The Cairo bulletin., 1907-10-14
MARTIN cHUzzLEWiT's" Ex'
PERlENCES IN AEMERicA
sIxTY-FIvE YEARS AGO.
sEW YORK DINNER BELL
Had Startling Effect On Martins Com
panions--Strange Sights at
paducah Aote--Arrived at
Cairo.

Il reference to Charles Dickens stor
u |of his visit to America appears in til
Richmond, VA, Times Dispatch q
Oct A, d copy OF which has found ii
lway to The Bulletin:
lit is curious and amusing" sai,
president Roosevelt IN his speech 4
lCairo yesterday. ITO think that ever
as genuine a lover Of his kind, mar
normally SO free from national preju
| laices as Charles Dickens, should have
selected the region where we are now
Istanding as the seat of his forlorn
EDEN In Martin Chuzzlewit
4 1t Is also curious and amusing to
, lrecall that when Martin Chu2z'ewit
Handed in New York, he was greeted
lby newsboy with these words Of so
Ilicitation. Here's the New York Sew
ert Here's the Sewers exposure Of
lthe Wall Street gang,
/ Martins first acquaintance was Col.
oliver. editor Of the New York Rowdg
journal, and Colonel Diver invited
him to the office where he presented
| him to Mr. Jefferson Brick, war cor
espondent. esteemed contemporary.
Won have heard Of Jefferson Brick,
See. SIR quoth the colonel. England
| has heard of Jefferson Brick. ! have
reason to know. sir that the aristo-
cratic circles of your country quail be
| fere the name of Jefferson Brick"
But Martin had NOT heard Of Mr.
Brick, nor 81 his writings. and this
confession of ignorance 10 amused the
war correspondent that he invited the
EngIishman To take a drink.
Upon another occasion Martin and
Mr.. Briek were walking on the street
arm-in-arm. and the colonel and Ma
iof PaWkins. sideby-side, before
them. when. az they came near 10 the
majors residence, they heard bell
Iinging Violently Immediately the
colonel and the major dashed off, and
AIR Brick. detaching himself from
Martin, made a rrecipitate dive In the
same direction.
Good heagenn thought Martin,
the premises are on fire. 1t was an
alarm BELL
Rrt there was no smoke to be seen
and when Martin made further inyes
LEGATION, he found that the men were
merely going to dinner.
.Rut Martin and his friend Mark
Tapley We're bound for the West and /
after a short stay In New York.
boarded railway train, On their way |
To Eden, where they proposed to st
tic. At the end OF the railroad jour /
ney was small town containing the /
National Hotel" In front OF the
hotel was a wooden gallery, in which
1t was rather startling when the train
to behold a great many pairs
Of boots and shoes and the smoke Of
a great many cigars, but no other evil
senees of human hahitation. BY slow
degrees, however, some heads and
shoulders appeared, and connecting
themselves with the boots and shoes.
led to the discovery that certain gen
.lemen boarders. who had a fancy for
putting their heels where the gentle
nen boarders in other countries
Usually put their heads. were enjoying
themselves after their own manner in
ne cool of the evening.
Martin met many strange men here
ut. finally closing a deal with the
eden Land Company. he and Mark
COX a steamer down the river IN com
,any with other passengers. But. &,
lie by one. the passengers went
shore, and finally Martin and Mark
we're left alone. They Travelled :,
hrough a fat morass. "bestrewn with
allen timber, a marsh on which the
'ood growth Of the earth seemed to
lave been wrecked and cast away. =
hat from its decomposing ashes vile :
nd ugly things might rise; where
atal maladies. seeking whom they =.
night infect. came forth at night in
listy shapes. and creeping out upon
he water hunted them like speetres
ntil day: where even the blessed sun
Inning on the fostering elements OF i
eruption end disase, became q hor- \
or. this was the realm of Hope 1
Trough which they moved. 4
AT last they stopped-at Eden too. Il
he waters of the Deluge might have D
1T il but a week before. 50 chicken U
18th slime and matted growth was a
he hideous swamp which bore that q
anne" q
Martin and Mark finally made their h
-ay to shore. where they found a set i
ement Of log houses and few ema- a
lated people half dead with malaria f
ne of the settlers met them. told a "
itiiui tale Of suffering and death. b.
ID guided the newcomers to one of g
be deserted cabins. When the log Il
II received them. Martin lay down Il
ion the ground and wept aloud II