Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-02-12

A"-' nentnckians-A Reporter st an
Execution Has to Read the Death War
rsnt-some Moral Reflections.
Copyright by Edgar W. Nye.l
On BOARD OF THE CARS.
10 the early gray Of February even
ing small party, consisting Of myself,
might have been seen vending its way
toward the railway station at Louisville.
Kentucky. One may enter the sleeper
there Ht o'clock D. m. and at half past
Pa. m. he will start for Cincinnati.
Taking with me small fragment of
river water to use when get home for
securing knives, paid the bill at me
'otel and went to the depot. The depot
OF the Louisville and Nashville railroad
is massive pile, costing upwards of s64
in money. 1t is built In the Modoc style
Of architecture and faces both ways, like
an independent paper.
Meals may be had there at AZ hours
and baggage checked to all parts Of the
world. Sleeping car berths and pie are
furnished at the shortest notice, and you
can get information or victuals there
while you wait. Ny car was made up,
30 / knocked out few brains, disrobed
and retired. My window gazed upon the
lunch room, and so / could lie and watch
people us they came in, nestled up against
the counter astride a tall stool and basely
betrayed their stomachs It was rare
sport. Sometimes woman would spring
gayly upon the stool, and, wrapping her
heels around those of the stool, would in
quire the price of cup of tea, and if not
too high she would buy some in isolated
cases. A man generally orders about
twice as much as he can eat, and by his
manner says, "Darn the price. reckon
will have enough to eat as long as my
money holds out"
People who run lunch counters are not
generally very long lived. / only knew
one of these people to linger TO great age,
and he had his meals brought to him.
Some kinds of food are improved by age,
but not all. Among those that are not
ippervious TO atmospheric influences or
the extremes of heat and cold are eggs,
mushrooms and waffles. Celery also suf-
fers somewhat, like senatorial election.
by exposure. IL does not thrive under
such circumstances so much as ballet,
but pines away and gets coal dust on 1t,
and loses its ambition and hangs over
the edge of the glass like love sick angle
worm.
In 1773 Capt. Thomas Bullitt, who was
called son of n gun by Kentucky
humorist, who only lived long enough to
calculate, "Adieu, kind friends, I'm going
home" discovered the city of Louisville,
KY, at the mouth OF Beargrass creek at
the Ohio falls, and he could not have
discovered better town il he had tried.
The water was very low at that season of
the year and Of about the consistency of
farm. Though the water was low the
price of whisky was almost equally low,
and so the party thinned out the water
with the latter. 1t gently exhilarated
them and made them glad they came.
There are now 275, 900 people in Louis
vile, / might say, mostly colonies, but
will leave that joke for the use of the
large army of bright men who were first
to think Of it. When Capt. Bullitt dis
covered Louisville there was not de-
cent hotel in the place. Now there are a
great quantity of them. The following
year q house was built, but the boom
was kind of sickly effort and lots were
quite low.
Louisville was named for Louis XVI.
The above will give the reader an idea
of Louisville at about the beginning of
the present century. The building with
the flag on top is the Gait house. Mr..
Henry Watterson has just gone inside the
door softly humming to himself
I Am Pirate King.
He will be back in few moments
The large building on the opposite side
OF the street is general store kept by q
gentleman who is since deceased. He
kept hides, pelts and molasses; also real
estate, ice cream and feathers. He sold
ammunition, hoarhound candy and hard
ware, gents neckwear, cedar posts,
honey, plastering hair, straw hats, di-
mension lumber, suspenders, timothy
seed, collins and salt mackerel. He also
kept the postoffice and took in washing.
He advertised hard cider, playing cards
and embalIning while you wait. The other
houses in the cut are occupied by Many
Citizens, Taxpayer, Justice, Old Sub
scriber, Veritas, ETC., etc.
The high fence in the right foreground
is designed to keep out the Indians, at
least the largest Of them.