The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-11

uuIIer prints, can openers, ice shavers
cigar box knives, wire cutters, apple
corers, Marie Bains, bottle brushes, Gro
ouette Mods, cake turner's, flesh forks
egg slicers, aue cleaners, garnishing sets
ice tongs, jelly molds, knife keelers,
boring knives, meat saws, paste brushes.
pot chains. wire broilers, water backs,
mustard oilers, beaten biseuits bath
brick and cochineal. are articles that
while dining we rarely cali for, and yet
they are there all the time.
Then again, who would think of call
ing in a dining room car for sandalwood,
beeswax, off bearers sumps, snaths,
winches, peavies, spokeshaves. hoof
rasps, manicure sets, button nolds, post
augers, stump pullers, dental lathes,
raisin seeders, pile drivers or shad boners?
No one.
At least hope SO. For he would not
find them.
A young man in Dallas the other day
told me of a, good joke on Drexel, Nor
gan s. Co., and as they are doing SO wen
presume they will not mind it if tell
it here. You can never successfully pick
on prosperous people. Now look at Jay
Gould. have always said what liked
about Gould, and yet he and I are just
as good friends as ever we were. don't
see any difference at all. He never used
to speak to me, and he also does not yet.
But if he had been unfortunate, for
instance, and life had been failure, or
the sheriff had made him pay his fine for
not serving as a juror last fall, or had
scared him and garnisheed his pay at the.
Western Union Office, Jay would have
been i'll tempered over what have said,
and either stopped his paper or refused
me the privileges of his rolling stock;
but now he and just go along as we
used to. 1t has made no difference with
either of us. We are above it.. 1
Well, the young man said that he went
east while ago with a letter of credit
from the Kansas City Safe Deposit and
Savings bank for $500. He went into
Drexel, Morgan & Co.'s and presented
Ii, asking for 800 on account. A clerk
took down sort of time table and looked
over it, then he asked the young man to
be seated moment. He did SO. There
was more consulting of the directory.
Later on wide blue policeman came in
and asked the young man to join him in
q little saunter. The Texan was to be
married that evening to a beautiful
young lady of New York, and so you can
see how little interest he felt in trysting
with a fat policeman who shaved him
self. e9sl rf~. :
The young man was smut up in the |
cold, matted atmosphere of the gaol in |
less than half an hour, the accusers mere
ly telling him that there was no such |
bank as he claimed to have letter from.
( So ~
We will now suppose that week has
passed by. ALI is bright and clipper in |
the gay, glad sunshine, but pain alone is
the portion of the felon. The young
man from Texas had not changed his |
collar for 1853 hours. His trunk had not
been sent up to him, and he had been
if you will allow me to coin
term.
At that moment the doors opened and
freedom entered. ttYou are released"
said a kind old man. 'sThe Messrs.
Drexel, Morgan g. Co. present their COM
pliments and regrets. They thought that
Kansas City was in Kansas"
Possibly the joke is on Drexel, Morgan
s. Co., but if it is not on the young man
from Texas think it is on Kansas City. |
What does the gentle reader with the
bright, new, crisp, unsalivated postage |
ztann fo7. raT1v think ah011t itp