The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-02-13
Troubles of a Bridal Party.
Peck's SHn.

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stepped up to the counter and registered
his name, and added "and wife" after it.
Scan new married couple settle down
here for two or three days and have a
qniet visit with each other, and net be
scared out of their boots p
The hotel man said they could go
right to their room and stay there three
days or three weeks, aud never come to
their meals if they didn't want anything
to eat. "But what is the matter? ? Have
you been annoyed ?" asked the hotel
man.
"Annoyed2 That doesn't eypressit.
We we're married day before Yesterday
at st Paul, and went to hotel l live
about sixty miles west of st Paul, and
the travelling men put up job to make
me tired There were about a hundred
Of them sno we'd in at ST. Paul, and I'll
he darEed if they didn't keep US awake
all night. Thew knew we were bridal
couple, and they hrihed the bell-bovs
and porters to let them act. for them, and
when we rung the bell for the hell boy a
drummer for Chicago cigar factory
came in and wanted to know wha; was
wanted / ordered pitcher of ice wa
ter, and Milwaukee drummer for a
grocery house brought it in, and he look
ed at my wife, who is bashful, and made
her feel real bad. + didn't know thev
we're drummers until the next dav, or |
should have killed some of them.
rung the bell for coal, and a travelling
salesman who posts railroad cards
around and works up excursions, be
came in and fixed the fire, and he stayed
and poked it for half an hour. and he
had more gall than ever see. He ask
ed so many questions about how long
we had been married that | wanted to
thump him, but my wife said we didn't
want to have no row the first day we
we're married. l rung for chamber
maid to clean up the room and bring
some towels, and it was about half an
hour before she came, and l went down
to the Office to see about my trunk, and
the chambermaid STAYED about half an
hour, and was very interesting, and my
vile said she was real pleasant, affect
tomato sort of creature, far above her
station, and / tell you l was mad when
/ found out that it was smooth faced.
handsome young Jewish drummer for a
Milwaukee clothing-house, who was in
with the gang, and he gave the chamber
maid SO to loan him an old dress so he
could play chamhermaid When nv
wife told me that the the chambermaid
patted her on the cheek, and said she
was the sweetest BRIDE that was ever in
a hotel and asked for kiss, and my
wife said she thought 1t would he no
harm to kiss poor chambermaid. and
encouraged her, / wanted 10 kill him,
and I went down to the Office the next
morning, hut the smooth faced cuss had
gone to Fargo. 1t was all the landlord
could do to hold me. Well, while we
we're at supper somebody got into the
room and put cracker crumbs in our bed,
and we found cold oil CLOTH floor mat
over the top sheet, enough to freeze anv
body. Bnt The worst was at night We
had just got comfortably in bed when
there was knock at the door, and got
up, and the watchman was there, and he
said he wanted 10 point out to ne the
fire escape so could get out in case of
fire, andI went out into the hall and he
took me way out to the end of the bull
ding to show it t. me, an while | was
looking out of the window my wife came
running down the hall and begging me
to save her / asked her what was the
matter and she SAID as soon as / went
out man that looked like porter, came
in the room and told her to fy, and save
herself. and to follow her husband. She
felt awful when she fonnd there wss no
trouble, and we got back into our room
half froze. have got them fellows
down fine. The fellow who called me
out to look at the fire escape is drum.
mer for a Philadelphia millinery house,
and the one that scared my wife out of
her wits travels for hearse factory at
Rochester, N Y. NY wife says she
would know him, because he has big
gray mustache, and wears diamond
collar button in his sLirt She said she
thought he was pretty stylish for per-
ter at the time. They woke us mp sew
ersl times in The night to tell Us what
do in case we were sick, aud in The MON.
ing, before We were up, waiter brought
up oa- breakfast. He said the landlord
sent it up, and he just stood around un-
til we had to sit up in bed and eat break
fast, ! thought a. the time that it was
kind in the landlord to send up our
breakfast, but when / found that the
waiter who brought it up WAS trasel
ing man for reaper factory at Rock
ford, and remembered how darned i'm
have murdered him, hut the clerk said
he had gone to Winnipeg. 1t was just
about as bad coming down here on the
s!eeping-car, and | think half the pas
sengers on the car were those same
drummers that we're showed in. 1t was
colder than Alaska, and | would order
extra blankets, and they would steal
them. [ had more than twenty blankets
put on the bed, and in the morning there
wss nothing but sheet over us. Aud
every time there was o blanket spread
over US there was different porter put
it on, and / think they were all travelling
men Every little while somebody would
pull open the curtains and sit down on
my berth and begin to pull of his boots,
and would tell him the berth was oc-
cupIed, and that he must have made a
mistake, and he would look around at
US as innocent as could he, and ask our
pardon, and then 90 out and damn the
porter. Once felt somebody feeling
about my berth, and | asked what was
the matter, and the fellow said he was
looking for my wife's shoes to black -
Then about every fifteen minutes the
conductor would open the curtains and
hold red lantern in and ask for our
tickets. think they punched my ticket
sixty five times. Any way it looked
like porous plaster when ! got up in
the morning, think it was the travelling
men who were playing conductor, but |
was sleepy, and | thought the best way
was TO let them punch it. Well, about
three O'Clock in the morning somebody
! punched us and said it was time to ge,
up, as all the passengers were up, and
we would have breakfast in tfteen min
u,es And then we hustled around and