The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-19

You may think q barkeeper haruI!
worth quoting, but everything has i'm
proved. A man who by his articles oil
engagement must never touch q drop oil
liquor, and who hears the unguarded talk
otmen frightened In wit by their liquor,
must become, unless a fool, a good llsten'
er and diScriminator, There are barkeeperA
who for modesty, almost sadness OF adj
dress, and for difference, and gravity, would
pass in society for poets and young theo'
logians. Men OF justice, tso, with eye
sight further than their feet have led them.
at Coney Island is one such, placed In
charge oil half o dozen fellow: workers, and
with many thousand dollars passing
through bis hands per day and no system
of "CheCks." He has a skin clear, az a
woman's, q clean, civil, energetic address,
hair OF light brown curling naturally, and
linen the Prince OF Wales might envy.
BIB looks more like Aurora, or the genius
Of cool morning, than any Of the paint.
inps. With Ills small white apron over
his Marseilles vest, he Ia no more like q
servant than General Washington was In
Masonic apron.
1 found him looking at the weather
prophecies IN hia employer interest, for
the season has been pretty hard on Ooney
Island bosses, %"strange," he said, "how
that Canadian man hits the Weather every
time, and he predicts 1t 80 unevasiyely, 80
clearly and confidently, too"
Looking at the paragraph he handed me,
l said, an my eyes iell on another spot:
ibid you Cbnefye how the Hungarian
gypsies vera assaulted g while ego With
stones and Obuse. and driven back 10 Oas'
tld Garden from YonkerB--they and their
own wagon, imported-to travel In, and
ihpir horse they had the ready money to
purchase, notwithstandingth that they could
speak languages and had refined looking
daughters2"
yves, said tho head barkcoper,' land l
was rejecting thSt not aFsavase tribe In
the world would behave in that way to
friendless strangers, merely going
through"
The ~jnstice Of his comment made me
ssk 10 what tSiDt Ia II race, what ele'
ment Of race be attributed such brutality
10! .,
"Proyiucislism," lie said; "want Of In.
tercourse, boorishness. A man dare not
part his hair in the middle among the ed
lcated classes OF this country, even i he
was an apostle, q Shakespeare. How,
then, can YOU expect the boys IN the lots,
the c~oW.herders and goose. pastures OF the
suburbs, to have any tolerance for a dill
IerenCe Of dress, or the peculiarly OF their
vehicleP Iibertyi" exclaimed the bar
keeDor, "the liberty you have here 10 10
lo1ls o1t OF the window and think silently
6f Inc slayery Of individually IL this coun.
inv, The fashions have TO change all ht
nHce. or somebody would be robbed. Talk
nj me mertyrdOm OF the Cbristian fathers
whv The Chinese have more Of II. lsaw
one knocked In the head at Spring street
Market only because he had . pigtail.
Said I, following him along MY Mon.
poliRn friend, you don't know your
6eighborhdod. II you would 60 and gel
a anti Of store clothes you might save your
iiidl' But III ten mihutes be WAS being
dragged afourdthe streets lfkea dead cat"
"Yet u people are made up oil dill
iereut races" ,u,.
GYes, but The boys govern the atreats o.
New York. They have never been abroad
know only their ward Of the Olty, Rnd live
that period Of rowdyism through which
almost all American met have passed, Il
is not exactly intolerance, hut the indnl'
Veuce Of propenslLiel fJr brutal sport,
CoWardiCe is the bsslB Of all roEdyism
wolves and mobs are very much alike; in
dividually skulkipg, In multitudes raven
OTIS"
1--WE want 10 warm ell our snow i'm
spes," said 10 the b~arkeersr, land MAKE
al Eypsies respectable. This Ia the glaciei
AGE, grinding tho very stones 10 soil"
itRespectabls Ia the word said the bar
keeper. "which those boys meant, Rton'
Ing Tho Hungarian gypsies. They were
instiGed by most Of the practical teaching
III this age, which denies . man the Right
io be idle, even II be is more useful In
idleness than dangerous BY occupation
to- be picturesque, TO be different, TO b
ona's self, Is The uniprgiysu sin In thii
age of libefRlltY.".
i took my regulation beer and departed
to look al that mobilize ocean,.
JOHNNY DoUQUBr.
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