Year: 1875

| anu, huaIiy, uIu yOu never IeIecl lilll
it is hardly manly to throw mud at a man
who cannot stoop TO throw mud back at
you? You see that sort Of practice,
under such circumstance, is very much
like striking a woman.


was an utter stranger and alone, aud
did not at all know where was 10 begin
or how 10 CRAFTY what deemed lauda.
BILE desire to see the President Of my
country; bat, after being brushed down
by the African, | descended from my
room and confronted the clerk Of the
hotel with an Interrogation.


Mr. Clerk walked up and down behind
his baltlemeni, bristing al the mouth with
toothpicks He was the true mono com.
initial American hotel clerk, and did not
answer me for a long time. lie had two
wooden tooth.picks in his mouth already.
and was eating away at them as il he
was a sort OF centaur AID they were
kind of long oats that he was very fond
|
dering aud wondering as he walked up
and down. and now aud then dropped
down into the little trough and took
another nbble of oats, whether | was a
Democrat or Republican and really be.
ieved in the third term.


At last the oracle spoke. $50, so :"
said the oracle, aud took another nibble
of oats, lie pecked ut me mysteriously;
and l, TO be sociable. pecked back. Then
he turned 10 his ledger, looked up and
down the lines, as clerk always will
when he does not want to lind anything;
aud. at last, having fully made up his
mind that it was all right and that my
nod meant derision, he jerked up his
head and said


HE always drives by in the afternoon
when he is sober enough"


Armed with = newspaper and cigar, l
lay in ambush for the President in one OF
the little canvas shades by the roadside,
along with cro@d ol pleasure seekers.
until nearly live pcl1ck. when some one
al my siie sal qiiet.F There goes the
Pres lieut. p. hap, l. vAs an old affair
with the uthers; bui there was no COM
motion, no expression OF good or ill-will
Whatever, it lnlJ except the little boy
on the grass at the outside OF the awning,
VINO dipped peanut she'll after the little
one.horse open carriage as it whirled at
a good pace up the long, level road.


lie had passed within few PAGES Of Us.
In fact, had been looking at him for half
minute before knew that this was the
President ol the mighty Republic aud the
great capttn that the world was in roar
of admiration over only q few years ago.
The tace is great face. There IS no
doubt OF that whatever. Il is made up oi
savage strength aud geutleness together.
Afterwards, when | came to know and
converse with this man, kept all the
time thinSing OF favorite and famous
|
splendid beast was In the habit ol licking
nv hand whenever | could get the cross
aud cruel keepers back turned, and he
would put his paw through the bars and
let me stroke it and londle with it till he
saw the keeper about To turn round. and
then he would draw back and wrinkle up
his brows and took like \ thunder storm
that was about to burst In fact, to finish
the story about the lion, he did burst out
on the cross old keeper one day, and
with a single paw through the bars scalp
ed him to the shouders-took head and
all.


To get back to the subject The Pres.
ident was driving alone, holding the reins
10 II sale, Careless fashion, ss il he were
used to them. and now andthen lifting his
hat TO the right aud lett whenever there
was any recognition or demonstration
whatever. and believe invariably to the
ladies whom he met driving down the
beach. In the little knot OF people with
whom happened to be sitting / saw but
one hat touched. | afterwards discovered
that this only gentleman OF our group
WAS the French barber.


Perhaps | had rs we'll say it here as
anyw here. that DO think the American
has less OF polteness in his make-up-
save perhaps on the Pacific coast and the
further south, where there is spiinkling
of Latin blood-than any other human
eng that is civilized enough to wear a
hat


A man in the plainest black, very
broad shouldered, strong built man, melt
ed away in the crowd OF carriages OF the
line. and tor the first time in my life,
, had seen a president OF my county
Dogs. horses, whiskey. bottles-all that
pieture was demolished. even looked
ia vain for the cigar as he drove back oy


us. after half An hour, for it was not
{ Yet | atterward noticed, not to enter into
, detail about triies, that the cigar is the


rule " hen driving. The sandy beard il
, bit gray. hair thick and black. the face
, full and the very picture OF health snC
composure, and he may safely count OF
, a quarter of century OF rest upon esrtt


after his retirement.


I How we men, how | came TO be sc
, honored As to sit with the great captain
r and talk with hi m, under his root, o