The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-19

srom Our o,sn Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 1869.

ful as to be feast and be grateful? Whence comes
It that we never open mouths in praise, upon |
set occasions, without the condition that they are to
be Immediately filed with good things being under
stood7 Who ever fasts on Thanksgiving Day. |
should like to known SO that you read the Presi-
dental and Gubernatorlal proclamatons and go to
church and listen to sermon little longer and
more statistical than usual you can settle yourself
down to your Thanksgiving ducks and currant
jelly with quiet conscience That gratitude is an
affecting sense OF future favors is never more
unmistakably proved than on Thanksgiving Day.
What do we give thanks for2 For the rich harvest
we have gathered in? For our commercial success
as nation? For the peace in which we have been
permitted to sit under own vines and ng-trees?
Not much! Our national gratitude, | fear takes the
form OF self-complacency that we are cute and
pucky and that all the good things we want we are
able to provide for ourselves The future favors
look for are the services we do ourselves, and for
these we are abundantly grateful.
Lord Dick RadfOrd Herbert lie Roy AinsIey
and his wife have been gracing the theatres with
their presence since their return to this city. OF
what has Mr.. Radford to be ashamed? That is the
question, He has done more in real life than that
poetic impostor "Claude Menotte" is applauded for
doing on the stage-borrows patrcian but fictitious
name and obtains a rst-class bride on the strength
of 1t. A bogus Prince Of Como in Gotham Is no
worse than the same character in Lyons and II Miss
Martin continues to like the picture no one has
right to blame her for fighting her way out OF the
struggle between love and pride to such termina-
ton Whenever this couple does put in an appear
ance among the orchestra Seats You may be sure the
%oTgnetteS OF all the knowing ones the house are
aeveled at them. Cheek is the genius OF the nine
teentn century, and the man who travels on it has
through ticket that carries him anywhere,
Those Broadway Drivers.
III sometimes happens that an unlucky individual
discovers upon getting into Broadway stage-and
you will find stages scarce anywhere else-that he
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decimals are not forthcoming the conductor OF the
coach begins to get impatient and what between the
bell-sounding Of the fractions driver and the ndis
coverabty OF the fractional currency the passenger
loses himself in profound depths of perpeXlty, and
finally fishes up a one-doar bill, and looks his
neighbors askant in the face mutely appealing to
them to change it. Occasionally some quiet-looking
man, one OF Natures Chesterfelds, takes ten-cent
note out OF his pocket and insists upon the en-
barrassed passengers accepting it. AS a rule,
however, the proceedings are not characterized
by such a graceful amenlty this, and the
one dollar bill is finally handed up to the grumblng
Jehu without the passenger resumDg his seat, pop
ping his eyes constantly up in the direction of the
money-hoe, and holding himself in readiness to re-
ceve the change. Block after block is passed; pas
sengers get In and out other fare is handed up and
other change returned; but that belonging to the
one-dollar bill remains unheard from. At length the
angry passenger applies his mouth to the money-hole
and Indignantly requests 'that ninety cents" He is
told that they have been handed to him, and the
4 driver drives on. Most of the passengers, per-
haps all who were In at the time the note
was handed up have since got OUT and
the question becomes one OF veracity between the
driver and the claimant Of the ninety cents. One OF
these cases has just come up before Judge Bowling,
the driver swearing that the money refunded,
the passenger being equally positive that 1t not
The TOmbs sphinx made short work OF the diff
Guilty. He refrained from imprisoning the driver on
account of his family whom he supported, but ad-
ministered reprlmand that Will not be without a
wholesome effect upon the Broadway drivers. My
Thanksgiving advice to every reader Of THE TELE-
GRAPH who finds himself in Broadway stage is,
don't hand up dollar note If you don't wish to run
the risk of being dragged into court not getting
back the change.
The Dollar Stores.
We all know-those OF us at least who have read
our Bbles-that the way OF ship at sea, the way OF
serpent on the rock, the way Of an eagle in the
air. and the way of man with maid, are very Won
derfu things. There is another equally wonderful,
and it is the way Of our country cousins with the
Broadway dollar stores. What credulity what
mple-mindedness! How blindly they believe they
are going to get fifty times their moneys worth
How they answer by return of post the circulars Of
swindng agents! How confidently they expect to
be in the receipt Of patent enamelled watches for
the sum of dollar how they treasure the printed
lists Of vauables as though they We're magic rings
which one only has to rub to evoke genus! It's no
use talking to such people, You point
out the snare that ts spread for
them, but they walk right into it never
theless. Broadway is lined with these dollar-store
swindles all OF which appear to be doing pros
porous trade. When our country cousin does come
to towp and find himself inside of these palaces,
particularly if it is in the evening, suppose the
mixture OF gas and glass is bewilderlng, and he
trembles with indecision when he finds himself
confronted with q saucy-spoken saleswoman, who
looks him through and through as perforatingly as
though she had many eyes as the potatoes he has
just come from digging Holders OF tickets which
promise enamelled watches will be interested in
learning that these invaluable chronometers consist
OF circular slip OF paper, upon which the hours are
Indicated and around which the hands never move
but constantly point to hour. These hands, being
quite immovable may be said to keep' time In a
double sense. The circular slip of paper is enclosed
in a galvanized tin cover, and precisely the same
style OF elegant trnket is sold by street pedders for
twelve -a-half cents apiece. Some public show
of indignation is periodically got up against the
swindle but 1t soon dies out, and the dollar stores
remain standing glaring demonstrations of the coun-
try publc's Rulllbility.
Amusements.
have two interesting items of news, never be-
fore made public.r In the first place. the New Or
leans French Opera Troupe commence engage
ment at the French Theatre in this city, next March
Two months later, in May, the celebrated Italian
tragedian, Ernesto Rossi, with a full Italian CON-
pany funls an engagement at one OF the theatres in
this city (Which is not yet determined under the
management OF one OF our most successful impress
sarii 1t is in the tragedies Of Altieri and Shake
speare that Sgnor Rossi Is most celebrated and In
one OF these he will make his debut. ALI BABA.
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