Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-03-01
OF A BRIDAL COUPLE.

keep" said green-looking man, as
he stepped up to the counter and reg
istered his name, and added land
wife" after it. "Can new married
couple settle down here for two or
three days and have quiet visit with
each other and not he scared out of
their boots:'' -
The hotel man said they could go
right to their room and stay there
three days OF weeks, and 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.
Annoyed? That doesn't express
it. We were married day before yes-
terday at st. Paul, and went to ho-
tel. l live about sixty miles west of
ST. Paul, and the travelling men put
up jsb to make me tired. There
were abont hundred of them showed
in at st. Paul, and I'll be darned if
they didn't keep US awake all night.
They knew we were a bridal couple,
and they bribed the bell-boys and
porters to let them act for them, and
when we rung the bell for the bell
boy a great big Chicago drum
mer for cigar factory came in and
wanted to know what was wanted.
l ordered a pitcher of ice-water, and
Milwaukee drummer for a gro
Gerry house brought it in, and he
looked at my wife, who is very BASH
full, and made her feel real bad. l
didn't know they were drummers till
the next day, or should have killed
some of them. I rang the bell for
coal, and travelling man who posts
railroad cards around and works up
excursions, he came in and fixed the
fire, and he stayed and poked it for
half an hour, and he had more gall
than l ever see. He asked 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 were
married. 1 rung for a chambermaid
to clean up the room and bring some
towels, and it was about half an
hour before she came, and 1 went
down to the office to see about my
trunk, and the chamhermaid stayed
about an hour and was very interest
ing, and my wife said she was real
pleasant, affectionate sort of a Great
ure, far above her station, and / tell
you was mad when / found out that
it was slick-faced, handsome young
Jewish drummer for a Milwaukee
clearinghouse, who was in the gang,
and he gave the chambermaid So to
loan him an old dress so he could
play chambermaid. When my wife
told me that the he chambermaid
patted her on the cheek, and said she
was the sweetest bride that was ever
in hotel, and asked for kiss, and
my wife said she thought it would be
no harm to kiss poor chambermaid,
and encouraged her, 1 wanted to kill
him, and 1 went down to the office
the next morning, but the smooth.
faced cuss had gone to Fargo. II
was all the landlord could do to hold
, me. Well while we were at supper
somebody got into the room and put
cracker crumbs in our bed, and We
found cold oil-cloth floor mat ovel
$ the sheet, enough to freeze anybody
But the worst was at night. We ha6
e jrst got comfortably in bed wher
there was a knock at the door, and ]
got up, and the watchman was there
! and he said he wanted to point out tt
:, me the fire escape so / could get ou
:; in case of fire, and went out int
the hall and be took me away out tt
, the end of the building to show it t.
me, and while l was looking out O
the window my wife came runnin.
d down the hall and begging me to saw
e her. l asked her what was the mat
ter, and she said as soon as l wen
u out a man that looked like porte
came into the room and told her t
: fly and save herself and to follow he
= husband. She felt awful when sh
7 found there was no trouble, and W
got back into our room half froze
l have got them fellows down fine
The fellow who called me out to loo
at the fre-escape is a drummer for
Philadelphia millinery house, and th
one that scared my wife out of he
wits travels for a hearse factory i
Rochester, N. Y. My wife says sh
would know him, because he has
big gray mustache, and wears dis
mond collar-button in his shirt. Sh
said she thought, at the time, he wa
pretty stylish for a porter. The
woke us up several times in the nigl
to tell us what to do in case we wei
tsick, and in the morning, before "
;, were up, waiter brought up OF
breakfast. He said the landlord ser
it up, and he just stood around unit
i we had to sit up in bed and e:
breakfast, but when l found that Ii
waiter who brought 1t up was a tra'
cling man for a reaper factory :
n Rockford and remembered how darne