pecviliaritiLS Lunialcd. Old-fashioned fellows, hoiiKly, 

 frugal, careless of dress ami llic proprieties of life gener- 

 aUv, eternal chewers of tobacco, iron-chul swearers, and 

 chronicalh' liardup. The current inciik-nts of time have 

 no claims t)n their attention unless they relate to the 

 triumph of Democracy or the success of the "season " at 

 the "White." The latter more particularly, for on it is 

 based their sole hope of .seeing some ready casli (hiring 

 the vear. Tliis fanunis resort furnishes employment to 

 about five hundretl "help" in tlie summer and may1)e 

 fiftv or more the rest of the year, and thus it l)ecomes the 

 distributing source of a goodly number of thousands of 

 dollars annually. It would be hard to coni])Ute the 

 amount the liverymen, llorists. photographers, doctors, 

 musicians and the gentlemen who so seductively preside 

 over tile fortunes of the "green table" rake in from 

 the armv of guests who jnitronize this " Sarate\ga of the 

 South." Speaking of liverymen one of them, an abom- 

 inable swearer, promised me he would a1)an(lon the habit, 

 which I told him I abhorred. It seems, however, he 

 forgot his ])romise. Here is his letter to me verbatim, 

 which will tell liow. 



Picas liiul iiiclu.scd hriccn dolcrs to pay vourc 



bill. the reson of delay was, hard times, had 



weather, sickness and !io money, d d it I 



believe there's J500 in circulation in tlic bole 



United vStates. 



Yours Truly 



I reproached him for having broken his solemn word 

 about swearing. 'Well," he said, "I tried not to. but 

 I couldn't help it; times were so awful pore." "Why," 



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