The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-31

net him fifty dollars per day. Possibly
after this adj is published he may not
do so well His idea, however, was,
when saw him, to make about so, 0O0
IN three years, and then live in large
feudal lime kiln on the Rhine.
At Dallas travelling man the other
| day almost broke up the hotel where !
stopped He secured raw potato as he
passed by grocery store, and when he
got his dinner order be concealed his
baked potato in his pocket and substi-
tuted the raw one.
What kind of a place Is this?" he
asked, as he called the head waiter unto
him do you think / am Texas steer
that you feed me on raw potatoes? Are
you going to give me cut feed for des-
sert?"
The head waiter was entirely nom
plussed He went TO the waiter anu
roasted him at terrible rate. People all
over the dining room got interested It
threatened to break up the house. The
proprietor came in Business was para
lyZed Fresh roasted peanuts went up
three points. Then it was explained, and
peace returned to the cuisine and the
breast of the waiter. do not think that
man should do that way. 1t hurts the
public confidence and shakes our faith
in values
Yesterday several acquaintance met
in my room, and one of them, Lotos
club man, desired to extend the hospi-
taIities Of my room So he rang the bell,
and good looking bell boy with light
hair and dark eyes, with handsome dark
brows and sad expression, came to an
swer the call
Did you ring2" be asked in a low,
tremulous tone.
Yes. did," said the visitor. Now
fly around, Johnny, and ask the gentle
men what they will have
All right" said the pensive lad, as he
put little of my Edenia on his hand
kerchief Il will ask them what they'll
have, but / don't propose to pay for it.
/ want it understood that act merely
as your agent IN the matter"
Sometimes these bell boys are quite
bright that way.
This letter is peculiarly rambling, and
so venture TO refer here to q singular
circumstance which | witnessed in the
cars last week. An elderly man got on
at Jasper. He was going to Archy. The
less people travel the more they are over
come and Mortified with short journey.
From the fuss made over it you would
have thought that this man was going to
the Holy Land TO visit the home of some
OF the broad humorists of the Old Testa-
ment He stood in the door and kissed
way. and said goodby to them with
real tears in his eyes. He was kind
old man, with faded place on the back
of his neck where his long hair had
shaded it all winter, but where the bar
Der had been at work and fixed him
all up
He was all excited with the prospect,
and after ne had kissed quite a large
delegation Of his neighbors he came in
with MS black enameled valise, contain
ing his other vest and some doughnuts,
and as the train started up he gave a
lurch and sat down in the lap of mid
die aged lady who was holding little
bracket made of cigar box with jack
knife. 1t took six long months in the
uncertain light Of the penitentiary for
her son to make this for his widowed
mother, and when he was executed
fortnight ago he left it with many bit
ter tear upon it, for her.
The venerable widower crushed it
when he fell, and a mourn came up from
the sore heart of the boys lonely mother
Quite number of thoughtless people
laughed when they heard the little
bracket go by the board, but they would
not if they had known its sorrowful his |
tory.
The farmer apologized over and over
again, and his tenderness made the
widow weep little more till she had TO
tell him the sad story, and then she
showed him a paper. He wiped of his
specs eight times before he got through /
with it. Then he bought the widow a
big red apple, and when the brakeman
howled "Archy" he did not get out, but
went past with the widow toward her /
home. Possibly in the Indian summer /
Of her life she will bless the day when /
the gentle hearted amateur traveller sat |
down on the poor little bracket, and he .
also VIII cease to regret it. Q1LieH Sd6e (
AS the teller says