Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-23

presented tearfully by Mr.. Evans, he
took the arm which Craighead cere-
m%oniously offered, and walked down
broad stairway ornamented with potted
palms, and through a spacious lobby
in which a clerk behind a desk, g
platoon of bell-boys, and groups OF
ordinary citizens, clothed, and APP
%parently in their right minds, impaired
an impression almost amounting to q
guaranty that the place was only q
hotel. They entered a cafe, where Mr.
Craighead moved to a table already
half occupied, with a familiarity born
of use.
81 bring with me, gentlemen" said he
airily to two men who had preceded
them, "a fellow lover of the hortus
nocturnus. Greet him with the grand
hailing sign!"
81 didn't know" said one, that they
treated them cases here"
"They do, MI. Bascom,'' returned Mr.,
Craighead; but, thank whatever gods
there may be, they can't cure them!
What they lack here is sense of humor,
Mr.. Bascom. Let me introduce my
friend. Mr.. Carson-Wylie, of Picca-
dilly."
Glad to meet you, Mr.. Carson
Wylie,' said MI. Bascom, stirring his
soft boiled eggs; land | hope they do
you as much good here as they have
me-"
THANK you," replied Carson. but
the fact is
but me no butts" broke in Craig
head. IT think 1 may venture, among
friends, to say that Mr.. Bascom Is our
most popular freak. He had read the
seventy-fourth Rubaiyat, which saith:
" Drink. for you know not whence you
come, nor whyl
Drink, for you know not why you go.
nor where!'
and made a whole-hearted ~endeayor
to follow it's teachings. He succeeded
in the realization of the Tent-Maker's
inability to state whence he came nor
why, why he went, nor where, or, in
fact, whether he was going or COM
ing. Gut in the matter of financing
further obedience to Mr.. Omar's bibu-
lous teachings, he was, to coin a phrase,
UP against it. Hence he marketed the
Mugs in his teeth. Mr.. Bascom is pas
.sionately fond of Khayyam."
Never under no such fancy name"
replied Mr.. Bascom gravely, but I've
been fond of most everything that
would make the drunk Gomez
"That includes Khayyam," responded
Craighead.
at was this way went on Bascom.
"If you're a periodical, Mr.. Carson
Wylie-'
sI ass,1re vouv asserted Mr.. Craig
head, that in London, where MIR
Carson-Wylie is forced to live in order
to keep his hyphen healthy, he is rated
in the best asylums as a periodical"
"Then you will understand" resumed
Mr.. Bascom, that, after being drunk
in Peoria for six weeks / was in kind
of bad shape, Clothes gone; took both
hands to set a glass to my mouth;
kicked out of places; had some fits
ever have a whiskey ftp"
.'Neverl' cried Theodore.
Mr.. Bascom was a notwithstanding
man with a William Cullen Bryant
beard and a lofty forehead. To see
him looking so like a poet and hear
him discourse his d~ebaucheries, sick
ened Theodore. But Mr.. Bascom con-
tinued like another Ulysses telling of
windier wars than those of Troy.
1.-The tortures of hell said he. ARE
vaudeville skits to 'em. I had sold
my sample cases-I was travelling out of
Bloomington for Fuller and Fuller
"How APPROPRIATED calculated Craig
head.
sAnd," went on Bascom. "hocked
everything loose. Now. when those
whiskey fits come on you have to have