Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 29 November 1894 — Page 4

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VALUE OF GOOD HOTELS.

fhey Plajr an Important Part In Advertising and Building Up a Town. The traveliut? pub!1'" is prono to judge *7

aoter

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ru« •jiHTHMiiuajt furnished by

the .•• -ii Inu much tc o.o Witi, iio pi'0», «jniy i-s s'wou a bv t-ho fol1,' of tbo CliioHgo Rweord. He says:

At licise City, although it is the capital :r""! t!-: -u:

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to*.~a of Idaho, tho

hotels arc very bad, in striking contrast with those of most nf the ambitions young Hit's of tho whore attractJve and comfortable accommodations for tiie ixavt-iuiy, public are very properly considered essential to prosperity. It I is said th:it the fine hotel at Tacoma, Wash., v/nsworth millions of dollars as an advertisement for that city and added several thousand to its population. The same i* uunbtlcss true of Denver, Seattle, Helena, Minneapolis and other thriving citic:', where the hotels aro uncommonly good. The worst hotels I have found west of the Mississippi, however, have been at the capitals of states —Lincoln, Neb.: Cheyenne, Wy. Bismarck, N. D.

The people of Boise City admit that it is a slow town. It is one of the oldest cities we: of the Rooky mountains and only claims 0,000 inhabitants now, whn.ii in probably 20 per cent above the fact. It .-•• i.^,Y..r ii!«i a iyom, but has kept growing slowly since it was found-

ed, about s(i0. on what was then a sagebrush desert .'300 miles from a railway. For several years, until a system of irrigation was established, every mouthful of food consumed here had to be hauled that distance in wagons. But now it is a city of homes, some of them as lovely and luxurious as you will find in the suburb?? of any eastern city. The streets are wide and clean, with a dense growth of shade trees. The houses are surrounded by'well kept lawns and beds of flowers, and there has been considerable taste shown in landscape gardening as well as architecture.

With the many advantages in its favor it would seem thai tho city should grow and prosper, but tho inhabitants seem to lack that energy and push necessary to impress visirors with the idea that their town is hustling and up to date, and a a •••.*!. '.I. si ?.-. ill, linearly so, when tiiey might be building a great city.

STUDY TO HCL° YOUR EMPLOYER.

Make Yourself So Ksscutinl That He Will "ot Vnrt With You. A groat many of the people that want work in thi.s worht don't want it. Perhaps they think they do, but they don't. What they really warn is a chance to draw a salary and loaf. They have forgotten entirely, as it used to be so well remembered in the older days, that one "must do what comes along to do, and do it well, and then better things and .more remunerative things come along to do. And how few there aro—it seeins to be there is not one in 14,000—who knows that to mako money by working one smust help his employer mako money.

Think of that, boys and girls, young men and you'-"? rvm(Ti. find old rion and old wov.ion rr.-! Study how to help your employer to mnfre money. If you can do chat, you become essential to him. It may be that he can get along •without you, but ne will try to keep you. Rather than lose you be will raise your pay. Ko don't merely work. That is easy-enough. l»at plan, seheme, suggest Kumothing once in awhile, point out howf?J can nude, or £1 saved, which amounts to iv san.o thing. JJiu, perhaps tiiis i.-: too much to expect of you, and perhaps it you knew .how to make money yourself or *o save it yon would be in business ior ournelf. beleeted.

Jirookiyn's Tree I'laiiiing Sooioly. The movement in progress in Brooklyn lo ^ivofc tree planting is probably tho most systematic work of

kind yet started in the cities of this country. The Tree Planting and Fountain society js vui! with the organization of one general society, which, in the attenip' to do too much, may do nothing, but it is stimulating the organization of street clubs for tree planting. A dozen or more of these have begun

operations. Tho central society

issued

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to

imitation in

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shelf.

"Qi' mo a quarter of

cause

has

a bulletin naming over 50 kinds

trees suitable fur this climate and when

and how to plant them in city

streets

fect.

with reference to a general ef­

The society lias permanent head­

quarters, and

some one is

always present

answer onections and roako suggestions

gratuitously.

This

Brooklyn

all towns

tree

planting movement, in its general scope and in details, seems to

bo

worthy of

and

adelphia

cities.—Phil­

Public Ledger.

Knew Where to Find It.

"Can you match this piece of calico?" said Fanner Old time as he entered Cobwebb's dry goods store. a "Guess so,replied Cobwebb as he reached for a roll of dust covered goods on

a

wants to mako over

yard. Mandy

a

dress

sho

bought

nine years ago, and a clerl^ at Wholepage's told mo

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could find it here be­

you novor advertised any.'

Printer's

Ink.

.f: Courtesies Don't Pay. We received a very flattering proposition this week to advertise a neighboring fair and aocept tho "usual courtesies" as pay. Thy "usual courtesies" won't pay running expenses, eto., and

If the management wants tho fair advertised in this sheet they will have to wme down with the cash. Wo have qnit giving $5 worth of space for two 25 cent tickets.—Ambia (Ind.) News.

The fact that a manufacturer or merchant ia anxious to make known his goods to the publio is regarded by most people as- evidence that they possess merit.—Printer's Ink.

Advertise If you would rlaai Not at all

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If yon would tell. •w-BorlingtoD (Vu) GoamopolttaD.

PLEAD FOE FREEDOM

EARLY CAREER OF FRED DOUGLASS, ONVRNP. RFFORMER.

Vast. Ohnnt*e. Tn PnMli Sentiment In Fifty Vo»r»—liorT» Sls»ve, He a PiA

Star—Hi#'Private Life.

I Special Correspond once.]

piOCinTEU, Nov. 19.—There is nothing that more accurately shows the vast change that has taken place in the sentiments of tbo American people and the inF'itution^ nf the American republic during the past half century than tho manner in which Fred Douglass was received here something like 50 yoars ago and the mannor in which he is received whenever ho comes here now. Then there were those who treated him with contumely. Now he is a finest honored by everybody.

His first appearance here was as a speaker in the ohl Bethel church that used to stand on Washington street near the canal, but has Jong ago disappeared. His earliest efforts as a speaker were religious. After his escape from slavery he went to Providence or some other New England town, and there he became conspicuous as an exhortcr. Rochester was at that time headquarters of almost all the current isms and movements for reform. A Rochester abolitionist who went to Providence hi-ard of the unusual eloquence displayed nightly at the revival meetings that were then shaking that New England city by an escaped slave named Frederick Doughiss. The visitor went to hear the negro speaker and was completely carried away, Tho result was that shortly after Douglass received an invitation to visit Rochester under the auspices of the local circle of abolitionists. It was believed that he could speak as well upon the abolition question as he could upon religious matters. The experiment fully justified the expectation. There aro only a few yet alive in this town who remember tho address he delivered at I that time. Miss Maria G. Porter, a tiny old maiden lady, with white hair and a long memory, is one. She sat in the parlor of her residence here today and told me about it.

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His First Appearance In Rochester. *"I can't givo you all the details," she said, '"and I'm a little weak as to dates, but there were

iSSeSiMis

Mr. Douglass may not play tho violin now, but during thoso times which he always speaks of "as trying men's souls" his violin was one of his chief solaces.* Ho has a grandson now, of whom he is vory fond, to whom has descended the musical faculty, and who has shown so much talent as a violinist that he is to be sent abroad in order that his musical education may bo finished.

The North Star.

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posters all over jtmvn ahead of tho meeting, and the old Bethel was crowded. All the stanch abolition families were there, headed by Jacob and Amy !l|Post. You know,

Amy became fam- I ous after ward through her devo tion to the aboli tion cause. There

FRKD DOUGLASS. were quite enough abolitionists and those who went out of curiosity to fill the old Bethel to the door. I was present, and I shall never forget how the audience was stirred by Fred Douglass* story of his wrongs as a slave and of his escape from bondage. Every one was affected. The women cried—some of them —and the men were much excited. There were those among tho curious who attempted to scoff and make troublo, but tho sentiment was too strong in tho speaker's favor, and they were obliged to k'-ep still or leave. The abolition feeling hero was {zrently furthered by that first meeting, and when Douglass came back later to stay and started his paper, The North .Star, he found a much larger percentage of followers among the population than when he told his story in the old bethel."

It was between the time of this Bethel speech and the issuing of the first number of The North Star that Douglass made his first visit to England and Ireland. It was ihere tMat he met Julia Gri.fiilh, tho rich young English woman who came back to America with him and dovoted much of her time and fortune to helping him. Ho brought with him a violin, bought in Dublin, which he still possesses. Concerning the purchase if this violin Douglass afterward told J. K. Post of this city the following story:

An Aii:aze«l Soil of Krin.

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went into a music store in Dublin anil asked to look at violins. The proprietor handed me ono with seeming reluctance. lie appeared to lie afraid that I would break it. His whole attitude was one of amazement. He had heard of negroes, no doubt, but very likely I was tho first one he had actually seen. I took tho instrument from his hand and played tho 'Kocky Road to Dublin.' He was speechless for a moment or two. Then ho ran to the door connecting the shop with tho living room and called to his wife. "Noralil Norali!' he cried, 'come herel Thore's a naygur here play in the fiddle. Como quick!' "So Norah came and stood by her husband quite as amazed as that individual. Then 1 played'The Irish Washerwoman,' and they danced for me. Then I asked tho price of tho violin, for I liked it. But the dealer snatched it cut of my hand. 'It's not for sale, sorr. Money won't buy it.' Then he turned to his wife and snid, 'The naygur played on that fiddle, mid we'll kape it.' "He sold mo another violin, though, really a much better ono, for half a crown, hut I did not play upon this instrument.. I did not want him to conclude that he must keep it also because a 'naygur' had played on it."

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Among those whose memory of Frederick Douglass in Rochester leads him oftenost to indulge In remlniscenco is William Oliver, for years prominent in publio affairs hero. Oliver was but a boy whon The North Star was established and wont to work in tho office as printer's devil and carrier boy from the very first issue. Afterward he leurned tho printer's trade and finally became foreman of the composing room. "One day," said Mr. Oliver to me yesterday, "Douglass came Into the office In the morning looking unusually bright and oheerfuL He Btepped Into the middle of the floor and began to whistle a lively melody. Then he fell to dancing. He did the double shuffle and the 'Sailor's Hornpipe,' he danced a breakdown and number of other steps the names of which I do not know. Finally, when he wound up with the finest pigeon wing I ever Baw, he was in a dripping perspiration and entire­

ly out of breath. In answer to my questioning he said: 'Just 21 years nfjb today, honey, I put up my little pack tied it on a stick, put the stick on my back and started for the Tr~:r, «r. Then I was a slave, and I was I airau mi at bctoro I had readied freedom I

W"i'.!d be killed for attempting it. Now I am free and able to do something toward briu^hic aiMur. the freedom of the rest of I my 1..UC. Do you wonder that xeei iiKe dancincr?' "Douglass was quite serious by this time, and his words and manner wore very I impressive. I did not wonder that ho had danced.

John Brown of Osawatomie.

I "In those old days at the office of The

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North Star I used to see many of the men whose names aro now inscribed on the

pages of history by reason of their early identification with the abolition movement. There were Gerrit Smith and William Lloyd Harrison and Wendell Phillips and other lesser lights. Garrison and Phillips disagreed in later years with Douglass, but then they wero among his stanchest supporters. Another man whom I remember very well, and who wore a long beard and had piercing eyes, came to the olliee one day. His name was Brown —John Brown of Osawatoniio. His personality was very strongly impressed upon nui. He and Douglass had many long and secret ttilks, and finally Brown went away suddenly one morning. Two or three of us who were in the office (James Vick was I one—it was while I was still an apprentice and lie was foreman) agreed among ourselves that quite likely Brown would be heard from somewhere later. Well, sure enou.'.-h, he was, as all the world knows, for in a fortnight or two the news of the

Harper's Ferry raid was sent over tho country. A few days after that it became unsafe for Douglass to remain in tho United States, and ho was got across the Niagara river to Clifton, Canada. There ho staid for some weeks till enough money could be raised to get him to England There he remained until the excitement over his supposed implication in John Brown's conspiracy blew over. I have never known just how much Douglass knew about the Harper's Ferry raid, but I suppose he knew all about it. It was my duty to act as messenger between Rochester and Clifton while Douglass was at the latter place. I carried letters to him I and brought letters from him, and it was

I who carried the money to him when it was finally raised that enabled him to cross tho sea. During his absence Julia Griffith and myself ran trho paper, the I name of which had been changed to Fred

Douglass' Patter. When I saw Douglass last year at the World's fair, we talkod all this over, and Douglass seemed to be intensely impressed by the enormous changes that had taken place since the days of tho old North Star, changes in tho bringing about of which ho certainly had a great deal to do.''

Douglass and His Family.

It appears from what is said by those who remember Douglass and his family in the days beforo the war that, although they wero not received socially, excepting by the Quakers and others who were ardent abolitionists, they wero by them accorded every courtesy that was extended to any white family. Tho first Mrs. Douglass was a full blooded negress. Sho was not her husband's equal intellectually by any means, and she did not care to go with him to all tho places from which ho received invitations. He was personally very popular, even among proslavery men. This was largely due to his unvarying suavity and his absolute mastery of himself. It is remembered with groat unanimity by all his old time acquaintances with whom I have talked that lie never lost his temI peril) any discussion of the abolition question that he was always courteous and gentlemanly even under the most trying

circumstances, and that he countcd among his warmest personal friends some of the men wl.o were strongest in their opposition to the movement for tho freeing of the slaves. For some years Rochester was annually agitated from center to circumference by the question as to where and how the children of Frederick Douglass should be educated. His daughter, Hose, was one of the brightest young girls in the city, and Douglass objected to her being sent to the school which was provided especially for tho children of colored parents. One year the majority of the school board wero proslavery men, and they decided that Koso must

go

to tho negro school. Doug­

lass had no idea of submitting to the decision, and so he went before the board. I "The eloquenco of that man," said a venerable member of that old time school board yesterday, "in pleading that his child should have all the privileges as to education that would have been, accorded her if her skin had been whito was simply wonderful. I have never listened to anything approaching it either before or since.

Yet at no time did he make use of any harsh terms at no timo was there the faintest trace of bitterness in bis words. Ho simply set beforo us his desires as a resident and a father with all tho skill that a master of languago could command. I admit that we had definitely determined not to givo him what he asked, though I am ashamed of it now, but we could not resist his persuasive words. When we came to take a vote, permission for his daughter, Rose, to attend tho public schools of Rochester was unanimously granted."

Douglass' present wife, a white woman, was born in Honeoye, a few miles south of here, but few Rochesterians know her.

This

I. D. MARSHALL.

.. The Kind of Women Men Like. "What sort of a woman does a man love?" was asked not long ago of an eminent man. "A cozy woman," he replied emphatically ''a woman who knows nothing about theories or politics who is good for no particular reason, but simply because sho can't be otherwise a woman who can mako good things to eat, van dress well even if she is expensive and givo a room that attractive touch which makes a man want to stay In it. Sho ought to know all the latest gossip—not scandal—and chat about it in a womanly way which to a man is irresistible. Sho should taboo mannish styles of dress, especially four-in-hand neckties, but wear those pretty womanly laces which mako pretty women more charming and homely ones less plain."

The Cup That Cheers.

We aro growing as fond of "the cup which cheers, but does not inebriate" as our English cousins, judging from statistics. There has been an increased importation of 10,000,000 pounds of tea during the past four years. Only the obstinate woman still bolls her tea ''to get the good of it," but vory few of even the best housekeepers know that tea should bo drunk from two to five minutes at most after it is made. It only requires that long for tho nutritious sap to exude from the tea leaf. All that remains is a chemical substance which makes the tea indigestible besides giving it a bitter flaror.

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