The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11
CTRANDED; SO HE
CLECTURED ON GREECE.
wav Out of Tight Fix at Spokane
and the Reason the Lecture
Was Not Repeated.

when first struck Spokane. back in
,Do autumn Of So" said the man who had
Loan everything but barber and a police
n.o,. "I found that gay town whole lot
,,,o,e PROSPEROUS than | WIS. After Ia
h,.en II are for a couple of weeks. with moth
Inc doing, began to reflect that, " some
thing didn't happen pretty soon, I'd find
myself begged, or vagged.
in moment of confidential gloom l
,.rra,Ad nv tale Of woe to the landlord Of
nv hotel, with whom happened to be all
.o,are.yards for the reason that I'd had
,be foresight and the prescience to pay my
hoard two weeks in advance upon hitting
the town
a.you needn't be surprised whole heap,
I,old the good natured landlord, II stick
yo,r night clerk up one Of these nights and
take o the chaparral with whatever small
change room money he happens TO have In
the till I'm all in, and don't see anybody
in Spokane making feather beds from the
moul,nes of the angels around here. How
about bell boys billet, IL you expect me
n remain honest, or n berth as head boots
Of your tavern?'
1T was at this stage OF IL that that whole
.ouled inn keeper Of Spokane got busy in
framing up a scheme in my behest and
behalf,
Never done no lecturin'. hev you,
buddy he asked me.
Seeing that he was taking such an
interest in me, thought l might as we'll
be on the level with him, and 80 told him.
candidly, that l had never been engaged
in the lecture field.
We'll, that amt sayin' that you couldn't
spin EN- talk, supposin' the chanst swung
YOUR way said the landlord Now, I've
got tucked away in the cellar lot o. lantern
slides -picters O. Greece, ancient and mod
ern, is what they're labelled-that was left
here couple O. years ago by lecturin
juniper that never got sober enough the
hull time he was in and around Spokane to
onreel his talk. although he advertised his
lecture four or Ave times, never pullin' II
OF.
He was plumb loco from booze all the
time he were here, and he disapp 'inted the
population so often, after promisin' to de-
liver his lecture, that the last time he fall
down on EN- they gifts t'gether and runs
the lecturin' booze-eater out o camp, ano
he never streaks back no more. Conse
ouent, I'm the heir and assign forever
these yere slides o his'n that portray al
what is bout ancient and modern Greece.
Now, there's your tip, ombrey, and yo,
can work the rest Of it out yourself
You're welcome to use them slides II 70,
want to, and I'll guarantee that you'll
draw houseful with EN-, and that thu
boys'l behave; they'll have to, becaus
they'n be Indies pre- cent III see tina
everybody in Spokane what's broke u
lectures'll be on hand.
II guess maybe there wasn't mamma il
that kindly suggestion ! thanked tn
landlord, and he had the bunch OF slide
brought up from the cellar and busted Oh.
He not only had the slides, but he ha'
all the rest Of the gear, all ready to be Sc
up and put together for the lecture;
looked the slides over. and found that the
were a oorking fine lot Of views.
. II got q properly man RON ron az ne ,h me-,
magic lantern gear to assemble the stui
and try it out in the hotel dining room
after the supper had been cleared away, an
it all worked on tallowed ekids.
Then, with the landlord backing me nI
/ rented the op'ry house for the fouowin
Saturday evening-it was then Tuesda
and. inserted tick ad in both news
papers to the general effect that Euripide
Hadrianus Romoopolus, the famous tra'
eller and professor Of the University 9
Athens, would deliver his noted lecture o
ancient and modern Greece on the followin
Saturday evening at the opera house, wit
the finest set OF views illustrative OF hi
subject that had ever been got together
The landlord, who was considerable G
citizen OF Spokane, got to work pluggin
for me, and when the tickets were put, OF
sale at the drug store they. went like no
waf es near a city cab stand. The lanter
was set up and the slides we're thrown o.
the screen in q rotation rehearsal, and o
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