New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-23

A TALE FOR ADVERTISERS.
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having the correct time. IL moved MI MuIeVoi'i' =,
10 scorn, to observe, as be walked downtown ~ 'io
morning or uptown in the afternoon-he never i" -
lorsecars or omnibuses for he always SAID Una" " D"
who had his boots and shoes made at j. HUM . vi "
ClNrRELL's. or at MILLER Co.'S, or at "NlhlN9 " -.
never DC afraid OF getting ms feet wet anu "oi -" ~
10 fluid walking agreeabe-it moved him 10 scoIn 'Do"
as he walked up town down. to observe I"' Ho wv
,il clocks i'm the city ever agreed as 10 the Time
dav Sometimes as he pegged away 10 MS ONCE lo''
fbouab an uncommOny stout gentleman, he was also u
commonly spry he would become quite Jocuar over 'he
,arcrt fact that 10 kept getting earlier and earlier nm
ill., when he reached the head Of Wal-st, he was, il he
could believe what Ga clock said 20 minutes nearer sun
rise chan when he left his door, Other mornings he
would hEd himself much too late as he had been TOO
early the DAY before but, general rule, the CLOCKS
and regulators gave another the lie from one emu OF
Broadway 10 the other, in a way TO drive any
man wild who had less confidence IN his own
wuTH,M than Mr Medoler had in his Beside his
own special WAITHAM its beautiful plain gold case
bought at BALL BLACKS by Mrs. MlledOler ON his last
birthday there were four other Wathams IN the family
Mrs NIedoer's, bought by herself out Of her own PIN
f,oucy NJ Brown q sPALDINGs under the Metropolitan
Hotel MS everybody knows; Miss Augusta Mledolers
boueht OF HOWARD NO Go Broadway and presented
10 hr v that fine Young fellow Charley Dash on the very
day that the engagement came out Cary Miledolcfs
very SMALL slender pretty little affair like Cary herself
bought by her dear old brother Randolph tascd l6 10
commemorate her reaching the solemn Of u, ana
actually put inside of her breakfast roll ON the morning
of her birthday and coming very near being split ana
butered-lRan bought IL at JOHNSTON cos, corner OF
Bowcry and BrOOme-stG and lastly, there was Kan
own watch bought by his father on the very uay nc
entered Mr. GEO G. ANTHONs SCHOOL, al l. b. BfNNEhe
NCo No $50 Broadway This last excellent watch
10 begin with and 10 IS only wonder what an excellent
watch II was TO end with for RAN in the excess OF MS
good nature had let all the big boys In school Wlhdl
p for themselves and he wound mp every day Tor al
The little boys and always forgot 10 wind up Tor Ah
Re when he went TO bed and, yet, the brave conScf
eutious watch never nched, although so much winding
o,eilr nave il the somaoh-ache. But, like Washing
ton nothing could induce 1t TO tell lie and WHAT was
very remarkable, matter how late Kan was
at breakfast 1t was always exactly O'Clock lDy ms
satch when he reached school! II would have 0chsh'eu
Charles " who miserable man. born long before
the invention Of Waltham Watches 10 have seen how on
this especial morning every Of these five watches I'M
dertheir five respective pillows pointed all atonce exactly
10 the hour Of five SO did every clock in the mousse
There was the stout little Yankee Clock in the ktcheh'
from the AMERICAN CLOCK Coz No COuItlah0lsl"
that sand o'clock good plain terms and said II Win
prod eOus rafting It's inside too as II every WheeI anu
Cer cog In every wheel considered that was necessary
for the honor the American Clock Company that II
should say ditto to whatever the striker SAID Ihen
there was the stately regulator in the hall in Its beautiful
rosewood case; that said o'clock in slow, deliberate
voice as il Il should like to see the person as
calls himself gentleman and denies IT, when say IT,
This regulator came from TIFFANTs, and you may De-
1eye II DIDN'T undervalue itself it felt as H. IKE Atas
over TfFFANYs door, it had the true standard OF Time on
is shoulders Then there the paor clock OF bronze
md ,polachire from GEORGE c. ALIENS that said nye
O'Clock with delicate tril like ladys voice and in
a tone that seemed TO say Il hope shall
not disturb anybody" which 1t didn't Ana
the library clock Of bronze and back maiDie'
with Lord Bacon at his study table. the top fine
niece of work from STARR MARQUIS, Where taste ana
soendor 90 hand in hand-that said five o'clock with
learned air as IT, on whole, 1t inclined to thnK So
Aad a If this were enough there was the CLOCK IN
Augustus room that said nothing at all but pointed Win
a positive air at five o'clock This quiet respectful faith
mi tIne-piece came from c. BENEpIcrs No Is BoWey
without whose regulators everybody knows, not
steamboat or a railroad train could possibly leave
station or get back 70 It. All these clocks agreed WIN
one voice that II five o'clock but they failed 10 inter
est single person in the house in the fact that they we're
at 90 much pains TO announce Everybody continued 10
sleep as II not one Of the aforementioned respectable
rnshad ever so much as thought Of making piece
Hi my opinion that experienced burglar with turn
Sor watch and clock stealing could have entered the
Medoer mansion at that moment ana carried on every
fmekecpor in IT, from the regulator IN the han 70 the
Walhap watches under the several pillows, and nobody
been bit the wiser Down in the kitchen-1irs Mile
dOlers andBrdgets especial pride thoroughly furnished
with every article that the heart OF cook hOuekeeper
could possibly desire, by the combined rivalry OF those
two wonderful houses, BERRIANs, No COZ Broadway and
T. D. BAssFORD's, Cooper Institute corner Of Aston
placel-dOwn the kitchen nobody stirring but the
reaches, who always stirring and who were In dcs
pair Of getting anything TO support their miserable
lives In that exqusitely neat apartment Up IN the
servants room nobody stirring, the two cOmely
young women who occupied that pleasant, comfortable
room were sleeping soundly every healthy, clear
cOnsCienced person sleeps A. ID. FARRELLs FOLDING
sPRSG MATTRESSES, especially when those mattresses
are placed upon WM GARDENERS FIRsTRATE IRON BED
BrEADs II would have been absurd TO suppose that
either Mr.. OF Mrs MledOler would De awake at that
early hour when considered that breakfast it being
Christmas moraing, not to be till O'Clock, and that
they also were reposing H. o. FARRELLs Spring Mat
tress, and that GRIFFIN PAINE made the BEDsTEAD
which supported their redundancy with elegant rnmess
The CURTAINS whose stately folds kept out light and
sound windows came, Of course, from WALRAvESs
fhe wallpa whose gay flowers kept eternal sum
ner the walls In mOckery Of the external cold could
have been found nowhere but at B. l. sOLONoNs; and
II It had not been for Messrs. MILLIKEN Of Broad
way, and Mr. GRAHAM Of Astor-pace, 10 Is hard
% say where blankets and thick linen sheets
OF such delightful GOODNESS linen sheet dear reader,
under blanket is like those cepes the Japs make
lump Of snow between two fakes OF crust could
have been found There may be such places but we do
not bnd thernames In advertising columns As for
Augusta MnedOleT, she was deep IN dreams Charley
Dash was continually coming and going IN every variety
of shape Now he appeared If the CARTEDEvIsITE he
had just had taken at GURNEY's, the IMPERIAL
PHOTOGRAPH which he had promised her from BRADYs,
or the sTEREOsCOPIc VIEW from ANTHOSYs had stepped
out OF its frame, and were asking her 20 dance Now, with
pensive ar the impetuOus Charley, who was never
pensye in his life was heard playing serenade on GER
MAN ACCORDION from j. sASGER's, No l65 Essex-st.l
Then he was a clerk In JACKsoS's MOURNING GOODS
STORE. No 55l Broadway, standing behind the counter
devoted 10 mitgated affection goods. and Offering her
Grape bonnet with a halfmourning side whereupOn
Augusta started her sleep and uttered slight scream
woke for just long enough be sensible that
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