Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1893 — HOSPITALITY COMES HIGH. [ARTICLE]

HOSPITALITY COMES HIGH.

How a Boarding-Bill Has Been Visited Upon Succeeding Generation** It is seldom that a man tells a good story on himself without knowing it, but when he does he is entitled to credit just the same. A young man who sometimes writes stories himself is the hero of the adventure, which happened last summer. “I was traveling about in the south* west for my health,” he said, “and one day drifted into Las Vegas, Tex. The proprietor of the hotel at which I stopped was an old friend of mine having lived neighbors in the old country, and we were brought up togethter in an Ohio town. His hotel, I thought, was an ordinary SLSO per day house, but I took the precaution to ask him his rates.” •• ‘Ob, that's all right,’ he said, patting me on the shoulder, ‘we won’t quarrel about rates, old boy, notwhilo you are stopping in this house.’ “So T staid in his house. I could have got better board in a restaurant close by for $4 per week, but I didn’t suppose ho would charge me match more than that price, and besides wanted to patronize an old Mend. When my first week was up I asked for my bill. “ ‘Even s2l,’ said my friend, ‘but seeing it’s you I’ll knock off the odd dollar.’ And he did. “I was too mad to kick, and as I had plenty of money I paid the bill and got out of his measley shanty in short order. Why he cinched me so hard didn’t dawn on me at the time, but his reason for it, I think, was this: —— “Some time ago his uncle made a trip to the old country and stopped a month or so with my grandfather. The old gentleman doesn’t keep a hotel,but he is a little near in his habits and must have charged the Texas man’s uncle for board and the nephew was getting back on me.” Let mo see, doesn’t the blble say something aboiit the sins of the father making it pleasant for the childroa of the next few generations?