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Cedartown Advertiser.
Published every Thursday by D. B. FREEMAN.
Terms: 01.50 per annum, in advance.
OLD SERIES—VOL. YII-NO. 19.
CEDARTOWN, GA., JUNE 10, 1880.
NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 26.
Main St Cedartown Ga.,
IP YOC WANT THEM PURE AND PHE3H.
C. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
nr* office m the court House. lebn-’.y
JOSEPH A. BLANCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Hr First Room up Stairs over J. S. wubt* A
C Store. Sept9.viy
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OPflCE EAST SIDE OF MAIN »T.
CEDABTOWX, GA.
jaaS-ly
“BEAB YE ONE ANOTHER'S BDBDENS I”
IS: Hti Pralettia of ait torn Ois at 1st tot
The People's Mutual Belief Association
I* issuing certificates of membership in amount* from $1,000 to $3,000 on
strictly healthy persons, male and female. The plans are
SAFE, CHEAP AND PERMANENT.
Applications for membership will be racsived by
JNO. W. RADLEY, Cedartown, Ga.
Partial list of members in and around Cedartown: F. M. flight. A. A.
Bead. John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken. Wm. K. Craig, Geo. H. Leake, J.
W Birr, Dr. C. U. Harris, J. B. Crabb. W. H. H. Hatrls, D. B. Monroe,
Dr W. G. England, Jno. W. Radley, J. W. Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B.
Freeman, Mrs. Xancv Powell, Alex. Dougherty, Mrs. Francis Dougherty,
Dr. £. H. Richardson. Captain X. S. Eaves. - apI5 fam
In a quiet street off one of the quiet
squares there is a tall.’ gloomy house, with
narrow, dusty windows, and a massive
double door, that still bears a brass plate
with the words “Gourlay Brothers” en
graved thereon.
The lower part of the house was used as j
an office, but the bUnds were rarely drawn j pleas ^“ t0 '^,"^^71 love' Alice
up, the door seldom swung back to the en. | Rusgc]|/ , fae faid laying hi8 hand on his
. ~ getic push of,c^tomers, the long passage^ ^ can hardlyrememberlhe
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins eol^d nohurnedfcx.L^eps.and to me than
A. J. YOUNG,
DEALER IX
W. G. ENGLAND,
hysician and Surgeon.
CEDARTOWX, GA.
>FFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where ke may toe
id ready to attend cails either day or
aaic-ly
r night.
DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown. Ga.
and Brandies.
Noyes Warehouse - ■ CEDARTOWN, Ca.
SOLE AGEXT FOR COX, HILL k THOMPSON'S
STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES
In Cedartown.
I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical
purposes with perfect safety,
guaranteed.
t3~ Give me s call.
Good treatment
mr18-ly
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Having Just opened out a slion at the store of
a. D. Hogg A Co., inspect: ulv requests tha
NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS!
lew Goods and New Prices.
A. D. HOGG & CO.
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWX, GA.
Ul practice In the Superior Courts of Pqlt,
ding, Haral on. Floyd and Carroll counties,
clal attention given to collections and real
ite bjslness. marll-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOfrX, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed In the most skill
ful m inner, office over J. s. stubtos a Co.’s-
febi9-ly
F. M. SMITH.
Attorney at Law and
HEAL ESTATE AGENT,
CEDARTOWX, GA.
Particular tteatlon given »o the selling or
rent ng of city prop Tty. Buying and selling
wild la*ds a specially. Pariet, owning w.id
l.nds in Georgia wontd do rll to curespond
with me. as I ltavo app lc turns for ill u-uinds
of a-Yes who^e owners are unfcno vu. No tax fl.
fa. or other b gus title ne^d apply. Look up
yi ur b eswax and writ?* me. Terms: Ten p-r ,
cent, c rasnl-si »•» on For locating and \
ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For ;
searching record' tor owner*. .**• <vql- per 1 »t.
For ascirtaining if iand is claimed «ir occupied
by squatter $1 per l«*. Aiwa s in ndvanoe. To |
insure at ent on enclo e aa-cent^tatnp Parties j
own ng wild land * sU mid look to tbelr interests, \
as many of these wud ands arc being stolen t». |
Miuatt**rs und r a bogU' title. All eo nmuntca-
tions p omptly ansivred. SatlLfacUoa guar
anteed i ' " " ' '
MAIN Street,
CEDARTOWN, Georgia,
Have just opened a selset stock of General Merchandise in their new store,
and want ail their friends and the public generally to call and let them
show their goods and prices. Their stock was bought before the recant
rise in prices, and they feel confident of having goods at bottom figures.
They have beautiful Dress Goods, Calicoes, Cor.ets, new styles; Bleach-
ings, Flannels, Casslmeres, Kerseys, Kentueky'Jeans. Hosiery, Gloves,
Hardware, Xotlous, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’* Underwear Very
Low. Remember the place—last Brick btore on South M AIX Street, west
side. noT *
LIGHTS AND SHADES.
The gloomiest day bath gleams of Ii?ht.
The darkest wave bath bright foam near it;
And twinkles through the cloudiest night
Some solitary star to cheer it.
The gloomiest soul is net all gloom,
The sa ’dost hoar is not all sadness ;
And sweetly o'er the darkest doom
There shines some lingeiing beams of sad
ness.
Despair is never quite despair.
Nor life nor death the fatnre > loses;
And round the shadowy brow < f care
Will hopa and fancy twine the r loses.
Two Loyal Hearts.
vory day after the ceremony, the poor,
weary, broken hearted mother died. George
Leslie took his wife back with him to Syd
ney, and John and Roger Gourlay were
literally alone in the world.
As if in bitter mockery of their loss, and
loneliness, immediately after their mother’s
death the brothers inherited a small for
tone. But it was too late for John to go
back to his studies, too late for Roger to
return to his piano. They had fallen into
the groove of business, and John at least
was seized with a feverish eagerness to turn
his small fortune into a larger one and be
come wealthy. So they went into business
on their own account as Gourlay Brothers,
| with the firm resolution of retrieving the
position their father had lost, and a very
few years saw them established in Whittier
street, and fairly on the high road to for
tune. Then one quiet summer evening, as
they sat over their dessert, John opened
bis heart to his brother and told him of his
hopes, dreams and ambitions of his future.
You will be surprised, and I trust
gart, the clerk, was, to all appearance, the j aU the wor]d 6egWe> The „ iUere3t part of
idlest man m London, till one came to know j ^ misfortune t0 me waa that it
hl Tr , G^rlay Brothers were never any | me from her; the only thing that has sus-
busier than their faithful old servant-1 me throu ^ our long struggle was
never hurried, flurried, or worried; never i ** ° f «“ e <*7 ~g hen nothing
-c . . else can ever compensate me for the nun
Every morning at I t , r . . , T
of all my hopes apd glonous ambitions. I
^ ^ H. C. CROWLEY. & £
DEALER IX
STOVES iAND TIN-WARE,
EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET,
Opposite Philpot & Dodds, -
CEDARTOWN. Ga.
Keeps constantly in stock the LATEST and BEST orands of STOVES
and can now supply customers with the unequal*^ Time*, SfUiliern
Baker and Iron City.
Keeps at all times a full line of TINWARE* and doe ® » u klnda of
work—Roofing. Guttering, etc. m °* y _
[ 10 ali honest men.
JanS9-ly
LIVERY FEED,
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWX, - - - GEORGIA-
Being suppl’ed with new Horses, New
cie* A .. we are prepared to meet tb« want* or
the puollc In ourline. jans-iy
ED. E. BRANNON,
Dealer in
ate and never early,
ten o’clock they entered their office to-
gether, read their letters, glanced at the
paper, left instructions for possible callers,
and then went to the city. They always
took the same route; at eleven they might
be seen passing along the sunny side of
Cannon street; at half-past one they en
tered the same restaurant, and sat down for
luncheon. Wet or dry, shade or shine,
summer or winter, every working-day for
thirty years they had gone through the
same routine, always excepting the month
of September, when they took their annual
holiday.
They were elderly men—John tail, thin,
melancholy-looking, with light gray <$es,
scanty gray hair and whiskers and a gen
eral expression of drabness pervading his
whole face and faultlessly neat attire.
Roger was shorter, rounder, more cheerful
and generally wanner in color. His per
vading hue was brown, keen reddish eyes
that must have been merry once, crisp
auburn hair that time had not yet quite
transmuted to silver, a clean-shaved, ruddy
face and brown hands full of dents and
dimples. John was the elder; still he
looked up to Roger with grave respect, con
sulted him on every subject, and never,
either in our out of business, took any step
^without his advice and approval. And
Roger was no less aeferential. Witho-v
anv profession of affection or display c:
reeling, the Gdnrley Brothers'dwell rogeinfr
in cloeest friendship and love. Their life
was a long harmony, and durum thg
years of their partnership shadow had
fallen between them, and ^eir public life
was as hari" al0us at llleir private inter
course. 111 business they were successful,
eTC ry speculation they made prospered
everything they touched turned to gold;
and as their whole lives were spent in get.
ting, not spending, they were believed, and
with reason, to be immensely wealthy.
“Cold, hard, stem, enterprising,” men
called them, with an acuteness of vision
and a steadiness of purpose, only to be ac
quired by long and close application to
business. Reserved in manner, simple in
their tastes, economical in their habits, the
Gourlay Brothers were the last men m the
world to be suspected of sentiment, their
lives the least likely to contain oven the
ge ms of romance. And yet they bad not
been always mere business machines; the
sole aim and end of their existence had not
always been money. In early years they
had brighter dreams, nobler ambitions.
At school John had distinguished him
self, and his brief university career gave !
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWX, GA.
Keeps on Hand and manufactures to order j
MATTRESSES! i
My work recommends itself wiierevcr *sed. ;
and is puarantoed to render the most Reject ,
aattsraction. No flimsy mat«r.«i used no work ,
alighted. I ask a trial. JAM EL K FKivn. .
iebi9-ly. j
CALHOUN
Livery and Sale Stable.
FOSTER A HARLAN, Props »
plUIPC-V. - - - GEORGIA.
lately purchased ths above stable and
snnwd<rt*lt with good Horses and a splendid
linear new Vehicles, we are prepared to meet
toe'wants or the trivellng public In our line.
Parties wishing vehicles sent to any of the
trains on the Selma. Rome an l Dalton Railroad
orto-ny other point, mav telegraph ul and
hare their wants promptly and i ropeily at
tended to. F0STER j. HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga.
JanS-tf
ISAAC, T. MBB,
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—DEALER IX—
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KIXDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
A SPEC! 4LTT.
Every variety or Job wort In my line neatly
none. I tespe t ul y solicit the pa'ronnie oi
the public, and would be pleased to nave all my
Trends and customers call and eee m, when ui
tavn. 1. T. MEE
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Chickens, Eggs and Batter a Specialty.
once dreamed of being famous, Roger; for
her sake put that behind me, and grubbed
for gold like a miser. We, Gourlay
Brothers, are on the high road to for
tune ; 1 may aspire to the hand of Alice
now I ”
“Surely, John,” and the younger
brother’s voice was husky, and his hand
shook as he took up his glass; “I drink to
your success. ”
4 ‘Thanks, brother. I should have told
you all tiiis before, I should have confided
in too. but I feared troubling you on my
acount, yon would have seen a thousand
shadows across my path, you would have
been more unhappy than I was myself.
And now I want you to promise that it
shall make no difference between ns. We
shall be Gourlay Brothers still.”
Roger stretched his hand aorossthe tabic,
and John grasped it heartily.
“Gourlay Brothers to the end sf the
chapter, old fellow, and may you be as
happy as you deserve. God ’oless you
John.”
John's face became a shade or two paler
with emotion, and he walked up and down
the room a few minutes; then he stood be
hind his brother’s chair.
“Roger, you will think me very weak,
very nervous, but I dare not speak to Alice
myself. I could not endure a refusal from
jtr- i e never even given her the most
distant hint of my feelings. I have notihe
slightest reason to suppose that she regards
me as other than a mere acquaintance, at
most as Maude’s brother.' Roger, we have
always been friends as well as brothers—
stand by me in this; you are less shy and
more accustomed to women; see Alice for
me, ask her to be my wife.”
“ John, you’re mad! You do not mean
it! ”
“I do; it is my only chance. Plead for
my happiness, brother, as I would plead
for yours. I am a man of few words,
but I feel deeply. A refusal from her lips
would kill me; I could hear H from you.”
“As you will, John; I’ll do my best,”
and Roger leaned his head on his hand and
shaded his face from the light; “I’ll call on
Alice to-morrow. ”
The next day was the longest of John
Gourlay’s life—a bright, warm, happy day,
that made people even in the city look glad
and cheerful. He went about his business
as usual, ate his luncheon, and walked home
leisurely. Roger was standing at the win
dow watching for him, and he kept his back
to him when he entered the room.
“Well,” John said, gently; “well
flush rose to Alice’9 pale cheek as she tried
to stammer out some words ot greeting*
Roger was no lens confused, and the expres
sion of both faces was a revelation to John
Gourlay. He felt as if the world had sud
denly drifted away from bun and he was
left solitary in some unknown, infinate
space. But there was nothing of that in
his voice as he asked Alice for her address,
and permission to call upon her in the
afternoon. Then taking his brother by the
arm he led him away, and they continued
their walk without exchanging a angle
word about the strange encounter.
In the afternoon John called at Miss
Russell’s hotel, and in a few moments he
found himself seated beside her in a pleas-
ant sittiag room, overlooking the sea.
“Alice,” he said, plunging into the sub
ject at once, “do you remember a conver
sation you had with my brother a long time
ago ?”
“Yes, 1 remember, Mr. Gourlay,” she
replied sadly,
“He made a request for me then which
it was not in your power to grant; I am
come to moke a similar one for him now.
Roger loves you, Alice. He has loved you
all these long, weary years, though you
will at least believe I did not know It
then. ”
“Poor Roger!” Alice said, softly.
“You care about him ? You will make
him happy, even at this late hour ? Tell
me, Alice, that you love my brother 1 ”
“Yes, Mr. Gourlay, I da Why should I
deny it ? I have loved him always, though
I did not know that he cared about me,
and if the little life that is left me can make
him happier, I will devote it to him gladly,
proudly—poor Roger I You see I am too
old for pretenses, Mr. Gourlay, and I fear
I am dying; therefore, I tell you all.”
“Dying, Alice? Xo, no! you will live
many years yet, I hope, to make my dear
brother nappy—brave, loyal, great-hearted
Roger. Let me send him to yon now, and
•Alice, for my old and long affection’s sake
make him happy. He deserves it, and
that is the only way I can ever help to re
pay the devotion of his life.”
“I love him,” Alice replied, simply; “I
cannot do any more.”
In their lodgings John Gourlay found his
brother pacing restlessly up and down.
“Roger, I’ve found out your secret and
her’s,” he said, laying both hands on his
shoulders; ‘"loyal, faithful friend, go to
her, she loves you, she is waiting for you.”
“Poor Alice ! how she must have suf
fered ?”
“How we ail have suffered! but it’s
nearly over now, Roger—the grief, pain,
regret. It’s clear and bright Roger, dear
friend, can you forgive me ?”
‘•Forgive you, John? Say rather can
you forgive me ?”
“True to the last,” John murmured, as
he wrung his brother’s hand. “Xow
nopw, go her: she is waiting for you.
She loves you—ioves-you, Roger! Gx)d
bye, and may yon both be happy ! ”
Late that evening, when Roger Gourlay
returned home, fall of deep, quiet g'adness.
he found his brother sitting in an easy
j chair near the window, apparently asleep.
The full moon shone down on his pale
face, and showed a smile on his lips; his
hands were clasped on an open book that
rested on his knee. The attitude was life
like, but at the very first glance Roger felt
that his brother was dead. The doctors
said he had died of disease of the heart.
Perhaps they were right. More people
die of that malady than the world knows
of.
A Mysterious Stabber.
I HAVE AL80
A FIRST —CLASS BAR
In connection with the Store, which is stocked with the finest Liquors
in town. ' janfi-tf
CHEAP GOODS!
J. S. STUBBS & CO.,
Have just moved into their ehgtrt new Store Rooms on
East Side of Ml\ Street!
CEDARTOWN SCHOOL,
J. C. HARRIS, Principal
The Spring Term commences the first Mon
day in January and wlu continue sy moat os.
Fail Term ' -pens 3rd Monday in August and
continues 4* months. Rates of tuition as cus-
T< The8cbool-room is convenient and eomfort-
ab e: training thorough and discipline firm.
The Principal offer* hla thanks ror past favors,
confidently ask for a liberal share of patron-
*®5«SraSo«S to dlaetplla*. He., is mafia totbs
former patrons ot this sohsoL amrtr-f^
Where they are now opening in extensive stonk of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Their goods were selected with great cap and with an eye to the needs
of their customers, and were bought for Cph. They wlil be told at the
lowest, figures. Go and examine their itock and prices before making
your purchases. j ang7-»f
J. P. DTJ^FEY,
MANUFACTURER AN* DEALER IN
BOGGY 11 WAGON HARNESS SADDLES, BRIDLES, &£
Dougherty's i«! t Stand,)
CED ARTO W f, Georgia.
All Work Guaranteed to give satUfactloi AU he aeks U a trial. janS-ly
promise of a brilliant future. Roger had i Roger, have you Been her?”
been a bright, ardent boy, with a taste for i “Yes, I ve seen her,” and Roger faced
music that was almost a passion, and a tal- j around suddenly. “John, old fellow, it s
ent little short ot genius. With his deep
earnestness, intense steadiness of purpose,
and clear, vigorous intellect, John could
scarcely have failed to make a distinguished
lawyer. Roger was a born artist, with a
restless, lofty ambition. Life seemed very
bright for the brothers; there was nothing
to prevent, and everything to assist, each
in following his inclination. But m the
very dawn of their career thair father died,
and they were suddenly reduced from afflu
ence to actual poverty. Nothing remained
from the wreck of a magnificent fortune but
the bitter experience that always accom
panies such reverses. Fine friends failed
them, flatterers looked coldly on their dis
tress, those who had most freely partaken
of their lavish hospitality passed by on the
ether side. Xot a friend remained in their
adversity but one, and she had indeed the
will, but not the power, to help them.
The boys left the college and turned their
thoughts to business. It was hopeless to
attempt to follow up their professions with
an invalid mother and idolized only sister
deoending on them for support. John
secured a situation as clerk in a city ware
house. Roger accepted a desk in the office
of Bernard Russell, an old friend of his
father’s. They moved to cheap lodgiDgs,
and for several years plodded on wearily,
the only gleam of sunshine in their altered
home being the occasional visits of Alice
Russell to their sister. Maude Gourlay
and Alice bad been schoolmates and friends;
they usually spent their vacations together
and Alice felt the misfortune that had fal
len on the family as if it had overtaEen her
own. But she could do nothing except
pay them flying visits, send trifling gifts of
fruit and flowers, and write pretty sympa
thetic cotes to Maude.
A few yean of hardship and poverty told
on Mix. Gourlay’s always feeble frame,
Still for her daughter’s sake she clung to
life with a strange tenacity; but when
Maude’s lover, who bad gone to Australia
to«"«!»»hla fortune, returned, not wealthy,
but sufficiently so to claim his bride In her
altered circumstance*. Mrs. Gourlay
seemed to have no other object to live for.
Mauds'* marriage was hastened, sad tha
no use.
“Brother 1” and he lifted his hand as if
to ward off a blow.
“It’s no use,” Roger went on in a bard
voice. “She does not love you; she loves
some ODe else. Be a man, John, and bear
it, for there’s no hope.”
One low, stifled groan, and then John
Uonriay wrung his brother’s hand and
walked steadily out of the room. - What he
suffered in the hours that followed no one
ever knew, and when he appeared at the
dinner table he was calm and self-possessed,
but something had either come into his face
or gone out of it that altered him. But of
the two, Roger loqjted-the most unhappy.
The blow had really fallen most most heav
ily on him.
“Jack, old fellow, we’re Gourlay Bro
ther’s now to the end of the chapter,” he
said, huskily. “I know you’ll never mar
ry, and neither will I,” and somehow John
felt that Roger meant what he said
Twenty five years passed by, and a quar
ter of a century of changes and chances,
and still the Gourlay Brothers held the even
tenor of their way. They were rich beyond
their wishes or desires, and not altogether
unhappy in their solitary friendship. Alice
Russell seemed to have drifted completely
ont of their lives; her name was never
mentioned, and whether she was married
or dead they did not know.
One morning alxrat the middle of Sep
tember they were walking along the King’s
road at Brighton, whither they had gone
for their annual holiday. Roger entered a
shop to purchase something, and John
stood outside looking dreamily at the pass-
ersby. Suddenly he advanced a step as a
lady in an invalid chair was wheeled by.
Chancing to look up, she met his glance
with a smile of recognition, “Mr. Gourlay,
it surely is, it must be you. I am so glad
to see you 1”
“And 1 to meet you,” John said, with a
courteous bow. “I have not the JJleasure
of knowing—”
“My name—I am Alice Russell still,”
■he said frankly. At that moment Roger
appeared. For an Instant tbs blood for-
ssok Ms rod? fiee, whll* a hot erimtos
Considerable excitement has been aroused
within the last few days at Btrasburg by
the extraordinary proceedings of a myster
ious stranger, who’ makes his appearance
regularly at nightfall in ODe or the other of
the less frequented thoroughfares, armed
with a sharp, double-edged poinard, sad,
as soon as he preceives an “unprotected
tema e,” saunters up to her in a leisurely
way and strikes her on the right breast with
his weapon, inflicting a slight wound of
from half to threequarters of an inch deep.
Since the 18th uit., he has succeed d in
stabbing no fewer than fifteen women and
girls in this manner, upon each occasion
taking to flight as soon as he had made hia
coup, and before his panic stricken victims
had sufficiently recovered from their terror
to raise an alarm. The Imperial police
authorities have made search for this
eccentric misdemeanant—described by
those who have felt the point of his dagger
as young, slight in build, and well dressed
in all the hotels, inns, and lodging houses
of the venerabte cathedral city, bnt as vet
to no purpose- They have placarded the
town with official warnings addressed to
heads of families, urging them net to
permit their wives and daughters to traverse
the streets alone after dark, and exhorting
the male population of Btrasburg to assist
the police in discovering and arresting this
male-factor. The placards in question were
published early one .Sunday evening.
Three hours latir two young girls were
stabbed, both in the r ; I breast, while
returning home from vespers through
streets by no means void of pedertrians at
that time the respective assaults were com
mitted. A large reward is now offered by
the Government for the seizure of the
dexterous bravo, wbo has rendered the
gloaming so terrible to Strasburg’s fair
daughters.
It was nearly a year ago when Leadville
was first showing what wits in her. There
were several newly made bonanza kings
about Denver then, and among them was a
man who had probably never had $30 in
his pocket at one time previous to his strike.
To him the possession of a watch was the
natural evidence of a competence, and as
he made more than a competence, he felt
that the fact should be indicated by tho
purchase of several watches. These be
had deposited in Graad Central hotel safo.
One night he came into the office very
much the worse for liquor, lurched to the
bar and hie coughed out to the clerk,
“Gimme a watch.”
A timepiece was passed to his unsteady
hands, but endeavering to thrust it into his
trousers pocket he left it slip and fall upon
the floor. Without easting a glance at the
fallen watch he lurched against the counter
again, reached out his shaking hand, mus
tered all hiB faculties to the speak
ing and then blurted out 1”
“Gimme ’nother!”
Can the indifference of affluence go be
yond this?
—Boston was incorporated as t.elty
lnlltS.
Moving-
To begin at the beginning, Adam and
Eve moved out of the garden because they
did’t comply with the conditions of the
lease. It didn’t include fruit.
Xoah moved his whole family by water
to get out of a bad neighborhood, and found
after all that he had taken the worst neigh
bors with him.
The Pilgrim Fathers moved to Plymouth
Rock, because they couldn't move the rock
tojhem.
Then the Indians began to move West,
because the while man's tenements were
held at too expensive rents for them.
And the Chinese began to move East,
because they jostled one another at home.
And the Irish and English, Germans and
French, Italian organgrinders and Russian
Mennonite°, all began to move over here,
because they wanted more land about their
houses, and the privilege of owning it
themselves.
Thus the moving boom started, and
every possible excuse has been invented for
moving ever since.
Some people move because they have
got furniture that looks well on a load,
and wish to stir up the envy of the neigh
borhood. This doesn’t work after about
three moves. The furniture doesu’t stand
up to its good looks.
Occasionally arnan moves because he likes
the excitement, but not often.
People move away from a neighborhood
where there are children because they can’t
stand the noise, and find their new house
backs up against a tmshop. Serves 'em
right.
Quarrelsome people are moved away
from one only to find other people who
not only quarrel but steal the morning pa
per from the doorstep.
Some folks move because they want
more rooms and larger ODes, and after they
get there find every carpet a yard and a
half too small each way.
Some folks move because they want to
get into a more- fashionable neighborhood,
and find that it costs them three times as
much to dress as it did in the old place.
Some folks move in order that they may
have a garden spot to cultivate, and spend
the summer in fighting potato bugs off the
front piazza. X. B.—Their bills for “gar
den sa-s” aie unusually large.
Some families move where there is a
plat of grass for a croquet ground, and
superinduce a quarrel that ruins the matri
monial prospects of the two older daughters
and cause the parish rector to say “gosh.”
Some people move because the mort
gagee inserts an advertisement in the paper,
and not because they want to.
Some people move to get a cheaper rent,
and the first rainstorm leaks through the
roof and spoils $75 worth of carpet
Some people move from force of habit.
The 1st of May would seem like January to
them—cold and cheerless—if they couldn’t
follow on behind a load of goods, with a
lithograph of the ten commandments in one
hand and a kerosene lamp in the other.
Last, out not least, if you had paid your
rent in the old place you wouldn’t be
obliged to move.
Tue Romance of Hotel Keeping.
Concerning Cyclonee.
Every one should know what a cyclone
is, but the general Ideas of the subject are
rather vague. Take a small butter-pot,
and set it down on your largest map of the
world at about 20 degrees Xorth l atitude,
anywhere in the Atlantic between two
continents, say east of the West Indies.
Then, with a piece of whalebone twice as
long as from the butter-pot to the Xorth
Pole, bent into a parabola, with one end at
the Pole, the other at the butterpot, ma k
out thus the cyclone. The apex of the
bent whalebone will be somewhere in the
Western United States. Imagine your
butter-pot to be revolving in its own centre
in the direction on the hands of a watch,
at the rate of a hundred miles an hour. Its
northwestern edge will be the dangerous
storm-rim, blowing a hurricane, lashing the
seas, and precipitating the rain ; the other
•dges'will be breezy, bit n I so stormy,
as they contain less moist air. The centre
will be the low barometer and calm area,
because here the air has less weight and is
flowing upward. Now move your butter-
pot slowly along the parabola, still suppos
ing it to be turning. By the time you
reach the centre of ibe United States ex
change the pot for a saucer, with the same
supposed conditions, only by this time, if
wintry, a snow-storm will ak i the place
of the rain. Keep it moving circularly,
and northwards also along tue parabola,
and about Hudson’s Bay change to a break-
tast-plate, and in Greenland to a dinner-
plate, and about the 80th degree North,
before the storm reaches the size of a bug
gy wheel, it breaks np. Thus yon see
the space over which the storms travel
enlarges as it passes Xorth, the winds blow
around its rim, and the ealmeentre moves
with it. Mariners now carry what is called
a horn-card, transparent piece of flat cow’s-
horn, with a circle on it, inside which are
several smaller circles, with arrows point
ing as a watch’s hands travel. Whenever
the barometer changes, and clouds scud by,
this horu-card is placed on the chart at the
ship's position. Knowing the wind’s direc
tion «nd the weight of the air, the horn-
cards tells whereabouts in the cyclone the
ship is, and from this is reasoned bow ts
sail to avoid the cyclone; or, if unavoida
ble, how to manage in it. Xot many de
cades ago, ships were driven thousands of
miles from their course by not having mas
ters possessed of this knowledge. Now
adays, meteorological information is as
necessary to the navigator as his sextant.
In Bouth Latitudes storms pass in the same
way toward the South Pole, by way of a
western bend, only the circular motion is
reversed, and the southwestern is the
stormy edge.
“Having staid too long in the bath at
Long Branch recently, I lost the train to
the horse-race, and Col. Presbnry, of the
eat End Hotel, a gallant old beau, of fine
worldly style, offered to take me out He
was about to give away $1,000, as it
proved, to George Lorillard, and had only
time to see that stake run ior and the fol-
lowimr two miles and a quarter. As we
went along the road I said: ‘You were the
first big hotel man I ever saw, and I have
been afraid of you for about twenty years.
How did yon start ?’ said the straight, mil
itary-like old man. ‘I came from Balti
more. My mother was a Howard. I was
cashier of the Bank of Maryland, and also
of the Bank of Louisville. I had put by
some money, and one day Mr. Billings
came to me and said, ‘Colonel, there is a
big hotel to be erected in Philadelphia,
called the Guard House. If you will let
me have some money to furnish it, I think
L can get ii.’ I was banking then in St.
Louis. I went on with Billings to see the
hotel, and as it cost a large sum to famish
it, $75,000, I was compelled to be a part
ner. We leased the hotel. Billings made
$100,000, which 1 paid to him. He wasn't
equal to so much luck, and is dead. My
inside steward was named Dariing. I got
him from the Tremont House, Boston, and
paid $2,500 a year. He was so efficient
with me that he got the new Battle
House at Mobile, made money and was
enabled to take the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York., There he liecame the wealth
iest American hotel man, and is worth $3,-
000,000. If I had begun business with as
good a man as my present partner. Hii-
dredth, I would have been as rich as Dar
ling.’
“ ‘How came you to go to Washington
City during the war ? ’
“ ‘I had to give up the Girard House af
ter running it four years, on account of the
hoggishnes of those who owned it. I asked
for a reduction of rent on the ground that
the Continental Hotel, a much finer struct
ure, was going up right opposite ma They
said that was a reason for raising my rent.’
‘Very well,’ said I, ‘I will sell out the tur-
I niture and close the Girard House for a
year, and you will never make money out
ot it again. They never have. I went to
Baltimore and the war broke out, and tha
first thing I knew Simon Cameron,- Secre
tary of War, telegraphed me to come to
Washington. I went down there and he
opened the conversation:
“ ‘Presbury, I want you to take Wil
lard's Hotel. It will be the Union head
quarters. I want a man in control there
whom I know!’ ‘Gen. Cameron,’ I re
plied, ‘I’m hardly your man. While I
think our people are foolish to talk about
leaving the Union, my sympathies are with
the State of Maryland whatever Bhe does.’
‘O, pshaw 1’ he said, ‘You go and take that
hotel. Willard is scared, and you can get
it cheap.’ I called on the Willards, They
j offered me the hotel for $100,000, furniture
; and lease. 1 had the proffer written out
and sigued. 1 rented it without looking at
it, seeing there were six hundred guests.
When I went next Monday to take the
hotel, Willard said, ‘Presbury, we don’t
want to give thi9 up. What will you take
to give the property up ? We’ll give you
$50,000 for your bargain.’ Said I, ‘Gen
tlemen, 1 will take $100,000.’ I got the
hotel and made $105,000 the flret year. I
then sold the leaietomy partneis for.$140,-
000, which they paid in fall, except $20,-
000. In the West End Hotel here I have
j invested with Mr. Hildreth $250,000, and
spent $’.00,000 on the property, and we get
$60,000 a year out of it.”
At the Depot.
A young man called on his intended,
and while waiting for her to make her ap
pearance he struck up a conversation with
his intended brother-in-iaw. After a while
the boy asked:
“Does galvanized niggers know much?”
“I really can’t say,” replied the much
amused young man.
And then silence reigned for a few mo
ments when the boy resumed his conversa
tion.
“Kin you play checkers with your
nose?” •
“No, I have never acquired that accom
plishment.
“Well, you’d better learn, you hear
me!”
“Why?’
“Cause Sis says you don't know as
mnch as a galvanized nigger, but yer dad’s
got lots of stamps and she’ll many vou
anyhow; and she said when she got hold
of the old man’s sugar she was going to all
of the Fourth of July percessionB and Ice
cream gumsucks, and let you stay home
and play checkers with that hollyhock nose
of yourn.”
And when Sis got her hair banged and
came in, she found the parlor deserted by
ail rave her brother, who was innocently
tbs tails of two kittens together and
tyinj^tb
•>. I im tfi* suasr fittert.
A ludicrous scene occurred at a depot re
cently. The train which goes up the Creek
backs down to the depot, then uncouples,
and the locomotive and a couple of cars go
over Centre street to allow a car from the
Valiev train to be switched in. As the
piece ot train moved off, a person on the
stationary car yelled “There goes the
train 1” and started in pursuit. His ex
ample was contagious. Everybody believed
that the train was leaving them, and rushed
wildly out of the car. Two men tumbled
over the railings in their haste and fell in
the mud. A fat woman with a basket of
purchases rushed out of the car door, slip
ped, and bounced down the steps on to the
platform, like a bag of lard rolling down
stairs. And when she struck in a pool of
water on the boards, it sounded liae slap
ping a griddle cake on to the iron. Then
she yelled murder and called for the police.
A fat old gentleman got stuck in the door
way, until the crowd pushing from behind
suddenly loosened him, when he shot out
of the door and off to the end of the car
into the arms of the brakeman, with a speed
which confused the old man into the belief
that he had collided with the locomotive.
A nervous man followed and attempted to
jump over the fat lady, who had not yet
arisen. His toe caught in her waterfall,
and he plunged head-first into the stomach
uf a man who was rushing to assist the
lady, doubling bim np on the ground,
while a yard of false hair fluttered from the
nervous man’s toes for a moment as he
waved them in the air, looking like a well-
worn rag on the end of a black stick. Two
men who had gained the train just at
Sycamore street, said to the brakeman,
“Well, we caught it.” “Yes, you caught
it, though what in thunder you run like
that for when we’re going to back up again
is more than I can tell.” The two men
got right off and stood looking into each
other's faces for five minutes without speak
ing. Then said one, “is there anything
strong enough for ns to drink in this town ? ”
Matters were finally arranged at the plat
form. The fat old gentleman was assisted
into the cars again and two men helped np
the old lady and her purchases; procured
a portion of her waterfall—a dog had run
off with the other part—and by telling her
that nobody had been hurt by ibe collision,
persuaded her to take her seat in the car
once more. The nervous gentleman was
discovered trying to pall a plug hat off
from his head and shoulders, while in the
face of the man propped up in one corner
of the depot, with both hands over his '
stomach, could be discerned the feature of
him who broke the nervous gentleman’s
fall.
As Monsieur Henri de Charviile, a genial
assistant at the Maison Doree, San Francis
co, was sauntering np Market street near
the Palace the other morning, on his way
to where his short gingham jacket hangs
on a peg behind the door, he spied a
jracc of female kids with hair-banged fore
heads and black stockings, in charge of a
damsel, the roseate hue of whose cheeks,
the quiet gray of whose skirts, the delicious
whiteness of whose cap and apron—in
short, the completeness of whose Parisian
‘‘get-up” brought him back to the Boule
vards, the Champs Elysee, the Jardin dea
Plantes, and all the rest of them. Doffing
his hat, with his politest bow, as was hia
wont in his home of his boyhood, he sainted
Mademoiselle thualy: “Bon jour, m'maelle.
Je suis enchante de vous voir ce matin.”
Mademoiselle looked at him a minute, and
then In the choicest Parisian, replied:
“Fwat do yes taka ms fair, anyhow? Do
yes think I'm a Chotasy 7”