Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-06-15

Then his three uhuButeLh, ~ pistey
trio II cousins as any fellow would
want to claim. made their appearance,
and for general finish and cleverness,
| let alone their good looks. they certain
ly we're summers. Their mother APP
peared, too, after q BIT, and furnished
an interesting study Of a refined woman
Of middle age.
ITO me It was all trance, for . fact.
They wouldn't believe me when ! told
them that I'd had breakfast downtown,
but they carried me on to the breakfast
room, II you please, and had placed be-
fore me some specimens Of breakfast
| cookery that only increased the In
tensIty OF my daze. Positively, they
made 30 much Of me, and we're all 80
genuinely fine and lavish in their spirit
Of hospitality, that barely knew what
| TO do with my mands and rect.
"Along toward noon my Uncle Ned,
whom had expected TO find at rolling
mill, with a red flannel shirt On his
back, q short clay pipe in his mouth and
q big dinner bucket constantly, under
his eye, apologized and said he'd have 70
run down TO the works for bit He was
dressed like the president Of national
bank when he started, and he was only
gone about three hours.
when he returned he said that he
was through for the day. While he was
gone my girl cousins took me over the
house. 1t was q swell house, and no
mistake rs rooms In It, olive room,
white and gold room, and all that sort
Of thing; swimming pool, swell library.
billiard room, gymnasium, smoking
room-the whole thing.
"The girls played and sang for me In
English, French, italian and German
and their mother, q woman OF Welsh
descent. played nobly on the harp. y
"At dinner that evening butler and
a second man, II you please, saw to It
that we were fed all right, and, on my
little pay. / don't often get such wines
and cigars a. this Arabian Nights uncle
Of mine set before me when the mother
and girls left US to ourselves. After the
nights sleep had In the room they
gave me, I've been more or less dissat-
isAed with my Washington boarding
house sleeping outfit ever since | got
back here.
1T was about as queer q sell, 20 to
speak, the whole job, as ever ! met up
with. The next day my uncle took me
over the works. All hands--there were
several thousands Of them-among the
employees practically dotfed their bonnets
and knuckled their foreheads to him,
and got upN different notion Of what
the word superintendent meant After
| got on the train TO come on to WASH
ington / fell into talk with the con-
ductor, and Just out Of curiosity | asked
him:
what Is the average salary Of the
superintendent Of these mills around
here?'
WELL he replied, 1t would be hard
to strike an average, but some Of them
get right nifty wages, It all depends
upon their experiences in their line Of
business, and their cleverness in han
ding men and fulfilling contracts.
Now, Ed Jorkins, who lives up yonder
on the terrace, gets salary Of $4,000
a year, and they say he's got an interest
in the works besides. He was q hand In
the same mill 20 years ago.
my mother out In Wisconsin must
have thought me insane when she read
the letter wrote to her about her broth
er Ed when got back here" Washing
ton Star.