The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-27

w ACllISO Hurley
on the train to Alpena the other day. He
was handsome young fellow of Irish
birth and was dressed in purple and
fine linen. He also wore high silk hat,
with broad band on it, and his golden
hair seemed to have caught the CLEAN of
q dying day in October. He was Just
the kind of man to make low, dirty,
drunken, imported murderer mad, he
looked so cool and clean and sweet.
He had been at Hurley running hotel
He had worn white vest one day last
summer to market, also tall hat. He
did not get his marketing, but he got
wealth of tobacco juice on his white vest
and his hat was found on tho roof of the
opera house after ten days had sped on
winged wings.
Hurley has seven or eight opera houses
which arc open every day in the year.
The audiences are entirely men folks, and
opera glasses are not called for. The
Sabbath is set aside as q day for recover
ing from the Saturday night debauch,
but the recovery also requires Monday,
and even Tuesday forenoon. The Hurley
Jag has a worldwide reputation and
speaks for itself
Social matinees are held in the morn
ing to accommodate the miners who
work at night and cannot SEQ society ex-
cept in the daytime Men wear their
hats and smoke Cable tobacco. e., to-
bacco that one can smoke in Wisconsin
and smell in Europe. Wearing their
hats at these theatrical performances is
cheap imitation Of the custom among
i'll hammered ladies. but the tobacco
habit they have picked up out of their
own heads.
The opera is in the line of comic opera
and consists Of varied specialties and is
played by artists who wear thin property
clothes on the street, and their tights
when on the stage show how high their
boot legs come when they are dressed for
the street.
The girl who sings about the picture
that was turned toward the wall has an
Aolcan nose, through which she sings n
sad lay. Sho stands on tho outside of
her feet as she MARBLES, and there are
traces of sadness on her face, also traces
OF iron ore around her waist. Possibly
some one has loved her-some man under
the influence of drink, mean-and with
his iron covered arm has clasped her ore
and ore, only to be repulsed impatiently
by those thoughtless words, "Oh, go and
chase yourselfp'
And SO he has COMO away, leaving her
there alone to face all those people and
sing and try to be gay. Girls ought to
bo moro careful what they say to men
who are intoxicated.
once knew of q young lady who told
man to avaunt under those circum-
stances, and now, although she is happy
and wealthy. she is an old maid.
How much better it is to have some
one you can call your own, no matter
how worthless and low, than to be an
old maid!
Hurley is gay and lively with its for
eigy tongues heard here and there, the
merry music of the orchestra of the
nearest theater and the dull thud that
strikes ones ear as he is richly repaid for
wearing eyeglasses on tho street or WHIP
ing his nose with handkerchief.
L can imagine sweet voiced onjene,O
girl elocutionist reading one of Brown
ing's poems here to these great, strong,
manly fellows who wear whiskers wher-
ever they happen to spring up, and who
drink to excess.
We did not play Hurley.
would not mind playing the Siberian
tallow candle circuit, but Hurley does
not appreciate real art.
Opposite to us ono day in Pullman
there was pair of newly welded people.
l was reading, but the story was too
massive for me. treating of fin de cycles
and one thing or another, and of living
for purpose, and of getting firm grasp
on the tail of the age in which we live,
and so forth. and thus sort of listened
to the bright and childlike talk of the
two sweet things cuddled up there to-
gethcr. with her little gray gloved hand
now and then gliding through his
whiskers i'll such a way as to make him
feel that he was one great solid mass of
whiskers, whereas he only had little
"siders." which looked like ear muffs
that had worked forward
And so we go to New Orleans, Am
brose:" she asked as she opened her new
travelling bag and took out a new cake of
soap to smell Of
eyes" said Ambrose, scowling at the
toe of his new boot. which was hurting
him, judge. I've take the Q. and G..
from Cincinnati, or we take the luxuri-
GUS Illinois Central. which has such cum
ming little depots all along it's line, and
we will spend a week in New Orleans"
IL a. "