The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-07-29

uiulSeil Ill Tue ulSdullIu6, joe Sllll UG-
ing absent. A single-handed drink
e. came in, and explained to the
ful sick; and looked like a basement
of tin can store, the morning after
the fire, as he said it. He got an
eight-cornered bottle, and the cash
register spoke it's piece and the no.
profit sign shot up. 1t was an awful
drink, but the man was powerful
sick; he later recovered sufficiently
to ramble among the free lunch with
his right hand eating freely with the
other.
The proprietor then came in. He
had been at the barber shop all
right, and his mustache was tied in
a hard knot at both ends. He SEEM
ed to know the collector, and shook
hands with him quite freely. and
listened attentively to a short talk
the collector gave him. He shook
his head hurriedly, and said it
wasn't so, and the bar tender join
ed him in the negative. The collec-
tor said he was sorry, but he could
not run a wholesale house on a re-
tail license, and began unraveling
proof in front of the saloon keeper,
who drew a long breath, also a check,
and getting a receipt therefor, he
kicked a dog out of the rear door,
charged the bar keeper up with two
broken glasses, and covered up the
free lunch just ahead of the left
fielder of the town ball team, which
made the second fly he had missed
for the season.
You then accompany the collector
to the hotel, where dinner is announc-
ed by removing the chairs from the
office. There are no menu cards or
conversation exchanged between the
guests and walters, or waiter, the
same being singular also single-the
landlay's step daughter-this being
explained by a regular boarder, a
barber by trade, when the waiter
had stepped into the office to tele-
phone for more The dinner passed
off quite intelligently. The first
course consisted of young onions and
we'll water. A man who looked like
a clerk, refused onions, and spent
the time reading out loud from
city paper. He corrected the editor
as he went along, and removed Mr.
Bryan for the third time from the
White House. He also told how to
run a flour mill and break a chick
en- dog. He was an alarm clock al
right, but no one was struck.
the dinner was the shortage Of pie.
The candidate for the office of states
attorney of the county, missed fire
Oh desert, owing to the fact that
the cook was poor when it came to
mental arithmetic The young lady
who waited on the table, stated that
an adding. machine was soon to be
placed at the queen of the kitchens
disposal-disposing being one of her
star requirement The candidate was
very nice about it and said he would
come again.
After dinner, the landlady entered
the office, and, leaning gracefully
against the cigar case, stated that
her husband, the landlord, was also
the town blacksmith, and that he
was busy shoeing a mule and in his
absence, guests could settle with her.
The revenue collector responded witt
few pieces of silver, and the books
were closed.
The first place visited after dinner
vas the printing office. There was
no special reason for going there.
except that the collector knew the
editor This gentleman was correct
ing the mailing list at the time, re-
moving a few names of people who
had been getting the paper several
years without extending any substan-
tiaI encouragement. The ediEr was
a pleasant man; he said job work
was good, but advertising was drop
ping off. Just then the phone rang
and a lady said she wanted good
girl for general housework in the
local clumn. The editor made a note
OF it, and hung it on the hook. The
job press was busy printing base ball
bills, and a lawyer from across the
street, brought in legal notice for
next weeks paper. Good-byes were
then said, and the Come again sign
in wood type was exposed.
While east, ~Mr. and Mrs. Erwin |
~ llod On Mr. and Mrc NJ r Wood |