The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-05
THE ADVERTISERS
DAILY SHORT STORY

Love making among the dusky maids
OF mississippi Is not difficult procedure
ANA thus II came about also that In a
months time they had observed the COM
mon law marriage and had taken unto
themselves two young women whose
faces were black enough to spot the
midnight. Then the Endeavorers and the
foreign boards excluded them from their
societies while the negroes threw brick
bats at the two sisters who had tax IN
up with trash SO worthless as Cinnamon.
But WI and All went along about their
way. They bought fancy clothes for their
every evening. For the women the world
was rosy enough even il they were being
preached against by others of their class
less fortunate. Meantime the laundrymen
had added few more customers to their
ltst-men, young men, clerks about the
town who wore no waistcOats when their
linen was pot-boiled and starched.
In months time the Cinnamon were
doing a business the like of which they
had never dreamed would fall to their
lot The colored aunties were forced to
do the drudgery, that is to cleanse the
quilts, tablecloths and do the rougher
work belonging to the wash pot. They
attempted to discover the secret the Chi
namen possessed of making the shirt
front shine as the secured bottom of d
tin pan. but they couldn't.
FINALLY Yankee who was in the South
for his health heard that Eliisville needed
esta blish one. Then he moved his family
from Connecticut and appealed to the cit
izens for their patronage because of his
being an American. and local taxpayer.
Besides. he said, If the town treated him
right. he would be the means of bringing
other settlers to the. country, too. In
stantly the Cinnamon commenced losing
trade. Some few stuck by. them, but
when Mcintosh, Ferrill and Champenois
sent their bundles to the steam laundry
the Cinnamon got frightened. They cut
the Yankees prices These were met and
lowered. Then began a terrific warfare
with the result that both concerns were
doing washing for nothing. Soon the
town ioafers were changing. collars every
morning.
II the Cinnamon were Respondent they
concealed such emotions. When the
church bells were ringing for prayer
meeting of evenings and the organs of
the various places of worship were at-
tuned to the harmony of village voices the
puffs OF the little engine of the steam
laundry and the perspiring faces of the
heathens went evenly along. Finaliyt 1t
became matter of notice that. the Chi
namen were no longer patronizing the
grocery stores except for starch and
soap.
The situation was becoming decidedly
interesting. Presently the dusky spouses
Of the Mongolians seized hoe handles ana
left for the bottoms between the cover
Of night When they were missed it be-
gan to look as IL the ship of the China
men was about to 90 under sure enough.
But not SO. They worked; they bought
more soap; they smiled in their childish
and blsndish way and kept on washing.
Now they had ceased trading at the stores
altogether. From what source could they
be securing food?
A freckIed face boy of 10 solved that
problem. One day he went to the YAM
kee and told things; told of the thous-
ands OF rats that made their homes in
the big barn adjoining the home of his
hated rivals. Whereupon the Yankee hit
upon scheme with the result that The
Weekly Eagle contained this notice, set
in plea type:
WANTED,
One thousand cats. 1t makes no diff
ference whether they are thorough
hreds or scrubs: fat or lean. white or
yellow. For which the sum of twenty
Ave cents will be paid on delivery at
the STEAM LAUNDRY.
P. S.-Hurry Them Up.
IN three days time wagon loads of cats
began coming in and more boys being
thrashed hourly for stealing their moth
ers most precious pets than before in
Ellisville's history. One night the first
battalion of these soldiers of this re-
marhable Yankee were put on the battle
held-housed in that immense barn and
told to hght. The next night these were
removed and a fresher and hungrier lot
were turned inside and so on until there
was not even mouse in that town that
dared to poke its shifting nose above the
mellow earth.
week elapsed and one morning pass
ers-by observed that all was stiffness in
side the Chinamen's sharAy. The con-
stable came along and brUke down the
door. Inside the two washermen were
clasped in each Others arms, cold in
death-a plain case of double suicide
But they had escaped service in the I'M
perlal army at Pekin.