Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-01-20

IL dfA bi FITS Gusdpidh Ihl-
ladina.
Alas! Eusaphiah is dead! Eusa-
piah Palladina has passed in her
checks, kicked the bucket, crossed
1.-THE great divide. gone hence! Drop
a tear or two for p. p.
What? Don't you know Eusa-
piah? Never heard tell of Eusapiah
Falladina Say, fellow. where
have you been all these S2 years
ljust passed? Asleep at the switch,
apparently. Very well, then, wake
up and take notice.
IN. c.
When l read in the papers a few
days ago. under a New London
date line, that Mrs. Eusaphia Pal
Iladina was dead / felt that | had
lost the last and best friend | had
in Connecticut since Mark Twain
died there. | am sure that Mark
Twain knew Eusapiah. and my
chief regret today is that he is not
in a position to write her obituary.
! He could do it, no doubt, ever so
much more fittingly. if not perhaps
so tearfully, as the present writer.
IN. c.
Yes, Mark could obituarize Mrs.
Palladina in such wise as to make
the nations weep genuine joy of
wit and humor-plus sarcasm. For
Samuel Laanghorne Clemens. Ill.
D., was lifelong hater of sham and
chickenry and of all sorts of cheap
skate frauds and fakes; and he
would have seized upon this un-
Timely demise of Mrs. f.. p. of Day
lville, Conn, near New London, as
opportunity to lambast the prof
iiteer.
| IN. c.
| But, alas again! NJ. r. is no more
in the flesh. and it falls to a broth
Ter Missourian and a brother eX-
,Connecticutian TO do the last sad
writes herein indicated.
IN. c.
When the oversigned was man.
aging editor of the New London
Day. some twenty years ago. in his
early youth. he knew and loved
Mrs. Ensapiah = yea. loved her
most devotedly. Cannot an aged
man-you know the cub reporter
calls any man aged" who has at
tanned 80 or 40-confess his early
loves in public print without
shame? He can!
IN. c.
/ Frequently of Sunday after
noon | bicycled out to Jim Blanch-
iard's place at Dayville-or maybe
lit was Sayville--to see and court
IEusapiah Palladina. For one of
her breed she was far older. even
then, than myself. She was about
l : years of age going on IS. Eusa-
piah was clad always, in those early
days, in glossy black, being young
! widow. From the press dispatches
IL learn that at the age of IS, or a
; Icouple o years after her devoted
,admirer departed from Connecticut
and from her life, she assumed
Isnow-white habiliments. Doubtless,
,alas! Eusaphia became again a
bride! All, how pathetic are the
: memories of Loves young dream!
] N. c.
/, 1t was my since desire to ac-
iGuire Eusapiah. but the Blanchard
: family guarded her with eagleish
Eeyes. They actually kept her con-
! fined in pen Think of that-the
fair young Eusapiah penned up
: Iagainst the rowing Lothario or the
, riding Dochinvar who came out of
!; the west! | should have had the
law on the Blanchards. but l didn't
have the price. And, besides. the
Ionly lawyer / knew in those days
was Frank Brandegee of New Lon
, don, now in the United States SEN
ate; and Frank was then, as now
q lady dislker, not to say woman
Ihater; and what would Old Bache-
llor Brandegee have done for Eusa-
Iphia and for me in my unhappy
Isuit?
N. c.
/ pause not for reply.
N. c.
Nay, / but go straight on, to tell
iyou just why l coveted the fair
Eusaphia of the ebon garb, She
had been laying a fresh egg nearly
Ievery day for about IL years. and
Ieggs were worth at the time II
Icents a dozen
IN. C.
Mrs. Eusophia Panadina was the
Imost remarkable hen ever hatched
when she died the other day she
was 32 years old, going on S3 She
Twas known throughout the world
Ito chicken breeders; and it is said
Ito have been fact that her coal
lblack feathers turned pure white
when she was about 15 years old
and so remained until the last sad
lscene,
N. c.