The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-29

CONFRpRRIT X ROADS,
witch Is in the State Nv KentuckyJ}
March IL, 1885.
/ received last week sevral letters
sskin me how 1 managed to git back to
Kentucky from Washington without
money.
1t is painful subjiek, and one don't
like to dwell onto, but ez q sollum
warnin to other Dimocrats wich may
determine TO test the ingratitood Nv
them wich We hev put into power, l
norate.
Me and another Kentuckian witch he'd
bin persuaded to accept postofiis, and
wich he'd wasted his meens waitin at
Washinton tryin to git the migrate,
Cleveland, to also urge him to take 1t,
he'd determined TO shake the dust Nv
that city off our shoes, thankin Heaven
that we he'd shoes left to shake the dust
off NV. We wuz forst to this conclusion
after we he'd gone without anything to
eat fur three long days, and he'd become
OF arid fur want Of hkwid refreshments
or lime-kill.
"Better brave the shotgun and bull
dog Nv the irate farmer than the chill
inhospitality Nv the Washington 'sloon, {"
sed l. ..#'
"Troo," sed my friend, land we may
occasionally find woman in house
alone, which may be skeered into givin
Us suthin to eel" b..
But after giving II rnatoor consider
ashun 1 made up my mind that i would
not walk home, no matter how good we
mite expect to find tho roads, and !
immejetly sot about maxim preparashens
for the jerney. ...
First / stole Nv confdin shoemaker,
which l knowed. q solid, substanshel
leather apern, and foldin It in three
folds, so es to present the greatest NV
resistance, with proper degree NV
hexibility, | tackled IL keerfully in the
sect NV my trowsis.
swat is that furp" asked my friend.
''Never VOC mindr' / replied "Ef
700 undertake TO beet the conductors
atween here and Louisville, yoo will as
sertane wat that is fur. My advice to
700 is 10 90 and do likewise"
Wise in his own conseet he laffed me
to skorn, and started without pertektin
his reer, w.ch no good General wood
do.
OWN to a pervishn they hev In large
cities NV not admittln yoo to q sect In
the keers without shown tikkit, we
wuz compelled to walk 10 the next sta
shen out NV Washington wher we bold
ly boarded tho keers, and sot down.
The condukter entered and remarkt:
'rTikkits!" l okkepied ez long time
os possible in huntin fur mine. every
minnit thus okkepied bein distance
gained, ez the trane wuz skootin
along forty miles hour. After Wig
gerus seerch concluded that / must
hev left it with my pockit book on the
rosewood mantel NV Parlor B, Willard q
Hotel.
Then the condukter regarded me
with withrin glance. and pulled the
bell-cord. l remarkt that sich indig-
nifty ez putin Senator of trane be-
coz he he'd left his pokkitbook In his
hotel wus not TO be endoored, and
placed myself in posishen fur the fatal
kicks wich the condukter and brakemen
applied viggerusly.
We wuz both landid on the side Nv
the track and the trane glode on majes-
tikelly.
Ez sot csnly and smilin, and nv
friend wuz rubin the inferred part and
howlin with pane, smil My remarkt to
him: "Do 700 understand, now, the
yooses Nv leather apern in the sect Nv
yoor trowsors"
Then we walked to the next stashen
and okkepied the time waitin fur the
next trane. eetin crackers from the
counter NV 'sloon. We boarded the
next trane, and succeeded in maxim
twenty miles afore wo wuz again kicked
of. Z
At Harrisburg. Pa, / Iwuz obleeged to
part with my friend Bein unprotected,
he he'd got so sore that further travel
wuz impossible, and he desided TO walk
the rest Nv the distance. He is proba-
bly, on the road yit, Il he hezn't perished
Nv thirst by the roadside. Solid in the
possession NV that blcssid apern con-
tinyood to progress, maxim perhaps
forty miles day, and ayeragin bein
kicked of only about four times each
twentv-four hours. The progress wuz
necessarily slow, but l fnelly got
through to Louisville, and from there
walked TO my old home.
hev wun word Of warnin to make
10 them wich hev permitted therselves
TO be persuaded to take Office under the
moo administrator, and want to go 10
Washington 10 sec about II. Don start
onless yoo hev return tkkit. II doesn't
matter to me, who hez bin kicked oil
Nv every trane in the Yoonited States,
for am accustomed 10 greet, but to O
man who Is inexperienced and unaccus-
tened to sich things, II is terrible. The
conductors wear very heavy boots, and
tho brakeman, from long eggsperience,
hev acquired a skill In kickin that Is
feendish. They kick with the precision
and force Nv mile. and they know the
exact pint TO hit 10 in1ict tho most
agony. Disabled offs seekers line the
road from Washington to almost any
where. It Is unpleasant 10 be COM
PEELED TO lie on yoor abdomen mites,
even though the hay In barn Is soft.