The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-23
QUAD'S TOWEL RACK MAN.
WAKES Prosperous and Grows Trifle
Giddy Tasting Mint Juleps.

WAKES Prosperous and Grows Trif1e
Giddy Tasting Mint Juleps.
From, the NeU York World.
by George! but won't this weather make
corn and Eaters hustlei" exclaimed the pat
ent kitchen roller towel rack man from
Huckleberry Plains. as found him resting
on bench in City Hall Park yesterday.
lreplied that l thought it would, and he
took letter from his pocket and continued:
Here is a letter from my son Sile which
/ got to-day. Sends me S5 in cash and
says everybody at the Plains is still excited
over my patent towel rack. Says that
Hank Leffingwell and Bill Henders On have
rented the old cooper shop and are trying to
Haven't even invented three of the legs
yet, but are swellin' around and running in
debt for tea and saleratus. Sayp
"Well.n
We've got four bar traps to home.
Bought em of tin peddler fur half price.
Sile wants to ship 'em 70 me and see If l
can't sell 'em here. What do you thinkT'
why, what would any one In New York
want of a bear trapg"
"Wall that's question I've bin askin'
myself. I'spose bars hev got mighty skars
around here, and there amt no badgers or
foxes to speak of. Awful MICA thing,
though, to have around the house. Some of
those fellers up on Fifth avenue might want
'em to set In front of their smoke houses or
hen coops. Sam johnson had bin hookin'
meat out o. my smoke house for over six
months, and one night caught him In a
bar trap. He hollered so that they heard
him clear over to the Bebee Settlement.
Sayn
SIT was the means of making Sam good
II ATik FOL inn ant of fta FRS
till he agreed to lick his boy Tom for
breakin' my gate and to get religion, and
he's been ringin' the meetiA'-house bell and
actin as usher ever since. Whenever he
begins to act up and wants to 20 TO q cir
Gus or steal watermelons | just whisper
'Meat-smoke -meat-b'ar trap 60 him, and
he braces right up. These people here don't
want their smoks-houses robbed any more
than we do.n
"You wouldn't find any sale for them
here"
"Wall, you probably know best, but Sile
is kinder sot on IL, and | thought it
wouldn't do no hurt to try. If they hain't
got any smoke houses or hen coops they
might want to use trap. as Squar' Good
hue. of our town, did. He had a gal who
got yoke of oxen, thirty-six sheep and
'leven hundred fence rails by the death Of
her aunt. All the young fellers
for nine miles around used to come sparkin',
and sometimes thersd be six fights goin' on
in the yard to once. The squar' borrowed
two of my traps and set 'em at the gate,
and in two weeks not young man in the
nayborhood dare look at his barn. How
sumever, I'll tell Sile to hold on fur bit.
There's no use rushin' things"
"Does the roller towel rack continue to
catch on9" ] asked.
"She does. The sales amt 80 dreadful
tremendous, but everybody is saying a
good word for it. I was up on Lexington
avenue yesterday, and nine different wimin
told me to be sure to come back in the fall.
They was goin' off to the seashore and
didn't care whether the kitchen towel was
GA the roof or down cellar, but in the fall
they are goin' to turn over O new leaf
Have got huff hay seed on my hat and
collarW
"a great plenty"
"Wall. l want to keep it there. I'm only
a plain. everyday man, right from Huckle~
berry Plains, where everybody hangs q
pail Of butter in the we'll durin' the sum-
mer and goes TO bed at o'clock at night,
and don't want to be mistooken for no
great statesman or millionaire. SayW
"Wellgn
"Some mighty cute people in this town."
"Yes."
1.-THE other day fellow comes UP to me,
looks my towel-rack all over over and says:
"'Old Spearmint, you've struck it. Go
down this street two squares and inquire
for the boss of the mint. He wants a
dozen
II went down and looked all around. and
in about an hour l found the place. 1t was
a mint where they made mint julips. Say
DON'T YOU say word SO as it'll git back
home, but had three of 'eml Yes, sir
traded a towsl-rack for three of 'em, and
Pm kinder headed that way agin. It's the
all-firedest, incest drink you ever saw.
Suck ier right up through straw, and
she tastes all the way down. l used
to think a glass of buttermtlk right
out of the cellar hit the spot better'n any,
thing else on earth, but shoot l guess they
noured in considerable hard cider, fur l
hadn't more'n tie third glass down when
kicked a chair sky-high and offered to NOW
an acre of grass with any man in New York
for 6 shillings."
"That,s so. and I'm holdin' right on to
myself all the time. Why, If Sile should
come here, he'd canter right to destruction
inside of week; but I'm old and settled.
Them iulips was awful good. though. Jist
filled up that straw and gurgled down my
throat like streak of lard runnin' across
the kitchen floor, and I felt happier than
for nineteen years before. I've got to go
slow, however. Fust thing know I'll be
chawin tobacco and talkin' about race
HOSES and prize>hghts, and what would
Huckleberry Plains say to thatf Lands
but I'll stick to ginger ale and soda after
thisln
"Well, I'll see you again, 1 said as made
ready to go. -
II hope So II you meet anybody while
poking around who wants kitchen roller
towel-rack don't let him get away. You
know all about Thirteen revolutions
enc tenpeuny nail-saves quarter OF a
ward and so forth. Good-by."
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