Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — They Walked. [ARTICLE]

They Walked.

Jim Lee and Ned .Fox, two pious merchant travelers, were going to their rooms on the fourth floor of the hotel, and in the elevator was a great big Texan and his bride. They were quite raw, and the elevator boy and the M. T.’s got on to it, and just at the second floor, Fox got over to the rope and stopped the elevator. “Hello.” said the’Texan, “what’s busted in the machinery ? Is the ingine off the track?” “No, no,” replied Lee, “only a cog come loose in the rachet. It happens that way every now and then.” “How long does she hang fire?” “Can’t say; the last time we waited four days before we got up. ” “Four days ? Thunderation, Sal, we can't stand that. We’ve got to ketch that train to-morrer momin’ at 9 o’clock, and if this blasted lifter is goin’ to hang here between roof and bottom for four days, we’ll have to drop out and walk up them dang stair steps if we air payin’ $3 a day.* Come on, Sal. Much obliged, stranger, for the pints you’ve give us,” and he and his bride got out and walked.—Merchant-Trav-eler. Mb. Spurgeon, the London preacher, being asked whether a man could be a Christian and belong to a brass band, replied, “Yes. I think he might; but it would be a very difficult matter, for his next-door neighbor to be a Christian.”