The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-26
/ NYE AND MAIDS
? the Dudines One Meets
On the Road.
IAT1ED HIS BLUSHING HEAD
Bid Up Mining and Improvement Com
Rny-A Clean Towel or a Funeral
T A Naturalization.

a very trying experience last week.
Is painful, but not fatal l had been
ting all the night before, and fatigue
aain fag were together fighting for my
existence. I got a room when l arrived
alfred to seek much needed rest. had
jetired, in fact, having carefully locked
tlor and left the key in the lock that the
CTS could not look in through the keyhole
ale me as Law there asleep and make a
S painting of me.
then there was a slight rattle at the
dsuch as you hear when chambermaid
aKs it with a pass key and comes IN the
r. to sweep holes in the carpet and fill
ytungs full of debris l smiled to myself,
fcv own KEY was in the door, and said
sc, as I bathed my blushing features in
tlIIow: "Ahal ahal We cannot enter
nj But she continued to rattle away with
hey, and l soon saw, with horror, that
MN was beginning % lose its grip, and
fly it fell to the floor with loud report,
hsg been pushed out of the lock from the
OF side.
IN hardly describe the horror Of my sit
ha l thought Of handing my handker-
Cb and perfumery over the transom to
bend begging her, if she had mother or
h~auther relatives in whom she had any con-
' fde whatever, to 20 away. l thought of
go to the door and telling her that we had
be- go through life as nearly as possible by
septe routes, and that needed rest really
mCthan 1 did society, but did not dare to
gett of bed for fear the door would open,
an, was wise, for it did now burst open, as
Ihfeared, and tall girl in the prime of
lifsith flashing eye and distended nostril,
ca1into the room. With a wild shrek
coVd my head with the bedclothes, shud-
deg till my teeth, which were In tumbler
of tier near by, chartered together.
. away, you hateful thing" l said, "and
ney, never come back again any more"
ut want to change them Sheets" she
saiC
. away" said again. Gwen your
volts hateful in my sight. Take my beau
tifuSeth Thomas silver watch if you will,
butch! go away, and heaven will reward
ySWen better than that"
s. then skunk from the room, but it was
lonpime before I could go to sleep. Even
themy dreams were troubled and my mind
fillewith apprehension. thought l was
beir pursued by a red eyed unicorn with
nav blue stomach and a Chinese lantern
tiedo his tail. l tried to shake him off, but
I cod not He led me down into the in
fern regions, and insisted on showing me
the ron bridge and the high school, and
spob of the great progress Of the place, and
saidhat they were likely to get new and
cometing road in there this summer; and
he sbwed me the library and walked me out
to IL fair grounds and down on the lake
shor, so that l could take a sulphur bath,
and poke of the desirability Of the climate
for pople with bronchial affections, and
wand me to speak of it in my letters to the
pcessan said he would pay me well for it.
6 Jus then heard a knock on my door.
was glad to have anybody knock, instead
of piking the lock, that 1 asked: who's
there A rich, manly voice replied, ''Me."
/ VS. glad to hear the welcome voice OF
one omy own sex, and so l undid the door
forth gentleman with great alacrity. Just
az Ivss bounding lightly back towards my
couclwith merry laugh, the party strolled
into tie middle of the room bearing small
but IRE collection of clammy, nucilaginous
towel She was heavy set chambermaid
with error cotter hair and bass voice.
dcnot complain. l do not murmur. 1 do
not roine But say that chambermaid
OISAulOI " ~ ALleLG y NA4-AA1SA 4AASbANA
who lis a bass voice ought to seek out some
other.alling. She may put guests slippers
SO farlnder the bed that he cannot get them
withot calling out the hook and ladder COM
pany She may weep over his letters from
his wiz, or drown her sorrows in his bay
rum, lit she ought not 10 take bass voice
into alotel and expect to escape criticism.
Mayr Weston, now of Grand Rapids, be-
fore h became wealthy was q newspaper
man iIDenver and used to stop at the old
Plantcs' hotel. He had q mining deal to
write p for the paper, and connected with
the dal was q Georgetown superintendent
whomye will address as Julius H. Cavvyo.
Ar. Cgvyo was to furnish the particulars to
Mr.. Vision, but early in the day he began to
meet Cd acquaintance and to cement their
Friendship by means of q powerful solution
knowns embalming fluid.
So, g II o'clock, Mr.. Weston put Julius
Il. Cawyo to rest on his own little bed at the
Plantes and went out to prosecute his re-
searchs in relation to the Hold Up Mining
and Improvement company. The old Plant
srs' hoel was not exactly like the Hoffman
E1Rse the Gilsey house You could tell
the difference almost as soon as you sat down
at the table. If you spoke to the waiter
about he tenacity of the steak or the longev-
ity of tie butter, he would you tart reply,
and yo would have to get along with that
for desert. One man murmured about the
steak aid said it was too tough, so therefore
he woui not eat it.
''You won't eat itT' calmly replied the
loose jdnted waiter. You say you won't
eat it,"
81 say so because can't cut it. No man
cen cutthat steak. You can't cut it with
acids 20 l won't it."
swell you viii eat it." said the waiter,
reachin; around as if in the act Of adjusting
his buste. "You will eat it or I'll wear it
cut on JOu"
He ait
But among other things there was 4 big
alarm hell in the tower of the Planters,
which WIS wont to ring for fires, funerals and
other entertainments. The rope hung in the
hall and when the help Of the populace was
REQUIRED in order to suppress fire or riot,
the first man to the bell rope saluted the
snowy slmlnits of the Rocky mountains with
this will alarm.
While Mr.. Weston was getting his infor-
nation IN the streets, the great bell awoke
the echOes in the Businesses of the canyons
twenty niles away, and the excited populace
sws<nel to the Planters to learn what great
calamity had befallen the new city. Mr..
Weston got there at last, and, out Of breath,
rushed ro to his room. In the hall he found
Julius Z. Cavvyo ringing the bell. His sus-
penders we're draped and soapsuds were drip
ping from his chin and the tip of his Vene-
tiSn red nose.
s.Mhat has happenedr' painted Weston.