Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1896 — About Hotels. [ARTICLE]

About Hotels.

*1 have lived fifty-six ysars; I hav* been twice around the glob* and broken bread In every city and town from Tad* mor in the Wilderness to Sait Lake City, and I have yet to see a man who did not believe that as a hotel-keepef he towered, like Saul, ab jve his brethren." said F. J. Sanders, now lingering »t the Laclede. ‘lt is an hallucination that I can not understand. Every ho-tel-keeper is as proud of hie hostelry as though the palaee of Maosenas were a smoke-house by comparison, the Olympian banquets but beggars’ fare compared with his princely board. I have ttX down to coffee beside which Slade's slumgulllon were angelic nectar, waterlogged potatoes, butter that would knock a Digger Indian out with ons stomach blow, and bieoutt that might be used to craok walnuts with, then had the landlord slap me on the shoulder and tell me about celebrities coming a hundred miles to Sunday with him. Twain made an irreparable, an inexcusable mistake in not picturing Col. Mul ■ berry Sellers as a hotel-keeper. I once •tupped at a hotel at Homer, Til., where the bill of fare consisted of ‘greens,’ fat bacon and tough radishes. After dinner the landlord told me that he ‘fanolud that Delmonlker feller was not so tsf ahead o’ his hash foundry aftsr siL' *— sWb*-D«m<Kgv~4.