Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-29

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-Everybody
seems to be moving. Here in New York
the people who are up town are moving
| down; those who are down are going
up, and am just going across. There
| are people who, moving often, don't
mind it. / don't belong to that class;
consequently, after abiding seven years
in one place, moving me was difficult.
! think it has taken four weeks; in the
meantime L have had my household
goods, so to say on exhibition.
IN THE HANDS OF THE MOVER.
The average mover, so-called, is a
very independent person. am almost
tempted to say very shocking one.
lie grasps your treasures as If they
amounted to nothing, exhibits them on
the sidewalk, and regards you and your
admirations with scorn. Yesterday he
had Mrs. Lantry, Mrs. Kendall, my great
great-greaL grandmother's marriage GER
tificate from County Wexford) and my
vellum- bound volumes of the "Arabian
| Nights" all leaning against the fence, SO
that he who ran might read. He pre-
ferred taking my clothes first, and unless
we gave him his way, he might decline
to move US, we let him do as he pleased
After this he took anything he fancied
and | sat in my desolated household and
tried to smile. At last was put into a
cab and had things packed around me
that was told were valuables. Later
on discovered that the valuables con-
sisted OF ~ bottles of beer, of two
baskets of odds and ends, travelling
clock and japanese image. The silver
and my jewelry had gone over in an
open basket. The principal mover was
a man who looked for the history of
everything, and as he gazed at me
hercely when | announced that bought
one jar in New York, | drew on my
Imagination for histories to go with all
the other things. He believes, as far as
! know, that japanese pillow, gotten
hero within the past six months, was
| presented to my father by the Emperor
OF Japan, and that two cups and saucers
| which he broke were
GIVEN TO ME BY QUEEN VICTORIA
the evening took tea with her. don't
know that he believed these things, but
he urged me on until now he has gotten
me in condition until | don't know
whether Bismarck gave me my writing
desk, the King of Ireland the type
writer, or James j. Corbett the shillelah,
which is adorned with red, white and
blue ribbons. He asked me if anybody
celebrated had ever slept on my bed,
and told him Parnell died on the mat
tress. What the result of all this will
be on me do not make. | may out
NIX great liars, who make fortunes by
this trade.
find myself stopping and staring at
other peoples movings, just as other
people did at mine. Sometimes laugh;
sometimes cry. laughed at an artistic
moving where everybody passing by
stopped to study the rudes, which were
strung along in straight line awaiting
their turn. | felt the tears come in my
eyes when | saw an elderly woman
grasp little shoe as it fell from a
basket, and say, "Ohl that mustn't be
lost, everyone of my babies wore it for
the first shoe; some of them are great
big men; some of them will always be
babies"
STUDY IN Ebony.
We had an advantage in our moving.
We had Alexander. Alexander may be
anything from 35 to 70, but l don't be-
licve anybody ever called him "Aleck."
At times of great distress he has the
vigor of 35, at other times he seems 20,
especially if il is a question Of lifting a
heavy weight. His appetite is between
these two ages, and would be called, |
suppose, normal. He has keen eye
for the artistic, and this showed itself in
the decoration of the kitchen mantel,
with all my finest bric-a- brac; he has an
intense hatred for the ianitor, and he
gives him look every time he sees him
that would do great credit to stage vii
lain. There are intervals when he is
missed; then anybody can bet 10 to /,
and there will be no takers, that Alex
ander will be found in the midst of
books improving his mind. In knowl-
edge he is very broad; he is up in the
morning papers, he can give an opinion
as to the proper cooking Of the steak; he
has positive ideas about his vote, and he
likes little light literature once and
awhile. He can paint floor or wash
the dishes, brush gown or hang pic
lures. In fact, Alexander's accomplish
ments are many, and in moving man
of the Alexander type is invaluable.
lie hates everybody else who is doing
anything, consequently he sees they
don't steal, and in his own way he has
a rather contempt for your belongings
so that they are quite safe in his hands.
JOYS OF WHICH WE ONLY READ.
have read funny articles about NOV
ing-therc is nothing funny about the
real thing. You want your own soap,
and you can find five fancy paper
weights and nothing else; you want
something to fetch you up, and though
there is ink and glue, and vaselne, and
beer, the something you desire is miss
ing. You set to work to straighten some
thing and you come across a package of
letters written 10 years ago; you can't
resist reading one or two, and then YOU
laugh and cry; one says: "Dear Marian
stopped in and brought me bunch of
flowers" You drop your head, for
Dear Marian is where the flowers are
everlasting, and the only thing left of
her on earth is blossom of baby,
and the loving memory in the hearts of
those who cared for her. Another tells
how "that stupid boy, awkward and
long-legged, bored me with his talk"
and you laugh to think how she doesn't
call him stupid boy now, but the dear
est fellow in the world. Another one
says: 81 know / have great future
before mel am sure of it; my pen will
make the world conscious Of it'-the
pen never did, and the wielder of ii has
gone down, down, down, until even
| you, who would speak to the meanest
wretch in the world, almost shudder
when you see him Then there is
another letter, that tells of newborn
baby-babies were rare in those days
last night You gotta telegram announcing
the arrival Of the fifth in that house.
hold There is a letter Of thanks from a
polite actress-for-a-few kindly words