Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-16
ylhe Baggage Fiend.
From the kansas City Times.

The up-river papers have been all
respondent in "skarc heads and
'black letter. all because a gay and
rOllicking young blonde brakeman.
from the Hannibal IL st. Joe Railroad.
had returned to wed fair Young
maid in Atchison, who had. to use a
well.understood phrase, ''loved not
wisely but too WELL But Kansas
City can ''sec,' the. st. Joe and Atchi-
son papers and ego one better" There
are thousands OF victims who have
borne the terrible afliictionss of Pete.
the model baggagemen of the Kansas
Pacific, who is described to the life in
the following poetic effnsion.
Pete was a tip-top baggage -nlan, he ran ON Nun.
ber -Four,
Where the tears and groans of travelling folks
unfiinchngly he bore.
He care not how the women wepi strong men
raved and swore,
While he mutiated sample cases, desoiated sara
togas, annihilated osdhary luggage mlDo.
lated carpet bags, extenuated band boxes,
and extnguiseed travellers outfits bv the
score
This fine Old railway baggage -inan. one
of the modern Kind
On yesterday morning, SO It's said /,
one of the Hayden exploring expedi-
ton returned from the Rock Noun
tains. lie was long-legged, green
eyed looking cuss, with yellow parch-
ment hide, long coarse black hair and
mustache, upon the ends Of which any
ordinary baggage-man cOnld hang Il
good-sized satchel,
Twas on yester mornings X. r train came this
- suspicious travelling man.
Who smiled and watched how ruthlessly the bag
gage Pete did slam;
Then, as he pointed out his trunk for him to
He said "Dear friend, my worldly possessions
are few and humble; silver and gold have
Handle It tenderly, for it Is trail, and / am,
too, and II there's Q man travelling who
watches and weeps and prays over his bag
gage, and that's the kind OF man AM"
Now if the same suspicious sort of
a man had just said TO Pete, "Drop
her lightly, and we'll go over to the
Age" all might have been well:
Bat Pete. seized his shabby trunk with snorts of
wrath and scorn,
ends had torn.
Ana, needless of the pleadiues OF the passengers
f0rlorn,
He hanged the trunk down on the platform and
then threw It over the top Of the car, and lei
an omnibus run over It, and then whscked II
bumper, and threw 1t OF the end OF q
bridge and shot II with his revolver, and n.
nally Rugged 1t In his arms, and took q fiyinp
leap into the baggage car with it, and iii on
m.shsn Wsa y ms ~, neels, @ mead and stomach and
hairs on dogs back and the next second
that baggage car was alive with one interest.
edbaggage man and more crawling, rattling
coiiing rattlesnakes than y0n wonid believe
had ever been born.
Our reporter was not present when
this happened, but Major Houriean
who was present, and whose expert.
| ences in exciting scenes and extensive
travel are varied and interesting, says
he never witnessed such scene at the
| Union Depot. Officers Moore and
Hunt had just got on duty, and even
they were at
l In vain the police Iessay l,o tell how Pete the
| And yelled aud shreked and howled and roared
and raved and ramded and tore
| And scratched and slashed and sweat and scrsm-
bled for the door.
And turned blue as indigo, and swelled up to nine
times the size OF double-decker Saratoga
trunk. and died in two minutes after he got
out of the car, while the modest traveller,
viewing his exaggerated remains, smiles
sadly and said "6e never knew hageaga.
man SO fond of snakes before.
tChorus adJlib)
In which it is expected all pet poodles
hungry hounds and other miscellane.
Gus animals will join, who haye made
the trip from the mountains under
Peters tender care. 'sSarat0gas' and
dilapidated trunks may open theiI
gaping mouths in mirth at what ha.
transpired, and join in q hearty wisl
that ii Pete lives TO recover il NAV b,
a warning to him in future.
1t is great mistake to set up on
standard OF right and wrong, an,
Judge people accordingly.
| To measure the enjoyment OF other
| by our own.
| To expect uniformity Of opinion j
this world.
To endeavor to mould oil disposition
alike.
Not TO yield to inmaterial tribes.
| To look for perfection in our ow
actions.
. To worry ourselves and others wi
! what osn not be resnedied.
I'll Not to make allowaHceas ssr~rhe :
e ifirmities Of others,
Q To considerssverything impossfbl
n which, we <Hn a~sperform.
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