IPoetrv.
A MONUMENT.
I not, when on earth I'm seen no more.
The cohl rare hiding from all men my face.
A costly pillr proudly tow'ring o'er,
1o mark my rteting-place.
I do Mot a.-k that miihty men may sav,
As pasMDff hurriedly there they read th name
Above tkis trame fast moldering away
' He won great worldy fame."'
The honors that I crave when I am gone
Are that soma lonely one may softly say.
" hen I was wondering werily abov
lie helped me on my way."
A tear of gratitude is what r crave
To fall upon the clover or the snow
Above me. and sad voices bv n.y grave
To say, " We loved him so."
A marble Iab placed there by loving hands.
One whose white surface will these wc
display.
ords
As t-ilcntly above my grave It stands,
" He helped us on our way."
(icoruc Rirnsule, in Yankee BlatJf.
HOUSEHOLD.
JELLY CAKE.
Eight Eggs, whites, two cups of
sugar, i- cup of butter, cup of sweet
miilk, 2$ cups of flour, two heaping
teaspoenfuls of baking-powder. Beat
the whites cf she eggs to a froth; beat
the butter and sugar toa cream. Divide
in three or four equal parts and bake
in jelly-pans. When done, spread with
jelly and pile one cake above the
other.
FRIED CORN MUFFINS.
One cup fine white meal, one half
teaspoon salt, two tablespoons sugar,
ne pint boiling milk, two eggs, one
ighth yeast cake, flour to stiffen. Mix
the meal, sr.lt and sugar. Add gradu
ally the boiling milk ; -when cold add
the yeat dissolved in a little water,
the eggs -well beaten, and flour to make
a stiff drop batter. Rise over night.
Prop from a tablespoon into deep,
kot fat.
BOILED CRABS.
Have a large pot of water strongly
salted, 1- t it boil hard, put in your
crabs and boil them for 20 minutes.
If the water should cease boiling the
crabs will be watery. Take them out,
break off the claws, -wipe the shells very
clean, also the largo claws. When
cold, place them on a dish with the
large claws around it. The claws should
be crack el before they are sent to tho
table. The small ones are not gener
ally eaten.
HOP YEAST
Onc-h.vf cup loose hops, one quart
boiling v.:ter, one cup flour, one
quarter cup sugar, on tablespoon salt,
one cup yeast. Steep the hops in the
boiling water, in a granite kettle, five
minutes. Mix the flour, sugar and
salt, Strain the hop liquor and pour it
boiling into the flour mixture. Boil
one minute or till thick. When cooled
add the yeast. Cover slightly, let it
rise in a v rami place, and when light
and foamy put it into the jars.
A DISH OF SNOW.
Grate cocoanut, leaving out the
brown part. Heap it up in the centre
of a handsome dish, and ornament
with fine, green leaves, such a3 peach
or honeysuckle. Serve it up with snow
cream made in this way. Beat the
whites of five eggs to a stiff froth, add
two large spoonfuls of fine white sugar,
a large spoonful of rose water or pine
apple. Beat tho whole well together
and add a pint of thick cream. Put
several spoonfuls over each dish of
cocoanut.
EEEF STEWED "WITH ONIONS.
Cut two pounds of tender beef into
small pieces, and season with pepper
and salt ; slice one or two onions and
add to it, vith water enough in a stew
pan to make a gravy. Let it stew
slowly till the beef is thoroughly
cooked ; then add some pieces of but
ter oiled in flour, enough to make a
rich gravy. Cold beef may be cooked
in the same way, but the onions must
then be cooked before adding them to
the meat. Add moro water if it dries
to 5 fast, but let it be boiling when
poured in.
KISSES.
Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff
froth. Then stir in one and a half
pounds of powdered loaf sugar; flavor
with vanilla or lemon extract. Con
tinue to beat until it wall lie in a heap.
Lay the mixture on letter paper, in the
size and shape of half an egg, aad
about an inch apart. Then place the
paper on a piece of hard wood and put
into a quick oven, without closing the
door. Watch them, and when they
turn yellowish, take them out and let
them cool for three or four minutes.
Then slip a thin-bladed knife under
one and transfer it to your hand ; then
take another off join tho two by the
sides that lay on the paper and place
the kiss thus made on a dish.
KIND TO THE POLICE.
A boy conducted an oldish man into
the prus- n ;3 ol a patrolman on Four
teenth siroet tho other day, and when
the officer -kKl what the trouble was
the stranger said :
"I expect I've I -en robbed of my
watch."
4 4 Watch gou, eh ! Haven't you any
idea where yon lost it!"
44 Not the slightest. I was down here
somewhere by a ferry and took a drink
with a man. Mobbo he got it."
41 Anywhere else?"
" I was over here somewhere by a
THE
park, and a good-natured feller
wrassled me down on the grass. He
might have got it."
'Anywhere else?"
44 I jumped off a street car down ho
somewhere and fell head over heels. I
went back and found mv iack knife.
but my watch wasn't lying 'round."
tiave any other aventuret"' Queried
the officer.
Wall, I fell asleep in a nlace down
by the river, and I do believe some one
stole fifteen cents out of my pocket,
but I didn't think nuthin' about the
watch."
I can't help you any." said the
officer, as he turned away.
No, I didn't 'spect you could, but I
thought I'd tell you about it, and
kinder put you on your guard. If you
carry any valuables about you keep
your eye 3 peeled. This is a powerful
big town, with lots of wicked folks in
it, and they'd rob you quicker'n scat."
"I think I can take care of myself,"
remarked the officer.
"I hope you kin, but don't be too
over-confident. That's the way I
thought, and where am I now! I traded
a yearlin' calf fur that watch last
spring, and then give $2 to have her
plated over, and where is she to-day!
Just take a neighbor's advice and keep
your eyes peeled. I'll be around here
for a day or two yet, and if anybody
tries any gum game on you jest holler,
and I'll be right on deck to help give
him an all fired wollopin'."
M. Quad.
THE RICHEST MEN.
The richest man in New York is
John D. Rockefeller, who is said to
have nearly $1SO,000,000. Then follow
the Astor3 with probably $150,000,(0,
Cornelius Vanderbilt with about
$125,000,0u0, and Jay Gould, who may
have $100,000,000. The richest man
America has ever seen was William
H. Tanderbilt, who, at the time of his
death, was worth $200,006,000.
THREE EXCELLENT DOCTORS.
Scm of the eminent physicians of
Paris were assembled about the death
bed of Dumoulin, tho most celebrated
doctor of his day. To their expressions
of grief at the expected loss to the pro
fession the dying man answered :
"Gentlemen, 1 shall leave behind me
three excellent doctors to supply my
absence." Being pressed to name them,
as each man expected to be included in
the trio, ho said: "Water, Exercise
and Diet."
LICKING THE EDITOR.
" What are you crying about?" asked
a kind hearted stranger of a lad who
was standing in front of a newspaper
office weeping as if his heart would
break.
44 Oh, dad's gone up stairs to lick the
editor."
44 Well, has he como down yet!" pur
sued the gentle Samaritan.
44 Pieces of him have," exclaimed the
boy, indulging in a fresh burst of tears,
4 4 and I'm expecting the rest every
minute."
DOROTHY'S MUSIC.
Mamma thinks Dorothy's musical
taste needs to be cultivated. There
was company at tea one evening, a
little while ago, and afterward one of
the ladies played on the piano. She
plays very well, but Dorothy was not
interested. Presently she said :
44 Now I'm going to play something
especially for Dorothy."
It was a very merry kind of tune,
that made U3 all feel like laughing.
When she finished Dorothy clapped
her hands and exclaimed :
4 Oh! my! Wasn't it lovely! Sounded
just like a hand organ !"
WANTED AN UNDERSTANDING.
Tryiag to Arrange Adulteration to Suit
All but Hogs.
An Illinois merchant who was taking
baking powder in bulk from a Chicago
firm called at headquarters the other
day to say that, there was something
wrong with the goods.
44 1 don't think so," was the reply,
41 we make the best article sold in the
west."
44 1 think we ought to have a more
perfect understanding," continued the
dealer. 4 'Now, then you adulterate
before you send to me; then I adulter
ate before I ship; then the retailer
adulterates before he sells and the con
sumer can't be blamed for growling. I
want to e?e if we can't agree on some
s hedule to be followed."
44 What do you mean!"
"Why suppose you put in ten per
cent, of chalk; then I put in twenty
per cent, of whiting; then the retailer
puts in thirty per cent, of flour. That
gives the consumer about forty per
cent, of baking powder and unlem he's
a born hog hell be perfectly satisfied.
You se, if you adulterate fifty per
cent, on the start and I adulterate as
much more, and the retailer adulter
ates as much more as both together,
it's mighty hard for the consumer to
tell whether he's investing in baking
powder or putty. We must give him
something for his money, if it's only
chalk." National Weekly.
PROGRESSIVE PARMER: JANUARY 26,
MR. BOWSER GETS THE GRIP.
It Doubles Him Up in Spite of His
Enormous Will Power.
M. Quad Tells How the SJiivers Laid
Browser Low.
Four or five weeks ago, when Mr.
Bowser came home one evening and
found Mrs. Bowser in bed, and was
informed that it was a case of grip, he
blurted out :
"Grip I And you have gone to bed
and had the doctor for a case of grip?
Humph !"
44 But lam awfully sick!" she re
plied. 44 Rats, Mrs. Bowser! You just
imagine it ! This simply goes to prove
what I have often asserted that no
person of any strength of character has
ever had the grip. It's a namby
pamby thing, which eve n a child three
years old ought to be ashamed of."
"You may have it before ou get
through."
4 4 If I do if I am silly enough to lay
down with any such thing as that I
hope somebody will pound me to death
with a fence-rail! I have tho grip? I
call a doctor for such a nonsensical
thing as that? Not if my name is
Bowser !"
Mrs. Bowser was in bed three or
four days, and Mr. Bowser lost no
opportunity to talk about her foolish
ness in giving up to such a trifling
ailment. Ho likewise remarked to the
doctor that he thought it very foolish
In the medical fraternity to encourage
the public to any such delusion.
44 You'll probably have it, and when
it comes you'll change your opinion,"
curtly replied the doctor.
44 1 will, eh ! There isn't enough grip
in North America to put down one of
my ears ! I'd just like to be attacked
just to show you how strength of will
could throw it off."
A week ago, at three o'clock one
afternoon Mrs. Bowser heard some
thing fall against the front door. She
called to the girl to open it and see
whether it was a bag of potatoes or a
corn -sheller. It was neither. It was
Mr. Bowser not the Mr. Bowser who
had gone away in the morning step
ping high and carrying his chin in the
air, but the Mr. Bowser who had come
home shaking and shivering and all
humped over until ho didn't appear to
be four feet high. It was a case of
grip. As ho sat in his office gayly
whistling 4 'Old Black Joe" a sudden
shiver shivered up his back. He looked
around to see who flung it, but it was
followed by two moro. He jumped up
with a feeling that all the ice thus far
cut on the Hudson had been loaded on
his back. A whole drove of shivers
and shakes and chilis kept waltzing
from his heels to his neck and back
again, &nd there was a roaring in his
head as if ho stood on tho brink of
Niagara. A boy who came in w ith a
telegram, looked Mr. Bowser over and
said:
4 4 Old man, you've got it, and got it
bad! If you've any home to go to
you'd better skip. If I never see you
again then farewell !"
Mr. Bowser didn't stop to exercise
any will power to throw it off. He got
into his overcoat and made for home.
The street-car conductor tried to con
sole him by saying that he would
probably be out in four weeks, and a
woman on the car named over twenty
two of her acquaintances who had
been carried off in a week.
4 4 Heavens, Mr. Bowser! but what
does this mean!" demanded Mrs.
Bowser, as he staggered into the hall.
44 I'm I'm a dead man!" he gasped
as she pulled off his overcoat and helped
him on the lounge in the back parlor.
44 Have you got a chill?"
44 Y yes! Get forty bed quilts to
cover me up 1"
44 And does your back ache?"
4 4 Does it! Great Scotts, but I don't
believe I can live half an hour longer !
It's a congestive chill, I suppose."
44 It's simply the grip, Mr. Bowser.
That's exactly the way everybody, is
taken. Hadn't you better exercise a
little will power?"
Mr. Bowser looked at ker reproach
fully and shivered and shook.
44 Curious how it took hold of a man
of your strength of character," she
continued as she got his shoes off.
Mr. Bowser's chin began to quiver in
a euspiciou3 manner and she said no
more on the subject. He had been put
to bed and was groaning and shiver
ing, when the doctor came in.
44 Well, your ear has been pulled
down, I see," remarked the doctor as
he rubbed his hands together in a
cheerful way. 44 Have you tried to
throw it off by strength of will?"
44 1 I tuspect its pneumonia," re
plied Mr. Bower.
" Well, I don'c. It's grip just grip."
44 And I'm sick enough to die!"
44 Paha w, man! you have got a mild
attack about as the the babies have
it. If you had it as bad as your wife I
should feel very anxious. Just keep
quiet and take this medicine every two
hours."
44 How many weeks will I be in the
house?"
Weeks? Why, you can go out to
morrow if you feel like it. Better get
up after supper and walk around. It's
a wonder to me that such a slight at
tack brought you home."
But Mr. Bowser's back-ache grew
worse, and when the chill finally went
off he was out of his head most of the
time with the fever. During Mrs.
Bo wser's sickest night he had gone to
bed to sleep and snore and rest undis
turbed by her moans. She had to sit
up with him, of course. He wanted
yichy water, lemonade, ice-water, gin
ger ale, pickles, tea, toast and a dozen
other things, and he seemed to take
solid comfort in keeping up a groaning
so doleful that it finally stopped the
clock.
The doctor returned in the morning,
to find Mr. Bowser's pulse jumping,
his tongue covered with fur and his
throat almost raw, but he expressed
his great surprise that he had not gone
to the office. He encouraged him to
get up and go down cellar and upstairs,
but Mr. Bowser stuck rigkt to the
bed.
44 Doctor, I don't think you realized
how serious this is," he groaned.
"I am sure I do. It's a very mild
case of that namby-pamby epidemic
called the grip. I have five children
in this neighborhood who have it worse
than you, but all are up and playing
with their dolls. Very curious that a
man of your stamina should give up.
Keep on with the medicine, however,
and I'll send a gargle."
For four days Mr. Bowser gargled
and dosed and groaned. Mrs. Bowser
had to attend him as if he were a baby.
He 'had very little to say during this
interval. He seemed to flatten all out
and lose his conceit. Once he even
went so far as to observe that if his
life was spared he would be an humble
man in future. On the fifth day, how
ever, after getting out to the gate and
back, his meekness seemed to be disap
pearing, and on the sixth, as he started
for the office, he said :
44 1 propose to visit two or three
different doctors to-day and find out
what caused my sickness."
44 Why, it was grip, of course," re
plied Mrs. Bowser.
4 4 Not much ! There was a combina
tion there and I know it, and it was a
mighty serious one, too. Nothing on
earth but my determination not to
give way to it pulled me through.
Plenty of men in my situation would
have turned up their toes, and plenty
of others would have been in bed for
months. Grip! Humph! Mrs. Bowser,
youlon'tknowmeyet. When I knock
under to grip I'll have the decency to
go and drown my self ! Grip and brain
fever are two widely different things,
and I want you and that fool of a
doctor to know it, too !"
M. Quad.
HOW FAR WOULD A MOTHER GO.
A Woman Has the Skin Shaved Off Her
Legs to Patch Her Boy.
Brave Mrs. Annie Muench, of number
35 Norfolk street, yesterday in Bellevue
Hospital voluntarily submitted to a
surgical operation by which a large
quantity of surface skin was removed
from her body. She did it in the hope
that her three year-old son Herman
thereby be saved.
And she did it in a way that shows
her to be a woman of nerve. As told
in the Herald yesterday her little boy
was badly burned on October 28th last.
He was amusing himself by lighting
matches and his clothes caught fire.
The skin of the whole front part of the
trunk of his body was burned off.
From his neck to his thighs and around
on both sides the flesh was raw. He
was taken to Bellevue Hospital and
the ordinary reixedies wore applied.
But he did not improve under them.
It was decided that tho only chance
for his recovery lay in the grafting of
the skin of a healthy person upon his
body.
Upon being informed of this last
Sunday Mrs. Muench at once volun
teered to provide the epidermis herself.
She is a strong woman, in perfect health
and about thirty-five years old. She
made no fuss about it. She asked no
questions as to whether the operation
would be painful or not. She appeared
to give no though as to what the conse
quences might be to her. It might
give her back her boy, and that was
enough.
CALM AND UNCONCERNED.
A kind-hearted neighbor agreed to
care for her three other children while
she was away from home, and on Wed
nesday afternoon she entered the hos
pital, knowing that she was to go
under the surgeon's knife yesterday
morning. Apart from her anxiety for
the little sufferer who was near her in
ward 7, she was as calm and uncon
cerned as if she had been at home
plying her needle. Her legs from the
thighs to the knees, from where the
skin was to be taken, were done up in
a solution of wet salt, in order that the
skin might be in perfect condition.
Whon she awoke yesterday morning
her first inquiry was for her son.
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Then she wanted to know when the
operation- would take place, and she
was told 11 o'clock was the hour ap
pointed. 4 Well, " she said, smiling, 4 4 I'm ready
when they are."
The operation was performed by Dr.
Hotchkiss, the attending surgeon, as
sisted by Dr. Gleason, the house physi
cian. Mrs. Muench, when summoned,
responded readily. She was placed on
the operating table in the sugiclai de
partment and her skin was thoroughly
cleansed. Then ether was adminis
tered, and for a full hour and a quar
ter the physicians vorked over her.
The skin was removed from her limbs
by the Thiersch method, the surgeon
shaving it off with razors in strips of
from one to three inches in length.
The Thiersch method is the new
method and is much more speedy
and satisfactory than the old fashioned
plan by which the surgeon caught up
the skin with the thumb and forefinger
and clipped it off a half inch or less at
a time with shears.
COVERED THE EDGES.
As fast as the pieces were shaved off
they were laid on the edges of the
burned skin of the boy and covered
with an anticeptic solution of bich
lorides and salt, over which were
placed rubber protectives. This wras
to keep the grafts moist. In all there
were removed from each of Mrs.
Muench's limbs about nine by five
inches of skin. This did not cover
the entire surface of raw flesh on the
boy's body, but it was enough to cover
the edges all around, and if it grafts
satisfactorily that is all that is neces
sary.
Mrs. Muench recovered from the
effects of the ether satisfactorily and
experienced very little pain. It is
expected that the new skin will grow
rapidly over the healthy surface on
her limbs, and the will probably be
akle to leave the hospital in three or
four days.
The physicians think the operation
will be successful. But they are not
certain of it. Granulation may grow
up over the grafted skin or the skin
may die. But if ever success was
deserved, it is in this instance. In few
cases since skin grafting was first tried
has so much skin been taken from one
person as was removed from Mrs.
Muench.
THE MAN WHO KICKS.
He May Be Disliked, but He Becomes a
Public Benefactor.
I admire the Kicker. I admire him
even when he theoretically kicks me.
I have long held that the man who
undertakes to walk through this world
with a meek and humble spirit wTill get
regularly flattened out and broken in
two at least once a month. On the
contrary, whoever saw a chronic Kicker
who didn't live on the fat of the land
and have a front seat everywhere.
I've met lots of Kickers in my time,
and I never yet saw one who was
personally selfish. When he kicked it
was for the good of the public. I don't
4 4 meet up" with one oftener than once
a week, but I'd like to visit and com
pare notes with three or four per day.
I hereby invite every conscientious
and well meaning Kicker in the United
States who happens to come to New
York to give me a call and be prepared
to stay at least three hours and smoke
half a dozen cigars.
Take my case for instance. There
were twenty of us in an Erie railroad
sleeper. Just as the car conductor got
throught coughing a cough that strung
out along the track for fifteen miles,
and just after the porter had banged
himself tired, a man in upper No. 6
began to snore. Out of the twenty
passengers one snored to keep the
other nineteen awake. It looked sel
fish, I waited for awhile, but the
nineteen growled around and let it
go at that. Then I got up and went
down to No, 6 and reached up for the
man's hair. When he awoke I said :
"See here, sir, your snore!"
" Well, it's my snore, isn't it?" he
replied.
4 'It is, and we don't want any of it.
This is a sleeping car. We pay extra
because we hope to sleep. You have
no right to deprive us cf that
privilege."
44 What are you going to do about it ?"
" You either stop snoring or I'll begin
singing. If I can't sleep you shan't,
I've got just as much legal right to
sing as you have to snore."
He growled and blustered around,
but he ceased to snore. I don't know
whether he took hia nose off or tied it
up, but his wild bazoo no longer an
noyed us.
Last spring a baggage man threw
my trunk off his wagon in front of a
Philadelphia hotel and busted it. He
drove off singing as I stood looking at
the wreck. Half an hour later I walked
in on him at th? depot and said :
14 1 want $9 of you."
4 4 What for?"
4 4 For smashing my trunk in front of
the Continental."
44 You get out ! Trunks are liable to
be damaged, and whoever heard of
any one having to pay for them?"
4 4 I'll show you a case right off. You
had no more license to bust that trunk
than you had to bust my head. You
either come down or I'll begin pro
ceedings." "What will you do?"
44 I'll sue you the first thing to-morrow.
I'll not only sue you, but 111
garnishee your wages, I'll make it cost
you at least $20 to get out of it, even
if you don't have to pay for the
trunk."
He blustered and defied me, but
before 10 o'clock he came to tho hotel
and offered me $7 to settle. I took a
written promise on his part to handle
all trunks with reasonable consideration
thereafter and closed the case. He ad
mitted to me that he had probably
damaged 5,000 trunks in his life, but
that no one had ever kicked before.
He didn't suppose a trunk owner had
the slightest legal right on earth, and
he didn't get over looking pale for a
week.
The landlord of a New Jersey hotel
welcomed me with a smile and put me
in a room where I had no sooner gone
to bed than I was violently assaulted
by a flock of fierce and ungovernable
bugs, I suppose it was their way and
they couldn't help it, but I sent for the
landlord and said :
4 4 This bed is infested. I want to be
changed to another room."
4 4 Sorry, sir, but we are all full," he
replied.
44 When you assigned me a room it
was tacitly understood that I was to
have wmolesome food and be able to
enjoy a night's rest. On my part, I
was to pay at the rate of $2.50 per day,
in good and lawful money."
44 Well?"
4 4 Well, a hotel guest has legal rights.
He has a right to protect his life.
Here's a revolver and here's a box of
cartridges. Either change me to an
other room, or I'll sit here and fire
very one of these bullets into that
bed!'
He changed me. He growled about
Kickers and acted put out, but next
day all the rooms on that floor were
properly inspected, and all travelers
for the next three months owed me a
debt of gratitude.
Thirty of us, men and women, were
dumped out on a platform at a railroad
junction in Illinois to wait twenty five
minutes for the other train. It was
cold and rainy. There was no fire in
the depot stove. There was only one
smoky old lamp to see by. The twenty
five minutes slipped away, but there
was no train. A quarter of an hour
later I rapped at the ticket window.
The depot agent, was in and after a
long delay opened the sash.
44 Is the train late?" I asked.
4 4 If it isn't on time then it's late, isn't
it?" he replied in a surly-manner.
44 How late is the train?"
4 " I dunno."
4 4 Well, find out!"
Ho slammed the sash down on me,
but I knock until he raised it again
and demanded in an ugly voice what
in Davy Jones I wanted.
44 1 want to know about that train.
It's your business to ascertain and post
us. It makes a difference whether we
have to wait here one hour or three."
44 1 don't take orders from passen
gers !" he curtly replied as he lowered
the sash agin.
Three mimutes later the six of us
who had revolvers stood in line and
fired a volly into his house just above
his head. Up went the sash, and he
called :
44 Wh what is it?"
4 It's about that train !"
4 It's an hour and a half late!"
44 Oh! it is? What about the fire?
44 1 dunno."
4 4 All ready, gentlemen! Take aim;
fi-
44 Good heavens! but what do you
mean?" he shouted.
44 We want you to
Either come out or
build a fire,
we continue
shooting!"
He came out and started a fire. He
also cleaned and lighted two lamps.
He also got us a pitcher and showed
us a barrel of new cider, and his
interest in our welfare was something
touching. He kept us posted on the
train every fifteen minutes until it
arrived, and it was plainly evident to
all that he had resolved to turn over a
new leaf
One night at a hotel in an Indiana
town the mosquitoes came into the
window in such clouds that I had to
get up and dress. Next morning I said
to the landlord :
"I wi 11 pay you for two meals, but
not for lodging. It was your duty to
have provided against any nuisance
that might make me uncomfortable,
but you did not do it."
44 But you'll have to pay," he replied,
44 1 shall hold your baggage."
44 Then I'll get out a writ of replevin."
He attached and I replevined. Then
wo had a lawsuit. It cost me four
days' time and $10, but I beat him on
the point I had raised. He called me
a Kicker and a mean man, and warned
me never to come to his hotel again
but he also went and got mosquito bars
for every bed room window, and all
future guests got the benefit of my
kick. M. Quad in the Neiv York
World.