Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
Week End on the Erin

/ looking fellow and said so to the col
onel
Wherever we went we saw that
priest. Finally we met him in a Sc
cluded part of one OF the pagodas, or
temples. Now there's going to be
trouble, / said to Neill That chap
has been cycling us pretty sharp and
he means mischief
Just then the priest stepped up 10
me. | thought he must have crook
! ed knife in his clothes, and was pre-
pared to stand back, when he adj
dressed me. What do you think he
said: How de do, Upton; how
your pictures, but [ can't expect you
to know me. My name is Kelley and
I'm from Waterford, Ireland
You could have knocked me over
with feather. I wanted to learn
something more of this strange fell
low, SO invited him down to my hotel
When he came I had a, long talk
with him, q little apart from the rest
of the guests. He told me he had
been sailor and coming ashore from
q voyage he had settled in India, had
become a, priest and was now one of
the principal religious lecturers in
Burmah.
Il had a long talk with him. Wheq
he left, one of the ladies at the hotel
said, Why, Sir Thomas, didn't know
you spoke the language here | an
swered, Yes, madam, like a native;
but | didn't tell her what language
we were conversing in, mind YOU
IT made inquiries about Kelley and
found he was telling the truth. He
was known from Rangoon to the Chi
nese border, and was a power in the
priesthood of Burmah. That's a
photograph of him in his robes, with
an inscription to me and his sigma
ture-but it isn't his Waterford sig
nature"
One more of the evenings stories
was suggested by photograph of
group of persons picnicking amongst
the ruins of Pompeii.
That is a party of royalty l was
entertaining in Italy," said Sir Thorn
as. There is an amusing story in
connection with that picture l want
ed to give my guests an especially
good time, and had little trouble In
securing permission to have a picnic
luncheon at the ruins of Pompeii--a
privilege not extended to the public
las we were lunching three Ger
man women, who we're there sight
seeing, came up. and as most of nay
guests were German royalty some one
suggested that the women be invited
to share our lunches. Everybody fell
In with the idea, and the tourists
had a lunch the like of which they
surely never had before with grand
duke to pour their wine for them
and princess or a queen to pass
them the chicken.
When the luncheon was over and
We were ready to leave one of the
party suggested that it would be well
to tell our guests with whom they
had taken luncheon.
When they were told that they
had broken bread with the King Of
-, the Grand Duchess -. the
Prince and Princess of -, and their
host was Sir Thomas Upton, they
held their sides and laughed them
selves out of breath.
After awhile they said: %, we
know; yes, yes, we know what you
are. You're. company of strolling
players; that one plays the part of
the King of - and that one the
Grand Duchess Of -, and that one
Sir Thomas Upton o, yes, we know
Then they laughed harder than ever
They believe to this day, probably
that they were right"
Sir Thomas gave the names of the
royal personages figuring in the story
which are not needful Winfield
M. Thompson in the Boston Globe.