The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-21

nave just rearTanReQ my GTunK ana
tucked carefully back into it the thrill
ing narrative of rich slumber robe
which duttered in the Canadian breeze
all the way from Windsor to London.
Custom house officers do not know how
to repack a trunk after they have
kneaded over its contents, and they shut
the lid wrong, so that it takes six men
and P. <. Dederick derrick to open it
after one gets at his 'otel.
carry witt, me change of linen and
unSerclothing while travelling, and have
never before found a customs officer
who seemed to think these things would
fit him So 1 have escaped. But this
time it was different | saw right away
when this one looked at me that he was
just my size, though less Intellectual
He had the same long, swanlike throat,
which looks so well In full dress with a
string Of red coral beads around it. He
had also the same boneless tentacles for
limbs that | am using, and his feet un-
dulated good deal. 4
am very neat about arranging my
trunk, and SO he seemed to think many
of my things were new just because they
were tidy My method of packing a
trunk was acquired at Heidelberg
When want anything ont of the trunk
1 upset it on the bed and thus find it
readily.
The officer wanted to keep my dress
suit because it pleased him, presume.
1t is a. nice suit, made in Boston by a
perfect gentleman.
He wanted me to pay duty on cigar
that had almost smoked up. He was
going TO seize dozen perfectos that Mr..
Burbank had. but when he found that
Mr.. Burbank had chewed each one a
little before crossing the line he said:
"Al right; never mind. They are free. !"
One man ahead of me, | noticed,
evaded the eye of the officer, and while
conversing with him looked out the
window Afterward asked him why
he did that
We'll" be said, 81 didn't mind look
ing him in the face. but | did not want
him TO notice my breath. am trying
to get 1t in free.
He was fat man, and carried mass
i've watch which he had to remove be-
fore ne could get into the car, and he
brought it IN in his hand.
carry seven razors with me, one of
which use on each day of the week.
Then have at home special razors for
Easter, Whitsunday and Guy Fawkes
Day. These razors bought at various
bargain counters through the United
States. Some of them will cut hair.
MIR. jefferson says that the way to buy
razors Is TO get twenty-five center In
every town you visit for year, and out
OF the lot you may get good one. He
does that way. he says, instead of buy
ing 80 razor every little while and
only getting one-tenth the chance to
draw prize.
have done that way. but judge that
Mr. jefferson had preceded me and
bought the only good one there was In
the town.
Last spring began to shave myself
because got tired of reading The Police
Gazette while the neighbors dropped
into the barber shop to get their hair
cut and get shampooed and also their
ear whiskers dyed; also because BARRIERS
often referred to my badness before
folks and made me feel hurt.
lived in the country, too, for two or
three weeks in March, and the nearest
barber knew of was farm hand who
had shaved the prisoners for eight years
at Joliet. Ills. So my beard grew ont
quite rank and nodded in the wind. 1t
is redder than thought it was. and on
one side it grows upward. thus giving
me surprised and startled air.
So now am shaving myself. got a
new razor in Chicago 1t had a lovely
handle, and on the blade it said
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