Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-17

One elderly maiden lady could nd go to sleep unless held her hand. And she was plain too. She was trying this eli mate on her face, she said. l could not see that it did any good. She wanted to go to sleep just at the time l wanted to do my chores at the barn and bed down the team. Her complexion was the color of soft shell turtles stomach. Of course she was not to blame for that, but l should have made her board s per week higher She was from Fishkill, but claimed to be refined New York city belle. Once she wanted to tell me her history, but I told her that had prom ised to wind the clock and go to bed by a quarter of 10. So Iescaped.
 One drawback about keeping board CTS in healthy resort of some notoriety is that more or less medical attendance is called for with the board. I can figure on the victuals, but cannot cal culate on the wear and tear in cases of heart disease five miles from physician.
 Once a casual acquaintance from Yonkers asked me by mail if could take his uncle, who was needing change and country air. 1 told him my rates for rooms and meals and a week later got up at o'clock a. m. to go and meet him with the team. He failed to get his trunk, and so he wore my clothes most ly. In fact, he had them on when he he was overtaken in Georgia after he had escaped. He was a good old man, but had been crazy eight years. The Yonkers man thought the old chap would recover the moment he got into North Carolina, so he did not speak of the lu- macy.
 Some write me that my terms are sat- isfactory if 1 would provide them with saddle horses. 1 cannot do that. l have laid out good deal in merry-go- rounds and seaside toboggans and am figuring on tame bear, but saddle horses for people who cannot remain on top of the horse, together with a man to go out and gather in horses that have been deridered, reduces my pay to a mere bagatelle and I have no special use for bagatelle anyway.
 Some of my boarders die in the house. This is not caused by poor food or neg | leet on my part, but many do not seek health resort until they feel the waters | of the dark river rising over their shoe tops. Then they go and die on the hands of some one who never did them | any harm by word or deed. Is this fair?
 Is it just? Many of them use more sugar on ber- ries than Is necessary. Others put but | ter on ginger cakes and ask for finger bowls for their little ones to sail their 7 crackers in.
 | Others want watermelons for Christ | mas and snowbirds on toast for the | Fourth of July. I hate such people and | often threaten that I will let my well go | on the mortgage rather than be knocked down and walked on like that. was born under the most favorable
 circumstances and date back as far as
 the eye can reach, and I would not be
 made a drudge of in this way by rude people if it were not for the fear that my
 well will be foreclosed at the depth of 103 feet.
 | This year my vegetables came in late. | So did my COW. Now the boarders speak of our canned food in the meanest spirit
 that ever saw. But let us change the
 subject.
 | l wish at this moment to speak a l friendly word for a class who are so
 far removed from the aid of organized l societies that they lead sad life, even | III the Dedulll LII luOuuldlilS OI lLllS Ie- | zion. Socially it is blot upon a very
 picturesque and delightful country. l
 give the closing paragraph of letter
 written to his paper by the special cor
 respondent of The Aurora. It is not
 changed in any way except in the sigma
 lure. and that disguise in order to pre- | vent trouble or misunderstanding. | Anything in money way, no matter
 how small, may be sent to me, and those
 whose conditions are fatherless may
 drop in and receive part of the money l Below is the letter:
 | On Saturday last at noon, after a tiresomt 1 walk, l reached the mountain gap which let! 1 the traveller out of Golden valley down to tht | Cane creek section. where MT. James Andrew I dwells, near this gap, in a small cabin, live
 Betty Smart and her daughter Susie. Jus | three years ago went through this gap on m! | first trip to Golden valley, and in that lonel! l home found Susie, fair blond maid of ls Her mother had gone away that day on busi l ness, and Susie was the sole occupant of tn
 home. She was dressed neatly and talked in telligently to the agent of The Aurora, express l ing a desire to subscribe for the paper. I thel | sent in her name. When reached that cot
 tage again last Saturday, Susie Smart wa
 again found alone at home. Her mother ha' gone out hunting cattle on the mountain.