Show bar the jandard Man dard I 1 brutus brown this little barrat ive like nearly everything I 1 write has a ling of truth in it I 1 have been in the journalistic iou and not withstanding this great advantage and the constant cara I 1 take to make my writings comport with those of others in my calling a dash of fact will crawl in here and there this is of course a weak dess but everybody has a weak ness some for one thing others for another and as we are all traveling the same road and have a coni men hostelry to put up at when we get to the end of it let us overlook such things and make the qualities which are not peculiar it ia not even necessary to mention them if wo come right down to it it is not absolutely necessary to mention anything it is very pleas ant and instructive though to do 4 so at times beides the jaw of so V at ciely must wag W rand tile news P man n lust print and how can either event occur without a subject which subject is usually frailties or peculiarities colle to think of it this disposition to talk a great while before saying any thing is one of my peculiarities many years agao so long ago I 1 almost fear to look back to tire P tinne I 1 wits a lighthearted light hearted light headed and light pursed young nan going to school at my immediate ancestors expense the lapse of time great as it is has not been able to completely cirice the last two characteristics named but it has played the deuce with abe first AMOD my playmates was one named junius brutus laronn and the rest of us u to abbreviate part of it for a nickname we could do so with im eunity for he was one of peo pie who are never duplicated in lie same generation a genuine stole ile was also an optimist a pher and I 1 believe a republican lie bad some other traits but this is not a biography so I 1 ornit them brute studied hard and was always well advanced in his cla but no kind dubin that would have made of the rest of us swell with pride like a toy bal loon ever produced the slightest perceptible him ile accepted everything as a matter of course and fortuned fort unea favors and frowns were taken with equal thanks when a fire at his lodging place got into his room and tie strayed most of his clothing and a lengthy document it may have been a book bilich he bad been for months preparing be never murmured be received our expressions of sincere commiseration in blank silence I 1 used to long to see him in love just to find out whether or not that would make an impression upon him but I 1 was destined never to be gratified lie was too dignified and perhaps I 1 ought to say too sensible fur that it was a good thing be had sue b n organization for lie was always the recipient of strokes of misfortune of various kinds being a fatalist he received them aitho ut either complaint or appeals for a S distance si stance and everybody liked him or seemed to alen of a retiring disposition generally arg followed I 1 believe ila wits poor but the inconveniences a ad attendant 0 P 2 that I 1 condition in life fell upon dew upon the lawn I 1 I 1 in fhe term was drawing to a close we were soon to separate for there were but few who resided in the town where the academy was loeft WI ted the respect I 1 had all along entertained for brown 1 I never us ed his nickname had ripened into re gard parting yes looked 0 1 I foiw ard to with regret mutual re gret I 1 believe for notwithstanding lis reserve be had occasionally shown that he held me in esteem the night before the examination came and I 1 sought ili lodgings for a good long talk t lie last we eer have come in and sit down he said 1 I 11 in glad you came we conversed pleasantly on the principal incidents connected with our ac ship and finally 1 I 1 expressed the hope that things would change with him that the whirligig of time would bring ili ill better luck 1 I dont know what luck is he said in the sense that a person 0 cant know anything about what lie has never seen felt or realized in an way you must have a strange idea of life I 1 should think 1 I do you see we come with out volition on our own part A V e are absolutely innocent when we g et here and abdol guilty when we go out unless the latter event occurs shortly after arrival being I 1 ion cent implies of course that we are ignorant it takes some little 1 time for us to realius that we are 6 here that we live have a being and 11 i dentt i and about aho first thing 14 4 a ate r t is we commence asking 1 kind we have come 1111 to efa t 1 aind do we find out i 11 you oui litto know for yourself 0 it depends upon what and where 51 you are if your pa or the man P who is accredited with that cespon r baelens to be a big gun it L I 1 ika the prince of balei or a cali I 1 net officer etc we always kilow a who we are and A I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t A 1 I IA ff on the other hand be is a coal heaber a clounce clou ncr an editor or some such unfortunate 1 derat anding comes more slowly grid it take i tie situation and we wonder and won der in one infantile way n by c dont mako as fine a all ow es the others and nye acquire tit 0 in fornia ion strangely enough juit at tile lime it seems to be stale then of cou arse you have the problem oil ye E Very lody hail I 1 oa before try lige I 1 drew a low I 1 tail and have been trying ta play it for a high one with ghastly success why dont you throw it u I 1 why dont the poor gambler who is bauit in tile me files of a game which entrances him anti finds his money slipping through his fingers piece by piece let ga why iona lie stop when lie ner toys with his Is L coin hesi toting fer moment whether to risk it with perles night if it goes why not take tile of th e bet I 1 and meal and vol le t the slippery coin go to join the other well why dont lit that t tile whole question ile at because lie cant ile would not bo acting 7 out his part would be doing ilia violence if lie did ile was made with lust juch a mind and dio position as lie finds himself esith and if his inclination is superior to ilia judgment he cant belp it any more than lie can account for his feet being larger than his handi or one feager being longer than lie others wha then pu dont believe that we c the architects of our own forat tuno no anti yes our is as fixed its the as set as our countenances but vc may by ef fort or act or ev en create details in aith it jf w e board it train for a neighboring ton our trip 6 out but hot we anay if or see as we go along is not so well arranged arraD ged dodou know mint your destiny is As I 1 intimated before I 1 tic and live in accordance with it I 1 not make tale situation any moro unpleasant than it is b y borro borrowing ting trouble or wasting time in foolish regrets I 1 eliell always I 1 think have enough to preserve me from actual dependence shall never seek that endless source of misery slid al ie fortune love and in r dissipation I 1 have no a ap pp betito JL find ideall a ong I 1 I 1 erent as to what tit world bays or dues and after my bobbin is wound up I 1 bull step aide a ide much re luct anee nut let some other stuffed lake I 1 ny place and goon esith the patin rama anti in thi etrain it went on till we got tired and I 1 left him half converted to tile doctrine that what is to bo will be no matter how we seek to arrange things I 1 was sa much taken tip it that I 1 acquired a reputation for I 1 equaled by few and excelled by none what is the use of working if all that is de creedal ready and efforts will count for the next day we had the examination and I 1 gave browns parting essay a prearranged fusillade fusi lade of plaudits pl audits not prearranged between ourselves by any means bitcon for the occasion by our invisible timekeeper time keeper and guardian alto inhabits tile realms of space and afterward I 1 went down ith him to the levee and we spoke t each other ith more warmth than ever A cruel war was imminent and lie I 1 though only sixteen vowed be would enter the confederate arm V and take the field while I 1 A TOU I 1 41 seek the wilds of the wea where wars alarums were not likely to penetrate As be stood on the deck ef the keokuk abile that majed tic steamer was pulling out be became sufficiently demonstrative for once to drav 0 ut his handkerchief and wave it and abat I 1 prized more than though lie had given me a gold headed ca I 1 it 1 I could see that perhaps for ills first and last I 1 time in his life his lachrymal du c bad declared a dividend a teai was sparkling apar kling in a corner of his brilliant a e an unbidden I 1 deu tear it may have leen but it waa there the distance of time and space perhaps including A fragment 0 I 1 eternity with their changes and myriad circumstances might intervene between us and another meeting and might never meet again he in I 1 seemed to have created the only impulse in common with tile hu roan family he had ever felt and me looking upon him as at least a packet edition of napoleon a man without a model end tl shadow all these ti and many others had for a moment thronged thron ged into his mind and he bearne like afie rest of us for that ane moment ain longer I 1 walked away and sought my own conveyance as wak ing froin a mysterious dream wonder y whit if anything would tile means that brought all together again and ment a fly moralize mora lizi 11 g upon the them e A ahat 11 adois we are what shadows we ii arsue aly reverie was rudely di sip abed y the practical call of a s I 1 ab car d and the two bits pease from t I 1 ie hackman these stars indicate a year each that bits from the leaving off place till the resumption of writing asa matter of fact about half a feconda wits coDa umed but in I 1 ia this case like a play time must be scanned eca nned with a magnifying glass there were n few odd ni linthi be asides Ilie twelve years but tile printer hai no small alite risk so the have to be explained of i I 1 had in addition to some 0 alier failinger fai linge booked over the conten t a of two or thee stray lot 6 aks an w telling al altor i I 1 finity only fifteen were to ile admitted to tile bar in one ili the crowd presented and was sworn ili vadi tile others tile sar lied been over ninny 3 4 ars go long lit fact that it person cbill an 1111 vee bis belief in the doctrine of state rig his anti not keep tlc alc fed eral flig abing from the of ili f I 1 price with impunity I 1 even arit R I 1 lie beginning lot tile kinle here the stars leave 01 heard one inan ley lie bad seta davis drunk and he was not shot fit by a pro we had got past the russian c condition Ondi tion of ny or c giov nearly if not quite as lax active anti liberal as germany under bismarck rind tile indestructible william in chort a mon nee 1 Q care much nebout havi ag worn the gray aa well as otherwise if his c induct as cool I 1 opened an office in a flouri flit 9 town where there was a I 1 ro bEte and justices Ju stires court a coop co op attire a ful dealer w hohag so far e capal indictment anti about 1000 people of various age sizes colors sexes circum stances and previous present conditions of servitude I 1 hall nothing 16 open the ailleo n ith lint a key the consideration for which IV a a fixed for a date in the fi oil future circumstances were embarrassing for a time but I 1 bonev out of that delusive crucible cru cibe called hope remembered iny earlier impressions about v bat is to go ill ge t there aai awi baited for something to turn up As I 1 q do anything else I 1 lay no claim to be ing a philosopher for it som odi flit south and wat f my abiding place in this territory was a great patch of desert country near the center of which was ail oasis of braes graes growing nail water producing tent nil title furnished a pretext for a ranch the proprietors name was ile J min alaska or something like that ile aas getting rich very I 1 have heard that ile lied thet udden est breeds of cows on accord that is lie would turn them out wit ere people s cattle from places ranged and in a few weeks they tile cobo not the people would return to him aith two or three and sometimes as high as half a I 1 dozen calves each it a wayfarer I 1 came along for some of is sheen that bad strayed from the field or fur other four legged estate I 1 lie was treated kindly in fact lie was nearly always killed with kind riess the kindness in this instance as double there were some fine horses on this ranch and orlo day a dis lit one of them from the proprietor etor tl 4 0 it e n aid the cirit a nd C PC to civilization ile arrived a aglace a few miles from out town anti having no money at bouce proc to ae oriale oti ale the house it wits worth and lie got 35 oil it with a promise of in or 0 after harvest ile took the va anti hen the shades of night lied gathered over the village went and tool tile horse back oil the same terms that lie bad got him from alaska ile yes captured two daas later and brought back but not till he ila left alo animal in a livery stable 75 miles away as se carity for his own aad its board for ile seat for me and I 1 visited him in his prison I 1 knew lie was hard up when lie told me ile wa died me to defend him ile was an ex confederate lied lost an arm at boue river and further to my sympathies by offer A tile a hill of sale of tile horse which I 1 could obtain by paying tile S 15 due in it having represented to me that the other fellow had no claim I 1 embraced the offer negotiated a mortgage on the nas well known alere ai ain kas favorite I 1 radim horse for 23 got tile money in advance anti ila the horse anti brought down aly man did not have to wait long for trial lie was brought over and found 9 nifty but in view of tile extenuating fen tence was suspended ile left next lay and my arse disappeared at the same time the full note lied been dropped in the pott office 1 or me to I 1 knew you from the first but was elal volt know me you will be digap pointed at not finding find inz the horse where you left it last night but tile is that and ru belf are wedded by fate gild it is a de cree that ile is never to leave me for long I 1 love you as much as ever but bunot munot control destiny neither can you good bye 11 gain yours truly JUSTUS BRUTUS A little circumstance like that would shake some peoples conkli deuce in the arg registration ami nes but it mine it confirmed mein that doctrine I 1 have find hundreds of to its truthfulness and efficacy since what is to be may not get here oil the next train it inny be snow bound or otherwise belated but it will might upon you in an un r whether you are noxious to meet it or not it will arrive juit thit same in tuch your chief consolation aill ba abat when such visitations as that nor rated above come along th 0 circumstances i have acen so arrand that the person who comes to th 0 top in the shuffle of the cards is not likely to re eat his performance if here and there a person is so wedded to an idea or a borbe he cant think of but that one thing you meet him frequently when you dont want to but are not likely to meet him when you do for that reason I 1 so fely pay with refer nee to t be mari end and admiration of my and patron of my years more in sorrow than in anger the words of king lear no more never never never beverl essay CA IOU 4 I 1 i A rl t 31 MA I 1 11 |