The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-13

easy money and the situation was not
one CALCULATED TO promote good cheer.
MT NlllouEhby'S action in coming down
and pulling the consulate from under
I meath him seemed to him almost un-
friendly. However. he formally turned
over TO Mr. Willoughby a table. four
chairs, several account books and n let
| tGr-prSss all being the property of the
| United States OF America,
MIR, Willoughby had rented a house on
| the hill overlooking the town and decided
TO plant the consulate In the front room
| of his residence. lnasmuch as the Consul
| had business caller about once q month
| there was no need of maintaining two
| establishments, Already he had taken
| into his employ and his warmcst personal
friendship native named Franciotto.
| This name seemed formal and hard to re-
| member, SO Mr. Willoughby rechristened
him Jim" He liked this native In spite
OF his color, because he was the only man
! In GalllNancla who seemed To be peryaded
| by the simple spirit OF democracy, Mr.
| Willoughby said that the others put on
loo many 'damlugs.' whatever that may
mean.
II Z. S. Consul Willoughby's social
standing In Gallivancia was at all subject
TO doubt that doubt vanished on the day
when he and Jim came down to move
the Office effects TO tho house on the hill
Mr. Wlloughby did something that day
which convulSed Galliyancia as IL never
had been convulsed bcfore-not even when
neighboring volcano blew of For days
afterward the official set. the men at the
little club and the women pouring tea at
each other. talked of nothing else. Many
would not believe when they first heard
It, but there were witncsses-reliable wit
nesscs-who saw tho whole thing and
were called upon time and time again
10 testify regarding the most extraordi-
nary performance OF the United States
Consul Other Consuls may come and go
and the years spin their weary lengths
and the obliterating drift OF time may
hide some of the lesser events in tho his
tory of Galllvanci9, but until time shall
be no moro tho residents of that city
Will tell the story OF "Old Man" Will
loughby OF Michigan.
What do you suppose he did2 No ef-
fort of the imagination can carry you
truth. let the suspense be ended. Mr..
WlllouGhby. with his own hands helped
TO move tho furniture from tho old con-
the table on the top OF his head and bal
anced II carefully and carried II through
the open streets OF Galllvancia! An Of
ncal, representative OF great power.
performing cheap manual labor,
Words are altogether inadequate TO de-
scribe the degree of ooloauy which Dir.
Willoughby earned for himself by this
unhcard OF exhibition In Galliyancla 1t
was not considered quito the thing TO In
dulge In mental effort and for any one
except a menal OF the lowest social or
lnconcelvable. The now Consul was set
down as either a harmless imbecile or an
altogether new specimen OF barbarian. In
either case he was not n NJ associate for
well bred gentlemen, and Galllvancia pro-
ceeded to Ignore him and Ma" That is
they pretended TO ignore them. but as a
matter of fact they watched them at a
distance and heard daily reports OF their
famlliarltios with servants. their fondness
for outandlsh American cookery and 9TH
CT occcntrictues; 1t was all vastly di-
vcrting 10 the tiny aristocrats OF CALI
yancis. but II was pretty hard on Mr.
and Mrs. Willoughby-homesick hungry
for spring chicken and garden truck. and
yet ashamed 10 pick mp and go home so
soon after all those elaborate good byes
ono morning MIR, Willoughby walked !