The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-26

GLASSES I halted the caravan and
took up a collection and succeeded jig
reducing tie Size 81 MY train to the
original three or four
After the Japanese customs officials
had examined tie baggage my eaval-
cade fell into line and we started for
a hotel Ny porters first led the way
to Stewards hotel. Stewards hotel IS
the auditorium annex Of Chemulpo
It is upstairs over a grocery store and
is run by a Cbinaman. But the Stew
ard hotel was full up. so my parade
reformed and again marched down the
street to the Hotel de Paris, Arriving
at the Hotel de Paris. the proprietor
came forth TO meet me. I asked II he
had room for me. He seemed doubt
full. He said that there was one small
room. I said promptly I would take
It. He looked at me. ! am six feet
four inches high. He said the room
was very small I took II again. The
room was small I discovered that at
night when | tried to get into it. But
I opened the hah door and made my
bed on the door with my feet IN my
room and my head well out in the hail.
The other boarders coming up TO their
rooms in the night manifested q dis
position to walk on my face, SO | re-
versed my position and slept with my
feet in the hall and my head in my
room, Then they stepped on my feet.
SO | cunningly constructed a barrier
by putting my steamer trunk In the
hall and placing my feet in ambush
behind that The guests who came in
late at night hit the trunk as they
stumbled heavily along In the dark
ness and plunged forward entirely
over my feet without touching me at
all or disturbing me In the least.
They used strange language in the
darkness. They mathematical IN
Portuguese, Norwegian, German. jap
anese and IN other tongues that could
not comprehend, So that / cared not
how terrible their words, I needed
them not, but turning over fell again
into the deep, sweet slumber that comes
only to the innocent and good.
But before I went up to bed / sat
in the hotel writing room and wrote
letters. The hotel writing room was
also the parlor and the barroom and
the office. 1t is very convenient TO
have So many rooms in one. There
were two Americans at the hotel They
did not like Chemulpo. For two weeks
they had been trying to get a boat
that would take them back to the
world. There We're no more boats
There was only now and then a boat
to Japan. The government had seized
all the boats and turned them into
transports. The two Americans were
sad. They were marooned.
They said that all day long they sal
on the high hill back Of Chemulpo anc
stared at the dreaFy waste Of water
spread out before them in the hope
of sighting a ship that would tak'
them to Shanghai None ever came
They. with four others, had chartered 1
boat at Shanghai and paid 100 yen ($75
apiece to get to Chemulpo. They wer'
willing to pay 200 yen or 800 yen t
get from Chemulpo to Shanghai.
There's nothing doln' for us here,
said one Of the sad faced men. q
didn't have no right a-comin | was
an easy mark, all right Think Of {
man sellin' what I'm sellin comm Ut
here to Korea Oh, got what was
comm to me all right. Think OF me
a-comin' herei Think of itr'
He paused to give me time for con
sideration.
what is your businessf' finally
asked after a long pause.
u hate to tell you" said the sad
stranger. You'd try to sell me q gold
brick, you'll think I'm so easy"
/ assured him that had no gold
bricks and that would not think n
Of him.
We'll, then, guess = just guess the
most unlikely thing ia the world that
man could make money at in this
darned country, that's Jest about a
mile and a half from the jumpin' OF
place"
You're press agent for 4 lecture bu.
reau, / hazarded.
4Nope," be said. Come again
I cogitated. Then said, You're o
walking delegate for a labor union"
Nope; you're way OFF, mister. Say
here my new friend lowered his voice
and, leaning over, tapped me impress
lively on tile knee say mister, I'm
a-goin' to tell you the truth I'm q
trayelln' man for a toilet soap factory.
lie leaned back and looked at me
while tried to realize the terrible
news.
a travelin man seilin' toilet soap,
he repeated "a-sellin toilet soap. Do
you understand? A-sellin high
grade, PERFORMED toilet soap to these
here Koreans. What use they got for
toilet soap? / gave one OF 'em a bar
Of my soap Jest to get a sale started
Say, | hope to die IL he didn't take
three bites out Of it before could
stop him, and If l hadn't stopped him
he'd "a chewed it all up. I'm a-goin'
back to the States. I'm goln' on a
boat IL I can't get a boat I'll hire a
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