The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-17

ran the house then as he does now,
purely by brute force and main
strength.
He ran the elevator then just as he
does now, by means of the surplus
energy of his butter. If he could g 1t
a storage system for his butter power
he could move buildings at a slight
expense.
My friend wrote up his hotel, as I
say, and told the truth about it. Then
in the rush and hurry of business he
forgot about it till two years later
when something brought it up in his
mind. Something gave his memory a
slight jolt, he says. Memory is not
located where he thought it was.
He says he had to poultice him mem
Dry all that he was reminded of the
article by the landlord.
That is the reason why I speak of it
as the Cobb House. Some commercial
men who have tried it call it the Pest
House. That is a good name for it.
The IAN n gets there always seems
to be what was left owe from some
other mans breakfast. You have no
doubt eaten that kind of ham. [ do
not know who uses his tablecloth
when it is clean. I know that he
does not.
One day I asked a visitor who called
at my room what he void like, and he
said he believed he would take a
brandy and sarsaparilla. Brandy with
a small bottle of sarsaparilla, he said,
is an excellent spring tonic, and the
sarsaparilla completely DISCUSSES the
taste of the brandy.
[ rang and told the waiter to bring
up a seltzer lemonade for me and a
brandy and sarsaparilla for my friend.
He was gone quite a long time. We
thought he had gone out to the base
ball game and we almost gave him up.
By and by he came painting to the
room with a brandy and a bottle of
Dudes sarsaparilla. He had tried
three drug storOs, it seems, before he
could get the sarsaparilla at all. That's
twice I have had the same experience.
Once Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley,
Mr.. Amos Jelyffe Walker DR.. Franklin
Worthington Hays, of Indianapolis,
with two or three other friends, sat
visiting in a room at the DennisOn
House. Possible it was my
Anyway, during the evening one of
the party offered to extend to me the
hospitalities of my room, and so pushed
the electric rosette on the wall, and
when the boy. came we saw at once
that he was a new boy. He had
recently come to the city from a small
town in Indiana called Alick, that
! being a nickname for Alexandria.
The boy was just trying to be a bell
boy for the first time. He was more
familiar with the ethics of scalGing
hogs.
Everybody gave his order. Mr.
| Walker said he would take IAN ApOl-
linaris." The boy was gone quite
awhile. Some thought he had gone
home to Alexandria to get something,
By and by he came back and brought
everything except Mr.. Walkers bever
age. He could not get that. The
chemist down stairs did not have it.
What did you ask FORE" queried
Mr.. Walker.
why, asked for what you told me
to ask for" said the boy, as he fell
over a china cuspidor and then
scratched his back against a welcome
wardrobe. & told him you wanted a
pound of arus."
POSSIBLY if you had asked for half
a pound" said Mr.. Walker, "you
would have got it. I almost wish now
that l had said half a pound. 1t would
have been enough"
So the boy went back to see if he
could get half a pound of arus.
We notice in our travels recently
the decline of the buffalo overcoat in
the northwest. It was at one time as
much a characteristic of the northwest
as the sinbonnet is of the south. Be
low Mason Dixon's justly celebrated
line the sunbonnet is remarkably
prevalent. Quite generally it is made
of black material The black sunbon
net is one of the saddest things I know
of. Especially is this true if it has lost
it's vertebra. One can stand verte
brated sunbonne5, but not the othel
kind. In fact it cannot stand itself.
The Aipfap sunhonGet, madeof Grape
or black calico and belonging to the
raGiata or mollusk family, would cas-
a gloom over a hanging and take away
all it's cheerful aspect. The e~nervatet