The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-01
BILLNYE'S NOTEBOOK.
Story Of a Self-Made Man and
the Eating House Boss.
OHIO eRANeER's RESOURCES
Gaspips. the Great Penrsan, aud How
He Got Bill Into froubie-A
Strange Sight 1T Dsnvills.
copyright, 1897, by Edgar ". Sye.l

| wen, mere We are 81 tine SocATOacU
housed We have just arrived. and the
| porter has tried TO snatch cur little valises
| away and check them whe9 We invariably
| want to take them 20 our room. will
| not allow this myself. fog once my grip
was siruptitiously opened End my cough
| strip taken By an uuknown person.
We stlll travel about ever Ohio. hav.
| ing panied look and q financial strin-
| gency which I hope will be relieved
! when Mr.. Cleveland taxes the chair.
| Good times will then be plentiful, and If
not he need never come before the people
again for anything. know a drayman
| quite well here. l had q letter to him
| from truckman in New York city. He
says that his case is only one of many in
Ohio He had to mortgage his team under
Republican rule of four years, but after
the 4th of March next, if he goes on, to
the barn and finds that mortgage still on
his team, he is going 10 vote hereafter
with the third party.
A strange thing happened at Mackinaw
not long ago. There is an eating house
there, and one day a man who is said to be
good salesman, but a wholly self-made
| man, stopped there hoping to eat $3.50
worth OF victuals for IS cents and still have
the table by young women dressed in tight
| lifting Bingham dresses aad cold slaw
chrysanthemUm in the bosom OF each.
One Of them had dish of delicious hash
and asked the self-made man if he would
have some. His mouth mad been little
congested by trying to swallow a quarter of
pie and a cup Of coffee at the same time.
so she did not quite understand his reply.
! She thought that ne wanted some. SO she
put spoonful gently on his plate, where
! there was quite q collection of pickles,
maple syrup. tripe and Jelly. When the
hash was placed on his P ale he wished TO
show that he had been too well brought
% 10 eat hash, and SO he en- ptied the plate
on the floor with a cold, wel[-bred air.
Then he filled his plate with another het-
erogeneous mass, which really made the
hash lying cold and stiff on 4he floor look
almost beautiful.
When he came to the coun, er to pay he
handed out s. bill. and tae proprietor
| gave him back 81.
Isn't your rates a little exorbitant?"
asked the man as he ran a eoothpick un-
der his nails and removed g prune seed
from his beard.
mo, not when We have to clean up the
dining room after your neai," said Joe,
the proprietor.
We'll, if you would come out fAm be-
hind that counter for a few moments /
would take the change out Of you," said
the man. purple with rage, % he lightly
Tipped the yolk Of a soft tried egg from the
front Of his vest.
There might be a chance for me in the
meantime" said Joe as he made change for
the file of customers coming out.
The man went away growing and with
his high hat, which he had wen on Grants
election, on the side of his hesd.
At the depot Joe met the bus and said
| to the self-made man, II an here now to
return you your change, which l could not
| do while waiting on my customers"
With that the self-made man put down
his satchels and the sample Of washing
| machine which he was introducing. As
he put down his luggage, ana just as he
| Strengthened up, Joe gave hil1 one on the
| subma1illary gland and two on the bugle
| before he could make the statement
| ouch" He and the grips Ysent rolling
| of the platform together. 1t took good.
| quick eye to tell which was satchel and
| which was self-made man.
| Now" said Joe, as the earnest, but
| self-taught man arose and went on the
| train, wiping of the blood wIth handful
| of cotton waste that had been taken out of
q hot box, "if any one should ask you
| where you got that nose you can tell him
| that the proprietor OF the Mackinaw eat
| ing house gave il TO YOU" wlereupon he
| got on the BUS and went home to his
| duties.
This should teach US that VIZ will do we'll
| to keep our forefeet out of the .ooi and not
| gnaw the manger while waiting for our
/ order to be filled.
! The Ohio granger is not wh9lly lacking
| in resources. l find. He IL especially
! proud o: his wagon roads about here,
| Some years ago the farmers decided to
| tax all property at high rate: if it faced
| on wagon road or extended back 100
| feet. As great many OF theae best Ohio
| roads parallel the railroad TRACKS the rail-
| road property practically aids materially
! In maintaining these roads, ani as the law
| is q county or town affair bHyilg q legisla-
| ture and thus repeating it IS out OF the
| question. Thus the down-trodien farmer
| IS greatly pleased. and may be heard softly
| chuckling 10 himself as he follows the
| plOw by day, or at the evening", with q
| shingle, scrapes the rich mod from the
| inner seam OF his trousers beloy the knee.
| where ne has "interfered."
| Marion, o.. is a good iowa. bat does
. really need q new depot. At present the
| depot consists OF Jim Fisks Did private
| car. The waiting room is the BODY of the
! car, and tickets are sold in fhe buffers
| pantry. If the Worlds fair should give
| the railroad company a good summer in
! 1893 1t may put an addition tC the depot.
| Very likely it will be a caboose. which
| will be used for handling baggage and
| connected with the Old depot by vesii-
| bule.
| The comparison between the depo. at
| indianapolis and shat at Marion is very
| striking. indianapolis has one Of the
| NgAtest, Cheerlest, most cOmrlOdious de-