The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-17

IE& Of course they have. in the climate, argument that is good for half an hour HlazEszz while~you thinking of your coal bills and heavy underwear But as soon as madness comes them, they picture the city Sf the oden Gae as the Bagdad of the New Wera sary. But dear cousins all (from Adam and Eve on the map and say In this town m there m can be no Tonaanee-what could happen here2' Yes it is history, romance and Rand and McNaly.
 NAsHvrr1E-A city, port of dezipery and
 the capital ot the State of Tennessee, is on
 | anG aSe raroads 3@ Ts TSe cig fs gGrded as the most important educational ceAter fn inc South.
 stepped off the train at F. M Having searched he thesaurus in vain for adjectives. I must, as a substtution hie me to comparison in the form of
 Take of x London fog 30 parts: malaria 10 parts: yard at sunrise, g parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts Mix
 ceptfon of Nashville drzzIe It is not so fragrant as a moth-baH nor thick pea-soup; but 'tis
 The hotel was oneNof the kind described reno pillars. tiling, lights brass euspidors the lobby, and new L. & N time table and litho- rooms above The management was without reproaeh, service as slow the progress of a snail and good -humored as Rip Van Wrinkle. The food was ofher hotel in the world where you can get such :hcken lfvers en 0rochette.
 At dinner asked a negro waiter if there was any hing doing in town He pondered grayely for l reckon there's anything at all don' after
 Shutdown had been accomplished; it had been denied me. But went forth upon the streets in he drizzle to see what might be there
 It Is butt o,s unduzatina grounds and the streets are lighted by electricity at cost of
 $32,470 per annuna.
 4 T walked through long streets all leading uphill I wondered how those streets ever again. Perhaps they didn't until they graded On few Of the pain streets sa" lights in stores here and there; saw street cars go by conveying worthy burghers hither and yon; people pass engaged in lively laughter issuing a soda-water and parlor The streets other than H~aain' seemed to peace and domesticity In ma: Of them lights few pianos tinkled orderly frreproachable music e There was indeed, little doing wished had come before sundown. So returned to my hotel
 hs6 M aGT pe Py bn for ype f moment my eyes suffered from the sight of him. A Tennyson said, as he so we'll said almost everything:
 Prophet curse me the blabbing lip.
 And curse me the British vermn, the rat
 Let us regard the word British" interchange j. This man was hunting about the hotel lobby like Ssl starved dog that had forgotten where he. had ed, pulpy, and with a kind of sleepy masstveness ike that of Buddha He possessed one single virtue east is not indeiibe Ep0n man until he goes about + ais razor that day I would have repuIsed his advances, and the criminal calendar of the world
 I happened to be standing within i've feet of .GSp1dor when Major CaSWeI opened upon It.
 had been obserYant enough to perceive that the attacking force using Gatlngs instead of squirrel rifles; so I sdestepped promptly that the major reized the opportunity to apologize to non-conl- had become my friend and had dragged to the 
 Major Caswfell banged with fist, and he first gun at Fort Sumter re-echoed When he But then he began family trees, and demonstrated hat Adam only third cousin of collateral 1ranchs of the Caswel family. Gepealogy disposed If, he took up, to my dstaste, his private family spoke of his wife traced her descent Eve, and profaney denied any possible may have had relations in the land of Nod. got my key ne, courteouslyl: tIf that CasweIl annoyed 1ou, you would like a complaint, SiI have him ejected. He is q nuisance, Ioafer, md without any known means of support although able upon any of throwing him out legally
 'fWhy, no,' said l. after some reelection; 'I don't my way clear to making complaint. But l would like to place myself record as asserting 4 lhat I do not for his company Your town l continued, seems to be quiet
 low. It only about ten o'clock but l looked upon silent The drizzle continued, spangled with dim lights far apart entrants in cake so1d at the Ladies' Exchange.
 "A quiet place. I said to myself my first shoe the ceiling of the occupant of the room beneath Nothing of the life hcre that gives color and zariety to the cities in the East and West Just a good, ordinary, liuTndrUr business town
 I must tell you I to be in Nashville, md I aGSr-e you t,-e Aggression brings much tetuE1 to as it does to yGu WAS travelling elsewhere on my own business. but had a com from Northern literary magazine to stop tI,cre f-cd establish a personal correction be- -@oa taa publication and one of it's contributors,
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