The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-17

arrived at the age of discretion. If
they did not care to be kidnapped they
u have gone rtghtaway from there.
We met a retired landlord from
hurley on the train to Alpena the
other day. He was a handsome young
fellow Of Irish birth and was dressed
III purple and fine linen He also wore
q high silk hat, with a broad band IN
1T, and his golden hair seemed to have
caught the CLEAN of a dying day in
October, He was just the kind Of a
man to make a low, dirty, drunken,
imported murderer mad, he looked 50
cool and clean and sweet
lie had been at Hurley running a
a hotel. He had worn a white vest
one day last summer to market, also a
TALL hat. He did not get his marketing,
but he got a wealth of tobacco juice on
his white vest, and his hat was found
on the roof of the OPP ,ra house after ten
days had sped on winged wings.
Hurley has seven or eight opera
houses which are 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
a day for recovering from the Satur
day night debauch, but the recovery
also requires Monday and even Tues
day forenoon. The Hurley jag has a
world wide reputation and speaks for
itself.
Social matinees are held in the morn
ing to accommodate the miners who
work at night and cannot e society
except in the day time. Men wear
their hats and smoke Gable tobacco
i. G., tobacco that IN can smoke in
Wisconsin and smell n Europe. Wear
ing their hats at these theatrical per
fOrmances is a 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 III the line of comic
opera and consists of varied special
ties 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 toward8 the wall has
an H )lean nose, through which she
sings a sad lay. She stands on the out
side 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,
l moan-and with his iron covered
arm has clasped her ore and ore, only
to be repulsed impa,lently by those
t~houghtleSs words, "Oh, go and chase
vOG-eaifI"
And SO he has gone away, leaving
her there alone to face all those people
and sing and try to be gay. GIRLS
ought to be more careful what they
say to men who are intoxicated.
1 once knew of q young lady who
told a man to avaunt under those cir
cumstances, aud 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 maidI
Hurley is gay and lively with it's
foreign 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 rightly
repaid for wearing eyeglasses on the
street or wiping his nose with a hand
kerchIef.
can imagine q sweet voiced ~Onjenew
girl elo~cutionist reading one of Brown
ng's poems here to these great, strong,
manly fellows who wear whiskers
wherever they happen to spring up,
and who drink to excess.
We did not play Hurley.
1 would not mind playing the Sibe
rian tallow candle circuit, but Hurley
does not appreciate real art.
TWO COOLING DOVES.
Opposite to us one day III a Pullman
there vas a pair of newly welded PEG
pie. I was reading, but the story was
too massive for me, treating of fin de
cycles and n thing Or another, and
of living for a purpose, and of getting
a firm grasp Oh the tail Of the age ine
which we live, and so forth, and thds
[ sort of listened to the bright and
childlike talk of the two sweet things
cuddled up there together, with her
little gray gloved hand now and then
gliding through his whiskers in such a
way as to make him feel that he was