Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-16
How Things Come Round.

How Things Come Round.
ferson Moore, Yankee ship-carpenter
quit his ship at Liverpool, and in the course
OF time found himself one day at the an
nual cheese fair of Chester with nothing to
do but admire the pretty, fresh dairy-maids
who clustered round their own cheeses
and looked like decoration of bouquets.
Among others he saw Miss Mary Conway,
and made her acquaintance. In time
Mary took him into the house where she
was occupying the respectable position of
serving maid and was not ashamed to
own it. She invited him in by the front
door one evening and he discovered GU
rious machine inside in the hallway. It
was shoe-cleaning apparatus, the ma
chlnery of which turned with crank,
like grindstone 1t took his eye. He
went out and got his boots muddy, came
back and put his foot in it. 1t worked,
and the Yankee carpenter carried away
the idea. He made a machine like it,
with Improvements, and sold it. He made
a deep impression on the heart of
Mary Conway, and as he was willing
they both agreed. A boot-cleaning
machine manufacturer was not bad
catch, and the happy day was set and not
far. But T. J. Moore was suddenly sued
for infringement of a patent and had eos
to pay. Mary had saved some money,
paid the fine and had e5 left to get mar
ried on. Married they were. The Yam
kee, who was fully qualified to make oats
out of shoe-pegs by simply sharpening the
other end Of the pegs, resolved to change
the purpose of his machine to evade the
law. He therefore turned the shoe-clean-
ing machine upside down and made a
patent head scratcher and hair-comber
and invigorator out Of it. Then he set up
the business Of cultivating bald heads and
raising luXuriant crop OF new hair by
narrowing the soil. He got some old Gus
toners and started a hair growing and
promulgating shop. He raked and
scraped for three months and never sue
ceeded in making two hairs grow where
only one grew before. In fact his fretful
old customers became balder, and at
length they combined to prosecute T. J.
Moore as the baldest kind Of swindler,
He escaped with his machine to Manches-
ter and left his wife with her parents in
Wales. He appears never again to have
thought Of the wife and boy he left be-
hind him. In Manchester he Soon began
tickling the Rev. Hugh Roberts bald pate
ana promising him a full new suit of hair
The reverend gentleman's patience at
length gave out; every vestige of his
former scattering hair was gone, and he
vindictively sued the Yankee swindler for
$500 damages. But, in the meantime,
Miss Henrietta Roberts, the minister's
daughter, had seen something good in
Thomas Jefferson Moore, and sympathized
with him while her father prosecuted,
Moore could never pay out in case the suit
went against him, and the bald-headed
reverend was memorable. While the suit
was pending Thomas Jefferson and Hen
rietta got married. This partnership of
his daughters so incensed the old man
that he gave her e100 and told her to go
and return within the range of his fading
vision no more. But he kindly withdrew
the suit against his son-in-laW, and the
young couple set sail for America, where
pursue their harmless
paths in peace. Meanwhile the young
wife and mother who came Of the Chester
cheese fair remained in Wales and ig-
nOrance.
Thomas Jefferson Moore has not made
the noise or gained the prominence in this
country which was promised by his En-
glish beginning. He abandoned hair
restoring went to work in piano facto-
~, made s., 000honest cash, and five years
ago his Henrietta died in Boston, leaving
him childless. But in the mutations of
the worlds affairs how curiously things
come round.
T. Us first wife, after waiting decent
time for the return of her husband,
mourned him as dead, and soon married
Observation-Disclosures Thomas. In 1873
William Thomas and his wife, and two
Miss ThOmases, fifteen and seventeen
years old, and young Thomas Jefferson
Moore, all pulled up stakes in Wales and
emigated to this country. Young t. j.
Moore was particularly DESTROYS of visit
ing the native land Of his father and was
the cause of their coming. The family
landed in New York The father worked
at his trade, the daughters got places
in a Broadway store, I. j. Moore, Jr.,
got responsible situation in Buffa-
10 house, and the matron-forty, fair
and fat-lived happy at home. She was
out shopping the other day on Broadway,
and dropped her parcels in amazement.
She saw and knew Thomas Jefferson
Moore, her first husband, in the flesh, and
threw herself into his protecting arms
He explained all-no matter hOY-satis-
factorily to her and she clung to her first
love and couldn't help it. William
Thomas was well enough-Thomas Jeffer-
son Moore dead. Mary took Thomas
Jefferson to her home straightway and
straightforward, and introduced William
Thomas to her long-lost husband. She
was going TO live with him and stick to