Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-12-17
NyG in a Southern Hotel.
HIS REFLECTIONS on THE HEATER,
PROPRIETOR AND CHAMBER.
MAID.

rlOus and interesting to watch the
mammoth base burner and the but.
talO overcOat as they go hand-in-
hand out of our lives and give place
to the seductive atmosphere and
time lock smoke houses of the south.
This stove is called the Little
Mammoth parlor stove, and is said
to draw well under all kinds of cir
cumstances. 1t is not large stove,
crowding out the piano and other
necessary furniture.
1t is clinker built, with bow facer
and interchangeable crown sheet.
All its works are red, and admired
by English speaking people every
where.
When asked the landlord what
my bill was he said it was SS.
"But," said /, with great difficulty
restraining myself from smearing
his brains all over the hotel regis
ter, "yOu have charged me 81 for
extras. have had no extras"
"By the beard Of the prophet "
said he, crossing himselfand reach
ing under a counter tor a thick set
carblne, with which it had been
his wont TO shoot large apertures
into the vtals of people who dis
agreed with him. "By tue beard
of the prophet! said he, cooking
the piece after putting in a new
half pound cartridge with tallow
on it, "you forget that you had a
fire in your room"
AS | looked along down the cold
and repulsive length of the carbine
| thought % myself how many val
ued friendships we throw away
along life's pathway by reason of
our haste and our rash, impetuOus
tempers. Here was man, strlv-
ing in his poor, weak way to keep
a hosterly, such as 1t was. He de-
sired to be the friend of one and
all. but on every hand he was re-
pulsed, rebuffed and walked upon
of men.
resolved to make him my friend.
Catching him in my great strong
arms and stralning him to my
atrophied breast in such manner
as to throw the muzzle Of the gun
over my shoulder, fell on his neck
and wept while he made his own
change ont of what funds he found
in my clothing.
| would give the name of this
hotel were it not for two reasons
viz: First, because do not wish
to advertise a house that does not
deserve it, and second, because
there is nothing to prevent the
landlords coming down here to see
about it. There is nothing about
operating a hotel like his which
would in any way interfere with
his going away tor year or two
and leaving it in the hands of the
same cOckrOaches who are running
it now.
Ipaid the bill and so added anoth-
er to the long list of bills which |
have paid.
This hotel has the old style of
annunciator, consisting Of a large,
dropsical green card with a fat and
faded tassel hanging to It, while
the other end passes through the
ceiling aud is attached to one oi
the rafters of the building.
You pull this denunciator three
times for drinking water, and then
you 90 down to the well and get
all the water YOU want. 1t made
me perfectly at home, tor that is
the way do when am at home,
The chambermaid at this hotel
was tall cOlOred man named Isaac,
who had formerly been the con
cierge of a livery stable on the Rue
de Butternut at Nashville.
He was emanclpated during the
war,and received the freedom which
properly belonged to a whole plan
tatlOn. Instead of dividing it NJ
and giving the other slaves their
proportion, he had retained, and as
it were, embezzled, the freedom OF
twenty.seven other people.
Asa result of this, he had more
freedom than had. He came in
to my room frequently while ! was
changing my linen, but did no
come in when | needed assistance
Shirts are so made that gentle
men who adopts them must do so b!
inserting himself through the basl
of the garment gradually, cmerginI
at last through the apex thereof
Isaac never raped on the door be
fore entering, for his whole system
was so saturated with the biesse,
boom of freedom that he rOame'
around through the hotel, enterin
any room where he thought ther
would be nothing to do but to ge
/, right out again.
so, while was working my wa
up through a heavily starche
shirt one day and could not se
anything, while was wildly clntcl
ing at tho empty air, there was
, soft football on the threshold an
) the door opened.
/ knew instinctively that 1t wa
T. the chambermaid. though ! conl
not see her.