The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-20

learning that would save bus fare by
riding out that way and taking the train,
did so, conversing cheerily with him as
we went.
looked at the lots, but they were COW
cred with snow, and l said l made it a
rule to buy no real estate any more I'M
less the snow was removed from it SO
that could see what l was buying. Hav-
ing once secured lots in Flinton Pan
siey's Minneapolis addition to Hudson's
bay and having discovered in the spring
that the lots were situated in a morass
and that l could stand on one corner and
teeter the whole county, also that it was
the frog nursery for the state, deemed
1t best hereafter to make a man scrape
the snow off my goods before l purchase
with my hard earned cash.
The agent cleared off few rods and
would have done more, as he said it was
no trouble TO show goods, but L saw that
would miss my train if l 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:
'Weare not having very good season
selling dirt In Fall River this year.
Whether it's the celebrated murder here
last summer or not L don't know, but
real estate is falling off good deal. Over
year ago l was given piece of prop
erty to sell ON No. conditions-that is,
the lot was given to seven or eight of US
to sell, and the first one who sold it was
TO get the commission. Well, never
tried harder in my life to make a sale,
but It was February of this year before
got a bite.
Il took the victim and his whole fam
lily in victoria, filled up his oyercoat
with perfectes and the children full of
candy, and when we got out there |
found a So, 900 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 man who wants a good faithful
hand to carry liver and things to tame
bear, 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
ting and filing of saws this winter to |
their other work.
Still it is to be hoped that the spring |
time and the opening up of business of |
oil ly-n &c no
begetting influence of the new tariff law |
will bring back unbounded prosperity. |
The zone PUNK" hotel is now called |
the one towel house. For So per day |
you get two towels in your room, but |
knives and forks are not changed |
after fish. The three plunk hotel ad- |
m-ts of three towels and pink finger |
bowl after your orange in the morning. |
Some of the one PUNK 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 moth |
ing makes me more impatient than TO |
suffer with the keen, cutting pain of |
pair of soapy eyeballs while l grope |
for the queen holland shade, only per |
hsps to have it scoot swiftly TO the top |
of the window, while bevy OF school |
girls in the street below laugh cha! hal" !
and exclaim, That's him"
This class of hotel is often found in |
college towns Why a poor hotel should |
go with good educational facilities l do /
not know, but it is so in many cases.
II had queer experience on the road |
along this line three years ago, said a |
pleasant voiced man 10 me yesterday |
IF you would care to hear it, 1 will tell |
1t TO you.
81 sat in the same seat for over $50
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 d.
gestion and good bounding blood can
produce. l could hardly keep from run
ming my fingers through it or chucking
her under the jaunty little chin.
The car was crowded, but l hoped
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