SOMETHING UNIQUE IN BRASS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5517, 4 May 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

SOMETHING UNIQUE IN BRASS.

Not hammered brass, with classic heads figuring in modern art, but modem ieads iv brae», worthy of classio art. ! ' ' , How 1 laughed over the story. Two gentlemen sharpers from New York, oame- to this good old-fanhiotied conservative town, which take* its name.from Lord Baltimore.

They,, were glib of speeuh and fair to «cc, and git ted by nature with largu deposits of tho moral quality called brass. They came to look arouud, per chance to turn their metal into United States , legal tender. ■ ■ In the eastern section of the city* they found a large old mill full of inaoninery. It was ttu eye-sore to iho neighborhood. Everybody wished it would burn doWuor blow up, but thoio it stood year after jyear, iv chancery, neither bo bought nor sold;* or conveiteid into tt church oi BKatiug'riiik, or market huuwn, or bcli>».l for young Americana of the Gauoaaian hue.. ;

Theau Blimp gentlemen learned the history nt t.eold mill, then they paid a visit; to it and took account of mock aud the v»lu« of tha iimuhmei v run up, into .the, hundreds. ,'. Ttuiy took wub ih«" into, the? mill v man »lio»u uneuhtoraunejt livud ou tile kitty ttilili? JUiidH t>l <4oi", v ooion wi tU»t uuVinKt n.uiadio raco wiio pitched thuir- teut.i whuiievtr * grwu sliitay or,liu«pia stremu .ott'-'jed them ru»t ov lefreshiueut. , ; ■ This iuuu it) vow v deuler .iv 'jaiiki , rius<ioe» not wean •vujtliiug.iu particular but it ia very valuuble tti|d umuy ■ people Krow, rich ; upon it..; I'hexv is v suetjt iv this city coureoiattd to old juuk ; ~lt i«,a Bireet tiiut croat-en ' Joucb' Jγ alia.' Ppuo iv tlits l,ury.ut » spring.freshet this irr.pres,BibluWeaiit roue up tnd Wu-hrfl out the w'hoiustruet. Ttierowuß muoii ryjuieiiig by those who lost no junk. ■ ,„ , But, aa I »usuayiug, these ,SSo\v Xorkers kiudly oouewitiju to bewnm for tlie time owners of this disputed propurty, osvuurs by brevet, uud in this capucity thoy sold; out the wholu interior of thu old mill to, the dealer for $1,600, the property to be r.brnbvpd by a given time. . •. . ,•. ' ;■•.■ Then the work begun, and the house : wivee iv the vioiiiity opened their windows and leaned out iipou their elbows uudjuked and rejoice i. togeilier, wutohiug : with urv at interest the work us it went on, ti}ai\y tb» last load was hauled away, mid saiely deposited umoug other treasures. ' . \ I'hen thu nue gentlemen, the pro tern. owners invited tho dealer and liie men: to a Kraud supper, the beet that eouU) bt | had at the Hues., caterer's and they had game and wine without limit. , When tho feuet was aWout ended tho |

generous entertainers stepped out possibly to order some last delioaoy, perchance to pey the bill. They never came back any more. They have never been heard of since. ._ j ■ ..... Then the real owner of the mill- came to know , the oircuizißtancee, and' went down to take a look, and found-his property had really been carted away and, the money safe in somebody else'e pocket, •;•[ ■ ■; , Then the '•'h'uueevyives' opened their windows again ; ; indeed, they ; came" out of their doors and crowded around the bereaved property owner,' , "giving 'him the minutest aooount of the proceeding, withidramatio illuetrftlions aud native wit. "'

Asthe audacity of the affair struck their sense of the ludicrous, they held their sides, and the owner of'the mill held hie sides and they laughed in solo* and choruses. • It reminds nie,' said the bereaved man, • Ho ! ha ! ha ! it reminds me of a house

that was carried away. He ' he ! •;" A woman owned a house in the suburbs, he ! he \ it'was empty. She lived in ttie country. ■ ' She came in town one day to look at it, and found nothing but a solitary i dhimnoy. 'Haw! ha! lia ! The bdy« had begun by breaking the ' windows. Finally the neighbors took parts of the House to repair their ■ own houses, and almost all the sidewalkein the- neighborhood were paved with the bricks. • But the woman who owned the house was thankful they had leftheilot. :; : ' I am glad my friends have' left the old mill. ; They are welcome to the other, let 'em have it. If they have brass enough to do atriok like that, let 'em have it.' \