Show WHERE THE DRUMMERS STOP lesof of odd hotels I 1 recall one anc hotel down doun in the south land which bich had one ot of the most tive bills of taia faie in the world writes E E crossland lit in the chitako Clil tago crib une the colon d bo bov appeared at the elbow of the guest mo coining ining noon and and his simple inanity coveted the entire gi gifun oun 1 11 how flow you talk lalk wh tob aggs aiki d the south routh until within th the laba inot decade and an some bome spots still furnishes the limit in the hotel line I 1 one veiling ening in march down in kentucky kenim liy I 1 had bilven 25 miles over alid loads and marilying at tho the hotel which appeared toki ably corn com fordable for table I 1 it I 1 could ret get a hot bath and to my delight vaa informed that I 1 could A fine lain half snow was mas railing falling and a high wind mind blowing bloing I 1 ent to the room disio bd and throwing a batti bath rob around me tol fol loed the begio boy down doan do an the cord dor soon we ne emerged on to a latticed back boich on the second story and in a battice awk that was mervil with alth jnes in midsummer stood a bathtub into which the b boy oy hid bid dumped two buckets of hot gatei the was oren open and even eve the lamp amp cuiling as aa the snow fl 11 ikes ikea shuck it re revL valid ald me to halt half the neigh neighbor bol s I 1 g civi IV up the luxury of the bath and in its aa good order as possible one of the oddest hotels I 1 ever struck was up in the lie lumber district of nappi michigan I 1 hit the town one election and found the place arod crowded d with loggers from all up and dan down n the river e w Ls is one hotel a smal board affair ahe 1 I lie office and dining loom iocim occupied one bide the was mile a leanto in the ice rear and one long bedio bedroom oni extending tiong the inthe ade of the hotel coulch computed ted the outfit A double row of cot beds with to the wall made the furnish ings and et was only about room enough for a third of tho the vis via igors in town to sleep along about nine mine I 1 decided to lo retire and the after looking me over and evidently debating in assigned me to a bed and I 1 turned in at midnight every cot was mas filled and halt half the pickled log bollers were snoring when suddenly lind and without a liace aiace of ever cot was nei tinned the occupants dumped on the floor the sleepers slee mose put on what clothes they had ien removed roved before retiring and started out without corn com ment I 1 was daled foi a minute and then began to kick to tho boss bobs who alto stood in the doorway and celled belled all out what the dickens dos dor a this ibis mean I 1 demanded hotly first shift buining out I 1 lie he ex and as he did so BO a line of men marched arched in in ind and retired while bile those who had slept la in the ilat shift slipped away to the near by saloons at throe three a 0 clock the second shift was as dumped onto the floor and at six when the third shift was dumped I 1 paid the boss one dollar extra to let me turn in and sleep until eight in earlier days when hen I 1 was selling sellin v farm machinery in w m estern kansas I 1 some queer hotels but the odd est ot of au all A was as owned and operated by a genius named Rie richards bards in a little village in sheridan counte 15 or 20 miles irom from bloxie richards was a queer character chai acter a and nd his bis specialty was as indention lie ile had invented more worthless things than any man in the country almost everything he made would but ti thes 3 all required more time and la Is bo hoi than ther aber things he wed tiled to ira im prove on ills ilia barn lot and barn as well as his little on one story estory hotel filled alth things he had bad invented ile he put me to bed in a is mail email room perhaps eight by ten with one small window and one extremely narrow door I 1 noticed as he showed roe me into the room that the place seemed to have double walls I 1 retired the t was mas sultry and alobe but after a time I 1 fell asleep sometime dining the night I 1 was aNak awakened ened hi a jarling janing a rumbling and the thought flashed into my mind that a cyclone had bad struck us its I 1 leaped out of bed and ran to the window nindo A sickening erns atlon of falling came oer nien ans everything aas as dark I 1 jammed my arm arill through the window and my fist solid earth I 1 was tenor stricken but with mith a jar the movement ce ceased ed and nd with a few minutes we ne began to ascend again and stopped suddenly A gust of wind me and as I 1 was waa about to climb through the window Rl richards chard opened the door and asked how did she I 1 demanded an ti cyclone lie ho said bald took the calf barri barn and hav haystacks stacks and pait of 0 dobb B bain and his windmill I 1 thought it was mas going to hit us and let ou doa donn n the next morning lie he showed we me the mechanism every sleeping Ble was really a double room the inside being like an eleA delator ator and he be had rigged weights and counted weights until by pushing a lever over he ha could deop all the tatt in the hotel down into the telar cellar until the cyclone passed |