Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-10
Sad Results OF Being Honest.

The other morning citizen who haC
been cautioned to send up some butter
rs he went down town or eat dry breaC
for d nner stepped into a grocery anC
bought and paid for three pounds. The
cash rendered was in the shape of bill
and the citizen did not count his changt
until he had Travelled several squares.
Then he made discovery.
"Why, l gave him dollar bill and
he has given me back over nine dollars, .
he soliloquized. Il could keep this
money and he would be none the wiser
but I'm not that sort of clothcs-pin.
will at once return it,
He was as good as his promise. Re-
turning to the store with the money in
his hand he said:
Lucky for YOU that am an honest
man. You gave me nine dollars toe
much in making change"
Il guess not"
"Well, L guess you did. and here it is.
lwant only what belongs to me-"
The grocer sulkily thanked him and
the citizen went his way, but in an hour
or so he made another discovery. He
found the one-dollar bill and missed the
ten.
cit was ten gave him and the
change was right" he gasped. u
must 90 to him ard explain"
He started for the grocery, hung
around for awhile and then stated his
case.
"You are vile swindler, sirr'
promptly replied the grocer.
"Oh, no; I'm not! I'm simply vic
tim of a too honest conscience"
"You get out! didn't like the cut
of your phiz in the first place, and when
you brought back the nine dollars
knew you had some sort of game.
Now, sir. you travel, or I'll call the po-
licemanw
But I'm an honest man! tell you
there's a mistake here. protested the
buyer. ~ at
''You promenade. I'm on all the
little games, and you can make a cent.
Boy, call in policeman
The citizen walked out and kicked
lamp-posts and rubbed against baby
carriages, and refused to recognize his
best friends. He had not only paid over
three dollars per pound for butter, but
he had beaten himself all around. He
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do, and the lawyer replied: !l
Bide yourtime and pass counter
felt twenty offon him-fee, five dollars. .
Detroit Free Press.
Especial Marks OF Trunk Smashers.
Where's that trunk been?' said a
reporter yestel day, pointing to dis
mantled hulk that had evidently put in
to refit from the sea of summer travel.
g / should think that handle was
yanked off somewhere mp the Northern
Central. There's man at Elmira. !
think it is, whom we always know by
the way he leaves his handles--always
tears 'em out on the same end of one
side. When a trunk is split along the
back 1T s pretty sure to have been along
the Connecticut coast. The Stonino-ton
transfer splits trunks like buzz-saw.
but when you get trunk stove in at
both ends, with the hinges off and the
lock collapsed, you can be pretty sure
it's been into Canada. There's where
they do smash baggage You see they
get SO burned mad handling the chests
OF drawers and wash-stands and wood
boxes that pass for baggage in that
country that they view every trunk as
natural enemy, and they single out
the good ones like sharp-shooters lay for
officers"
what's your particular privats
mark p' asked the reporter.
Oh, we don't smash baggage here
Baggage smashin', like the shakes in
Jersey, is always in the next town. But
am. got no grudge against these sum-
mer Saratogas, anyway" said the bag
gageman. looking in kindly way at
the model village of two-story wooden
houses about him. = Philadelphia Times