The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-27
Mr.. NYE AND THE R. 3. MEN.
They Have a Sad Time WAITING for
Clouds to Roll By--A Few of Their
Experiences--Putting Up at a
Hotel With Only One

4 ANNllk IHGn6H
a sad time of it waiting, waiting, wait
lngl Some of them this winter are
having muskrat collars put on their
linen busters till the clouds roll bv, Tn
Fall River a real estate man wanted
me to come out and look at his add.
ton. He had fine team Gin his wife's
nance, and so learning that 1 would
save bus fare by riding out that wav
n taking the train I did so, c~onversing
cherrily with him as he went.
L looked at the lots, but they were
covered with snow, and 1 said 1 made
IL a rule to buy no real estate any more
unless the snow was removed from it
SO that 1 could see what 1 was buying.
Having once secured lots in Flinton
P~ansley's Minneapolis addition to Hud-
sons bay and having discovered in the
spring that the lots were situated in a
morass and that I could stand o n one
corner and teeter the whole county,
also that it was the frog nursery for
the state, l deemed it best hereafter to
make a man scrape the snow off my
goods before I 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 1 would miss my train if I
did not go, and so, taking the matter
under advisement, I had him drive me
to the depot. Handing me a fragrant
cigar, he said as 1 got on the car:
I'VE r not having a very good
season selling dirt this season in Fall
River this year. Whether it's the
celebrated murder here last summer
or not 1 don't know, but real estate is
falling off a good deal. Over a year
ago 1 was given a piece Of property to
sell on No. 2 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, I never
tried harder in my life to make a sale,
but it was February of this year before
I got a bite.
IT took the victim and his whole
family in a victoria, filled up his over
coat with ~perfectoes and the children
full of candy, and when we got out
there I found a 50, 900 house and barn
on the lot and a nice, middle aged man
living there with a pair of twins that
had grown on the place.
'The owner had got tired and sold
the place last winter hims If. If you
hear of man who wants a good faith
full hand to carry liver and things to a
tame bear, I would to accept a 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
setting and filing of saws this winter to
their other work.
Sill it is to be hoped that the spring
time and the Opening up of business
of all kinds under the ~beneficient and
gold bege tting influence of the new
tariff law will bring back unbounded
prosperity.
The lone plunk" hotel is now called
the one lowell house. For 81 per day
you get two towels in your room; but
knives and forks are not changed after
fish. The three PUNK hotel admits Of
three towels and a pink finger bowl
- EAo, -OV1n Aroroo il tho n0OFnInO
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 nothing makes me more impatient
than to suffer with the keen, cutting
pain of a pair of soapy eye balls while
I grope for the green holland shade
only perhaps, to have it scoot swiftly
to the top of the window, while a bevy
of school girls in the street below laugh
''ha! 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 facili,
ties 1 do not know, but it is so in many
cases.
st had a queer experience on the
road along this line three years ago."
said a pleasant voiced man to me yes
terday. eff you would care to hear it,
I will tell it to you.
st sat in the came seat for over $50
miles with a young woman who was
very attractive-with such large, sort
of sad eyes, yet with all such eyes as
YOU have seen laugh out with a smile
in their profound depths that you