The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-02-19
The North Carolina bond bill
was defeated in the Senate.
WAYSIDf NOTES

The old Man. at Hot Springs
| Don't know Where I'm
Going but Like the Man who
Went up in q Balloon, He is
Having a High Time" on
the Way.
hot Springs, Ark. ALI things
have an ending and so it was
with our trip, Spackman and /
who have been doing a hot-foot
over several states and having
the time of our life-believe me
mott arrived nere Saturday
Since we left Sisseton we have
been in several states, South
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Missoua@, Arkansas
! Let's see, that's six-oh, yes,
and a state of mind-tha ats
seven.
Before we left Minneapolis
art" Tower who had been
down here and knows the ropes
gave me a little piece of advice;
said he: my boy when you get
to Hot Springs dent think you
are the only peach upon the tree
there will be several thousand
more there ) and he was right.
! met a whole flock of fellows
here Yesterday from SOuth la
kota and North Dakota and be-
lieve me they are swift squad.
The 'culled" individual who
does the massage act at the bath
house, inquired if "Spack" .and
| were brothers, "Spack" says
he is just as mad about it as
am, as for me, concluded that
if ever met that individual in
the far, far. future at evetide,
on the shores of the ETHEREAL
hence ! would kick him in the
Stats until his appetite was un-
fit for publication, but after look.
ing at his well developed MUSCLE
/ concluded again that for the
present an ounce of silence
would be worth peck of
trouble. AS ! started to tell you
we left Minneapolis Wednesday
night and got into Milwaukee
the town where they make the
foamy, frothy Scnlitz beverage,
the next morning and W. stop
ped here a few hours for Spack-
man to visit his daughter, Vera
who is attending Downer College
and to say that the young lady
was surprised to see "Dad"-then
] don't know. Then, as Saman:
tha Allen would say, we proceed
led to "fesoonip' and continue on,
and at one o'clock the same day
we got off at Chicago, : the
smoky city, and by night we
were mighty glad to climb in one
of Mr.. 'Pullman'si sleep wagons
and permit ourselves to be yank-
ed over the rails OF. the Chicago
& Alton r. r. towards st. Louis.
Speaking about Chicago /
haven't got through coughing
up the smoke / swallowed while
/ wagdoing . walk-round seeing
the sights. Some Of these bean.
teries:inst that city are the. ..Wo9zy
flimit sitter walking several
miles 'sSpask" and + acquired an
tIappett6. and. going into . restau-
rant<We ordered the: waiter to
bring us the pie card that we
might order therefrom for We,
hungry as q bear-yea, as two
bears but forbear-and being
likewise thirsty we ordered two
cups Of ambrosia, yclept coffee
on the the William of fare but,
directly ''Spack" stuck his spoon
into the cup, he called the waiter
and asked what manner of soup
that was which he had sat before
him That quoth the waiter,
is coffee, what are you kicking
about, y II think ] have grounds
for complaint" Spack came back
and he lifted up whole spoon
full from the bottom of the cup.
Arriving in st. Louis Friday
morning we found it raining
hard, so we had to NOPE about
the hotel all day and didn't see
much until a bunch Of Elks,