Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13


CURED in question
able ways Many
time tried but principle always stronger than
desire Six or eight months ago. Lieutenant General
Nelson A. Miles given great dinner party IN
New York and when he and | were chatting to-
gether in the drawing room before going out to
dinner he said
I've known you as much as thirty years. isn't
l said, Eyes, that's about it, l think"
He unused a moment or two and then said IL
wonder we didn't meet in Washington in 1867. You
were there at that time weren't YOU"
| said Eyes; but there difference. [ was
not known then; | had not begun to bud i
an obscurity-but you had been adding to your
fine Civil War record; you had just come back
from your brilliant Indian campaign in the Far
West and had been rewarded with brigadier
generashp in the regular army, and everybody
talking about you and prasing you If you
had met me, you wouldn't be able to remember
it now unless unusual circumstance of the
meeting had burnt it into your memory. 1t is
forty years ago, and people don't remember no.
bodies a stretch of time like that
l didn't wish to continue the conversation along
that line; SO changed the subject. | could have
proven to him, without any trouble, that we did
meet in Washington In 1907; but thought it
might embarrass or the other of u.s. SO didn't
do it l remember the incident very well. This
the way of it:
7 HAD just come back from the Quaker City
cursion, and had made contract with Bliss of
Hartford to write The Innocents Abroad l
was out of money, and went down to Washington
to if l could enough there to keep in
bread and butter while should write the book. |
came across William Clinton, brother of the astron-
omer and together invented scheme for
mutual sustenanCe: became the fathers and
originatOrs of what is common feature in the
paper world now, the syndicate. We became the
old original first newspaper syndicate the planet
1t small scale but that is usual with untried
enterprises. We had twelve Journals on
list They were all weeklies, all obscure and poor,
and all scattered far away among the back settle
mentS. 1t proud thing for those little
papers to have Washington correspondence, and
fortunate thing for that they felt in that way
about it. Each of the twelve took two letters a
week from us, at dollar per letter; each of us
wrote one letter per week and sent off six dupl-
Gates of it to these benefactors, thus acquiring
twenty-four dollars a week to live on, which
quarters.
Clinton of the dearest and 1oveliest human
beings l have ever known, and we led a charmed
existence together in contentment which knew
bounds Clinton refined by nature and
breeding; he was gentleman by nature and breed
ing; he was highly educated; he of a beautiful
spirit; he was pure in heart and speech. He
Scotchman, and a Presbyterian Presbyterian
of the old and genuine school, being honest and sim
cere his religion and loving it. and finding serenity
and peace in it. He hadn't a vice-unless large
and grateful sympathy with Scotch whisky may be
called by that | didn't regard it as a vice,
because he Scotchman, and Scotch whisky
to Scotchman IS innocent milk is to the rest
OF the human race. In Clintons it virtue,
and not economical one. Twenty -four dol
lars a week would really have been riches to if
we hadn't had to support that jug. Because OF
the Jug we were always sailing pretty close to the
wind, and any hardness in the arrival of any part
of our income to incon-
venienCe
L remember time when shortage occurred.
We had to have three dollars and we had to have
1T before the close of the day. | don't know
how we happened to want all that money at one
,tNright 1905 ny IIar-- IN Richie