The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-17
Continued.

Sdlu he alrlly, 10 TWO men VINO
had preceded them, "a fellow-lover
of the hortus nocturnus. Greet
him with the grand hailing sign"
Il didn't know" said one, chat
they treated them cases here"
"They do, Mr.. Bascom," returned
Mr.. Craighead; "but, thank what
ever gods there be, they can't cure
them! What they lack here is
sense of humor, Mr.. Bascom. Let
me introduce my friend, Mr.. Car
son-Wylie of Piccadilly."
Glad to meet you, Mr. Carson
Wylie," said Mr.. Bascom, stirring
his soft-boiled eggs land l 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
Craighead. 81 think I may venture,
among friends, to say that Mr. Bas-
com is our most popular freak. He
had read the seventy-fourth Rubai-
vat, which saith:
Drink! for you know not whence
you came. nor why!
Drink, for you know not why you
go, nor where!"
and made whole-hearted en-
deavor to follow it's teachings. He
| Tent-Makers inability to state
whence he came nor why, why he
went, nor where, or, in fact wheth-
er he was going or coming. But
in the matter of financing further
obedience to Mr.. Omar's bibulous
teachings, he was, to coin a phrase,
up against it. Hence, he marketed
the plugs in his teeth. Mr.. Bas-
com is passionately fond of Khay-
yam"
Never under no such fancy
name replied Mr.. Bascom grave
ly; but I've been fond of most
everything that would make the
drunk come
THAT includes Khayyam,' re-
sponded Craighead.
1T was this way" went on Bias
com. "If you're a periodical, Mr..
Carson-Wylie-"
Il assure YOU" asserted Mr..
Craighead, that in London, where
Mr. 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" re-
sumed Mr.. Bascom, that, after be
ing drunk in Peoria for six weeks
was in kind of bad shape. Clothes
gone; took both hands to get a
glass to my mouth; kicked out of
places: had some fits-eVer have
whisky fit?'
"Never!" cried Theodore.
Mr.. Bascom was a venerable
looking man with a William Cullen
Bryant beard and lofty forehead.
To see him looking SO like poet
and hear him discourse of his de
baucheries, sickened Theodore
But Mr. Bascom continued like an
other Ulysses telling of windier
wars than those of Troy.
THE tortures of hell" said he,
ARE vaudeville skits to EN-.
had sold my sample cases-l was
travelling out of Bloomington for
Fuller and Fuller"
How appropriate, calculated
Craighead.
And" went on BasCom. "hock
ed everything loose. Now, when
those whisky fits come on you
have to have booze. | had made
l.; L., n .
loaned me little dirk, stood by to
keep me from cutting my throat
while dug the gold out Of my
teeth, sold it, and accounted for
every cent. He was a good Teller
for a highwayman.'
That shows" interpoSed the
fourth man, "how we jags are for
eve hangin by a tow string Owe
the aidge Of hell, an maxim bets
whether it'll burn off or not!
tell you, | shivah-'
Il join in the SILVER" said Craig
head. Il often-I beg your par
don: Colonel McGilvray, permit me
to make you acquainted with Mr.
Carson-Wyle, of Belgrave Square
London. Colonel McGilvray is the
scourgc of his home county, NJ
Carson-Wylie, and is here being
denaturized.
I'm right pleased 10 know you,
said the colonel And | want to
encourage YOU to stick when you
get out, Mr. Ca'son Wylie. | am
motif Mr.. Craighead will ALLOW
me-the scourge of my county;
but my kind than feared was
eittin' so | could shoot single
mindedly while seem double, an
they-all presented a petition, sun
askin me to come hyah; an In
hyah as n public duty
Colonel McGi,Nray WAS not the
last to urge upon Carson the advis
ability of stick lg' When he BoI
out. The inmates gathered about
him after breakfast and labored
with him as the workers" in an
old-fashioned protracted meetins
wrestled for the salvation of souls
There was really something fine
in this.
He assured them of his good In
tentions. He was rendered humble
and almost hashlul by the hope
lessness of trying 40 cNu 'cate him
sell from his equivocal position oN
,re to his unthinkahlc manner q
getting into the Institute, aud TIN
maze OF fanciful miSrepresenta
tons of Mr.. Craighead. So he lis
tened and thanked then, \ maj
with locomotor ataXia said that he
vos fen wears Younger since com
ing-and went away, carefully con
culating at every step just wher'
'he Nuuld put his feet next, and II.
lariably- setting them unexpected
" else where. A distinguished. ap
pearine parsonage was pointed Oh
as railway president taMi's tn
cure a, the request of his company
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