Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-20

| FRAGRANT CIGAR.
 learning that would save bus fare by riding out that way and taking the train I did so, conversing cheerily with him as we went.
 I looked at the lots, but they were GOV cred with snow, and I said made it g rule to buy no real estate any more un | less the snow was removed from it SC that could see what was buying. Hay ing once secured lots in Hinton Pan. 5leys Minneapolis addition to Hudson's bay and having discovered in the spring that the lots were situated in a morass and that could stand on one corner and teeter the whole county, also that it was | the frog nursery for the state, deemed it best hereafter to make man scrape the snow off my goods before purchase with my hard earned cash.
 The agent cleared off a few rods and would have done more, as he said it was no trouble to show goods, but I saw that I would miss my train if I did not go and so, taking the matter under advise ment, I had him drive me to the depot. Handing me fragrant cigar, he said as got on the car:
 "We are not having very good season selling dirt in Fall River this year. | Whether it's the celebrated murder here last summer or not I don't know, but real estate is falling off a good deal. Over year ago I was given piece of prop erty to sell on No. 3 conditions-that is, the lot was given to seven or eight of us to sell, and the first one who sold it was f0 tho Wall tried harder in my life to make sale, but it was February of this year before got bite.
 ''I took the victim and his whole fam fly in victoria, filled up his overcoat with perfectes and the children full of candy, and when we got out there l found a $5 ,O00 house and barn on the lot and nice middle aged man living there with pair of twins that had grown on the place.
 "The owner had got tired and sold the place himself last winter. If you hear of 8 man who wants a good faithful hand to carry liver and things to tame bear, I would like to accept portfolio of that kind"
 He then went swiftly down the frozen road to where his team was tied, mean time kicking debris from his path as he went. Real estate men generally are adding insurance, pensions and the set their other work.
 Still it is to be hoped that the spring time and the opening up of business of all kinds under the benefcent and gold begetting influence of the new tariff law will bring back unbounded prosperity.
 The lone plunk' hotel is now called the one towel house. For $2 per day you get two towels in your room, but knives and forks are not changed after fish. The three plunk hotel ad- mits of three towels and a pink finger bowl after your orange in the morning. Some of the one plunk houses have no bell, and so you find when your eyes are full of soap that you must wipe your face and hands on the curtains, and noth- ing makes me more impatient than to suffer with the keen, cutting pain of a pair of soapy eyeballs while I grope for the queen holland shade, only per haps to have it scoot swiftly to the top of the window, while bevy of school girls in the street below laugh "hal hap ana eXC1a1m, 'InaCS n1m!
 This class of hotel is often found in college towns. Why poor hotel should go with good educational facilities do not know, but it is so in many cases.
 "1 had queer experience on the road along this line three years ago." said Q pleasant voiced man to me yesterday. "If you would care to hear it, will tell it to you.
 "I sat in the same seat for over 150 miles with young woman who was very attractive-with such large, sort of sad eyes, yet withal such eyes as you have seen laugh out with smile in their profound depths that you could almost hear. The glow of perfect health tinted her skin, and even her hair had that rich sheen that nothing on earth but good di- gestion and good bounding blood can produce. could hardly keep from run ming my fingers through it or chucking her under the jaunty little chin.
 ''The car was crowded, but I hoped that travel would not fall off for long time. imagined this trim, petite figure by my 6reside and her cunning little feet in the rug wiggling their cute little toes in the grateful warmth, for though was 30 and over was always painting in my heart picture of home-home, where my sample case should be con. cealed and where my weary soul should invite itself.
 'I cannot tell how the music Of her well modulated voice made me mentally buy lot and build on it and fit up the house and furnish 1t on $1S5. Her pres ence to me was like happy twilight in the forest, with little suggestion of violets and ferns that had been stirred up by a passing breeze. My heart swell cd like 8 pan of wet dried apples in the June sunshine, and I was afraid for time that could not hold it.
 'T talked as well as could, though l was really SD under the influence of this tonic that don't know what said, only that before we separated had her neat little card, and she had mine. She did not do 1t without much argument, but did not forget my good manners, and she seemed to see by my sincere look that was in terrible earnest, for only . reasonable degree of respect for the etiquette of a cruel world and the fear that might lose her kept me from fall ing at her feet in the aisle and proposing to her while the conductor tore out the whole inside of my mileage book.
 T offered to help her of at her sta tion, but she said that her friends would