Evening journal., 1902-08-18
LEFT CAMP BEFORE
DICTIONARY CAN

When the son Of the president OH
Big Mountain Lumber company "a
into the mountains to learn the ls
ness, so to speak, l knew within,
minutes that he had come to
wrong place. He was a city chap, /
ly graduated and thoroughly ou9
touch with everything mountairs
He was a bright fellow, however. ,
amply capable, only the mounte
were not the field for his developnl
AS time elapsed his distaste grew, |
II was all he could do not to exrr
his opinion of the mountain pc,
their manners, customs, homes, mt.
and everything connected with Il
He was wise enough to conflde ir'
alone and bided his time to get a
to some more congenial cline. t
he got away sooner than he expe.
1t happened that there was a pj
meeting one night at the sawmill s
and he was called on to make n ,
remarks. Every other man at
meeting except myself, who acte
chairman, was of the mountains,
their illiterate talk had reused
young college fellow to the limit.
saw a chance to get even, in his
mind at least, and when the call (
for him he responded promptly.
speech, quite brief, but to the n
was as follows. copied from his
manuscript, even the [applausel
my friends, l am glad to meet
on this occasion, for l have wishe
say to you publicly what | thin
you, though our acquaintance has
been long. Coming as n stra'
among you. l was only partly pre1
for what was in Store. Now, lei
say to you that half has not been
me. LApplause.l In the intern@
arena your lethiferous conduct
artounded me by the trucidatlon
decision characterizing it among
men 1 have ever known. LOUD
plause.1 In the diversified fiel
mendacity your efforts would
Machiavelli take TO the tall tiT
| [Uproarious applause.l In all
cious, raptorial and predacious
suits you have done such woi
that the gifted and great Jona
Wild would have felt his latr'
was a sounding brass and his direl
a tinkling cymbal. [Great appla
In the broad expanse of labor
torpescent oscillation has made
sui generis among all pandiculate
kind. [Cheers and shouts of GOO
usw1 AS good livers, your 4
I groan beneath their stercoraceous
impetiginous burden. and as driIh
your temulent bibacity has mad,
capulous reputation Of Bacchus I
sign of purtanical abstemioul
loud applause As for yoursel
take pleasure in saying here to
/ without fear Of successful cont
2 ton, that your nugacity is fo
established; as observers of the
your aberrance is Genealogical.
personally you are a cohesive &C
j enation of rubigant exuvi@, II
take especial pleasure in believing
, not exist elsewhere on earth. q
erous applause. ]"
When the enthusiasm had
down somewhat. he proceeded to
on the subjects before the meetin
O sat down. The mountaineers
pleased to death with the college
A high flown speech about them
= though i didn't know the meant
r. all the big words he used l did /
b that he had been calling them liar
= murderers and thieves and scom
b and drones and lawless drunkard
sides condemning their fare and .
e ematizing the lot of them persd
= But not one Of them suspected,
2, was hoping nothing would come
s and they would forget. even If g
e the large words were rememI
+ when one day a book agent dro
v to the office in a blackboard an
: nounced that he was s0lling Wei
J. Unabridged Dictionary for 50 a
y and showed a sample that was
\ as n box Of soap.
= Nobody had ever seen so mucl
for. the money, nor had anybod
- seen a dictionary in that neighbo
o and when the agent began to tel
a valuable thing it was to be I'M
IS family the men became interested
l. it wasn't long until the agent ha
k % copies. TO be delivered the fol-
it week. When he had gone await
his sample. ] called the younf
into the private Office for consul
pr Don't say a word" he bed
soon as he had closed the do(
IS know exactly where l am a
I'll be some place else before Mr
ster arrives to throw any light
recent remarks. am not sh
any tears. and. in order that I
tionary buyers and others may
Just what think of them / shai
two dozen copies of my speech {
!. tributiOn on the morning of y
lparture." Il
He did just as he said he woui
it was a good thing for him 4
r never came back any more
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