The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-11-23
4 TAYLOR'S riILOR'S TRIBULiTION.

He WAS Taylor. and his from, name was
Thomas. He hailed from the solid Sou TIL
of Cecil county, .Lc FIRST district. th., home
of culture aud refinement. and if he was not
u gentleman aud a scholar, ne AT least pos
sessed that other necessary qualification Of
perfect Democrat, he was a good Judge of
bad whisky. Now tailors Taylors are pro-
verbally melancholy men. This at least
we have upon the authority of the nlmila-
BILE humorisi. Charles Lamb. who. in his
well known essay upon the characteristics
of the knights of the shears, attributes il
IL two causes-their Sedcntary habits and
their habitual indulgence in professional
cabbage. BE that rs it may, however, the
particular tailor (Tayler) to whom we re.
fer was anything but habitually melau-
choly man. In fact his ordinary flow of
animal spirits was frequently accelerated
by the additional use of the alcoholic " aids
to mischief" and to which his recen; un.
fortunate experiences is directly traccabe
We do not think il necessary To- the moral
of this story To indulge in a theological dis
cussion As to the location of h-ll, or the
personal existence of Devil. The pu pit
has already muddlcd those questions enough
without the press aiding in the general men
tai disturbance on the subject. Suffice il
to say. that on special occasions. in certain
localities III town. that unmentionable 10.
calIry seems scns!bly near E!ktnn. Thomas
had his foot on the threshold Of il last Fri
day night. In other words, Mr. Taylor was
on "A tear. With that unfiscriminating
love of humanity that CLOVIS III the breast
of man, down whose throat I score of torch
light professions of blazing "benzine has
passed, Thomas took into his couii iencc and
fellowship au unworthy image of his Maker
carved III ebnuy-a dusky brother black
IN more senses than one, certain Cruise
Boyer. lie, 1t seems, was the willing con
fedrratc and chief conspIratur To carry out
the amorous designs of the weak but will
ing white representative Of \ superb az race.
Vow it so happened. in the course of this
black and tan tear, that these festive
gentlemen, these practical miscegenation-
lists, true 80 their instincts as the needle to
the pole, naturally. and by the shortest pos
sIblr route, brought up in Water street
that classic locality 81 famed in the police
annals of our agistratcs' court. On this
bilious boulevard, II seems, two npto! ions
Cyprians of color, Kate Bosiic aud Annie
Williams ply their ucfaI Ious calling, and
spin the entangllng web that eusnares the
bIbulous blue bottle bruiserS. Night threw
her sable mantle over the scene, Is the
iusky C.melias threw theirs over Tay lor
Thomas and daylight dawned simuiiane
ously. The bright orb "f day rose with u
smiling face. but the >uileu son Of a fallen
Adam arose ii. :. to-. Ike him that had
inurneyed from Jerusalem down Ia Jericho.
Thomas had fallen among thieves His
pocket book had disappeared with his wiz
tue. Now an ordinary white man would
have awakened more suddenly To sense
of his personal degradation than In the loss
Of a greasy wallet containing only fourteen
dollars aud seventy live cents. But not SO
this now melancholy Taylor. The love of
the filthy lucrc seems To have outraged
every sense ar shame of show of senslbil-
Ity. He could share the individual dis
grace, but not the pecunIary ALI ction.-
That was too severe a test for the moral
nature of Thomas. Blcar eyed and blue,
then, on Saturday morning. he invoked the
and of the laws machinery to restore his
missing treasure. and the stern arm of JUS
tice land its heavy hand ON the buvln,.
Boyer. The naughty uauII cal Cruise
has ended in a safe harbur until the De
cember term. Taylor is poorer but we
fear not wiser man. While the Water
street spiders still keep open parIor for
wItlcss flies to walk into, for whose benefit
Iaylor's trlbulations are doubt less told in
vain. Morai-When a white tailor loses
his goose, never send a black gauder To-
hunt it, for plucked bird is sure To reward
the finder.