The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-10
Copyright, 1892, by Edgar ". Nye.l

house! W. have just arrived, and the
porter has tried TO snatch our little
vallses away and check them when we
invariably want to take them to our
room. I will not allow this myself, for
my grip was once surreptitiously
opened and my cough strip taken by
an unknown person.
We still travel about over Ohio, hav-
ing a panied look and a financial strin-
gency which 1 hope will be relieved
when Mr.. Cleveland takes the chair.
Good times will then be plentiful, and
if not he need never come before the
people again for anything. I know a
drayman quite we'll here. I had a let
ter to him from a truckman in New
York City. He says that his case is
only one of many IL Ohio. He had to
mortgage his team under a republican
rule of four years, but after the 4th of
March next, if he goes out to the barn
and finds that mortgage still on his
team, he is going to vote hereafter with
the Third party,
A strange thing happened at Mack
NAV not long ago. There is an eating
house there, and one day a man who is
said to be a good salesman, but a
wholly self-m4de man, stopped there
hoping to eat 81 SO worth Of victuals
for Is cent and still have time to spare.
Dishes are passed about the table by
young women dressed in tight fitting
bingham dresses and acOld slaw chrys-
anthemum in the bosom of each.
One of them had a dish of delicious
hash and asked the self made man if
he would have some. His mouth had
been a little c~ongeeted by trying to
swallow a quarter of a pie and a cup
Of coffee at the same time, SO she did
not quite understand his reply. She
thought he wanted some, so she put a
spoonful gently On his plate, where
there was quite q collection of pickles,
maple strip, tripe and jelly. When
the hash was placed on his plate he
wished to show that he had been too
well brought up to eat hash, and so he
emptied the plate on the floor with a
cold, we'll bred air.
Then he filled his plate with another
heterogeneous mass, which really made
the hash lying cold and stiff on the
floor look almost beautiful.
When he came to the counter to pay
he handed out a five dollar bill, and
the proprietor gave him back two
dollars.
Isn't your rates a little exor oitant?"
asked the man as he a a toothpick
under his nails thoughtfully and re-
moved a prune seed from his beard.
mo, not when we have to clean up
the dining room after your meal" said
Joe, the p oprietor.
We'll, if you would come out from
behind that counter for a few moments
l would take the change out Of you,"
said the man purple with rage, as he
lightly tipped the yolk of a soft fried
egg from the front Of his vest.
There might De a chance for me in
the meantime" said Joe as he made
change for the file of customers com
ing out.
The nan went away growing and
with his high hat, which he won on
Grants election, on the side of his
head.
At the depot Joe met the bus and
said to the self made man, Il am here
now to return you your change, which
[ could not do while waiting on my
customers"
With that the self made man put
down his satchels and the sample Of q
washing machine which he was intro
ducing. AS he put down his luggage,
and just as he Strengthened up, Joe
gave him one on the submaxillary
gland two on the bugle before he could
make the statement. "Oucb!" He
and the grips went rolling eff the plat
form together. 1t took a good, quick
eye to tell which was satchei and
which was self-made man.
Now" said Joe as the earnest but
self-taught man O and went on the
train, wiping off the blood with hand,
full of cotton waste that had been taken
out of a hot box, eff any should
ask , on where you got that nose you
can tell them that the proprietor of the
Mackinaw eating house gave it toyou,'
whereupon he got on the bus and went
home to his duties.
This should teach us that we will do
well to keep our forefeet out of the
food and not gnaw the manager while
waiting for our order to be filled.
The Ohio granger is not wholly lack
ing in resources, 1 find. He is especially
proud of his wagon road about here