Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-11-16
TWO oy THE SANE NAnr.

lh"f" we've recently two gentlemen of
th" same name stepping a, th. Iiuh
Avenue Hotel. New YnsL u,. xas a.
'"npanied 10y hi- wife. the other alon,
-hiS wife lr,nR detained ~ home hy
sickness Both wer prsmln.n, men
hnd "ccupied chnire foninA Roth i,o
a'Hht th" same time. on. going Ia his
home IN the West and tho other to hl.
~ the Southwest
The latter. the one Who Was uua .c.
rompanicd, did not pr,cced dir,c,ly ,o
Vt" home hut -topIcd ai several poln,a
IN business on route
Arriving at his home. instead ~ a..
ai"ciionaie greeting from his wii. h, mai.
| nraily expected. for their relation. had
Always been VI" happic-i. he found he,
SICK "''ed With nervous pfu-,railnn, and
was c"hironted hy her mu,hrr. who had
been ielcgraphed ior
Nor was the mother -in.lswr greeting
very cordial :" the weary husband, Who
had been counting the days when h.
should get hark
The m"tl'ef-in law held up d. his ss-
ton:shed Rake laiys rol,- De- nul, and
cap taking the same from an o,.cned
express bundle, prot~rly aa,irrascd In
him' and incloslDg letter frum the mr.
l'r'c'or- IT the Filth Avenue Hat.l ssy.
ing That the inrioSed had been l.i ly
h's wife IN their room. and ,l,es conss-
luen'ly forwarded th-m, ths gentleman
he'hg' ~ stated. u prou,,nent man
worthy of every consideration.
IVY God can't explain tbIst
10" DO not su@peci--think oh. this 10
horrible"
~ should say so." calculated A n
mother. in.lav. probably yInd,r,,velv
displaying the articles to his brwil,l.r A
gaze II should say soi horriblc, In
deed explain u YOU can. Your poov
wife IL In her he'd nearly dead with grief
and modification "
You yourself telegraph ~. proprsc.
tors of the hotel and ash an explauatioo.
That there may d. M suaplrlap oi col.
fusion should telegraph. As strong an
the circumstance are sgsins, mo, I
swear 10 you am innocent."
The mother-in'isw consented to this.
probably convinced by the poor fellows
manner that lw was innoo.n, and a vie.
tim Of a mistake. Throuyh having had
several days to rutninaie over the ssraesr
contents of the express package, which
had been opened hecause II was sun.
posed to contain somc things he had
sent home, both her own and the wiIs's
mind had become thoroughly excitsd os
the subject.
The email" the accumulation of
several days. was brousht io the hus-
bats'l, and cspying one In the same
handwriting as the ist,sr aud enyelops ol
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, this was hastily
opened under circumstance. srst. A.
possibly supplying clew IN the mys.
terry And u did, and indeed q com.
pletc eincidation and exoneration ~ The
husband
u was letter irpm the propriesorp II
the Filth Avenue Hotel, stating that IN
consequence II the similarity II namss
. packag- brlonging to tho wife oi th~
other gentleman of the same nsmc Al
himself. stopping st the hotel Il the
same time, had hccn sent to him instead
Of to that gentleman, and asking him n
'ie would nat please return the samr to
them immediately. that II might IN m.
turned io the owner.
There was an illumination that uIshs
oi the hooae--,he wife instantly r~coy.
cred irotn her nct,eas psu~ssstion---but
the secret II the reIoicins Was not sem
orally known, and one II the prcpsissoss
Of the hotel says that the srse csuss Al
the delay IN returning tho articles lsst h
the room so the proper owner wss sso
explained. bat this arsicls vii, psohshly
supply th. information.