Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1910 — Limited Service [ARTICLE]

Limited Service

“When I reach New York and am settled for a few days in one of these swell hotels,” said a Southern traveling salesman, “I am loath to leave. We don’t have hotels in my section where everything for a man’s comfort is provided. A conversation I heard in the only hotel in Greenville, Ky., will show you the difference. Greenville is not any too well blessed with railway facilities and If you want to take a through train out in the morning you must leave at 3.: 30. On this occasion a guest advised Morgan, the proprietor, that he would go on that early train. Another man added that he might leave on the same train, Morgan paced to and fro in the apology for a lobby for some time. Finally he addressed the man who had said he ‘might go.’ “ ‘Ah you all suah you goin’ on the three-thirty, Mlstah Jacobs?' “‘I don’t know yet. Why?’ “ ‘Wa-al, I thought if you all wasn’t goin’ I’d give the alahm clock to Mistah Smith.’ ” —l.ouisville Times. Noah and Solomon. A Sunday school teacher of the East End was questioning her class about some prominent men of the Old Testament “Now, Henry, can you tell me who was the wisest man In the Bible?” she asked. “Noah!” Henry answered promptly. y Oh no, Henry,” the teacher said, “you don’t mean Noah; you mean Soloircn, don’t you?” “No, ma’am; I mean Noah.” "What makes you think Noah was the wisest man?” “Well,” said Henry, ‘‘my papa say* a man like Solomon, with 600 wives, and 800 Porcupines is a blamed fool, while Noah knew enough to get in out of the wet when it began to rain.”