The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-16

<N'o' VA ACM OultTpTlSpS,
which. as affecting tho advancement of
their interests, they need to be appraised
OF at the earliest possible moment
An orIer for copy of the work when
issued Is solicited Very respectfully,
HENRY HALL,
Business Superintendent -
thought at first that by placing my
name on this, list l wouNl at once be.
como member of the best society and
one of the American nobility. thus unit.
ing with an exclusive set of people and
virtually shutting out the poor people
with whom had grown up
i naturally wished to rid myself Of
those who. now that had secured a
position among the wealthy, were an
noying to me and liable to drop in on
me at most any moment while social
favorites were visiting at our house.
You can have no idea, unless you have
been through it. how annoying it is to
have old neighbors of the middle class
come to visit for week or so when you
are entertaining nabob or two. You
can't put the old neighbor down to the
table with the servants. and yet you are
fdgeting ali the time if he should be at
table with an aristocrat.
Let us consider for moment the ex.
IRENE misery of an effort to reconcile at
times the nabob and the neighbor
Years ago i'll moment of eXhuber-
ancc l told Elias Mccartney to como
and sec us" said l was living in tho
country and took it easy during the
summer, so that it would seem like old
times if he and Mrs. Mccartney would
come and stay week He pulled me
out of millpond when I was young
ster, the summer after l was expelled
from Yale
He was good. plain man, with Il
clear, honest eye. and his wife always
cut his hair for him.
He thought it would be nice trip 70
just hitch mp his own team and drive to
my country place, with his horse feed
Ill the back end of the wagon He got u
new thimblc skein wagon made and
started ont TO drive to my estate 40
took off his coat during the middle Of
the day, and Mrs. Mccartney had al
ways been opposed to corsets, even so
years ago.
They drove up Co our back door OH a
hot June day, accompanied by sweet
little collie that had been born on the
road.
We were ut tho time eating lunch
with guest whose name is in the book
above referred TO-
My wife and Mrs. Mccartney had
never met before. They had not ex-
changed calls
MIR. Mccartney left his wife OH the
back porch and drove on out to the barn,
whistlng "There'll 30 No More Sor.
row There" He was engaged in tying
his team to tho hind wheel Of his wagon
and feeding there under large shade
tree when my coachman Colonel Fred
erlck Douglass, pounced OH him
Mrs. Mccartney knocked at the
kitchen door. but the chef said briefly
that we did not want any more vege-
| tables and shut the door
You know how we'll trained servant
can sometimes ostracize plain person
Mrs Mccartney asked for me after
awhile, however, and was told by the
girl to please wait till was done with
my lunch. She sat in tho hall tanning
herself all through our long, ohatty
lunch and had a chance to compare her
clothes with those of the help
presume that during the time she
sat there she had made up her mind to
cut down her visit good deal. for whcr
| learned the situation. and Mr. No.
Cartney. hot and hungry had settled
his trouble with Colonel Freaericl,
Douglass and come up to tho rear door.
kicking imaginary mud from his dura-
BILE kip boots and wiping them On the
lawn, the wide smile on his face had
faded good deal
Toward sunset. in spite of all that
could do. they started home FIo said
that they only "calc lated" 10 stay u
little while. but I noticed that he had
horse feed enough left to last a fortnight;
when he started home
After they had disappeared through
the big gate resolved that would have