Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1897 — About Hotels. [ARTICLE]

About Hotels.

*1 have lived fifty-six years; I have been twice around the g!ob« an 1 broken bread In every oity and town from Tadmor In the Wilderness to Salt Lakv City, and I have yet to see a man who did not believe that as a hotel-keeper he towered, like Saul, ab ve his bretkren.” said F. J. Sanders, now lingering at the .Laclede. “It is an hallucination that l ean not understand. Every ho'el keeper is as nroud of his hostelry as hough the palace of . acicnas were £ smoke-house by com arison, the Olympian ban justs but beggars faro com* p red with his princely board. I have down io cofi'ee beside whl h Slade's slumguUlon were an elic neoiar, waterlogged potatoes, but er th t would knock a Digger Indian ou wth one stomach blow, and biscuit that might be used to crack wa nuts with, then bad the landlord slap me on the shoulder an.; tell me about celebrities oming » hundre l miles to Sunday with him. Twa.n made an ir eparauie, r.u !Eex''vt--a- le mistake in not picturing Col. Mu! berry Sellers as a hotel-keeper. I one* ’to, ped at a hotel at Homer, Til., when he bill of lare i onslsted of ‘greens,’ fat '-•aeon and tough radishes. After dialer the landlord told me that he ‘landed hat Delmon ker feller trae not bo fa* head o’ his ha b foundry afvtr all.