The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-23
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plies and J leather Betting:
You foil. the Broadway trail down
until you ! HISS the Crosstown Line, the
Bread Line and the D. nd Line, and come to the Big
Canons of the Moneyg nlbber Tribe. Then you turn
to the left to the rig t. dodge pushcart and the
tongue of two-ton, IL u,r-horse dray and hop, skip
and lump to a granite Gige the side of twenty
one-storv synthetic mt Eintain of stone and iron.
In the twelfth story is The Office of Carteret & Car
teret The factory whe they make the mill sup
plies and leather betting is In Brooklyn Those COM
modites-to saw nothin; : Of Brookyn-not being OF
interest to let us old the incidents WITHIN the
confines of a one-act, ne.scene play, thereby les
sening the Of the ader and the expenditure OF
the publisher So. If 20 have the courage to face
four pages Of type and carteret Carteret's office
boy Percival you shall vt on vanished chair IN
the inner Office and pee p at the little comedy OF
the Old Niger Man, the Hunting-case Watch, and
the Open-Faced Questio n-mostly borrowed from
the late Mr.. Frank Stockton. as you will conclude
First biography (but pared to the quick must
intervene. for the inverted sugar'coated qul-
nine pill-the bitter on the outside.
The Carterets were, or was columbia College
professors please rule, old Virginia family. Long
time ago the gentlemen of the family had worn
lace ruffes and carried Unless fols and owned
plantations and had slaves to burn. But the war
had greatly reduced their holdings. cor course you
c.n nerceive at once that this flavor has been shop
lifted from Mr.. F. Hopknson Smith. IN spite OF the
"et" after "Carter.") Well, anyhow:
In digging up the Carteret history shall not take
o,, rorther hack than the year 1920. The two orgi
nal American Carterets over in that year, but
nv different means Of transportation. One brother.
named john came in the Mayfower and became
PILGRIM Father You've seen his picture on the
covers Of the Thanksgiving magazines. hunting tur-
KEYS in the deep snow with bunderbuss. Bland
ford Carteret, the other brother crossed the pond
in his own brigantine landed on the Virginia coast
and became an F. F. v. John became distinguished
for piety and shrewdness In business: Blandford
for his pride jueps craftsmanship, and vast slave
cultivated plantations.
Then came the Civil War. Il must condense this
historical interpolation) Stonewan Jackson was
shot, Lee surrendered; Grant toured the world; cot
ton went to nine cents; Old Crow whisky and Jim
Crow cars were invented; the Seventyn1nth Massa-
chusetts Volunteers returned to the Niney-seventh
Alabama Zouaves the battle flag of Lundys Lane
which they bought at a secondhand store In Chel-
sea kept by man named Skzchnzski; Georgia sent
the President a sxty-pound watermelon-and that
brings up to the time when the story begins.
My! but that sparring for an opening! really
must brush up on my Aristotle.
The Yankee Carterets went into business In New
York long before the war. Their house, far
Leather Betting and Mill Supplies was concerned.
musty and arrogant and solid as one OF those
old East India tea importing concerns that you
read about in Dickens There were some rumors
of behind its counters, but not enough to az
feet the business.
During and after the war, Blandford Carteret, F.
F. ", lost his plantations, juleps, Workmanship,
and life. He bequeathed little more than his pride
to his surviving family. So 1t came to pass that
Blandford Carteret the Fifth. aged fifteen, was in
vied by the Observation-Disclosures branch of that
name to come North and learn business instead of
hunting foxes and boasting of the glory OF his
fathers the reduced acres OF his impoverished
family. The boy jumped at the chance; and at the
age twenty-five, sat in the Office Of the firm equal
partner with john the Fifth. of the blunderbuss and
turkey branch. Here the story begins again.
The young men were about the same age, smooth
Of face alert easy Of manner, and with an air that
promised mental and physical quickness. They were
razored blue-serged. strawhatted, and pearl stick
pinned like other young New Workers who might be
mNnonaires or bill clerks.
One afternoon at four o'clock in the private Office
Of the frm Blandford Carteret opened letter that
clerk had Just brought to his desk After reading
1t, he chuckled audbly for nearly a minute. John
looked around from his desk inquiringly.
cts from mother" said Blandford. I'll read you
the funny part Of it She tells all the neighbor-
hood news first, Of course, and then cautions me
against getting my feet wet and musical comedies.
After that some vital statistics about calves
and pigs and estimate of the wheat crop. And
now I'll quote some:
..And what do you think! Old Uncle Jake, who
seventy-six last Wednesday. must go travelling:
Nothing would do but he must go to New York and
see his young Marster Blandford." Old as he Is.
he has deal of common sense, SO I've let him go.
couldn't refuse him-he seemed to have concen-
trated all his hopes and desires into this one ad-
venture into the wide world. You know he was
born on the plantation and has never been ten
miles away from it in his life. And he your
fathers body servant during the war; and has been
always a faithful vassal and servant of the family.
He has often the gold watch-the watch that
was your fathers and your fathers fathers. told
him it was to be yours: and he begged me to allow
him to take it to and to put it into your hands
himself.
$50 he has 1t. carefully inclosed In a buckskn
case and is bringing it to you with all the pride
and Importance of kings messenger gave him
money for the round trip and for a two weeks stay
In the city l wish you would see to it that he gets
comfortable quarters-Jake won't need much look
ing after-he's able to take Of himself. But
have read in the papers that African bishops and
tcolored potentates generally have much trouble in
obtaining food and lodging in the Yankee metropo
lis That may be all right; but don't see why the
hest hotel there shouldn't take Jake in. STILL sup
pose It's rule.
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