A TRUE GENTLEMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1661, 16 April 1884, Page 2

A TRUE GENTLEMAN.

A fow years ago a young man fashionably dressed took his seat at jtho table of the Girard house, in Philadelphia, There. was an air of self-conscious superiority in tlio youth which attracted general attention. Ho read the menu with smothered disgust gave orders in a tone of lofty condescension, and when his neighbour civilly handed him the pepper-box stared at [him for his presumption as though he had tendered him an insult, In short, a person of royal blood could not have regarded a mob of serfs with more arrogant hauteur than did this lad the respectable travellers about him. Presently a tall, powerfully-built old mail entered the room and seated himself at one of tho larger tables, Ho was plainly dressed, his language was remarkably' simple; -he entered into conversation with his neighbor, who happened to bo a poor tradesman, and occasionally during his dinner exchanged ideas with a little lady of five summers who sat beside him,- ' The' colored servants spoke to him as an old friend. "How is your rheumatism, John 1" he said to one, and remembered that another had lately lost his son. " Who is that oldfashioned gentleman T" asked a curious traveller of the steward. " Oh, that is Judge Jere Black, the greatest jurist in the country," was the enthusiastic reply. " And the young autocrat. Ho surely is somebody of note." ." He is a drummer who sells fancy soapal"