The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-24

express it; you want a word like pig
headed or adamant =, to give you a
vague idea of his manner. He used
to be compared with the Admiralty
great gale, and thwen hdaetressltr
great gale, and then we had to find
some other name for him. I've argued
with that man until I've had to give
up and go and buy voice 1ozenges.
mo one could say of him at the
start that he was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth. Later on he was
able to buy a whole set, but in the
early years britannia metal was the
best he could do. His father took an
interest in politics and used to be in
the chair every Saturday evening at a
public house discussion in Islington,
but he did no other sort of work, and
when Lord Derby was beaten over a
reform bill in 1859 the old chap took
1t so much to heart-and his heart
wasn't in very good condition-that he
INDUCED in a fit of apoplexy. This
was the first stroke of luck that hap
pened to our friend because the de-
crease in domestic expenses enabled
MS mother to keep him on at school
till he was close on fourteen. In my
own case began work when 1 was
twelve and a half, and I've often told
him that it was this extra eighteen
months that enabled him to get on in
the world so much better than I did.
Not that I'm complaining, mind you
He looked with severity at each
face. They tried to assume an eX-
preston of amiability with a pleasing
relatives from excess of anxiety over
did it, and he gazed at this one stead
lily until the extravaganza was
amended.
He made more money than I did.
that I'm quite free to admit, but he
didn't spend it. You lot are all bene-
fitting now from this fact and I don't
suppose for moment that you will
think that he ought to have spent it.
Unless" he conceded handsomely,
unless you're bigger humbugs than
I take you to be. But he wasn't con-
tent to put all his money by; he must
needs bank all his happiness as we'll
When he began work in the city it was
at time when we were all keen to
Join the volunteers so as to put France
in her place; but do you think he'd
do as the rest of, US did? Not him!
We all got a rare amount of enjoy
ment out of drilling and reviewing in
Hyde Park, and goodness knows what
all and when we used to tell him
about it and urge him to join he only
mad one anSwer-later on perhaps.
He never went to the theater-mind
you, I'm talking now of the days, or,
rather, the evenings, when people could
act. They didn't stroll from the street
on to the stage with their hands in their
pockets; they acted for all they were
worth, and whether it was Wigan, or
whether it was Ada Cavendish, OF
whether it was Fechter, or whoever it
was, they acted as though they were
doing it for living. 1 remember once
got him nearly as far the Strand IN
Surrey street-that was in Ada Swan
borough's time; fine woman, if ever
there was one. We were to go in at
half-price to the gallery and I'd prom
Used to pay for both. Just as we were
going under Temple Bar he stopped
made his usual remark in a confused
way, and ran right back home as hard
as he could. AS to holidays, he used to
write a letter to the firm every sum-
mer asking to be allowed to forego
them. I remember once they thought
his accounts were wrong, but the result
of their Investigations was that they
gave him increase of 915 a year.
Il think it was in II that he came to
me with some news; I'm pretty well
sure it was in II. Marquis of Lorne
got married that year, and it might