Year: 1876

The story told by all Indiana editor


regarding his experience at the Centen'


NAL Exposition appears almost too


strange to be true, but the man who re-
lates the incident was never known to lie


unless he had an interest in doing 80.


and here the interest seem totally lacking.


The story is given, as nearly as may be,


in his own words. Said he:


When / got to Philadelphia was in


formed that the editors and Others
admitted to the Exposition must have


their photographs taken at designated


place that the likenesses might be pasted


on the passes, thus enabling the gate


keeper to recognize the owner of each


ticket of The kind, and prevent all trans


fers. l was stopping with friend, and
concluded that in the morning l would


90 over and get the photograph and pass
as directed, and in the interval l enjoyed


myself with my friends family. The
children in the evening had little enter
tainment of masked party among
themselves, and the next morning after
breakfast, when playing with the baby,
/ put on one of the masks representing
an Indian chief, and had quite frolic.
The mask fitted me perfectly; it had
large orifces at the nose and mouth for
breathing, and when / finished trifing
with the child / forgot had the infer
nal thing on! Then picked up my hat
and started off to sit for my picture and
get my pass, none of the family happen
ing to notice me as went out. On the
street noticed that people stared at me
a good deal; but just put on my dig
nifty and stalked forward, without paying
attention. to anybody. At the photo
graphing room, when told them that l
was an editor come to have my photo
graph taken, some of the attendants
snickered, but the manager said some
thing about newspaper lately started in
the Indian Territory, and they quieted
down. l never noticed the photograph,
l was in such hurry, but l observed
that the girl, who pasted it on the card,
laughed, but when l begun to get mad,
quieted down suddenly, very much
scared.


As emerged on the street again one of
two very stylish ladies passing by looked
at me lapguishingly and said to her
com panion, loud enough for me to hear:
"Oh, there's one of the foreign princes!
isn't he grand?" Though not naturally
a vain man / was drawn to the cOnclu-
sion that there must be good deal of
natural dignity in me which my wife had
not found out. There was, in fact, no
other deduction possible, and l started
off to the Exposition in the best of spirits.
On the way to the grounds something
tickled my ear, putting up my hand
felt the string to the mask. l gave it a
pull, and the confeunded thing came off;
and then to my horror discovered what
had made people stare at me. Still, as
put the mask in my coat pocket, l never
thought of the photograph or of what it
must be. At the gate of the exposi-
tion which approached the keeper was
a big man. l showed him my ticket,
and he glanced at it and at me, and then,
without uttering word, kicked me
away from the gate. ran shouting for
the policeman, who, upon representation,
started to arrest the gate-keeper, but the
latter explained violently that 1 was a
fraud and an impostor, and then the
policeman arrested me instead and car
ried me to the station house. Of course
| sent then for my friend, and after had
suffered the ignominy of prison cell for
two hours he came down, and then l
found out what was charged against me,
and the explanation of the whole situa-
tion dawned upon me instantly.