The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-11-21

sA~s IAloax vssA log.cAala under tAe street i---afssr . laA the house. and got oG at Hubbard Court, where the panoranys of the Battle of Gessysburg " and "Seigs ot Paris are. and vas looking around for lunch counter when gocdlooking chap in hlue business suit said to me:
 "Good morning, Bahcock, when did you get inf'
 "I saw at once the man was mistaken, and be saw 8 too, for as soon as l looked up, he apolOgired right otf betOte had said a word, and said he saw then he waS mistaken; that he had friend named BAbcock living out in the country, and that BAbcock was in the city every month or so and be looked something like me when he stood sidewise, but he saw then how different VIC looked on iront view, tell you. he is A mighty nice man. I'm going to see him tomorrow afer the wedding. His name's Cotker and he does business down on south Water street"
 "You are positive of all this. are you z" inquired Bedapple.
 "Kuow it; got his card In my pants pocket. We'll. l told him ,ha. my name wasn't Babcock, although was from the coun,ry, Rig Grove, Iowa, and that my name was Nathan pettigreW and tha; 1! had a brother peletiah ps,,igrew, oi the firm of pettig,ew X Son, wholesale dealers in mems urder~cat and furnishing goods. and Cofkcr sad he knew you, and .ha, he had sold you several large lots of im- portations in original packages"
 That's lie" growled relesiah.
 "rhere may be some mistake about 1t, bu, don't think Co,kcr would ne delib era,ely. At any rate I'll look into the matter in the morning. We'll, AS l was saying, we passed A pleasant afternoon together, and took tn Fooley's theatre in the evening, and had q little blackberry. here aud there, just to take the cotton out of our moaths. We passed out oI what Colker called ,he foyer, when man s,ets up and says, swearing some pretty big cuss words;
 "Corker, fl you don't pay ,ha, height bill tonight, I'm going to sell the goods tomorrow morning at eight o'clock
 "But the banks don't open till ten o'clock, said poor Mir. Co'ker
 T" Cant help that said the man, : 1 ain't talking 4bout no banks opening or shutting up, for that matter ain't talk . ing about tomorrow I'm talking about tonight. want that freight bill paid or you lose the goods
 "' can't pay |, until the bank opeRs. can give you check
 Checks don't go with the railroads, said the fellow. its cash on the nall or nothin'.'
 {" Ho~ much is il 2 said Corker.
 It's SJ7s,' said the railway man.
 "Corker sighed at this, and l saw a, once the poor f;llow was troubled. So | said:
 How much are the goods worth 7
 !" They are worth $2 zoo laid down in Chicago, he said. jus, had SAco on me and pulled it ou, and gave Mir. CoIker the money"
 "Why, Nathan" said Pele,iah, "you didn't really do that z"
 "I just did. you know, and Mir. Corker gave me h,s card, the man took the money, made out receipt, and gave Il to me. I've got that. too. in my pants pocket. Then VIC had little more black berry, and 1 shook hands with Mr CoikeI and started 10 come up to the house. 1 got down on to a corner and poor woman stopped me and asked mo where the corner of State aud Monroe streets was. and s. was trying 10 look at my map under a gas lamp, 8 couple of men come up, and the woman said had in. suited her, and one of the men said he was her husband, and both of them hopped on me and vent through me pretty iudden, tell you. yelled po- lice r until thought you folks would hear me up 10 the house, and in about ten minutes a policeman came and said 1 must go along with him to the station because l was jisorderly and created dis,ur oance on the street. But when l told him about you, Peletiah. and where 1 wanted to go, he became mighty polite all of sudden. and said this was a very 'tum' locality and SO long as hadn't Jade myself very 'bif he'd take my story and le, me come home. So he called hanson