkeeper
wished to sec. The nnkeeper wanted him
10 go out on tho hillside and invest gate the
hammerins stone there an day without thought
Of dinner
The physician went out and found Percival
surrounded by crowd OF villagers. quietly
pounding away on a granite ledge, appar-
ently obllvious OF the attention he was at
traoting. Had II not been for the timely
srrlval on the physician Percival would have
under suspicion OF being IA madman
But Percival did not always have encounters
80 Irausht with personal danger. Al one
~ " "a
farmhouse and asked FOR lodging The
woman OF the house did not like his looks at
nrst put sksd him IN and placed before him
some Cruel COnversaton beginning the
mistress OF the house. herself an educated
woman soon found that her guest was not
an ordinary tramp. but man whose general
showiedge was most remarkable He gave
hera long dissertation on the habitat descent
and traits OF certain pear tree. the fruit ~
winch was on the table, which aston ished her
exceedingly, The conversation turned on
poetry, and on the woman asking II he had
regd any or the poems Of PerCival whose
volumes she had on her table. he admitted
that he was Percival himself
On another occasion he stopped at farm
house and IN the evening one Of the family
sang one OF his own poems set 20 music,
which he Is said 10 have enjoyed exceedingly.
though he kept the seCre, Of the authorship
Prnf Shepard relate that during the
whole Of the years survey Percivnl took no
notes until late at night when he would iot
cured during the day. His memory wAs so
prodigiou3 that AZ anv time he could call ~
MIND the slightest incident Of any date in
the previous year. and could tell Just what
had been done on any particular day He
shid mat ne had won tho power Of doing this
Dy gong over IN lls nina each night before
sleeplng every incident of tho days travel,
, HlS literary work did not suffer becalSe Of
the scientific duties which he had taken up,
aud nightly he would compose verses CON
tanning tho thoughts Of the dav or descrp-
tons of the SCENERY through which his days
labors had taken him
The result Of the six years geological work
was later embodied in two OF the issues Of
his clio, printed in New Haven. and intended
TO give in verse what other authors bar
ncnlarIy Irving, were then giving 10 tho
reading public in prose