Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-31
IRON the Springfield Republican,
How The BOOK STRUCK Nh, SMITH.

- Minneapolis. The brakeman threw
the car door open with bang, and yelled
the name at the same instant. But half
the people IN the car had gathered their
shawls and overcoats up long before, and
were on their feet ready for a plunge
into the crowd at the depot. Mr.. Smith
coined the procession. A great pile of
chests and boxes Just from Norway aud
Sweden-the overflow of the baggage
-rool - stood at one side. An old
woman with her short petticoat and
shawl over her head sat mumbling her
to0taless gums, and an old man Ia knee
breeohes and long stockings very
tight-a pointed hat and leather apron,
was sh0uldering his trunk. Plenty of
well-dressed people rushed thro- gh to
the opposite DOORS.
Mr.. Smith spoke to one of the numer-
GUS hackmen, who was making himself
hoarse, and he and his wife were whirl-
ing away to hotel. "Not a room"
said the hotel clerk, maiesticaily, and
then he laughed; "a room, sir? Why.
there are SIX conventions in this city
now, sir; two excursions and-a room
Cots ran out week ago."
Mr.. Smith went back to his wife
$ They are full here, we must go some
where else, he said. They Jared no bet
ter at the next place, however. at the
third they only got a curt ''no" At the
fourth they could find nothing but a
small room, and that up too many stairs
for comfort. But they took it.
The next morning they were up for an
early start. "We must get a house at
once" said Mr.. Smith, These hotel
bills will never do. I'll look around
for place of business and you can look
for house. Plenty of real estate of
fees close by here. I've been looking
around, none of them open yet. They
all have lists of houses, they tell me
here"
Better get a morning paper" said
Mrs. Smith; Il have one now; we can
look up the places" ''Here is
house," said she, "but it's small one,
and they ask $40 month. We never
can pay that. And what is this Some
thing about some one from the east.
Wonder if it is any one we know, Mr..
Smith
Five years ago young sprig came
here from the east to open a colossal
clothing house, claiming to have won
derful ability and enormous capital.
He found a warm-hearted people, who
gave him banquet. After gorging his
worthless SKIN With salads and sweet
meats, be then began to play cunning
and said he was going to st. Paul
+" How coaTse That is just the way
with the west. Our people could not
afford 10 lose him, SO built his elevators,
etc. But before he had been here sixty
days our people saw they had made a
poor bargain and wished they had their
money and salads back.
never saw anything like that, Mr..
Smith, " said Mrs. S., ''we had better 90
back east. [ don't want you to stay here
and go into business to De abused in the
papers like that"
SO Straight English is good enough
for US, and we are satisfied that the pub
Tic understand that we keep no bankrupt
stock, snch as the one our long cared
neIghbor has the honor to preside over. F."
Well, If 1t isn't an advertisement So
ciety must be very crude here, but then
we expected that. I don't see many
houses advertised, and they are all so
high, one must economic If he is going
into business. l suppose 1T Is a coed
place to make money, and we can endure
the lack of cultivation till we are able to
live somewhere else. Here is another
strange advertisement:
"'Wanted a girl to manipulate the
matrimonial fruit basket.
s. That is a new way to ask for nurse
girl, and here is maa who wants board
for himself, wife and three children, and
says, children all muzzled'"
Mr.. Smith laughed.
q rather like that. Seems to be con,
siderable originality here. I'll run out
and engage a store this morning, and
you look up house.
How airily he said it. Where igno-
rance is bliss, etc.
At noon he came YEARLY creeping up
the stairs. Mrs. Smith was there before
him.
did you find house % he asked,