Needed The Money

A great many droll charact:-s and bright, shrewd men are met with among hotel proprietors wherever yon go, says the New York World. "The Fat Contributor" was lecturing once in the state of Kentucky and had occasion to take dinner at a six-bit hotel. After the meal Mr. Griswold stspped up to the counter, took out a bale of banknotes, which he had received for his lecture the evening before, and asked what might he the damage. "Three dollars," said the b.ue-grass gpntleman, who had buttpned his collar with a tenpenny nail while he looked at "Gris" with a pained expression. "Yes, but a man ought to be able to board here a week for $3. The whole house didn't cost more than $40 or $45. What's your idea in charging me $3 for a wad of hominy and a piece of parched pork?" "Well, sir," Baid the urbane landlord, as he put out the fire at a distance of twenty feet, by emptying hit salivary surplus on it, "I need thf money." The frankness and open, candi d mnnner of the man won Mr. Griswold and he asked him if he thought $3 would be enough. The landlord said he could get along with that. Then Griswold opened his valise and took out a large brunette bottle of liniment marked "For external use." He passed it over to th? landlord aüd told him he would flnd this stuff worked as well on the inside as it did on the outside. In a few moments the liniment of the "Fat Contributor" and the lineaments of the landlord had merged into each other, and a friendly feeling sprang up between the two men which time has never effaced.