The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-02-26

30 70 take towels into the toilet-room
before the passengers arose. But he
was afraid the baby would wake MP. He
broke out into profuse Precipitation.
He felt weak and miserable.
Suddenly It occurred to him that ali
he had to do was TO watch his oppor.
unity, and when the conductor OF the
next sleeper was not. looking deposit
the baby In vacant berth.
The opportunity arrived at small
station while. the other conductor MAS
on the platform enjoying breach Of
company rules In the way OF a cigar
cite. Heaying sigh Of relief, the con-
ductor hurried back to his own car and
thanked his lucky and unlucky stars
that he was out OF the scrape. He felt
sorry for the other man, but less sorry
than the man himself, when his porter
found the baby, still asleep, at six
o'clock in the morning.
mo claimant ever appeared for that
child, and had q frightful experience
with 1t. had 1t ticketed and put in q
cradle among other lost property, and
as long as had it in my custody had
to sleep in the lost-property room and
get up three or four times to warm its
bottle. said / should resign II they
added the duties OF matron to that Of
lost-property clerk, and wrote Major
Wicks aboutit.
He is vice-president and general
manager, and he induced Mr. Pullman
to call meeting of the board Of direct
ors to sit on the baby, and the board de-
cided to send it to founding asylum.
A year after he was married tho con-
ductor, who first found the baby, re.
signed and was taken into his conf
dence, and that's how know the story
Of the Pullman baby, as 1t is called to
this day. The company made an annual
appropriation for its subsistence, and
the appropriation is made without a dis
senting voice by the board.
You may take commercial diction-
ary," continued the agent, ''and every
thing you find named in 1t you may find
on those shelves there. Women leave
powder puffs, combs, night robes, gloves,
button-hooks and books or candies.
Children leave toys and servants forget
lunch baskets and babies linen.
ats strange but the latter articles
are always discovered first. Men leave
their tooth brushes, purses, rings, slip
pers, smoking caps and memorandum
books in the cars. But it is not SO much
the personal property left that excites
comment as 1t is the strange articles oil
merchandise. A Grand Army man who
had bought composite leg to take the
place OF ap old-fashioned wooden one,
started home with one strapped en- and
the other wrapped up nicely by the
maker.
when he went to bed he took on the
wooden leg and laid it alongside Of him
| in the berth. When he got up in the
morning he unwrapped the beautiful
| new leg. put 1t on, patted it with admir-
| alton, and was SO lost in contemplation
of his new possession that he hobbled
off, leaving the old and tried friend be-
hind him. Later on he wrote and said
he'd like to have it sent to him. An
other man left a pair OF horse-hames
up in hat-rack.
Its queer, but we never have turned
in on us any whisky TASKS or boxes OF
cigars. I suppose people are more care
full of these commodities than of others.
Bibles are another thing not on my in
ventory. Either people don't carry
them nowadays, and so don't leave them
aboard the cars, or else the niger por-
tiers keep them for spiritual consolation,
being deprived by the rules Of the other
kind.
'sOnce bride left a mysterious pack
age-thats 1t on the top shetland
she never even wrote about 1t. We
don't know what it is, but it's too big
for wedding ring or a marriage certifl-
cate. 1t may be brides cake, but as il
was marked strictly personal, have
not opened it Another person left a
parrot think he must have been a
seafaring man, as the bird is so very
profane that it shocks even the super
intendent
Another baby was left once. and in
q very mysterious and unavoidable
manner. A married man and married
woman had stopped They took a state.
room and the woman had a baby with
her. At the next station telegram
was handed to the man, which, after
reading, -he handed to the woman.
sThey left the train hurriedly at q
side-track on which the train had been
shunted to allow fast special train,
containing the officers of the road, to
pass. This side-track was miles from
any station and in the woods, and the
couple left the train SO precipitately
that they forgot the baby and theiI
travelling bags The baby died during
the trip and was turned over to cor
oner. EN-. Y. World.