Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-24

AND WALKED OUT"
,as dull as trip to Coney Island with
your own wife. In ten minutes more
we shook hands on an agreement that
l was to act as his guide, Interpreter
and friend in and to the aforesaid
wassail and amenity. And Solomon
Mills, which was his name, was to pay
all expenses for month. At the end
Of that time If had made good as
director general Of the rowdy life he
was to pay me $1,000.
''The next day George, who was mar
ried or something, started back to the
ranch. Me and Solly, as now called
him, prepared to shake off our moth
balls and wing our way against the
arc lights of the joyous east.
"Solly puts $4,000 in century bills in
one pocket of his brown ducks and
bills Of lading for $4,000 on eastern
banks in another. Then I resume Dip
lomatic relations with the S. A. and
A. P, and we hike in northwesterly
direction on our circuitous route to the
spice gardens of the Yankee orient.
1--WE stopped in San Antonio long
enough for Solly to buy some clothes
and eight rounds of drinks for the
guests and employees of the Menger
hotel and order four Mexican saddles
with silver trimmings and white An
CORA suaderos to be shipped down to
the ranch. From there we made big
jump to St. Louis. We got there in
time for dinner, and put our thumb
prints on the register Of the most ex-
pensive hotel in the city.
"'Now.' says to Solly, with wink
at myself. here's the first dinner sta
ton we've struck where we can get
real good plate of BEANS And while
he was up in his room trying to draw
water out Of the gas pipe l got one
finger in the buttonhole of the head
walters tuxedo. drew him apart, in
serted a two dollar bill and closed him
up again.
'Frankoyse.' says l. \ have a pal
here for dinner that's been subslsting
for years on cereals and short stogies
You see the chef and order a dinner
for us such as you serve to Dave Fran
els and the general passenger agent of
the Iron Mountain when they eat here
AT 6 o'clock me and Solly sat down
to dinner. Spread! There's nothing
been seen like it since the Cambon
snack. 1t was all served at once. The
chef called it dinnay la poker. It's
famous thing among the Commands Of
the west. The dinner comes In threes
OF kind. There was guinea fowls.
guinea pigs and Guinness stout; roast
veal. mock turtle soup and chicken
pate: shad roe. caviar and tapioca:
canvasback duck. canvasback ham
and cottontail rabbit: Philadelphia ca
pom. fried snails and sloe gin. and so
on. in threes.
Il was sure Solly would be tickled
to death with these hands after the
bobtail Pushes he'd been eating on the
ranch.
I'VE were in Che main dining room,
and there was fine dressed crowd
there.
He gazed across the table at me-
There was four square yards Of it
looking like the path Of cyclone that
has wandered through a stockyard. a
poultry farm, vegetable garden and
an Irish linen mill. Solly gets up and
comes around to me-
Luke says he. I'm pretty hungry
after our ride. ! thought you said they
had some beans here. I'm going out
and get something | can eat. You can
stay and monkey with this artificial
layout of grub If you want to- ~Et
wait a minute says I. ..t.ss +.
II called the waiter and slapped 8.
Mills on the back Of the check for
$3.50. IS
"'What do you mean,' says I, by
serving gentlemen with a lot of truck
only suitable for deck hands on a
Mississippi steamboat? We're going
out to get something decent to eat
Il walked up the street with the un-
happy plainsman. He saw saddle
shop open, and some Of the sadness
faded from his eyes. We went in. and
he ordered and paid for two more sad.