The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

the boys he was a bonanza copper miner ana he never batted an eye when they asked him about his mine, and he looked the part. One man wanted dad to cash
 check, cause the bank was closed,
 and he was a rlch-looking duke, and dad was just going to get his roll out and pee loff some more onion, when said:
 Not on your tintype, MT Duke and dad left his roll in his pocket and the oeke gave me a look as though he want ed to choke me- and went away saying:
 There is MT. Pierpont Morgan and l can get him to cash it." saved dad over hundred dollars on that scheme. and so We are making money every minute.
 We went to our room early, so dad could digest his s43 worth of glad food
 Gee, but this house got ripped up the pack before morning. You remember l told you about a countess, or duchess, or some kind of high-up female that had room next to our room Well, she Is oeaut from Butte, Mont, or Cuba, or somewhere, for she acts like queen that has just stepped off her throne for a good time. She has got French maid that Is peacharino. You know that horse chestnut, with the prlclzers on. that put in dads pants at Washington. We'll, have ptill got it, and as 1t gets dry the prickers are sharper than needles, sharper even than a servant 8 tooth as it says in the good book. I thought I would give dad a run for his money, cause exercise and excitement are good for a man that dined heartily on s43 worth of rich food, so when we went to our room I told dad I was sat isfied from what a bell boy told me that the countess in the next room, who had gold cords over her shoulders for sus- penders, was stuck on him, because she was always inquiring who the lovely old gentleman was with the sweet little boy. Dad he got so interested that he forgot to cuss me about ordering that dinner, and he said he had noticed her, and would like real well to get acquainted With her, cause a man far away from home, sick as a dog, with no loving wife to look after him, needed cheerful com pany. So l told him I had 1t all ar- ranged for him to meet her, and then I went out m the hall, sort of whistled around, and the French maid came out and. broke some English for me, and we got real chummy, cause she was anxious to learn English, and I wanted to learn some French words; so she invited me into the room. and we sat on the sofa and exchanged words quite awhile. until she was called to the telephone in the other room. Say, you ought to have seen ihVs JuHlptu up anu put iiiy hdlluS lii- side the sheets of the bed, and put that chestnut in there, right about the mid dle of the bed, and the natter learning French quite spell, with the maid, we heard the countess getting off the eleva- tor, and the maid said I must skip, cause 1t was the countess bed time. and I went back and told dad the whole thing was arranged for him to meet the countess, in half an hour or so, as she had to write few letters to some kings and dukes, and when she gave a little scream as though she was practieing her voice on an opera, or something, dad was to go and rap at the door Gosh, but was sorry for dad, for he was so nervous and anxious for the half hour to expire that he walked up and down the room, and looked at himself In the mirror, and acted like he had indiges- tion. had told the maid that she and the countess must feel perfectly safe, if anything happened, cause my dad was the bravest man in the world, and he would rush to the rescue of the countess
 if a burglar got In in the night, or the