Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-22
Spectacles and Eye Glasses
and Skill to 1T them
CHARLES K PARTRIDGE, Druggist & Cplican. Opp P 0.
THE MAN FROM ST. LOUIS.

His Love For Chicago Made Him SYM
pathetic and Generous.
Il was at the depot in Syracuse, and q
number of US were waiting for our train
when a middle aged man, who was lame
and dilapidated, began to solicit aims. He
told some sort of a story about sickness,
death, and so on, aud about the third man
he struck replied to him:
Look here, mister, can put you in the
way of making IA couple Of dollars in about
i've minutes"
Heaven will bless you if you WILL" said
the lame man.
II don't want to be blessed. Do you see
that chap down the platform. seated on his
lrunk?"
II do"
"He's from st. Louis Come over here in
the corner. and I'll tell you how to work
him."
The two drew aside, and after three or
four minutes of private and confidential
talk the lame man limped off down the
platform. and half dozen of us followed
on tC witness the performance.
II beg your pardon. SIR" said the lame
man as he halted before the other, but
am an unfortunate man"
"Yes, the woods are full of EN-" was the
reply.
ut isn't my fault. lent my brother $500
20 go into business with in n place way out
west somewhere, called Chic hi Chicago.
think that is the name of the town. Ever
hear OF it,"
1--WE heard there was such place" re-
piled the st Louis man, but 1t may have
been n rumor Here's quarter to help
you along"
"Many thanks, sir. was going to tell
you about my brother. Some one told him
that Chicago a growing village, and
that they were going to move the county
seat there. He went 49, the grocery bust
ness, and what d. thinA ae did, Laid in
stock of 81, 900 Iorth right on the start
a stock big enou = for town of 10, 200 peo-
pie. y
Did, Ell, | ess can spare you an
other quarter
"He Nigh .ossibly have pulled through,
but : s:.i---.a good deal. and the farmers
cou.dnt get into town for the mud, and
most everybody WAS trading on store Or
ders, and so the sheriff closed him out"
but didn't you save anything from the
wreckin
L
anything out of 1t yet. can't even get .
letter to my brother there"
why nots"
I've written no less than four, and they
all came back marked 'MisiiSected.' I've
been trying for month past TO find out in
what state Chicago r."
Lets see," said the st. Louis man. 'If
there is such town, and am quite sure
there is. it Is in Indiana. No, I'm wrong
must be Illinois,"
Why, have been directing to Kansas.
It's In some county, of coursei"
VERY likely. I thin 7 c9n spare you
arc''
t,.a:l.>, ~, BID you ever hear the
nanfe Of the toi.Lty -
Lets sec. Let's see. They named a
county UP there somewhere after a st.
Louis barber It's Cook. think"
II put Oh Cook but rs didn't even get
the state right it made no difference Will
you please write the address, for mel"
Il won't guarantee that it will be cor
rect" said the St. Louisan, because these
new villages spring up like mushrooms,
are sometimes called by three or four
names, and none of the maps exactly To-
Gates them. II WAS going to write letter.
should direct it, Ctissgo Cook county.
Ills, L. s a., via st. LOIS, Mo-"
Yes, sir. You have put me under great
obligations"
''Don't mention it. Hope you'll get some
thing out Of the smash. You don't look
we'll"
And I'm not, sir"
We'll, here's another dollar TO help you
on your feet. Follow my directions when
you write. TN! If tberg is such a town out
there anywhere the postal authorities will
probably ttsak IL n-s- Caisa-os Ghicago'
Yes. il stsi.-t. tnat I've heard the tame
somewlisrc. s...t can't just place it. It's
in Illinois, t.silA. t.t. WAS iocared on nc
count Ct "a stoise quarry or something. -
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