Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-02-25

N.I>uIr- .i.t ,.u,. -- sumeWhercs like
. the elar IS t.''',. j4ry lived when they
Wei. A..> l.,H're always talking
about a. laI WISHING they could ~
. t. ,ar olI moline and rest"
"Hlt Twin cost So like the dickens
10 IL. ,.ish il" l says.
furnish IT, says he. why. that's
! just j.. 1t won't cost nuth!ns to fur
| Hlsh it-nothinE to speak of. | went
| through the house day before yester-
| day-crawled in the kitchen window.
| Oh, it's all right! You can count the
! spoons, and there's eight OF those bed
| rooms furnished just right-cordcd
bed>toaIs, painted bureaus with glass
| knobs, God Bless our Home and I'm
Gle Jcreuiah's collie plate on the wall,
| rag mails Oh the door and all the rest.
! Al She needs Is little more OF the
| same stuff That | can buy round
J mere for next TO nOthing-l used 10 buy
{ Ter an auction room-and little paint
, and iXings, and there She Is. All l
want from You folks is little money.
| III chuck In two hundred and fifty
myself, and you two can be proprie-
| tors and treasurers If you want to.
But active manager and publicity man
that's yours cheerily, Peter Thee
dosius Brown" And he slapped his
plaid vest.
Well. when he heayed anchor Jona-
| dab had agreed TO put up thousand,
| and was In for five hundred. and Pc
| ter contributed two hundred and fifty
| and experience and nerve. And the
! Old Home House was off the ways.
And by the 1st of May twas open
and ready for business too. You never
see such a driver as that Teller Brown
| was. lie had new wide piazza built
all round the main buildings, painted
everything up fine, hired the three
| best women cooks in WellmOuth-ant
| there's some good cooks on Cape Cod,
| too-and n half dozen chamber girls
and walters. He had some trouble
! getting corded beds and old bureaus
| for the empty rooms, but he got 'cm
| finally. lie bought the last bed OF
| Beriah Burgess, up at East Harniss,
and had quite dicker getting it.
He thought he ought to get So for
| it." says Brown. telling Jonadab and
me about it. said he hated to part
with it because his grandmother died
in it. | told him l couldn't see any
good reason why l should pay more
for bed just because it had killed
his grandmother, 50 we split up and
| called it So. Twas too much money,
but we had to have it,"
And the advertisements! They was
sent everywheres. BY the middle OF
April most of our money was gone
but every room iii the house was let
and we had applications coming by
the pailful.
| And the folks that come had money
too. They had to have to pay Browns
rates. ] always felt like a robber OF
Standard Oil director every time
looked at the books. The most of
'em was rich folks-self made men,
| just like Peter prophesied-and they
brought their wives and daughters and
slept ON cOrnhusks and eat chowder
and said twas great and just like old
times. And they got the rest we ad-
vertised. We didn't cheat 'em Oh rest
There was one old chap that we'll
call Dillaway - Ebenezer Dillaway
That want his name. His real ones
too we'll known to tell. He runs the
"Dillaway combination stores" that
are all over the country. In them
stores he'll sell you a moving ma.
chine and the grass seed to grow the
hay to cut with 1t. He'll sell you q
suit of clothes for 1925, and for 10
cents more he'll sell you glue enough
to stick IT together again after you've
worn 1t out In the rain.
He come to the Old Home uousa
with his daughter. and he took to tic
place right away. Said twas for all
the world like where he used to live
when he was Il boy. He liked the
| grub and he liked the cornhusks and
he liked Brown. Erown had n way of
stealing thing and yet paying enough
for it to square the law-tlat hit Ebe-
nezer where h. lived.
His daughter lih,d Rrown. too. and
twas easy enough ~ see that Brown
liked her. She WIS A mighty pretty
girl. the Kind Pete: called a queen
| ana The active nIana"er tool. to her
Ike cat to Il fish. They was tn"ei her
more'n half the time, i,;irIg up sailing
| parties. or playing croquet. or setting
| up on the Lovers Nest" which was
| a kind Of slab summer house Brown
had rugged up on the bluff where Aunt
Sophrony's pigpens used to be in the
old days. But all that was afore the
count come aboard.
| We got our first letter from the count
about the 81 Of June The writing
was all over the plate like billed din.
ner. and the English looked like il had
been shook NJ in bag. but it was
signed with II nine fathom, toggle lint
cd name that would give poll parrot
the lockjaw and had the word count
on the DO" cit
| You never see a feller happier than
| Peter +. Brown.
can he have rooms?" SAYS Peter.
can he: Well. should rise TO elo-
| cute. He can have the best there is
II yours truly has to bunk In the COOP
with the gladstone Plymouth Rock.
That's what. He says he's a count
ana he'll be advertised as count
from this place to where rolls the
! Oregon
Ahe he was too. The papers were
fuil OF how Count What's his-uame
was hanging out at the Old Home
House, and We got more letters from
rich Old women and pork picking
moneybaSs than you could shake n
stick at. II you want to catch the
Tree and equal nabob of Il glorious re-
public. bait up with a little nobility
and you'll have your salt wet in no
time. We had to rig up rooms in the
carriage house, and me and Jonadah
slept In the haymow.
The count himself hove In sight on
June 10. He was little, smoked
Italian man with i pair Of legs that
would have been carried av.,r I'm -,