TWO REAL KIND LANDLORDS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 20 April 1883, Page 2

TWO REAL KIND LANDLORDS.

"Just at the close of the great Cotton Exposition at Atlanta, Ga..," said he, <rI happened one day to be dining with a friend at Markham House, when that man came in. The day was wet and disagreeable; and he wore a huge ulster overcoat, the skirts of which reached his heels. He left the OTercgat in the cloakroom aud came into the dining bill attired as neatly as.you.see him.,now., ~^L happened to be standing near thq door when he finished hig dinner, and sawnim endeavour to pass the clerk, who, on account, of the crowded conditipn.jjQf + thji house, had been placed there tcT tske^up tickets or cash. The clerk was too quick for him, and, after a gopd/dflajl of talk, the man admitted that he had no money, and the clerk, who was in no chvjtpfel" mood, suggested that someTportibnvofAis fine apparel would stand good for the price of his dinner. " All rignt," said ihe man, " you may have my panfs ? ?iF |r|u #on't take my word that I willf^ay;Jy^i to-morrow." The offer, wag accepted .at once, and a few minuteg later the.man with the' big;ulster left, the cloak-room with his overcoat buttoned closely about him, and his pants apparently Yolled'flp.a few inc.'ies to keep them out of thVttiu<l. "You may call this much chapter^ 6h«j for I learned the balance of the story in a confidential way on my next visit to Atlanta; One afternoon, perhaps about the same date as the above incident, a man answer-, ing the description of the one you seeUbwn there, entered the other hotel, theKimball House, and registered in the usual way. He informed the elerl^sJiliat he was not feeling weU, ; did?ti6t #||R|w^|upper,lmd would be gl»d to hav^^liwii^at once. Quite early the next. nioci||p(& i ,electric '■ alarm conne«tod with tfa^iit^'M wfich '■ the stranger had o«enMi^«^«li»me«fcto " sent up, «nd Trturß«d t aimiMKilii:mad^ip - there was raUin* the:s£k"ibst bA* i body robbing himrand^ft^Ml^tb seethe - | proprietor immedittfl^M^lw thief had I stolen bis pants and Hit ifeCtnoney he had about him. The bify hunted up Mr Scoville as soon as possible, and it took* j that gentleman'a good half hour to calm down his guest, and. persuade him bp accept a new pair of pants Wed saylacittJ ilg about it.v ; : « {Kjeep quiet, my derr sir, only ."-keep'quiet."' bes&ed Mr. Scoville; " my house; is full of people, uaosjt of 4hem having money and valoables jiboutHhln, and if this were to cet out it would empty tho place in a"3ay." After a time, Lhe: newi pants arrired; ftrAiUe^S^jSlfti came down stiirg with Jlte m^o before breakfast, they T first walked 1- into the office, where §83 50c:r the amount claimed to have kctm tn ,tbe- stfflea wes counted out and placed in' tnr'iatter's hand, with the requesj;,! jmsniy;times repeated, " Pon't say anything about this, for^eaven's sake''::;.;;^; r: > 'ABiio^SiW..■. ' ''About (ten o'clock the same^m^raing, as it was afieraards\learDed,^tlie v"gßntlc- •* man who had dined at v'\n9 House on the day preyipus, p«me iu|pjih6 office of that hotel, acd, witl^a wU^wng glance at the clerk, handed 1 ita Idol., and called for a bundle, ttiat he ;b«Wt.#ft'there. The ;clerk meekly received* "ihe, !mbnej» delivered the bundle, containing one 1-pait of pants, and the stranger went •trai^i^to the depot, where he bought a ticket, and departed for a distah't^eityif^''^ - '•■* "Quiet naturally, Mr Scoville used every effort to discover the thief who had robbed one of his guests, and, having no success, he, aftera time^relat^dlhe story confidentially to*3Str? Huff, of f.tn> Mark« hanirHaaseT hoping"for ia little, aa*iaC Huff had been a little ashamed of himself for refusing to trust a man wio so promptly: parted jwith his apparel, and who so promptly paid up next day. !Mjr Scoville s story set him to thinking, and; in comparing notes/ they came to the con« olusion that .the man you saw down there was a sharper. They also concluded to say nothing about It but such things don't: keep worth a cent, know?!'-?. Louisville Courier Journalf .'" .,-'■'r -^ .•«