HE LIKED THE TOWN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1343, 25 August 1877, Page 21

HE LIKED THE TOWN.

Yesterday afternoon, a gentlppaan -with his coat-tail pockets full of baggage strolled into the office iof the;-€rorhara House, and registered in a bold, freehand, the name of '■ AristarchuaH. I)«?.spla,ines, Crcstlane, Ohio." Then he lazily picked ■up a tooth-pick and leaned gracefully up again3t the counter, and nodded affiibiy at Andrews, who wore on his usually placid brow the expression, of .a,. inan who 'is auxious to liave something to hold. !&{tr Desplaines failed to notice, this expression, and said, with a sudden glow of ex--pressiou ; '-,• , ■ , ■ > <•;;:;• /•■ i <f I like tins town!" . ' • No one dissented, and jfche ; strangdr,- 1 after a moment's pause, to allow- the' Sentiment to impress itself ; on-. This, audience, went on :—: — s ' "Yes, sir/ I like this town. 7 :' TdieSaiis' an air of enterprise, of activity, of restless progress >and tireless <!industvy jabbufc jit that invites investment. r lho streats these people have hewed out of the solid rock, the elegant building blocks that have risen from the pathless wilderness, the ceaseless ham of machinery and the stroke of the hammer, call loudly for EJastern capital to come here, and, hand in hand with labour, coin new and added -wealth out of the rugged rock, the mine, the quarry, and the loom. Yes, sir,jl like this town. This is the place wheye my money top 3. And I will — what 1 " he added, 1 suddenly glancing at the clock, "half-past one already! How the time has slipped by. 1 had nearly talked awjy^my dmri§r f .^Thg w.ay to .your .dining rbom, if |ypu please^ he^ade^tl, i a little hjiujjhtily/ as a ma^^o^&qcuafc&ned to aslc"for"thirigs, bnt""afFen3ed hy ser/tftirfs who^^njbigip^atedJMs^requests aiid orders. «-»•»' "*"" , „ r^ I * „,'J3iSJclerk, instead of %tng J arouiid andmarshalling Mr iDesplaines to -the dinin'groom, merely. glanced at,.the" papitalistj's clothes, arid 'murmured i the'*"<i'iis^P ! Mary > remarks abotti^tjie duties of^Bagglgeless^ guests requiring' ;thein to deposit aomjeT; ■tiimg before -banqueting. „. „ | ( ; _. • "•• What !'"^', shouted - M%' : Desplaines, lr you want me to pay in advauce?^ Me| 1 , P^in adyance^?, ,;Why;/dash "tgour impbj^jss*3!^p.uy..y.o i|i ' wn,- ■ and haveTt 'inbved^pp^ t£e *rivSr!r*7-Pay< in advctjlwe 1 Here giv 3 ejnp' a b^anl^cheque. book somebodyT I'll drain" youiunisserablec little village bauk3 so dry they can; tchange a .ten-cent piece for three months to come, j Pprfcer, bring, dp vvn.ojy .trunks -anfl, boxes' and carry 1 -^them Pveftb -the .other hotel. Take them to the depot, • and parry my card to the President of tho rolling-mills, and tell him to diiie ■with me at" the Palmer ia Chicago noit Thursday.! I'm off. Im out of this poverty-stricken town by the first train that will carry me." | And half an hour afterwards Mr' Desp'laineswas seen walking across the bridge, comfortably eating a piece pf bread and, chewing a raw onion, regarding, with lofty.., disdain, the policeman who stood at- 'th'e (Burlington end of the bridge, audi warned him further "a way. ■