Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

Ing MS temperament, became WfldC we call
a most avid "horse bug" while on his later
visits to this country. l recalled the Glenns
Ferry incident to him, and he reached into
his pocket and produced the fve-dollar gold
piece-his pocket piece for all time to come
he told me-that he had learned" at Glenns
Ferry.
One On a Know-It-All
THE diminutiveness of the world was to
receive yet one more singular exemplif-
cation before we were released from the dol
drums Of Glenns Ferry, Idaho.
A group Of us, on the night before we got
away, were chatting in the smoking COM
partment of one of the Pullmans. The SUBJ
ject of mining and big strikes therein came
up. The inevitable Man Who Knows 1t All
was preSen re had never done any min
ing, it appeared; but he had dealt in mining
stocks. This, it seemed, was ample reason
why he should know all and everything
about the famous Comstock Lode and the
Big Four-Fair, Flood, Mackay, and O'Brien
who achieved such enormous riches from
that great strike. The all knowing one ex-
patiated at great length upon the Comstock
Lode. Some of his statements sounded a bit
fishy and out of line with the facts of current
knowledge as to the Comstock Lode, even to
those present who knew little or nothing of
the mining business.
When the expatiating one had finished tell
ing what he thought he knew about the Com
stock Lode, a quiet bearded young man, sit
ting in corner of the compartment with his
travelling cap pulled over his eyes, leaned
forward in his seat.
"You have been misinformed as to some
of your facts, sir, said the bearded young
man to the garrulous one.
The know it all person bridled at once
Misinformed nothing! He knew all the facts
about the Comstock, all right; had known
all about the Comstock before his vis-a-vis,
the bearded young man, had been put into
long pants! what do you know about the
Comstock, anyhow" he inquired beliger-
emily being one of the loquacious kind who
hate to be called no matter how extra
ordinary their misstatements.
Il know quite lot about the Comstock,
sir, even if l don't profess to know anything
else" replied the bearded young man, pro-
ducing a card and handing it to the Man
Who Knew 1t All.
The bearded young man was Charlie Fair,
son of the late Senator Fair of California,
one of the biggest men of the famous Big
Four. What the tumultuous young Charlie
Fair didn't know about the Comstock Lode
could have been written on the upturned
edge of safety match box. He was on his
way to France when he was halted by wash
OuCS dC 0ltiiIlS TtII y, ludllO. ~ IudI very
hour he might well have been in France,
where he spent most of his time, and where,
years later, he was to meet tragic death,
with his wife, in an automobile accident.
But he happened to be in stalled train in
little railroad settlement in Idaho to con-
| fuse talkative man and to add the third
incident of that curious tie-up to prove the
diminutiveness of the world we live in.
Cupid in the Mail
I HAVE been so occupied in telling of the
Glenns Ferry business that l have left
myself but little space in which to relate
few incidents bearing on the smallness of the
world that have happened to other people
of my acquaintance.
In the middle COS was on the steamer
Colima, which afterward was wrecked with
sad loss of life off Cape ST. Lucas, bound for
Panama and way ports in Mexico and Cen
troll Arpar;co One afternoon urhan the