Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-24
gas INTO the house. ;

! Rembrandt dish WaShlng-One-hal the
plate IN light, the other in blacklist
shade. No more candle grease on the
furniture. No more struggles with
those wound up French lamps that
are useless unless you can afford to
keep a clock maker. No more sitting
down to read or write like an Irish
corpse,
with dozen o. candles around his head
by next week at the latest, said
to Sally, 1--WE shall have gas. !"
During the next week our anxious
lookout discovered no signs of the
promised luxury, The week follow
ing we saw two workmen talking in
an airy French way with two others.
Toward the end of the following week
it resulted in an amicable breakfast on
our sidewalk. After that it went on
swimmingly-according to the French
standard. In less than a month there
were breaks in the sidewalk; at the
end of six weeks we entered the court
by means of plank that bridged a
chasm four feet deep. As time rolled
on, and we had by force of habit al
most become attached to candle light,
we had message; rich centenarian
smells, born of the garlic of dead en-
pires, rose up from the cellar to tell
us that something was going to hap
pen soon. 1t happened.
Again the faithful Sally met me on
the stairs, this time all in smiles and
her best embroidered apron. Its
Gen. Boulanger," said she. Hes
been waiting half an hour; but it's all
right; he seems interested in the pic
lures and things"
you're mad" ! gasped. What are
you talking aboutG"
Hes come because we're neigl1bors
and Americans, of course, " she went
on. Heaven be praised for if there's
war he'll look after us himself, and
see that we get home all right"
The Frenchman who rose to meet
me, with his pointed beard, cooked
hat, 'frock coat gold stripes and brass
buttons, did not look unlike Bou
LANCER.
my dear madame, !" said he, with
one hand on his heart, very like an
imitation Frenchman in an American
play, IT have called to see you on be-
half of the city of Paris, to attend to
tha municinal reoulations in connec.
t;on with the citv's Mutual Partisan
Company of Heating and Illuminating
by Gas.
"Oh!" said /, innocently. "Well,
just make out the receipt, and will
pay the deposit, You cannot have
the gas but in too soon to please me-"
he removed the hooks and bric-a.
hrac from the center table putting the
ARTICLES carefully on the fIoor one nv
one Then he laid his cooked hat on a
chair and openino a nortfolio of docu-
ments snread them ali over the LARGE
round table
at ia not So easv madame I" he An.
swered
He was RIGHT. II was not easy I
came 70 This Conclusion when he went
oway nanare aud ali about niohtfall
In oddityon To q dai;heratalv written
chontar concarnin@ NV Main nm.
eveptful career set down in q LEDGER.
SaIlv's Cen Ro,,iange,. carried aWay
three documents. PROMISING to deco
rate them with the state seal and re-
tnrn them to he stoned in a new place
The first was an elaborate description
If onr family tree no detail so small
as to he nnwelcome: the second was
Devoted TO nersonal;t;es concerninp
mvseIf-mv motives in living in Paris
or Ev;nr ct ali future intentions as,
cote liabilities and nol;ticai views.
Tho tbi,d was a solemn, nromise on NV
nart NOT in anv wav to maltreat or
ahuse the Mutual Pafisian eompany of
Heat;no and Tlium;nat;ng nv Gas nor
tn hreak or steal its nossessSo5s ssucb
"a meters lead nine and iron pratinps
Moreover I had PERSONALLY TO write
down in n hoolrg ,f,st 0as was wanted
and that + no other Desired this mar,
t;cular cas
A few DAYS later I thought the
chamber of dsn,t;es had strayea from
their Quarters when Sally nshered in
Ave lor oa round Franclne in heavy
nvercoafs and h;ob sill hats Tbey
were the landlord his secretary an
arch;tecf a builder and ] renresenta-
Eva of he Mutual Par;s;an comnanv
If Heat;ng etc S,,ch q nowwaw at
once ba@aS as would male : ward mi
mary Tha nnsbot Of Il was, where
would I have the GAS ietsY' 49,.
Center LIGHTS IN the parIor and
dining room. 3 said i. land side lights
in the other rooms"
A roar went mn like the board of
brokers in harvest time. thew shook
their fists in each others faces and
shook their canes at me. Then they
held each other down and argued with
me. one a time,
I was $50 small 80 inexperienced;
nothing but a poor little foreignerl"