The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-28
VERY SENSITIVE.
Munkittriclt Describes nm Interview With
the baggage Mastor.


Especial Correspondence
MADISON, N. j., JAM 25.-He was n
very thickset, stocky looking man, with
q clean f;.ce. a SLOUGH hat and SO inno-
cent IN expression of countenance that he
looked like one who would believe the
widest statement of Il rural plumber.
II have seen that man around here for
the last hour" | remarked to the bag
gage master, land as he seems to be
native suppose he is waiting to meet a
friend"
You are wrong" replied the baggage
man, smiling.
1t struck mo that the man might be
at the station to study character or to
brood over some irreparable sorrow,
for he seemed to absorb everything in
the place from the time tables to the
water tank.
Perhaps" said to tho baggage man,
che has lately acquired wealth through
inheritance and is trying to develop the
rosy temperament of the Sandwich
Islander, who is ever happiest when
after plunge in tho briny he sits be-
meath u mango tree and sips green mon
key consomme with Nantucket souye-
mir spoon"
He has pretty lazy look, but really
he is sitting around here, not because he
cannot find work, but because he doesn't
KNOW what to go at. He wants to start
at something which he can follow with
out being ridiculed He is very sensi-
tive man and is not constituted for sue
cess i'll any kind of business, because he
cannot take joke. Once upon a time
he thought this would be good place in
which to open u cigar store So he rent
ed Il small place and laid in great stock
of smoking tobacco and cigars One day
he asked patron before store full of
people how he liked his new, cigar, the
Madisonora. The man told him. inst
for joke, that in trying to draw on one
OF them the strain on his neck was SO
great that ho split his collar and that it
would be far easier for one to draw on
ones deceased great-grandmother at
sight than upon one Of his Madsonoras.
This made the dealer so indignant
that another patron, wishing to keep the
fun up, told him that he had tried anoth-
er OF his cigars, called the Hawaii Rose
and that it had so strong a flavor of cab
bage that he made it into cold slaw. He
then told the tobacconist that he would
make a fortune if he would only lay in
large stock of those cigars and start IL
sauerkraut mill. Every one laughed.
and the dealer was guyed so unmerciful-
~ upon the street that he sold out his
business"
What did he go ut next?" asked.
He next opened barber shop, be-
cause, although pretty we'll off, he
couldn't loaf in so stupid and dull a spot
as this is. Hesoon had his shop under
way, and the opening seemed full of
golden promise. He could give a still
or conversational shave, as the patron
desired. But despite his good intentions
a man who wanted to have some fun at
his expense told him that from the way
he had cut n friends hair about weel,
before he thought he would make a
first rate man to trim lamps and bon
nets at least his friend said so. This re-
mark caused the barber to blush and to
almost lose his power of speech
Did he say anything elseT asked the
sensitive barber.
eyes, he said you gave him pincush-
ion shave, and that when he saw his face
in the glass just before leaving your
shop he noticed black hair sticking
out here and there, and it reminded him
OF IL lot of mourning pins in pink cush-
ion And, do you know, he sold the
business right out and has been since
then the noping fellow you see. But he
is apt to brace up at any moment and
become restauranteur or an ostrich
farmer" r. Il. MUNKITTRICK.