Northern troops: at anotlicr as a stable and restin- place 

 for the Contlnk-rates. Being only five nnk^s from tla- \'ir- 

 ginia line, this West \-ir,L;inia watering place came to be 

 looked npon as nentral terntory. Here Presidents from 

 the earliest days of the nineteenth centnry have been wont 

 to spend their holidays and hold conrt and dispense official 

 patronage beneath the old oaks that lift their stately heads 

 above the lamons lawn. Senators, Representatives, 

 bankers and Governors have discussed measures of Nat- 

 ional and State policy on the porches of the hotel or 

 under the roofs of its one-hnndred cottages. 



A Southern colonel who had lost everything during 

 tlie war— except his love lor whisky— came to sojourn at 

 the "White."' Now he was never known to have any 

 money, but was mostlv alwavs Hitting around the bar, 

 waiting {\n- the refrain •'ccmieand takesuthin', Colonel." 

 which invitation, by the wav, he was never known to 

 refuse. In consequence of these eccentriciiies he was 

 looked upon with suspicion bv the mana-er uf the house, 

 who promptly sent him hi> bill at the end of the week, 

 with the request to pav up. The Colonel i-ut the bill in 

 Ins pocket and promised to attend to it. A couple of 

 days passed and the manager stirred him up again, this 

 time sending the message that he nnist either pay the bill 

 or leave. The Colonel asked "Di.! the manager send 

 you to me with such a message?" glaring at the clerk 

 with a fierce ribrun-vou-through look. The clerk tim- 

 orously said that he had. -Well,- said the Colonel, 

 "tell the manager that 111 leave at once, for that is only 

 faar, an<l I believe in bein' faar." And he left the hotel. 

 It need hardly be added that he left the hotel bill toO. 



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