Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-04
FROM GOTHAM.
Readable Sketch By a For
mer Tennessean.
Descriptive of the Palatial Residences Of
the Rich-A Trip to the Famous
Stables of Robt. Bonner.

than the face of a home paper to an
exile in this big Babylon. / have
just finished looking through batch
of LEAF HRoN ICLEs, and the inn
pulse to write is too strong to be
longer resisted. 1t is simply marvel
Gus how memory awaKens and old
associations come back at the sight
of the familiar sheet. lam firmly of
the opinion that the more local a
local paper can be made, the nearer
it comes to rejecting the whole lives
of the people about it, the more valu-
able it is, both at home and abroad.
War with Chill, the tariff question
or even free silver, are beaten out
of sight by news letters from Seq,
Sango, Port Royal, Palmyra or Long
Branch. The convict question sinks
quite into insignificance beside news
of who is dead, has moved away, or
even got a new horse or sweetheart.
Doubtless this seems to you odd
matter for New York letter. Ger
tainly with this great city before you
from which to choose, there is no
lack Of things to write about-new
things and true-that have escaped
mention despite the mass OF New
York correspondence weekly, daily
even, hurled at long suffering
world. The honest provincial, who
accepts all he sees in print for gospel
fact, will come to this city with
some mighty distorted judgment OF
values. He will find, if he goes
about much and keeps his eyes and
ears intelligently open, that many of
the men and women who loom large
and lofty in the paragraphs of these
unveracious chroniclers are but
second rate back numbers, who go
about primed with romantic facts (?)
concerning themselves and their ca
reers, seeking perpetually the CORES
pendent whom they can persuade to
devour them. Indeed you may ac-
cept it as moral certainty that the
amount of mention of certain sort,
by man or woman, depends much
more upon the subjects advertising
skill than upon the wares advertised.
All that, however, is another story.
What / set out to say was, New
York, by way of a halfway house
a place of sojourn-is not half bad.
For a constancy, though, it cannot
hold a candle to Tennessee--God's
country--if ever that region was Gre
ated. 1t warns the cookies of my
heart barely 10 think of it. Truly !
think, take it all in all, there is no
other place in the world where life
means so much offers so many
pleasures, so few pains. City folks
have heaps more money, but must
spend it lavishIy for what with you
is Gods free gifts-space, silence,
and sweet air-that there
the humblest cabin may supply, are
here costly luxuries, possible only to
those who "toil not, neither do they
SPIN who have grandfathers, bank
accounts and all the rest of it.
To be very rich body here means
more than most anywhere else. Go
ing one day to Elluslie, Vice. Presi
dent Morton's country seat, thought
it was exceedingly well for that gen.
tleman that he is not Mohamme-
dan. The prophet Tor turned back
from the gates of Damascus, saying
at is too delightful. A man can
have but one paradise" Certainly
Elluslie is paradise. 1t lies some
Two miles back from Rhinebeck
station. The road climbs up and up,
for the most part through thick woods
'pareIy set with pines among the
leciduou5 trees. Presently through
, big iron stone-posted gate you
,ome on to the demesne that is park
ike in extent, and more than care
ully kept. Ten minutes of driving
brings you to the house-a big,
handsome structure of reddish brown
tone-picturesquely irregular and
ull of jutting bays and gables, with
carriage porch overhanging the
white drive that curves about an
wal of the richest green turf. A
iveried lackey filings wide the door,
axes your card and leads you up a
vide flight of steps into a big hall,
rom when wide doors open on two
ides, showing vistas of library,
Irawing and morning rooms. and so
N. Cozy chairs and couches, soft as
dream Of love, stand all about at ,,
most inviting angles. The polished
Ioor is overlaid with priceless Orien-
al rugs, rare hangings cover the
walls and show out the pictures that
dorm them. Indeedarticles Of "big-
try and virtue show on every side.
he beauty of them ell, though, pales I
efore the outlook from the southern !,
ide of the hall. Clear plate glass
lis the whole breadth of it-at least
wenty feet-and you see framed in !
twenty miles of the Hudson val
N, tbrouuh which tho pantinp on l