The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-04
s = ~ = 1872 4.
PONY BERNARD ON
HOMEWARD TRACK.
Hill E. King Got Up His
Bond.
MAY BE HERE NOW
The Short-Legged Bernard, Whose
Lack of Stride Has Not MARRIED
His Progress at Pinch. Wad-
ding Into Notice. Both Joke
and COnundrum.

ing this damp sheet in the grey of the
early morning. the chances are that
Raleigh will have re-accumulated its
Bernard
There has been a dearth--not to
say lack-of Bernard for some weeks
past He has been like a vagrant
comet, now flashing athwart the Pole,
now visible in the South. companion
of the Dipper, transient guest of
Sirius. He has shone apparently with
out volition, where it pleased him to
shine. He has blown where he list
ed-and he has variously blown. Oc
Casionally he has stopped to -diffuse a
steady light. But, always, when he
became a. fixed, he has been for
eign star But now it is the singing
way of the homeward path through
space-and, if Bernard is not already
here, it is to be soon.
Mr. Bernard is ''at liberty" He
has, doubtless. worn off the edge of
his fear. The fat center of d fat SEN
sation, he doubtless thinks that he
may now slip quietly home BY all
doubt he is right. Trains from Old
Point Comfort come in in the wee
hours 1t would be a futile quest to
seek Mr.. Bernard. He must be taken
'On trust.
The delay of LIE Retour, is how
ever, DIT battling. 1t seems matter
of a bond-a paltry bond of $4,000,
without which the Lothario stood
small chance of that liberty which
is the breath of his nostrils. 1t had
been understood that Hamlet and
Hoffman had been of profit to Ber-
nard 1t had been whispered that
there had he turned the golden grain
@1rlA for hrIx1l yfN1
shop keeper with a literary turn eX
pressed his optionary accounts, Col
den Coin from Golden Grain 1t is
unbelievable that the bond of $4,000
was dependent upon the Offices OF
friends. yet SO the facts would seem
to indicate. Mr. Bernard has re-
NAMED away. presumably because hS
could not give the bond of $4,000.
The bond. now, is prepared. 1t and
the liquor petition have zone about
jointly for the past few days with
mouths agape like a nesting bird. And
it has been completed. Who are the
signers does not yet appear. The roll
of honor waits on the coming of the
hero. 1t may be stated, however, that
when Claude comes he will. be Sc.
cured. There is comfort in that.
The home-fying of Claude has been
for several days in the@air.a IRE bond
was neatly written on typewriter
last week. 1t has been flashed during
the present week on citizens who
might have bailed the Tai Mahal with
a pull-all-together. Finally it was
made up. That is an assurance. All
that is now lacking is Claudius. And
he is promised.
The Man with the Bond has been
Mr.. Hill E. King. He it is who.
more than all the rest, is responsible,
for the return of Claude from Point
Comfort to Raleigh. He has, Dis il
WERE auctioneeied the petition. He
met with rebuffs He persisted. His
efforts have been crowned with sue
cess. The bond awaits the signature
of the master actor in the play and
his alone. Mr.. King has done hot
work-he has-or at least he is about
to-solve IA question that has called
these last weeks for answer: Where
is Claude?" Rumor has run riot in
the meantime. There have been AL
pine visions, special stories from the
Yellowstone. home-like pictures of a
short-leeged celebrity in striped bath
suit from sandy beaches. There have
been stories of hair-breadth escapes,
tales of war, fierce maledictions over
thousand mile strands of wire protes-
tations of innocence that melted the
receiving instrument with their APP
peals. But no Claudel 1t was past
Nabob of the traffic where the gov
eminent pays the freight. The fact
of the necessity of that little bond
was a late development. 1t is sooth-
ing to know that it has been COM
pleted. And Mr.. King is a proper
subject of all the congratulations to
which his .enthusiasms entitle him.
Mr.. King is a man with a sad
phiz and sadder politics. He ar
rived in Raleigh some time in the
murky past on a wave that did not
smell of rose water. and Landed at
length on the Estate manure
pile" He has fattened in a
way or such small scraps as fell
from the table of those times. Lately
he has had no pickings from his
craftsmanship and Mr.. King has been
embittered. So has Mr. Bernard. IT
was a fellow Wheeling, doubtless, which
put the eX-Fusionist of the middle
nineties to rustling up the bond of the
ex-district attorney, the ex-delegate,
the bounding ladies man of the @. 0.
+. Misery loves company. 1t is-it
waS-a touching touch.
Much has been said of Bernard.
Are there any who know him not? a
figure of his Importance. a name Of
that vogue, deserve a paragraph.
In the first place, then, his name
was originally "Pony''-as pony is