West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-07-28
SOME STAR LIARS.
The Bad Boy is Troubled with a
Hot BOX.

1ue euitor ana proprietor OF the
bad boy has been spending a week
or two in Colorado. and from Denver
he writes 10 Peck's Sun as follows:
The dispatches from Milwaukee
do not tell me what devitry the bad
boy has been into this week, 30 will
not write of the b. b. till next week.
In the meantime, all OF you try and
be good for my sake, aud believe me.
yours, with hot box, and the ther-
mOmeter 90 deg. in the shade
In the same letter the writer has
something to cay about mining in
Colorado which is well worth read
ing
Central is the home Of Secretary
Teller, or ex-senator Teller, and il
is the richest mining district and the
hottest place to be found. The minee
about Central are all gold mines, and
the miners would not pick up silver.
If they found in on the road. The
town Ia built on god mines, aud the
back yards oil the residences are rich
with gold dast. 1t this is not true.
then they have come star liars there.
| was only there three hours, but
heard some OF the moet colossal lice
tom some of the most colossal liars
that ever lived. They may have
taken me for a 'chump,' but they
gave it to me raw. | was sitting in
the Teller House, exchanging lies
with the local talent for two hours,
and never had a more interesting
session. Tney all knew me, and I
ihink the landlord, who is a Chico
20 man, put up a Job on me. l went
in the porter'S room to have my boots
BACKED, and the porter brushed the
dust into a pan, and wheL he was
done polishing the boots he looked
vice, like bank cashier, Tor a nom.
ent, and then handed me ten cents
asked him what that meni, aud he
said that " ,s the difference, though
coald take the dust ilI wanted to
and pay him ten cents. I dido.
understand him, and finally he SAID
be es mated that he would get
twerty five cents worth oil gold out
OF the dust off my shoes, and 80 he
paid me the difference. | walked
of feeling pretty good, and | looked
oack twice at the colored man, but
he never smiled, and doh't know
whether he was laying or not though
the wnde mso lie, and the colorsd
men may learn how. Soon alter that
setter dog came in;o the hotel fl 3e,
all dirt, and began scratching his
peck for he'. The proprietor Of
the hotel snapped bis Guger, Just as
Charley White does at the Piankin-
ton house, when he wante a colored
bell hoy to get up and Ay around,
and the porter came up on the run
with sn aud held it under the
place where The dog wss scratching
to catch the duet. l diln't want to
ask any questions. but looked around
at the landlord with an inquiriug
turn Of mind, and be told the porter
to take the dust out aud wash il and
see bow it panped out. The porter
took brush and brushed the dust
9h the dog into the pan, and went
out, and just az we we're going 10
dinner he came in aud said he only
got thirty oents out Of the duet of
the dog, adding that the dog was
getting unreliable. The land ord
said the conioundsd dog shook him
sell before he came in. He said it
was getting so you oouldn' place any
dependence in dog nowadays. Such
things az these always set me to
thinking, aud | thought how these
Colorado people can discount us Of
the efete east on scientific lying, and
laid IL TO the AIR in high latitudes.
/ expect when ] get up on the main
range, a few thousand feet higher
one Of my lies can be used fol a Sun
day school lesson